The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 458: Small Fries

At the exact same time, outside the space rift, Gou Wen, who was staying together with Marquis Bai, was looking at the space rift ahead with a face showing Nothing Left to Live For. His left hand was being tightly pinched by the Marquis Bai beside him, continuously rubbing and frictioning his hand slowly like a female pervert, as if trying to extract the so-called "Little Wen Energy" through this method.

When Marquis Bai began to uncontrollably want to put Gou Wen's fingers to her mouth, seeing that she was about to shove them into her mouth to taste, Gou Wen finally couldn't bear it anymore. With a dark face, he abruptly jerked his palm out of the other party's hand, loudly reminding,

"Marquis Bai, please conduct yourself with dignity. I am already a married man, it is inappropriate to do this!"

"Aiya ya, is that whatever Xuan Can really that good? To the extent of making you long for her so much, constantly muttering about her even while outside. Speaking of which, why did Little Wen suddenly return to the seabed previously, making me wait for you for these extra few days..."

Gou Wen froze slightly, subsequently sighing and looking at that golden short sword in his hand, opening his mouth to say,

"Just a bit of family matters..."

"Sigh, let me guess... hm, related to your wife again?"

Gou Wen pursed his lips, seeming somewhat unwilling to say more, merely feeling somewhat irritated in his heart, not knowing when Fisher and the others would be finished.

Exactly at the same time, the tip of his nose twitched slightly, as if smelling a rich floral scent.

He raised his head in confusion, only to see pieces of Peach Blossom rain falling from above the sky. But very quickly he discovered that not only above the sky, but everything around, buildings, pedestrians, and the Marquis Bai before his eyes all began to slowly dissipate into pieces of fine Peach Blossoms."Marquis Bai?"

He murmured and opened his mouth. The Marquis Bai before his eyes just wanted to say something, but in the next second abruptly turned into a cluster of Peach Blossoms and exploded. Following closely, everything here began to dissipate into Peach Blossoms, pouncing over like a pink ocean.

"No, what happened? They finished over there?"

Gou Wen rubbed his head and stood up, still not understanding what exactly happened. But very quickly, two figures rapidly flew over from below. One was the winged Phoenix Race, Nekelia, and the other was... uh, Helaire riding on her back?

Nekelia clutched her Longspear with a Face Covered in Black Lines. Even someone usually as icy as her truly got a headache from being messed with within this one day of interacting with Helaire. As expected, without other targets to tease, the target of pranks became herself.

"So, since you're afraid of being exposed, why didn't you let me carry you up?"

"Because riding a Phoenix is very flashy and handsome huh..."

Sitting on Nekelia's back, Helaire spurred the Nekelia beneath her with full handsomeness, shouting with a smiling face,

"Charge, Nekelia, let's go rendezvous with Fisher and the others... oh, Gou Wen, you're here too, I just noticed. Let's go, enter the rift together with us."

Gou Wen looked at the two people before his eyes, smiled helplessly, and then also turned his head to look at that open space rift behind them.

Within the rift, inside the Elf King's bedchamber completely filled with falling Peach Blossoms, Fisher scanned this incredibly empty grand hall. Since he entered the grand hall, the death Following Like A Shadow on his body also seemed to become active along with it, making the mark left by Renee on Fisher's chest also heat up slightly.

He clearly knew the Elf King before his eyes was exactly a person pursued by death, just like himself.

"In other words, Lord Tao's plan from the very beginning was to let us enter the Jianmu Palace in Reality following her barrier?"

Hearing Fisher's analysis, Mikhail behind him also roughly understood their current predicament. Along with such thoughts, a layer of fine cold sweat also popped out bit by bit on his forehead. Because having been Together From Morning To Night with Michael, he knew deeply that being targeted by a Nineteenth-Tier existence was an extremely terrifying matter, let alone this Nineteenth-Tier existence wanting to kill him.

Fisher took a deep breath and walked towards the Elf King's bedside. He used the Fluid Sword to lift the gauze tent in front of the bed, revealing the emaciated figure on the bed.

Just like himself back then, at this moment the Elf King's rank was reduced by death to the lowest value of the Elf-kin rank, which was exactly the appearance of just stepping into the Mythic Rank.

