"Chloe was originally a girl born in a small Spanish village with a sister at home and a cosy, happy family. But then when she was sixteen years old, the small village where she lived was overshadowed by a cult. A monk from nowhere came to their village, first gaining the trust of the villagers with a loving and friendly face, and then making them worship through several juggling so-called miracles."
"After a period of brainwashing, the villagers had already worshipped the abbot as if he were a god and took everything he said as the will of God." "Then the abbot began to encourage the villagers to perform some evil rituals, first starting with some symbols and sacrifices filled with evil energy, gradually adding live animals, and finally progressing to live human sacrifices."
"By this time the villagers had fallen into the madness of religious fanaticism and lost their minds, except for Chloe. Chloe was born with unusually sharp intuition and had always been filled with fear and distrust of the monks' words and actions, but his parents had become believers in the monks, and Chloe had to endure it all in silence."
"Until one day, the parents exultantly told Chloe and her sister that the abbot had chosen Chloe's sister as a sacrifice, which made their parents feel supremely honoured."
"The look on her parents' faces sent shivers down Chloe's spine, and her fourteen year old sister had understood the meaning of the sacrifice and cried out in fear."
Listening to Lola speak, Shaun asked, "Did Chloe take the place of her own sister in the sacrifice?"
Lola nodded: "More than that, Chloe is a strong and brave girl. On the day of the festival she and her sister secretly exchanged places, and she dressed herself in her sister's offering dress, which was about the same size as her own, and lay down on the altar, veiled."
"As the abbot chanted an incantation and prepared to stab the sacrifice in the chest, Chloe preempted the abbot with a prepared knife."
"But instead of collapsing as she thought she would, the abbot showed the spot where Chloe had stabbed him to the villagers, who, fearful and terrified, and at the same time shocked by the abbot's demonstration of immortality, knelt down and demanded that Chloe be burned."
"At this point Chloe's sister appeared before the group and excitedly and angrily told the villagers how she had been knocked unconscious and impersonated by Chloe, who had long had signs of demonic possession."
"A heartbroken Chloe realises that she has been betrayed by her sister, but she doesn't wait to die. She kicked the acolyte out of the way and ran out of the crowd before people could react."
"The villagers chased after Chloe, who desperately ran and ran in the darkness and finally ran to the edge of a cliff where she loved to play with her sister."
"Looking at the villagers who were frantically running towards her, Chloe saw that it was her sister and mum and dad who were running at the front. They had grim expressions on their faces, as if Chloe was a demon that had to be killed."
"Chloe took a cold look at her loved ones and jumped off the cliff without hesitation."
"In her own words, the moment she approached the ground at the bottom of the cliff, a stone at the bottom of the cliff emitted light, and at the same time Chloe felt her body torn apart, a light flashed, and she had already reached the gatekeeper of the Spirit Realm."
Shaun looked sympathetic:"No wonder her expression was always cold, now I understand."
Lola shook her head: "The story isn't over yet. I became an agent two years after Chloe did. We didn't know each other then."
"After handling a few artefact identification missions I took on an assignment to work with a secondary agent investigating the summoning of an evil spirit in a rural village in Spain. Yes, as you might expect, that village was none other than Chloe's hometown, and the acolyte went crazy with forbidden charms and rituals, finally turning himself into a monster."
"Before we left, Chloe approached us and said that she herself had volunteered to assist in the case."
"So we travelled to Spain together. On the way Chloe told us about her encounter in that village."
"When we arrived at that village, the scene was nothing like we thought it would be, the villagers were calm and quiet, with no signs of contaminated madness."
"Chloe couldn't help but go back to her former home and see her sister."
"Chloe's sister saw Chloe and tears immediately flowed. She knelt before Chloe and prayed for forgiveness and told us that the acolyte had killed himself by his many deeds and with his death the villagers were freed from their evil spells. Unfortunately before that could happen Chloe's mum and dad had become sacrifices to the evil gods."
"We took Chloe's sister's word for it and thought it would be a good idea to do a little more routine investigation during the night. Neither I nor the other agent were very experienced in de-spiritualisation at the time, and Chloe was blinded by the loss and return of her family, or else she would have been able to sense the strange and evil atmosphere beneath the calm and peaceful surface of the hamlet."
"We ate dinner that night at Chloe's house, and her sister made the most sumptuous meal that could be made to entertain us. At the dinner table Chloe smiled a smile she hadn't seen in a long time."
