Chapter 1368 - Presence of the Sixth (2/2)
Upon hearing the answer, even Rhode was slightly distracted. But fortunately, it didn’t affect the Holy Sword Barrier too much. And after seeing his expression, Christie nodded with a smile.
“Yes, Master. If we’re not mistaken, the one who appeared on the battle line earlier should be our lovely younger sister, the Variety Deity Warden, Eloise.”
“Variety Deity Warden?”
Hearing the name, Rhode was stunned. Of course, he knew that there were seven deity wardens to begin with. Among them, Christie, who appeared to be the smallest, was the eldest of the seven sisters. And so far, he only knew about the Fate Deity Warden, Contrast Deity Warden, Wisdom Deity Warden, Presence Deity Warden, and History Deity Warden. As for the remaining two deity wardens, the younger sister hadn’t told him their title or name. But now, it seemed like this Variety Deity Warden was also one of them.
Soon after, Rhode finally heard the ins and outs from Christie.
Earlier on, the deity wardens weren’t aware of what the people were busy with. Although the deity wardens were responsible for watching over the front lines, their main task was to protect Grandia, while Rhode and his younger sister took care of the Holy Sword Barrier and plane channel.
Hence, on the other side of the front line, as long as the Chaos Lords didn’t break through the final defense line, they wouldn’t care too much. Of course, when investigating the incidents, Erin and the others also didn’t inform the deity warden. After all, they didn’t want to wash dirty linen in public…
When the matter was brought to Rhode’s side and taken over by Christie, they quickly realized what the problem was. The seven deity wardens were created by the Void Dragon to maintain the world of Order entirely. They represented the world of Order, and it just so happened that among them, there was indeed a deity warden who could do such a thing.
And it was the Variety Deity Warden, Eloise.
Of course, before that, Christie tried ways to confirm the identity of the other party. And her approach was also very simple. Indeed, it was almost impossible to distinguish the authenticity of Eloise’s ability. But she had no way of escaping the ‘history’ of the record.
So after identifying the possibility of Eloise, Alice used her ‘Historical Tracing’ to search the entire records. Soon after, they found that during the period in which Canary headed back to rest, history recorded that ‘the two Mini Bubble Gums were at the front line, fiercely battling the Chaos creatures’.
At the same time, it was indicated that ‘() went to Erin’s residence and took a document’. And the vacant () was a sign of contradiction. The reason for that was because each individual was unique with A being A and B being B. However, if one used the identity of A to create another A, there would be two A’s that weren’t sequential in the timeline.
The contradiction was that the person who borrowed the identity would be judged as non-existent, which was represented with (). It was through this that Christie was able to determine that the mysterious person was indeed Eloise.
The deity wardens were at the pinnacle of power in the world of Order, where not even the Creator Dragons could compare. But not everyone was great at combat. For instance, History Deity Warden, Alice, wasn’t nearly as good as Cassidy.
The same went for the Variety Deity Warden, Eloise, who was impressive at only one thing: she could ‘borrow’ the identities of others. In other words, when Eloise was interested in a certain target, she only needed to use this ability to ‘borrow’ the person’s identity and immediately change her appearance to the same as that person’s, including their tone of voice and temperament.
The only difference was that she couldn’t copy the other person’s memories, which was also for her own sake and wellbeing. Otherwise, after ‘copying’ different people’s memories repeatedly, she would fall into an eternal riddle of “Who am I? Who exactly am I?”
In fact, according to Christie, Eloise could disguise herself not only as someone else, but also as all sorts of things, including animals, plants and even rocks. She could do so effortlessly. And for that reason, it was even more difficult to capture her than the others. However, Eloise still preferred taking the form of a human. After all, it was much more interesting…
Due to this trait that, among the seven deity wardens, Eloise was in charge of gathering intelligence on Chaos.
“Gathering intelligence on Chaos?”
Upon hearing her words, Rhode was astounded. It might not seem like a difficult task to others. But as a player, he was well aware of how difficult it was to gather information on Chaos. Because Chaos had no sequence and oftentimes, the information gathered turned out to be completely useless. Besides, the information one gathered the first time might not even be relevant the next time one encountered Chaos.
One had to know that during Rhode’s era as the top player, there were millions of players and over a hundred million forum posts. With so many people working together to collect intelligence on Chaos, they still weren’t able to completely figure out what was going on inside Chaos.
It was like the Astral Telescope, Door of Akasha, and things related to Chaos that his younger sister mentioned in the past. Many of the players heard about them by hearsay, and there wasn’t any practical proof.
Eloise could actually do something that so many players couldn’t handle on the Internet by herself? If she was really strong enough to gather intelligence on Chaos, Rhode would respect her so much.
Like the other deity wardens, after the previous Void Dragon transmigrated and disappeared and the Void Territory had been invaded by Chaos, Eloise was also nowhere to be found. But now, it seemed like Christie and Eloise fled from disaster in the past and sneaked back again.
As to when exactly Eloise returned and why she had gone to steal information from the battle lines, Christie had no idea. She could only say that this younger sister was really mischievous… And also, using such an ability to mess with others seemed rather amusing. After seeing how Mini Bubble Gum stomped her foot in anger, who knew whether Eloise transformed into another identity and laughed at Mini Bubble Gum from the corner…
If Mini Bubble Gum knew about this, perhaps it would cause a lot of chaos.
As for why Eloise didn’t come back to reunite with her siblings, Christie didn’t have an answer. But she knew that although her younger sister was naughty, she believed in the principle of ‘know the enemy, know yourself, and in every battle you will be victorious’.
As a matter of fact, Christie always did that. But back then, the seven deity wardens were fused as one, so they would use her intelligence whenever she got it. But now, even Rhode had no idea what thoughts were running through Eloise’s mind.
But in the end, Rhode decided to leave her alone for the time being. After all, since she was one of the seven deity wardens, ordinary people wouldn’t be able to touch her and it would be a waste of energy to go looking for her. And since she showed up here, perhaps she had something to do with his battle.
However, before Rhode could put his mind at ease, he learned a disturbing piece of news from his younger sister.