Limitless Evolution: Summoning Villains With My SSS-Rank Talent Chapter 40: Adult Snake

"How is it possible for you not to see any when the church has placed Goddess statues throughout the inner city?" Ystella asked with a dumbfounded expression.

Hearing her, Alex’s expression darkened.

Is it because of Pri Paradox or Primum Horrendi?

As both of them were sothing he did not know about, he couldn’t point out what the issue was.

It could be that it was caused by one or both, or neither.

He clenched his fists under the table and muttered with an embarrassed face, "I must have missed them."

Ystella didn’t speak for a while and stared into his eyes. She seed to have noticed that sothing was troubling him, and she chose to ignore it.

"Probably. It’s a large city after all," she stated.

He gave her a faint smile and nodded.

Though the smile soon disappeared, his expression turned serious.

"You still haven’t told why you are living above a place that hides the temple of a god you do not worship."

"I want to know the truth," she answered.

He tilted his head and pressed, "I do not understand."

Her gaze shifted toward the white roses visible through the blue window, and she mumbled,

"Whenever the Shadow Puppets drag soone into the veil, a symbol appears on the wall. However, that symbol isn’t of that Unknown God but of Goddess Nyx. I don’t understand why that is..."

Hmm... it could be that Nyx had created that place to choose a successor for Erebus’s Domain. The two were husband and wife after all.

"Maybe Goddess Nyx was sohow related to that Unknown God?" He suggested while rubbing his chin with a thoughtful expression.

She blinked a few tis and mumbled, "That can be possible..."

It is. He remarked inwardly and with all seriousness, he asked, "Lady Ystella... Do you know anything about Seed of Darkness?"

However, just as those words left his lips. Ystella’s expression turned icy cold, and her eyes sharpened.

"How do you know of it?"

Alex’s eyes flickered with surprise. At the sa ti, he was joyful that he could finally learn about the Seed of Darkness though she didn’t seem like she wanted to talk about it.

"I am searching for it," he mumbled. "If I don’t find it in ti, I will die."

"Dying just because you can’t find sothing? I’ve never heard anything so stupid," she muttered flatly.

"I believe dying that way would be even stupider," he added with a forced chuckle.

Silence stretched as she stared at him for a while, and then she said, "I don’t know if it truly exists or not, but according to the church, it is Nyxare’s spirit."

A bounded spirit! Alex’s eyes widened.

On so rare occasions, spirits rged with physical entities such as weapons, armors, artifacts, and even places.

These spirits were called bounded spirits, and they could make use of that physical entity just like how a person would.

Though in the case of location-bound spirits, they had control over the place, allowing them to do any phenonon they wished.

Obviously, there were so constraints to their power.

So Seed of Darkness is a spirit bound to Nyxare... As Alex registered that, he rembered the strange event that had happened on his very first ti in the inner city.

That voice must’ve been of the Seed of Darkness, and it is hiding itself from ... but why?

Seeing his expression switch from joy to confusion, Ystella tapped on the table and muttered, "You cannot find it unless it decides to et you. Give up your foolish dreams, Alex Blade."

He finally ca out of his thoughts and looked at her. His expression darkened.

"Why are you telling all of this?"

Ystella tilted her head and muttered while feigning ignorance, "What do you an?"

"Even though there was no need, you told everything. Why is that?"

For a few minutes, she stayed silent as though considering sothing important, sothing personal.

Soon her eyes cald, advising that she had co to a decision.

She rose from her chair and turned around with her back toward Alex.

"What are you doing?" He asked with furrowed brows, and instead of answering, Ystella unbuttoned her shirt and began to undress.

"W-Wait!" He sprang from his chair and stamred, "W-What the hell are you doing?"

She ignored his childish theatrics and continued.

He looked away, his face red as he mumbled in a barely audible voice, "W-Well if that’s what you want to do..."

"Look at ," she said.

He steeled himself and turned his gaze back at her. As he looked, his eyes widened.

"How?"

On her back, she had a black mark of a snake wrapping around her back and abdon. Although it was similar to Alex’s twin snake marks, this one seed to be an adult snake while his were younger.

How does she have that mark?! Is she a half spirit? No, that’s impossible – the system wouldn’t have called a contradiction.

Ystella rolled her shirt back and turned toward him with a faint smile. She pointed at him and said, "I got this when I first entered the Unknown Temple, and when I saw you having similar marks, I told you to co here."

It’s a blessing... Alex remarked inwardly.

Blessings were a form of elentals where they themselves chose you as their master. Each blessing had a unique ability, but as he had gained his by turning into a Pseudo Shadow Spirit, he believed [Shadow Movent] and [Shadow Eyes] to be his unique abilities.

Seeing his baffled face, she let out a chuckle and pointed at her sword, placed beside her armor. "I also found that sword in there. It allows to control the wall, and the Shadow Puppets no longer attack ."

"You told everything just because I have sothing similar to you?" He mumbled while frowning.

She looked at him with a calm expression and said, "For , it’s difficult to live knowing there’s no one like ... Many would find my situation exhilarating, but I find it lonely."