novelraw Chapter 643: Current (Two in One)
Chapter 643: Current (Two in One)
When sensing the moment Elizabeth's gaze swept over, even the now restored-to-ordinary-human Fisher clearly felt an extremely familiar sensation, especially that hair-raising, freezing sensation that seemed to want to drill through his everything, not to mention Valentina beside him.
The cold wind in her hands was biting cold, and just as she was about to make a move, a warning came from her heart. She subconsciously dodged a step backward, and soon, a layer of gray stone completely different from the adjacent masonry structure appeared where she had stood previously, obviously formed by Elizabeth's gaze.
She couldn't help but think, if she had been illuminated by the light in those eyes just now, would it be her who was turned into stone now?
'This fluctuation is Pandora... No, how is this possible? She should have died in that hellish place ten thousand years ago.'
'Pandora, who is that? Very powerful?'
Valentina was extremely unfamiliar with the name Tao Gong mentioned in her mind, obviously hearing it for the first time. Meanwhile, Tao Gong's previous "small fry mode" that despised everything gradually faded and became exceptionally serious.
'Pandora, like me, comes from the Angel-kin, one of the only two Mythical Species inherently existing in this world (Demons and Chaos are not included in this category). And unfortunately, Pandora also happens to be one of the seven most powerful Archangels among the angels... She, Gabriel, and Michael are the three most powerful among the seven Archangels. But, she should have died in the Ideal State ten thousand years ago, when your dead husband was also there. I don't know why her power suddenly appeared on that human woman, but if I guessed correctly, her eyes are the most crucial part.'
Hearing Tao Gong's warning, Valentina also had to stand by in full battle array. Cyan feathers gradually grew from her human body, which had previously been restored by Life Chaos. At the same time, a slender greatsword infused with biting cold wind was also fiercely pulled out, covering the walls of the entire room with frost like awakening a storm.
That was the Phoenix King Sword from ancient times.
Elizabeth was slightly stunned. She seemed to not yet fully understand the immense power within her eyes and was still shackled by a human perspective, therefore showing obvious apprehension toward the storm brewing in Valentina's hands.At this time, the advantage of having a "senior" guiding in her mind manifested. Seeing her hesitate, Valentina quickly made a decision in her heart.
In her eyes, Tao Gong was already a very, very powerful existence. According to what Tao Gong usually told her, she had automatically regarded her as a powerful creature from the ancient era that exceeded the imagination of humans and even phoenixes. Those who could be her opponents were either equally extremely powerful demigods and Mythical Species, or the "Chaos" she frequently mentioned.
And if Elizabeth in front of her might harbor power equal to Tao Gong's, the optimal solution was naturally to take Fisher and quickly leave here.
Tao Gong's power had not yet fully recovered, and Valentina couldn't completely grasp Elizabeth's situation and true power. Furthermore, she was ambushed first. Even if the other party was a hateful old woman love rival who wanted to snatch Fisher, she wouldn't lose her mind to fight with the other party...
After all, she was already married to Fisher, and she was originally the winner.
And looking at both mutually gnashing their teeth in a state of extreme tension in an instant, Fisher's pupils slightly contracted, and he subconsciously wanted to pull out the Fluid Sword in his arms to stop them. But when he found that his movements to move his steps and raise his arms were thousands of times slower than usual, he just then realized after the fact that he was still in the Blessing of the Hidden!
This Blessing was good in thousands of ways; frontwards it could resist the attention and power of Chaos, backwards it was beneficial for sneaking in and acting. But why couldn't it guard against this situation?!
They could easily discover him, and Fisher couldn't actively turn off this Blessing. Which meant he had to watch helplessly as Valentina and Elizabeth fought?
No, that wouldn't do, that absolutely wouldn't do. If Elizabeth struck, she would really strike to kill, and the power in Elizabeth's eyes was obviously not right. He wasn't sure if Valentina could handle it...
"Wait, Valentina, stop quickly!"
Thinking back and forth, Fisher's mind quickly made a decision to first escape this situation of frontal confrontation. Braving the cold wind, he came to Valentina's side and said to her.
"Let's leave here first."
'Exactly what I intended!'
Valentina smiled slightly, thinking that Fisher had a tacit understanding with her. The cold wind in her hands condensed to the extreme, making Elizabeth not far away even more apprehensive and ready to meet her attack.
Then, only needing to wait for her pause, she would quickly take Fisher away from here, and then let the Slimes take them away from this place from the Borderland.
