Tome of Blood

Chapter 672-19- The Blood Codex

"Holy crap! What's going on?!"

A sharp cry of surprise came from the girl's boudoir. Looking at her petite and adorable reflection in the mercury mirror, the bewildered blonde girl's eyes were filled with nothing but confusion and shock.

That was the first thing Charlotte said after she traveled to this world.

It is standard Chinese, as standard as it gets.

Charlotte looked at her newly transmigrated self and felt an indescribable sense of destiny.

Countess Castells did indeed summon the "Holy Spirit".

But it was Charlotte herself who brought Charlotte's soul to this world.

The original history is lost to time, but now, Charlotte herself has filled in the crucial link of this journey through time and reincarnation.

With this, the last piece of the time puzzle is complete, and the shattered history is fully restored.

Charlotte watched her former self blush as she curiously familiarized herself with her new body and explored this strange world.

That means there is no third person here.

Otherwise, looking at that excited yet strangely amused smile, she feared she might really be tempted to erase her own memories.

Charlotte did nothing unnecessary.

The River of Time has been repaired, and the shattered spacetime has been closed. Now, she... has lost the ability to leave the world of Miria and return to the River of Time.

At this point, any rash intervention to "change" history will inevitably be discovered by the Primordial One.

She did not interfere in what happened at Castel Manor.

She watched as Countess Castel inscribed a sacrificial circle in the basement, coldly observing as she repeatedly begged for power from the Blood Demon Grand Duke, who was corrupted by the Primal Chaos.

She watched as her past self was successfully drugged and hung on the cross once again.

She saw her past self arguing with Countess Castells, who, amidst a sinister laugh, pierced the girl's stomach with a grotesque tentacle.
"An otherworldly soul! This is a hundred times more precious than the true spirit of a saint!"

"What are saints and holy men?"

"As long as I offer you my blood, I will surely receive the Lord's grace and unprecedented divine favor!"

The old woman laughed wildly, her laughter unrestrained and manic.

The girl, who was vomiting blood repeatedly, widened her eyes and couldn't help but curse:
"Fine... you fucking bastard!"

A crimson light shone on the sacrificial circle, and the blonde girl's gaze gradually became vacant as she lost blood and was on the verge of death.

At that moment, Charlotte knew that it was time for her to make her move.

A crimson glow erupted, and her divine body suddenly changed, shrinking continuously until it finally transformed into an illusory book.

Then, the illusory holy book suddenly flew up and landed inside the girl on the cross.

Charlotte... transformed into the supreme artifact of the vampire clan, the golden finger that had accompanied her all the way to her growth—the Blood Codex!
The crimson holy book fell into the body of the blonde girl.

Immediately afterwards, the girl on the cross saw a line of ancient characters appear in her field of vision...

[Blood Codex has detected an en route divine ritual—]

【Technique Name: Bloodline Sacrifice Ritual】

[Sacrifice: Charlotte de Castel]

[Sacrificer: Irene de Castel]

[Recipient: Grand Duke Abaddon]

……

[Interception probability assessment: 100%]

[Block?]

……

The blonde girl's gaze was blank, but she quickly fell into ecstasy.

"Intercept them! I must intercept them!"

Charlotte heard her soul scream.

History is unfolding once again, just as it has in the past.

With the power of the "Blood Codex", the girl successfully reversed the sacrifice and turned the tide in a desperate situation.

However, the reversal of the sacrifice also altered her bloodline, making her a vampire.

Sensing a faint trace of primordial power within the vampire bloodline, Charlotte's eyes flickered slightly:

"I see……"

"So, at this point, He began to corrupt me with His power?"

But she didn't do much more.

She was merely playing the role of the Blood Codex, guiding herself when the time was right, much like the Blood Codex in her memory.

She bestowed upon her past self the true power of the Blood God, successfully purifying her past bloodline to the level of a True Ancestor.

She guides her past self, enabling her to continuously gather the tattered fragments of the sacred texts and grow stronger.

Whenever her past self collected a fragment of a page, she would reward her by appropriately increasing her power and authority.

As for those fragments I collected in the past...

Those were not genuine fragments of the sacred text.

That was the replica of the Blood Codex that Lilith created to contact her.

Collecting the fragments wasn't her real purpose; it was for the original to see. Besides that, once Charlotte had collected enough fragments, she could use them as a medium to awaken Lilith's still-sleeping true form—the moon goddess Artemis.

History unfolds according to a predetermined trajectory.

With the help of a cheat code, Charlotte grew rapidly, successfully inherited the territory, and began to cultivate her own power as before.

Her power continued to grow, and her bloodline became increasingly close to that of the true progenitor of blood, until... when she traversed history.

The portal to time and space opened once more, and the river of time reappeared. Charlotte, now in the form of the Blood Codex, cast her gaze upon it and saw once again the shattered river of time from the past.

But that's just the surface.

In the depths of her all-seeing gaze, this originally broken river of time has actually been completely perfected; those broken scenes are nothing more than an illusion.

"Is the Primal One pretending...? Is it trying to lure me into making a move?"

Charlotte quickly realized the conspiracy behind it.

History is already set in stone, and for Him who travels through time, this fixed history becomes a prison.

If you want an easier-to-understand explanation, then a fixed history is like a track that has already been built.

Charlotte, who traveled to the past, is like a train traveling on this track. If she wants to travel back to the future, she must follow the predetermined track.

If Charlotte believed that she could influence history again through the time travel of her past self, it would be like a train derailing.

In that case, not only would it not affect the real history, but it would also create false historical fragments that are independent of the real history. Charlotte, who changed history, would then be trapped in these historical fragments and face the original ambush.

So... she didn't make a move.

She watched coldly as history continued to move forward, and all she did was, at the right time, help her past self improve its strength in accordance with the course of history.

She bestowed all the power of the Blood God upon her past self without reservation, and personally crafted the Guardian Staff to protect her past self. Her past self, in turn, made rapid progress, and her realm and strength soared like a rocket.

She will continue to experience everything she has experienced in the same way she has experienced before.

History, which has already happened, continues to happen as it has in the past.

Until... Charlotte, who traveled to the world of Miria, entered the realm of creation, and the primordial god was fully revived.

The river of time has come to an end.