novelraw Chapter 626: Trinity of Death
Chapter 626: Trinity of Death
The hazy water vapor diffused little by little, transforming last night's spring scenery into a lingering dream, turning into the bubbles of summer before the arrival of the next morning's sunlight, scattering into beautiful memories.
In the morning, when Fisher tangibly touched the sleeping soft and tender body beside him, a sense of satisfaction surged within his heart, even making him want time to stop moving forward at this moment.
But after all, this was only an extravagant hope, a delusion.
Waking up very early, he appeared mentally stimulated, showing not a single trace of exhaustion from being consumed. Instead, he had a spirited expression of fighting more courageously the more he fought.
The early morning outside the window was as quiet as last night, but in the corner of his eye, the illusory crimson in the sky had become increasingly dense, gradually enveloping this patch of sky, allowing one to catch a glimpse of the true situation within the Spirit World from this corner.
The collapse of the Crevice was still continuing, and the process of the World-Ending Prophecy hadn't been resolved yet. It was also time for him to continue rushing about.
"..."
He opened his mouth, slowly sitting up, turning his head to look at the flowing red and blue long hair in his palm, as well as the two females curled up in the blankets not far from him, feeling a bit of emotion in his heart.
Perhaps prior to last night, he couldn't have imagined what kind of good days Keken, his junior from the Royal Academy, had been privately living.
The corners of his mouth curled up a bit without disturbing the still-sleeping Jasmine and Raphaela. He turned sideways getting out of bed to change his clothes, intending to formally tackle the previously mentioned difficulties one by one.Going to Naris was already inevitable. But prior to that, there were still some leftover matters within the Dragon Court needing to be resolved, and this was also the reason he stayed here.
He still wore the archangel robe Helaire gave him. Quietly walking out of Raphaela's room, he took out the Completion Manual Holland left behind, preparing to return to his own room to read the Death Completion Manual.
Opening his room door, he saw Eimhart lying squarely on his bed completely bored. Watching Fisher return he even yawned and complained,
"Mmn, let me guess where you rested last night... Definitely at Raphaela's place, am I right?"
"Right, but also not right."
"What do you mean?" Eimhart floated up, doubtfully saying, "Could it be you pretended to go to Raphaela's place, but finally ended up at Jasmine's place?"
"Right, but also not right."
"?"
"It's exactly what you are thinking."
"..."
Eimhart was already staring dumbfounded, speechless from shock to the point of turning into an actual book lying on the bed.
While Fisher allowed him to digest it, he himself sat before his desk. First taking out the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual from his embrace and placing it on the desktop. Following the surging of illusory golden light, a series of texts surfaced before his eyes,
【Multi-species composite research have been completed. The research project you chose is: Biology Research】
【You have obtained sufficient biology research progress for 'Dragon-kin' and 'Whale-kin', congratulations】
【Unlock Reward: Chinese Translation Permission, Otherworld Language Identification Permission. The first part condition for the seventeenth rank has been completed】
【Contributor's Tip: The language I use is called 'Chinese' from another world. Over the lengthy past years, it entrusted all my emotions and secrets. Now, all the traces I left in this world are fully open to you. You can translate these characters you don't know through the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual, while non-Chinese characters will have their names and origins clarified for you; incidentally, if you wish you can incidentally learn my language.】
As those golden lights flickered past, countless square-shaped texts rushed into the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual like ribbons, as if granting it the ability to distinguish languages.
"..."
Fisher remained silent for a moment, looking at this reward from the book that didn't really count as a reward, pondering its uses.
Next he would head to the place where Demi-Human Girl Con left items in Naris. Inside there should also be many texts she personally wrote, which could be identified for their specific contents through this method.
Besides that, if he encountered texts left behind by other Transferred Persons he could also know the name of that language through the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual, which was considered quite convenient.
Right, earlier he remembered seemingly seeing Demi-Human Girl Con's notes somewhere, exactly on the night Renee came looking for him and they went to the Tree Continent ruins together.
