Alpha's Rejected Mate Returns as Queen
Chapter 732: The Fool

Chapter 732: The Fool

Caroline's POV:

I thought Master Mary was merely stating the facts, but it only made it more challenging for my father to accept.

His former beloved was already dead, but her memories after death had been so wantonly tampered with and defiled. It wasn't his fault, but he felt guilty about Anna, and every detail about her was now filled with his belated remorse.

He found it difficult to face even if it was just a creation with Anna's ghost.

He tightly held onto the strand of hair, breathing heavily and staring fixedly at a point in the air as if someone there had captured his undivided attention.

What illusions did he see? The sweetness of being affectionate with his former lover? Her sincere confessions before her death? Or perhaps it was the ghost of several decades angrily reproaching him for his heartlessness?

The room fell silent momentarily as if everyone had been infected by this non-existent ghost, silently listening to her despairing accusations that pierced their hearts.

Finally, the former king stepped forward and pried my father's hand open, returning the strand of hair to Master Mary.

My father instinctively wanted to take it back but stopped under the stern gaze of the former king.

"Lennon, at our age, we can't be as willful as children anymore," the former king said, part advice and emphasis. "Return the young one's possession. Our old things are all in the past, and struggling vainly won't change anything."

My father hesitated, then reluctantly withdrew his hand.

"Anna was an extraordinarily powerful witch, even in a generation filled with talents during the war. Although her talent wasn't in destructive power, it actually allowed her gentle magic to remain stable in her hair for a long time."

Master Mary said, "I've come into contact with Anna's magic, which is why I immediately recognized that this thing was related to her. After all, it's almost impossible to forge the magic of a witch who died decades ago."

She looked at the Queen. "And I believe you have noticed too; the strong evil aura on her indicates that the person who altered these memories and implanted false thoughts must be related to the cult."

The Queen agreed, "Indeed, and it seems it's pointing to the Lily of the Valley."

So, when everyone tacitly treated my father's outburst as nonexistent, the focus returned to the initial question: Why did the Lily of the Valley send someone to find Adele, a creation closely related to her mother?

It couldn't be that the Lily of the Valley had a humanistic culture of caring for its employees' families!

Currently, the most likely reason seemed to be Adele's pure white witch bloodline. This group was already extremely rare, and after the Wolf-Witch War, they vanished entirely, and their abilities were highly precious-they could even resurrect people!

However, mixed-race pure white witches could not produce the next generation with inherited bloodlines. So, it would be useless even if the Lily of the Valley took Adele back. Not to mention cloning or other scientific methods-they wouldn't affect the bloodline inheritance of mysterious powers.

Moreover, Anna's memory creation, let's call her 'Fake Anna', didn't seem to have any intention of saving Adele or helping her leave. Instead, she worsened Adele's already miserable situation and almost killed her.

This didn't seem like something a mother would do to her daughter. Perhaps after her memories were distorted, her hatred for my father extended to their shared child, Adele?

"I conducted preliminary research, and Fake Anna has only this fog-like body and a simulated thought construct capable of thinking. There are no vocal organs, so she can't speak," Master Mary said. "Moreover, her magical thought construct is rudimentary and cannot support complex thinking. Perhaps the Lily of the Valley deliberately designed it this way to control her better."

The Queen asked, "But wouldn't it be easier to control her without installing thoughts?" "But a completely chaotic creation cannot generate emotions," Master Mary sighed. "Emotions are the source of power generated by memories, and the stronger the emotions, the more potent the memory creation.

"Chaos cannot produce emotions, and reason will restrain emotions. Therefore, the simulated thought construct that the Lily of the Valley designed for Fake Anna is, in fact, the most suitable. Even though it makes Fake Anna constantly irritable, lost, tormented, and forever unable to break free, these negative emotions provide her with a continuous source of power..."

Even I, listening to this, felt that it was so dehumanizing.

Utilizing a segment of memories to this extent-such cult methods were chilling.

In short, Fake Anna's condition couldn't provide us with any intelligence. We couldn't even use magic to search her memories because she had no brain or mental world. All her thoughts were false; naturally, there was no platform that magic could explore.

In the end, she was sealed in the secret warehouse of the Sorcery Research Association, far from her organization, her daughter, and her lover, spending countless days and nights in silence until the belated extinction finally embraced her.