So that raised the question... What was the being deep within the Land of Unknown that kept making me transmigrate like this—the "Liu Bo" who could corrupt others through his name alone?
Wasn't that a power only a Great Old One possessed?
And the "me" who had originally revived in a target because of his corruption actually grew more and more different from him as my Sequence rose. By the time I became a Demigod, he could corrupt me all over again!
Also, just as I suspected, the Calamity Seal had deliberately arranged this life! I'd had my suspicions when I saw the spells recorded in the latter half of the Blood Feast... Now they've been confirmed.
I just hadn't expected to be the one who raised the ancestor of the Soren Family...
No wonder Sauron Einhorn Medici, the three-in-one Angel Evil Spirit, asked about Reinhardt when we spoke in Backlund. After hearing he had fallen, he asked about the items Reinhardt had left behind...
It must have been Sauron's soul leading the questioning. He wanted to recover Soniathrym's Soul Stone?
That made sense. It bore the imprint of the City of Calamity. Perhaps it would benefit him, or even help him break free of Einhorn and Medici.
Still, I had a feeling that the "me" who was Reinhardt hadn't invested in Sauron as part of a deliberate scheme. More likely, those crafty versions of me from the Fifth Epoch had taken advantage of something I'd done without thinking and put it to better use.
As these thoughts raced through his mind, Abner looked up at Yaluolan, signaling that he had finished digesting what she had told him and that she could continue.
Yaluolan set down her teacup with practiced grace and chose her words. "Back to Oliver—or rather, you