Fisher decided to immediately put it into practice. He spread open the final blank page of the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual, subsequently picking up the pen beside the desk to write upon it.
Very quickly, some crooked otherworld square fonts flowed out from Fisher's hand and fell onto the paper. Simultaneously, below appeared a small line of Naris text serving as translation, reading:
"People say, for Lord Tao the responsibility of elves is a preciousness acted upon without thinking; but I say, for this world in imminent danger, Lord Tao is an unparalleled treasure."
"People say, the moment the eldest sister Tao dies, the destruction of elves is destined; but I say, the moment the elves are destroyed, Tao's destiny has just begun."
"In this world there is still a peach blossom blooming deep beneath the buried ice and snow. Eventually there will be a day the ice and snow clears, she will bloom within the memories within the minds of living beings, to fulfill the unfulfilled mission from when she was alive."
It seemed to be the memorial Demi-Human Girl Con wrote for Lord Tao after the elves perished. Just that there seemingly were two doubtful points in it, Fisher didn't understand their significance.
The first was the last sentence. He wasn't clear if Demi-Human Girl Con was implying Lord Tao didn't die, because from the second sentence she had already indicated Lord Tao had died. As for that so-called "peach blossom blooming deep beneath the buried ice and snow", the things it could represent were truly too many.
It could possibly be certain relics left behind by Lord Tao, also possibly certain traces recording Lord Tao's deeds, which would help certain living beings reading those deeds accomplish certain matters.
The second doubtful point was, in the first sentence, Demi-Human Girl Con described Lord Tao as a "treasure". Reading the Life Completion Manual, he was currently a bit sensitive towards this vocabulary, unclear if Demi-Human Girl Con here merely meant normal praise or harbored deeper meanings.
He furrowed his brows pondering for a moment, but also felt his suspicions weren't unreasonable. Because in the end Lord Tao read the Life Completion Manual obtaining a massive amount of Life Chaos, to the point of already entering the chaotic demigod stage, sheltering the Elf-kin throughout the Mythical War period.
If Demi-Human Girl Con understood the relationship between Lord Tao and the Life Completion Manual, then the reference here shouldn't be accidental. This meant, upon Lord Tao's body there were clues regarding the treasure, and now the clues for the "final peach blossom" might be in the Northern Territory—after all "deep beneath the buried ice and snow" this kind of place only the Northern Territory relatively fit the description.
Fisher let out a breath of relief. Finding new clues he couldn't help but feel joy in his heart.
The key lay in, if the treasure's clues were related to the Northern Territory he might not even need to personally go to the Northern Territory. He still possessed the resources of Valentiina and the slimes, which could help him save a lot of effort when he went to Naris, allowing him to focus on handling the matters regarding Elizabeth and Naris.
It seemed, this function of the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual wasn't completely useless.
He hurriedly placed down the Completion Manual in his hands, looking out the window at Keken's anchored merchant ship, wishing he could immediately go have the slimes help search for clues related to "Lord Tao" and "Treasure".
And behind him, that Eimhart who had played dead for half a day watching him look around at the merchant ship outside, then reminded,
"We are leaving the day after tomorrow. Shouldn't you return to the Demon Dynasty once before leaving?"
Fisher raised an eyebrow, turning his head looking at him doubtfully saying,
"Were you stimulated silly by me? Actually taking the initiative suggesting I go bid farewell to Helaire before leaving?"
"Who told you to go bid farewell to her?! Ptooie! Ptooie! Ptooie!"
Hearing these words, Eimhart hurriedly flew up refuting,
"I'm telling you to go check on her situation, best to ensure she is truly, one hundred percent, absolutely inevitably sealed within the Demon Dynasty! I don't want her pretending to be sealed in there, and later when we go to Naris encountering some weird things unable to suspect her because she is sealed!! At that time if I say 'it's all Baimon's fault', will you again say I have paranoia!!?"
"When did I say you had paranoia?"
"Previously you clearly always thought like this! If we don't let you suffer a bit from Baimon you will never know her formidability, even after being played in the palm of her hands you still have to say thank you to her!"
