Not long after the incident occurred, Louis heard related news.

"Shadow Country Ruins?"

Louis looked at the little swan sitting on his bed:

"Did you learn anything about the Shadow Country in your past life?"

Olivia's fair little feet were swinging, holding a piece of jerky she didn't know where she had gotten from, slowly chewing.

Her cheeks puffed slightly, like a little hamster gnawing on a nut.

"Yes, I fainted there once."

"Hmm?"

Louis frowned: "Then don't go to this event."

"Why? Are you worried about me?"

Olivia said with a grin: "Just say you're worried!"

She raised her eyebrows, wanting to see an embarrassed expression on Louis's face.

Then she saw Louis's extremely serious expression:

"I am."

"Ah?"

"I mean, I'm worried you'll get hurt."

The little swan was stunned for a moment.

Gradually, a blush rose on her face.

"It's, it's really nothing! I just suddenly fainted back then, but I woke up not long after."

Louis stared at her intently.

Their gazes met.

Soon, the little swan lowered her head first:

"I'll behave and listen then."

"Are you sure?!"

"You don't believe me?!" The little swan raised her voice.

"It's not that I don't believe you, I'm worried you're underestimating the problem."

The little swan muttered:

"I know you're worried about me!"

Louis reached out to mess up her hair: "Beatrice entrusted you to me, I definitely can't let you get hurt."

"If Sister Wang didn't say it, wouldn't you care about me?"

"Of course, I can't just watch you get hurt!"

"Hmph, at least you answered quickly."

Louis's eyes were somewhat grave.

There were some things he hadn't told the little swan.

In fact, he encountered the black swan last night.

...

Time goes back to last midnight.

Louis was about to sleep when he suddenly felt something was off.

When he looked up, he saw the room's sheer curtain lifted by the wind.

Silver moonlight poured onto that white sheer curtain, illuminating the person sitting on the window.

"Could you at least give a heads up before coming?"

Louis said helplessly.

"Whether I give a heads up or not, I'd still come."

"You can scare someone to death like that, give some consideration, send a message next time."

"...Alright, next time for sure."

Louis looked at the black swan suspiciously.

He always felt that if the black swan were cut open, the inside would be black too.

"So did something happen this time?"

The black swan nodded and said:

"I heard you all are going to participate in the titled adventurer preliminaries, there's something wrong with that place, I came to remind you."

"What issue?"

"This is the list from the Lokeshi Empire, take a look."

Louis shook his head: "No need to give it to me, I don't know anyone from the Lokeshi Empire."

"Alright, I'll tell you, you might encounter a fellow countryman."

"Countryman?"

"To be precise, originally a fellow from your hometown, interested now?"

Louis frowned.

A fellow countryman from his homeland?

That's really something rare.

The homeland of his country, within the Ense Empire, is a valley at the edge.

Because of long-term residence in the mountains, isolated transportation, almost everyone there was confined to that small town for life.

Later, that town was flattened by a demon summoned by the Abyssal Church, and now it's filled with a terrifying miasma.

The surrounding area is almost barren.

To be blunt, it's now a dead zone.

Yet now there's a surviving fellow countryman in another nation?

The black swan said:

"The situation isn't right, there shouldn't be any living people there."

"The Abyssal Church didn't build a charity, they chose that place to use the mountains' and rivers' geomancy as a skeletal framework for a sacrificial array, turning the whole town into part of the ritual."

Louis frowned: "The purpose? Abyssal Pus? Or simply to open the abyssal gates?"

The black swan gave Louis a peculiar look:

"In some ways it has something to do with you and me too?"

Louis sharply raised his head:

"The great sin?"

The black swan nodded: "Precisely, the Abyssal Pus can be absorbed by us to amplify the power of the great sin, which explains a lot."

Louis's expression became serious:

"You mean my countryman might have issues?"

The black swan said calmly:

"The power of the Abyss in the entire outer realm is counted among the most dangerous."

"Unlike other areas of the outer realm."

"The Abyssal consciousness of the Bottomless Abyss is extraordinarily active, it has its own thoughts and can mobilize the world's creatures' power."

"So compared to any other outer realm area, the Bottomless Abyss is especially aggressive."

"The Abyssal Church is the lackey of the four gods, but what's supported their development till now is the Abyssal Pus granted by the Abyssal consciousness."

"I had a friendly conversation with a witch at the Witch Tea Party, who used her extraordinary prophetic abilities to calculate for me."

(Prophetic Witch Evelyn: 6)

"It can be confirmed that the purpose of the Abyssal Church of the past was to create an artificial sin host."

"From their swift disappearance afterward, possibly a host has already been controlled by the Abyssal Church."

Louis took the list:

"Who do you suspect it is?"

Olivia pointed to a youth with dark circles and an utterly sluggish demeanor.

"Looks like a very lazy person."

Louis said.

The black swan said: "His name is Chloe, reportedly when the sacrificial ritual began, he found the entire town engulfed in flames."

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