novelraw Chapter 187: Jasmine's Aunt
Chapter 187: Jasmine's Aunt
In the banquet hall, Lensis tidied his clothing and slowly walked up to the speaker's podium at the very front. Before him, the gazes of all the guests in the entire venue completely fell upon him.
Even though Naris had already undergone parliamentary reforms for a very long time prior to this, ultimately the concepts within people's hearts wouldn't easily change. The title of Godolin still possessed a weightfulness difficult to rival in the hearts of the common people, not to mention it was King Godolin IX who single-handedly steered the pioneering policies that determined the national destiny of this generation of Naris as well as several generations behind him.
"It's Prince Lensis!"
"The royal family still loves and supports charitable causes just as before ah..."
"Why isn't it Eldest Prince Dexter coming over?"
Those whispering voices very quickly transmitted into Lensis's ears. The last sentence caused his complexion to change slightly, becoming slightly ugly.
Lensis most hated others comparing him with Prince Dexter. Because since childhood, his elder brother was exactly destined by heaven. Not only did Royal Father and the people love him, but he himself was also extremely diligent, and still maintained a humble and benevolent inner heart.
In Lensis's eyes, he and Elizabeth were exactly like two insurmountable massive mountains, pressing down on him until he couldn't breathe. Yet Lensis didn't possess the broad open-mindedness within Dexter's inner heart. He extremely abhorred and hated his own elder brother Dexter, because he, as it should be, snatched away the love and attention within the family that should have originally fallen upon himself.
To put it colloquially, he was a bit narrow-minded.
He vaguely swept a glance at the wealthy merchants below who had come over to attend the meeting, yet didn't discover entirely who it was that spoke those words just now.After a second passed, he had just prepared to open his mouth, yet from his peripheral vision he suddenly glimpsed golden radiance gradually spreading along the air in the night sky outside the window.
Exactly like a gigantic cover, it entirely shrouded the entire venue in merely an instant.
How could Lensis not recognize the essence of that magic?
Anyhow, he was also a member of the royal family. He knew even more so that his elder sister was in charge of the Royal Guard who could use this kind of magic...
But Sister Elizabeth wouldn't make a move against him. The only explanation was that Dexter went to Elizabeth's place to borrow troops over to arrest him.
He opened his mouth. Stunned, the magic microphone held in his hand abruptly dropped. Exactly the instant it touched the ground, the sound emitted from colliding with the ground was amplified by the magic.
Suddenly, that unending sound echoed throughout the entire venue, exactly like igniting the atmosphere of the entire venue.
"Bang!"
At this time, the golden lights abruptly extinguished, but it was because a silhouette was suddenly violently thrown out from the side of the corridor.
That body scraped all the way past the wall that was linked to the magic crests beside it. The force was so great it entirely destroyed all those magic crests.
"Who is it?"
"Someone attacked this place?"
"Not good! It's the Witch Research Society, the cult that previously attacked Saint-Nazareth University!"
The magic lights suddenly extinguished. The venue instantly descended into chaos. The wealthy magnates had always cherished their lives, successively squeezing to run toward the outside.
But speculators and upstarts squeezing to walk inside were still crowded at the entrance... In a split second, an awkward scene precisely emerged at the entrance of the entire venue where the people outside didn't know what happened inside and continued to squeeze inward, while the people inside frantically charged outward.
"Don't move! This is the Royal Guard. From now on, stay perfectly in place and do not act rashly; otherwise, all will be regarded as criminals! Go, capture Lensis, and thoroughly search the entire Healing House once over!"
Inside the surface layer hall of the Healing House, both of Lensis's legs were already frightened soft, because he heard that signature calm voice of his eldest brother at the entrance.
Ironically enough, he clearly hated his own elder brother like that, but waiting until he personally came over to arrest him, he was still frightened until his legs went soft. A feeling of dread towards a patriarch surged into his heart in an instant.
He... What did he know? Why capture me?
Could it be the matter between me and Black? Then will he abolish my royal status and throw me into prison?
