novelraw Chapter 511: Timeline
Chapter 511: Timeline
In his view, with such a massive incident occurring on Dragon Tail Island—although he didn't know how the results of the two Demigods' handling went—but after this matter concluded, their vigilance towards Transferred Persons and even Chaos would definitely rise to the extreme apex. This might bring trouble for Fisher, and for Asuka Karasawa and the others...
Sitting outside the house, Fisher watched the humans before his eyes Singing and Dancing happily having obtained food. He didn't have much expression. Amidst being a hundred times perplexed, he could only shift his own attention a bit.
Right before his eyes, there were actually currently two "uncompleted matters."
As his gaze jumped slightly, illusory golden subtitles one after another abruptly appeared in his line of sight; exactly his Demi-Human Completion Handbook.
In this era, he had bound a total of two extant Mythical Species: one was the Elf Gui, the other was the Angel Helaire.
He hadn't had the opportunity to research the Elf Gui, and Fisher wasn't familiar with her in the slightest either. But through the prior piecemeal words and phrases, he constantly suspected the other party very likely had a close relationship with Chaos.
Bing had said Gui wasn't right prior to dying. But Fisher had struck too urgently back then; without waiting for him to finish speaking, he took his head off right in front of Tao Gong.
Looking at it now, her appearance upon Dragon Tail Island was very likely not merely due to his own specialty, thereby wanting to help him enter the Mythical Rank...
Was there a possibility that the Chaos of the Ideal State back then was related to her?
Or guessing a step further, Gui had very likely already transmuted into a believer of Chaos?This Elf full of clouds of suspicion, completely identical to Renee, involuntarily made Fisher associate her with the future Renee. Their appearances were similar; Fisher didn't believe there was such a bizarre coincidence making two people separated by so long a time so extremely alike, let alone that Renee also happened to have a close relationship with Chaos.
Could it be that the future Renee was actually transmuted from Gui?
The instant this thought came out, he was startled.
But after all, he also didn't dare be certain. However perfectly, among his currently "unprocessed matters," there perfectly was an item related to Renee... Or rather, related to Renee's past.
Fisher hesitated for a moment. From his embrace, he took out a thin book with a quaint and archaic design, its book cover wreathed with a faint purple color, seemingly flowing with the secrets of the world and years from within it.
It was exactly the physical reward obtained from researching the [Gift of Fate] previously: [Source Magic Book (Part One)]. Compared to the Part Two portion, this portion was significantly thicker and more solid; it looked like its contents were also much more numerous.
Ever since Fisher discovered the Demi-Human Completion Handbook could automatically store its rewards, Fisher just clipped everything inside it. Regardless of whether it was a protruding physical entity like the World Tree Teardrop or an item like the Source Magic Book, as long as it was stuffed in and the Demi-Human Completion Handbook was closed anew, it felt like it vanished and couldn't be felt anymore; when spread open anew, it was still inside.
Fisher cocked his eyebrows, taking out this incomplete "Source Magic Book". Identical to the previously obtained Part Two, the top was all contents written using the Ancient Human Language. Yet there was an additional page that was obviously the "book cover" contents. Written upon it were quite a few lines of text radiating bizarre colors; the contents were like this:
"Source Magic Book"
"—Entrusted by my friend, gifting this precious method as a present to the race she cherishes. In the past long and lonely years, we were both each other's most loyal friends."
"Using solely this to stand as a commemoration and a bestowed favor; hope that you all will be able to forever engrave it in memory."
Hmm?
Fisher furrowed his brows, flipping the paper documents. He seemingly generated a massive perplexity.
According to what recognized myths and legends recorded, human Magic originated from the Mother God. So As It Should Be, this Source Magic Book bestowing the tool of magical upon humanity was also authored by the Mother God... But looking from the cover of the Source Magic Book, the true origin of Magic actually wasn't the Mother God, but one of Her friends.
She left behind information regarding that friend upon the original book cover. But perhaps because that friend didn't leave behind a name, and the "Deity" who truly revealed themselves in the Mortal World was solely the Mother God, therefore in the end humanity only remembered Her, conflating Her and the true bestower of Magic...
Then the problem lay in: who was the true bestower of Magic?
Fisher opened his mouth, yet that black-haired girl abruptly flashed past his brain...
"Is it... Karasawa?"
This conjecture truly caused Fisher to begin generating a feeling of slight shock, but he absolutely didn't feel it was precisely because of his own Transmigration that this result was achieved.
Karasawa's innate talent was inevitable. Even without himself, Fisher felt that whichever day she foolishly drew ghostly talisman scribbles on the ground by herself, and then after a "dong" sound...
Hah! Magic possessing miraculous power would be born!
Mhm, Fisher felt there truly was exactly this possibility.
