novelraw Chapter 629: Solution
Chapter 629: Solution
"I am the me of me, I am the thought of thought."
"I am the song unable to be listened to, I am the eye unable to be perceived."
"May I ask, what am I?"
After letting Eliog satisfiedly return into her main body to hibernate not knowing how long had passed, when he once again crossed the Gate of Victory, Gate of Carnal Desire and Gate of Expression returning to the Gate of Knowledge arriving at the doorway of Helaire's palace, that door-opening riddle still emerged, demanding the same answer from Fisher who already knew the answer.
Just right now, Fisher suddenly had some curiosity, why did Helaire have to place such a riddle at the doorway as the key to open the door, and the answer to the riddle was even "soul" such a mysteriously sounding concept.
"Soul."
Holding such thoughts, Fisher silently recited the riddle's answer before the door. When its formless words stirred up layers of ripples upon the door seemingly like a water mirror, a slit also slowly parted in the middle of the large door, opening up the space within.
Inside was brightly lit, possessing a huge difference compared to the desolation when Fisher previously came. Because right now, that Angel who rushed about for a long time finally returned here again.
Fisher walked into it, observing the hanging paintings previously taken down by him and Eliog had once again returned to the wall neatly hung up. Besides that largest one, the painting depicting Fisher's sleeping face, the remaining large and small picture frames had all gone up the wall, appearing quite wonderful set off by the bright light overhead.
He didn't see Helaire's figure, conversely seeing spare pigments and a blank sheet of paper not yet started painting at the first floor's hall.The blank paper was fanned with a smear of gray, seemingly the draft before painting, but Fisher couldn't see clearly exactly what she wanted to paint.
"Humph humph~"
Just as Fisher while sizing up that artwork not yet started, while searching for Helaire's figure, behind him, a muffled "humph humph" sound suddenly sounded. He turned his head to look, then saw a single-humped camel was currently curiously sizing up this unfamiliar guest.
"It's you ah..."
"Humph humph~"
Fisher very quickly recognized the background of this fellow, because this camel and the crown on her head, were both gifts he gave Helaire ten thousand years ago.
Just unlike that dead object crown, Fisher previously even thought she had already died amidst the lengthy years, yet didn't expect she was still perfectly fine.
"You are still here ah, and looking like you're in a very not bad condition, also don't know exactly how Helaire achieved it..."
Fisher reached out his hand wanting to stroke her head, but she hesitatingly shrunk back her head a little. A second or two later, she then seemingly recognized Fisher's scent gently leaning forward, using her own head to nudge his hand, once again displaying her pleasant singing voice,
"Humph humph humph~ humph humph~"
"That Sorobato's Life Holy Relic within her body has already completely become one with her. From a certain significance, she is already an Angel Holy Relic rather than a camel, therefore can accompany me for so long huh."
Exactly when Fisher smilingly wanted to stroke her head, behind, Helaire's voice suddenly transmitted, answering his doubts for Fisher.
He turned his head to look, then saw Helaire wearing a suit of white light veil, her graceful body languidly leaning against the first floor's stairs currently looking at him with a beaming smile. That crown atop her head was crooked and slanted, the illusory wings behind her fluttering, stimulating morning light, dragging another set of tables and chairs downstairs, seemingly wanting to place this new piece of furniture on the first floor.
"Earlier taking an afternoon nap, as a result heard the sound of you coming in. Just in time, wanting to ask you to lend me a hand..."
Helaire hovered barefoot above the ground, unhurriedly going down the stairs, casually placing the tables and chairs right in the center, not looking at Fisher's direction, merely beckoning her hand again. The morning light then dragged that huge, previously painting Fisher's sleeping face flying out from the second floor. Fisher discerned, she added a new picture frame to this painting, the previous one was seemingly broken by that cat Eliog when taking it down.
Fisher helplessly received the oil painting she handed over with morning light, but still couldn't help but ask,
"Can't you directly use those morning lights to hang it up?"