Lensis had already entirely lost the intention to resist, struggling, wanting to escape behind the windows. Yet the adjacent Katerina, even amidst a stretch of darkness, still saw clearly that the one who was thrown out just now was her subordinate modified human Kraken. It was someone who used an extremely massive force to smash him towards the magic crests outside linking the lights...
Is it Prince Dexter's men?
Katerina's complexion was unamiable. She turned her head to look at that Petrie Bank director sitting below the stage still clutching a glass of champagne motionless with a serene expression. Knowing in her heart this setup today was obviously precisely directed at Lensis. It was possible he also already knew about his relationship with Master, otherwise Dexter shouldn't go search the Healing House.
Thinking to this point, gritting her teeth, Katerina abruptly walked in front of Lensis, grabbed his collar, and shouted in a low voice.
"Your Highness the Prince, under no circumstances must you reveal any matters to Dexter. You are his younger brother, he will not do anything to you..."
"Scram, you b*tch! Everything is entirely over and done with! All because of you guys, entirely because of you guys! Acting so slowly!"
Katerina knew Lensis was precisely a piece of useless mud unable to stick to the wall. Gritting her teeth and looking at the Royal Guard waiting outside temporarily blocked by the squeezed crowd, she abruptly reached out and slapped Lensis across the face, waking him up instantly.
"You... you dare hit me! I will fight you to the death!"
"Lensis, do you ultimately want to take revenge on your elder brother or blame each other with me here! If you want to talk then talk, at worst we're all screwed together. Remember, after being arrested and brought back shut your mouth for me! Idiot!"
After finishing speaking, Katerina then grabbed Lensis and tossed him onto the ground. The fair skin on her body began to squirm layers of fleshy ripples. She was seen gently placing her finger in front of her mouth; in the next second she violently opened her mouth and bit off her own index finger.
That index finger stained with blood was pinched within her palm. Amidst the darkness, Katerina locked onto a direction and threw that finger out.
Strange to say, that finger seemingly came alive again in mid-air. The position of the fingerprint abruptly opened a small mouth. The entire finger squirmed exactly like a little bug, heading toward a certain place in the darkness.
"Don't move! Everyone don't move!"
The Royal Guard had already entered the hall. Many staff members successively raised their hands indicating surrender. But within the peripheral vision of Katerina who could see in the dark, she suddenly saw a man wearing a gentleman's hat holding the hand of a silhouette wearing a cloak behind him, charging toward the recovery rooms at the back.
No!
Those two people were completely not on the same side as Dexter! The one who threw Kraken out just now was him!
Katerina's complexion abruptly became utterly hideous. She moved her footsteps; taking advantage of the time when the Royal Guard hadn't shone the lights over yet, she likewise chased toward the direction at the back.
Actually, Fisher didn't thoroughly deal with that man exactly like Play-Doh. Because while the two of them were fighting, the wall of the restroom was abruptly crashed down by Jasmine who charged up. Concurrently, it also smashed Kraken, who continued wanting to attack, unconscious...
Of course, just being crashed into by a collapsed wall was not enough to cause fainting. Jasmine discovered he hadn't fainted yet; while saying "sorry" seemingly fully apologetically, she "gently" knocked the back of the head of that man lying on the ground. Afterwards Fisher then heard the sound of the floor and bones fracturing, and afterwards that man made no movements...
He had probably fainted; Fisher didn't know either.
"F-F-F-Fisher, a lot of human soldiers came outside. T-They couldn't be coming to catch me, right?"
"No, they came to catch another bad guy."
Jasmine pursed her lips, turning her head to cast a glance at that man lying on the ground whose status of life or death was unknown. In her heart, she also didn't know whether she herself actually counted as a good person or not...
"Jasmine, the place we are going to is precisely behind the hall. The lights are on now so it's not good to enter. I will destroy the magic for the lights in the hall; you remember to follow me closely."
"...Mhm!"
As they spoke, Fisher then felt a soft small hand gently grab his hand. Waiting when he turned his head to look over, Jasmine blushing with a small face simultaneously explained.
"If grabbing a hand, then I won't get lost running..."
"...Alright."
