Scepter of Thorns

Celine stretched out her hand and cast a spell, "To be on the safe side, let's talk in the illusion. But my illusion level is not as high as Cellu's, so it won't be long, let's focus on the key points."

"Did Serones know that there was an angel following her?" Edmund asked with great interest, "or did you follow her secretly by order of her father?"

"She doesn't know." Celine expressed her dissatisfaction with Serones very directly. "If she knew, she would probably yell at me and ask me to do this or that. Obviously I don't like being controlled by others. Of course, We can talk about this matter outside the illusion, I set up the illusion mainly to know the relationship between you and Kairos."

"My relationship with him?" Edward's face darkened instantly, "The perpetrator and the sufferer, the conqueror and the conquered, what else can there be?"

"Then have you ever thought about the controller and the controlled?" Celine reminded, "You can use his love..."

"There is no love."

Edward interrupted her coldly, "What you see is only the appearance. He is more willing to accept surrender than love."

Celine frowned and said, "But he obviously..."

"But he obviously looks affectionate, paranoid and possessive, desperate for a response from his loved one, right?"

Celine nodded dully, she really didn't know how to proceed.

"Ha." Edward laughed mockingly, "But you overlooked that he is a superior."

"It is impossible for a man in a high position to give all his sincerity. His emotional division is extremely harsh, and what overrides everything is a strong desire to conquer, but this desire to conquer often comes from the awareness of crises. I admit He is indeed as sensitive as I am in this regard." He seemed to be appreciating, "Maybe he really likes me, but this so-called liking is too trivial. Kylos holds my secret in his hands, not so much liking, It's more like nervous killing intent."

"What do you mean?"

"He expressed his desire to kill me many times, of course not for nonsensical love. The real reason is that he felt my threat. Maybe he wanted me to gradually become stronger, but now he obviously knows better. My hatred for him. It is extremely unwise to make an enemy."

"It makes sense..." Celine lowered her head, "But you really look alike."

"Do you know what Kylos is controlling?" Edward changed the subject, "Such as Godhead?"

"Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Edward looked at the woman in front of him, and somehow he remembered a sentence, "Celine is a friend, you can choose to ally with her."

"I suspect that I once knew Kylos." He finally chose to tell her the truth, because the other party was the only one who had contacted the God Realm, "and he...has my godhead."

"Are you serious? How do you have a godhead?!" Celine's tone became sharp, "He is the God of Light, one of the three main gods born at the beginning!! You say you know him!!!"

"Otherwise, how do you explain that he attaches great importance to me?" Edward asked back, "I'm not devout in faith, and I even have the blood of the demon race. Not only did he not punish me, but he also looked at me differently?! This is not a joke, Celine, unless he knows me, or..."

"Or what?"

"It's nothing." Edward said in a hurry, "What's even weirder is that he once fought against me. I used the form of the Celestial Clan to fight him in the form of the Demon Clan..."

"What did you say?!!!" Celine screamed, "The demon form of the God of Light?!"

Edward realized his slip of the tongue, "Calm down, I pierced his heart when he was fighting with me in the form of the Celestial Clan, and found that there was a devil in it..."

Celine became more and more hysterical, "You pierced his heart?!!"

"I was forced, okay?!" Edward couldn't calm down, "He was going to kill me, even my wings were torn off by him, I can't fly at all now! I was in the devil world at that time, he Join forces with the consul of the Demon Realm, and I will be played by him like a trapped beast!!!”

"You're incomplete!!!" Celine looked like she was going to explode, "You've been to the Demon Realm!! Kairos joined forces with the Demon Realm Consul!!!"

Edward: "..."

He realized he should shut up.

Celine walked back and forth with her hands behind her back, and she whispered in a low voice as she walked, and Edward couldn't hear what she was talking at all.

"I underestimated you, Edward." After walking for 2 minutes, she finally regained her senses, "Okay, now can you tell me what relationship Kairos has with the demons?"

"Enemy and friend." He thought for a while, "but the only thing that is certain is that the God of Light is definitely not only loyal to the light, he also has a dark side, and even has a close relationship with the demons."

"You said just now...Kerlos has a godhead?" Celine rubbed her chin and asked a little uneasy, "Then...is he really the God of Light?"

"Huh?" A hint of deep meaning flashed across Edward's eyes, "Do you have any guesses?"

"You know that the palace in the Celestial Realm is called Senna Palace, right?" Celine didn't answer directly, "But in fact... the surname of the Celestial Realm clan is Daursas."

"Senna? Isn't that the surname of an illusionist family?" Edward glanced at her, and suddenly found her facial features familiar, "The one between you is..."

