Vivian thought carefully for a moment, then shook her head. "I don't remember."
"Do you still remember what happened before you fell into a deep sleep three hundred years ago?" Hao Ren felt like a psychiatrist. "You also fell asleep because 'sleepiness came over you' after defeating the Wrath Spirit. Do you remember anything about those few days?"
Vivian furrowed her brow and racked her brain, but after a while she still shook her head. "I still don't remember. But I'm certain I forgot some details from before I fell asleep, including giving this box to Paul. I only remember being exhausted after defeating the Wrath Spirit, so drowsy that all I could think about was finding somewhere deserted to sleep deeply for a while... I also vaguely remember giving two Resonance Stones to two followers, but I have no memory at all of the circumstances under which I gave them the stones, or what else I may have handed them at the same time."
Hao Ren dragged his finger across the tabletop, gathering and organizing the information revealed by the manuscript along with his own deductions into a few clues. "Let's go over what we know. Just as you said, your deep sleep comes in two forms. One is when you enter sleep voluntarily to get through difficult times. Let's set that aside for now. The other is when sleepiness comes over you and you have no choice but to sleep. The result of this second kind of sleep is a drastic weakening of your power and extensive memory loss. This second kind also has something in common: before falling asleep, you go through a period of irritability, usually accompanied by a major battle. Sometimes you don't even remember who you were fighting, but in any case, you have