novelraw Chapter 192: The Founder of the Healing House
Chapter 192: The Founder of the Healing House
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!"
Right at the critical moment when Jasmine hugged her head and crouched in defense, a flash of yellow lightning akin to a thunderbolt suddenly darted out from the position of Serpent's Head Street's entrance. The speed of that lightning was rapid, its path of advancement shaped exactly like a twisted tree branch.
That lightning was extremely bright, carrying a destructive power that instantly pierced through the body of that giant monster.
"Awoo!"
That monster didn't let out a cry of pain, because following its wide-open gaping mouth, that lightning had already passed through its body and, along with gravity, swiftly split it in two.
The flesh and blood inside its body, along with the filthy, scalding acid, were simultaneously ignited by that extremely high temperature. The foul stench burned through by the high heat smelled like a rotten egg dancing with flames, making people extremely nauseous.
The body of the human-headed shark was split into two in mid-air, while the body of Jasmine, who was crouching on the ground hugging her head, trembled slightly. She probably thought she had already been swallowed into the monster's belly.
Earlier when Fisher was by her side, she felt boundless courage welling up in her heart. But now that the heavily injured Fisher had been sent into the tavern, her back felt completely empty, and that fear towards monsters surged up once again.
"Eh? I... I haven't been eaten yet?"
But after waiting for several seconds, that terrifying sensation of being swallowed did not arrive. Only then did Jasmine carefully lift her small face, which was buried in her cheeks, a little bit and look around.She saw that on the not-so-wide Serpent's Head Street, the corpse of the giant fish that had been cut in two by lightning in mid-air was still emitting a scorched and foul smell. Old Jack behind her was also safe and sound, only painfully clutching his waist, slightly panting as he looked at the road ahead.
Ahead, countless human-bugs were roaring furiously, but not towards Jasmine. They were all roaring towards the entrance of Serpent's Head Street. There, soldiers wearing golden uniforms of the Royal Imperial Guards appeared so conspicuous in the darkness of Serpent's Head Street.
The leading soldier was holding up a parchment scroll emitting a scorched aura with both hands. The magic crest on it had completely lost its luster. Originally, there should have been a six-ring lightning magic there; the magic that saved Jasmine just now was released by him.
"Lock down this place and kill all those monsters."
"Yes!"
Hundreds of human-bugs roared and attacked the Imperial Guards behind them like a tide. The frontmost line of soldiers half-crouched on the spot and set up their firearms. And behind that group of soldiers, several tall knights fully clad in heavy armor, carrying giant swords on their shoulders, slowly walked towards the front line.
"Blessing One: Immune to the infringement of poisons and curses..."
"Blessing Two: Immune..."
"Enough! Stop chanting those bird blessing words, you're just wasting magic crests. We'll be right back!"
With a grand wave of their large hands, those knights carrying giant swords interrupted the words of the royal magician holding the magic crest book behind them. They raised their heavy swords with both hands, waiting for the attack of the ranks ahead.
"Fire!"
"Drink ah!"
After a volley of fired shots, the frontmost line of human-bugs directly fell over against the wind. The human-bugs behind continued to charge, only to be cut down by the knights who rushed out of the formation with their giant swords. The golden crest bearing the name of Godlin spun; within every sword strike and every attack was mixed a tremendously heavy force.
Those few knights acted like a meat grinder, blocking the innumerable human-bugs swarming forward. Or rather, they weren't just blocking, but also continuously thrusting forward.
In an instant, countless pieces of flesh and blood flew everywhere crosswise. Physical attacks and acid attacks were exactly like scratching an itch for these knights; absolutely no hair of damage was caused.
On the contrary, every swing of the giant sword brought a golden wound deep into the body. After a single strike went down, basically the only option left for the human-bugs was returning to the west (death) on the spot... although it was unknown whether their current condition could still be considered alive.
After a bout of fierce combat, the battle situation yielded a result with a one-sided trend.
The first column of the Royal Imperial Guards was the first to rush to the end of the Klein River. The battle lasted seven minutes. By the time the last knight pulled his blade out from the corpse of a human-bug, there was only that foul-smelling cold wind blowing across the street entrance. Looking closely again, not a single human-bug was still standing on the spot anymore.
"Quick! Follow me, do you really think our gang is easy to mess with?"
Right at this moment, countless gang members in the distance holding torches, firearms, and machetes yelled and ran wildly, heading towards the street entrance.
The leading gang boss saw from afar that group of golden knights wiping their giant swords amidst the gradually dissipating corpses of the human-bugs. Straightaway his two legs went soft. Fortunately, the younger brother behind him was very observant and reached out to support him.
"Boss?"
"Cough cough, what are you spacing out for, turn around and go home to sleep!"