"Will be crooked ey, trouble you a bit, besides, after completing there is a reward oh~"
Helaire folded her arms teasing the milky white light veil on her body, speaking like so.
Fisher received the oil painting she handed over using morning light, actually also didn't mention anything about rewards. She probably just wanted to let him help out. Fisher also for a moment didn't know what to say to her, then had no choice but to use such actions to kill the time before getting to the main topic.
Said it was to return to bid farewell, at least with his relationship with her, leaving this place not meeting for a long time should also inform her.
"When was this painting drawn?"
"The one in your hand huh... a few thousand years ago, when that little thing by your side came to the Dynasty to search for the mystery of his origins."
"So that's how it is..."
Just at this moment, looking at the oil painting in his hand about to be hung on the wall, looking at the himself she engraved within the oil painting, perhaps only then could Fisher realize she also waited for him for a lengthy period of ten thousand years.
"You surprisingly don't ask why I wanted to draw this painting?"
"To anger Eliog?"
"Hahaha, if I want to anger her, or saying anger any female you know I have countless methods, why use this kind of method?"
Helaire beamingly supported her own chin looking at Fisher's back view, waiting for the "why" he was about to spout the next second, and immediately following, Fisher also indeed asked a sentence,
"Then why?"
"Because at the time when falling asleep was very cute. I wanted to withdraw my hand yet you were unwilling to let go, just like a little baby."
She stretched out her five fingers, it was exactly the one tightly grasped by Fisher at the time. Clearly it sounded very sweet, but Fisher threw a somewhat awkward glance at her, because after all this was his unconscious action, he completely didn't remember anything.
"Just because of this?"
"Then otherwise what?"
Fisher sighed, hanging the picture in his hand on the wall, perfectly aligning the central axis, afterwards then turned his head to look towards the Helaire who had already sat before the table holding a pot of hot tea. On the table before her was even placed a saucer of butter cheese cake, not knowing when it was taken out.
"Dang dang, this is the reward~"
"When did you take it out?"
"Baimon's treasury, in a time of ten thousand years like this I still had a bit of small accumulations, therefore even if living here whatever I want I have whatever... even able to change the style into a pure Naris style."
Helaire snapped her fingers, the surrounding walls then akin to that fluid nature door began changing styles. Almost in a blink of an eye turning the entire palace into a luxurious villa in the Naris suburb with clear weather, the doorway even faintly transmitted the sound of carriages passing by.
Fisher swept a glance around the surroundings, witnessing this hometown he had been away from for a long time, after being silent for a moment continuing to say,
"I will soon leave the Southern Continent returning to Naris."
"Oh, for Elizabeth?"
Helaire smiled, reaching out stirring the hot tea in her hand, stirring the steam to dissipate a bit, becoming even more mellow and fragrant.
"My teacher passed away, moreover Naris also has clues for other Completion Manuals, I need to hurry to finish reading all the Completion Manuals before the Crevice burns out."
"Mmn, indeed, Naris indeed has the clues for the Completion Manual you are going to search for next. Your teacher Helson's home gained an extra granddaughter a few years ago. Go find and see, maybe you can discover some things helpful to you."
"Granddaughter? Shouldn't be Teacher Helson's biological granddaughter Vileli, right?"
Teacher Helson only had one son in his passing life, his son previously served in the Royal Army. Later passing away in the war with Schwari, alone leaving behind his pregnant wife at home at the time; After learning the bad news of her husband, that widow's body also took a sharp turn downwards, ultimately dying in the delivery room.
This was also the reason why Helson doted on his granddaughter so much. Knowing she liked eating sweets then exhausted all he could to satisfy her little requests, finally then silently eliminating the side effects for her.
The low-circle magic [Gum Lasso] that shocked the Naris medical field was invented by Helson to prevent his precious granddaughter from tooth decay. Although ultimately his granddaughter Vileli still exceeded the weight limit because of sweets, causing Helson's old friend Dami'an to continuously criticize, hoping she could exercise more. But from this it could already be seen Helson's cherishing of that Vileli.
