Chapter 1069: Grade

Letitia was a silent wizard who made "Hermit" feel that there was some kind of weirdness about her. Although the other party had never explicitly stated it, Cattleya believed that she must already be an angel.

And in the intelligence Cattleya had obtained in advance, the only high-level members of the "Rose Redemption Order" currently guarding "Utopia" were Toriopo and two other "Ten Pillars" who had been doing research here for years. Letitia should have already left.

Unexpectedly, she appeared again.

She was on the dark side of "Utopia."

Every time she said she was leaving "Utopia," except when she really had things to deal with, she was actually just circling around and entering the dark side? Was she guarding against something, or doing some secret business? "Star Queen" Cattleya was surprised but not panicked.

It was a good thing that Letitia was at the headquarters of the "Rose Redemption Order," so she wouldn't have to look everywhere for her to eliminate her!

At this time, Letitia, who had wine-red long hair and was wearing a loose robe, stood on top of a broken giant stone pillar, looking at the traitor in the prophecy. Her voice echoed in the current area:

"I saw you turn into a swan..."

As she spoke, Letitia's body expanded rapidly, and her loose black robe was quickly torn, turning into a large number of cloth pieces that drifted toward the bottom of the stone pillar.

In just the blink of an eye, this Vice President of the "Rose Redemption Order" had her neck stretched and covered with rose-red scales, and the same was true for her body surface.

She was already five or six meters tall, and her tailbone extended, becoming very long and covered with bone joints and barbs.

Letitia had actually turned into a giant dragon, a rose-red giant dragon full of power, overflowing with evil beauty, with a head that still resembled a human's.

Her brownish-yellow vertical eyes then locked onto "Hermit" Cattleya.

Sequence 2 of the "Reader" pathway is called "Sage," and its core ability is the control and utilization of information, including but not limited to one's own information.

In this situation, if one knows enough about oneself, without destroying the overall information balance, one can add suitable, non-conflicting, and fully mastered mystical knowledge into the corresponding information flow in the form of information, deleting those that are not needed, thereby completing the transformation of one's body and the fixation and acceleration of certain spells.

Letitia chose to gradually transform herself into a giant dragon from the information level to obtain a great improvement in physical body and vitality.

For this, she spent hundreds of years studying the remains of various giant dragons and was also known as the "Dragon Scholar" within the "Rose Redemption Order."

"Star Queen" Cattleya originally thought this title meant that Letitia's research on the giant dragon race was very deep and that she was a true expert in that field. It was only when the "Mystic Queen" also became a "Sage" that she guessed there was another meaning:

A scholar who is like a giant dragon!

Immediately after, between the gaps of Letitia's rose-red scales, cold, lashless eyes opened one after another.

The mythical creature form of the "Reader" pathway displayed in the image of a giant dragon!

At the same time, countless fragments flashed through "Hermit" Cattleya's mind.

There were the "Mystic Queen's" warnings when she chose the "Reader" pathway on the *Dawn*; the constant pursuit of knowledge and the repeated indoctrination by the "Hidden Sage"; the pain of being on the verge of losing control several times; the protection provided by Mr. "Fool"; the exclusion and suspicion she had suffered since becoming one of the "Ten Pillars"; and the various scenes of evil and depravity she had seen all the way after entering the dark side...

Everything was finally coming to an end... With a sigh, Cattleya arched her back slightly, and one after another, clean, illusory white feathers grew out.

"Fairy Tale Magic" - "The Ugly Duckling"!

Even an ugly duckling can turn into a swan!

Sequence 3 can also display an incomplete mythical creature form, supporting for a short time under the impact of an angel!

As these swan feathers grew, cracks also appeared on Cattleya's body surface. Within each crack, flesh and blood condensed, forming black-and-white, indifferent, and ruthless eyeballs.

As these eyeballs swept, they met the countless eyes on the rose-red giant dragon.

Lady "Hermit" and the giant dragon Letitia both became much more ethereal. One seemed to become an abstract black shadow group, and the other's body dimmed, no longer having an evil beauty.

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Although Lu Mian had "Teleportation," considering that there were many dangers hidden on the dark side of "Utopia," he did not dare to drive straight in like Lady "Magician," but instead "flashed" section by section.

After three or four times, he arrived at a place that looked like a palace terrace.

Large water-black stone bricks were laid here, and there were walls and towers all around. The night sky high above was deep, and bright stars were dotted among them, flickering as if unknown, numerous existences were watching the current area, and those stars were their eyes.

A thin, tall man dressed as a wizard stood on top of the nearest tower, carefully holding a silver water bottle with a thin neck in both hands.

The surface of the water bottle was covered with dense bumps, and on each bump was a deep crack. Inside the cracks, countless black-and-white eyeballs were slowly rotating.

This was a Grade "0" Sealed Artifact, but it had no number.