All thoughts were good, only, Valentina underestimated the tacit understanding between Elizabeth and Fisher.
Because just as Fisher turned around and ran toward Valentina, Elizabeth, who was full of vigilance and temporarily did not dare to advance, instantly burst with blue veins. Gnashing her teeth and with a gaze as if it were spewing fire, she almost completely saw through in an instant that he wanted to let Valentina take him away from here.
"Fisher, where are you going?!!"
"Crack crack crack!!"
Elizabeth's cold voice arrived simultaneously with her gaze. Before Fisher could react, he felt the clothes on his body turning into hard stones. What was bizarre was that although his entire body was bathed in Elizabeth's gaze, he himself seemed completely immune to the light.
"Ugh!"
His hair and skin maintained their original appearance in that gaze, only the clothes on his body turned into stones.
His pupils slightly contracted, seemingly realizing something, but at this moment the clothes on his body had completely turned into a cage imprisoning him, which he could not break free from no matter what with his current human body.
"Fisher!"
Seeing that her feint attack plan to take Fisher away had failed, Valentina couldn't care about anything else. The might of the Phoenix King Sword in her hand had completely condensed, and the biting cold wind had turned into countless hard ice heading toward Elizabeth.
"Where are you... taking my Fisher?"
Elizabeth's hollow eyes swayed slightly, and amidst the slight tilt of her head, a slender longsword burning with golden flames also slowly emerged in her hand. That blade seemed to equally be some kind of Relic, only similarly unable to unleash its full power with Elizabeth's body.
"Boom!"
The overflowing golden flames within it were just like a small flame roasting hard ice in front of the fully completed Phoenix King Sword. In just an instant, Elizabeth's figure became so small that it was about to be engulfed by the hard ice that covered the entire room.
Seeing Elizabeth wrapped in golden flames about to be devoured by the hard ice, Fisher's heart instinctively stopped beating, as if his throat had its own mind, tearing apart the worry for her safety that he had disguised.
"Elizabeth!"
"Fisher, we will leave here immediately. Rest assured, I didn't strike..."
Taking advantage of this time, Valentina hurriedly turned her head to look at Fisher surrounded by clothing stones. She tightly grabbed Fisher's hand to pull him out of the stones, but in Fisher's heart, a feeling of tacit understanding with Elizabeth made him feel something was wrong again.
Was Elizabeth really this easy to...
"Buzz buzz buzz!!"
Sure enough, in the next second as Valentina's hand was about to touch Fisher's palm, straight ahead, a scorching golden light suddenly brightened from within the hard ice. Before Valentina could react, a terrifying shockwave shattered the hard ice formed by the sword in her hand.
"Boom!"
The entire room and half of the church collapsed under that terrifying impact. The crowd forming the procession supporting Helson's crystal coffin that had walked a long way out ahead was scared by the sudden explosive sound behind them. They became chaotic, wanting to look around for places to hide, and some big figures directly lay flat on the ground on the spot, showing how much they valued their lives.
While holding their heads and hiding everywhere, their mouths also shouted.
"Ah!! Escort!! Protect the Empress!! Protect the Empress!! There are assassins!!"
The crowds fell into chaos, and even the several clerics carrying the coffin hurriedly turned their heads, hesitating whether to abandon the coffin and hide first. But looking back, that "Elizabeth" in a black gauze dress, holding Alicia's hand, still stood on the spot, motionless as a mountain.
From the outer field, swarms of Cardinals flew densely like bees or dark clouds, surrounding the outside of the church. Farther away, many heavy-armored soldiers stood up from standby and entered from the outer field.
And that Elizabeth formed by the "suggestion phantom" of Pandora's Prosthetic Eye also raised her hand, and her calm, almost indifferent voice simultaneously reached the ears of everyone present via the flying Cardinals in the sky.
"Everyone, Elizabeth conveys my personal condolences to you regarding the accident that just occurred. Now that an unknown variation has occurred at the venue, the security forces of the Golden Palace have fully intervened in the investigation. I hope you will all remain calm until the matter is handled, and ensure your own safety as the primary task... The activity of carrying the coffin for Magician Helson's burial will continue. Please line up in perfect order to leave the venue or follow. From now on, everyone is prohibited from approaching the church where the incident took place. Violators will be killed on the spot without mercy on charges of interfering with defense and threatening public security."
"It is Her Majesty, as long as Her Majesty is fine!!"
"We will listen to Her Majesty..."