Fisher was somewhat not knowing whether to laugh or cry. His left hand picked up the corp... body of the man on the ground. Afterwards aiming at the magic crests emitting specks of light on the distant wall surface, observing the timing, Fisher violently threw that man out with a single toss. That man's body violently smashed onto the wall outside, smashing a small crater out of the wall surface.
In the next second, the lights extinguished responding to the sound. Jasmine tucked her tail and ears entirely tighter, because her body bore a little bit of fluorescence; it was still very conspicuous in the darkness.
"Let's go."
Fisher tightly grabbed Jasmine's hand, taking her to charge toward the rooms at the back from the adjacent staircase, running quickly exactly like ghosts, arriving at the uniformly and orderly arranged rooms very rapidly.
The rooms Anna spoke of seemed to be called [Recovery Rooms]. Fisher walked forward one or two steps. The result was turning his head to look at the first room, the doorplate above wrote,
[Recovery Room 1]
"?"
What's the meaning? Are these entirely Recovery Rooms here?
Fisher furrowed his brows, using the walking stick to strike a light and heading forward. Looking sequentially, the numbers of the Recovery Rooms went sequentially from one to ten-something. There wasn't a single duplicate, nor was there a room simply called Recovery Room.
Truly, right now Fisher had a feeling of wanting to kill Anna. Didn't she know giving fake intelligence at a critical time can cause deaths?
It was possible she was deceived, it was also possible she turned coat. Considering these wasn't important right now, because Fisher confirmed there was absolutely a hidden facility underneath the ground of the Healing House. Now even if he had to blast it with magic, he must blast open the passageway.
Fisher walked as he went, still confirming where exactly the true entrance was. The soldiers outside had already entered the hall. Amidst a stretch of clamorous noise, his thoughts conversely grew increasingly calm. Illuminated by his light, he abruptly discovered a strange phenomenon.
The language of Naris was a vocabulary language, this point had already been mentioned previously. And calming down abruptly right now, Fisher suddenly discovered the second and third letters of the vocabulary word [Recovery] on the doorplates were written inversely.
For a person already accustomed to reading, swapping the letters within a vocabulary word, you can still recognize it just as before. Moreover, for a time you even completely won't clearly distinguish whether this vocabulary word is written wrongly.
"Fisher, look, is this vocabulary word written wrongly..."
"Indeed, we need to find the one not written wrongly. That one is precisely the true Recovery Room."
Just as Fisher's train of thought had just emerged, Jasmine had already pointed at the doorplate of another door speaking as such.
He hurriedly held the walking stick pointing forward. It turned out the vocabulary word "recovery" on all the rooms here were entirely written wrongly. His pupils slightly lit up, and afterwards he charged forward. He and Jasmine investigated one side each. Finally, precisely when approaching the end, a perfectly accurate Naris vocabulary word entered Fisher's line of sight.
It's exactly this room!
Fisher extended a hand and grabbed the door handle, yet abruptly discovered the door leaf was locked. He had just prepared to forcibly violently break the door, but Jasmine had already reached out a hand and touched the door leaf. In that instant, exactly like receiving extreme pressure, the door leaf warped. Even the door frame shattered a bit, falling toward the back of the room.
"It's open!"
Fisher had no choice but to smile and retract his hand, alternatively rubbing her head. After she awakened during training, Fisher was now increasingly doubting whether she would have smashed his head broken with one strike when she was knocking him unconscious to bring him back to the sea. Looking at it now, this was highly possible, wasn't it?
Inside the recovery room was extremely plain and simple. A completely square small white bed sat in the corner. Beside it was also a study desk. There was nothing on the study desk, merely a simple and ordinary vase in the shape of wave.
Fisher opened the curtains of this not too large room. In the hazy night scenery outside, he could only see that golden light exactly like an aurora completely shrouding the Healing House, while the Klein River contined to flow just as before.
It seemed here by the windowsill was not the entrance to the inner layer.
Fisher looked at that vase on the tabletop. He gently touched the vase a bit, yet suddenly discovered that vase could be twisted. He gently reached his hand over, yet a soft hand abruptly covered the back of his hand.