This was both because it did not belong to the Orthodox Churches and because it was sometimes an angel and sometimes a sealed artifact, and even its form could not be fixed.

It originated from a founding member of the "Rose Redemption Order." After that angel died in a weird loss of control, such a sealed artifact was left behind. In the long time that followed, three saints of the "Rose Redemption Order" successively used this sealed artifact to become angels, but all of them mysteriously lost control within three hundred years, either dying on the spot or becoming monsters, bringing no small disaster to the "Rose Redemption Order."

In the last thousand years, no one dared to use this Grade "0" Sealed Artifact to advance, and it therefore had a name:

"Destined Madness"!

As a secret organization with a long history, at its peak, the "Rose Redemption Order" had six Grade "0" Sealed Artifacts besides angels. Later, some were lost in civil strife, some were dedicated to the "Hidden Sage," and some became the cornerstone of angels. Now only three remain, and "Destined Madness" is one of them.

And the wizard holding this cursed water bottle was one of the "Ten Pillars," Sidis, who had been guarding and researching mystical knowledge in "Utopia" for years.

As a Sequence 3 "Prophet" of the "Reader" pathway, he chose "Destined Madness" instead of the other two Grade "0" Sealed Artifacts because, for him, the current negative impact was still acceptable and he could persist for a period of time.

Above the slender silver water bottle, the gaze of those eyeballs brought a large number of phantoms.

They were all kinds of knowledge. Some turned into human shapes, either with bursting eyeballs, clutching their chests, or exploding heads; some were like wriggling snakes, slippery and disgusting; some were strange and difficult to describe in words. All of them rushed toward Lu Mian.

Knowledge was chasing people!

In front of Lu Mian, a gray-white color emerged, surging like sea waves toward those materialized knowledge.

Wherever the gray-white passed, the stone bricks became thicker, and the air solidified.

When the petrifying power touched the knowledge, those phantoms were covered with gray-white coats one after another.

However, the next second, knowledge such as "stone," "stiff," "slow," and "loss of life" merged into those phantoms, becoming a part of them.

The knowledge chasing Lu Mian did not stop, but turned into knowledge stone statues of different shapes, heavy yet fast.

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On the blue ocean with thick gray-white fog.

Because the area they were in would cause messengers to lose their way, Franca could not contact Lady "Hermit" by normal means, so she could only inform the holder of the Great Arcana card that she could start acting by praying to Mr. "Fool."

After she finished this, Mr. "The Hanged Man" exhorted "Professor," "Periodic Table," and "Prototype":

"Next, you may have some hallucinations and see some illusions, but you must never take them as real. Otherwise, it will harm not only yourselves but also your companions.

"Even if you see me turn into a monster or see your companions attacking you, you must not dodge or fight back. You must believe that this is fake.

"Of course, such intense things may not necessarily happen."

"Professor" and the others looked at each other, and finally chose to believe the experienced and powerful Captain. Besides, "Sleeve Sword" was also there.

Next, the *Cherished Revenge* continued to go deeper into this sea area along the shipping route where the situation ahead could no longer be seen clearly.

After a while, "Professor" suddenly felt that the surroundings had become unusually quiet.

Although this was a "ghost ship" and there weren't many people to begin with, it had never been so quiet that there was not a single sound, only the sound of waves.

"Professor" slowly looked at the Captain, "Sleeve Sword," and the sailors in the distance, and found that they were jerky, as if they were in slow motion, or had become puppets manipulated by others.

"Professor" was startled and instinctively looked at "Periodic Table" and "Prototype" again.

These two members of the "Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society" curled the corners of their mouths one after another, revealing a creepy smile.

The two smiles were exactly the same in detail.

While terrified, "Professor" remembered the Captain's reminder and quickly closed her eyes, constantly telling herself in her heart:

"This is fake, this is all fake..."

At this moment, it felt as if tentacles were reaching over from the seawater, the slick sensation drawing ever closer, while Professor's own thoughts began to grow sluggish, even becoming somewhat chaotic.

"This is all fake, this is all fake..." She endured the fear, whispering incessantly.

Not knowing how much time had passed, all these abnormalities suddenly vanished, as if they had never appeared at all.

Professor opened her eyes and saw that the captain's demeanor had returned to normal, while Sleeve Sword, Periodic Table, and Prototype all had expressions of lingering doubt and fear on their faces, to varying degrees.

Professor and the others were just about to open their mouths to ask, but they frowned in unison.

They felt knowledge chasing after them, rushing out from the dense, grayish-white fog!

Of course, this was not as exaggerated as the indoctrination from the Hidden Sage; it belonged to the kind that could be borne relatively easily.

Seeing this, The Hanged Man immediately said to Franca:

"We have arrived at the target area."

Franca nodded and took out several sheets of yellow paper with fine, intricate patterns from her Traveler's Bag.

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