Only her fingers remained uncovered.
At the moment, she was lazily reclining in the captain’s chair with a thoroughly bored expression on her face.
The moment she saw Grey enter the office, her eyes lit up slightly.
A mischievous smirk immediately appeared on her face.
Without the slightest bit of restraint, she casually placed both feet atop the desk.
Then she took a large bite from the apple in her hand.
Crunch.
The crisp sound echoed through the office.
As she chewed, a trace of red juice stained the corner of her lips, creating a striking contrast against her pale complexion and snow-white clothing.
Only after swallowing did she grin widely.
"Well, well..." she drawled.
"If it isn’t little Grey."
Naturally, the white-haired woman was Violet.
Grey stared at her in disbelief.
He had never expected to see her sitting inside the captain’s office.
However, what truly shocked him was not her presence.
It was her condition.
The last time he had seen Violet, she had been in terrible shape.
Her injuries had been severe enough that even she had admitted it would likely take several weeks, perhaps even an entire month to fully recover.
Yet now she sat before him casually eating an apple as if nothing had happened.
Aside from the bandages wrapped around her arms, she looked perfectly fine.
In fact, she appeared far healthier than he remembered.
There wasn’t even the slightest trace of weakness visible on her face.
The sight left Grey thoroughly confused.
It simply didn’t make sense.
Had she recovered far faster than expected?
Or had something happened while he was away?
Whatever the answer was, one thing was certain.
The Violet sitting before him now was vastly different from the heavily injured woman he had last encountered.
"Surprised to see me alright? Well, it was also surprising for me. I honestly thought that it would take me several weeks to remove all the anomalous substance from my body." She said as she patted her stomach.
But then her eyes suddenly lit up and her expression turned animated. "Who would have thought that this body would have such resistance against corrosive substance and all."
"Look I even recovered two days after I left! Isn’t that amazing?" Violet said with a wide grin on her face. With such a smile, the image of a beautiful and pure woman was broken.
Right now, she looked like someone who had been corrupted by the world and was sinking into madness.
After realizing that this was nothing to be surprised about, Grey’s indifferent gaze returned and he sat down on the other seat opposite the captain.
With a small gesture, another apple appeared in her hands. She tossed it to Grey who caught it effortlessly before taking a bite.
Her eyebrows lifted up in surprise, but she didn’t say or do anything out of the ordinary.
It was also now that Grey remembered the item that she had given him. The eye of fate from the Soul Ascendancy realm expert.
After giving it to him with no instructions, she left soon after. Now that he was before her again, Grey decided to ask.
"The eye of fate... what does it do? Have you figured it out?" Grey asked after taking his fourth bite.
Violet revealed a spurious smile before nodding and then shaking her head. She placed a finger in her mouth.
"Yes and no. Yes - because I figured out that only those with the potential to reach the Soul Ascendancy realm can use it. No - because I haven’t figured it out it’s real uses." She said curtly. And after some contemplation, she spoke again.
"When I tried to use it, I was immediately rejected and even felt my fate leaving my body. I stopped before something bad happened." Violet shook her head.
"What about you?" She said with curiosity evident in her voice.
’Does that mean that you don’t have the potential to reach the Soul Ascendancy realm?’ Grey did not voice out his thoughts and remained silent.
He also did not believe that it as simple as that.
Grey contemplated whether he should tell her. But in the end, he decided he should.
"When I used it, I saw several threads coming out the world. These threads were many and could not be counted. They came from everywhere and all directions and led up to the sky."
"Moreover, the world changed when I viewed it through the eye of fate. Everywhere was pitch black and filled with intense corruption."
"The corruption was constantly eating and erroding everything it touches. It even transformed and have birth to new forms of life. And what seemed to be the corruption was the endless corrosive substance infiltrating everything."
Grey shook his head soon after speaking. "But I could only retract my gaze after a moment. After that, I felt like I would die if I looked any longer." Grey described his experience, only leaving some things out.
Like the fact that out of everything in this world, only him did not have a thread coming out from him and leading into the sky was off. He also did not describe the image he saw when he looked at God’s hand.
As if looking back at that moment again, Grey subconscious almost broke down and his body trembled in fear.
The statement ’Do not look at God! was definitely ringing in his head right now.