And Alicia, who was held on the side by "Elizabeth," seeing the explosion at the church behind, subconsciously wanted to break free from the Empress's palm beside her. But the power holding her palm was like a shackle, making her completely unable to move.
She was somewhat anxious, but also didn't know what to do. While her little heart kept accelerating, she couldn't help but urgently say to Eimhart.
"Mr. Book, over there... Hurry up and leave here to check on Big Brother... I'm worried about him..."
"I... I'm caught by her, I can't fly up... Woo-woo, we have all been discovered by her..."
"Eh, caught?"
Alicia was slightly stunned. She couldn't help turning to look at Eimhart standing on her shoulder beside her. There was nothing around him, but he himself seemed to be imprisoned by something, unable to leave the spot no matter how he struggled...
She couldn't help gulping down a mouthful of saliva, turning to look at "Empress Elizabeth" beside her who firmly grasped her hand and refused to let go.
"Rumble!!"
Amid the smoke and gas of the church explosion, a sonic boom suddenly bloomed within it, rolling up billowing smoke like a storm and quickly drilling out from the half-collapsed ruins.
Catching the eye was an extremely beautiful figure wrapped in cyan-green feathers. It was like that beautiful and robust Demi-human Race from legends, precisely the posture of the phoenix that was the "co-ruler" passed down by word of mouth in the Northern Border.
That last phoenix, Valentina, had by now completely detached from the human body constructed from Life Chaos and reverted to her original phoenix posture. She was uninjured but still, because of that huge impact force, flew dozens of meters out to barely stop on the grass outside the church.
"Fisher!"
But before she had time to do anything else, she hurriedly looked with worry toward the church enveloped by billowing smoke, as if she still wanted to go back.
Because just now, she didn't have time to pull Fisher out.
But exactly at this moment of raising her eyes, she saw an unacceptable sight, abruptly freezing mechanically on the spot.
She instead saw that in front of the ruins of that church, Elizabeth in a black gauze dress, who had inexplicably detached from it as well, tightly hugged the man named "Fisher" in her embrace. At this moment, because all the outer clothing on Fisher had turned into stones just now, when he was forcefully pulled out of the stones by Elizabeth, only the white shirt inside remained.
And at this moment, Elizabeth was firmly pressing against his back with one hand, tearing his shirt, which already had precarious durability, into pieces, and locked his chin with the other hand like a pair of pliers...
The power coming from Elizabeth's wrist at this moment was absolutely an irresistible force capable of overpowering a human body.
"Elizabeth, you..."
But the moment she opened her mouth was interrupted. Next moment Elizabeth grasped the present and fiercely lowered her head...
Consequently, coincidentally, exactly at the moment when Valentina raised her eyes, she saw the sight of Elizabeth making intimate contact with Fisher, or rather, saw Elizabeth unilaterally "blaspheming" Fisher?
"Mua"
As if to express all the longing for not seeing him for so many years, the reproaches for not seeing him for so long, and the joy of reuniting after a long separation, Elizabeth disregarded everything and bit by bit ripped off the white shirt on his body, pressed down his wrists that wanted to resist, and issued exaggerated sounds of demand, which seemed especially ear-piercing even in front of the Cardinals flying all over the sky...
Or rather, was it solely ear-piercing for Valentina?
"Fisher..."
Valentina, who had just raised her head, suddenly froze mechanically on the spot. While that intoxicated Elizabeth, with her eyes closed, also fluttered her slender golden eyelashes to slightly open her eyes, looking coldly and provocatively at Valentina not far away, as if declaring to her:
"Your husband will belong to me from now on."
"Crack crack crack!!"
Valentina tightly gnashed her teeth. The Divine Light on her body became increasingly hard to contain, and the clouds in the sky also began to become exceptionally gloomy because of this, seemingly coagulating into some storm up in the sky.
She fiercely raised the sword in her hand, and the rims of her eyes also slightly reddened.
"Elizabeth!! How dare you!!"
Such an erotic method of kissing, it was like wanting to eat Fisher up... Even the tongue... The tongues must have touched too?!!
I am clearly Fisher's wife...
Even I haven't tried this kind of kissing method yet, how could you...
No! This old woman!!
Clearly you are already over the hill, you have no husband yet you snatch someone else's husband!!
This kind of humiliation...
The more Valentina thought about it, the angrier she got. Her originally bright and snowy brain instantly surged with Qi and blood at this moment, evidently enraged into letting it go to her head.
She pulled out her sword, and the wings behind her that symbolized the phoenix's powerful strength fiercely spread open, just exactly looking like a to-the-death appearance.
