novelraw Chapter 508: A Piece of Good News
Chapter 508: A Piece of Good News
However, at this exact moment, Fisher perhaps truly had to thank those Completion Handbooks. It was unknown if it was because of having read those Completion Handbooks, but he could actually still freely swim within this Sea of Chaos that others would thoroughly plunge into madness just by looking at.
Although it was indeed very uncomfortable, it was overall still slightly better than directly being swallowed by madness and Chaos, wasn't it?
Since Death had already been expelled and Helaire had also been rescued, then the only thing needing to be done right now was successfully taking her to escape from here.
Of course, this wasn't a simple matter. One only needed to look up at the sky at those terrifying balls of light on the verge of plummeting down from beside the World Tree to understand a thing or two.
"Hah... hah..."
Consequently, Fisher forcefully endured the intense pain in his head resembling needles pricking him, bringing Helaire to swim towards that hole entrance he had broken through.
As a result, having finally swum below that hole entrance with great difficulty, when he raised his hand wanting to use his Fluid Sword, only then did he abruptly remember that the Fluid Sword had already been broken from being played with by the pollution; it was currently so flaccid it couldn't even be lifted.
What to do about this?
Gritting his teeth, Fisher raised his hand aimed at that gap above. At this moment, the entirety of his body's strength seemingly had been swallowed by Chaos; he fundamentally could not exert any strength at all.
Could it be he still had to swim out via that corridor which had already been fully flooded with Chaos?Right at the same time, one of the nine massive balls of light formed around the World Tree above had already taken the lead in landing at the edge of the Ideal State. Although Fisher fundamentally couldn't see the specific situation outside due to the extremely dazzling white light above, when that ball of light landed first, he still felt a burst of impact force seemingly capable of destroying heaven and earth.
"Rumble rumble rumble!"
That almost unimaginably massive energy very quickly spread over from the place where that ball of light descended. The location where that ball of light plummeted was exactly perfectly at the edge of the Ideal State's periphery, where Chaos hadn't yet spread open. Immediately following, from the place where that giant ball of light plummeted, a formless wall resembling a distortion of time and space steeply erected itself, distantly blocking right before the Chaos that was about to spread open.
Looking at it macroscopically, the World Tree's idea was very simple: which was first to encircle the places polluted by Chaos. This way, she could both control the proliferation of Chaos and better deal with the epicenter of the Chaos source.
But Fisher could only feel changes on the microscopic level. Because at the instant that ball of light descended, he felt the currents of Chaos around him begin to become extremely unbearably restless.
He hugged the Helaire within his embrace tightly, enduring the restless sounds and impact sounds transmitting from the outside. But immediately following, it was unknown if it was dictated by luck, the Chaos restricted by the ball of light seemingly came completely alive, spewing out from within the karst cave, precisely spewing Fisher—who was situated beneath the hole entrance—out of that hole entrance.
"Hiss!"
Fisher was swept along by that manic current of Chaos, tumbling quite a few revolutions in midair. The sensation he originally could endure within the Chaos became extremely pronounced after detaching from it. It was as if an ice pick had ruthlessly stabbed into his brain and body before ruthlessly stirring; it hurt so much that he clutched his head upon the ground, howling in pain.
Immediately following, his physical body also once again began to squirm, resembling when he entered the Mythical Tier.
He didn't know why, but clearly after entering the Mythical Tier, his body and Soul should be properly and intimately linked together. Yet the real situation Fisher felt was that his body and Soul constantly thought about separating at every hour and moment. Much like a couple arguing to divide the family estate, it was even his Soul who "proposed" the divorce first, yet his physical body shamelessly clung onto his Soul, refusing to let go.
Such a feeling appeared especially pronounced when coming into contact with Chaos. He even suspected all those madness and ravings of his from before originated from exactly this contradictory sense of division.
He had already been able to thoroughly experience it when his physical body and Soul hadn't yet been so intimate at the Mythical Tier. The current situation was more than a hundred times more serious.
He only saw that Fisher, who had been spewed out from within the cave, was no longer able to powerlessly protect the Helaire in his embrace. The two of them just like this, stained with the sludge of Chaos, rolled quite a few revolutions within a layer of Chaos less than half a meter deep, subsequently forced apart.
Fisher's form squirmed continuously. Amidst painful roars, his human body bit by bit underwent Alienation, squirming, swelling out countless arms of unknown origin, then slowly withdrawing back inside his body amidst the struggles of his rationality.
"Cough cough cough!"
