Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 1906

Shadow Beyond Time-Space

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Maria Edwards was quite surprised:

"You even know about that? Yes, the dangerous person you described was Uncle Envy Edwards. He was very special within the family. Our bloodline inherited unique spatial power, so everyone had their own spatial talent. For example, I was very gifted at finding special anomalous spaces. And when Uncle Envy was very young, while displaying a talent for space, he also displayed a talent for time."

Miss Sylvia raised an eyebrow and glanced at Shade:

"That talent really is rare. So Envy Edwards was imprisoned by your Ancestor when he was very young? What exactly were the experiments performed on him?"

"They really were experiments involving the Elixir of Immortality, but other things were added later. I do not know much about it; that was the ancestor's core secret. I can only tell you that the ancestor gave uncle Envy a longer life, then had him constantly explore unknown spaces, constantly travel into the Past, and obtain secrets from the other end of time."

She did her best to describe what she knew:

"I never underwent formal Ring Arcanist training, but even I knew that frequently exploring space and time would inevitably bring trouble. In the end, Envy Edwards paid the price for it. Transcending time and space, he was ultimately punished, becoming a great problem that even the ancestor found troublesome. What you mentioned just now, about him being trapped inside a coffin, was actually a special containment carried out by the ancestor."

Maria Edwards offered her assessment cautiously:

"Even the ancestor never expected uncle Envy to end up like this."

This explained the mural they had seen in the secret chamber Under the Well in Mr. Soren Green's dream. One side depicted the experiment for immortality, while the other depicted passing through door

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