"You damn old woman!! You are bullying too far!!"
"Wait, small fry, calm down a bit!!"
Tao Gong's voice in her mind rang incessantly like an alarm bell, reminding her to pay attention to the danger of Pandora's power, and first asking her to act rationally.
"This human woman, she absolutely has the power of that Pandora inside her body, but exactly how much and by what means she inherited it, I still do not understand. If she possesses Pandora's complete power, or even most of it, we will be very dangerous today!! Don't forget, this is Naris, not your Wutong Tree! If an accident happens to you, the consequences will be very serious!! We have to leave here first!"
Actually, from Tao Gong's rational perspective, quickly leaving Fisher behind and leaving now was the best strategy.
Her power had not yet fully recovered now. With the great enemy of Chaos ahead, she didn't want to waste it on this meaningless struggle, not to mention she hadn't completely figured out how that power of Pandora appeared on the human empress in front of her after crossing ten thousand years. Therefore, she suggested the isolated and helpless Valentina quickly retreat, otherwise it would be troublesome when those Cardinals comparable to high ranks surrounded them.
After all, judging from what that human empress did to Fisher, even if she left him here nothing serious would happen, at most his kidneys or something would be hurt. Or arguably, she actually thought Valentina had some understanding of the romantic debts her dead husband owed back then. When she just woke up in the Wutong Tree, she had openly and covertly reminded Valentina of these things...
Only, she was ultimately a condescending Mythical Species, and quite naturally she didn't know how angry Valentina, who regarded herself as a "wife," would be when seeing her husband "humiliated" by someone.
"Fisher is still in her hands!! How could I leave right now?! And in front of my face I...!"
"You small fry, really..."
However, Tao Gong was ultimately just a guest lodging over on her body and couldn't make decisions on her behalf. In the next moment, Valentina was already going to continue advancing to fight Elizabeth to the death; she must at least snatch Fisher back!
While seeing Valentina lifting her sword forward, Elizabeth, who was kissing Fisher while slightly opening her eyes, flashed golden light in her eyes.
Just as she was about to make a move, Fisher once again realized through tacit understanding that Elizabeth was preparing something, waiting for Valentina to come forward and send herself onto death.
No...
Seeing that the power of a mortal in his hands couldn't break free from Elizabeth, he could only adopt a very primitive method of resistance.
In his lips, the tongue he was previously slightly resisting suddenly relaxed its defense, posing an appearance of letting Elizabeth demand as she pleased. Elizabeth was slightly stunned but didn't fall for the trick. Seeing Fisher's tongue retreating and no longer advancing to attack, and even looking at him, obviously she had already tacitly seen through his little trick.
Sometimes, understanding a person too well and having tacit agreement with her is not a good thing, is it?
"..."
"Fisher!!"
Not far away, Valentina had already spread her giant wings, bringing along sonic booms while rapidly swooping down toward this side, striking over at extremely fast speeds. And in an eye's blink was about to fall into Elizabeth's trap.
It was going to be too late!
Fisher hesitated for a moment, and amidst deep contemplation unexpectedly made a proactive strike, and directly kissed her back. And right in front of Valentina's line of sight, he launched a proactive offensive on Elizabeth's lips and teeth extremely implicitly!
"Mua!"
Elizabeth was somewhat at a loss by this sudden response. The rhythm that was originally rich in aggressive desire was abruptly interrupted. This was just like preparing oneself to cautiously pet an ill-tempered, cutest cat in the world that resents being petted, only to find that upon laying hands, the cat that originally hissed and gave airplane ears suddenly became docile, and comfortably began to "purr".
By all odds this would still make people bewildered, and Elizabeth at this moment was exactly like this.
I was preparing to force myself upon you, and you are acting so proactive right now?
Could it be you want to eat canned cat food... No, is this a conspiracy?
Elizabeth blinked her eyes. Just as she was about to think this way in her heart, her lover's proactive embrace and kiss couldn't help but blur her gaze. Her previously shackle-like solid hands and body were slowly melted bit by bit by Fisher's enthusiasm, subconsciously losing resistance.
Good opportunity!!
In the next second, Fisher fiercely stood up his body while pressing her wrists. Taking advantage of the moment she was still intoxicated in that kiss, he retreated a step or two, turned to look at Valentina, and stopped her from continuing forward.
"Valentina, turn around! Leave here first!"
