"Could it really be divinity?"
Looking at the records in the book, Shade's eyes widened slightly, and his breathing unconsciously quickened. Even the alluring hands and legs in the pool had failed to achieve that. If the Puppeteer's Script's counterattack from 20 points of good luck had truly guided him step by step toward suspected information related to divinity, then it made sense. But Luvia's divination for him had shown that the result caused by the Puppeteer's Script was related to fish, the deep sea, and "desire."
He continued turning the pages, wanting to find more information about that Golden Pearl, but the next page began telling another story.
There was no further information in this passage, but perhaps later chapters contained more news about that strange pearl. Shade stared at the pages without even blinking, afraid that he might miss something important.
"Hee hee hee~"
The woman's laughter came again, but this time it sounded exceptionally close.
Shade frowned and looked up, only to see that the dancing leg had retreated beneath the surface as well. This time, the woman's head emerged from the water, her chin pressed against the ground at the edge of the pool as she looked at Shade with a smile.
This was very strange. If she were naked, Shade should have been able to see her shoulders from this position, but at this moment, he truly could see only her head.
And that face—
Shade had thought that the Witches of the Fifth Epoch and Sixth Epoch he had encountered were the most beautiful women, but upon seeing that face, he even felt that his sense of beauty had been overturned.
He had never, truly never, seen—or even imagined—that such a beautiful face could exist in this world. Wet black hair clung to the