Right when he was struggling agonizingly, he unexpectedly heard the agonizing groans of Helaire lying upon the ground in the distance. He raised his head with difficulty to look, yet saw the Crown upon Helaire's head had already become extremely dim. Every time she coughed, she coughed out liquids mixing Angelic golden divine blood with black Chaos. And as her injuries grew increasingly severe, those black portions gradually multiplied, while the golden portions became increasingly sparse.
Fisher ground his teeth, subsequently fiercely delivering a punch to himself, forcefully retracting all those continuously spreading and growing physical flesh back into his body one by one.
He absolutely had to quickly leave, bringing Helaire along!
"Rumble rumble rumble!"
Right at the exact same moment, another massive golden ball of light also plummeted down onto the other side.
As massive radiances that overshadowed both heaven and earth bloomed open in the distance, Fisher's pupils contracted. He hastily flew over, hugging Helaire into his embrace.
The next second, his entire person was directly hurled flying several hundred meters away by the massive impact force from behind, passing through streams of spewing columns of fire, subsequently smashing heavily onto the ground, smashing out a large crater fully covered with black cracks.
"Beep beep beep, waiting personnel detected. Sir, David absolutely must remind you: making others wait for so long is not a good thing."
Right when a burnt stench ignited upon Fisher's body, at this moment, from between the ruins in the distance, a Cardinal completely flickering with electrical arcs suddenly flew over unsteadily. That Cardinal opened its mouth while swiftly rushing over towards Fisher's side—it was exactly the original Cardinal he had made stay at its original spot to standby.
With its Artificial Intelligence control, this Cardinal appeared very smart. The impact force transmitted by those two giant balls of light descended by the World Tree just now didn't even ruin it; it even knew how to find a place to hide itself from the impacts. Anyway, those Chaos looked like they had entirely zero effect upon it.
It shook its own body once, flinging off the viscous Chaotic liquids stained upon its body, wandering around beside Fisher.
"You arrived... just in time..."
Looking at the Cardinal before his eyes, a little smile finally revealed itself upon Fisher's face. However, he didn't relax, but directly placed the heavily injured Helaire upon it. As the Cardinal sank down a tiny distance, the blue light upon its body flickered once, speaking to Fisher who similarly wanted to board the Cardinal,
"Sir, David reminds you that the payload of this Unit 272 is merely one person. If you stubbornly insist on coming up, according to David's speculations, the probability of a crash is approximately 90.21%."
"Quickly depart! If we don't depart now, we won't even have the opportunity to crash anymore!"
Fisher sat upon the Cardinal, clutchings his own forehead. Looking at the balls of light drawing increasingly near from above, he spoke loudly towards David.
"Alright then, you call the shots. Anyway, no one has ever said a single word of thanks to David; David is already used to it..."
Truly damn it, why wasn't that David One from the era he lived in this talkative?
Fisher originally already had a headache, and he was also considerably worried about the heavily injured Helaire beside him right now. Under the dual worries, he still had to be argued back and forth by this fellow; his head was really on the verge of exploding.
Fortunately, however, blathering aside, David didn't have a shred of hesitation when working. After Fisher had just boarded the Cardinal, it fully urged its own engine, carrying Fisher and Helaire, taking off unsteadily from its original spot and flying outward from the Ideal State.
Within the Universe in the upper sky, inside those overlapping and intertwining Compound Dimensions, the massive physical entity of the World Tree revealed seemingly absolutely didn't notice Fisher and the others—minuscule as grains of sand—fleeing out from within. She purely and constantly dropped the balls of light containing terrifying energies around her body, thoroughly locking down the surroundings of the Ideal State.
As their altitude rose bit by bit, Fisher finally also saw clearly that land which had already been completely locked down by the World Tree—those three formless walls rising from afar seemingly had entirely isolated the Ideal State and the large swaths of surrounding lands from Time and Space. Even the aura of the gradually waking Authority of Death could also gradually no longer be felt.
But within the formless walls, that increasingly manic Chaos had also risen, distantly confronting the massive World Tree at the vault of heaven above.
Before the final formless wall rose, the Cardinal unsteadily but swiftly passed through from the crevice between the balls of light.
Seeing this scene, Fisher's inner heart settled down by half. But before he could express his own joy, the World Tree's operations to deal with the Chaos behind them commenced.
"Ding ding ding~"
"Hum hum hum!"
Following a crisp ringing sound seemingly originating from the primeval universe, from within a universe full of golden light, countless streams of golden rain measuring approximately a hundred meters in diameter slowly gathered upon the surface of the World Tree...
Therefore, at this moment, everyone on Dragon Tail Island, and even the living creatures on Dragon Heart Continent and the distant Snowlands, could all distinctly see those golden rains seemingly intending to occupy the entire sky from afar.