Magic's birth was a very archaic matter. Based on Fisher's deductions, the approximate period was in the interval of around five to six thousand years ago (using the era Fisher lived in as the baseline); at the very least it definitely preceded the [Mythical War] period.
The [fighting war] Eliog spoke of precisely pointed to the Mythical War. The Sanctuary and the Tree Continent were exactly sunk during that war; the Dragon God and Chain of Heaven also died in that war, leading to currently only Xuan Shen being the single Twentieth-Tier Demigod.
And the World Tree's death was even earlier; during the first War of Living Creatures, the World Tree perished—which was exactly the time her tree roots were stolen away by the Dragon God, and the Phoenix Race followed out to the Northern Border. Specifically, the time period of approximately seven thousand years ago.
Why did Fisher deduce Magic's birth time was five thousand years ago? This still had to be deduced based on the first Lord of Souls Caleb Uzi's Soul Completion Handbook and the clues Fisher obtained in the Northern Border.
Compared to other Transferred Persons, Caleb Uzi was a Transferred Person who transmigrated very late. Fisher also didn't know what the specific reason was.
Fisher only knew that when he transmigrated over, Dragon Tail Island had already been separated by the Mother God and transformed into the Southern Continent. Magic had also spread to the Southern Continent, generating the Dragon-Man Magic unique to the Dragon-Man Species. That group of Dragon-Man had even sought advice from Caleb regarding human Magic; as a result, he didn't know how at all.
The Dragon Court destroyed during the formal Mythical War still existed at that time, but the Southern Continent had already been separated from the Dragon Heart Continent by the Mother God. Which meant to say, that Mythical War fundamentally didn't conclude very shortly like the war between the Northern Border and the Chaos Species.
At the time point Caleb Uzi transmigrated, the Mythical War had already commenced at that time and persisted for a considerably lengthy period of time. Magic had spread to the location of the Dragon Court even before the Southern Continent was separated apart.
At the same time, it still needed to be noted: during the war between the Northern Border and the Chaos Species around six thousand years ago, Magic—this tool which ought to have supposedly been able to strengthen the combat capabilities of numerous races—absolutely didn't appear. Therefore at that time, Magic should not have been passed down to humanity by the Mother God yet.
Therefore, the time Magic was truly imparted to humanity by the Mother God might precisely be after the Chaos Species invaded the Northern Border, or even several hundred years after that war. Between the annihilation of the Phoenix Race forming the Base to right before the lengthy Mythical War pulled open its prelude. Which was exactly this time period from five thousand to six thousand years ago...
Look, this was the charm of archaeology.
Although knowing the exact time Magic descended upon the world, Fisher nevertheless still had some perplexities.
Firstly exactly was: weren't the Transferred Persons all humans? Could they live this long?
Fisher wasn't clear exactly which specific past time point he was currently situated in. But considering the situation where the Demon Species had not yet been born and the several Demigods were still around, he was at the very least eight thousand or even nine thousand years in the past. This was still a conservative estimate; perhaps even ten thousand years was possible.
If Magic was entrusted to the Mother God by Karasawa to teach humanity, then she had to live at the very least several thousand years... Or rather, Transferred Persons were comparatively special; they might possess methods for longevity. It was merely because those he encountered were all just transmigrated over, so he himself didn't know, that's all.
There was still another perplexity, which precisely was exactly when was the Mother God born?
In this current era, although Fisher hadn't gone to the Spirit World and couldn't be certain whether the Mother God had already descended. But based on Renee and the Mother God's relationship, and additionally based on Renee's relationship with the massive moon inside the Spirit World, he felt the Mother God absolutely hadn't appeared yet in this current era.
Otherwise, given the Mother God's intimate link with Chaos, it wouldn't be lacking that those several Demigods would mobilize their forces extensively.
These two problems being unclear for the time being, Fisher could only bury his head, putting his attention completely onto the "Source Magic Book" in his hands.
Impatiently Unable to Wait, he flipped open the Magic Book in his hands, beginning to read the contents on his hands.
"The tool my friend wants to bestow upon you all to protect your own safety is the Art of Chaos named 'Magic'. Its essence had already been decided: this is a hazardous secret art intolerable by the world. Its essence is substantially taking the [Soul] as the origin text, borrowing power from outside the world to incite fluctuations in the Rules; this kind of fluctuation precisely is the [Resonance]. What [Chaos] is to the [Soul], exactly is what the [Soul] is to [Magic]; the source flow being thus, therefore [Magic] strictly is the Art of [Chaos]."
"I have absolutely not deeply obtained the quintessence of Magic, but the reasoning within I have already deeply known. Firmly engrave this into memory: Magic beforehand is incited by certainty..."
