Who hid My Corpse!

One hour later, on the other side of Delar Town.

"I'm telling you...I've already told you everything." Edwin looked at the red-haired witch not far away with some helplessness and said, "Can't you let me go now? At least restore my hands to normal. You can rest assured that with your strength, I can't possibly threaten you."

At the moment, Edwin's hands and feet were broken, and he was completely immobile, like a living corpse.

The one responsible for turning him into this state was naturally the red-haired witch before him, who was currently holding a magic wand in one hand and supporting her chin with the other. Her captivating black eyes seemed to be gazing, yet also deep in thought.

"No, you haven't revealed the most crucial information yet." Hewinia said, "That forbidden knowledge."

"I'm not telling you for your own good," Edwin said. "Even you cannot bear the cost of that knowledge. The moment you know it, the gaze of the gods will fall upon you."

In the instant one knows the information, they are watched by the gods...

Hewinia found this statement quite familiar, so she nonchalantly asked, "At least tell me what it's about."

"Hehe, fine." Edwin looked into Hewinia's eyes and stated slowly, "Visas."

Hewinia's pupils slightly contracted.

As expected.

Edwin caught the change in Hewinia's expression, then revealed a look of "I figured you'd have this reaction," continuing, "It seems you know about Visas… Ah, it sounds like I'm stating the obvious. After all, someone of your strength couldn't possibly not know about Visas. But you only know, while I am different, I am the one who understands him the most in this world."

Hewinia subconsciously touched a bone under her ribs, thought for a moment, and kept silent.

Edwin obviously didn't know what Hewinia was thinking, continuing, "This is information that could overturn the world, and it isn't allowed to even exist in someone's thoughts."

"But you know," Hewinia looked at Edwin, "and you're still alive and well."

"Of course, I used some tricks." Edwin instinctively wanted to point at his head, but his hand had been broken by Hewinia, making any slight movement incredibly painful, "I hid this knowledge in my dreams."

"In a dream?"

"Yes, as you've just seen, I come from the Eternal Nightmare Divine Sect, and dreams are our magic."

"So you conducted your research in dreams?"

"It's not that simple," Edwin said. "Dreams are under the dominion of the Lord of Eternal Nightmare, so the entry of ordinary Eternal Nightmare Apostles into dreams means entering the Lord's dreams, where the Lord monitors all apostles through the dreams. But I am different; I created a dream unmonitored, a space solely belonging to me, and conducted research there, discovering that knowledge. Then I left that knowledge in the dream to ensure I wouldn't be under the gaze of the gods in reality."

Hewinia raised an eyebrow: "So, you don't know what that knowledge is right now either?"

"You could say that. I have to return to the dream," Edwin said. "But even if I return to the dream, I won't bring that knowledge out; I will plan everything in the dream and then implement it in reality, which is how I escaped the Eternal Nightmare."

"So what happens next?" Hewinia asked again, "If you can never bring that knowledge into reality, doesn't that render everything meaningless?"

"I never said 'never,'" Edwin replied with a smile. "Everything I'm doing now is in preparation to bring that information into reality."

"Can you shield yourself from the gods' sight?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Visas's Corpse Blocks."

Hewinia's fingers, which had been gently tapping the magic wand, paused: "Visas's Corpse Blocks?"

"Yes, Visas's Corpse Blocks," Edwin said. "The gods are beyond human influence, and Visas is beyond the gods' influence. If a magic array is constructed using Visas's Corpse Blocks as a medium, it can completely create a pocket of space in the real world, shielded from the gods' sight. That's also why I came here."

Hewinia pretended to know nothing: "Could there be Visas's Corpse Blocks here? Whose hands are they in?"

Edwin shook his head: "I don't know specifically whose hands they're in, but I learned about the Eight Great Church's gathering in the Contract Land before I came, and they must have a Corpse Block. I just need to find one."

By now, Hewinia understood.

If Edwin wasn't lying, then this guy seems to be an old stickler entirely devoted to taboo research, not paying much attention to the real world. Otherwise, there's no reason he wouldn't know who Hewinia is, especially since Hewinia is already the only Seven-Tone Player in the world. In external perception, it's believed that Hewinia took the Corpse Block related to the Holy Sound.

Of course, what is meant by 'external' here also refers to the high levels of the major churches, where this information is classified, so it's possible Edwin doesn't know.

Nonetheless, one cannot rule out that Edwin might be lying, but the forbidden information is probably real, especially since Hewinia heard about it from Bai Wei, who wasn't willing to tell her for the same reasons as Edwin, plus the chasing of Edwin by Eternal Nightmare Apostles indeed didn't seem to be an act.

If this was all an act for her to see, wouldn't it imply that Edwin not only knows that forbidden knowledge but also knows her whereabouts?