That composed gaze naturally belonged to Demon King Isabella.
She had gained a bit more decisiveness.
The Demon King personality, now more familiar with Gabriella, hesitated less.
But now, their auras had become so intertwined that even Gabriella found it hard to tell which personality was present.
If not for careful observation, Gabriella would have struggled to distinguish which one the Demon King was right now.
“What do you mean?” Isabella smiled. “What strange things is my wife saying?”
“It’s nothing.”
Gabriella feigned calmness.
As expected, the other personality was easier to tease.
Isabella gave her a look—one that was so reassuring it could even make one relax completely.
At that moment, Liya watched the interaction between the Demon King and the Queen.
For a while, she did not know how to interject.
Only after the two had fallen silent did she cautiously ask, “Is it my turn now?”
“Mm-hmm, sorry to keep you waiting, Liya.” Isabella nodded, her voice and expression returning to the Demon King’s steady demeanor.
Regarding the Evil God’s awakening, Liya nodded and laid out everything that had happened over the past few days.
She had been attacked by the Flame Saint, and that included the intelligence Simona had managed to probe out.
“In simple terms, there’s an organization behind the Flame Saint that we still don’t know about for now… That organization is very dangerous. It can analyze vast amounts of intelligence. Regarding all of this, both the Evil God and the Heavenly Oracle Envoys possess extensive information and control. And it’s certain that this organization has existed for decades, even centuries.”
Gabriella lowered her head and carefully analyzed the words Liya had spoken.
That Flame Saint individual knew the Church was a dangerous existence.
She even knew that Liya had completely pledged herself to the Evil God.
She was also a Heavenly Oracle Envoy.
She had always kept the Flame Saint Knight Order acting independently, but that dangerous knight order was in truth merely the tip of the iceberg of some organization.
“They claim to be acting for the sake of humanity. So, could this organization be one formed by the Heavenly Oracle Envoys?”
Gabriella suddenly raised her head and asked.
“The awakening of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys’ powers has been happening one after another. This is what Olivia and I think,” Isabella said.
She had long since reached a consensus with Olivia.
The Heavenly Oracle Envoys had accepted the shadow and submitted to her.
Now, they shared the same goal with her.
“The Heavenly Oracle Envoys have no reason to awaken at this point in time. No…” Gabriella shook her head.
“Liya, you awakened a few years ago, right?”
Liya nodded. “Perhaps I’m just special. I am the only Heavenly Oracle Envoy who witnessed your death.”
“So both I and the Heavenly Oracle Envoys have died once, yet we were still able to reincarnate.”
Gabriella suddenly thought of what Creis had said.
Her ability was [Life].
Could that be the reason?
But rather than that ability which even Creis had never seen with her own eyes, it was more likely that the hibernation pod had played a role.
Besides, Creis had nothing to do with the entire process.
At that moment, Liya seemed to remember something.
She lowered her head and said softly, “For these past few thousand years, you have been doing it all for ‘atonement.’ This is what you personally told me… For the sake of reviving the Evil God, you have given far too much.”
For a time, the three of them fell into silence.
A clear trace of sorrow appeared on Isabella’s face.
The memories of the Evil God had intruded into her life, bringing with them an excess of grief.
She was still a sentimental fool.
I wonder if that will be passed on to the child~
After several minutes of contemplation, Gabriella was the first to break the silence.
“Let me propose a hypothesis.”
“Mm.”
“Let’s hear it, Your Majesty the Queen.”
Just as they were about to speak, Liya and Isabella seemed to have their own answers as well, but Gabriella was a step ahead.
“Is there still a need to continue following the Goddess?”
The Goddess had long since died.
The world lay in ruins, and there was still no order.
When the Heavenly Oracle Envoys awakened, they discovered a world without gods.
She had thought of a terrifying possibility.
The corners of Gabriella’s lips curled upward.
“They won’t just sit back and wait for death.”
“I turned you into my kin.”
She used a smile to mask the hesitation hidden deep within her heart.
“But why haven’t they come to save you?”
Isabella did not know about the organization of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys.
“So you all don’t know about the Flame Saint,” she confirmed.
As for the Flame Saint, she belonged to the latter category—reborn and awakened.
Liya suddenly understood. “Philina and I, we voluntarily entered the hibernation pod.”
“It was after the battle ended. The other type is dying in battle against the Evil God.”
“The awakenings of the Heavenly Oracle Envoys are divided into two types. One of them is the organization secretly manipulating all of this. They established the organization to which the Flame Saint belongs. They created a false god, and later, through power and means, rewrote the Church’s faith.”
“After discovering that they had always been tools of the gods, the Heavenly Oracle Envoys began to resist. She improved the [Restoration Pod] and allowed many Heavenly Oracle Envoys to awaken. There was one Heavenly Oracle Envoy who awakened a thousand years ago.”
“There is no longer any need for them to continue following the Goddess. Over hundreds or even thousands of years, these powerful Heavenly Oracle Envoys, who do not die of natural causes, have perhaps long since formed new resolutions and gained new missions. They have no need to expose themselves for the sake of saving the Goddess. They might not even place the Goddess in their eyes at all.”
What’s more, the Heavenly Oracle Envoys might not even be aware of the news of the Goddess’s resurrection.
The Heavenly Oracle Envoys who awakened directly from the hibernation pod retained their past appearances.
They could be recognized at a glance.
This was also the reason the Flame Saint refused to meet them.
The entire plan seemed flawless, yet there were still two things Gabriella couldn’t understand.
One of them was the Heavenly Oracle Envoys’ “affinity” with the shadow.
They would be eroded by the shadow with the greatest of ease, just like inserting a key into its corresponding lock.
Furthermore, even without the intention of saving the Goddess, the Heavenly Oracle Envoys should still have remained vigilant toward the demon race.
According to the current intelligence, the demon race was a race created for the purpose of reviving the Evil God.
The Heavenly Oracle Envoys should have long since eradicated the demon race.
They possessed the power to do so.
Yet they had not done so.
Instead, they had remained hidden all this time.
Internal strife?
Or had they already made efforts long ago, only to be crushed by the demons?
Any related records—if not for Flame Saint Heltiz—they wouldn’t even have discovered the existence of this organization.
If not for Flame Saint Heltiz, they wouldn’t have discovered it at all.
At that moment, it seemed all three of them had thought of this possibility simultaneously.
Isabella was the first to speak.
“Perhaps the enemy the Heavenly Oracle Envoys fear the most is Celestial God Creis. If they had gone through so much trouble just to oppose her, then they would indeed have wasted a great deal of time.”
“This could also explain why Creis ‘awakened’ rather than having always existed.”
Gabriella nodded.
“Let me discuss this matter with Creis, shall I?”
For some reason, when she said this, both of them looked at her with eyes full of surprise.
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