Let them live with that regret for the rest of their lives!

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After the insect eggs were laid out, Iris took out a cup of insect cocoons and began to contact Seria.

After being away for a few days, it's time to contact home, otherwise, knowing the little maid's personality, she'll definitely worry.

Thanks to the prior arrangements, Elise was able to contact the maid very easily.

"Xiaomi, have you missed me?" Iris spoke in a light tone, mainly to reassure the little maid.

After a while, the maid's familiar voice rang in Iris's ears: "I've been thinking about it. When will Miss be back?"

Although the maid's tone sounded similar to usual, Elise keenly sensed that the maid's emotions seemed a little off.

Is he blaming himself for not bringing her along this time?

No, the little maid shouldn't be upset about something like this. Perhaps the sensitive little maid feels that she wasn't helped this time, which is why she seems a bit off.

After a brief moment of thought, Elise quickly continued, "Why does my Xiaomi Xia seem a little unhappy?"

"No, I just miss Miss."

"Since you miss me so much, I'll speed things up and come back as soon as I'm done."

"Yes, I will wait for Miss to return."

Afterwards, Elise inquired about the situation at home, and after confirming that there were no problems, she tried to comfort the little maid before ending the contact.

As the connection was severed, the little maid in Seria, with a complicated expression, put away the butterfly that had transformed back into a cocoon, then curled up on the bed again, feeling the onslaught of memories.

Since she made up her mind to uncover the truth, many memories have flooded her mind.

All of these memories are of the young lady dying in front of me.

She had forgotten how many times she had witnessed the young lady's death in her memories.

Killed by Elena, killed by Nora, killed by Vivian, killed by the Faceless Killer...

Pierced through the heart, slit in the throat, decapitated, blown to pieces...

Again and again, it seemed as if they could never escape the fate of death.

But I am too weak to do anything.

To avoid upsetting her, the young lady would even deliberately send her away and die somewhere she didn't know.

The little maid clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug deep into her flesh, but she felt nothing.

Now she finally understood why she felt such intense killing intent when facing Elena and the others.

Just then, Sally happened to pass by outside the maid's room.

Having just discovered spatial magic in some ancient ruins, she was in a very good mood.

But at that moment, she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine, as if she were being targeted by some extremely dangerous natural enemy, which froze her in place.

Although the feeling was fleeting, Sally still broke out in a cold sweat.

So why do I have this strange feeling in Elise's manor?

After a moment's hesitation, Sally vanished from the spot, determined to sleep in the Land of Hope that night.

She didn't want to be suddenly startled awake in the middle of the night.

……

"Is there a problem at home?" Lily asked, while observing the butterfly she had caught from Elise.

I noticed that Elise's expression seemed a bit off when she contacted her family, so I asked her about it.

"It's nothing, let's get some rest." Elise shook her head. She wasn't in the mood to cook tonight, but she took out some special jerky. Although it was a bit dry, the taste was undeniably delicious.

After eating something simple, the three of them went to bed early.

Lily couldn't escape being used as a pillow by Elise again tonight. However, considering that sleeping in Elise's arms was quite comfortable, she only struggled symbolically this time before settling comfortably into Elise's embrace.

Time comes the next day.

The three of them got up early, ate something simple, and continued their journey into the depths of the endless ice plains.

This time, their pace was much faster than yesterday.

However, as the three ventured deeper, in addition to the environment becoming more extreme, the surrounding magic also became thinner.

"Something doesn't feel right." Sera stopped and carefully sensed her surroundings.

Besides the magic becoming thinner, there seems to be a strange suppressive force at play. It may not have much of an effect on them now, but it might not be so if they go deeper.

Elise felt this suppression the most, since she was the weakest of the three and the suppression effect on her was the most obvious.

She can only use about 90% of her usual strength now. If she continues to go deeper, her power may be suppressed even further.

Volume 1: Chapter 431 It's All Dirty

"Do you want to go further in? Why don't you wait here, and I'll go in with her to take a look?"

Lily looked at Elise with a hint of worry in her eyes. She and Sera were fine for the time being, but Elise was different. If things continued to go deeper, it would be hard to say.

"It's alright, there's no big problem right now. I'll stop if anything really goes wrong." Elise smiled as she said this. "I'm terrified of dying."

"Alright, since you've already said so, let's go a little deeper inside."

In Lily's opinion, finding a sleeping god in this boundless ice field was still too difficult, but if Elise insisted, then they would continue.

Anyway, she still has a backup plan, so at least she should be able to get out unscathed.

During her rest, Elise also observed the black cat that had been following her. The suppression here didn't seem to have any effect on it for the time being.

I don't know if it's because of the power of order.

Perhaps noticing Elise's gaze, Blackie meowed softly and rubbed against Elise's feet.

Elise casually picked up the black cat, feeling its soft fur and the warmth it brought.

Just as Elise had thought, the deeper she went, the stronger the invisible pressure became. By nightfall, Elise's strength had been suppressed to less than half of her usual level.

Although her strength was suppressed, her purpose this time was to pay homage to the gods. Even in her full strength, she would be nothing more than an ant in front of the gods, so whether her strength was suppressed or not made no difference.

The only impact is probably a weakening of its own resistance to extreme environments.

Even so, it still couldn't stop Elise's progress, and their speed of exploration didn't decrease much the next day.

But by the time the second day's journey was halfway over, Elise felt that her strength had been suppressed to only about 10% of its original level. As for Lily and Sera, their strength was also severely suppressed.

Elise is now struggling to keep up with the magic power needed to maintain her warm outfit, but thankfully she keeps a lot of magic crystals in her spatial ring.

If we rely on magic crystals to replenish our mana, we can last for a while longer.