But this was also only the theoretical rank value. A person tormented by death long-term would become extremely fragile; that feeling of heart palpitations and despair from being pursued by death was even more unbearable.

At this moment, the Elf King appearing before Fisher's eyes was withered like a piece of wood completely covered in wrinkles. The originally jet-black long hair of the Elves had become pale and sparse. His eyes cowered, as if leaving two deep holes on his face.

He wore a pale, thin, long robe, his withered hands still holding the fruit grown from the tree of flesh and blood outside. It was visible that the current Elf King relied entirely on this fruit to sustain his life. Without the Loom of Fate, it was very difficult for him to survive in front of the Death Rule. But relying on these fruits, he could entirely eke out a living like Fisher previously relying on Erwind's potion to extend his life, and could even live longer.

But Lord Tao couldn't wait anymore.

Fisher looked at the emaciated, living-corpse-like Elf King Bing on the bed, remaining silent for a moment before saying,

"...Because no one wants to bear the fault of assassinating Bing, even Lord Tao doesn't want to. Therefore she needs us; adding some crimes onto the Transferred Persons who just stole the Loom of Fate on their front foot naturally also doesn't hurt."

Mikhail's heartbeat also increasingly sped up. He looked at the continuously falling Peach Blossom petals outside Jianmu Palace, gritted his teeth, and walked to Fisher's side in two steps out of three, pressing down on his shoulder, saying in a deep voice,

"Now is not the time to consider these things, how should we get away? Relying on Helaire alone cannot stop Lord Tao, she cannot even last one move in front of Lord Tao. If Lord Tao's position among the Elf-kin is so high, then she and Michael definitely also..."

"Michael... so that's how it is, so you guys are people from Sanctuary ah... Sanctuary also like Bing, doesn't have a bit of guard against Transferred Persons, even able to treat them as tools. As a result once slipping up it causes such a huge disaster."

But before Mikhail's words finished, within the grand hall, a female voice completely filled with charm abruptly sounded. However, the instant they heard that voice, the fine hairs of everyone present immediately stood on end, as if perceiving some indescribable oppressive feeling.

Mikhail and Asuka Karasawa turned their heads Unbelievable looking down, only to see within That slightly open Supreme Gate, a beautiful, mature, black-haired, long-eared Elf was exactly standing upright amidst that slowly falling rain of Peach Blossoms. Although her age suddenly didn't match, looking at those familiar facial features on the other party, the exactly identical flying immortal bun, and the pink ruqun and embroidered shoes that were several sizes larger, the identity of this terrifying Elf before their eyes was not hard to guess.

One of the Three Children, Tao.

"But you small fry human are really smart oh, I still thought you wouldn't be able to distinguish between the past and Reality, I didn't expect you to sober up so quickly."

The one she was looking at was Fisher, but within those pink eyes there wasn't much emotion, only terrifying indifference remained.

Following the stepping of her embroidered shoes, the blue bricks on the ground also bit by bit bloomed root upon root of fresh branches, subsequently very quickly growing one after another tender pink Peach Blossoms.

Amidst that spectacular Fallen Petals in Profusion, she stepped onto the stairs leading to the Elf King Bing's bedchamber like a mortal. As she walked, she looked at the surroundings and said,

"Mother hoped all children would get along harmoniously, just like what the Chief God Lord Ramastia hopes for, and also just like what all mothers in the world deeply loving their children think. She gave the past and future separately to me and Gui, while Bing had nothing, yet always bore the heavy responsibility of establishing the Elves' Order, 'Li'. I understand Bing's difficulties, and also understand mother's partiality towards him. My Previous Incarnation and I always honestly and duty-bound acted as a 'Grand Duke', willingly sheltering him from wind and rain without complaints or regrets.

"I guarded for twenty thousand years. If Bing peacefully and steadily Reincarnated and handed over, then even if forging a new Li, he would still be noble and make people look up to him. Yet I didn't expect, he was actually greedy to the extent of not even wanting to accept this consequence. He was afraid of the alteration of the old Li, even hesitating at nothing to do such shady business, privately keeping Transferred Persons, poisoning living beings, and even mother also gave the most precious Loom of Fate to him to help him escape death..."

