With just a quick observation, one could notice that the wound on the right arm of the “Mr. Dead Soul” was lined with more than a dozen silver needles embedded under the skin, arranged in a specific pattern.

Although Violet couldn’t fully understand it, she could easily guess that it was a response measure taken by the Diviner or someone else present.

The purpose was undoubtedly to slow down the rate of erosion by the sinister force belonging to the 【Faceless One】. The urgency to summon Yuna was likely to seek the Saintess’s help in healing.

After all, this was one of the priestess’s most specialized abilities. Even if Yuna wasn’t as skilled in healing as the Redemption Saintess, as the leader of the Three Saintesss, she certainly wasn’t weak in this regard.

In fact, from the moment Violet entered until now, even while talking, Her Highness the Saintess had kept one hand slightly raised, continuously channeling warm, golden light onto the wound of the grey-clad swordsman, suppressing the spread and loss of energy.

Meanwhile, the silent Mr. Ferryman, who hadn’t uttered a single word so far, was doing something similar. However, the hand he placed on the “Mr. Dead Soul’s” right shoulder emitted a faint gray glow.

But as a priestess more adept at healing, Violet immediately saw through the essence of this action.

They were merely pouring water into a teapot with a cracked bottom to temporarily maintain the overall water level, preventing it from drying up too quickly. But such a method was clearly only a temporary solution and not a permanent fix.

“Is there no way to completely eliminate and heal the evil in this wound? By the way… The 【Reaper’s Scythe】 is your disciple? How did they end up in the Human United Kingdom?”

Hearing this, the old man could only sigh helplessly.

“Ah, it’s fate, destined to encounter such a calamity… I didn’t expect it to be fulfilled in this way…”

“Miss 【Dark Lotus】 and Miss 【Dark Spirit】 that guided you earlier, Miss Dawn has likely already encountered. In fact, they are all individuals I’ve personally nurtured since childhood, prepared as the next generation of heirs to the Merchant Guild. The secret techniques of our Spirit Veil Merchant Guild clash with the forces of fate, so to avoid backlash, we must abandon our real names and address each other by code names. This applies to me, and to all of them as well.”

“A few years ago, when their abilities first began to mature, I divined their destinies and discovered that the method the ‘Mr. Dead Soul’ practiced would bring about a life-and-death calamity within the borders of the Holy Empire. To avoid this disaster, and to give them more experience, I sent them away for a while.”

“According to my divination, that life-and-death calamity should have been avoided years ago. But with recent matters in the association coming to a head, I called them back. Who would have thought that fate would suddenly change… Ah, it’s my own lack of skill that has harmed this child.”

Upon hearing this, the usually silent ‘Mr. Ferryman,’ who had been standing behind the ‘Mr. Dead Soul,’ silently treating his companion, surprisingly spoke up.

“Master, you don’t need to blame yourself. This calamity was destined for Mr. Dead Soul. Besides, although you instructed him to investigate the situation, he insisted on relentlessly pursuing an enemy whose roots were unclear, hoping to solve the problem in one fell swoop. This only caused the situation to deteriorate rapidly. His experience as an adventurer made him assertive, but also arrogant, underestimating the world’s mysteries. In the end, it was his own doing.”

“Ah, even so…”

Listening to their conversation, Miss White Fox gradually began to understand the development of events.

Come to think of it, this old man had always been going on about fate this, fate that, more superstitious than a charlatan. When asked about it, he would just say, ‘Oh ho ho, the secrets of heaven must not be revealed…’ in that super annoying way.

But considering it now, it should be similar to Menna’s ‘Revelation,’ a power that predicts the future to some extent.

However, while the young princess was born with this ability, the diviner obtained it through the cultivation of some secret technique, and thus paid a corresponding price.

Violet discreetly glanced at Her Highness, the Saintess, who was still maintaining the basic healing.

It seemed that Yuna was also somewhat helpless against this wound. Or perhaps she had a way, but it wasn’t without cost. Like that artifact she always wore on her head, the 【Crownless Crown】, which she seemed to never use.

Forget it.