And in the many years following, Helson who experienced the pain of losing his son yet didn't develop massive destructive magic for the Naris military because of hatred. Conversely in order to facilitate peace between the two countries went as an envoy to Schwari many times. Even his name was within the negotiation team when the two countries finally made peace at the time.
Because more powerful weapons and vaster wars would only make more fathers lose their sons. No matter what was done it was impossible to make the dead son return, only peace could stop further losses, allowing the people in Naris worrying about their relatives joining the army to attain consolation.
Teacher Helson is a magician possessing quite a bit of wisdom, Fisher all along believed so.
"Yeah, but rather a newly adopted granddaughter after you left. She is very important, going this time you should be able to meet her."
"How do you again..."
Fisher just wanted to question why she again would know so much, Helaire yet already took a sip of hot tea opening her mouth a step ahead explaining,
"Haven't you always wanted to know exactly what was my purpose for arranging those obedient succubi entering Naris? They are the eyes and ears I scattered out, able to learn a bit of intelligence other people don't know when I am too busy to attend to everything. After all I'm also not omniscient and omnipotent. On one hand worrying for the plan, on one hand also needing to pay attention to your arrival, so..."
"... I understand."
Fisher paused for a moment, while the doubts in his heart were slightly alleviated nodded his head. And Helaire also pushed the plate containing the cake in front of him, signaling him to enjoy the dessert before him,
"Taste a bit, not everyone has the opportunity to taste the food personally made by my hands. Incidentally, if you still have anything you want to ask you can all ask me, I will give you the answers."
Fisher gripped the small iron spoon on the cake, gently digging a little bit of the edge of this butter cheese cake putting it into his mouth. The moment a faint sweet taste burst forth, the crushed hazelnut particles also between the lips and teeth stimulated a person's desire to chew.
Couldn't tell she actually also had such wonderful craftsmanship, simply even more profoundly memorable than the works of the chief dessert chef within the Golden Palace. Even the camel currently looking around behind seemingly was greedy, wanting to see what delicious food Fisher was eating.
And the Helaire smiling radiantly before his eyes also just watched him like this, seemingly waiting for his feedback,
"Delicious."
"If delicious then eat a bit more, it's aphrodisiac."
"What?"
"Just making a joke..."
Helaire held the hot tea, while Fisher also while tasting the cake asked,
"Exactly what connection is there between Gui and Mother Goddess? You previously used Gui's power to release Barbatos and Agreas, why is it able to break Mother Goddess's seal?"
"You should know during the Mythical War Mother Goddess used Authority to interfere with this world's rules, also should know Her doing so produced extremely severe consequences. The Boundary of Matter of the extraterrestrial matter began to collapse, the 'material wall' Ouyun constructed over tens of thousands of years turned to flying ashes overnight, leading to the Sanctuary also beginning to collapse; Dagon's Authority within the Spirit World was damaged, resulting in being unable to retrieve the Blessing upon Fafnir's body polluted by Chaos... But you should not know, conversely, Mother Goddess in order to breakthrough reality's barrier also paid a price.
"Same as Dagon guarding the Crevice, Her Authority also suffered damage. The damage to Authority is irrecoverable for tens of thousands of years, otherwise Dagon wouldn't be unable to retrieve the Blessing He granted out even until now. Although the gods at the time all regarded Her as an enemy wanting to obliterate Her consciousness, but Gui all along believed, Mother Goddess would help this world tide over difficulties in the future. Therefore Gui made a bold decision, she wanted to go to the Spirit World to the location of Mother Goddess's main body whose consciousness was worn away by the gods at the time to repair Her Authority..."
Fisher frowned, questioning,
"Then finally? Gui's rank should be insufficient for a demigod, ten thousand years ago she was also only eighteenth tier. Could she directly look at the True God's main body?"