But evidently no one in the grand hall wanted to listen to those words she said, because accompanying Lord Tao's bit by bit approach, that fatal and fear-inducing rank pressure also bit by bit arrived before them. Asuka Karasawa's legs went soft and she almost fell to the ground, only able to barely support herself on the ground, yet her legs still continuously trembled.

The Prosthetic Body of Mikhail's right hand raised bit by bit, wanting to fight for his life with death, yet discovered that mechanical arm also started trembling continuously, unable to stabilize like shaking a sieve.

"...I shouldn't have come down... better to have stayed by Michael's side..."

He forced a smile, suddenly popping out a complaint out of character for him, because placing before them at this very moment was indeed a certain death situation.

Even including Helaire, Nekelia, and Gou Wen outside, counting optimally they only possessed one Mythical Species plus three Fourteenth-Tiers and two ordinary humans. This kind of configuration, Lord Tao could fight a hundred with one finger; it basically wasn't enough for her to look at.

And Fisher also tightly pinched the Fluid Sword in his hand, his brain rapidly spinning up.

Could it be, there truly isn't a gleam of survival?

No, there is.

Fisher suddenly thought of something, looking through the wall towards the direction behind this empty grand hall; there was the illusory World Tree, and the broad Ocean.

"Tao..."

Right at this moment, what everyone didn't expect was that the Elf King Bing behind Fisher and the others unexpectedly abruptly mumbled and opened his mouth.

Lord Tao's pace halted slightly, her brows wrinkling a bit. Looking at that Elf King struggling to pant while getting up, she undisguisedly expressed disgust,

"You truly deserve death, Bing."

"Cough..."

Bing coughed a few times, mumbling unable to speak until after he painstakingly shoved a fruit held in his right hand into his mouth whole. Only then did his eyes become a bit brighter, at least not like two hollows,

"I was negligent... letting that Transferred Person... but I didn't do wrong... once Li collapses, our clan will definitely infight... Mother, didn't wish for us to do this..."

"...With me here, would they dare? Or to say, you never trusted me at all, believing I am the root of infighting? You feel I would usurp the throne?"

Lord Tao raised her eyebrows, looking at Bing on the bed, somewhat angrily opening her mouth like so.

Accompanied by her opening mouth, the branches of the peach trees outside also became increasingly luxuriant, seemingly coming alive spreading and growing to surround the grand hall outside. That domineering aura also completely surrounded that dying emaciated Elf King.

But facing her questioning, Bing merely shook his head. He sighed, those seemingly completely dried-up eyes looking straight at the Tao before his eyes, finally saying,

"Not you, it's Gui, she's not right..."

"Gui? How could that guy..."

Just when these two siblings confronted each other, the Fisher beside them abruptly figured out something, his gaze abruptly becoming sharp.

He had already thought of a method to break the situation. Although very, very risky, he had to give it a try, otherwise they would all die here, die in the hands of the Nineteenth-Tier Lord Tao!

Bing mumbled opening his mouth wanting to say something, but the pursuit of death had already tormented him to abnormality. Not only had his body withered to be incomparably fragile, his teeth all fallen out, his thinking also became extremely sluggish. It was exactly at this time that Fisher abruptly looked at the Asuka Karasawa beside him, loudly shouting at her,

"Karasawa, detonate all the Magic on your body, aiming at the sky!!"

"Eh eh eh?!"

Asuka Karasawa hadn't even reacted yet, but saw a scene that made everyone present incomparably astonished.

The Fluid Sword in Fisher's hand was seen to abruptly extend out. He violently locked onto the Elf King less than half a meter away from him. In the instant Lord Tao's gaze swept over, Fisher perceived danger and subconsciously tilted his head away. But his back still abruptly exploded, growing one after another spreading pink Peach Blossoms.

"Cough!"

Fisher explosively coughed, but still forcefully enduring that severe pain that made his entire body go numb, full of ferocity pierced into the neck of the Bing before his eyes. In an instant, a streak of scarlet blood mist instantly exploded. The Elf King tormented by death was so fragile, even though of the Mythic Rank, but already even the Fluid Sword could take his life.

