Gospel of Blood

It turns out that Charlotte underestimated the vastness of a Legendary Bloodborne’s memory.

As soon as Albrecht’s memories related to the bloodborne surged into her mind through the crystal ball, she regretted it.

A sea of information flooded her consciousness like a tidal wave, overwhelming her senses and causing a splitting headache. It felt as if she was trying to cram an entire room’s worth of books into a single backpack. Charlotte thought her brain might explode from the pressure.

At that moment, Charlotte realized a major flaw in her command to Albrecht. She had asked him to imprint all his memories related to the bloodborne. So, just how many of his memories were actually related to the bloodborne?

The answer was nearly all of them since he first became a bloodborne. While many bloodbornes live solitary lives, they are fundamentally social creatures.

Especially since Albrecht was initially a high-ranking member of the Shedite Clan and later became a Dark Apostle, nearly all his actions impacted the activities of the Shedite Clan and the Blood Demon Cult.

It’s like an old saying from the Ancient China.

“There are no small matters around the emperor.”

While Albrecht wasn’t an emperor, as a top-tier bloodborne, his daily activities were closely tied to the bloodborne. In other words, almost all of his memories from the past two thousand years broadly fit the imprinting criteria Charlotte had set.

Charlotte probably intended to gain some knowledge and secrets about the bloodborne, but Albrecht couldn’t know exactly what she needed.

Charlotte couldn’t specify the exact information she wanted, so Albrecht, being the cautious bloodborne he was, imprinted all his memories related to the bloodborne just to be safe.

As a bloodborne, he couldn’t imagine that the “True Ancestor”, who he viewed as a God, would be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of memories.

This was quite awkward for Charlotte. While she had various God-like special abilities, her brain wasn’t nearly as powerful as those true Gods with computing and storage capabilities rivaling supercomputers.

Even excluding Albrecht’s long periods of dormancy, the imprinted memories were still a massive amount of information. The vast influx of memories battered Charlotte’s consciousness.

Another troublesome issue arose: memories are carriers of self-awareness. When Albrecht’s millennia-old memories flooded her consciousness, her combined memories from her two lives, totaling less than thirty years, became a fragile boat in a storm.

When a large bucket of water is mixed with a small cup of juice, it’s the juice that gets diluted. Similarly, Charlotte felt like a small cup of juice being diluted in a large bucket of water.

Under the impact of the memories, her self-awareness was also challenged. Albrecht’s memories quickly overwhelmed Charlotte’s own memories.

She felt as if she had become a Demonic Bloodborne, witnessing the rise and fall of the bloodborne alongside bloodborne myths…

No.

She was a Demonic Bloodborne. Her name wasn’t Charlotte, it was Albrecht…

Charlotte’s consciousness wavered, and her awareness became confused.

At this critical moment, the Gospel of Blood she had manifested in her hand suddenly emitted a crimson glow.

The glow spread over Charlotte, and simultaneously, the golden-red flame burning in her heart became brighter.

Under the flame’s influence, Charlotte’s chaotic consciousness gradually cleared, and her own memories grew stronger, suppressing the foreign memories.

Charlotte quickly regained her sense of self. She was slightly startled and, upon coming to her senses, looked at the memory crystal in her hand with a sense of lingering fear.

She had almost “become” Albrecht!

Thankfully, she had worried about potential accidents and activated the Gospel of Blood right from the start, using its soul protection to maintain the final defense!

“Albrecht’s memories are too vast. It seems… I can’t absorb them in the usual way.”

Charlotte exhaled and muttered to herself.

Since Albrecht’s memories couldn’t be absorbed through normal methods, she would have to try another form of storage.

Recalling how she handled prayers from her followers after gaining believers, Charlotte closed her eyes and reconnected with the Gospel of Blood.

Golden-red light blossomed, her hair rapidly lengthened, and her figure grew taller, quickly transforming into her majestic and awe-inspiring adult form.

“Perceive… separate.”

Charlotte calmly intoned.

The blood divine power spread, enveloping Albrecht’s memory crystal.

Simultaneously, the “divine flame” in Charlotte’s heart burned more intensely. Charlotte manipulated the divine power to envelop Albrecht’s vast memories and further enhanced her perception.

