Who hid my body?

Chapter 357 Mr. Isaiah, you are the murderer!
As night fell, Isaiah sat quietly on the balcony of his dwelling, gazing at the distant heavenly voice standing between heaven and earth.

Soon after, Mina came to his side.

“Teacher,” Mina said softly, “everything is ready.”

Isaiah nodded slightly, then pointed to the chair beside him: "Sit down."

"Yes."

"Don't be so nervous, just act as usual."

"I understand." Mina took a deep breath, trying her best to appear normal. "Are you really going?"

“Of course,” Isaiah said. “This is the best opportunity to prove myself, and besides, it was I who proposed it, so how could I back down now?”

“But that Bishop Rocky is really hard to trust,” Mina said. “Why did he suddenly have the courage to agree to your request? He reacted completely differently today.”

“It’s very simple,” Isaiah said calmly. “The ring finger has already come looking for him.”

Mina's pupils narrowed slightly: "How did you know about that Miss Ring Finger?"

“Because it was bound to happen,” Isaiah said. “As I said before, there are not only me, Hand, Eye, and Thumb here right now, but Ring Finger is definitely here too. She saw me contacting Rocky, and she will naturally try to find out why. She is much smarter than Rocky and knows how to make a choice in this kind of situation.”

"So your initial target was Miss Ring Finger?" Mina asked admiringly. "And will Miss Ring Finger also be going there tonight?"

“No, she’s a cautious person and would never show herself before my identity is confirmed,” Isaiah said. “But she will definitely use her own methods to monitor my meeting with Rocky. This is also a guarantee of Rocky’s safety. Otherwise, given Rocky’s personality, he would never dare to come looking for me.”

"I see. But are you sure there won't be any problems?" Mina looked ahead with concern. The darkness before her was like a deep sea, with countless waves surging beneath the seemingly calm surface. "There are at least five lines of vision that I can sense, not to mention those I can't sense, and the sealed artifacts that can detect Vessas's power. Can you really get rid of their surveillance?"

“That’s why I’m sitting here,” Isaiah said calmly. “I want them all to see me, and for everyone to believe that… including my hands and eyes.”

Mina knew that what Isaiah feared most from beginning to end was the hand and eye that had never shown itself, especially since the other party was now temporarily possessing the rule of eyes.

“I know what you’re worried about,” Isaiah said. “But I have my reasons for lending out the rules of the eyes. Vesas’s eyes are different from the other parts of the body; their true power is sealed deep within. Rhine’s Corey has had his left eye for half his life, but for him, it’s just a ‘gaze.’ He can’t grasp its true power, and he may not even know what the true power is.”

"...Do you mean that the right eye's true power cannot be used either?"

“It’s impossible for at least a month.” Isaiah turned to look at Mina, his right eye, as dazzling as the night sky, shining like a starry sea. “The true power of this eye is known only to Vessas himself, and only I know it. Only I can control it, and only I can use it.”

Mina sensed Isaiah's undisguised arrogance from his series of "only me".

She then remembered that her teacher was the most powerful individual in the world, the first person under God. Compared to her teacher, Hand and Eyes seemed more like the challenger.

Thinking this way, Mina's previously uneasy heart calmed down a lot, but there was still one last problem.

“So how are you going to avoid those devices?” Mina asked, “if you can’t use the power of your right eye.”

The "devices" that Mina kept talking about were biological pillars resembling lighthouses, each tipped with a huge eyeball. When they sensed the activation of the Vessus power, they would immediately focus their gaze on it and simultaneously sound an alarm.

At this moment, all eyes seemed to be fixed on Isaiah, as if they were waiting for him to activate the power of Vesas.

“Those devices can indeed detect the activation of the Vessas power. Under normal circumstances, I really wouldn’t have any good solutions,” Isaiah said with a light laugh. “But Mina, you seem to have forgotten what day it is tonight.”

Mina paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered something and looked up at the night sky.

