The Ultimate Insult!

"By the way, where's Senior Aoko? Isn't she here with you?"

"Miss Aozaki is still inside guarding the Dead Apostle Ancestor you brought back."

Upon hearing Rovey mention Aoko and the Dead Apostle Ancestor, Lev, who had just finished reorganizing the documents, sighed helplessly and then casually replied, "It seems she's more interested in the secrets of the Dead Apostle Ancestor than in assisting with my work."

Lev immediately stood up again and walked with Rovey to the front of a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror. He gently placed his hand on it, and then powerful magic began to spread through his energy channels to his palm.

As the palm fell, the surface of the mirror quickly rippled gently like water.

Centered on Lev's palm, blue magic circuits spread out continuously, covering the entire mirror in the blink of an eye and activating the hidden Magecraft mechanism within.

Buzzing—

With a slight vibration, the smooth mirror surface disappeared, revealing a pitch-black door in the frame, inside which was a secret warehouse used to store important items.

Originally, only Lev and Rovey had access to the room, but now a new member, Aozaki Touko, has joined.

Click—!

Lev pushed open the door, and behind it appeared a dark tunnel leading straight to other areas. At that moment, Aozaki Touko and the captured Dead Apostle Ancestor were inside.

"Anyway, you should go in and take a look. They're all over there."

After finishing all this, Lev returned to his desk, looking exhausted. He said with a slightly helpless expression, "Actually, you came at just the right time, otherwise I was planning to contact you directly."

"Huh? Is Lita Rogan really in trouble?"

"Yes, your concerns are indeed valid. Hurry down and check the situation. Although they are taking turns guarding the Dead Apostle Ancestor, Miss Aozaki hasn't come out for three days. When I went to visit her not long ago, I also noticed something was wrong."

Lev nodded and continued.

"Moreover, the Dead Apostle Ancestor has awakened, and most of the remaining body parts have lost their vitality. She has begun to regrow her body using her brain as a reference point, and even her eyes have recovered. Those troublesome Mystic Eyes almost destroyed the seal we set up, which is truly bizarre. In short, if this continues, problems will inevitably arise sooner or later. I suggest you inquire with the church or the Sealing Designation Executor in the Department of Law. Her current state is really difficult to manage; someone must stay by her side at all times."

"Oh? You mean... her eyes grew back? And they're Mystic Eyes?"

"Yes, but the pair of Mystic Eyes in Miss Aozaki's hands have disappeared; they must have returned to Lita."

"Has it returned to her body...?"

Upon hearing Lev's explanation, Rovey couldn't help but look thoughtful.

"Anyway, I'll go down and see what's going on. Thanks for your trouble, Lev."

After saying goodbye to Lev, who was still busy, he walked directly into the dark tunnel.

"Honestly... you're always causing me trouble."

Upon seeing Rovey's figure disappear, Lev, who was sitting above, sighed helplessly.

Honestly, he really wanted to keep Rovey, the master he had chosen, in line.

Why not listen to Kenneth, stay home and seriously study your magic, and then start your ascension to godhood?

He has to go on adventures everywhere and cause trouble for him.

This time, however, when he dumped a Dead Apostle Ancestor into the workshop and asked him to help guard him, Lev was on the verge of a breakdown and wanted to refuse.

However, the other party said, "The peculiar creatures known as the Dead Apostle Ancestor may be hiding secrets related to the ancient and mysterious past."

And then he added, "Studying the Dead Apostle is also a way to revive the mysticism."

They kept telling him to prioritize the bigger picture.

This forced Lev to reluctantly follow along, leaving him no choice but to let Rafe continue his research.

The plan to create the Guardian Angel Dragon, named Aiwass, is about to begin. At a time like this, who cares about the Dead Apostle Ancestor? Isn't an angel more appealing?

"This is absolutely terrible..."

No cries of pain were heard from Lev.

Because of Lita Rojaan's current condition, Rovey was moving very fast, and since the tunnel itself wasn't long, he quickly reached the end of the tunnel.

It was a research room with an area no smaller than the outside, a special square space with minimal furnishings.

The Magus's first impression upon entering this place was that it was 'spacious'.

However, although it is spacious, it is not actually empty.

In the very center of the room, a huge cylindrical container stands upright.

