Chapter 284: I’ll Protect You

Hertitz quickly adjusted her state back.

Under Roselyn’s comfort, her choking sobs also grew much quieter.

Roselyn stood up and sat back down on the chair beside her, holding her hand.

“You trusting me this much is still quite unexpected…”

“How could that be.”

“I always felt you were the type who wouldn’t easily believe others.”

Roselyn gave a light laugh, but soon her gaze sharpened.

“I also have my own reasons. Besides, Miss Letitia forbade us from going to rescue Miss Gabriella, yet now she is having us come find her. She must have discovered something.”

“Why?”

“I don’t understand either what exactly she discovered.”

A trace of fear flashed through Roselyn’s eyes.

“I believe her, but I also cannot see through her, and I don’t know what she is hiding in her heart. She has told me many things even the Heavenly Oracle Envoys don’t know.”

“Mm?”

“Heavenly Oracle Envoys are a race created by humans from another world that was destroyed. The reason we have no ‘lifespan’ is that there is also an instinct in our minds, which is to obey our ‘mission.’ Precisely because of that…”

“I know. We are machines of war… It looks like it wasn’t Creis who created us.”

Roselyn nodded, acknowledging Hertitz’s guess.

Letitia had once explored that destroyed human civilization, searching for information from fragments of another plane.

Unfortunately, what they left behind seemed to be only endless destruction. No one knew why the civilization at the end of the third stage had “died” so cleanly.

“In the past, we were probably just combat tools designed to oppose that unknown threat. It’s just that we were never activated, and instead were left until now. That was who knows how long ago.”

“In any case, all the Heavenly Oracle Envoys keep to themselves and know they have no need to keep moving forward. Only you, Her, are different. You want to actively dig out the truth. I have only found this quality in Gabriella.”

“Gabriella, she really is different.”

“Yes. She is the first child among all the Heavenly Oracle Envoys. Honestly, none of us knew at all that Heavenly Oracle Envoys could have children with each other.”

Hertitz did not speak for a long time.

Indeed, when she crawled out of the repair pod she had already been in her present appearance, and after several hundred years she was still this same appearance, different from humans or any other species of this world.

Even powerful mages could rely on mana to preserve eternal youth, yet Heavenly Oracle Envoys also had an essential difference from humans.

Except for Gabriella.

“After you left, I kept thinking whether Miss Letitia was wrong. We should take the initiative instead of staying in that pure land of Monastar to recuperate. But I gave up… I cannot be like you.”

Roselyn’s voice became a bit hesitant. “So to me, you are special. I know you and Gabriella can both bring change to the Heavenly Oracle Envoys.”

“You look like you’re in a bad mood?”

“Is that so…” Hertitz nodded, propping up her head. “I’m fine.”

Roselyn pulled her hand and sat on the bed.

At this moment, the disappointment on Hertitz’s face completely dissipated, leaving only a little flush remaining on her fair cheeks.

When she was pushed onto the bed she instinctively did not resist, only lay limp on it, her gaze drifting, not knowing what she was expecting.

“Her?”

Roselyn was very close to her.

Holding her wrist, leaning against her body, they could even feel each other’s temperature.

Hertitz felt her head was almost too heavy to lift, as if filled with lead.

“Wh-what?”

“I’ll help you coordinate the mana inside your body. We more or less also learned from Miss Tilemo how to suppress the shadow.”

“Suppress it?”

“Yes. At least it won’t casually spread through your body. If you persist every day, it should get much better.”

Hertitz did not know what was wrong with her body.

The moment she shifted her gaze onto the young woman’s cheek, her heart could not help thump-thumping wildly.

Living this long, it was still the first time someone had been this close to her.

She even recalled that Miss Isa and Gabriella had also had such close distance.

Back in the Heavenly Oracle Era ten thousand years ago, they would never have had this kind of interaction.

While she was thinking, Roselyn slightly injected the cyan-blue mana inside her body into her.

Hertitz first felt a coolness, then a warmth, and after that her entire body relaxed.

“Miss Roselyn, you really know a lot…”

“Your face is so red.” Roselyn was not joking.

“I-I’m not…”

“Your body is also very hot.”

“Damn it…” Roselyn’s completely serious voice made Hertitz turn her head away and curl up, but she accidentally clamped Roselyn’s knee.

The latter did not mind, closed her eyes, and like a doctor carefully felt what problems there were on Hertitz’s body.

“Strange.” Two minutes later, Roselyn finally saw clearly the situation inside the other party’s body and voiced her doubt.

“What’s wrong?”

“Indeed, there is shadow in your body. It is that most stubborn kind of shadow. Unfortunately, it is completely identical to Tilemo’s.”

“…However, all of this shadow is extremely well-behaved. It has no intention of eroding you at all, so I have no way to start.”

“Why?”

“Unclear.”

Roselyn’s voice grew more and more serious.

“The shadow does not seem like a source of pollution, more like a seed, as if she had only come to the warm, moist soil she was supposed to come to… Strange. Your body has no problems either.”

Roselyn suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.

In the past she had never witnessed this kind of situation at all.

She had originally thought a Heavenly Oracle Envoy’s body would reject the shadow, causing the Heavenly Oracle Envoy great pain, and the shadow concentrated in the chest would continuously torment the host until it assimilated her.

However, things were more complicated than imagined.

The shadow was more like an inlaid gem returning to its original position.

A Heavenly Oracle Envoy’s body was actually exceptionally suitable for being eroded by the shadow.

Roselyn gently pressed the back of her hand against Hertitz’s forehead, and after confirming her body was indeed unharmed, continued,

“It has evolved.”

“The shadow was originally already difficult to purify. Now it has actually become even stronger. Could it be that Isa helped you… mm, or perhaps the shadow simply does not make Heavenly Oracle Envoys feel pain.”

Hertitz nodded. “It doesn’t hurt, which is why I’m so worried about what I will become.”

Roselyn sighed, got up from the bed, and again stroked Hertitz’s burning-hot cheek.

“It’s alright. Believe me. You have to come see me every day and cannot be separated from me. Don’t worry. I will protect you.”