"He is my half-brother, but he inherited Senna's surname. My full name is Celine Senna. I was selected as the envoy of the God Realm five years ago." Celine told the truth.

Edward suddenly remembered that Kyle Rose's surname seemed to be Senna, and his ability to manipulate illusions was extremely strong.Cena is also another incarnation of Kyloth, and their relationship seems complicated.

"Cena has a relationship with Kylos."

"Sure enough." The woman raised her eyebrows, "But the bad thing is that the time for the illusion is coming soon, I have to tell you something very important now, you'd better not interrupt me."

"Mephisto hypnotized Olando, this is the real secret of his pious belief, but recently Olando noticed something wrong with his body for some reason, he found that he was hypnotized, if nothing else, he will call you into the church , and discuss cooperation. You can take this opportunity to ask him about the spar—yes, it’s a spar that can suppress the protoss, and it’s used to imprison Serones—I didn’t tell your father about this, because I I always feel that the spar will be the key." Celine spoke quickly, "Also, I will think carefully about your ideas. I left a mirror for you on the table, and you can contact me if you need it."

Her timing was very accurate, almost as soon as the words fell, the illusion was shattered.Except for a mirror left on the table, no one knew that another person had been here.

There was a knock on the door outside the room, Edward put away the mirror, "Come in."

A servant wearing a silver mask opened the door, "Master."

"What's the matter?" Edward's inner strings tightened secretly, but he still asked with ease.

"I noticed some magic left in the room, are you sure it's all right?"

"Oh, I just used cleaning magic." Edward smiled at him rarely, "Thank you."

There was an imperceptible tenderness in that person's flat voice, "This is my duty."

Edward was relieved when he went out. For some reason, he could always detect an inexplicable dangerous aura in this person, which made it impossible for people to let go of their guard.

※※※

When he came to the illusion of Kylos again, Edward was still not used to it, especially after he conspired with others about Kylos.The body always tenses up involuntarily, like a child who has done something bad.

Then he really saw himself when he was a child. This was obviously a memory illusion. The illusionist stood behind him, a pair of huge bone wings gathered together, trapping Edward under the shadow of the wings.

"You decided to remind me of my childhood?" He stood still. "Will you tell me the truth?"

"In this matter, I have no need to deceive you." The voice of the demons was low and hoarse, "I have been watching you for four whole years."

Edward in the fantasy is only four years old, but already has long blond hair.He combed his ponytail neatly, and was sitting on a sycamore tree reading a book.

"Your ability to understand words and magic is exceptionally gifted." He said, "It seems to be an innate ability."

"Isn't it a remnant from the past?" Edward probed, but the other party didn't make a sound, as if he was lost in memory.

The person in the illusion raised his head, his eyes were filled with deep indifference, which did not match his appearance at all.When he sat quietly, Edward faintly felt that he was not just indifferent, but more...hatred.

What is he hating.

Edward was not hypnotized when he was four years old, so this is the most authentic side of him as a child.But it was this kind of straightforwardness that shocked Edward, and he couldn't figure out what Kyle Ross wanted to do.

Little Edward jumped from the plane tree into his bedroom on the second floor.He closed the window and drew the thick curtains, letting darkness fill the room.He huddled in the corner of the bed alone, muttering something.

Edward walked over, he leaned down and listened, "'...Fate is like ⚡□ capricious, her client is lost, I don't know if it's for love or for everything that was taken away.'"

He may be reciting a poem, but such tired words should not be understood by a four-year-old unless he is not four.

But what really made Edward's thorns stand on his back was Kyle Rose's gaze. He looked at the big and small people, and there was indelible sadness in his eyes.Edward's heart was suddenly stung. He turned his head and looked at him, but he couldn't say anything.

Black thorns grew silently from the corner, and gradually spread throughout the room. It gently touched the corner of Edward's clothes, as if to appease something.Kylos stood in the darkness, watched him step by step into the old memories, and could only smile wryly in the end.

"I'm sorry." He turned his head away, "I...or..."

Still on the road of no return.

Sparks burst from his sleeve and fell on the black bushes at his feet.They burned wildly, with heart-piercing despair.Those entangled plants perfectly blocked Edward's escape route, he could only watch the flames bit by bit the robe, and then gently licked the skin.

Deadly, knife-like tenderness.

He was silent, and his blond hair became more and more brilliant in the firelight, like a suffering and fallen angel, stained with the decisive poignancy of a martyr.

In the next second, the illusion was shattered, and everything seemed to stop.The only thing Edward remembered was the crumbling ceiling, the pain of being burned, and the tear stains from the corners of the demon's eyes that had been dried by the flames.

----Chapter70. Burning & Finishing----