The Secret of Omniscience

Inside Rose's study at Madeline Manor.

The impostor Rose Madeline was staring at a bizarre oil painting on the wall with a strange gaze.

Her eyes seemed to possess an incredible power that allowed her to see through to the essence of things. Within them, scenes from elsewhere flashed rapidly past—battle footage from the Fourth Floor of the Library Tower at Green Dragon Ridge Lake.

The images flickered past in a blur before finally freezing on a vague corner of the scene: a wall, and hanging upon it, an oil painting nearly identical to the one before her.

Gradually, an extremely exaggerated curve formed at the corner of her lips.

Then, the face that belonged to Rose Madeline began to melt, and a new face immediately emerged.

It was an ordinary, elderly woman's face. Even if Tang Qi had been there, he would likely have needed to search through the Original Owner's memories to barely recall that she was the maid who had cared for the Original Owner since childhood... After that, different faces continued to emerge.

Every one of them was connected to the real "Tang Qi"—perhaps the owner of the cake shop the Original Owner loved to visit, perhaps the girl next door whom the Original Owner had secretly loved for years.

Yet those faces had nothing to do with Tang Qi as he was now.

Several seconds later, another ordinary face formed. It belonged to a long-forgotten person: Pastor Sinbani of Thorn High School in Messer City.

Among the Origin Star residents Tang Qi had met and spoken with after being reborn into this world, he had been one of the earliest.

Before him had been several subordinates of the powerful figure Kerry Ronald, who had helped Tang Qi dispose of the body. But those people had