Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength
Chapter 334 - 333 Inquiry

Chapter 334: Chapter 333 Inquiry

Electricity, stitched corpses, powerful force, and the sight of the opponent’s body blown apart.

Combined with this fellow called Moore’s previous display of being unaffected by the power of "Fury".

Inevitably, Ronald thought of a famous work.

—— "Frankenstein"

This novel, created by Mary Shelley and regarded as the world’s first science fiction, was truly illustrious in Ronald’s original world. The images of Frankenstein and the creature were initially established from that book.

Because of the book’s influence, countless derivatives had emerged.

If "Frankenstein" became a source text as well, that would certainly be reasonable.

So...

Could it be that people in this otherworld are already using artificial human technology...

While mulling over these matters, Ronald waved one hand, planning to gather the corpse fragments with black mist.

However, it was then, like a scene from a horror story, that he saw something frightful before his eyes.

The artificial human called Moore’s head suddenly moved!

Despite his body being blown to pieces, the pair of eyes on the head, still connected to a part of the torso, abruptly opened and immediately fixed their gaze on Ronald.

Then, using what little mobility his mouth had left, the creature started to make a hoarse, unpleasant sound:

"Ronald, I remember you."

"We’ll see about that!"

Crackle——

As his words ended, the last blue arc lightning shot out from the grotesque head and streaked towards Ronald.

Snap!

With a light noise, and the activation of the "Angel" power, a white protective screen deflected that final attack completely.

Finally, the head became still.

The scattered remains on the floor now looked exactly as they should.

"..."

"After all that, still got to throw out some tough words?"

With a slightly peculiar expression, Ronald controlled the black mist to gather the bodies on the ground, then walked over and grabbed Lumia, who had lost consciousness.

Quietly switching the "Fury" power to "Fury", and after determining the direction with the fewest people around, Ronald then leisurely walked out.

Luckily, Lumia had just chosen this family’s residence this afternoon.

So if rescue efforts were timely, there was a good chance that this household could still be saved.

But those tasks...

Ronald currently had no time to deal with them, so he left it to the onlookers drawn by the explosion. He also believed that Springs’s investigators would definitely not ignore a place that suddenly made such a commotion.

It wouldn’t take long for this area to become quite the bustling scene.

And Ronald, he had always been a law-abiding, good citizen.

Therefore, before Lumia could be taken away by those law enforcement people, he intended to thoroughly question her about everything.

"..."

So, passing through the dark night.

After some time, Ronald returned to his apartment in the Riverside District.

There weren’t many people standing outside in the dead of night, and although Ronald was carrying something heavy, he didn’t disturb anyone and successfully made it back to his place.

Snap——

With a casual move, he placed the remains he was carrying to one side.

Ronald immediately put Lumia on a chair in his apartment and then found some rope to bind her securely.

"Volume eleven, page two hundred sixty, sixth entry."

Softly reciting the incantation of the lie detector, Ronald then caused black mist to fill every corner of the room before giving Lumia’s face a sharp slap.

Slap slap slap——

"Hey, wake up."

Slap slap slap——

"Wake up now!"

"..."

Relentlessly, after a few minutes, Lumia’s face turned red as she woke up from her coma.

Her eyelids twitched slightly, and the ’young girl’ tied to the chair slowly opened her eyes.

She looked around the room in a daze, and then inspected the decoration of the surrounding house. Finally, her eyes focused on Ronald, who stood before her.

"You..."

"What spell was that just now?"

Well, it seemed this person still thought she had been defeated by Ronald using a spell.

Faced with Lumia’s current reaction,

Ronald felt somewhat conflicted.

Earlier, on the way back to the apartment, he had already checked Lumia’s body and hadn’t found the original tome she was supposed to have.

According to the dialogue he had planned, Ronald began:

"It’s none of your business what spell I used."

Starting by refusing to answer her question, he then continued:

"Lumia, understand your current situation. You’re not in a position to ask me anything willingly."

"I ask, you answer."

"That is the mode of communication we should have now."

"..."

Hearing Ronald’s rather forceful demands, Lumia cast her eyes down.

Looking at the ropes that bound her and Moore’s body thrown on the ground beside her, the girl still managed to force an ugly smile onto her face.

"Alright, I understand."

"I just ask for the assurance of my own life’s safety, and I will answer all of your other questions."

As Lumia spoke, Ronald could feel that the lie detector was running normally, and the feedback indicated that she wasn’t lying.

However, before Lumia...

Could he really trust the feedback from the lie detector before such a person?

Ronald had his doubts.

So next, he decided to simply treat the spell’s lie-detecting ability as guidance for gathering information.

He silently made up his mind and continued:

"Good, then the first question."

"What exactly happened atop Black Mountain? I need to know the specific details of that day’s events."

Lumia answered very straightforwardly:

"First of all,"

"I know relatively little about that incident, so the information I can provide will definitely be incomplete."

Ronald nodded in understanding:

"No problem, just tell me what you know."

With this response, Lumia continued:

"Specifically, it was a failed experiment with the original tome, and the consequences were very severe."

"Our family, for instance, was accidentally produced during that experiment, and all the others in the mansion were completely slain by me and my family afterward, including the original holder of ’Divine Comedy.’"

"However, due to issues concerning the distribution of the original tome and the fact that it was protected in a circle that we couldn’t touch, it eventually led to a huge disagreement within our family, resulting in the situation you all walked into."

Saying this, Lumia’s expression also showed some leftover fear:

"But honestly, that man of yours was outrageous."

"To think he could defeat both my mother and father in simple physical combat, that’s unimaginable strength indeed."

"..."

The true strength of Heloise...

Considering his complexly backgrounded friend, who was also someone he couldn’t completely see through to this day, he could understand this situation.

Therefore, Ronald nodded slightly and then asked:

"Okay, next is the second question."

"Besides the Caster whose body I found in the basement, where are the other people from Black Mountain whom I haven’t seen, and how much do you know about their identities?"

"..."

Faced with this question, Lumia fell silent.

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