My Stubborn Soul Card Follower-Chapter 584 - 430: The Reason Behind Vivian’s Death (4K)_2

"Also, why is Miss An Wei at your house? Brother Shen Sui? What's your relationship?" Xinyuan Tanchun felt her eyes start to spin.

Fortunately, the Isabella on her was very clear-headed. She glanced deeply at Vivian and said, "Welcome back, Vivian."

"Huh?" Xinyuan Tanchun looked at Isabella without understanding.

Isabella waved her hand and said, "You go back first, I'll be staying here tonight."

"Then I..."

"Isn't Shen Sui having a duel in three days? You will definitely be there, right? I'll come back with you then," Isabella said.

"Alright!" Xinyuan Tanchun nodded, leaving very decisively.

She had a keen sense in these matters; clearly, this was beyond her reach and leaving quickly was a kind of self-protection.

"You're deliberately provoking An Hai, aren't you?" After the others left, Shen Sui said helplessly to Vivian, who was still hugging him.

Vivian stuck out her tongue and said, "You just tell me if it fits the character!"

"An Wei" was originally a rebellious and mischievous character, otherwise, she wouldn't have the nickname of a little witch.

"Besides," Vivian said with a smile, "An Hai planned to invite you to a duel anyway. Didn't I just give him an excuse to challenge? See how happy he was when he left."

Shen Sui had no idea where Vivian saw that An Hai was happy.

"But, I didn't expect you to change so much after not seeing you for years, Isabella," Vivian said as she hugged Isabella floating in the air, "Really cute."

Isabella said, "You haven't changed, Vivian."

Vivian laughed and said, "The time is too long, maintaining unchanged is also a protection for oneself."

When the group returned to the house, they happened to meet Qishala who had prepared dinner.

With Vivian around, Qishala did not show any disdain for Isabella but warmly welcomed her instead.

"Except for Baris, everyone is here," Shen Sui remarked as he looked at the people around the table, "I wonder how Baris is doing now; even Alice couldn't find any information about her."

Vivian, Freymia, Qishala, Martina, Isabella—the five girls at the table reminded Shen Sui of Baris, the one he met earliest in the game.

Shen Sui let it go, but Qishala and Freymia, as the monarchs of their respective races, couldn't even use their intelligence networks to get any follow-up information about Baris, which was strange.

And this phenomenon basically only had one possibility...

Everyone turned their gaze to Vivian at the head of the table.

Vivian's Candlelight Illusion.

"Didn't you say you made a Candlelight Illusion for Baris?" Shen Sui asked, "What kind of character was set up at that time?"

Vivian blinked and recalled, "Just an ordinary follower of the Daylight Church? It was made for Baris a long time ago; at that time, you hadn't even killed the War God."

Shen Sui believed that Vivian was not lying.

An ordinary follower of the Daylight Church... What could Baris do with her?

"At that time, it was for researching the Candlelight Illusion with Baris," Vivian said, "Baris's talent is much better than mine. Even though it is uniquely my power, she could always analyze it thoroughly. Maybe she has already developed that Candlelight Illusion to the extreme."

"Speaking of which," Isabella suddenly asked, "why did you choose to let yourself be 'burned to death' back then?"

Isabella was the only girl still active on the continent related to Shen Sui after Vivian's "death." She had been trying her best to find evidence of Shen Sui and Vivian being alive and attempted to resurrect them both. But due to their special nature, her efforts were in vain, yet the abundant data she came across made her extremely puzzled.

In those records of real events, before Vivian was pushed onto the pyre, she was still in an invincible state. Logically, she shouldn't have been pushed to the pyre so easily, but the fact remained that after returning to Modena City, Vivian was sent to the pyre by the suddenly uprising believers with little resistance.

Though many speculated it was because Baris, whom Vivian trusted the most, betrayed her, there was no definitive evidence.

Mentioning this suddenly, even Vivian couldn't help but fall into memories.

Over a thousand years...

For eight or nine hundred years, she was busy dealing with the mess left by Shen Sui, almost forgetting her original ideals.

However, Vivian did not truly abandon her power, and she sighed, telling everyone the truth of the matter.

After Baris summoned Vivian back to Modena City through a letter, she showed her research results.

Dawn Continent's history is doomed to repeat itself.

The success of the Twilight of the Gods marks the end of the Daylight Era and the beginning of the Twilight Era.

"Baris seriously asked me what my ultimate ideal really was," Vivian recalled, "Was it to end the rule of the Gods or to bring everyone into a brand-new world? She said the two are not the same; she talked about many loopholes left behind by the success of the Twilight of the Gods."

"We were too successful," Vivian said, "So successful that people couldn't even comprehend why we rebelled against the Gods, and the God's rule was already ended by us. The inertia of thought led to a lot of people still believing in the power of the Gods. Although the Churches were destroyed, its followers still survived; as long as they caught an opportunity, they would definitely make a comeback."

And that marked the beginning of the Twilight Era. Twilight signifies an end and destruction, suffering and sorrow, where the heroes' ideals are not understood, and their deeds are scorned until that long and painful dark age comes and people realize how dazzling the light of past heroes was.

"If it's just to end the rule of the Gods, then I have already done quite well," Vivian continued, "But if I truly want to bring about a brand-new world, then we must also take the dark age away, bringing the world directly into the new Dawn."

"This was exactly what Baris said to me back then," Vivian looked at everyone and said, "So, if we want to end the dark age along with it, it must involve quickly ending the Twilight Era, which means..."

Vivian pointed at herself and said, "I must die."

"And then you just died?" Shen Sui said incredulously.

"Yes."

"But at that time, you were basically invincible, weren't you? Couldn't you just clear the entire world like clearing me?" Freymia pouted.

"Rulership cannot be eternal, even if I am already immortal," Vivian said, "The more I persist, the more it will just extend the Twilight Era. Besides, ruling the world was never my ideal."

The most crucial part was that she trusted Baris so much.

Actually, even if Shen Sui were in Vivian's position at the time, he might have agreed with this too.

Because Baris, in her design, is someone who would never betray you, forever the just Knight.

If Baris had told Shen Sui to fake his death for a special storyline, he probably would happily comply thinking it's just an event trigger.

"Moreover, at that time," Vivian glared at Shen Sui, who was staring off into space, "I was also eager to go to other worlds to find this guy. Baris said she would handle everything that followed, so I was happy to be a hands-off manager."

Shen Sui didn't know what to say either.

The course of events was certainly more complicated than Vivian's narrative, but the gist wouldn't differ much.

"Oh, by the way," Vivian added to Shen Sui, "Baris said that if she succeeded, she would send a signal to me; when I came back, I tracked the direction, and she should still be at the main city of the Daylight Church."