"What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done?"
"Who is the person you owe an apology to?"
Have the Heavenly Carriage Bull step back 47 paces. On the Time Continent, a Sword Maiden and a Witch were eagerly pressing the Observer for his secrets in the car, yet he kept his lips tightly sealed.
At that moment, an idea struck the Sword Maiden, and she suddenly asked about minor things:
"What’s your favorite dish?"
"Charcoal-grilled fatty meat."
"Which Technique Spirit do you prefer?"
"Which part of the day do you like the most? And why?"
"After midnight, because that is my private time."
"What do you dislike doing?"
"Where do you like to have dates?"
The Observer had to think about this question he had never considered before and then he suddenly realized, "How could these questions possibly be secrets I need to guard? Why are you asking them?"
The Sword Maiden continued, "Then I’ll ask something serious—if the Witch and I fell into the Flowing Gold River, whom would you save first?"
The Observer looked at her suspiciously, but saw the Sword Maiden give him a meaningful glance, and after a moment’s thought said, "The Witch."
"Now that we both are skilled in the Time Faction, if you obtained the Time Orb, whom would you give it to first?"
"If we encounter the Empress Commander again, and this time only one of us can escape, whom would you let go first?"
The Sword Maiden asked several questions aimed at increasing the Witch’s affinity, and the Observer answered "The Witch" to all of them. Just when he thought the Sword Maiden was seizing the opportunity to win over the Witch in this play, he suddenly heard her ask, "Who do you like the most?"
The Observer stopped mid-sentence when he realized something was off, but then realized it again, looked up, and saw the gleaming eyes of the Sword Maiden, and immediately held his tongue. The Sword Maiden snorted, her lips curling upward, but she did not pursue further: "Try saying it. If you can’t, it just means it’s a secret sealed by the Secret Keeping Authority."
"Actually, the secrets themselves aren’t the point," the Observer changed the subject. "The most important thing about the Secret Keeping Authority is the desire to confess those secrets."
"If you want to confess, why keep it a secret?" The Witch found it strange. "Isn’t that contradictory?"
"Not at all." The Sword Maiden patted the Witch’s hair. "There are always things that you want to talk about but must keep hidden in your heart, like planting a flower. If you’re unlucky and no spring allows it to sprout, even the richest soil is just darkness to it."
"What if you’re lucky?" asked the Witch.
"Then even on a glacier, it would bloom into a hundred thousand roses," the Sword Maiden said. "Bringing you a new spring."
Secret Keeping Authority: You keep your lips sealed, and no one can know the secrets at the core of your heart, but those secrets are also protecting your soul. You can’t utter the secret you hold most dear, and the more you want to confess, the stronger the sealing effect gets.
Secret Keeping (Confession Level 100%): Your Spirit Resistance increases by 100%, and your soul’s adaptability to similar Divine Beings increases by 100%.
Secret Keeping Authority!
Soul Summoning Technique Spirit!
He is Ash, and he is also the Observer!
Diya, looking at Ash kneeling before her, felt utterly confused.
Hadn’t the Observer met her before? Hadn’t he watched as she jumped from the Tower? Then why did Ash act as if he didn’t know her?
Certainly, Ash couldn’t be faking it; he had indeed met her for the first time in the underground hall of the Four Pillars God Sect. At this point, Diya unavoidably thought of a possibility—could Ash have a split personality?
But soon, she recalled a scenario more fitting to Ash’s situation and which had already happened once to him—a Divine Being impersonating him!
When Ash was assassinating in the guise of the Gospel, his actions were unseen and ghost-like; when the Observer met her at the Tower, it was also illusion-like and neither here nor there, the two instances matched nearly perfectly!
After all, the Observer was just a Two-winged Mage but managed to forcibly gather her and the Sword Maiden from different realms to explore the Void Realm, a feat far beyond the capabilities of ordinary Mages!
Not even a Holy Sanctuary Mage or Legendary Mage could accomplish that!
Not to mention the luxury of a car to commute to and from work, according to the Sword Maiden, they even had ships in the Sea of Knowledge.
While they hadn’t specifically discussed it, both she and the Sword Maiden acknowledged that the Observer controlled a variety of Divine Beings, capable of creation and forming teams, to the extent that they wouldn’t be surprised if one day the Observer created fatty meat in the Void Realm.
Diya used to think the Observer had full control over Divine Beings, but now that it was her turn to control them, she realized it was impossible—she didn’t even possess the energy to drive the Divine Beings!
The functioning of the Divine Beings of the Gospel was possible because the Legendary Mages were supporting it collectively, and the Gospel System was not related to the generations of the First Gospel but was merely its own expansion after feeding itself, just like breathing or eating.
Within the Kingdom of Gospel, the Gospel, like natural phenomena such as the sun, wind, rain, and the earth, could almost be equated. The foundations of civilization created by Mages such as the Gospel Book, Gospel Database, Gospel Intelligent System, were no different from farmers using manure to fertilize fields or miners extracting and smelting ore, only more advanced.
Although the First Gospel was a host for the Divine Being, they could only touch a fraction of its permissions and certainly couldn’t drive the Divine Being to serve them. To use the sun as an analogy, ordinary people can only passively receive sunlight; while the First Gospel, closer to the sun, can utilize more solar energy, even influence the distribution of sunlight across beings; but only the Angel Divine Lord can control the sun’s outbursts, extinguishing, or collapse.