Bernadette paused for two seconds, then responded through her " Invisible Servant ":
Uncle Edwards, what are you doing here?
She used the name she had when she was young to reduce the probability of unnecessary accidents.
When her voice echoed through the surrounding air via the " Invisible Servant," it was dry, hoarse, and completely different from her normal state.
Edwards' face was pale, as if he had just crawled out of a graveyard, devoid of any warmth.
"I don't know either.
"One time I woke up and found myself back on this island."
"Perhaps this is my destiny, my destiny to protect His Majesty."
He would pause after each sentence, but he didn't seem breathless. It was as if he hadn't spoken in a long time, so his throat was "rusty" and not quite used to it.
Before Bernadette could ask, the knight, whose name had been famous throughout the continent more than a hundred years ago, added in a flat tone:
His Majesty's mausoleum is nearby.
"I have been watching over this place, waiting for His resurrection."
"However, after all these years, there has been no change in the mausoleum."
"There has been no sign of resurrection."
Bernadette had the " Invisible Servant " look around and said:
This wooden house is where you will live.
Edwards' exposed skin was somewhat withered, which contrasted well with the age spots he already had. His voice was low and hoarse as he answered, somewhat haltingly:
"Right.
"I used the surrounding trees as materials to build this house."
Bernadette's " Invisible Servant " looked in the direction she came from and said:
"Aren't Uncle William and the others with you?"
Edwards's cold, wooden eyes twitched slightly.
"They were already contaminated and dead."
"Now, although they have come back to life, they are more like Monster than the original them."
"Your Highness, you must be wary of them and avoid them."
"Apart from Benjamin and me, no one else can be trusted."
Bernadette was silent for a moment, then asked through her " Invisible Servant ":
"Where is my father's tomb? I want to go see it."
Edwards moved his neck slightly, his neck stiff.
"Good."
He then walked step by step toward the wooden house and took out a rusty, dark iron axe.
"I'll take you there," Edwards said, gazing at the " Invisible Servant " that shouldn't normally be visible.
Throughout the process, his expression remained blank and almost unchanged.
"Okay." Bernadette responded at the edge of the forest, her dry, hoarse voice echoing around her through the " Invisible Servant."
Edwards, nearly 1.9 meters tall, appeared rather thin at the moment. Carrying an axe, he walked step by step towards the back of the cabin, speaking in a flat tone:
"Very close."
Be careful on the road.
Bernadette immediately took control of the " Invisible Servant," making it follow closely behind Edwards was dressed in luxurious clothes.
As they walked one after the other through the primeval forest, Bernadette suddenly asked the " Invisible Servant ":
"Uncle Edwards, what were you worshipping in that open space earlier?"
Edwards did not turn around, maintaining an almost synchronized pace.
"His Majesty."
Bernadette, who was at least two kilometers behind him and the " Invisible Servant," immediately raised an eyebrow and took nearly three seconds to control her emotions.
Through her " Invisible Servant," she continued to ask, devoid of any emotion:
"Uncle William and the others also worship him?"
Edwards paused for a moment, but kept his back to the " Invisible Servant " and those " Eye of Mystery Prying."
"No."
He slowed his pace as if he were pondering an answer:
"I don't know what they're worshipping..."
Bernadette's eyes narrowed slightly, as if she had noticed a subtle shift in the River of Fate.
She asked no more questions, letting the " Invisible Servant " quietly follow behind Edwards, moving towards the island's peaks amidst the massive, dark green trees and sharp, dark bushes.
In just four or five minutes, the trees in front of them disappeared.
This is not the kind of disappearance where dense gradually transitions to sparse and eventually to blank space; rather, the enormous trees abruptly vanish with an invisible line as the dividing line.
Beyond that invisible boundary lies a mountain peak several hundred meters high, its summit also covered by those deep green, almost black, giant trees, so much so that from a distance, it almost blends into the forest, indistinguishable from it.
However, the side of the mountain facing Edwards and Bernadette is mostly treeless because a large portion of the mountain has been hollowed out.
Deep within the mountain, a black mausoleum stands majestically, exuding grandeur.
It is mostly part of the mountain range itself, with only a small portion showing signs of human construction and shaping, truly illustrating the meaning of "using mountains as mausoleums".
Therefore, the shape of this mausoleum is not the common pyramid shape, but more like a towering mountain peak. It is not symmetrical, but it is absolutely majestic.
Whether it was the mausoleum itself that caused the impact, or Edwards's cleaning, its surface was free of weeds and the vines commonly found on other parts of the mountain.
This allowed Bernadette to see directly through the Eye of Mystery Prying " the various inscriptions and symbols on the mausoleum, and the heavy stone gate, nearly thirty meters high, that seemed to have been prepared for Giant.
