"Is this... a sacrifice?" Flora looked at the altar on the ground, somewhat surprised.
"Yes, we're going to promote you to middle rank!"
"Middle rank? I'm already middle rank. I don't need to advance," Flora said with a smile.
Vanessa's face twitched. Without Elliot needing to control her, she spoke on her own. "If I hadn't helped you offer sacrifices, you wouldn't even have reached first rank!"
"Wh-what! D-don't talk nonsense!"
Flora turned her head aside and lowered her veil.
Elliot was rather surprised. Had Flora become this lifelike?
He controlled Vanessa to take a look. Sure enough, the large hole in Flora's chest had mostly closed. She seemed to be recovering well.
Controlling her had already been extremely difficult for Elliot before, precisely because she had recovered so much.
Now she had actually recovered another sizable amount.
"When did you recover?"
Flora paused, lowered her head, and stroked her chest as she thought for a moment. "I recovered quite a bit that time Elsa came riding the Lord of Dreams."
In fact, she was recovering even now.
Flora knew that the Lord's will had descended upon Vanessa at this moment.
Whenever this happened, the void in her heart would slowly heal.
What puzzled her, though, was that for some reason, it would also slowly heal when she saw Elliot.
Even a little faster.
This puzzled her and gave rise to many guesses.
Could it be...
She glanced at Vanessa and swallowed the rest of her words.
The next time she saw Elliot, she would tell him about this and ask what he thought.
"Anyway, get up here and offer the sacrifice first!"
Vanessa pushed Flora into the altar.
Flora glanced at the altar, still feeling somewhat uneasy.
Although she had already joined the Esoteric Cult, she was still a