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"You should tell her something about the Family. That child is clearly hiding something."
Lawrence's voice wasn't loud, but if Fors were there at that moment, she would probably be scared to pieces by his words.
The reason for the exposure wasn't because Fors's Acting Method was subpar, but because of the pocket watch Lawrence pulled out at that moment.
This was actually a mystical item from Spectator Pathway. Although its level wasn't high, it was enough for Lawrence to see through some of Fors's disguises and determine her true emotions.
But, it was only some disguises.
So Lawrence's gaze was a bit complex as he continued:
"But she truly bears us no ill will, and she genuinely treats you as a mother… Aulisa, why did you choose to let her inherit the characteristics? What exactly are your plans?
Do you wish for her to become one of the Abraham Family?"
After asking this question, for which he didn't know the answer and couldn't possibly get one, Lawrence couldn't help but sigh. His mind suddenly drifted, and he almost involuntarily thought of the Abraham Family's increasingly weakened state.
Since the great catastrophe caused by Amon, the ancestor of the Amon Family, over a hundred years ago, the Family, which had originally weakened instantly due to the disappearance of their ancestor and the death of all their high-Sequence members, but had fortunately received the protection of the Angel of Judgment afterwards and had recovered some strength over the subsequent millennium, once again declined.
This time it was even more severe—the existing disagreements within the Family were further magnified by this event, and the Abraham Family even split in a short period. Those who believed in their ancestor and those who sought to completely convert the Family members to the Angel of Judgment, led by a direct descendant of a high-Sequence member respectively, directly split into two factions.
They were once a close Family, but now the two factions had completely torn off their masks.
The Ancestor Faction accused the Convert Faction of having forgotten the Family's honor, of wagging their tails like dogs for a little benefit given by others, begging for pity, and mocked them for not truly receiving the protection of the Angel of Judgment, nor even any response, despite doing so.
The Convert Faction, on the other hand, felt that the Ancestor Faction were old-fashioned individuals who didn't know how to adapt. They accused them, saying that if it weren't for them, the Abraham Family would have truly converted to the Angel of Judgment a thousand years ago, truly received the latter's protection, and been taken under the latter's wing. They also accused the Ancestor Faction of inviting Amon over a hundred years ago by foolishly trying to welcome back their ancestor, thus plunging the Family into such a desolate state.
Under such differences in opinion, while the moderate and relatively neutral members of both factions, who only had a slight inclination, were fine, the radical extremists among them even reached the point of wanting to kill the radical members of the opposing faction.
—Originally, things hadn't reached this point, and the Ancestor Faction's strength had actually been consistently higher than the Convert Faction's for many years, as more of the Abraham Family were still more willing to follow their Bloodline ancestor than the Angel of Judgment, who had been missing for over a hundred years for unknown reasons.
But it couldn't withstand the fact that many years ago, the Ancestor Faction, in response to the Family's inability to produce high-Sequence Beyonders of the Door Pathway, carried out a reform, deciding to learn from the Life School of Thought's model and take in some individuals not of the Abraham Family Bloodline as students to cultivate, hoping that one of these individuals could uphold the Abraham Family's honor.
They hoped to cultivate a high-Sequence Beyonder of the Door Pathway, or rather, at that time, the Abraham Family yearned to cultivate an Angel in a short period, before the apocalypse arrived.
The Abraham Family had been in chaos for too long and silent for too long. After the catastrophe, they had to live incognito due to fear of the Aurora Order and Amon, and they yearned to cultivate an Angel loyal to the Abraham Family to end all of this.
It didn't matter if he wasn't of the Abraham Family Bloodline, as long as he was loyal to the Abraham Family, willing to revitalize the Abraham Family, and willing to welcome back their ancestor in the future.
The Ancestor Faction of the Abraham Family thought this way, and they also believed that as long as an Angel could emerge, the Abraham Family's current situation would inevitably change, the division would end, the voices within the Family would unify, they would have more confidence against enemies like the Aurora Order and Amon, and everything would move in a good direction.
It could be said that their ideas and choices were actually not wrong. If they could truly cultivate an Angel loyal to the Abraham Family as they wished, then the Abraham Family's current situation would truly change completely.
Unfortunately, someone was blind when choosing people, coupled with the further chaos in the Family caused by the reform during that period, which allowed a certain ungrateful person to collude with the Aurora Order, inflicting another heavy blow on the Family.
It was after that heavy blow that the Family's division became even more severe, and the Convert Faction also began to gain the upper hand, especially those who had lost relatives in this disaster, many of whom became extreme.
Lawrence himself also lost relatives in this disaster and was also part of the Convert Faction, but he didn't become extreme because of this, only more confused, not knowing where the Family's way out truly lay.
Because although he was part of the Convert Faction, he actually didn't believe in the legendary Lord Angel of Judgment that much. When Lawrence was born, the Angel of Judgment had already stopped responding to the Abraham Family; he stood with the Convert Faction simply because his father had once chosen to do so.
Within the Convert Faction, Lawrence's stance was more neutral.
So sometimes Lawrence even wondered, was choosing to change their faith and believe in the Angel of Judgment truly the correct choice?
That Angel of Judgment also disappeared, just like their ancestor!
"Sigh!" Lawrence sighed, raising a hand to rub his forehead, feeling somewhat melancholic.
But obviously, Mr. Lawrence didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the things he had just recalled.
Behind Lawrence, Lin Ruo, who had once again entered a hidden state, rubbed his temples in distress.
Just now, he had simulated the abilities of a Sequence 4 of Spectator Pathway and hypnotized Lawrence.
As an Interrogator of Sequence 7—perhaps due to limited talent, even though he knew the Acting Method, Lawrence still remained at the Sequence 7 level—Lawrence naturally couldn't resist the hypnosis of a Manipulator. Under Lin Ruo's deliberate manipulation, he didn't even notice it at all.
After hypnotizing Lawrence, Lin Ruo quickly obtained the information he knew about the Abraham Family from the latter, which was all of the above.
To be honest, Lin Ruo originally hadn't intended to obtain information in such a simple and crude way, but because of the appearance of little Bertie and that diary of the Abraham Family's spirited young man, Lin Ruo really didn't want to wait for Fors to slowly infiltrate the Abraham Family to gather information, so he simply went in himself.
Of course, this did not prevent him from arranging for Fors to continue infiltrating the Abraham Family.
And after truly understanding the current situation of the Abraham Family, honestly, Lin Ruo had a bit of a headache.
He knew the Abraham Family was divided, but he really hadn't expected them to be divided to such an extent.
Especially since one of the important reasons for the division was him…
Tsk!
How annoying!
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