Under the influence of divine power, her mental strength, already far superior to her peers, surged further, faintly overpowering Albrecht’s memories.

Charlotte further activated her divine power to “see” Albrecht’s memories. In her “vision”, Albrecht’s memories appeared as a massive light cluster composed of various colors. This was the divine power’s perception of memories representing different emotions, situations, and times.

With the divine power’s assistance, Charlotte’s computational abilities skyrocketed. She used the divine power to segment and compress Albrecht’s memories according to their colors.

Like computer files being compressed, Albrecht’s memories were divided by categories and compressed into “file packets.”

Soon, the vast memories were transformed into smaller light clusters. Metaphorically, it was like organizing a roomful of documents into neatly categorized books.

With a thought, Charlotte had the light clusters enter her consciousness but not integrate with her memories. Instead, they were stored deep within her sea of consciousness.

This was archiving. Meanwhile, new changes occurred in the Dark Night Castle. In the castle hall, crimson light spread rapidly, forming a new door.

The door opened, revealing a vast space like a library, filled with various books on the shelves.

This was the materialization of Albrecht’s memories in the Dark Night Castle. At this moment, his memories were stored in Charlotte’s mental world in the form of a “library.”

The glow on the memory crystal dimmed and eventually turned into shattered particles that dissipated.

Feeling her somewhat swollen mental strength, Charlotte exhaled lightly.

“Finally… it’s done.”

Albrecht’s memories had been successfully absorbed.

However, they were not directly imprinted in her mind but stored deep in her consciousness. Charlotte would only retrieve and “decompress” these “files” when she needed specific information, then “read” them.

Thinking of this, Charlotte attempted to “retrieve” information about the Faceless Statue.

As she willed it, a book from a shelf in the “library” flew to her. She reached out to catch it and gently opened it. As the pages turned, Albrecht’s memories about the “Faceless Statue” emerged in her mind.

The Faceless Statue.

A mysterious statue left by the True Ancestor of Blood before she disappeared. To house these statues, specific temples were even built and buried across the Myria Continent.

No one knew the true purpose behind the creation of the Faceless Statues by the True Ancestor of Blood. These statues all contained the True Ancestor’s divine power but could not be actively absorbed or utilized.

Within the Bloodborne, there were numerous speculations.

The most widely accepted one was that the Faceless Statues were related to the return of the True Ancestor and were a contingency left behind.

For millennia, to prevent the Ancestor’s return, various Blood Clans have been searching for the Faceless Statues.

The Blood Demon Archduke is the only one capable of actively mobilizing the divine power within the Faceless Statues. Blood Demon followers have similarly gained the ability to harness the power of the Faceless Statues, even bypassing the Cursed Pages’ curse, allowing ordinary bloodbornes to use the Cursed Pages’ power.

Albrecht once heard Barov mention that the Faceless Statues hide the secret to ascending to Godhood, helping certain bloodbornes with special bloodlines become new Gods.

“Helping bloodbornes with special bloodlines ascend to Godhood?”

Charlotte’s heart skipped a beat.

After a moment’s contemplation, she summoned information on the “Ancient Temples and Detailed Information on the Faceless Statues.”

Soon, another book flew from the “library” shelf and into her hand. Charlotte received it and accessed the new information.

So far, thirteen ancient temples have been discovered on the Myria Continent, with nine known to the public and four hidden by the bloodborne.

One on Luna Island, one in the Starfall Kingdom, three in the Crescent Kingdom, one in the Northern Grand Duchy, two in the Western Yunette Empire, one in the Coria Kingdom, one in the Theocracy, two in the Eastern Yunette Blacklands, and one in the Dragon Spine Mountains.

Theoretically, there are twenty-two Faceless Statues in the world, most of which have disappeared or been destroyed.

Currently, excluding the clearly destroyed Faceless Statues, six statues remain with known locations: one sealed by the Holy Court, one in the Coria royal family’s collection, one crafted into a divine artifact by the Nez Clan, one lost in the deepest part of the Eastern Yunette Blacklands’ Forbidden Zone, and one that disappeared centuries ago with the Legendary human mage Nicholas de Valva.

Charlotte: …