Yes, it was a truly enormous transparent container.

From the outside, it looks no different from an aquarium tank. It is made of a special, completely transparent material and is filled with pure Holy Water that has been blessed and extracted from under the Gabriel statue. The ground around the tank is covered with densely packed, suppressed verses from the Bible, which looks extremely eerie. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a place of worship for fanatics.

But compared to these strange things, the figure floating in the huge cylindrical container in front of them was more eye-catching.

Her long, twilight-colored hair, like the glow of sunset, swayed gently in the water, and her beautiful eyes, etched with rose patterns, shimmered with an eerie light in the Holy Water, making her look extremely bewitching.

Although Lita had only just recovered part of her body and her throat, and her body below the neck was still completely empty, her breathtaking beauty remained undiminished.

That bewitching beauty was once again manifested in her body.

If a man with poor self-control were to appear here, upon seeing her like this, he would undoubtedly break the container and snatch her away without hesitation.

However, this level of allure would certainly not be effective on Sephirot Rovey, who was also climbing the "Kabbalah Tree of Life".

He walked slowly and deliberately toward the container.

Aozaki Touko, who was busy taking notes in front of her, turned around when she heard footsteps behind her. When she saw that it was Rovey, she greeted him.

"It's you! How did things go? Have you taken care of everything outside?"

"Not yet, but it will be soon."

Rovey shook his head and answered Aoko's question directly.

"Let's put aside those Mage Families for now, what's going on here?"

He then looked up at the object floating in the container, which opened its eyes upon sensing his arrival and stared intently at him.

The malice, disgust, anger, murderous intent... all these emotions were perfectly expressed through those rose-colored Mystic Eyes, like a sharp blade, as if it would break through the cage and pierce into Rovey's heart at any moment.

If looks could kill, Rovey would probably be dead hundreds of times over by now.

"Hmm... they actually managed to retrieve the lost Mystic Eyes?"

Rovey stopped beside Aoko, stroked his chin, and then looked thoughtfully at the figure in the container. He greeted her as if he were seeing an old friend.

"Oh, it's been a few days. You look much better now, Ms. Lita."

"..."

As Rovey's voice faded away.

The room suddenly turned icy cold.

The killing intent emanating from that beautiful head solidified like viscous blood in an instant, and an invisible pressure burst forth from her head.

It was like a raging flood that could break through the barrier at any moment.

Chapter 149 The Ultimate Insult!

"Oh, so you're really that angry?"

"But that's understandable, after all, you don't seem to have fully accepted the fall from Heaven to hell yet..."

As soon as they entered this area, a palpable killing intent suddenly followed. Lita's Mystic Eyes were rapidly working, and a terrifying magical power was gathering in her radiant pupils.

However, just before it was about to erupt, the restrictions that Aozaki Touko had spent three days and three nights setting up throughout the room came into play in time.

The Bible engraved on the wall, along with the Rune on the ground, simultaneously took effect, directly suppressing the churning magic in Lita's eyes. The intense pain from the subsequent backlash of the magic then contorted her beautiful face once more.

Her previously murderous expression, which looked like she wanted to leap out of the furnace like Sun Wukong, vanished completely, leaving only pain on her beautiful face.

"Hehe..."

Aozaki Touko looked smug and then said sarcastically, "Don't waste your energy, you fool. After I modified the whole room, you can't escape. Even if you take back the Mystic Eyes, it's useless if you can't activate it."

The only response she received was Lita's angry eyes.

Clearly, she had been watching what Aozaki Touko was doing all along, because this damned woman kept upgrading right in front of her.

When Rovey had locked this guy in this special container, Aozaki Touko thought that without the Mystic Eyes and a physical body, even the Dead Apostle Ancestor wouldn't be able to cause any more trouble, and she almost let her guard down.

But just as she left and prepared to continue studying the Mystic Eyes of the Rose Rovey had given her, Aozaki Touko, who had just stepped outside, suddenly discovered something that horrified her.

The Mystic Eyes of the Rose were originally intact, had somehow transformed in her hands into a pair of bizarre shapes resembling rotten grapes. The magic power and the color that belonged to a Jewel-Grade Mystic Eyes had all disappeared, leaving it as nothing more than a rotting eyeball.

