Gospel of Blood-Chapter 534 : Lady Lilith!

This was Charlotte’s first “proactive” time travel.

Honestly, before she went into slumber, she wasn’t sure if she could succeed. She just had a feeling that now she might be able to use the Gospel of Blood to “proactively” perform a “time reversal” and return to the past.

It turned out her premonition was possibly correct.

As her clear consciousness gradually sank into slumber, and boundless darkness slowly engulfed her vision, Charlotte, silently chanting “I want to go back to the past, I want to go back to the past!” felt the Gospel of Blood in the depths of her consciousness suddenly burst forth with crimson light, gradually consuming the entire world.

In a mystical sense, Charlotte saw a magnificent, illusory clock appear beneath her feet, with its hands moving slower and slower, until they eventually stopped.

Charlotte found herself in a vast void.

Beneath her was the still, illusory clock, and around her were shattered mirrors.

Curiously, Charlotte looked into those mirrors.

In the nearest one, a dark red castle was crumbling, terrifying monsters were waving their hideous tentacles, and in the sky, a silver-haired woman surrounded by a crimson glow looked indifferent. She waved her arm, summoning an illusory cage to imprison the monsters, with her golden eyes gleaming with light.

Charlotte quickly recognized that scene. It was her “suppressing” the monsters in the Sanctuary of Harcos, and the silver-haired woman in the sky was her in the state of divine power release.

A strange feeling surged in her heart, and Charlotte instinctively reached out towards the mirror.

However, when her fingers touched the mirror, they were blocked by an invisible barrier.

Smooth and cold.

It reminded Charlotte of a real “mirror.”

Retracting her hand, Charlotte looked at the other nearby mirrors.

In those mirrors, familiar scenes of her life played out.

In a resplendent palace, wearing a crown, dressed in regal attire, holding a scepter, a divine sword, and an orb, Charlotte walked towards the throne amid the crowd, receiving the worship of nobles and priests.

In a solemn black castle, with her divine power unleashed, Charlotte looked awe-inspiring as the crimson divine power spread, and hundreds or even thousands of bloodbornes knelt in fear and reverence, worshipping her like a God.

In a brightly lit temple, Charlotte knelt in front of a statue, bathed in holy light, praying to the Lord.

In front of the fully armored Castell army, wearing a silver armor dress and riding a warhorse, Charlotte raised her sword high, inspiring the troops…

Each scene was a memory fragment Charlotte had experienced, recorded as if they were history.

Each mirror recorded a different moment, and all featured Charlotte as the protagonist.

These mirrors surrounded Charlotte, with the nearest ones depicting the most recent times, and the farther ones showing earlier times.

Charlotte felt a stir in her heart.

Thinking for a moment, she walked towards the distant mirrors.

As she moved, she felt something being drawn from within her, and the stopped clock beneath her feet suddenly began to turn counterclockwise.

With the reverse movement of the clock’s hands, Charlotte successfully took a step, arriving in front of the more distant mirrors.

These were earlier memories, such as investigating Castell’s mines in disguise, attending a noble’s banquet in the Crescent Kingdom, and the scene of her causing a “miracle” at her coming-of-age ceremony.

These mirrors formed a line, connecting significant memories of Charlotte, creating a “ribbon” of countless mirrors.

Oh, this is the “progress bar” of time!

Looking at the mirrors playing in reverse chronological order, Charlotte had this thought.

Indeed, it looked like the ribbon of mirrors represented “progress”, and the clock beneath her served as a “slider.”

With this realization, Charlotte walked to the beginning of the “progress.”

There was only one mirror, displaying the scene of a young girl hanging on a cross in a gloomy basement, being brutally dissected by a crazed “old witch.”

Seeing that familiar scene, Charlotte shivered involuntarily and couldn’t help but touch her stomach.

It was an experience from shortly after she first transmigrated.

Even now, she couldn’t forget that terrifying ordeal.

Beyond that, the mirrors ended.

But when Charlotte looked into the distance, she saw a brilliant star river.

No, it wasn’t a star river but a long “ribbon” of more mirrors.

Those mirrors were too far away for Charlotte to see clearly, appearing only as distant points of light.

But upon closer inspection, it was evident that the distant galaxy of light was connected to the ribbon of mirrors surrounding Charlotte.

Though many parts were broken, the whole seemed to be one continuous flow, giving Charlotte the impression of a long river of mirrors with most parts cut off in between.

However, within those distant points of light, Charlotte could faintly sense two particularly bright spots, evoking a feeling of intimacy and familiarity.

Withdrawing her gaze from the distance, Charlotte looked again at the mirror showing the basement bloody ritual event.

The scene had progressed to her using the divine ritual counter successfully.

Looking at the darkness behind the mirror and the “starlight” at the end of the darkness, Charlotte pondered.

“If this star river is the river of time… then this darkness should be the thousand years when the ‘True Ancestor of Blood’ disappeared.”

“I need to reach even further…”

Thinking about it, she continued to walk.

This step was much more difficult.

The feeling of her soul being drawn returned, and Charlotte felt as if she had entered a high-density space, surrounded by immense pressure, everything seemingly rejecting her advance.

Charlotte gritted her teeth, mobilized her blood divine power, and took a step forward with all her might. With her effort, she finally succeeded in taking that step.

The stopped clock started turning again, this time at an unprecedented speed.

As Charlotte moved forward, the clock’s hands seemed to go out of control, spinning madly in reverse.

One step, but it felt like crossing eternity.

Charlotte felt everything around her quickly recede. In the darkness, she saw countless shattered mirrors flashing by. Those broken mirrors were dim, almost blending with the darkness, and inside the broken mirrors was nothing but void.

