[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader":3,"chapter-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1067":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Lord of Mysteries: Starting As A Reader",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1553594,2017,"Chapter 1067: The Hunt","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1067",1067,"\u003Cp>\"Refuse?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess stared at \"Ebner’s\" face for a few seconds, surprised that this viscount—whose reputation was notoriously poor—could actually resist herallure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then she curved her lips into a teasing smile and, while swinging one leg over to straddle \"Ebner’s\" lap, slid a pale hand beneath his shirt...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Viscount, you don’t have the right to refuse~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke, she was about to bestow upon \"Ebner\" overwhelmingecstasy, enough to completely melt a person’s will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as she made her move, \"Ebner,\" who had been allowing everything, sighed softly and said regretfully:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although I am also very curious about ’ecstasy’...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But... time’s up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Time’s up?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess—her long black hair flowing like ink—paused, frowning for the first time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, she watched the figure beneath her turn translucent—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in an instant, it vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"History Projection?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As someone who had lived since the fourth epoch—back when the three great Demoness families still coexisted—the Black Saintess was hardly inexperienced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She recognized exactly what she’d just seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not good. This might be bait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart tightened. She prepared to use Mirror Shuttling to escape immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the next second—her expression changed drastically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the mirror world she created...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had somehow fallen under Secrecy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And more than that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faint, inexplicable white mist had begun permeating the mirror space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From within the mist, a tall woman walked out—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>High nose bridge, full lips, deep gray eyes, strikingly beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leticia Tamara.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... weren’t you destroyed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess’ expression grew uglier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when the Succubus Clan had followed the Night Emperor to besiege Leticia, she herself had participated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even adopted the title \"Black Saintess\" after defecting to Cheek, partly due to nostalgia for the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leticia—Princess Vera—smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh... it’s you, Medea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You actually submitted to Cheek?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder Mollica’s Apocalypse Demoness characteristic was taken by him...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And afterward she was turned into a ship by Trensost...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her smile was gentle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her tone was glacial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was His Majesty’s command. I have always been loyal to the Night Emperor. I did not betray him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess shook her head calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she glanced at the mist around Leticia and frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are no longer a Beyonder of any pathway...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that mist what gives you strength?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly are you now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leticia chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s normal that you don’t know...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because I am now a servant of the Unknown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the echo of her voice faded—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess’s body exploded—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shattering into mirror-like fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later she reappeared, disheveled, her dress’s buttons blown apart, revealing a smooth expanse of pale skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To execute me outright without even speaking a word of power?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the liaison between the Demoness Sect and the Loen royal family, and once a subordinate of the Night Emperor, the Black Saintess was intimately familiar with the Arbiter and Black Emperor pathways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Leticia had just displayed was already comparable to a Hand of Order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Hand of Order was the perfect counter to a Demoness—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially a Catastrophe Demoness who thrived on chaos and calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*If I can’t defeat Leticia alone, and someone else is covering this space with Secrecy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing two angels at once—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have zero chance of victory.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Escape first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then settle accounts with that Viscount Bryan later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought, she didn’t question why Leticia hadn’t attacked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She revealed her Medusa-like mythical form, and from her eyes burst the Light of Years, tearing open the Secrecy barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before time more ancient than the ancient—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only \"death,\" but even \"secrecy\" could not withstand the erosion of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seize the opening—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She bolted through the crack with extreme speed, preparing to use mirror-jump to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still cautious, she noted that Leticia made no movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So in that final second, she glanced back—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And saw Leticia looking at her with unmistakable mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mockery?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess realized something was wrong—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A soundless shriek rippled outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her body shrank rapidly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About to turn into a little chick—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the chick exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess reappeared within the mirror world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Secrecy crack was almost sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s an ancient evil outside too!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart turned cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she quickly made a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She drew out a strange, rusted, blood-stained crown and placed it on her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a sealed artifact formed from the Conqueror characteristic that the Demoness Sect and the Loen royals had exchanged using a Prince of Abolition characteristic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its negative effects were monstrous—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its might was overwhelming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It pierced almost all authorities—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And conquered everything ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secrecy broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curses broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bindings broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imprisonment broke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess blasted out of the mirror world into the suburbs of Backlund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the crown’s backlash crashed down instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suppressed it with great difficulty and was about to flee—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she saw a familiar figure—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscount Ebner Bryan, smiling at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And beside him stood a hooded woman, dressed in an archaic robe, with black hair and black eyes—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beautiful, but expressionlessly blank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the Black Saintess saw her—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hooded woman looked back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the rusted crown...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One centimeter at a time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Erased from existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Saintess’s eyes widened in terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn’t even finish her sentence—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because her entire existence began rewinding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything she had done—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except using the Conqueror crown—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reversed rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she was dragged back into the mirror world smothered by Secrecy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Serpent of Fate’s ’Restart’?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many angels are laying an ambush for me?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing Leticia Tamara’s mocking gaze, the Black Saintess once again tasted the despair she used to inflict as a Demoness of Despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in the suburbs—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beautiful but slightly blank woman—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mother of the Sky—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turned toward Ebner with a gentle smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drink the Cognizer potion now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With me beside you, your luck can temporarily return to normal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",983,"2026-06-06T07:27:25.441Z",1,"novelbin.me","43902616d71ccffad3dc225f3fd4cd092a5a501d5544a96cfaa87751a8c61b30","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1068","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1066",1326,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-cover.jpg"]