Angelica, standing to the side, watched the scene unfold before her, her little rosy mouth slightly agape and her eyes wide with wonder.
After a long while, their lips parted!
Looking at Isabella nestled in his arms—her beautiful eyes carrying a faint mist, and her moist, soft, alluring lips gleaming—Eros couldn't help himself and lowered his head once more.
After another long moment, Eros finally released Isabella from his embrace. Turning his head, he looked at Angelica, who had been staring wistfully the entire time, and simply tapped her between the brows with his finger.
In the next second, a mark took shape on Angelica’s fair, smooth forehead, gradually extending deep into her soul.
Angelica was somewhat puzzled. Why didn't he kiss her?
Although filled with doubts internally, she still opened her mind and accepted the mental brand Eros planted within her.
The moment the brand was planted, the two women before him could never betray him.
At the same time, a surge of secret power suddenly spread from within Eros’s body, enveloping both Isabella and Angelica inside it.
A few seconds later, as that secret power dissipated, Isabella suddenly felt a sensation—a certain connection between herself and the unseen realm had been severed.
She knew this was the connection to the bloodline of the Augustine family!
In other words, from this moment onward, she would no longer live as a vessel for someone else’s reincarnation, but as herself.
Of course, all of this came at a price—the price being the loss of a portion of her freedom, nestling beside a single man from now on.
But what in this world comes without a price? Just being alive was already the greatest blessing; how could they dare ask for more?
Not to mention, the first impression this man made on her was quite good. Although the outcome of this matter differed somewhat from her initial expectations, it wasn't too bad.
Looking at Isabella, who seemed to have accepted her new identity, Eros gave a light laugh and asked:
"Where is the location of the second Divine Kingdom fragment?"
Hearing this question, a trace of embarrassment appeared on Isabella’s charming face:
"In the containment chamber beneath the Yordun Cathedral of the Reincarnation Church in Haidalam!"
"A fragment of the Night Goddess’s Divine Kingdom is contained within that room."
"Supposedly, it was obtained from a Night believer back then. However, before that believer died, he destroyed the container holding the Divine Kingdom fragment, causing it to fall onto the floor where no one could lift it."
"Then, to prevent the dispersing power of the Divine Kingdom fragment from causing a disaster, the Church chose to erect a cathedral right where the fragment fell, using the power of faith to suppress it."
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"That is the origin of the Yordun Cathedral!"
After listening, Eros stared at Isabella before him. Good grief, you’re telling me the Divine Kingdom fragment is in a Church containment chamber?
How is what you said any different from saying nothing? Is it possible the few stray cats in our family would dare to forcibly storm a Church containment chamber?
To them, this news was rounded off to being virtually useless!
As if knowing this as well, Isabella lowered her head in embarrassment.
Looking at Isabella with her head lowered, Eros let out a soft sigh.
Forget it. At least he knew one precise location now. As for how to retrieve it from the Church containment chamber, that would be a matter for the future.
Reining in the chaotic thoughts in his mind, Eros looked at Isabella and spoke:
"Although the power of Concealment can sever the connections in your bloodline, it won't alter your appearances."
"Your current appearances are still far too eye-catching, especially your hair."
"Sea-blue long hair, which signifies the bloodline of the Augustine family, is simply too conspicuous in Intiles."
Isabella looked down at her long hair, a faint smile surfacing on her delicate face:
"I prepared for this long ago!"
Saying this, she reached into her small bag and pulled out a little box. Isabella opened the box, revealing colorful threads of various hues inside.
Without waiting for Eros to ask, Isabella took the initiative to explain:
"Grade 3 Sealed Artifact—Colorful Threads. Its sole function is to change the color of any body part, and this change is permanent."
"Even if the corruption on one's body is cleansed, the altered color of the affected part will not revert to how it was before."
"If one wishes to change the color back to how it was, the only way is to use this Sealed Artifact again. There is no other method."
Looking at the bundle of multi-colored threads before him, Eros asked in a somewhat curious tone:
"Can it change the color of localized skin?"
Isabella blinked, a flush rising on her delicate face. She coughed lightly and said:
"It can... but I don't have a use for that!"
The corners of Eros’s mouth curled into a smile:
"I am looking forward to it!"
Angelica stood to the side, looking at her mother one moment and Eros the next, not quite understanding what they were talking about.
Hearing Eros say he was looking forward to it, Isabella’s face flushed red once more. Fortunately, she wasn't some young girl, so she quickly regained her composure.
She reached out and took the Colorful Threads from the box. A moment later, her long, sea-blue hair began to undergo a transformation, turning from its original sea-blue to silver-white.
Once her hair color had completely turned silver-white, Isabella handed the Colorful Threads to her daughter.
Angelica took the Sealed Artifact handed over by her mother and, following her mother’s example, changed her own hair color to silver-white as well.
Looking at the two women whose temperaments had drastically shifted due to the change in hair color, Eros couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Indeed, as long as a person was good-looking, they could pull off any hair color.
Now that the issue of appearance was resolved, Eros brought up another problem that needed addressing:
"Do you need me to arrange new legal identities for you?"
Isabella looked at her daughter and said in a gentle voice:
"I prepared the identities beforehand. A mother and daughter who came to Intiles from out of town to find her husband."
"This identity truly exists—there really was such a mother and daughter. I spent a thousand pounds to buy their lives from them. Right now, they should have already left the Chris Empire."
Eros nodded and thought for a moment. "Alright, tomorrow I will have the butler go to a maid agency in the West District of the Outer City to hire maids. You two can just go and apply then."
Hearing this, Isabella expressed some worry: "Given your identity in the physical world, won't acting like this be too deliberate?"
Indeed. For the heir of a high noble to suddenly send someone to the Outer City to hire two maids—to anyone paying attention, it would certainly look overly deliberate.
Eros knew what Isabella was worried about, so he said offhandedly:
"I’m not only hiring the two of you. I suddenly remembered that I have two manors on the outskirts of Intiles."
"Although they are sitting vacant, if there are no servants to care for them, they will go to waste."
Although Eros hadn't seen the size of his manors, a manor worth roughly sixty thousand pounds in total shouldn't be small. At the very least, hiring one or two hundred servants would be necessary.
When the time comes, interviewing the hired servants and selecting two to serve as personal maids from among them—that would be completely reasonable, wouldn't it?
After all, he truly lacked personal maids~