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This island seemed especially favored by the moonlight.
The black mausoleum, the indistinct peaks-everything wore a blood-colored mantle.
In the distant woods, moonlight spilled unevenly through gaps in the leaves, casting red eyes upon the ground.
"First, capture His daughter to affect His mental state and lend the Mother Goddess of Depravity's corruption a hand, so the Mother Goddess of Depravity won't discover that I want Roselle dead for good."
According to Roselle's diary, traveling west across the sea would lead to the strange Primitive Island. Combined with Roselle's later, ambitious declaration that "The emperor's subjects shouldn't consist solely of humans. These Beyonder Creatures can become my subjects too!" this suggested that Roselle very likely had a hidden mausoleum built by Beyonder animals-the undiscovered ninth mausoleum.
Making Beyonder Creatures his subjects was indeed quite ingenious from a human perspective.
Without outside interference, and had he not seen the moon before then, Roselle truly could have resurrected successfully and continued running the riddled, crumbling Intis Empire, which had been held together almost entirely by his personal charisma.
"Roselle has been struggling on the verge of death for so long that He can basically be declared a failure. She still has Mr. Door in Her hands anyway. Surely She won't mind me disposing of this failed product?"
Edward's mental abacus clattered away. Earlier, Agalito had tried to snatch Klein while the True Creator wasn't paying attention, only to be unfortunately stopped by Bernadette. And a minor figure he had kept in his hands had suddenly turned against him. Both should have been manifestations of "misfortune." With this sort of "misfortune," when Klein and the others tried to leave the Sea of the Gods' War, all manner of other obstacles would most likely arise and cause them to fail again.
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