"It looks like you have someone in mind?"
Seeing Angel sink into thought, Empress Roselle smiled slightly and spoke. Her expression was alluring yet carried an air of authority, like that of a true empress.
Then her azure eyes gradually lit up as well. Whether she was performing divination, making a prophecy, or searching through the knowledge in her memories was unclear. The two special Cards of Blasphemy in her hands, "Red Priest" and "Demoness," quickly opened. Illusory pages containing potion knowledge flipped past, finally stopping at Sequence 0.
Only then did Angel notice that after Empress Roselle took the other "Demoness" card from her chest, her seductive aura, akin to that of a High Sequence Witch, had vanished as well.
Had she accommodated the Card of Blasphemy inside her body? Could that enhance her level and her abilities as a Mirror Person... As Angel pondered this, she gained a tangible sense that the empress before her was a "Knowledge Emperor," not a "Demoness."
This also made her curious about where the Mirror Person's power actually came from. After all, her original self, the male Roselle Gustav, had advanced to "Black Emperor" and subsequently fallen. That Knowledge Emperor characteristic had long since been expelled and had most likely fallen into the hands of the Church of Steam. How, then, did the empress before her maintain her Sequence 1 strength?
She wasn't from either of the City of Calamity's two pathways, so she couldn't draw on the Mirror World's power...
While she stared blankly at Empress Roselle, the latter finished analyzing the Cards of Blasphemy in her hands and lowered her head to say:
"Your guess is probably wrong. The Hidden Sage is unlikely to have made arrangements like these. It usually prefers to corrupt Beyonders of its own pathway, those