On the deck of the bone ship.
Goliya silently listened to the account.
Bai Xiaowen and Delifa watched her expression.
After a long silence, Goliya said, "So, that Death God Naige'er had been lurking inside the Soul Stone all along. And your servant, the banshee Delifa, turned me into a Black Knight because she intended to serve Naige'er at the time."
Bai Xiaowen nodded. "That was basically correct."
"The irresistible summoning force I sensed two months ago was actually Nargol calling for me? Why didn't he succeed?" Goliya asked.
Bai Xiaowen smiled. "Because I released him in an unbelievable place."
Goliya nodded. "Judging by how relaxed you look, Nargol was killed by you?"
Bai Xiaowen said with a smile, "That's right."
"So my Transformation was caused by Nargol's death."
Goliya slowly said, "Ever since that irresistible sensation of being summoned two months ago, I felt that many memories from before my death had awakened. Those awakened memories made me start to grow weak... I could clearly have wiped out that human fortress and pushed the front line into the central provinces of the Lionheart Empire, but that long-lost sense of guilt made it difficult for me to make up my mind."
Bai Xiaowen understood.
As a Black Knight and the Black Knight Lord, Goliya had possessed only a few fragments of her memories from before her death. Her memories had all centered on being deceived by the false Prince Richard and falling victim to Death God's Curse, leaving her filled with hatred for the living world.
For undead creatures, especially an undead faction leader like Goliya who held great power, hatred could indeed make her stronger.
However, Goliya's loss of her emotions from before death and her Transformation into a killing machine devoid of feeling had actually been the result