As Grace's Divine Art took effect, Chloe slowly awakened.

But at this moment, his face bore an indelible deathly silence.

"The power of the demonic entity, huh?"

About such an existence, Louis had seen records in the libraries of Ense.

Compared to deities, demonic entities were more dangerous in some ways.

Even the Evil God would still adhere to some vague, inevitable logic.

For example, the God of Destruction would not destroy everything unconditionally.

But demonic entities were different.

These existences were more like curses of deities rather than life.

Cursing the gods, cursing the world, cursing everything.

They were the true enemies of all beings.

Even worse, due to their nature, even deities found it difficult to deal with them.

Especially those demonic entities born on the Star Continent.

Deities cannot enter the Star Continent in their true forms.

This means that to kill a demonic entity, they can only walk the mortal world through saintly descent.

This state of handling demonic entities was extremely dangerous.

Historically, there have been more than one instance of deities dying from entering the continent as saints.

The most famous among them was a deity once closest to being the sole god—

Eternal Fierce Sun.

Today, the church of the Eternal Fierce Sun has become the Sunset Church.

Only the Knights of the Scorching Sun still struggle to prevent it from fully becoming the dust of history.

And it was to stop some terrifying entities from frequently entering the continent that the Eternal Fierce Sun eventually fell.

The only solace is that, reportedly, the Eternal Fierce Sun succeeded in killing a great calamity before his divine personality shattered.

Although no one knows today who was the enemy back then.

But one thing is certain, that even the weakest demonic entity is the most dangerous existence on the Star Continent.

After all...

It was the first time Louis saw the Emperor take action.

"Wake up, can you still move?"

Louis looked at the young man whose mouth continuously oozed blood, as Chloe struggled to open his eyes.

He glanced at Louis, a strange smile appearing on his pale face:

"An Ense native?"

"Any problem?"

"Sent by that prince?"

"Not exactly."

"So, there's a connection then."

"Indeed, quite some connection."

Chloe coughed a few more times, as if trying to cough up his lungs.

While coughing, Louis noticed the blood foam he spat out gradually lost its color.

"Looks like you can't hold on much longer," Louis sighed.

"If you hadn't forced a hand to save me just now, I would have been dead long ago," Chloe said flatly.

Louis said, "Indeed, but it seems you're not that terrified."

Chloe shook his head, "Everything I loved has already perished with that inferno."

Louis knew what he meant.

That fire started by the Abyssal Church on the borders of the Ense Empire had destroyed Chloe's hometown.

Unlike Louis.

When Louis was taken by traffickers, he was so young that he had no memory of his homeland.

But Chloe was older than him.

Being older meant he was more mature.

The pain he suffered witnessing the destruction of his hometown was naturally greater.

"Cough cough~ didn't expect to die just like this, what a regret!"

Louis calmly said:

"Anything you want to say?"

"What can I say?" Chloe wiped the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth, "I wish I could obliterate the entire Abyssal Church, but I'm too weak."

Louis: "..."

After a moment, he emphasized again:

"Do you know what the Abyssal Church was doing in your village back then?"

Chloe's dim eyes looked at Louis:

"You know?"

"Yes, they were trying to create some sort of monster, akin to the monster that the pope of the Church of Glory and Justice became."

Chloe seemed to think of something:

"Ah... the Great Sin? No wonder you came to find me."

Louis thought to himself:

"Indeed, the existence of the Great Sin is an esoteric secret for ordinary people, but it's familiar to the higher echelons of this world."

This was within his expectations.

Chloe himself was from the Lokeshi Empire's assassination squad.

Such assassination squads had inherent advantages in intelligence.

Knowing about the existence of the Great Sin was not surprising.

But he didn't say much more, instead, a mocking smile appeared at the corner of his mouth:

"Didn't expect that the ones who came for me were potential enemies of mine."

Louis shook his head and said:

"Whether we're enemies depends on whether you're associated with the Abyssal Church."

Chloe shook his head, "I said, I wish I could kill them all."

In other words, he had no connection to the Abyssal Church.

Considering that a person's last words are truthful.

And since Chloe indeed didn't have that intense power of the Great Sin.

The words he spoke held a certain degree of credibility to Louis.

But the fact is that some remnants of a Great Sin's aura lingered on Chloe.

So Louis bluntly said:

"I sensed the power of the Great Sin on you, of course, the Great Sin I refer to isn't you."

Chloe was taken aback, showing an incredulous expression:

"Are you sure you're not trying to make me choke on my last breath?"

"Do you think I'm joking with you?"

Chloe muffledly coughed up a few more mouthfuls of blood.

Only this time, the coughed-up blood turned completely into a deathly pale:

"How long has this aura lingered? Can it be estimated?"

Louis estimated and said:

"It shouldn't be long, between half a month to a month."

This was a little trick he discovered by accident.

When he was at the Mayer Commerce Association creating dishware samples for the workers, he used the power of the Great Sin skill to directly form a batch of trays.

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