novelraw Chapter 635: Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix
Chapter 635: Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix
"Mother?"
As Fisher softly opened his mouth, within the gloomy space before his eyes seemingly opened a door towards him. But concurrently, the Eimhart beside him actually still hadn't noticed anything. After hearing his voice still very puzzled,
"Mother? What mother? Did you see Mother Teresa's soul?"
Fisher was originally still wondering why the Demi-Human Girl Con would select such a symbol possessing bizarre implications. After all according to the contents of the Soul Completion Manual he previously read, his birth and even being sent to the church school Teresa was located at all had suspicious points. Therefore at the instant of reading out that term, Fisher then produced a suspicion: could his own birth be related to the Demi-Human Girl Con?
But right now because of Eimhart's opening of the mouth, also combining with the special scene of this place, seemingly also had another possibility, which is: the things the Demi-Human Girl Con left to him might be related to Mother Teresa?
"... No, this is the key to open the secret room, didn't you see that door in front?"
"Door? What door?"
Eimhart followed the direction Fisher indicated looking over. Even if he himself was emitting light, yet didn't see anything. Even to the extent he still proactively leaned forward to inspect a bit, still gaining nothing.
Only he himself could see it huh?
Fisher walked towards the direction of that secret room. Subsequently amidst Eimhart's surprised gaze bit by bit submersed into the illusion he couldn't see. He hurriedly wanted to follow, yet bumped his head entirely onto the wall, hurting him so much he yelled loudly tumbling onto the ground,"Aiyou!"
Ahead, Fisher poked his head out from the illusory wall again, looking at that Eimhart lying on the ground sizing up a glance at the door beside. Fisher touched his chin, deducing,
"Might be because the spell to open the door was chanted by me, therefore you are unable to enter; also possible because this door was originally only open towards me, therefore forbidding others from entering... you first attempt chanting the entry spell a bit..."
"Hurting me to death, your mother..." Eimhart swaying and wobbling flew up, looking towards that Fisher poking his head out from within the wall, half believing and half doubting saying, "Mother?"
"..."
"ma?"
"..."
Seeing that both spells were attempted a bit yet completely had no reaction, after a brief silence, Fisher only then opened his mouth again,
"Saw the door?"
"Nothing at all!!"
"Mmn, then you wait here for a bit, I'll go and come right back."
"... Okay." Eimhart somewhat reluctantly nodded his head, but still added a sentence, "Then you come back quickly ah."
"Okay."
Fisher only then turned his head back around, his entire person thoroughly entering the space within this door, directly facing this mysterious space left behind by that Demi-Human Girl Con.
At the instant he completely entered this space, the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual gripped in his hands then uncontrollably floated up. The pages rapidly flipped bursting out illusory golden light from within,
【Congratulations on discovering the Easter Egg: The Mouse's Hideout!】
【Contributor's Note: Mouse me ah, likes digging holes hiding the most.】
【Reward obtained... Mmn, what are you thinking, letting you enter my room and still thinking about wanting a reward?】
"Bang! Bang!"
Following were two illusory firework-like splendors, seeming exactly like congratulating Fisher like that.
But looking at the notes before his eyes Fisher actually raised his eyebrows, not understanding why the Demi-Human Girl Con compared herself to a "mouse". Could it be because she acted wildly committing outrages in the world like this messing around with various demi-human girls, therefore also fell into a terrifying scene of fierce conflict just like himself?
And the next second, along with the sparkling golden light within the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual flashing, the entire space also seemingly came alive lighting up dazzling light from all directions, displaying the scene before his eyes right before Fisher.
Entering the eyes, first were lots and lots of scattered clothes and underwear all over the floor. But because of no one moving them for a long time, those clothes were thoroughly covered tight by dust only able to see a rough shape, also not knowing whether they were the Demi-Human Girl Con's.
And among those messy clothes, were quaint books one after another spread on the ground. Looking exactly identical to the appearance of the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual, merely no text was engraved upon them, and also didn't possess the miraculous power the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual possessed.
Wherever Fisher walked to, the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual beside would flash up golden light, exactly like explaining for Fisher like that,
【The Lady's Relics: If clothes could talk】
【Failed products of making manuals: Failure is the mother of success.】
Roughly this kind of expression, making Fisher somewhat speechless while concurrently also deepening his understanding towards the things here.
