"Master, everything I have belongs to you." The lady in the painting still wore a cheerful smile, seemingly unaware of what had just happened, as she curtsied and replied, "Including my life."
"..." Carl shook his head. "Forget it!"
Jina did not possess real life; she was just a soul trapped within this Demonized Item. Moreover, it was a soul whose self-awareness had been erased; she was unaware of the secrets hidden deep within the painting's frame. Without a way to replace the soul fragment, destroying her would mean destroying this Demonized Item.
Arriving in his study, Carl took out the thick tome. There was an issue with the pattern on the book, but the book itself was not problematic, and it possessed no aura of an Evil God. Otherwise, the Divine Domain Fragment would have definitely reacted.
