"But, senior sister, you've seen more stunning people, so your standards have been raised."

"Ugh, that's true. No wonder I've become so indifferent these past few years. It must be those two bastards' fault!"

"So, I wanted to ask, in your eyes, what kind of person is Senior Noding?"

Laura snorted:

"You still call him Senior Noding?"

The emotions in her eyes were too complex.

There was a sigh, confusion, anger... all sorts of indescribable emotions interwoven on the senior sister's face.

Until he heard Chloe say:

"Noding is already dead."

"Impossible!"

Laura denied vehemently, but the next moment, she saw Chloe's half-smiling expression.

She pressed her lips, a hint of anger appearing on her face:

"Junior, are you trying to set me up?"

Chloe shook his head and said:

"If I offended you, senior sister, I apologize. But now it seems, you indeed kept in touch with Senior Noding...

No, using those words is misleading. I should say, senior sister has a way to confirm Senior Noding's life or death, like your pocket watch."

"..."

"Looks like I guessed right."

"Who told you about this?"

"No one needed to tell me. I saw." Chloe said calmly, "You know I'm on the Path of Omniscience, and I have deep understanding of life and soul."

"..."

"In the Menilanka area, when you were smoking, I noticed your pocket watch was a bit odd."

"..."

"That's a magic item, isn't it? It holds a soul fire inside, doesn't it?"

Soul fire.

The flame of the soul.

Also called the breath of the soul.

It's a fragment of power separated from the soul.

In the clock tower where Vice Principal Mephisto resides, there's a wall.

The wall holds the soul fires of students and mentors from generations past.

When someone dies unexpectedly, the corresponding soul fire on the wall extinguishes.

This is most commonly used for crafting life-monitoring life tokens.

Besides this, fragments of this soul power have hardly any other use.

When Chloe said this, Laura's gaze towards him turned even more peculiar.

"Junior, boys who like to poke at people's scars are not popular."

"Senior sister, the hour hand on your pocket watch should have stopped moving, right?"

"And then?"

"It's a very delicate life token design. The hour hand, minute hand, and second hand correspond to three different life tokens respectively.

If someone loses their life, the corresponding hand will stop moving.

In terms of precision, your pocket watch design is as detailed as the wall in Vice Principal Mephisto's white tower."

"No, my skills can't compare to the Vice Principal's. They record too many soul fires."

The situation with the life pocket watch wasn't actually discovered by Chloe.

In this simulation, Rephya had seen Laura looking sad while watching the pocket watch.

So after exiting the simulation, he investigated a bit and found out the purpose of the watch.

"So, the hour hand corresponds to Senior Morton, right?"

"..."

Laura's face started to look agitated.

But Chloe, looking at Laura, had a faint trace of sympathy:

"Senior sister, I'm not here to mock you."

"Then why are you saying so much, what exactly do you want?"

"In the Menilanka area, I met a girl, she's a Raw Stone."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"It does." Chloe said seriously, "Her Awakened Talent lets her see others' souls. Senior Noding had her bring back the school's emblem. The person who received the emblem was me."

Plop.

The cigarette burning at Laura's lips fell to the ground.

Her expression visibly darkened.

"The extinguishing of a soul fire ends with the soul's disappearance. After a normal person dies, their soul dissipates, but an extraordinary person can linger for a while..."

"Enough." Laura suddenly raised her voice, and then weakly said, "Junior, I don't want to talk about this topic. If you insist on seeing it, I'll give it to you."

When Chloe saw that Laura didn't want to respond, he had already guessed the truth.

Speed Dragon Morton corresponds to the hour hand.

The minute hand and the second hand likely correspond to Dancer Noding and Laura herself.

Seeing Laura handing over the pocket watch, Chloe opened it.

As expected.

An unusual force was indeed wrapped around the minute and second hand of the pocket watch.

In the next moment, his pupils shrank.

He looked up at Laura and said:

"Senior sister, the photo in your pocket watch..."

Laura said wistfully, "What's wrong, heartless villain junior."

