When the plot-skips players into the game world-Chapter 948 - 313: The Tainted Eye of Mercy

Chapter 948: Chapter 313: The Tainted Eye of Mercy

Aleister held the little crow with one hand and leisurely descended through the huge hole that had just been blasted into the bedroom.

Although jumping down directly wouldn’t have hurt her in the slightest, Aleister didn’t want to get her dress dirty.

——Strange to say.

She didn’t know when it started, but Aleister felt that she was becoming increasingly concerned about her own appearance, always paying attention to grace even when killing.

It was as if… if she made any sort of blunder or caused any trouble here, it would bring embarrassment to Aiwass.

…That feeling was like when a big shot on a social platform plays with an alt account, they always take care to mind their words, to avoid a bad reputation for their main identity if their cover is ever blown.

When she landed, Aleister released the little crow, letting the Night Fiend fly freely behind her.

As for the Mirror Demon, it could not be brought down and could only wait for their return on the ground.

The blown-up basement was now a complete mess.

One could see that this place must have once been a ritual site of considerable scale—Aleister could even see traces of shattered pieces of ritual arrays that had been carved into the stone, now broken into chunks and scattered on the floor.

From here, one could spot some “blood bags” that had once been confined in this place.

They seemed to be in romantic relationships with Alfonso. They all appeared to be quite young, the oldest probably only twenty-three or twenty-four years old. They were not dressed in prison garb or straitjackets but rather in loose sleepwear that was even somewhat provocative, with no chains or shackles on their bodies.

When Aleister walked past their bodies, she could smell the unique scent of a Blood Slave.

Yes, bodies——

They were not killed by Alfonso, but were directly shaken to death by the sudden explosion. The basement still retained some traces of the Path of Love’s power, but the intensity was not high. From this, it could be inferred that the highest Energy Level among them was at most Third Level, and it was even possible that most of them were just ordinary people.

And now, the bodies of these girls were scattered all over the place. They died with their eyes open—not even knowing what had killed them, most likely.

Aleister frowned slightly.

She felt somewhat displeased to see these beautiful people die in such a dismal state.

“Anna Kingsford…”

Aleister murmured the name of the main culprit under her breath, pursing her lips.

She walked past everyone’s corpses and stood at the end of the broken corridor.

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There was a black, well-cover-like metal door with patterns on it.

Almost the entire basement had been blasted apart, yet this door, protected by an enchantment, remained perfectly intact.

“——This is probably the place.”

Aleister said softly, reaching out to touch the enchantment.

Crimson lines spread out like lightning from where she touched, causing Aleister to let out a surprised “huh”.

…It wasn’t that the enchantment was difficult to break.

If the enchantment proved too hard to open, Aleister could always have the Night Fiend dig a tunnel from the side to bypass it.

Her expression of surprise was because it was too easy to unlock.

——Just like the seal of Crescent Moon Manor during the ascension ritual!

As Aleister continued to touch the enchantment, the metal door was charged and gradually lit up.

The next moment, it split into three rings. White, yellow, and black rings overlapped each other, with spaces where they intersected filled with a blood-like red.

At the center was a rune, signifying “Rebirth.”

Wind, Earth, Darkness—just by inputting mana in the same proportions of these three types, one could open this secret door. The Son of the Moon’s mana, just so happened to be evenly distributed among these three attributes. Therefore, the Son of the Moon only needed to evenly inject their mana into it to unlock the seal.

…Thinking about it, after all, this was a place Alfonso had to frequently access. If the method to pass through the door was too complicated, it would be like designing an extremely complex and different password system for each game one plays, which would be bothersome for one’s memory.

As Aleister injected mana of the corresponding attributes, the triple rings lit up instantly, while the central rune still remained dim.

Almost instinctively, Aleister suddenly spoke out loud: “Rebirth.”

In the next moment, the rune was also illuminated. Subsequently, the barrier was lifted.

The door cracked into three sections, receding outwards like fierce teeth. What remained was a strange octagonal gate.

As Aleister passed through, he saw a ritual site that was still relatively well-preserved.

Dark green metallic walls were covered with abridged dragon language runes, while the black metal directly welded onto the walls and floor formed a fully secured ritual site that couldn’t be easily altered.

And in the very center of the ritual site was something Aleister found somewhat familiar, yet also somewhat alien.

“This is—”

Aleister’s eyes suddenly widened.

Because it was a damaged crystal ball.

—Just like the “crystal liver specimen” he had obtained from Count Dorn, the crystal ball was of the exact same specifications!

Only, inside it, instead of the still twitching liver, was a pair of very beautiful eyeballs. Their pupils were as clear and transparent as rubies.

They were floating in the water, drifting up and down within the pale pink crystal ball, with clumps of dark black blood stains dissolving continuously. Those black contaminated blood stains spread like sinister tentacles, entwining one of the eyeballs like shackles.

The once pristine white surface of that eyeball was now stained with patches of blackish-red spots. The other, slightly lower eyeball was still clean, but its surface was stained with patches of light red blood marks.

At the sight of it, Aleister experienced a powerful desire—a determined longing to possess it to himself. Her body felt an intense thirst, an urge to drink all of the “pale pink liquid” within the shattered crystal ball.

—Aleister knew what this was.

Or rather, in at least another timeline, Aiwass knew what this was…

“Be careful, Master.”

The Night Fiend warned by his side.

“I know…”

Aleister said in a low voice, swallowing a gulp of saliva, and touched the crystal ball with a noticeably trembling right hand.

As expected, no prompt popped up in front of her eyes.

And, acting on a certain intuition, Aleister suddenly clenched her fist and smashed the crystal ball with a punch!

In that instant, a rich and fragrant stimulating scent filled the air.

Only then did Aleister and the Night Fiend realize what the liquid inside was—it was some kind of clear high-proof alcohol.

Alcohol itself belongs to the Path of Love; hence, contaminated alcohol could also be considered a superb “contamination solvent.”

The two eyeballs did not fall to the ground but rather floated on their own after being released from the confines of the crystal ball. They interlaced like a binary star system, stably flying in the air.

Aleister touched one of the two eyeballs again.

When she grasped one of them, the other also stopped its motion. And suddenly, it turned around, staring intently at Aleister.

At the same time, the system panel appeared in front of Aleister:

[Contaminated・Eyes of Mercy Offered]

[Extraordinary Equipment (former purplish color)]

[Armor-Head]

[Extraordinary Traits: When you voluntarily lose your own life, the effect of this skill is additionally increased based on the life force consumed (limited to triggers from Path of Devotion or Path of Love)]

[Extraordinary Traits (Contaminated): This effect has been nullified]

[Contaminated Traits: When you lose life, a certain proportion of additional life will be lost; when you receive life restoration from others, the healer will lose a proportion of the life healed]

[Set: Sister Sasha’s Holy Feast (1/4)]

[“—I plucked out my eyes, yet my vision stayed clear; I discarded my shell, but my soul was free.”]

This was the Sasha Set that Aiwass had been longing to acquire!