The place just entered seemed exactly to be the place the Demi-Human Girl Con originally rested. Atop that dust-covered bed still had a hug pillow stuffed with cotton, the drawn patterns atop already couldn't be distinguished clearly.
【Bed Partner Number One: Loneliness, always after excessive overwork.】
"..."
The situation of the first room was roughly like this. The edges of this room were entirely red curtains, Fisher initially even thought there were still other spaces hidden behind, but two sides of the three directions were both walls, only solely ahead still had other rooms.
Once again sweeping past a circle here, yet didn't discover anything, he could only continue advancing, entering the next room.
And when entering the next room, he was thoroughly dumbfounded, instantly standing blankly in the passageway before entering the room.
For no other reason, because the next room was completely filled with some kind of models. Just exactly like shrinking a lady one after another to the appearance of one-sixth, one-seventh, even exquisitely colored using pigments. Neatly arranged within wooden dust-proof cabinets, merely using glass opening one side to use for viewing.
The most crucial point was, those models were entirely some kind of demi-human race. The vast majority were demi-human females, even below every model correctly annotating the race name of that demi-human race and the person's name.
Deserving to be you, truly a fellow enthusia... cough cough.
【Congratulations on discovering the Easter Egg: A wall more expensive than a house】
【Contributor's Note: Can only look, cannot touch oh, otherwise XX shrinks five millimeters... oh no, ten centimeters!】
【（╬￣皿￣）】
"..."
Also don't know whether exactly you are the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual or the Demi-Human Girl Con's consciousness lived inside...
Fisher blinked his eyes, unable to open his mouth to complain, having no choice but to slowly approach that wall, carefully and meticulously sizing up those models exquisitely carved out within. Obviously the races inside impossible to encompass all demi-human races. Not to mention today, if counting those demi-human races already extinct in history probably ten walls wouldn't be enough for her to display.
The ones displayed here seemingly were entirely the demi-human races she knew, or rather, were her friends, those used by her sworn brothers and sisters.
Females had many, yet not many Fisher could call out the names of. For example Angel Race's Youfeile, Phoenix Race's Moon Princess were all included.
While males the quantity was relatively few, Whale-man Race's Gou Wen, Demon Race's Cidi were all within this list.
Very quickly, Fisher also discovered originally below the models not only had race name and name. If the person that model recorded died, then below there were still their birth and death years and months. But primarily to record the time of death, the birth dates the Demi-Human Girl Con wrote here basically were all unknown, and furthermore used their own race's chronological method.
For example: Youfeile, Unknown~Angel Calendar Year 17692.
While those who still hadn't died didn't have such markings, for example those of Gou Wen and Cidi didn't.
Looking at that proportionally shrunk Gou Wen seemingly possessing eight or nine points of resemblance with the original, Fisher also finally obtained the concrete evidence that the Whale-man Race making friends with the Demi-Human Girl Con was exactly Gou Wen.
The models here to say the least also had around four hundred. That means to say these entirely are all her sworn brothers and sisters these years?
Right when Fisher blinking his eyes bit by bit withdrawing his line of sight, from the corners of his eyes yet suddenly saw an extremely familiar figure, exactly at the rightmost edge of the entire wall body.
That was a nun, her smiling appearance holding a Scripture of Creation was proportionally shrunk retaining it here.
Right below, was her race and name:
【Human Race, Teresa Benavides】
【Unknown~Godlin IX Year 24 (Year 43)】
Mother Teresa knew the Demi-Human Girl Con?
Teresa has a specific time of passing away, could it be said when she passed away the Demi-Human Girl Con was still around? Or to say...
Wait, Godlin IX Year 24?!
Looking at the bizarre year and month adding a note after a number above, Fisher instantly then froze on the spot.
Because, according to the day Teresa picked up himself not fully one year old calculated as birth date, then his own birth year and month should be the 25th year of Godlin IX. But the death time recorded here is actually the 24th year?
The most crucial point lays in, why is there actually an extra pair of parentheses above this, the year 43 behind is exactly...
The year Teresa truly left Fisher, which was exactly the year he matured to 18 years old.
Fisher swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The heartbeat sounds within his chest cavity became increasingly difficult to suppress. Seemingly temporarily reacting over what this meant, but very quickly he then realized a terrifying possibility: early before his own birth, Mother Teresa should be already dead.
If to say, Fisher says if...
