novelraw Chapter 616: Lord Tao's Chaos Guide
Chapter 616: Lord Tao's Chaos Guide
"Thump thump thump!!"
"Hey, Baimon you thousand-cuts deserving thing, where are you hiding?! If you don't come out I'll smash your doghouse aww!"
How long Fisher gazed at Helaire, a few minutes, over ten minutes, or perhaps longer. It wasn't until violent pounding sounds and Eliog's voice came from the adjacent wall that he finally shifted his gaze away from Helaire, who seemed to be sleeping soundly before him.
Helaire remained motionless, as if she hadn't heard anything. Only the fingers being held by Fisher trembled slightly, silently indicating to Fisher that this guy was awake.
Fisher glanced toward the direction of the sound, subsequently softly speaking,
"Eliog is outside."
"..."
Helaire still maintained her sleeping face motionlessly, just like a little bird curling its body within its wings, having already entered dreamland long ago.
Seeing she was unmoved, Fisher prepared to gently release her hand grabbing his and get up to find Eliog. As a result, before releasing, he felt her backhand grabbing him even tighter, making his motion to get up come to an abrupt end.
Raising his eyes to look, he saw her side cheek buried in the quilt, yawning while simultaneously rolling her eyes slightly. It carried quite the meaning of a stray cat outside seeking death by scratching the door, disturbing her sweet dreams."Sigh, cats in heat are truly annoying..."
"You mean Eliog?"
"Guess?"
"..."
Fisher darkened his face and reached his hand out, wanting to punish her. Yet Helaire had already nimbly released his hand. Following a flash of morning light, she concurrently appeared before a solid wall of this confined room. She smilingly looked at Fisher who grabbed empty air on the bed, spread her palm towards her, then gently knocked on the wall surface. The entire wall surface suddenly opened, revealing the outer desk and a room full of bookshelves.
Eliog was currently assessing all around in front of that desk. Seeing that wall hung with an oil painting of Helaire's back opening up, she subsequently walked in furiously. She skeptically swept a glance over the appearance inside. Seeing Fisher was fine, she wrinkled her nose, sniffing the suspicious scent within.
Perhaps precisely because she had done it before, therefore she needed to prevent any possible future troubles?
"Eliog, you've returned to the seal anew?"
"Aww, exactly..."
Eliog resentfully looked at the standing Helaire beside her, while simultaneously raising her arms—of which only a pair remained now—walking into the room, saying,
"Previously it was that Whale-kin little girl who used that whatever Base to release me. Here matters are finished, the Base disappeared, and me, Barbatos, and the others all returned to the seal. The soul power you gave me is quite a lot, should still be able to stay outside for a very long period... what, prefer the appearance of my main body more?"
"Your main body?"
Fisher froze slightly, only then recalling that blurry image he didn't have time to carefully appraise amidst the urgency at the time: that two-meter tall Eliog resembling a giant tiger possessing six arms.
How should he put it, thinking carefully it should arguably be quite...
"Mm, I suggest you don't say this kind of frightening words when his injuries just healed, easy to make people uncomfortable."
Eliog turned to look displeasedly at the beaming Helaire, her tail also swaying back and forth behind her. She sneered coldly,
"You thousand-cuts deserving thing, I haven't settled scores with you yet... oh, I almost forgot aww. Accurately speaking, you met Fisher first, so me leaving a mark on him first should be considered stealing your person? Therefore, rejoice, I'm too lazy to settle this messy account with you."
Facing the Eliog whose competitiveness suddenly burgeoned at this moment, Helaire looked at Eliog with a fake smile, replying,
"Rest assured, I am very magnanimous. I'm not a stray cat who pees everywhere she goes to mark territory."
During their speech, her peripheral vision silently glanced outside the door at that brand new wooden chair at the desk that had been replaced. Whereas Eliog froze slightly, equally looking towards there, suddenly recalling something. Even though she was in sharp opposition with Helaire right now, she suddenly became embarrassed.
"..."
Eliog's wheat-colored skin rose in temperature imperceptibly, and her tiger teeth were slightly clenched...
There was truly no other way. Because it had been too long since doing it, and because she held it in for too long, momentarily losing composure was unavoidable aww!
At this moment, Fisher who got out of bed also coincidentally saw that replaced wooden chair out
Beside the bed were clothes Helaire had prepared for Fisher. Fisher coincidentally saw it was a loose white robe of the standard Sanctuary style, also exactly the same outfit he always wore when spending time with Helaire ten thousand years ago.
Pinching the soft-textured clothing, he couldn't help raising his eyes to glance at Helaire leaning against the doorway. She smiled faintly, inexplicably explaining,
"Mm, I'm also a nostalgic Angel..."
Fisher froze slightly. Right after speaking, Helaire prepared to leave to let him change clothes. Yet at this moment, Fisher suddenly thought of the painting she hung below and the note she left on the back.
Back in the Sanctuary, she had also peeped at him while he was changing into the Sanctuary Angel robe, even though he himself hadn't discovered anything at the time.
Thinking of these nonsensical things, Fisher rapidly changed into the Sanctuary robe on his body. Then he sequentially tucked the two Completion Manuals placed at the head of the bed—which only he could see—into the inner lining of the white robe. The rest of the items had all been placed firmly within the title page of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook. He could even clip things whose volume didn't exceed it, like the Fluid Sword's hilt, inside. As long as he normally closed it, he could store them.