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Even if the gang was incredibly resourceful and well-connected, they were still able to distinguish clearly who in Saint-Nazareth absolutely could not be provoked. Since the Imperial Guards had come to "protect" Serpent's Head Street, these honest, good citizens of Saint-Nazareth naturally lined the streets to welcome them.
"Your Highness, everything has been completely cleaned up, but no traces were left."
Those several leading knights all lined up and stood at attention. Outside Serpent's Head Street, countless footsteps came along the stone bricks of Serpent's Head Street. An eager set of footsteps was the first to walk into this dirty and chaotic street. Countless pungent smells surged up, but the footsteps of Elizabeth, wearing a white dress, did not pause in the slightest, walking straight towards the direction of Jasmine and Old Jack.
Old Jack's expression changed slightly. He hurriedly tossed the double-barreled shotgun in his hands far away, lowered his head, and respectfully saluted the lady who was akin to gold,
"Honorable Your Highness Elizabeth..."
"...Your, Your Highness!"
Old Jack lowered his head, completely not daring to look directly into Elizabeth's golden eyes at this moment. Her completely unfluctuating golden eyes glanced at Jasmine, who had also spoken, paying no mind to the whale tail behind her back, only asking,
"Where is Fisher?"
Jasmine pursed her lips and hurriedly stood up, pointing to the tavern beside the street. Behind Elizabeth, two imperial guard knights lifting giant swords like door gods brought a full sense of oppression, staring straight at Old Jack and Jasmine before them to prevent them from making any other moves.
Elizabeth walked towards the tavern beside them without any pause. Old Jack suddenly thought of something. Cold sweat had already broken out on his back. Putting everything aside, he followed Elizabeth ahead, preparing to walk into the tavern. But those two knights blocked the path before him and Jasmine, not allowing them to take a single step forward.
"Let them in."
"Yes!"
Elizabeth's voice came from within the tavern, and the two knights also obeyed the command, clearing the way for Old Jack and Jasmine, allowing them to enter the tavern.
The lights were still on in the tavern, but the stools inside the tavern had all been turned upside down on the tables. On the sole table that hadn't been covered by chairs, the heavily scarred Fisher lay there with his eyes closed. Beside him, there were also three chirping, petite squirrel-person girls.
"Fisher hasn't woken up yet..."
"He suffered very serious injuries..."
"Grandpa is here!"
Old Jack behind them had a slight change in expression, not daring to make a sound. He had no choice but to frantically wave his hand at Karma, Diandian, and the others, signaling for them to quickly come to his side.
The several squirrel girls were very observant and knew the atmosphere right now wasn't quite right. Thus, they hurriedly fell silent, jumped down from the table, climbed onto Old Jack's body, and hid behind his back, quietly looking at that Elizabeth who had walked to the front of the table without regard for them.
They felt that the feeling that lady gave off right now was very frightening, so those who were usually quite chatty didn't dare to speak anymore.
Fortunately, she had no other actions, only quietly looking at the man lying on the table.
The knights and soldiers did not enter, quietly standing straight with swords in hand at the doorway, observing the surroundings.
Elizabeth walked to Fisher's side and looked at the wounds all over his body. Just as she was about to summon a magician with healing magic from her army, the next moment, Jasmine had already walked to her side, carefully reaching out her hand and saying,
"Your Highness, let me do it. I can heal Fisher..."
Elizabeth glanced at Jasmine, not knowing what she was thinking. But she merely thought for a second before she took a step back and cleared some space. Without a word, she looked at Jasmine, gesturing for her to act.
Jasmine gently extended her finger toward Fisher. The blue water currents in her eyes circulated once again, and the injuries on Fisher's body also recovered bit by bit. That bizarre sight akin to regenerating flesh and blood made everyone look sideways. Only Elizabeth remained motionless, merely looking at the sleeping face of the unconscious Fisher.
"Done..."
Jasmine panted slightly. In the next second, Fisher on the table suddenly regained consciousness and sat up. He somewhat frantically touched the items on his body; his wallet, poker cards, and fluid sword were all still there, and the Completion Handbook would absolutely never leave him either...
But his own walking stick was gone!
During the escape earlier, he couldn't care about anything, and had lost consciousness midway, let alone still gripping his walking stick tightly...
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"Fisher, are you alright?"
"Fisher..."
Fisher turned his head to look at Elizabeth and Jasmine beside him. For some reason, the two of them appearing before his eyes at the same time made Fisher always feel a very dangerous sensation, as if in the next second he was going to experience the life-and-death escape from just now once again.
"...I am fine."
"That's great... it's truly great that you're fine."
After seeing that Fisher was safe and sound, Elizabeth finally breathed a sigh of relief, muttering several words of thanks to the Mother Goddess in a low voice akin to a prayer.