A very lengthy remaining section was all the Mother God narrating how [Magic] should be engraved, how it should be utilized. The contents inside here were very meticulous, including all sorts of various problems that would be encountered when engraving Magic; the Mother God wrote them all out Regardless of Size. This consequently precisely was the reason why this book was significantly thicker compared to the Part Two Source Magic Book.
Fisher very quickly discovered that the Magics recorded inside here were all very... mhm, primitive. Even considerably more Medieval than the "Medieval Magic" renowned for being "unstable" from afterwards.
Naturally, perhaps in the view of an existence at the Mother God's level like that, the things recorded inside here were all very simple. She also completely didn't consider the problem of whether humans could manage them or not, and just wrote out all the reasoning within it completely.
Fisher finally knew why there were so few "Ancient Magics" circulated down to today; the sole famous one with possibility of still being used up to right now was probably just "Blood Oath Magic." To think it wasn't that these Magics hadn't circulated down, but rather it was because the Magics that could be created and safely created in that era were originally not numerous whatsoever.
Fisher rapidly flipped the pages of the Source Magic Book. Very quickly arriving at the epilogue portion of the Magic introductions. Perhaps even the Mother God herself felt the taught Magics were still insufficient regarding humanity. Therefore She handed humans another method to guarantee safety anew; which was exactly [Star Magic].
The text here abruptly ended. But Fisher, who had read the Part Two portion of the Magic Book, knew: what she taught humanity also included methods on how to create Witches.
Fisher didn't know whether there was a Part Three Source Magic Book. Because unlike this First Book, the end of the Second Book hadn't abruptly ended; naturally there was also no way to know its contents afterwards.
But what truly made Fisher feel interested at this moment was: at the end of the Source Magic Book, there was still a line of text left behind by someone other than the Mother God.
That text fundamentally wasn't Ancient Human text, but rather square and upright foreign texts Fisher felt were familiar. This seemingly was the text utilized by the contributor of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook; somewhat similar to what Asuka Karasawa used, standing as the origin of the Japanese Karasawa used.
Perhaps supported under the blessing of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, he shockingly actually could read and understand this single line of text. Written upon it was a segment of interesting words,
"She totally did not know where She came from, for what reason She came; during the lengthy time since Her birth, She constantly gazed quietly and peacefully at this resplendent world exactly identical to the stars."
"Up until one day, someone told Her: You are a bright moon born to be luminous, not a deadly silent, bleak and dim star."
It looked like the contributor of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook possessed an extremely thorough understanding of the Mother God's matters as well. To the point that even this kind of item—which ought to have been revered by humanity as a divine article—shockingly actually could flow into the hands of this contributor at the very end. Let alone that there was still an enormous pile of bizarrely strange and eccentric things present as well.
The formats of the other Completion Handbooks were all similar to recording the knowledge of a certain aspect. Only the recording method of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook was bizarrely strange and eccentric. Fisher also didn't know its specific principles.
Moreover, this fellow knew the various Demi-Human Races, various nations, various deities, and the various founders inside the Creator's Society like the back of their hand. Yet he very rarely heard the deeds of this fellow from the mouths of others.
The only questionable information that might pertain to this fellow was exactly known from the Moon Princess's mouth.
Say it or not, the contributor of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook themself indeed genuinely was a miraculous existence; otherwise they wouldn't have added this many completely meaningless Reproduction Abilities onto himself.
Having completely read through all the clues in his hand, Fisher's inner heart yet absolutely hadn't calmed down. He shifted conversely to look at the other pages.
Previously he bound Helaire. Speaking according to reason, the research on Angels should have also had substantial progress.
[Angel Species Society Research Progress: 40%]
[Angel Species Biology Research Progress: 36%]
[You have unlocked all rewards for Angel Species Biology, Society First Tier (Mythical Rank Special Version)]
[Reproduction Ability +3, Body and Soul Attributes +4, Compatibility +4]
[Please read as soon as possible: Soul Completion Handbook]
Right exactly when that line of golden data grew increasingly brighter, Fisher instantly felt that ∞ symbol upon his body became significantly brighter as well. Accompanying it, his body's deformities also began to fade, becoming significantly more stable and comfortable.
Feeling this kind of extremely subtle variation, Fisher exhaled a long breath.
It looked like his guess wasn't wrong. The Demi-Human Completion Handbook was encouraging him to finishing reading all the other Completion Handbooks.
But, why?
Could it be that this also counted as the Completion Handbook's bewitchment on a certain level?
As this journey heading toward the past persisted up until now, Fisher's understanding toward Chaos also grew increasingly profound.
He began to feel that what the future Magic Lord Asuka Karasawa said was very likely correct: a person truly could only read a single Completion Handbook at most, otherwise they would truly thoroughly lose control and plunge into madness.