If himself exactly like what himself saw in the Soul Completion Manual having no past life, then can it be considered he was actually manufactured out? If it truly is like this, then regardless of who created himself, she definitely had her own purpose. And in order to achieve this purpose, she needed himself to grow up healthily, therefore only then letting Teresa come to take care of himself.
While originally, Mother Teresa was already supposed to die in the 24th year of Godlin IX. But she actually unexpectedly lived a whole full eighteen years extra, entirely all because of himself?
Popularized and easily understood to say, is exactly "these dumplings wrapped for that bowl of vinegar". But gazing at Mother Teresa whose voice and facial expressions were still retained within that cabinet, Fisher yet temporarily was somewhat unable to accept.
He gently caressed that cabinet, seemingly having already realized something. From the bizarre spell at the doorway, to even the time of Teresa's death seemingly already predetermined in advance at this moment and at this place were all indicating, the Demi-Human Girl Con is extremely likely to be exactly that existence who manufactured himself.
He was hard to say whether this was the mother and son relationship in the traditional sense. Because no matter what, he himself looked like he didn't resemble being normally born from her stomach. And in the societal sense, the one accompanying his continuous growth was Mother Teresa all along. Therefore psychologically, he all along believed Teresa was exactly that person truly able to be called "Mother" in the true sense.
And gazing at the cabinet before his eyes, he couldn't help but want to question, questions towards the Demi-Human Girl Con...
He looked towards the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual all along floating beside, his expression appearing exceptionally complicated,
"All of this, is arranged by you, right? Together with my life, everything I experienced, is all arranged by you, right?"
But the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual yet absolutely didn't possess thought and consciousness, it merely floated quietly like this, gazing at the Fisher Benavides before its eyes.
If to say when people manufactured a specific product they all had their purposes, then himself being manufactured by her, being handed to the doorway of the church school by her bringing to Teresa to raise, whether these females himself encountered along the way also all had their purposes?
To be clearer, the meaning of "Fisher Benavides"'s existence whether it exactly was for the sake of resolving this World-Ending Prophecy lingering above the world?
Thinking like this, Fisher temporarily didn't know whether he should be relieved or sad.
What was relieved was, many people perhaps for an entire lifetime couldn't find the meaning of their own existence, having to exhaust their entire lives, racking their brains to question what meaning every minute and every second of themselves had. But he was different, he didn't need to consider this ultimate question making countless philosophers bow down.
What was sad was, he was unclear whether like this exactly being like a screw with a fixed structure, like a key to open a padlock the meaning ultimately was good or bad. Or to say, what he was sad for was, at this moment his entire life was more like an instrument rather than a life.
However able to be comforted was, his duty and usefulness was "saving the world", hearing it was slightly more grand and lofty than a toilet's "plunger"?
Therefore, this actually was also why, under everything reversed within the Gate of Victory, the Teresa of that female Fisher actually died naturally? Because her death was predestined from eighteen years ago, merely cashing in after waiting until Fisher grew into adulthood.
Fisher somewhat heavily stood his body up, turning his head looking towards other directions, he discovered after this place still had another unexplored room.
"..."
After being silent for a moment, he still took a step heading towards the next room walking over.
Entirely different from the previous two rooms being wrapped by brightness, the third room was extremely dim. Just when Fisher entered he still could smell a dense fishy smell unable to disperse for a long time.
Compared to the previous two rooms, this room appeared extremely narrow and small. Moreover also had no more advancing fourth room, obviously here exactly was already the very end of the Demi-Human Girl Con's hideout.
He frowned, pacing several steps on the somewhat sticky and greasy floor. Only then did he discover it wasn't the room being too dim, but the entire room was covered by dried blood seventy to eighty percent, therefore only then led to the brightness unable to penetrate in.
He lowered his head looking towards the environment with an entirely different painting style all around. Very quickly he also saw perfectly square characters one after another slanted and crooked. Within those characters engraved within the inner walls of the room still carried many fractured nails and flesh embedded within the sunken handwriting. Seemed to be the scratching marks of a certain person using nails to pierce into the wall...
Was this left by the Demi-Human Girl Con?