"But not a moment after dinner, our three agents lost all their powers, unable to move even their little fingers, but conscious, tactile, and able to roll their eyes. I observed the meal before we ate, and there wasn't any sign of contamination and alienation, and then Chloe's sister proudly told us that she used tetrodotoxin, which is very common in voodoo rituals, and since it's a purely natural toxin, we didn't notice any abnormality."
Hearing this Shaun sighed: "As your first mission, given that you are still alive and sitting in front of me, all I can say is that this mission has served you well." Lola didn't dislike Shaun this time, she just nodded softly and said, "A great deal of help and a great deal of cost. That second level agent was a young chap, very righteous, very lucky, found the second secret stone Shadow secret stone in less than a year after becoming an agent, so although he wasn't very experienced, he was very confident and felt that there was nothing he couldn't handle."
"As it turned out the chap was made into a 'Blood Eagle' in front of us by Chloe's sister. During the process Chloe's sister was always smiling, as if she were making a doll."
"'The Scandinavians may be barbaric, but they have some creative traditions.' After making that lad into a blood eagle, Sister Chloe said to us while admiring it. The lad didn't die quickly because of the extraordinary quality of his body given by the secret stone, but desperately gasped for breath by drumming the lungs that had been clawed out of his body, driving the ribs that had been removed from his spine and the flesh that had been torn out of his back like a pair of tiny, bizarre wings."
"That's when Chloe broke down and cried out to her sister, you're not my sister, you're the evil spirit they summoned!"
"The evil spirit laughed and ignored Chloe, but her eyes looked at me, and I knew it was because she was thinking about how to concoct me. I was shaking and had lost the ability to think."
"Chloe continued to cry out, I can't take it anymore! I want to obey you, I want to be your devotee! You can board my body!"
"That evil spirit's eyes lit up and said, that's a good idea, your body has been upgraded by some kind of power, it's a good host! Haha, this is more fun than dismembering you!"
"After saying this, I saw a spirit leave Chloe's sister's body and enter Chloe's, who suddenly had her eyes rolled back in her head and lay down and rapidly decayed. And Chloe suddenly stood up."
"Chloe had a calm and determined look in her eyes, it was never the look of a broken person or someone possessed by an evil spirit."
"I know that the process of evil spirit possession takes a few seconds to dozens of seconds, and people with strong wills retain their will for the first few dozens of seconds. There is no doubt that Chloe is one of those strong-willed people.""Without hesitation, she ripped out her throat and blood gushed out. She was trying to die with the evil spirits."
"At that moment, a coincidence occurred, and the agent who had been made into a blood eagle finally died. But in the process, he analysed and restored his powers into the Shadow Secret Stone with great willpower. Under normal circumstances an agent would not have sufficient time and motivation to restore the spirituality within his body into a secret stone before he died. But that agent, perhaps because of his immense hatred and will to fight the pain with all his might, actually did it."
"Of all the Secret Stones, only the Shadow Secret Stone has the skill of healing. Chloe in her near-death state saw the secret stone precipitated from the corpse of that second-tier agent and decisively reached out to touch it."
"The secret stone became associated with Chloe and disappeared into particles into Chloe's body. The wound on her throat immediately recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, while a desperate, scalp numbing howl emanated from the wound, the scream of the evil spirit in Chloe's body. The powerful spirit of the secret stone dissolved the evil spirit in Chloe's body, what's even more strange is that the dissolved evil spirit in Chloe's body directly polymerised into the secret stone of water, which in turn immediately associated with Chloe's body, and superimposed with the ability brought by the secret stone of shadow to form a new skill:Water Demon."
"We later learnt that since the establishment of the Secret Stone system, Chloe was the only agent who obtained two Secret Stones at the same time and successfully stacked the skills."
"This is a great coincidence and an extremely sad story." Lola concluded.
"No wonder I couldn't find a single Secret Stone in the previous five years, while I got the Secret Stone of Fire at the beginning of this quest. The previous five years had been years and years of easy and enjoyable commissioned quests. And this quest has already nearly hung up twice right at the start." Shaun said with a sigh.
"In the end, the Secret Stone has to be exchanged for a life!" Shaun concluded.
Just as Shaun finished speaking, his nose itched and a small flower snapped out of his nostril, startling him.
"Concentrate on your work, just think about the secret stone, the secret stone won't come to you even if your life is gone." Lola said coldly.