Valentina was slightly stunned. The swooping down spreading her wings close to the ground came to an abrupt end. At a close-to-ground timing, she fiercely twisted her body, and the enormous air impact force wrapped around it capsized toward the ground.
At this last moment, she still allowed reason to gain the upper hand. She fiercely reached out and grabbed Fisher's hand, about to leave this place that was soon to be heavily surrounded.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth's body behind was still in a weak state. She only reacted when Fisher let go at this moment. However, in the next second, the violent wind blown by Valentina's flight had already blown her black gauze messily, and her entire person uncontrollably collapsed to the ground, flying backward for quite a distance.
Between this retreat and advance, when Elizabeth contracted her hollow pupils again and raised her eyes to look into mid-air, Valentina was already leading her beloved Fisher and had flown a hundred meters out.
Her pupils were about to crack, and her whole expression also lost control and became slightly ferocious, finally roaring exhaustedly toward Fisher in mid-air.
"Fischer Benavides!! How long are you still going to make me wait?!! How long are you still going to escape?! Tell me!!! Tell me!! Woo-woo... Tell me!!"
Her eye rims reddened bit by bit. Amidst a sorrowful broken voice, the terrifying power hidden in her pupils seemed to have also awakened along with her emotions.
In the very next moment, everything that met her eyes, the Cardinals flying densely in the sky, the grass, the mountains in the distance, together with the two back figures fleeing away from her... began to bizarrely turn into gray-white stone.
That terrifying, magnificent petrification traced back from extremely far away, turning everything she saw from a distance into lifeless stone.
"Hurry! Pandora's power is still rising!! I simply suspect that the human jammed Pandora's entire person into her head! How is this possible..."
Valentina felt the terror behind. Tao Gong's increasingly serious and ice-cold voice in her mind also came simultaneously, making her not dare to be negligent. She quickly took out the Slime Token from her bosom used for teleportation.
"Fisher, we will leave here immediately. I will take you back to the Northern Border first..."
"..."
However behind her, Fisher whose hand was grabbed by her didn't have any response, just kept remaining silent.
"Woo-woo..."
Only, behind them, Elizabeth's sorrowful, angry cries of weeping diffused in his heart like that petrification that kept extending unceasingly, causing his body in mid-air to also tremble uncontrollably.
He pursed his lips, and after a moment of silence, lowered his voice and spoke.
"...Valentina, Eimhart and my teacher's granddaughter are still with her, I have to go save them."
"No problem, after we return I will immediately deploy forces. The power in her eyes is very strange, we have to properly research—"
But amidst desperation, Valentina unknowingly didn't hear that what Fisher said was only an excuse.
Only in the next second, before the golden value power of the slimes was about to fall from the sky into the Borderland, Valentina suddenly felt the hand of Fisher catching her proactively loosening from behind her.
"Fisher?"
Her entire body was wrapped in the teleporting golden light, but she looked back in disbelief at Fisher who proactively let go of his hand from her.
"Fisher?"
Fisher just faintly sighed with somewhat complex eyes, then spoke somewhat apologetically.
"I forgot to prepare the ring I owed you in advance for this meeting, but in my mind, I have already thought out what kind of custom-made style is suitable for you..."
"Ring? Right now? Fisher, you..."
But before Valentina finished her shocked words, she was completely wrapped in the golden teleporting light and quickly disappeared from the spot, heading toward the unknown "Borderland of Slimes".
"Buzz buzz buzz!!"
"Barion, Barion, Barion, Barion, Barion, Barion!!"
Amidst a sky full of slime value golden light, Fisher descended all the way just like this, finally crashing hard onto the somewhat moist grass, causing him to gasp in pain.
He lay on the ground and panted for quite a while. The hesitation and regret inevitably breeding in his heart gradually ebbed at this moment, vanishing into nothingness.
Because he heard the sound of Elizabeth's breakdown weeping seem to have stopped.
"..."
This alone, is good.
Fisher blinked his eyes, and only then slowly sat up while dragging a mortal's body that appeared exceptionally heavy while gasping in pain, wanting to seek out Elizabeth's voice. However, what caught his eye was a place empty of people.
"Elizab—"
"Bang!!"
Just as he was about to open his mouth to call out to the other party, in the next second, a massive impact suddenly hit the back of his head.
His pupils slightly widened, and his whole person instantly lost consciousness, falling in front of the black dress behind him. It was just that before thoroughly passing out, he still heard that seemingly near yet distant joyous murmuring.
"Great... Great, Fisher... You came back... In this way..."
"We will very shortly be together forever."
"Forever."