Ever since discovering this method, Fisher had treated it as a storage space in a certain sense. Only unfortunately, it could only store contents through the action of "clipping". Once items were larger than the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, it would become ineffective.
After placing the Life Completion Manual inside, he stroked the Demi-Human Completion Handbook shimmering with golden light. Seemingly feeling his touch, the handbook began to heat up, seemingly driving Fisher to flip it open.
He raised his eyebrows and opened it. An illusory text instantly appeared before his eyes,
[You have finished reading the Soul Completion Handbook. The biological and social research progress of Witches and Dragon-kin has reached 75%. All conditions to enter the sixteenth rank have been met!]
As that Completion Manual shimmered with golden light, Fisher felt the pain from the spiral scar on his chest lighten considerably. It seemed to be oppressed by this golden light, becoming increasingly stable and deepening into Fisher's body. Subsequently, an energy sufficient to alter Fisher's intensity returned from within, altering the state of his body...
[You have reached the sixteenth rank. Progress towards unlocking the seventeenth rank: 0%]
[Unlock conditions: Read any Completion Manual, and simultaneously research two Demi-human Girls of different species with any research progress above 50% (comprehensive research)]
Ah?
Simultaneous research? And also above 50%?
Wasn't this demanding Fisher's life?
Thinking carefully, right now those with over 50% research progress... which of them wasn't a female with whom he had an extremely close relationship? The kind where even meeting and getting along harmoniously was difficult, let alone researching together...
It seemed the only possibilities that might satisfy this were...
Fisher pondered for a moment, then proceeded to read the large pile of illusory text popping up below.
Something about the social and biological research of the Demon-kin making progress. But because he had already broken through the Mythical Rank, it didn't give anything in terms of stat enhancement this time. On the contrary, it granted two tangible items:
[You have unlocked rewards: Aoyun's Repair Essential Oil, Chaos Guide Manual]
[Aoyun's Repair Essential Oil: Possessing the "Construction Authority", a treasure from Aoyun, a Deity from the unknown faraway deep space. Before He forged the world, He once used the sharpest weapon He forged himself to strike the sturdiest armor. As a result, He actually broke the hammer He used to forge celestial bodies. What finally repaired the hammer was precisely this essential oil capable of repairing all tools and articles.]
[Contributor's note: Heard it also boosts virility, but I haven't tried it. You can try to see if it works, hehe~]
[Chaos Guide Manual: A manual used to record and detect Chaos. It is the secret treasure of a powerful Elf who hunted Chaos but ultimately fell into Chaos. The Demi-Human Completion Handbook will synchronize the Chaotic Knowledge you obtained. Concurrently, it can also detect the concentration of Chaos to provide you with assistance.]
[Contributor's note: What she fell into wasn't Chaos, but endless responsibility.]
"..."
Amidst Fisher's silence, following a flash of golden light from the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, two miraculous items appeared out of thin air in Fisher's hand just like this.
This bottle of essential oil...
Mm, felt like it could be used on the Fluid Sword. Ever since it became sluggish back in the Ideal State, it had never been able to stand up again. Since it was an item from a Deity, it should be effective on a treasure equally originating from Ramastia, right?
But what truly interested Fisher was this antiquated manual written in Elven text at the end. This manual resembled a small scroll woven from trees. Yet in Fisher's hands, he could always feel a smear of abnormal vitality, as bizarre as a lump of flesh and blood pulsating in his hand.
Flipping open the antiquated pages, what entered his eyes was a pink peach blossom petal. Judging from this, the original owner of this Chaos Guide Manual was obvious at a glance...
Beneath that peach blossom, there was another line of Elven text:
[Chopping off the branches of six giant trees cannot kill the giant trees. They will continue to grow, until their branches are leafy and lush, until bearing evil fruit.]
"Trees..."
Fisher was silent for a moment. He unfurled this manual—which resembled a scroll aside from its title page—revealing a fan-shaped blank space. Drawn atop it were the outlines of six trees, two above, four below.
The reason for such an arrangement was unknown for the time being. But in Fisher's hands, currently only two trees had names, one above and one below, respectively being:
[Ocean of Consciousness], [Usurped Carrier]
The remaining trees were entirely blank. Whereas the two named trees had densely sprouted branches and leaves. The leaves on the [Ocean of Consciousness] were exceptionally luscious, while the [Usurped Carrier] evidently had much fewer.
Fisher very quickly realized, these two trees correspondingly represented the two Completion Manuals he currently possessed. One was the [Soul Completion Handbook], and the other was the [Life Completion Manual].
As for why they were called these names on the trees, Fisher guessed these designations were highly likely for addressing the true origins of those chaotic powers, or perhaps describing the properties this Chaos possessed.
Both were possible, but Fisher felt the latter was more likely.
Because recalling his read of the Soul Completion Handbook, he would frequently see that pitch-black ocean. Although Caleb Uz also addressed the true master of that Sea of Souls this way, it was probably summarizing via form. The Life Completion Manual should also be the same.
And very quickly, Fisher discovered another strange matter.
Although the tree corresponding to the Soul Completion Handbook on this manual was already leafy and lush, the branches and leaves atop it seemed completely at a standstill, entirely different from the lifelike leaves of the adjacent Life Completion Manual.
Fisher initially thought his senses were mistaken. However, when he reached out to touch the adjacent "Usurped Carrier" tree, an arrow extended out amidst the swaying of those branches, seemingly a prompt, a guidance...
It used a bloody vocabulary word to tell Fisher a clue:
"Treasure".