Linsley sighed in confusion as he observed Evangeline's actions in the Goddess Simulation. "Sigh, I still can't understand why Evangeline would go this far just for my sake."
Although the system text displayed time skips, glossing over redundant details, Linsley had spent every month, every day, and every second closely monitoring Evangeline's actions. It might have seemed strange, but he felt compelled to understand her motivations fully.
In the past month, he had witnessed Evangeline go to extreme lengths, openly defying the entire Avatar World and being labeled as a world criminal. She made no attempt to hide her actions, taking on the world with relentless determination.
Even when a nuclear bomb was launched in an attempt to kill her, Evangeline merely froze it before it could detonate.
And when the United Nations followed up with multiple nuclear strikes, she froze the explosions themselves.
Assassination attempts were futile; her Winter Goddess Divine Clothing, a powerful natal soul divine artifact, provided her with unparalleled defense, leaving her virtually unscathed.
The typical weakness of most avatars—the vulnerability of their human hosts—was easily overcome by Evangeline's divine artifact.
In just a month of recovering her godhead fragments, Linsley had seen the entire world turn against her, yet she remained undeterred.
That's why he couldn't understand why Evangeline would go to such lengths just to resurrect him.
Although her actions also concerned reclaiming her power, it was clear to Linsley that her feelings for him were genuine. She seemed to genuinely love and miss him.
"Maybe Evangeline is a lonely goddess, suffering from solitude and lacking love?" Linsley speculated. "From what I've observed, Evangeline hinted that she was a self-created god, born from the manifestation of the universal rules."
"In other words, she didn't have a family. She didn't have a lover either, especially considering she seemed to dislike Kania, who was obsessed with plants and had a fetish for them."
[Knowing that these two were likely the culprits behind Linley's death, Evangeline chose not to attack them immediately but continued to reclaim the scattered avatar crystals around the world.]
[A month later, Evangeline had collected a total of 91 avatar crystals. During that time, she hadn't found any additional celestial crystals, and she had already killed all other Zenith Avatar Masters except for the Death Envoy and the Truth Keeper.]
[This meant the remaining avatar crystals and celestial crystals were likely in their possession. To fully restore her Winter godhead, Evangeline needed to defeat the Death Envoy and Truth Keeper.]
[Evangeline had successfully eliminated every other avatar master in the world, leaving only the Death Envoy, the Truth Keeper, and herself.]
[So if she could eliminate the Death Envoy and the Truth Keeper, even if those two old men weren't the ones who killed Linley, it would mean she had already avenged him by killing the real perpetrator among the avatar masters she had slain over the past months.]
[However, Evangeline doubted this, as none of the avatar masters or Zenith Avatar Masters she had killed possessed the kind of rule-based ability that could kill Linley from afar. This pointed directly to the Death Envoy, with his instant death ability, as the likely culprit behind Linley's death.]
Upon learning about Evangeline's speculation, Linsley found himself puzzled. "How the heck could the Death Envoy have killed me with his Book of Death? I literally used my identity distortion to change my identity."
"Even if the Death Envoy had achieved Zenith and absorbed celestial crystals, he shouldn't have been able to kill me that easily, especially without even being on the same continent as me."
Linsley understood that most avatars had a specific range of influence.
He believed that a Zenith Avatar Master, in most cases, could extend their range from a city to a continent-level—if they possessed a domain-type avatar.
Those with humanoid avatars, however, would be limited to a much smaller range around the avatar master and couldn't reach that far.
"Anyway, I'll keep observing. Only a rule-type ability can see through my identity distortion, so the Truth Keeper might have been the key to allowing the Death Envoy to bypass it and kill me."