Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 1857

Powerful Enemies and the Missing Princess

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Iluna gently patted her back. Luvia coughed a few more times, forcibly swallowed the blood in her mouth, then rinsed with the tea Shade handed her. She was no delicate girl:

"Five forces beyond the Thirteenth Ring, not even including himself—and that is only what I saw.

"First was the evil object Sister Devlin saw in Lust Edwardz's memories—the Door in a Bottle. That thing possesses self-awareness, and the Diviner's initial madness was related to it.

"Second was one-third of a pale skull. I do not know what it was, but it was probably not a relic. It was connected to death. When I saw it, I felt as though my entire body were about to freeze solid.

"Third was a book—a book held aloft by countless souls, seemingly possessing Fate Power. It might be Angel Level, Level 1, or perhaps even Unknown Level, Level 0.

"Then there was a person locked inside a coffin. Something was very wrong with him. Time and space overlapped upon his body. He seemed to be in the present, yet also seemed to be in the past. I do not know what he experienced, but it may have been related to experiments and Human Transmutation.

"Lastly, there were cards."

Shade abruptly looked at Luvia. The Girl with Purple Eyes shook her head.

"Not the Myriad Aspects of Impermanence Cards. I know those cards. This was the Angel Level relic he took with him when he defected from the Association years ago—the Poems Card. Shade, do you remember how, on the Night of the Moon Eclipse, he once used a deck of cards to summon monsters?"

Shade nodded.

"Of course. We guessed at the time that they were his Alchemy Item."

"Later, The Church came to verify things with us. It turned out that when

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