"I don't think we can go any further," Lily said softly, feeling the increasingly intense pressure.

“Let’s continue. If there are still no results by tomorrow, we can consider returning home,” Sera said calmly from the side.

Identifying herself as Elise, she directly said what Elise was about to say.

Lily carefully assessed her own condition and then said, "Alright, but if we don't find anything by tomorrow, we'll have to leave."

Even with her strength suppressed, she couldn't guarantee that they would all be able to leave safely, no matter what backup plan she had.

Elise estimated that if they continued to go deeper tomorrow, she would be suppressed to the point where she would be completely unable to use her own power.

After a moment's hesitation, she decided to try something before her power was completely suppressed.

In her eyes, a mark of pleasure appeared, as did the marks of greed on her chest and the back of her hand.

Sensing the pleasure emanating from Elise, Lily silently distanced herself from her and said with a hint of helplessness, "You wouldn't be thinking about that kind of thing at a time like this, would you? I'm not a casual person."

"What are you thinking about?" Elise glanced at Lily, wanting to find out what was going on in this older loli's head.

"I'm just experimenting, and besides, the pleasure I can release right now won't affect you at all, right?"

"Who knows."

Under the influence of the World Tree, she has very low resistance to Elise; she might not even feel any resistance to the pleasure power released by the other party.

To avoid an embarrassing situation, Lily chose to keep her distance from Elise.

But at the same time, she had a small longing in her heart. Since she was no longer burdened by the World Tree, she felt like something was missing.

Elise originally intended to make a simple attempt to see if releasing the three powers of original sin could awaken the dormant Sloth; she didn't actually have high hopes for it.

To Elise's surprise, with the appearance of the three original sin powers, she suddenly felt extremely sleepy.

This feeling came too suddenly, and she subconsciously wanted to resist it, but she quickly realized that it might be some kind of lazy action, so she gave up resisting.

As Elise fell into a deep sleep, she was also awakening in a dream.

This time, she found herself in a room that was both incredibly familiar and somewhat strange.

The room wasn't large, but it had all the necessary furniture. The display case was filled with various figurines, just like the ones she remembered, as well as the computer that had been budgeted at eight thousand but ultimately cost tens of thousands to configure.

This is her room, the room of Echizen.

Seeing this familiar room, a look of disbelief flashed in Elise's eyes. Although she had thought countless times that one day she would fall asleep and wake up here, living the kind of unchanging life she liked.

Even though she knows it's a dream, she still has a slight urge to completely immerse herself in it.

"I see. Now I think I know why Eloise chose you."

The sudden sound woke Elise from her reverie. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a cute silver-haired little girl lying on her bed, her body wrapped in a blanket, only her adorable face that made you want to rub it and her sleepy expression showing.

Facing the little girl who had taken over her bed, Elise tentatively asked, "Are you Sloth?"

"It's me. You woke me up. I'm in a bad mood right now and I didn't want to talk to you, but since you brought me so many new and interesting things, I won't hold it against you."

"Elois sent me to find you."

"I know that's why I didn't want to see you, but since Gluttony likes you a lot, I'll still come out to see you."

"And what about Greed?" Elise was eager to hear Sloth's opinion of Lady Greed.

"She's just like Eloise, a disgusting filth."

Elise's lips curled up slightly, but she didn't laugh out loud, never expecting that Elise would be called a filthy thing.

Just then, a lazy and gentle voice rang out: "It's so heartbreaking. Someone clearly misses you so much, yet you call them something dirty~"

Volume 1: Chapter 432 Elise being pulled into the room

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Elise knew without a doubt that it was a trick that Alois had left on her.

Suddenly, Eloise appeared in Elise's room and lunged at Sloth on the bed. However, the bed shifted backward the moment Eloise pounced, causing her to miss her target completely.

"Tsk, I knew you filth would come out of nowhere."

Perhaps it was the appearance of Eloise that made the seemingly drowsy and lazy person quite awake.

Before Eloise could make any further move, a blanket appeared out of thin air and wrapped her up inside.

Seeing Eloise writhing on the ground, Elise couldn't help but twitch her lips. Judging from Sloth's practiced movements, she felt that this was definitely not the first time this had happened.

"Speak, what is it that you specifically sent your successor to see me? You know I have a short temper."

"Didn't you already guess?"

Sloth glanced at Eloise, then at Elise, as if deep in thought.

"Forget about it. I bet you're too lazy to find a successor. Just give her your mark and that'll be fine."

Hearing what Eloise said, Sloth seemed to think it made a lot of sense. During her slumber, she had thought several times about whether she should go out and find a successor.

But every time I had that thought, it felt like a hassle, since I would have to wake up and even get out of here, so I immediately dismissed that unrealistic idea.

If Eloise hadn't come looking for Him, He probably would have slept here until the world ended, and then moved to another place to continue sleeping.

Considering that this was indeed a once-and-for-all solution, He did not hesitate and pointed directly at Elise in the air. The mark of sloth appeared on Elise's earlobe and then disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"The successor you chose has a rather complex background." Sloth hadn't checked Elise's situation at first, only glancing at her when giving her the mark, and then discovered how complex this successor's background was.

Even though He had lived for so long, this was the first time He had ever seen such a being.

After giving its mark, Sloth yawned lazily and mumbled sleepily, "Alright, you've achieved your goal. If you disturb my sleep again, I'll..."

Before she could finish speaking, the silver-haired girl fell back into a deep sleep.

Before the dream completely collapsed, Eloise turned to Iris and said, "Remember to come chat with me more often when you have time."

Having said that, without waiting for Elise's reply, He transformed into starlight and vanished before Elise's eyes.

Then the dream completely collapsed.

When Elise woke up again, she found Sera and Lily looking at her with concern.