Helaire then spread her hands, saying,
"No one knows how she thought, how she achieved it, anyhow once she went she never returned again. But looking from the results, she should have succeeded. The newly born Mother Goddess's Authority didn't suffer damage, moreover it could also produce a bizarre resonance with Gui's power. I also only discovered this point when secretly observing you. Originally I indeed intended to use the Base to release them, however having Gui's power also added a layer of insurance. More importantly, because I also had items left by Gui on my body, that Mother Goddess's avatar even more so couldn't discover my existence, also allowing my plan to proceed smoothly."
So that's how it is.
Fisher previously always doubted why Renee would grow to look exactly identical to Gui's appearance, even the Authority within Renee's body achieved the same result with different methods with her.
Looking at it now, extremely likely at the time the reviving consciousness' Infinity Authority swallowed the Gui who repaired the defects for Her. Looking at it according to the nature of the Infinity Authority, the nature of Gui's power very possibly infinitely expanded under the influence of the Infinity Authority, ultimately affecting the Infinity Authority itself as well as the image Renee chose to avatar into later.
Worth mentioning is, Fisher from beginning to end knew the image of that black-haired witch seen right now wasn't Renee's true appearance. Her appearance currently seen by him was merely her avatar walking in reality whose consciousness wasn't a True God.
Mmn, referencing the imagery of "moon" this Mother Goddess, Fisher sometimes even suspected Renee's main body was actually a very large very round sphere...
This was merely conjecture, couldn't be taken as true, still better treat that witch as Renee's image.
Returning to the main topic, Fisher previously even thought Renee met Gui somewhere, therefore choosing this image as her avatar. But previously when mentioning Gui with Renee she actually didn't appear to be in a state familiar with the other party, therefore making Fisher feel doubtful.
Through Helaire's explanation, Fisher also finally knew the circumstances of the Mythical War and Gui's final outcome.
Gui believed, Renee would help this world tide over the difficulties in the future huh...
As the topic chatted up to here, Helaire had already completely answered Fisher's two doubts. And the hazelnut butter cheese cake in his plate was also almost eaten up with a small piece remaining.
Previously he perhaps thought Helaire dispatching those succubi to Naris would have connection with Elizabeth. Looking at it now it seemed entirely unnecessary. Helaire all along paid attention to contents related to the World-Ending Prophecy. Elizabeth could arguably be said to have zero relation with the World-Ending Prophecy, of course also couldn't enter her discerning eyes.
He nodded his head, putting the last small piece of cake into his mouth. During the moment of chewing, after he hesitated repeatedly, finally he still asked Helaire a question,
"Raphaela has already entered the Mythical Rank, therefore, the child in her belly also lost the Spirit World's lock and is about to turn into a stillbirth. Is there any method able to save him?"
If Sir Book Artifact was present he would definitely let out a sharp hiss, beginning to widely publicize how Baimon was this and that. But for some reason, Fisher right now just wanted to ask her, to obtain the corresponding answer from her here.
Helaire also similarly gazing at the Fisher before her eyes, after taking a sip of hot tea softly said,
"Since you already know the principle of the problem, you should similarly know the answer to resolve the problem, Dear... that life about to be born in Raphaela's belly will lack a soul. Therefore, the only method to resolve it is personally going to the Spirit World, bringing back a wisp of soul from the Sea of Souls putting it into the embryo."
"The Spirit World's Sea of Souls, souls from other places cannot?"
"Unless you wish the child you are about to give birth to turns into the shell possessed by another person... Only the souls from the Spirit World's Sea of Souls are pure. Although from a certain significance they are still souls that have experienced countless reincarnations, but their everything will be washed clean by the tangible Sea of Souls, being a pure consciousness awaiting birth, this is also the precious nature of the Sea of Souls. But the journey going there is exceedingly dangerous. You require at least the nineteenth tier to be able to go there, bringing your child's soul back into its mother's womb."
A mouthful of hot tea drunk dry, Helaire indifferently spoke like so.