Bernadette was no stranger to those words and symbols; with just a little identification, she recognized that they either came from the Civil Code drafted and promulgated by her father, belonged to the new social customs he created, or were directly the design drawings of certain inventions.
Just as Bernadette was examining it closely, Klein, standing above the Gray Fog, was completely certain that this was the last tomb left behind by Emperor Roselle.
This bears some resemblance to the tombs he saw in the Tudor ruins, possessing the majesty and Distortion of the " Black Emperor."
After leaving the primeval forest, crossing the invisible boundary, and arriving not far from the mausoleum, Edwards stopped.
He turned halfway around, his pale face and indifferent eyes fixed on the " Invisible Servant," and said in a voice that remained unchanged:
Don't go in.
That would interrupt the resurrection process...
Bernadette frowned slightly, thought for two seconds, and used her " Eye of Mystery Prying " to lock onto the mausoleum.
Then, her Blue Eyes, like the ocean, suddenly became extremely dark, resembling the surface of the sea before a storm.
In this state, she clearly lost focus, her eyes appearing blank and unfocused.
She was peering into the River of Fate, making prophecies about what would happen next.
Above the Gray Fog, Klein tapped the mottled long table again, increasing her chances of success and preparing to combat the pollution of the Starry Sky.
Of course, the latter is not necessary, because Bernadette has a "0" level Sealed Artifact that she can control.
The next second, Bernadette raised her right hand.
Her skin instantly turned as white as snow, her lips as red as blood, and her hair as black as ebony.
In her hand now lay an illusory, ancient mirror.
This is " Snow White " from Fairy Tale Magic; Bernadette used it to increase the success rate and accuracy of her "prophecies."
Without a sound, she "saw" a scene:
The majestic, dark mausoleum began to shake noticeably, and its heavy, tall stone gate swung open.
Then, a huge, jet-black arm reached out from the stone door.
The arm was similar in size to the trees on the island, and judging from its color and condition, it resembled a part of a shadow. However, it was not a thin layer; instead, it was filled with flesh and blood, making it appear extremely strange.
It braced itself on its elbows and moved forward with difficulty, as if trying to pull out the larger and more terrifying part that followed.
Boom!
The entire island began to shake.
Bang!
Those nearly transparent " Eye of Mystery Prying " shattered suddenly.
Bernadette's eyes immediately closed, as if she had seen an unbearably bright light or suffered an unbearable injury.
Blood trickled from the corner of her eye, and her face paled considerably.
On her body, pairs of ethereal, holy wings unfolded, their falling white feathers neutralizing some kind of invisible pollution.
"As expected, she has the ability to fight back. The Emperor's legacy is truly abundant... Heh, before I educated her, Lady ' The Hermit ' liked to use her ' Eye of Mystery Prying ' to examine the people and things around her. There must be some influence from her upbringing... In short, it's all Roselle's fault!" Klein, above the Gray Fog, secretly breathed a sigh of relief while inwardly grumbling about the Emperor.
Immediately afterward, his mind raced as he analyzed the scene Bernadette had witnessed in the prophecy:
"After the stone door opened, a terrifying creature seemed to crawl out of the mausoleum."
"This could be Roselle resurrected, or it could be a symbol of some kind of catastrophe, such as an Outer Deity that once eroded this island, or something that quietly corrupted Roselle's ' The Moon Primordial '..."
"Well, even if it's Roselle, it's definitely not human-shaped; it's closer to Mythical Creature, closer to a god... Besides, we can't be sure if that terrifying creature has reason, or if it can communicate..."
"Another important question is whether the stone door was opened by Bernadette or someone else, or by the terrifying creature within the mausoleum itself? If it's the latter, even if we do nothing, things could still develop to the point predicted..."
"Prophecies are truly full of ambiguity."
Klein casually conjured a gold coin, flicked it up with a clang, and performed a Divination.
The Dream Divination interpretation indicated that the mausoleum possessed both dangerous and safe characteristics.
"How am I supposed to interpret this?" Klein pondered, turning his attention back to Bernadette.
It took Bernadette several tens of seconds to recover and no longer appear so weak.
However, she cannot make any specific predictions about what she saw, but she is certain that the problem is very complex.
Because the " Eye of Mystery Prying " was shattered, she could no longer use it to see various Concealment, and could only use the perception inherent in the " Invisible Servant " to check the basic situation around her.
She noticed that Edwards remained silent and motionless while she was unable to Manipulation the " Invisible Servant," seemingly unaware of anything amiss.
After thinking for a moment, Bernadette, through her " Invisible Servant," said to Edwards:
Do you remember the years you spent in Lenburg?
Edwards's indifferent Blue Eyes flickered:
"Remember.
"I seem to be..."
At this point, he seemed to remember something, and his expression Distortion as if he were enduring some indescribable pain.
In this state, his eyes suddenly shone with a strange light:
"I seem, I seem, to be dead..."