Since she was already here, and considering her current relationship with the Spirit Veil Merchant Guild, it wouldn’t be right to just watch the “Mr. Dead Soul” die and become one of the 【Faceless One】. She might as well do this as a favor to the old man.

“How about I take a look at this guy?”

Seeing Miss White Fox take the initiative, everyone present understood her intentions, and the Diviner sighed again, stepping aside.

“Ah… Life and death are governed by fate. Miss Dawn, do your best, but don’t push yourself.”

“Mhm, I’ll do my best, I get it~”

The girl took a few steps forward.

Considering the independence of her Dawn identity, Violet didn’t directly use her usual 【Information Detection】 ability. Instead, she raised her hand and summoned a pitch-black, deep, orb-like jewel that seemed to emit an endless aura of magic. With a wave of her small hand, it automatically floated out and hovered three inches above the grey-clad swordsman’s head.

“Buzz~!”

An almost irresistible surge of strange, powerful magic instantly spread out, enveloping the Mr. Dead Soul completely as if sealing him off.

The sudden burst of formidable energy caused not only the Mr. Dead Soul, who was in deep meditation trying to resist the sinister force, to involuntarily shudder, but also broke the connection of light that Yuna, the Bright Light Saintess, and the Ferryman were channeling into him, severing it with a sharp “snap!”

Yuna, being highly skilled, was only slightly disrupted, and she quickly regained her composure, withdrawing gracefully. However, the Ferryman was forced back several steps by the shockwave. If the Diviner hadn’t reached out to steady him, he might have even crashed into the bookshelf behind him.

And this was all just from the jewel’s automatic reaction, merely repelling and isolating other external forces without any deliberate targeting.

“Cough, what a terrifying artifact. What on earth is this…?”

Even with the Ferryman’s typically indifferent demeanor, facing such a scene that nearly defied the limits of imagination—the power of a true divine artifact—he couldn’t help but display the natural reaction of an ordinary person, showing a look of astonishment.

But the Diviner simply shook his head slightly, signaling him to remain quiet and not to probe or discuss it further. He then, like Yuna, refocused his “gaze” on the jewel that emitted endless deep magic, as if carefully observing something.

Without paying attention to the reactions of the others—or rather, even though Violet noticed, she didn’t particularly care about the looks of surprise or shock because she was acting under the identity of Miss Dawn, which allowed her to act with complete freedom, showing no restraint in revealing her power. She simply continued to remotely control the 【Demon God’s Gem】, beginning to attempt to adjust… or heal the Mr. Dead Soul.

【Magic】 and 【Soul】 may sound similar, but they are actually two entirely different kinds of power. According to the theories of the Holy Academy, while the former is close to being intangible and formless, it is still fundamentally a “material” type of energy, whereas the latter is entirely a 【Void】 energy.

So, theoretically speaking, no matter how vast the magic contained within the 【Demon God’s Gem】 is, it should be impossible to convert it into the 【Void】 energy that the soul requires.

But that was the case for the 【Demon God’s Gem】 before its evolution.

Although Violet herself didn’t quite understand what happened, after she inexplicably repaired the 【Demon God’s Gem】 by infusing it with magic and elevated it to the rank of a lower-tier Divine artifact, which is also known as a Sacred-tier Artifact. This treasure, once belonging to the Demon God Olivia, seemed to have evolved new abilities.

Just like how a player can use SP and special skills upon reaching level 100, any equipment that reaches the level of being classified as a “Divine Artifact”, regardless of its quality, will possess abilities that require SP to activate or be related to it in some way.

It seems that the native equipment of this world also operates in a similar manner.

The suspended deep black jewel emitted invisible ripples, forming a light shield that completely enveloped the body of the grey-clad swordsman. Miss White Fox, who was mentally connected to the 【Demon God’s Gem】, then closed her translucent silver-blue eyes beneath the mask.

At this moment, the mental world of the Mr. Dead Soul and that of a certain priestess were linked together through the medium of the artifact.

Then let’s come and see for ourselves just how capable this so-called faceless evil spirit really is, that has been rumored to be so incredibly supernatural.