"No, what I mean is..." Chloe's breathing started to quicken, "In the group photo inside the pocket watch, is that male Noding senior?"

Laura frowned at Chloe.

She noticed that the previously calm Chloe now had a tumultuous emotional upheaval.

"Yes, what's up."

"I've seen him."

Chloe lowered her head to look at the blonde, warmly smiling man in the photo of the three of them.

At this moment.

Her memory seemed to return to a few months ago.

Back then, she hadn't yet awakened her Innate Wisdom.

But relying on her talent and Nini's sponsorship, she silently climbed up to Sequence Six.

However, back then, she was far less adept at combat than she is now.

She advanced too quickly.

Many mystical foundations that should have been solidified during the Low Sequence stage were only briefly digested before stepping onto a new level.

And unlike now, there wasn't The Sims to solidify the foundation.

So the combat power she could unleash generally stayed at Sequence Seven.

A few months ago.

The Crimson Church, sponsored by the Flesh and Blood Hermitage, madly attacked the outer city of the Ethereal Emblem.

Back then, two people were taken away.

One was her.

One was Rephya.

At that time, Rephya didn't know.

A clear-minded Chloe had already met her once.

The Crimson Church seized Rephya's Holy Bone through a mysterious sacrificial ritual.

But for unknown reasons, they couldn't take Chloe's Recovery.

It was at that time that she saw a blonde man among the Evil God's Followers of the Crimson Church.

That man was identical to Noding in Laura's group photo.

Yes.

She had met Dancer Noding before awakening the Blessed with Many Children System.

The Evil God's Followers had no sense of morality.

After the believers of the Crimson Church obtained Rephya's Holy Bone, but couldn't seize her talent, they planned to just kill the two directly.

But at that moment, Noding said:

"Killing the two is so uninteresting."

At that time, a follower said:

"Then what can we do, we can't leave any future trouble."

Noding shook his head and said: "Didn't you know early on? They're both orphans, there's really no one who can avenge them."

The follower asked: "Then what should we do?"

Noding said: "Let the girl who was stripped of the Holy Bone fend for herself, don't you want to see a top genius struggle in the mire?"

At that moment, all the Evil God's Followers around laughed wildly.

Yes.

A thief steals because they don't have.

For the people of the Flesh and Blood Hermitage, nothing is more joyful than watching a genius fall to dust.

But still, a follower said:

"What about the boy? He's Sequence Six, too dangerous, better to kill him directly."

Noding said:

"Didn't the higher-ups give us a potion, saying to find someone to test it on?"

The follower suddenly realized:

"Are you talking about the 'Valkyrie Solution'?"

The followers knew that thing was used to dissolve the Life Origin.

With the Life Origin damaged, the Extraordinary Sequence would be affected as well.

A single Valkyrie Solution is enough to regress an Extraordinary from Sequence Five to an ordinary person.

The laughing of the Evil God's Followers became even louder.

"Haha, Noding, compared to us, you're really a devil."

"Good, good, I lamented not being able to take his talent, now we can even make use of waste, truly great."

Noding said meaningfully:

"Nothing is more painful than watching a genius gradually lose their power."

Later...

What happened afterward, Chloe didn't know.

She passed out cold after being injected with the potion.

...

Recalling that scene from a few months ago, Chloe's eyes flickered.

Watching a genius fall to dust truly is a cruel pleasure.

Noding's actions undoubtedly fit the operations of the Evil God's Followers.

But...

If knowing Noding was undercover, then it's another matter.

This was a life-saving grace!

For her, being able to trade her talent for a chance at survival isn't a bad thing.

Live long enough to output damage.

If Noding hadn't interfered back then, the Evil God's Followers would have just killed her and Rephya and ended it.

Then naturally there wouldn't have been the event where both she and Rephya obtained the system afterward.

"No wonder..."

No wonder Strong Fortune judged that this matter was significant for her.

Knowing who's an enemy and who's a friend is very crucial for her.

She only needs the list of enemies.

Now, the list has a new addition.

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