Looking at the bizarrely strange entire room, Fisher turned his head walking a few steps forward, distinguishing the various blurry handwriting on the wall. And the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual suspended at the side also opportunely flashed up golden light, explaining with distinctive characteristics,
【The chaos of the ulcer on the bone: Actually, I am also a Transferred Person】
Fisher turned his head looking over, yet suddenly discovering within the crevices of that wall was completely filled with hairs stained with blood filth. Upon the ground seemingly still had several pieces of skin dissected away entirely. Those skins hadn't decayed, atop lived many, many maggots, currently wriggling.
Further ahead, was exactly many, many broken limbs and severed arms stacked together, forming a small meat pile approximately half a person tall.
The shocking scene before his eyes made Fisher temporarily unable to speak. He very quickly remembered the method Holland described of the Lord of Fate alleviating chaos within the brain. She exactly used a blade to slice out a certain portion of her own brain, thereby living up till now all along.
Looking from this, if not wanting chaos to ultimately take root and sprout within the body, then one must exactly do so. Even the Demi-Human Girl Con couldn't be an exception.
And atop that severed limb pile lacking the slightest bit of decay, a pair of fair and clean hands with slightly long fingernails abruptly embedded atop, making a cupping action.
Above the platform formed by the palms, placed a wooden box approximately twenty centimeters long and wide. On the wooden box there was also a piece of parchment paper.
Walking forward, the fishy stench of flesh surged into the nasal cavity, piercing him making him somewhat unable to open his eyes, even desiring to use the power of the Life Completion Manual to get his nose to the back of his head.
But he still forcefully endured stretching out his hand taking that piece of parchment paper back over. Upon that parchment paper, were lines of otherworldly text with handwriting still arrogant and unrestrained.
Fisher had no choice but to use the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual in his hands to translate again, in order to gain its accurate meaning,
"This person is very lazy, didn't leave anything... oh, wrong, still left something behind, exactly in the box below. It is very precious, also request you to put it to good use. As for the very end, Mouse me also doesn't know what to say, then wishing you all the best going smoothly!"
"..."
Fisher somewhat speechlessly placed this parchment scroll at the side, looking towards this antique wooden box before his eyes. Atop, still was a line of engraved otherworldly text. The Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual once again made a translation for Fisher,
"The tidal bore arrives on Qiantang River, today I know I am me."
Complicated implications slowly immersed into the bottom of Fisher's heart. He only then realized, the language the Demi-Human Girl Con used actually only to a certain degree expressed the complicated meaning within the inner heart of this existence. Just exactly like this flesh and severed limbs before his eyes like that, before arriving here, Fisher perhaps was hard to imagine that Demi-Human Girl Con completely lacking proper shape would also experience these pain and agony...
Therefore, exactly what does this sentence mean?
In the end is it spoken towards the Demi-Human Girl Con herself, or spoken towards the Fisher currently standing before this wooden box possessing a certain degree of understanding towards his own origins?
Perhaps compared to such absolute "today I know I am me", this sentence Fisher saw was more like a question.
The question is exactly "do you really know you are you already" or "the you that you know is it really you already"...
Within the ineffable silence, he slowly reached out his hand moving the wooden box away bit by bit. Very quickly entering the eyes, was exactly a streak of golden magnificence exactly like the starry sky. In this split second, seemingly countless spiralling golden oceans instantly drilled into Fisher's eyes. But as human habit, he still as much as possible distinguished the shape of the object before his eyes...
But no matter what, the thing before his eyes exactly looked like a tentacle, could it be... ugh!!
Just the next second of Fisher carefully sizing up this怪异thing before his eyes, that tentacle seemingly instantly came alive wriggling rapidly. At the instant of its movement Fisher then possessed a reaction. His 16th Rank power just desired to operate to evade, but that tentacle was actually incomparably fast, abruptly tightly tangling upon his face and neck with one move, ruthlessly pouncing him tumbling onto the ground.
Entering the eyes, were countless, countless golden light. And within that formless golden light, the illusory texts of that needing-a-beating Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual also instantly lit up, congregating turning into a prompt.
【Congratulations on discovering the Easter Egg: Dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix】
【Contributor's Note: The power named "Hidden" will let you see the dawn of hope within desperate situations. And this is also the final gift I gift to you, Fisher Benavides.】
The first sentence of the Easter Egg seemed uncompleted, but Fisher actually entirely had already fallen into the golden ocean lacking spare strength to distinguish its vacant portions...
However, even if he exhausted his brains thinking, probably there's no way to know that vacant portion right?
Because this was exactly the "Hidden" only that mouse knew.