Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 187 Result
Seeing the embarrassment of the "Sun", Adele hurried forward to comfort Sophie. After a while, Sophie timidly walked in front of the "Sun" Derrick with Adele's encouragement.

Derrick adjusted his mindset slightly, then he stretched out his broad hand with a smile and placed it over Sophie's head.

Pure sunlight shone from his palm, illuminating the entire room as bright as day. If Adele hadn't sealed it in advance, passersby outside the window might have thought there was a fire.

A blue-black gas immediately floated out of Sophie's body surface. A sudden intense pain overwhelmed her, causing her to open her mouth and scream.

However, the pain only lasted for a moment and then disappeared. After observing Sophie's reaction, Derrick immediately retracted his ability as "No Darkness". Sophie was about to scream when she found that the pain had disappeared and she stood there in confusion.

"Ma'am, come out with me for a moment."

Derrick said to Adele with a serious expression, then he stroked Sophie's hair soothingly and walked out of the room.

"How about it, can the conventional method... still be used?"

Adele asked worriedly.

“Unfortunately, the method of extracting extraordinary characteristics doesn’t work.” Derrick shook his head apologetically.

"Her mutation has reached an irreversible level. If it is forced to be precipitated, more than half of her organs will be severely damaged. If she is a Path that controls positive power, then I can use the relevant abilities to precipitate the characteristics while treating her. But for the 'Devil', the treatment of the 'Sun' Path Beyonder is no different from poison."

"Then... is it possible for her to try to digest those extraordinary characteristics through acting?"

Adele asked disappointedly.

"That's right...and she must start acting as soon as possible, preferably within a week."

Derrick nodded. "Has she shown any abnormal behavior recently? For example, praying to an unknown existence, or quietly gazing at the moon."

"Yes... I hypnotized her and left the cabin two days ago, but she got rid of the hypnosis under the moonlight and showed severe temporary demonic tendencies."

Adele recalled the horrific scene she saw the night she first boarded the Little War Horse, and began to answer.

“Sure enough…” “Sun” Derrick sighed heavily.

"You have been a member of the Tarot Club for a while now, and you should know some knowledge. Originally, this kind of thing should not be done by me. At that time, whether it was Miss Justice, Mr. Hanged Man, and Ms. Hermit, they were all stronger and more experienced than us, and they were also more humane than they are now..."

A nostalgic look appeared on the face of "Sun" Derrick, but he soon shook off his memories and explained to Adele:
"You must be curious, why Sophie, who was clearly contaminated by the 'devil' path, was affected by the moon?"

Adele nodded honestly.

“This is actually a long story…”

Derrick thought and explained. "During this period, I have also studied a lot of your occult materials and learned more. You said before that the angel who caused the descent of God in Backlund was stopped by a follower of the God of War?"

"Yes, she obtained His blessing at the cost of her life, and briefly gained some authority, bursting out with enough power to destroy the other party's teleportation ritual. As for the specific details, I don't know much."

Adele answered based on the residual impression in her mind.

"But if you think about it carefully, you will know that can the Sequence 2 Angel really be stopped with just one attack? "He" can open one door, so why can't he open a second one?"

Derrick asked back, "So, the answer is obvious—something is stopping Him. Justice may not have told you that the thing that is stopping Him and the existence He wants to stay away from with all His might is the Mother Tree of Desire."

Before Adele could calm down from the news, Derrick continued, "The Mother Tree of Desire, its honorific names include the Eternal Howler, the Lost God, and the Father of Demons." He deliberately used conjunctions to separate the honorific names of the Mother Tree of Desire to prevent anything bad from happening.

"I wonder if you have heard of the 'Rose School' and the 'Life School'?" Derrick asked.

"When I was an informant for the Nighthawks, someone told me about these two secret organizations. However, I don't know much about them. I only know that they seem to be active in the southern continent or the southern part of the northern continent. The former mainly controls the 'prisoner' path, and the latter mainly controls the 'destiny' path."

Adele answered truthfully.

"Yes, but not entirely." Derrick responded, "The 'Life School' once controlled the 'Destiny' and 'Moon' pathways, but a few years ago they split internally, and the Beyonders from the 'Moon' pathway joined the 'Rose School' and began hunting down members of the 'Wheel of Fortune' pathway."

"Why did only the Beyonders from the Moon Path betray the sect? Could it be that this betrayal came from the Path itself?" Adele asked.

"You are very perceptive." Derrick said approvingly, "This is about the 'Rose School'. They originally believed in the 'Bound God' Torzwa, but later there was a rumor that the 'Bound God' had a new incarnation, the 'Mother Tree of Desire', which led to a civil war in the Rose School."

"In this civil war, the child of the Mother Tree, the 'divine evil' Sua, led the 'lust faction' to defeat the 'temperance faction' of Reinette Tinicole and took the dominant position. These are the statements made by the latter herself and are highly credible."

"In the field of mysticism, every war hides a very important mysterious event. The outcome of this war also means that the claim that the 'Mother Tree of Desire' is the incarnation of the 'Bound God' is untenable. In fact, the 'Bound God' Torzwa seems to have been controlled by the Mother Tree of Desire, just like the 'Demon King' Fabuti."

"And the 'Mother Tree of Desire' controls more than just these pathways. Even the 'Moon' pathway has been influenced to a certain extent by it. The Beyonders from the 'Moon' pathway in the School of Life joined the 'Rose School' because it was caused by it disguising itself as the 'Original Moon'."

"Sun" Derrick finished slowly. Seeing Adele trying hard to digest this mystical knowledge, he couldn't help but warn her again.

"Finally, be careful of the Moon, whether it's the Beyonders of this path or the Red Moon itself... The Mother Tree of Desire disguised as the Original Moon has only been around for a while. However, before that, there was another evil being in the Original Moon, but I don't know His name for now."

"Be careful of their contamination... Even a true God may fall from it!"

(End of this chapter)