The sensation of her soul being swiftly drawn away made Charlotte’s movements slower and slower. When she finally took a step, she had already crossed the entire void and arrived on the other side of the “galaxy.”

Countless mirrors appeared around Charlotte again, forming a ribbon.

Most of these mirrors were relatively dim, but some were bright.

Charlotte looked at them and found that the bright mirrors depicted experiences she was very familiar with, specifically her travels through history twice.

The two mirrors that gave her the most intimate and familiar feelings were the fragments of her first journey to the Northern Frontier and her second journey, which involved the battle between the Free City-State Alliance and the followers of the Evil Gods.

The dim mirrors were located between the two sequences of bright mirrors and after the second sequence of bright mirrors.

Charlotte quickly realized that these depicted the history after her “departure.”

The fragments between the two bright mirror sequences should cover the 14 years between her first and second travels.

Through the images, Charlotte saw Lilith and Harald’s resistance, their overthrow of the Tower Kingdom, the establishment of the city-states, and their betrayal and battles with the Old Gods.

Until… the second bright mirror, where Charlotte’s image reappeared.

At the end of the second bright mirror, there was a scene of Lilith’s death and Charlotte using the First Embrace to resurrect her and then leaving the old timeline.

Thinking for a moment, Charlotte changed direction and walked toward the dim mirrors beyond the second bright one.

It was still difficult, but somewhat easier than before.

The clock beneath Charlotte started moving again, this time… clockwise.

Charlotte quickly reached the end of the second bright mirror and saw the dim mirrors behind it clearly.

These should be the history after her second departure.

In these mirrors, she saw Lilith giving bloodborne power to the mutated soldiers of the Free City, transforming them into second-generation bloodbornes.

She saw the God of Abomination and Deformity fleeing amidst the chaos, hurling threats at the Free City.

She saw the increasing number of bloodbornes and the strengthening of the Free City’s combat power. She saw Lilith leading the army, gradually driving back the “rebels” who worshiped the Old Gods.

She saw the Free City-State Alliance reclaiming lost territories and, over time, Lilith’s power growing stronger.

She saw in the mirrors, crimson light soaring, and the divine flame igniting from the darkness.

That was when Lilith became a Demigod.

However, when Charlotte looked at the dim mirrors after Lilith’s ascension to Demigod, she was slightly taken aback.

In those mirrors… she couldn’t clearly see Lilith’s appearance.

As if blocked by some force, she could only recognize Lilith by the crimson divine power and silver hair.

She saw the Old Gods’ downfall, Lilith fighting them in a divine battle, the reappearance of the God of Abomination and Deformity, and Lilith unleashing her divine power to personally slay it…

At this point, the dim mirrors ended.

Beyond that, there was another profound darkness.

In the darkness, fragmented mirrors could be vaguely seen, extending into the distant future, connected to Charlotte’s current era.

These mirrors were even dimmer, almost blending with the darkness, with no images at all in the shattered mirrors.

At the junction between these shattered mirrors and the dim mirrors with images, there was a special mirror. This mirror shimmered with a faint light, giving Charlotte a strong sense of summons.

Unlike the other mirrors, this one was at the end of the dim mirrors and the start of the shattered mirrors.

It also had no image, but it sparkled with an unusual light, its surface not like a mirror but more like a passage through light and shadow.

Charlotte’s heart stirred as she realized that this might be the temporal node she could travel to.

“So, the dim mirrors show the history that happened after I left, and the shattered mirrors are the history that didn’t happen or had issues. What I need to do now is to enter the gap between them and start a new round of ‘correction’, right?”

Charlotte muttered to herself.

With this thought, she took a deep breath and reached out to the “special” mirror.

Her right hand touched the mirror, causing ripples like those on a water surface. Charlotte felt a powerful suction coming from the mirror, drawing her in.

At the sound of a distant bell, the crimson light consumed the entire world, and Charlotte lost consciousness…

…

“Tweet tweet, tweet tweet…”

The cheerful sound of birds chirping woke Charlotte from her slumber.

She slowly opened her eyes to find herself staring at a strange ceiling.

This was likely a castle with walls decorated in a distinctly elven style, and she was lying on a bed that could barely be called soft.

The bedspread was quite coarse, or rather… the craftsmanship was quite “ancient.”

As her consciousness returned and her memory came back, Charlotte felt a shift and quickly sat up.

“Did I… succeed in traveling?”

As soon as she spoke, she felt something was off.

Although it was still her own voice, it sounded slightly different from her usual voice.

It had more authority and less of a youthful tone.

When Charlotte sat up, she also felt a noticeable weight on her shoulders. Looking down, she saw two full, perfectly shaped mounds on her chest.

Charlotte: …

She got out of bed, put on a black robe hanging nearby, and walked to a crystal mirror not far away.

In the mirror, instead of her familiar youthful appearance, she saw her adult form as she would appear during her divine power release.

Charlotte frowned slightly.

How to put it, maybe she was so used to her youthful form that it was quite unfamiliar to her to be in her adult state after traveling.

So, the question was, why did this time travel result in her being in an adult state?

She clearly hadn’t released her divine power.

However, the robe she picked up fit perfectly, seeming to be tailored for her current physique.

Suppressing her confusion, Charlotte finished dressing and opened the door of her room.

Outside the door was a corridor.

Charlotte walked through the corridor to the castle’s main entrance, where two fully armed soldiers stood guard on either side.

Seeing Charlotte, they instantly straightened up and saluted with a look of admiration.

“Good morning, Lady Lilith!”

Charlotte: …?

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