While silently memorizing the translated Chinese on the Completion Manual, Fisher took out the Death Completion Manual again. This was the content he needed to read right now. He merely shook his head saying,
"Before leaving I will return to the Demon Dynasty once. I indeed need to bid farewell to Eliog and Helaire... but at the same time, I will also verify Helaire's status. Right now her plan has already failed, destruction has already begun, and there is only this path I've chosen left to walk."
"Right, it must be like this. Best to be one hundred percent certain she won't come out again... I don't want to be in Naris or any other place suspecting so-and-so might be Baimon. My god, just thinking about it gives me the chills."
Eimhart muttered like so while jumping onto Fisher's shoulder.
And Fisher smoothly spread open the Death Completion Manual in his hands. On the title page there was still a line of otherworld text Fisher didn't recognize. But because it appeared on the Completion Manual, therefore Fisher could distinguish its specific meaning,
"This manual will teach you the enigma of escaping death."
When first starting to read this book, Fisher realized this was a Completion Manual with exceptionally strong religious connotations. Because the contributor of this Completion Manual started by describing a very bizarre scenario, and replaced it using a realistic story from his own world.
The author was a human named "Abraham". Aside from this name and the massive amount of prayer texts recorded in the text, Fisher didn't discover any other records regarding himself. The rest of the massive pen strokes used parables one by one to describe the logic he himself wanted to express, conveying the knowledge contained within.
Abraham said life has three vague levels, respectively being animal, wisdom, and god.
The first level's animal is very simple, they comply with their own instincts, haven't bathed in God's care. Under the heavens this kind of life is the most numerous. They are non-sapient animals, therefore led and utilized by sapient beings.
The second level's life just like its name possesses precious wisdom. They possess souls, can be civilized by God, knowing things perhaps not much, but able to recognize and distinguish the world around them.
The third level's life is even higher than wisdom. The wisdom He possesses is unimaginable, the strength possessed is also unimaginable. Even if similarly possessing an end, it is nonetheless a category unable to be cognized by wisdom.
Then, under this assumption, if the "life" of living beings has levels, then does their "death" also have levels?
There is. But differently from the distinctly leveled life, their deaths have both distinctions, and are similarly unified.
As the death of animals, their death is minute. The moment death descends, his everything will turn into flying ashes, stopping at the moment of death; And as the death of wisdom, his death wouldn't mean complete stillness. Because their wisdom, their souls are independent from death. Therefore after death, they would still have some remnants.
And as the death of gods, their death completely doesn't mean death. Because their wisdom is potent to the point it won't disappear, won't alter, strength potent to the point even death cannot eliminate it, even able to connect to the moment of his birth. This is the death of the highest layer.
Although deaths are mutually different, they still possess unity. Reading this Completion Manual is also equivalent to pursuing the commonality of the three kinds of death. Using one's own "wisdom" tracing the origins of the distinctions and unity of the three kinds of death, until melding them into one body, becoming what Abraham ultimately called the "Trinity of Death".
The exploration path leading to the highest level is varied and diverse, "Death", is also one such path.
When you ultimately arrive at perfection, becoming the "Trinity of Death", this also means you have completely achieved the "Death of Gods", becoming an existence that will never perish.
Using the level of "wisdom", whether bending down to pry into the death of "animals", or raising the head seeking the death of "gods", from a certain angle are both unreasonable profanities. This kind of pursuit is bound to become unclean, and will cause one's original death to twist and change during your process of pursuing the ultimate "Trinity of Death"...
And the Death Completion Manual under this context is divided into three parts, respectively being the three chapters of "Death of Animals", "Death of Wisdom", "Death of Gods".
Reading the first part requires manufacturing massive amounts of animal deaths, to completely master the demise lower than oneself.
Reading the second part requires manufacturing massive amounts of wisdom deaths, to overturn one's own original end.
Reading the third part then requires witnessing the death of gods, to catch a glimpse of the truth behind the gods' end.
When completely finishing reading this Completion Manual, the "Trinity of Death" will bloom within the reader's body.