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The staircase of the ancient castle was covered in dust and the marks of time, and every step released a fungal scent.
With each step, the "Princess" seemed to move closer to the music.
Until she reached the top, under the moonlight, the tide surged wildly, the wind blew through her hair, making it seem as though she finally woke up at this moment. Upon opening her eyes, she saw the bright moonlight and the empty rooftop.
"No, something’s wrong. How did I end up upstairs? Why did I come here?" In an instant, endless questions and fears flooded her limited brain.
She knew she was not very smart, so she was "smart" enough to follow the most intelligent, the one who could best protect her, at least ensuring she wouldn’t fall behind, fighting for those few paths of survival.
But now, why has she, knowing she shouldn’t be alone, come here?
The salty wind blew against her face; she didn’t dare move at all... Her whole body had stiffened on the rooftop, cold sweat soaked her back completely.
If she could see the creature playing the music here, she would be less afraid, but now the sound should be ahead, yet why is there nothing?
She was completely filled with fear.
"Plop..." A drop of icy liquid landed on her neck.
She shivered, forced to lift her head and look at what seemed to be a flagpole-like long rod beside her...
However, a body was impaled by the flagpole, hanging entirely above it. When the corpse on the flagpole struggled to lift its head, she saw a twisted, painful face identical to her own.
"Ah!" A shrill scream echoed through the entire ancient castle.
The Baron, who had been in a light sleep, woke immediately. Opening his eyes, he saw Xue Dili rushing upstairs, and quickly followed him.
"What’s going on, why would that clever, perceptive woman choose to go upstairs alone!" His mind was immediately overtaken by this question.
Although he hadn’t interacted with her much, he had clearly spoken with this "Princess" before; she was perceptive, and she was indeed a noble, brimming with a nobility that fought to save face, something others couldn’t replicate.
Despite her limited intelligence, her perceptiveness made her a likable hanger-on.
But why would someone like her choose to go upstairs alone?
He couldn’t figure it out, and could only rush upstairs.
By then, Xue Dili had reached the upper floor but didn’t see the noble lady’s figure. Looking out, he saw she had fallen, her chest completely pierced by the flagpole outside the castle.
"A tool of illusion?" Xue Dili said casually.
He extended his hand, and in that moment, caught the noble lady hanging on the edge of the castle.
"Thank you, priest..." she said, but when she turned her head, she saw herself impaled on the flagpole...
"Sleep, when you wake everything will be over." Xue Dili said calmly.
In the next moment, the noble lady’s soul slowly closed her eyes, seemingly hypnotized.
Xue Dili also placed her into the Holy Grail, setting her in a corner of it.
Then, stopping the noble Baron who was endlessly climbing the stairs, he had the Mimic Venerable King block all investigations around himself at this moment.
"The third of humanity’s Seven Beasts of Evil, Beast of Envy, representing the human roots of jealousy, rivalry, and envy of others, Beast of Envy—Ishtar!"
An apparition of an Ancient Babylonian Goddess appeared slowly behind him, she looked like the stars in the sky, and in that moment directly merged into the body of the wrongful dead noble lady.
Ishtar, the Star Goddess of Ancient Babylon, daughter of the Sky God and Moon Goddess, representing the most noble princess in Sumerian mythology, a Goddess of stars, earth, and harvest, and one who can ride the Bull of Heaven and emerge victorious.
Ishtar also has a modern name more well-known — Lucifer!
Her name in Ancient Babylonian means "star," when the region of the Mesopotamian river basin was occupied by inherently evil peoples of promise, they distorted the Sumerian mythology, vilifying, demonizing, twisting the original Sumerian gods.
They insulted, distorted, branded another civilization’s culture with their own label, writing it into their own Book of Job.
Thus, Ishtar became Lucifer, one of the Seven Beasts of human evil representing jealousy and rivalry.
With the Book of Job becoming Zeus’ trophy, all human evil recorded on it became "antagonists" in Zeus’ ritual plan where he would be the only New God.
Without these rebellious human evil creatures, how else to highlight his greatness as the One God?!
Originally, Zeus considered having his brother Hades replace Lucifer’s position.
But, none of this mattered to this Princess of the stars, whether Ishtar or Lucifer, she was always the princess named "star," and at this moment fully merged into the wrongful dead "Princess."
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