Half an hour earlier.
A beautiful new world, just as it had always been.
Star Spirit Riel, possessing Eileen, greedily breathed in the fresh air of this world.
She had not seen scenery this beautiful in a very long time. Though she was borrowing another girl's body, it still filled her with heartfelt delight and joy.
"Such a beautiful world..."
"How wonderful it would be to twist and corrupt it step by step under my own control!"
A sickly smile appeared on "Eileen's" face.
Without her noticing, fine scales began to grow across her body. They were pale blue, refracting the sunlight with dazzling brilliance. Though strange, they possessed an unusual beauty.
"This body is rather peculiar."
"Eileen" looked at the fine scales in surprise and said thoughtfully, "She isn't from the Prime Material Plane, is she?"
"No wonder she has such a powerful yet pure obsession..."
Xu Nan stared at her. "You used her."
Star Spirit Riel let out a strange laugh. "We merely cooperated. Didn't she realize long ago that there was a devil living inside her body? Without me, without my blood to infuse and guide her, could she have written such terrifying and stunning works?"
"Her wish was so strong that even I was somewhat reluctant to shatter it."
"Unfortunately, as my host, she has only one possible fate..."
Though she did not explicitly state Eileen's ultimate fate, Star Spirit Riel's mouth had already revealed everything.
BOOM!
A mortal body could not withstand prolonged possession by a god or a star spirit.
From the very beginning, the one Star Spirit Riel had chosen was Eileen, not Barnes. Judging from the clues surrounding the stubborn stone, Barnes's affair was likely another arrangement by the big shots.
Under normal circumstances, Xu Nan would probably have been wracked with