Winnie closed her eyes, as if recalling those heart-stopping fragments of memory that had just awakened.
A moment later, she opened them again.
There was an almost self-mocking bitterness in Winnie's golden eyes. "I... am not a complete, independent Authority Holder. I'm only a divided soul, a fragment separated from the main body, carrying part of its memories and power."
She looked at Alvin.
"Lord Alvin, you mentioned before those six mysterious and powerful Authority Holders who hardly interacted with the outside world."
"My original body... or rather, the complete existence I once belonged to, is one of them."
Alvin's vast magnetic field suddenly tightened, and an extremely intense mental fluctuation spread out. Even Xilos, standing to the side, could not hide the shock in his eyes when he heard this.
Winnie continued, her tone abnormally calm.
"My original body ranked second among those six. Her name is Mia. The core concepts of the authorities she controls are purification and formulation. Her power is very strong, and even among those six, she holds absolute authority."
"Many Beyond the World eras ago, while exploring the depths of the Void Domain, she encountered an unimaginable source of black mist. Both its concentration and corrosiveness far surpassed the ordinary."
"And the eruption of this Source of Black Mist caused her original body to be severely corroded and contaminated. Both her soul and her authority suffered irreversible damage and pollution. To prevent the contaminated part from spreading and corroding the pure essence she had left, and also to search for a possible method of purification or resolution, she tried another way."
Winnie's voice trembled slightly, carrying a trace of sorrow from the depths of her soul.
"She forcibly cut away the contaminated portion of her soul, along with the memories and fragments of authority