"What you deserve... incidentally borrowing your head to use."

Fisher whispered a sentence beside the other party's ear, subsequently uttering a deep shout violently locking onto the other party's head, subsequently violently taking it off, causing the Elf King's head and body to instantly separate.

"Screech!"

The Following Like A Shadow death finally in a flash swallowed upwards, completely consuming everything about him. But Fisher still tightly locked onto his head, raising him up aiming at the Lord Tao before his eyes,

"Didn't you want to pin the crime of killing the Elf King on our heads? Good, then I will kill him for you to see."

"...You seek death, small fry."

Lord Tao looked at the Fisher before her eyes with a cold face, the Peach Blossoms on her body blooming bit by bit. But Fisher wouldn't talk nonsense with her; he merely violently aimed the sword at the other party's head, wanting to slice it to pieces.

Because it was mentioned previously, the Reincarnation of Elves after death was actually like a kind of resurrection. Regardless of body or Soul, they were of the previous life, merely having undergone rebuilding and rebirth via a tree. But there was a prerequisite for this: their bodies must be planted into trees to Reincarnate. Once the corpse was missing, then the right to rebirth was lost.

The first step of the plan had to make a big fuss on the Elf King's corpse. The combat posture must solidly be one-sided; they couldn't possibly defeat Lord Tao, the only choice was to flee for their lives.

Therefore, the key point of the contradiction lay in how to run.

Looking at Fisher's movements, Lord Tao raised her eyes, and his right hand holding the knife abruptly stalled. The next moment, from Fisher's thick forearm, one after another branches growing Peach Blossoms exploded forth.

Fisher's face paled, his back as well as hands simultaneously losing sensation, and that feeling almost in a flash was about to completely swallow him up, making him turn into a peach tree.

But he didn't pause at all, instead abruptly loosening his grip, letting Bing's head fall to the ground, while he used all the strength in his entire body preparing to directly crush it.

He was certain that Lord Tao couldn't possibly let Bing completely perish; she only dared to kill Bing's current life, otherwise the World Tree wouldn't let her off.

At the same time, he also loudly shouted at Asuka Karasawa again,

"Karasawa!!"

"Yes!"

Asuka Karasawa hadn't even reacted from Fisher's tragic state. Born in a peaceful era, she had never seen the oppressive feeling of instant death. But hearing Fisher's hoarse roar, no matter how scared she was, she still suppressed her fear, violently closing her eyes to stimulate all the Magic on her body.

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

The next second, accompanying the bursting forth of several dozen Wind Magics on her body, the white robe on her body abruptly exploded, revealing the pure and tightly covered bear underwear inside. But she couldn't care about shame at this moment; she precisely made all the privately hidden Magic all over her body bloom.

Thus, that massive energy exactly like a tornado instantly pierced through the grand hall's ceiling as well as the surrounding walls. The frantic wind vortex was even more terrifying than any Wind Magic Fisher had ever seen.

It seemed Magic released through Asuka Karasawa could obtain a certain degree of effect enhancement; one or two things could be known from the wind vortex at this moment.

That frantic tornado blew away the buildings, blew out Bing's lower body, and even together uprooted the vigorously growing flesh and blood giant tree outside, revealing the eerie white bones below the soil.

But Lord Tao stood towering and unmoving, allowing that frantic wind mixed with building debris to head towards the outside of the space rift, soaring all the way up. She merely grabbed Bing's body with one hand, while the other hand slightly shook, and Fisher was about to directly explode into pieces.

But before that, Mikhail audaciously blocked in front of Fisher, blocking this fatal strike for him.

"Clang!"

Following the other party's effortless shake, half of Mikhail's head abruptly exploded, densely packed Peach Blossom branches growing out from within.

"Mr. Mikhail!"

Asuka Karasawa's face paled, shouting loudly once.

Fisher naturally also saw the situation over there. He abruptly bit his teeth, preparing to use his whole body's strength to smash towards Bing's head that fell on the ground.

And Tao also very quickly realized, these three small fries wanted to completely erase the existence of the Elf King in front of her.

(End of Chapter)