Hearing this, Fisher's gaze moved slightly, but ultimately he did not say anything, only looking at the Imperial Guards standing outside the street. The memories in his brain that had been disconnected due to fainting earlier finally reconnected at this moment.
Suddenly thinking of something, Fisher hurriedly looked at Elizabeth and explained the situation inside the Healing House from before,
"I found evidence of the crimes Black committed in the Healing House, but not only were his subordinates there, he even arrived in time to destroy the evidence. Facing him, I was a bit caught off guard..."
The moment he thought of that Black who could fight one against two and still not lose ground, Fisher felt a bit of a headache. Whether to say it or not, once they possessed the Completion Handbook, these people were exactly as if they had cheated.
Let's not even talk about Pherone's soul technology that surpassed the era by an unknown number of years. He fired off all the high-ring magics he had accumulated over these years and still didn't win, ultimately only defeating him by exploiting an opportunity and using the Dragon-Man's flames while he wasn't paying attention.
Black was even more of a heavy-hitter. Even if he was heavily injured at the time, Fisher and Jasmine joining forces actually didn't cause him any damage at all. Especially the fluid sword which actually didn't cause him a hair of damage. He was already over a hundred years old; having the Completion Handbook was as absurd as regaining youthful vigor...
After hearing Fisher's words, Elizabeth furrowed her brows. She turned her head to look out the window at the human-bug corpses that had almost completely dissipated, and spoke softly,
"There's no need to care about evidence. As long as we know it's Black, even without evidence I'll..."
But before she could finish her words, Fisher somewhat not knowing whether to laugh or cry interrupted Elizabeth's following words.
The current Elizabeth was clearly in a fit of pique and had already begun wanting to act against Black regardless of the consequences. But rationality told Fisher he could not let Elizabeth do this.
"If Black was anyone else, it would be fine, but he just has to be a director of the Nazarene Development Company. Before having conclusive evidence, acting against him will release bad signals to the Nazarene Development Company. They hold monopoly positions in many industries in Naris, your actions could easily be misunderstood as the royal family wanting to swing the blade at them."
"Once open opposition occurs between the Royal Family and the Nazarene Development Company, it will be quite a major upheaval for the entire nation. Even if I don't stop you, your elder brother Dexter would do the same."
Elizabeth's lips trembled slightly. Her fingers tightly clenched into fists where Fisher couldn't see, but after hesitating for several seconds, she ultimately still relaxed her fingers, turning to sigh and say,
"But if we fail even this time, next time we want to act against Black it will clearly become even more difficult, he will have taken precautions..."
"There is evidence!"
Just as Elizabeth and Fisher were conversing, Jasmine beside them suddenly raised her hand, continuing Elizabeth's words.
Fisher and Elizabeth simultaneously turned their heads to look at Jasmine, only their expressions were different. Fisher was exceptionally surprised, Elizabeth's expression was somewhat difficult to describe in words, but on the whole could still be considered calm,
"You have evidence?"
Facing Fisher's words, Jasmine reached her hand back and in one swift motion pulled out a book from her dress behind her back. Earlier, Fisher hadn't even noticed she had hidden that book there at all.
Looking closely, this was exactly one of the stacks of evidence Fisher had taken earlier.
This time even Fisher was shocked. He hurriedly reached out and took the book from Jasmine's hands. The two vocabulary words "Experimental Report" on it made Fisher's heartbeat quicken slightly.
"At that time Fisher told me not to pick up the evidence, but actually I had already picked one book back up, hehe..."
"Beautifully done, Jasmine!"
He subconsciously reached out to pat Jasmine's small head, but only after finishing the motion and withdrawing his hand did Fisher then see Elizabeth beside him still sitting in her original spot.
Her expression was calm, but the corners of her mouth had already raised a slightly dangerous arc, exactly like an omen of impending explosive anger.
Fisher hurriedly withdrew his hand, turning his head to say to Elizabeth,
"If we have this evidence, even if the Nazarene Development Company is unhappy, they will have to endure it..."
"...Mhm, what is recorded inside?"
Fisher gently opened the experimental record in his hands. It was very similar to the previous recording methods, but this book seemed to be a very early experimental record. Fisher glanced at the time, it was roughly from three and a half years ago...
Just seeing this point in time, Fisher had a very bad premonition, but he still continued reading from the first page.
This was a record written down by a researcher employed in the laboratory of the Healing House. The general content was to record the process, results, and reflections of every experiment, but it didn't clearly state what exactly the purpose of the experiments they were doing was.
"March 8th. Today I conducted experiments on two magical herbs per requirements to prove their effects, but the specific experimental results were very unsatisfactory. According to the original theoretical calculations, the utility exerted by this herb should be able to last at least three weeks, but in the experiment it only barely lasted for three hours. Hmm, failure."