The tiny bit of worry Fisher had just put down raised back up in the blink of an eye. He hastily patted the Cardinal beneath him, shouting,
"David, faster! It's going to be too late!"
"David is already advancing at full speed!"
David also responded thusly, his tone suffering bitterly. But before he could supply more analyses, that meteor shower behind them plummeted downwards towards the ground as swiftly as light.
Merely a single one completely battered the ground of the Ideal State into Collapse. Subsequently, a burst of incomparably terrifying impact force instantly changed the visage of the landmass.
"Swoosh!"
Near the sunken Ideal State, thousands of mountains and tens of thousands of ravines were almost instantaneously splashed up by the scorching magma.
But those original seventy-one columns of fire that had broken through the ground hadn't perished. Even though the ground had been completely collapsed, even though that endlessly flowing Chaos had already been suppressed by the golden rain of light, those columns of fire nonetheless continued to burn within the Abyss.
"Roar!!"
Right at exactly the same time, from the other side of Dragon Tail Island, inclined toward the north, a massive Dragon similarly radiating a terrifying aura roared as he flew out from beneath the ground.
Who else could it be but one of the Demigods, Dragon God Fafnir?
Looking at his appearance of a chest full of wrath, one would know that he, who had just still been sleeping, had been blasted awake by this massive "flick to the head" from the World Tree.
Speaking of which, it was quite interesting. The Elves Lord Tao sent to wake him up had exhausted all their skills without managing to rouse him from beneath the ground. It still required waiting until his most "intimate" compatriot lightly roused him for him to jump up, just like a corporate slave woken up by an alarm clock at six or seven in the morning.
"World Tree!!"
He had just spread his massive wings. Seeing that there were still more golden rains currently descending from above, he almost didn't anger his own scales entirely off.
He was about to instantly fly up to the universe to settle the score with this older sister who had finally revealed her physical entity with great difficulty. But the next moment, fluctuations transmitting from within that universe—which solely he could hear—caused him to halt his actions, making his expression also involuntarily turn solemn.
"Chaos, had erupted."
The World Tree spoke thus.
The Dragon God hurriedly twisted his wings, flying towards that place. But even having seen the severity of the matter below, while gazing at those golden meteors one after another that were about to drop onto the ground, he still almost angered his eyes right out of his eye sockets.
Fuck, so if it's not your territory you'll be this ruthless when striking, huh?
Striking like this, my land will be entirely blown up into the sea by you!
But after all, taking priority before them right now was still a major enemy requiring handling no matter what, [Chaos]. So even if the Dragon God had a belly full of fire, it was impossible for him to show it.
At this moment, the halo surrounding his body became extremely bright. His entire body also flew towards the direction of the Ideal State similarly to having ignited ablaze.
Regardless of whether it was the Dragon God or the World Tree, both had already realized that there were currently two problems erupting beneath the Ideal State: Firstly, the currently waking Authority of Death; secondly, the currently struggling Chaos and that Chaos-polluted... uh, portion of power from the Chain of Heaven?
If it weren't for the fact that the World Tree and Dragon God could still feel the Chain of Heaven's existence, they would even have suspected that the Chain of Heaven guarding in the sky had already been eaten by Chaos.
Whichever of these two eventually lost control, the consequences brought forth would be very severe, so the Dragon God and World Tree had to handle them properly.
The ideal result was: the Authority of Death returns once again to a deep slumber, and Chaos gets routed and dissipates.
This result was possible, because the Authority of Death seemingly had been carried to awakening by some kind of power. As long as that power was resolved, then the Authority of Death would sink into deep slumber on its own. While Chaos appeared endless, in truth, if the two Demigods combined forces, then Chaos also certainly could be resolved.
But the only problem was: that thing which touched off the power of the Authority of Death, the Loom, had now completely vanished without a trace. Even the World Tree didn't know where it went, despite that Transferred Person, Margaret, having already thoroughly passed away...
Unfortunately or fortunately, they very quickly discovered again that the Chaos below seemed to have mutually clashed with the Authority of Death.
The erupted Chaos bizarrely suppressed the waking Authority of Death, intertwining thickly together with it without a sliver of gaps. This was also precisely the reason why outside the Ideal State at this moment, one could only feel Chaos and the polluted power of the Chain of Heaven.
This consequently led to the fact that resolving the Chaos and the Authority of Death separately had already become no longer viable.
The Demigods handling the Chaos would cause its suppression upon the Authority of Death to grow firm and tight. And when the Chaos and the Chain of Heaven's power thoroughly perished, that suppressed Authority of Death would spring out all at once resembling a tightly compressed spring...
Facing such a complicated situation, an audacious notion appeared concurrently inside the brains of both the World Tree and the Dragon God.
