Bang!
A heavy knock ca from the Secret Keeper's Half-Plane, followed by a low roar that was slightly breaking down.
"Herbert!"
The Ashen Bishop, collapsed on the ground, gritted his teeth and pounded the floor with force.
"Damn! Damn! Damn!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Swish.
Ophidia suddenly flung off her hood violently and shook her purple long hair vigorously.
All of her hair floated anti-gravitationally, like countless purple thin snakes silently hissing in anger.
"...Tsk!"
She bit her lip hard, her face full of humiliation, her eyes filled with reluctance.
Lost.
This ti, she completely lost.
Herbert, you made lose so thoroughly!
She never expected herself to be dragged into Herbert's test.
This isn't right!
I was supposed to test him, how did it turn into him testing !?
"No! Why is he totally unaffected?"
"How did Herbert manage not to be influenced?"
Just as Ophidia initially told Herbert, the ability of this Legendary Potion is to make the one who drinks it forget everything after entering the Spirit World, completely unaware they've been hypnotized.
But she never expected that the Herbert who drank the potion was fine, while she suffered.
Because Ophidia once drank [Silence and Noise] as well, so even though she is an Epic being, she fell deeper than others.
Not only did she fail to notice anything unusual, but she also forgot a millennium of mories, completely manipulated by Herbert.
Although carelessness primarily led to this unexpected situation, as long as one is prepared, they wouldn't be swept into the Illusion Realm... But looking at the current outco, saying more is pointless, she was indeed thoroughly toyed with.
Lost miserably.
Anyway, since there were no outsiders here, Ophidia just half-lay on the ground, continuously muttering complaints.
"Herbert, are you even human? You said I hurt you!"
"How can you say that with a straight face?"
"Are you even a Paladin? Do you hold the dignity of a Paladin anymore? Do you abide by the bottom line as a Paladin!!?"
Ophidia was furious, her angry queries echoing throughout the space.
"Damn! Damn—"
After being ineffectively angry for quite so ti, her emotions gradually cald down.
She glanced at the disarray she caused, at the "shivering" books, then looked down at her own pathetic state, unable to suppress the twitch at the corner of her mouth.
"This is really pitiful... Pfft, haha!"
She smiled brightly, shook her head helplessly yet wryly, sighing: "That guy dared to perform like that without knowing anything."
Upon recalling their conversation, Ophidia realized as if waking from a dream about the loopholes in Herbert's words, understanding he "tricked" her into revealing quite a bit of intelligence to him.
"This kid... How many won has he deceived behind their backs?"
She maliciously speculated, seeing Herbert's adept and relaxed deanor, indicating he must have tricked many others before.
Yes!
Scoundrel!
Playboy!
"Phew..."
After grumbling for quite a while, she let out a long breath, and lazily collapsed on the ground like a useless snake.
"Herbert, he... really is an interesting fellow."
Though she had been deceived, she had to admit, he truly is a very special and intriguing guy.
"He wasn't influenced by the Illusion Realm at all. No, not only was he uninfluenced, he even controlled the situation."
"Not just with either, I'm afraid with any other illusions he encounters, he could easily break through them."
"...Wait, have I forgotten sothing?"
Ophidia silently pondered, suddenly realizing sothing was off.
She quickly glanced towards a to, reached out and pulled it, the book fell from the shelf, flying rapidly towards her.
In mid-air, the book transford into lines of inscriptions falling upon her, leaving a new mark on one of the scales of her snake tail.
The Ashen Bishop fingertip touched the inscriptions, reading the information within, his brow tightly furrowed.
"Oh no..."
Since she had consud the potion before, she hadn't paid too much attention, nor recalled its details carefully.
But when Ophidia realized sothing was wrong, it was already too late.
"[Silence and Noise] is the initial and hardest test from the Secret Keeper, only passing the test can one truly beco the core of the Secret Keeper."
These details didn't vary much from her mory, but the focus was on an inconspicuous small text thereafter.
"However, the thod to create this Legendary Potion wasn't originally crafted by the Secret Keeper. Instead, it was discovered in an ancient to and simplified."
"When it was first discovered, this potion had another na—[Peeping at Destiny]."
"This was the Divine Spirit's secret potion from the now-fallen Ancient Gods, the Goddess of Fate."
After reading this, Ophidia's brows furrowed entirely.
"It turned out to be the secret potion of that Ancient God..."
The [Goddess of Fate] ntioned here is not the current [Goddess of Fortune], but a more ancient deity who perished before the Era of Faith.
The current Goddess of Fortune is a newborn deity born from the already fallen body of the Goddess of Fate.
A newborn, yet not completely the sa.
Aside from other aspects, purely in terms of power, the Goddess of Fate was a powerful deity of High Tier Divine Power, presiding over the [Destiny] Divine Position.
This destiny wasn't just the fate of mortals; she even had the ability to interfere with the fate of the gods!
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