Tonight, the stars are shining brightly, and the scattered starlight surges like ocean waves.

This is the Immaculate Night!
Mina then remembered that tonight was supposed to be the day Isaiah planned to deal with Tongue and Rocky, but because of Hand and Eye's scheming, their operation was forced to be brought forward by a day and thus failed.

But the plan failed, yet the Immaculate Night did not disappear; it still arrived as promised.

So even without his right eye, Isaiah is still the number one man under God!
As long as the stars shine, Isaiah is all-powerful.

Suppressing her excitement, Mina asked, "Teacher, how do you plan to set off?"

Isaiah turned his head and looked at Mina with a half-smile: "When did you get the idea that I haven't set off yet?"

Mina looked at Isaiah with a slight puzzlement, not understanding what he meant.

It wasn't until Isaiah raised his hand and reached for Mina's that Mina instinctively tried to respond, but saw Isaiah's fingers pass right through her palm.

Mina's eyes widened instantly; she then realized what was happening.

The teacher before me is not a physical entity, but a projection! A projection formed from starlight!
He sat down right in front of Mina, less than a meter away, but Mina never noticed him.

...This is the power that the teacher can wield during the Immaculate Night.

Mina was filled with shock and admiration.

“Those devices are a limitation on me, as well as on my eyes and hands,” Isaiah said with a light laugh. “I can’t use my right eye any further, and he naturally can’t use his left eye any further either. And this level of ‘gaze’ can’t see through my disguise.”

"So now it's not him restricting me, but me restricting him."

Isaiah raised the teacup, which was also an illusion, and took a small sip of the steaming tea inside.

Meanwhile, the facilities in the distance, the people monitoring them, and even Mina, who already knew that Isaiah was an illusion, couldn't detect anything unusual.

"In the end, even without Vessus's body parts, I am still the strongest in the world," Isaiah said calmly. "And without Vessus's power, he is nothing. That is the biggest difference between us."

……

On the other side of the Heavenly Voice, in a blind spot of the monitoring device, Isaiah himself was looking up at the starry sky, his face revealing little joy or sorrow.

What he did tonight was arguably the best solution he could come up with in the current situation. If he succeeded, the balance of power between him and his opponent would be instantly reversed.

But can it really succeed?
Isaiah did not know either.

Although everything was going according to plan, he had used the projection of the Immaculate Night to attract everyone's attention. All he needed to do next was wait for Rocky's arrival, and then he would show Rocky and Miss Ring Finger in the shadows the rules of this finger, and that would be the end of it.

Isaiah did not believe that the Hand and Eye could stop Rocky and the Ring Finger without showing themselves, and that once he showed himself, it would automatically declare that the constraints of Paradise were a deception, and that would also be the end of it.

Everything is going smooth.

But... can things really go smoothly forever? The guy who possessed four pieces of the corpse, successfully schemed against the entire Peach Blossom Village, and almost drove Isaiah to the brink of despair, can he really turn Isaiah around so easily?
Isaiah didn't know, but he would soon have the answer.

Not long after, Isaiah heard footsteps behind him. He did not turn around immediately, but said calmly, "You are late, Mr. Rocky."

Rocky cautiously surveyed his surroundings, seemingly afraid that a few ambushers would jump out from the shadows and kill him, but then he thought that if Isaiah really intended to attack him, he probably wouldn't need an ambush.

"Do you think it's easy to get out?" Rocky said irritably. "After meeting you, I've been targeted too. Now I have to be careful even when I go out. And couldn't you have chosen a place closer to home?"

Isaiah ignored Rocky's complaints and slowly turned around to look at Rocky, whose face was full of tension.

He noticed that Rocky's gaze kept wandering around unconsciously, as if searching for something, and he immediately guessed that the Miss with the ring finger was obviously watching them as well.

This is better.

“Let’s get straight to the point,” Isaiah said to Loki. “You can begin.”

Rocky didn't want to waste any time, so he nodded and formed a hand seal.