And at this exact moment, Jasmine was still holding his other hand. Which also meant, this wasn't Jasmine...
Fisher turned his head to look toward the doorway, yet discovered the manager of the Healing House, Katerina, was standing at the doorway, only right now she conversely didn't possess that beautiful appearance from just now.
It was only seen that her entire person's body seemingly had expanded quite a bit. That slender right hand could be said to have become excessively slender. Exactly like an extended toad's tongue, it abruptly pierced through the entire room and landed on Fisher's hand, stopping his motion of wanting to open the inner layer.
"Let go of Fisher!"
Jasmine drew a deep breath and abruptly swung her hand toward that arm. But Katerina's arm seemed exactly to be composed of countless insects. This strike directly smashed that hand until it burst open. Countless, innumerable cockroach-like insects possessing human skin violently spread their wings and instantly appeared.
And looking carefully, those cockroach-like insects surprisingly even possessed a huge human eye on their backs!
Merely glancing over exactly once, the several elements of cockroaches, human eyes, and human skin seemed superimposed excessively harmoniously, reaching a sickening degree where one plus one plus one was far greater than three. Looking at it, Jasmine was entirely about to vomit.
"Son... Son of the Sea! It's the Son of the Sea, the Son of the Sea is at your place!"
Taking advantage of this timing, Fisher violently waved his hand and flung out a playing card. That playing card smashed viciously into Katerina's physical body exactly like a blade, making her fly backward and collapse beside the corridor before her words were even finished. And concurrently, that playing card also began to slowly light up with white radiance. A [Gravity] circle head symbol appeared in mid-air.
Six-ring gravity magic, [Repulsion].
The effect of this magic was just as simple as its name. Approximately it was merely releasing an opposite force oriented at a certain direction. Originally when designing this magic, the magician wanted it to be a driving magic providing forward propulsion for carriages or trains. The result was this opposite force being unexpectedly huge.
It was said during the initial experiment, it rushed that carriage used for the experiment completely apart, and moreover smashed not a few people wounded. One could see how exaggerated the opposite force released by this magic was.
Most critically, modifying the sub ring still couldn't change the size of the force. This caused the highly anticipated [Repulsion] magic to abruptly become a laughingstock. That magician who designed it also very quickly vanished from people's field of vision...
Yet Fisher surprisingly discovered that although the changes caused to this magic by modifying the sub ring were very small, once the ring tail was modified, the alterations were exaggeratedly huge.
Fisher slightly modified its application target, causing this magic to release extremely strong repulsive force from all directions, as long as it could smash into the interior of the object...
"Boom!"
Exactly like right now; in the next second, Katerina's entire person was seen to instantly expand. She was abruptly blasted open by this magic, blasted until only fragments remained. But Fisher's expression didn't relax the slightest bit.
For no other reason, exactly like battling with that Kraken just now, not a single drop of blood flowed out from Katerina's body. Replacing the flow of liquid was that dense vibrating sound exactly like ten thousand flies flying beside your ear.
"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz..."
Those dense buzzing sounds gradually overlapped. In the darkness, Fisher saw Katerina's blasted apart chunks of meat instantly turn into the "human skin human eye cockroach" appearance seen just now. Only this time, a pair of transparent wings surprisingly also grew on the body of that thing.
Jasmine's trypophobia was entirely about to act up. With a pale complexion, she covered her own mouth. Right now was absolutely exactly the first time she didn't want to eat anything apart from sleeping since coming ashore for such a long time!
Those buzzing sounds grew increasingly dense, slowly piecing together into a shrill female voice. That female voice carried madness and furious rage, shouting loudly at Fisher and Jasmine within the room.
"Son of the Sea! Leave the Son of the Sea behind!"
Fisher's complexion didn't change, because within the room, accompanying him twisting the mechanism just now, a small secret door abruptly appeared on the wall beside the bed. Promptly and decisively, dragging Jasmine beside him, he instantly fell into the adjacent secret door.