Was there such a possibility that they could use Driving the Tiger to Swallow the Wolf, making use of the Chaos they originally needed to suppress to deal with the Authority of Death which had already lost control?
Making use of the unconscious Chaos to thoroughly lock the Authority of Death back into the place it hibernates. Subsequently, controlling the Chaos again, restricting its total mass down to within an acceptable range.
This notion did not come from nowhere, because at this moment, that gender-neutral ethereal voice also appeared inside their brains.
"There are two Angels who borrowed Chaos to steal my power from the Holy Grail, touching off the loss of control for Chaos. But speaking conversely, that Chaos is also subjected to a portion of my control. I can ensure it doesn't lose control again."
The final Demigod, the Chain of Heaven, had returned to the Mortal World from the ends of the world.
As such, the strategy for the three Demigods to handle Chaos was also finally ascertained.
Since thoroughly resolving Chaos would cause the Authority of Death to lose control, then they simply treated them as the exact same problem: nothing more than treating Chaos as a lock right before an out-of-control Death.
Although this might leave behind minute, hidden dangers, there were absolutely no other better methods to use right now either.
This was the first time an eruption of Chaos had occurred in this world. Even though the deities had previously reminded them of the severity of this problem, without having personally experienced it, they inherently wouldn't have any experience with it.
They hadn't anticipated in the slightest that those Transferred Persons they slighted had actually managed to touch off such a tremendous disaster. Moreover, their own produced Mythical Species even had to get involved owing to various reasons, ultimately leading to the problem's loss of control...
However, right now wasn't the time for reflections. The solution method was already decided. In reality, this process only lasted extending for a few seconds. Immediately following, the handling by the Demigods instantly began.
Massive as they were, they hadn't noticed in the slightest that a faint smile suddenly revealed itself upon the face of the thoroughly unconscious and incomparably weak Helaire staying within Fisher's embrace.
Hugging her, Fisher abruptly felt her body tremble once. He hurriedly lowered his head to look, but merely saw her complexion pale, panting while feeling Unbearably Painful, as if that Chaos resembling an Ulcer on the Bone was constantly intruding into her body at every hour and moment.
"Helaire..."
"Fi... hah..."
She mumbled uncomfortably. Her palms gripped Fisher's hand tightly, as if doing so could bring her warmth.
"Does it hurt heavily?"
Fisher lowered his head to look at her quite worriedly. She could only barely narrow her eyes to look at his face.
Pausing for a moment, an incomparably reluctant smile propped up upon her face.
"Exactly... does it... hurt or not, huh?"
It seemed she wanted to evilly tease him like in the past, or perhaps she didn't want him to worry, therefore pretending to be sprightly; but she hadn't expected her own voice had already become so weak and hoarse.
Fisher bit his teeth and enveloped the agonizing her into his embrace. Feeling her ceaselessly shivering cold body, he spoke out,
"I'll bring you out and escape."
"Mhm... Cupid... believes in you..."
"..."
She froze slightly, subsequently smiling helplessly. Closing her eyes, she was exactly like this: just peacefully staying within Fisher's embrace, as if if she had to immediately pass away, she would also choose to pass away within Fisher's embrace.
Right at this time, David—who had originally been flying unsteadily outwards quite a distance below—suddenly spoke out,
"Um, you two... My apologies. I'm not intentionally trying to disturb you guys; David has two pieces of news—one good and one bad—to tell you guys. Which one do you want to listen to?"
"...Bad news."
Furrowing his brows, Fisher spoke thus.
"The bad news is that David detected a very terrifying, very terrifying, very terrifying attack from behind. Although I've carried you guys to fly very far away, we seemingly are still within the radius of effect."
Fisher cocked an eyebrow up, hastily looking in the rear direction, only to see that Dragon God Fafnir and the World Tree—who were radiating terrifying auras from head to toe—were already entirely poised and ready to lash out. They were about to immediately clean up the awful mess at the Ideal State.
The distance between them was very far, but he supposed it was entirely insufficient to even look at in front of Demigods, right?
"...What about the good news?"
Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Fisher continued asking.
"Ah, the good news is that after undergoing the overloaded operations just now, this Cardinal is almost out of energy. So everything happening here will already be none of David's business! Blehhh... Oh right, Sir, very pleased to be of service for you; we'll meet again later!"
"You..."
The next moment, amidst Fisher's expression of Face Covered in Black Lines and Gnashing One's Teeth, the bright light upon the body of the Cardinal beneath them died out abruptly. Subsequently, having instantly lost its propulsion power, it carried Fisher and the others plummeting downwards from midair toward the northern section lands of Dragon Tail Island.
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