But at the same time, they were also prepared to run away immediately if they found that Isaiah would not "end" the conflict, without hesitation.

Isaiah watched as the crimson flames slowly climbed up Loki's body, and felt the surging magical power in the air. He then slowly raised his left hand, making sure that Miss Ring Finger in the distance could also see it.

"Then let me see it!"

Rocky shot the rising flames toward Isaiah's face, and in the raging fire, Isaiah's two fingers came together.

However, just as the music was about to start, an indescribable sense of unease surged into Isaiah's heart, and his right eye began to sting as if pricked by needles. Black blood gushed from the bottom of his eye, forcing him to loosen his grip.

Then, with a "whoosh," he was engulfed by flames.

Rocky was completely stunned as he stared at the raging flames.

What the hell does this mean?
He had considered that Isaiah would snap his fingers and the flames would disappear. He had also considered that Isaiah would use other means to end the flames and then attack him.

But no one expected that Isaiah would simply take the flames without doing anything!
What is this? Is this some kind of staged accident?
But Isaiah is Isaiah after all, and such an attack could not kill him. In the flames, he covered his right eye tightly and realized what was happening.

It's about hands and eyes!
That guy, Hand and Eye, used the rules he lent out and then paid the price back.

Judging from the force of this backlash... he didn't use [Gaze], but [Eternity]!
This guy has actually mastered [Eternity]!
How is this possible?! It's only been a month! He spent half his life mastering [Eternity], why is this guy...?

There's no time to think about that now; there's an even more important issue.

Why did that guy use [Eternity] at this moment? Was it just to prevent him from using [Termination]?

A strong sense of unease welled up in Isaiah's heart.

Just then, the long-silent camp suddenly emitted a shrill whistle, surveillance devices stood upright one by one, and flames lit up one after another, turning the night into day in an instant.

At the same time, the guardians' angry and shocked roars echoed throughout the camp.

"The warden has been assassinated! The warden has been assassinated!"

"The killer had pieces of Vesas's body on his body!"

"Search immediately! Search immediately!"

Isaiah was astonished.

Hand and Eye went to kill the warden?! Has this guy gone mad? Isn't he just self-destructing...? Wait!
Isaiah's eyes widened suddenly.

Is that really the plan?!
We can't let him succeed!
Isaiah immediately raised his head, wanting to say something to Rocky.

But there was no one left in front of him at this moment.

……

"Swish swish swish".

Mina watched helplessly as the fully armed guardians surrounded the Star Remnant's camp, her previous composure and confidence completely gone.

"Teacher!" She looked at the phantom of Isaiah beside her. "What's going on?"

With his physical body damaged, Isaiah's phantom was naturally affected as well, flickering slightly as if it might disappear at any moment.

The Guardians approached Isaiah, and the Starbound sorcerers tried to intercept them, but they were far inferior in both number and quality to the well-prepared Guardians and the representatives of the various churches who followed.

In an instant, the guardians stood before Isaiah.

Mina wanted to say something more, but one of the guardians stared at Isaiah for a while, and then with a "whoosh," a magical barrier opened up, blocking out the starry sky.

The phantom of Isaiah immediately dimmed, a scene witnessed by everyone.

“It seems there’s no need for further explanation.” The Guardian placed his hand on the hilt of his sword and said, word by word, “Mr. Isaiah, you are the murderer.”

Meanwhile, at Lyra's camp.

Looking at the body that had been fine during the day but was now lifeless, Ina couldn't help but take a deep breath.

But she said nothing and, as instructed, threw it into the pre-prepared power furnace.

With a series of teeth-grinding sounds, the charred body was finally reduced to ashes.

"What is this?"

Ina rubbed her temples, looking rather troubled.

Just then, a subordinate's voice came from outside: "Lady Ina, the Land of Contracts has sent us there. They have found Mr. Isaiah himself."

Ina nodded, took one last deep look at the residue spit out by the reactor, and then turned and left.

(End of this chapter)