This frightened her so much that she rushed back to check the situation.

She was shocked by what she found out.

Lita had been unable to see anything because her eyes had been gouged out by Rovey, somehow managed to grow her own eyes back, and the light and patterns shimmering within them were none other than the Mystic Eyes of the Rose she had lost.

This unexpected situation startled Aozaki Touko, but at the same time, she suddenly felt a sense of relief.

Fortunately, she noticed it in time, sensing the anomaly before Lita had even retrieved her Mystic Eyes and was using them without any magical power. Otherwise, the situation would have been much worse.

So Aozaki Touko quickly devised her own countermeasures.

Following the knowledge taught to her by Rovey, she engraved the Primordial Runes symbolizing purification, the sun, and suppression on the top and bottom of the container, as well as around it, intending to suppress Lita's magic and immortality. Then, worried that it might not be safe, she called in Lev from outside to help her think of a solution.

In response, Lev's solution was very simple and straightforward.

Because he had been studying angels, there were quite a few things about the church in this workshop. He first poured several jars of Holy Water he had received from the Gabriel statue into the container imprisoning Lita. Then, he wrote down the scriptures for suppressing the Dead Apostle on the wall in a very serious manner, giving Lita, who had just regained consciousness, a lesson.

Originally, his body was rapidly recovering, but under the purification of the Holy Water, he kept emitting white smoke, which slowed down his recovery speed by several times. His Mystic Eyes and the magic power on his body were also constantly suppressed by the Rune and the scriptures of the church, so he could only watch helplessly as these two bastards started to lay hands on him.

Furthermore, fearing it might not be safe, Lev placed four more stone statues of angels in the room to suppress her, putting her body in an even worse state of restraint, making her almost unable to move.

In this room at this moment, the angel statues, Rune, and scriptures serve to suppress.

The Holy Water, however, was constantly harming her, preventing her from recovering.

This put Lita back in the same situation as when she was cut by Gabriel's water blade, her entire body constantly in—

Recovery, damage, recovery, damage...

The special state of constant interaction and endless cycles between these two factors makes it difficult to truly return to normal.

For the Dead Apostle, immersing their bodies in Holy Water was no different from submerging an ordinary person in sulfuric acid. So, at this moment, Lita was enduring the torture of purification, and the constant burning sensation made her mind even clearer.

Once in this state, even Lita couldn't help but start cursing and questioning the two bastards, "Where is this? Isn't this the Clock Tower? How come you have so many church-related things?!"

Lev was somewhat embarrassed by this.

Not just Lita, he also felt that the church atmosphere here was indeed too strong.

Moreover, putting aside everything else, the religious knowledge he crammed for in order to study angels was more than enough for him to become a qualified priest in the church.

However, it was precisely because of this that he did not feel flustered when facing the Dead Apostle Ancestor, but simply confined him to this place.

Unfortunately, restrictions are just restrictions after all.

Although this situation seems perfect, Lita's body's repair speed has indeed been suppressed.

However, the actual situation is still far from optimistic.

It was only after witnessing this situation firsthand that Aozaki Touko understood why the Dead Apostle Ancestor instilled such fear in so many people.

The terrifying power these monsters possess is one aspect, but what's even more astonishing is their unreasonable regenerative ability.

Even under the continuous damage from the Holy Water, as well as the suppression from the scriptures and runes, the thing inside the container was still able to continue to regenerate its body.

The strange situation was more like evolution or adaptation. In any case, after being injured by the Holy Water thousands of times, this guy's body gradually adapted to the environment inside the container.

The Holy Water that was originally enough to make her feel terribly uncomfortable is now only enough to make Lita feel slightly unwell. She will probably be able to face it calmly soon.

This means that she is still constantly adapting to the external environment, and even her physical body has evolved as a result.

Just as a virus gradually develops antibodies against a certain drug, this guy actually developed immunity to the Holy Water.

This is absolutely outrageous.

Have the Dead Apostle adapted to the Holy Water?

If this were told to others, probably no one would believe it.

Even the Executor of the Church would likely find this situation particularly challenging.

If it weren't for the continuous suppression from the container and the scriptures, this guy's recovery of his body would have been much faster than what he's showing now; he might have been able to restore his entire damaged body within a week.