Yet solely he himself was able to read multiple Completion Handbooks, moreover the Demi-Human Completion Handbook firmly knew this point. Then...
"Fisher, what are you spacing out for?"
Right when Fisher was plunged into endless pondering, behind him, that slight shaking finally extricated him out from within it.
He froze slightly. Subsequently looking at the origin of that tactile sensation, he nevertheless saw that behind himself, Helaire draped in a white robe and squinting into a smile was currently looking at himself.
Seeing Fisher finally recover his wits, she unceremoniously leaned her body down a bit, softly and gently hugging Fisher from behind. That soft and comfortable tactile sensation caused the tense-faced Fisher to relax bit by bit. He opened his mouth to ask,
"How do you feel, is your body a bit better?"
"Mhm, it's indeed a little better... It's just I constantly feel there's something summoning me in the distance. It seems the prior eruption of Chaos left an impact upon me still..."
Hearing this, Fisher abruptly turned his head to look at her. Sure enough, passing down these few days, after the erosion of that Chaos slowly stabilized, her original Mythic Species aura had also generated a tiny subtle alteration in Fisher's eyes.
If the original Helaire gave him the feeling of the morning rays rising around eight or nine o'clock during breakfast, then right now she was exactly identically like the sun at one or two o'clock in the afternoon: exactly that scorching, seemingly like a rising column of fire, as if wanting to burn herself out completely.
After pausing for a moment, Fisher said,
"...We should make a trip to the Sanctuary. Raphael who excels in medical treatment is over there; he might know your current condition. Just staying in the Mortal World completely relying on self-healing abilities like this... frankly speaking, I'm not too assured."
Helaire pressed against his back, smiling in a squint. That itchy sensation of slight rubbing and the "purr" sounds originating from her throat made one involuntarily suspect if she had been transmuted into a foolish cat by the Chaos. He also didn't know if she heard the words he said. Right now, she was more like she was absorbing some kind of energy named "Fisher."
"Helaire..."
Speechlessly, Fisher reiterated. But Helaire nonetheless maintained that exact action. Seemingly truly exactly like she had said: as long as the two of them were together she didn't care whatsoever, even if the world was completely destroyed...
Mhm, it sounded completely childish, identically to the Promise to Die for Love sworn by a pair of Young and Frivolous lovers.
"But with such a massive incident having occurred, the Demigods will definitely be very cautious of Transferred Persons. Even if we can go back, after the others squeeze dry the intelligence information upon us, you'll be immediately killed by them, oh~"
"...You should know, I don't care. I am aiming to return to 'that' place. Compared to this, your life safety, the freedom of that book friend of mine, the safety of Asuka Karasawa, Gou Wen, and Mikhail... are far more worrying..."
Hey, wait.
As he spoke and spoke, he abruptly paused. Because he seemingly realized a tiny little problem.
That Nekelia, he seemingly forgot again.
Probably possible perhaps, others would remember there was this person, right? It wouldn't be that Mikhail didn't take this important meritorious contributor to leave Dragon Tail Island, right?
Fisher swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Suddenly feeling a bit guilty in his heart, he thought like this.
That Phoenix was quite dissimilar to other dazzling Phoenixes. Her presence was too low, and she wasn't very fond of expressing herself. The majority of times, completely no one realized they still had such a person like her at all.
The Helaire behind him poked her body up with a squinted smile to kiss his cheek. Subsequently saying,
"I know, alright. Then we'll return right now?"
"Ho..."
Fisher's perplexed words hadn't even finished speaking, when he abruptly discovered: from above the misty-fogged vault of heaven in the distance, an extremely broad fissure abruptly separated directly from the very center of the clouds. From outside that fissure, a sunny, beautiful blue sky was revealed.
From that fissure location of the clouds there, identically to a divine descent, two streams of Eighteenth-Tier auras dropped down.
Those two dropping people were both androgynous. One with pink hair, one with black hair; seemingly both Angels originating from the Sanctuary.
Their gazes very quickly locked onto that human settlement kneeling down in complete sheets below, mutually gazing across the air with that Fisher sitting in front of the house and snuggling closely together with Helaire.
Separated by a kilometer, the voices of those two Angels distantly transmitted over,
"Receiving the Divine Oracle of Lord Chain of Heaven: Yandekiel, [Youfeile] request the two of you to immediately return to the Sanctuary together with us."
Fisher glanced at this smiling, squinting Helaire behind himself. It seemed this fellow already knew ages ago that the Sanctuary was going to send people over. Otherwise she wouldn't have shifted her butt to run out from the nest either...
Sighing a breath, completely devoid of fear, he raised his head to look at that sky full of daylight. Subsequently hugging the Helaire from behind into his embrace, he replied,
"Okay."
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