Behind the secret door was a staircase. Fisher and Jasmine fell sideways, whereby inevitably bumping onto the stairs. But Fisher死死 protected Jasmine within his embrace. Incidentally, he also drew the fluid sword from his embrace, pulling the opened secret door to close anew.
The secret door closed. Fisher also abruptly fell down onto the level ground. Yet "buzzing" sounds and violent crashing sounds continuously transmitted from outside. Fisher's gaze凝 focus; he extracted another playing card throwing it toward the entrance of the secret door.
Six-ring magic, [Earth Flow Coagulation].
This magic could create a puddle of flowing soil out of thin air, and subsequently make them solidify instantly. This magic was invented during wartime, because at that time the artillery fire of Schwari was too fierce, ordinary magic fundamentally had no way to rapidly construct trenches. Helson, the Grand Mage serving at that time, learned of the battle situation on the frontlines, and researched this earth magic called the [Schwari Nemesis] overnight.
This magic could not only construct trenches but could also be used waiting exactly when Schwari soldiers sprinted to conduct hand-to-hand combat, making both their legs solidify embarrassingly remaining in place to become living targets for Naris people.
It could be said researching an originally creative and practical magic in two days, this was exactly the true worth of Grand Mage Helson specially approved by the royal family.
Fisher was using a great talent for a small task a bit, but the effect was still considered good. That secret door was abruptly sealed tight entirely solidly by the solid mixture of stone and earth. No matter how the crazed Katerina crashed into it, she still couldn't crash it open.
"No! Son of the Sea!"
It was completely unknown what kind of obsession they ultimately possessed toward the Son of the Sea that could make him plunge into such madness.
Fisher rubbed his own glabella, yet Jasmine within his own embrace unexpectedly patted Fisher's chest. Waiting when he looked over, he only then discovered Jasmine pointing in front.
He first gestured for Jasmine to get up, and subsequently turned his head to look over, yet discovered the radiance of twisting magic crests one after another on the ground constantly continued toward the depths. Accompanying the little bit of spreading of that magic's radiance, the radiance lit up bit by bit, thoroughly illuminating this completely underground space of the Healing House.
It turned out this was exactly an extremely spacious tunnel-like space. Inside, various kinds of experimental apparatus, material racks and so on items were placed uncrowdedly. But as Fisher swept a glance over, he didn't see any entirely living, direct evidentiary materials. He didn't know whether the people of the Healing House had already destroyed them ahead of time...
"Fisher, quickly look..."
Looking along Jasmine's finger, Fisher only then discovered the right side of this exactly tunnel-like secret room was entirely transparent. It was a matter composed by a certain kind of tough crystal. Outside, the pitch-black flowing Klein River water could be seen, indicating this secret room was exactly oriented toward the direction of the Klein River beneath the surface.
Fisher furrowed his brows, walking toward the front of those material racks covered in wave symbols. Because exactly at the uppermost part of that rack, there was a black-and-white photograph enclosed by a wooden picture frame.
He gently took that photograph down. Above was exactly a solo photo of a beautiful lady. That woman was standing alone in front of an expanse of verdant mountain. Beneath her feet were footprints stepped out by her. Looking carefully, originally there was also a pair of footprints beside her feet, merely that those footprints extended to the perspective of the person looking at the photograph, signifying the person originally standing beside her was exactly the person who took this photograph.
What truly made Fisher care was that on both sides of the face of the woman in the photograph was surprisingly a pair of slender Whale-kin long ears. Behind her, a gigantic tail similar to yet different from Jasmine's generously unfurled exactly from the back of the white long dress she was wearing...
This woman, just like Jasmine, was an exactly Whale-kin coming from the ocean!
"It's Aunt Muxi! Fisher, it's Aunt Muxi!"
The adjacent Jasmine likewise saw the photograph in Fisher's hand, therefore quite agitatedly pointing at that beautiful woman on top and speaking as such to Fisher.
And Fisher's gaze changed slightly, placing his line of sight anew on the beautiful woman on the photograph harboring a brilliant smile, extending her hand acting a pretty pose toward the person taking the photo.
That was Jasmine's aunt, Muxi.