"March 9th. Changed to other materials, prepared to repeat the previous experiment. But the properties of these materials completely do not match the previous herbs; need to re-design a new experimental flowchart. Hmm, still a failure."
Records like this day after day, the content was entirely normal herb utility experiments, entirely different from the experimental style Fisher saw later...
Fisher had previously understood a little about the Healing House. It seemed it had been established exactly three years ago. The banner it carried at the very beginning was to recruit magic or biological therapists from the Royal Academy and society to conduct experiments. That is to say, at the very beginning it did not provide beauty services to the public of Naris; it began providing beauty services in these past two years.
After turning past several pages in a row, they were all repetitive like this, information without any results.
These repetitive paragraphs of records, paragraphs of records that ultimately ended in failure, not only made Fisher, who was flipping through the record now, somewhat irritable, but even more so for the researcher who truly conducted the experiments back then.
Failures day after day, repetitions day after day. In the end, this researcher had already begun to doubt whether this research actually held any meaning or not, whether he was currently wasting his own time.
"October 6th. Experiment failed. By today, I am already tired of organizing herbal materials here every day. The laboratory that was initially full of researcher peers is only left with me and House Master Muxi. To speak the truth, I really admire her, being a woman yet able to found the Healing House, an academic research venue purposed for research. This is something many other people are unable to do... what I mean is, I have never doubted the quality of this great lady..."
"But even so, this experiment will ultimately not obtain any answers! It is destined to be a journey without an end point. Not only will we not see hope in our generation, our next generation, the next generation's next generation, or even hundreds and thousands of years later, there will not be a tiny bit of progress."
"All of us know the reasoning of 'one generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade', otherwise we wouldn't have entered here to invest in this research. But to speak the truth, humans are all selfish. I just got married previously and have a wife. I need more time and energy to accompany my family. Although there is a lot of money to be taken here, the daily work here only makes me feel like I am a tireless machine printing banknotes..."
"I am somewhat tired. After recording this experiment, I will officially tender my resignation to Lady Muxi. Let's end it here, the experiment is over."
Seeing up to this point, although there was no evidence that could truly prove Black's monstrous crimes, in this earliest experimental record book, Fisher had obtained a heaven-shaking secret.
The founder of the Healing House was not Black, but rather Jasmine's aunt, Muxi!
He subconsciously furrowed his brows, and strings of thoughts surfaced once more. When Elizabeth wanted to lean closer, Fisher suddenly snapped shut this experimental record book, not allowing Elizabeth and Jasmine to see this final paragraph of record.
"What's wrong? Fisher, is there evidence on it?"
"No..."
Fisher blanked out for a second, then shook his head, saying to Elizabeth,
"The records on it are from three and a half years ago. At that time, the Healing House had not yet conducted human experiments, and at that time Black had not yet intervened..."
Speaking to this point, Fisher's thoughts suddenly connected and instantly opened up. But he did not reveal it out loud, only pausing his words here. The thoughts in his heart, however, continuously extended, until they reached the other shore.
Elizabeth opened her mouth. Just as she was preparing to say something, a soldier outside the tavern shouted a command.
"Report, General Baloha is calling."
Elizabeth's gaze moved slightly. As if understanding, she raised her hand, gesturing for him to go out.
"I understand, you may go out."
"Yes!"
Fisher had heard of General Baloha's great name. After Elizabeth had pacified the friction with Schwari, in order to guard the tranquility of the border, Elizabeth hand-picked this middle-aged veteran general to become the commander-in-chief there, and submitted a memorial to the Golden Palace requesting the position of general for him.
Fisher guessed that Baloha must absolutely be Elizabeth's trusted subordinate, otherwise she would not hand such a heavy responsibility to him.
He didn't know what that general was calling Elizabeth for right now. Perhaps something happened at the border. But Fisher also had no intention of knowing.
"That is to say, the clues are broken now?"
"No, they aren't broken yet... I've obtained a clue to the treasure vault where Black keeps his treasures. He likes to leave all his treasures and experimental tools there. As long as we enter it, it won't be hard to find evidence..."
Elizabeth's expression changed slightly. Looking at Fisher, she hurriedly pressed with a question,
"Then where is the location of that treasure vault?"
After hearing this, Fisher smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying,
"I've only just escaped from the jaws of death with my life, and have only just woken up now. Where is the time to crack that riddle..."
But as he spoke and spoke, that riddle was recalled in his brain once again, reading it word by word,
"A king once shed tears here. The tears gathered into a pool without cease day and night, symbolizing his yearning..."
"Knowledge bears the hidden history, fabricating the severed history..."
"Ah, my everything, where are you? At the most dangerous yet safest place!"
Then, where exactly was the location of Black's treasure vault?