novelraw Chapter 655: Strange Cardinal
Chapter 655: Strange Cardinal
"..."
After receiving the response from Azanroth's incarnation, Fisher blinked his eyes, being left speechless for a moment.
Perhaps when encountering Demi-Human Girl Con's old friend Cidi in the Demon Dynasty, or when entering her hideout and seeing the various items she left behind... Fisher had already made some conjectures about her relationship with him. But at this moment, seeing Azanroth's incarnation bring up this term once more, he still felt some emotion.
He probably couldn't have been born from Demi-Human Girl Con's belly, but it was undeniable that the source of his life was inextricably linked to Demi-Human Girl Con.
So in this sense, she should indeed be considered his mother?
Fisher didn't know, so he could only open his mouth seeking an answer from Azanroth's incarnation.
"Is she truly my mother?"
But after he opened his mouth, Azanroth's incarnation before his eyes remained unmoved. It was only then that he was reminded again that the incarnation before his eyes couldn't understand his language. He had no choice but to use the previous method again, writing out what he wanted to say translated through the Demi-Human Completion Handbook for the tentacle to read, and then it would write it out and let Fisher copy it before translating and reading it.
In short, this was a very troublesome process, but very quickly Fisher realized this tentacle could also see the existence of the Demi-Human Completion Handbook. He then only needed to write on the Demi-Human Completion Handbook to let it help translate. With the process slightly simplified, it could also be considered an unimpeded conversational exchange.
"Is she truly my mother?""What do you think?"
"I don't understand."
"She created you for some unknown reason, granting you soul and life. However, you indeed weren't born normally from a belly, because she doesn't have XX, and it was hard for her to choose which demi-human female to tie the knot with. She always said only kids make choices... For her who took both men and women, not being born from anyone's belly was good news."
"This is too..."
Fisher didn't have time to write the remaining adjectives on the paper, because halfway through writing he didn't know how to put pen to paper. Originally he wanted to condemn her a bit, but thinking carefully the things he did seemed to be even more bastardly, so he couldn't very well scold himself together with her.
"Then, where is she now, is she still alive?"
"I don't know."
Looking at this simple line of text on the Demi-Human Completion Handbook, Fisher raised his eyebrows. But that tentacle continuously moved on the Completion Handbook, writing out more text.
"I was split out from the authority's blessing originally on her body. After she put me in a box and left it for you, I didn't know her whereabouts..."
Then, is it possible Demi-Human Girl Con has already died?
Fisher still remembered in the room where he obtained the tentacle before his eyes, he saw a large amount of bloody limbs. Thus it wasn't hard to imagine what kind of torture she was suffering during that final period of time. So at this moment he couldn't determine her whereabouts either.
However, Fisher could be almost certain that the main reason causing her such a miserable state previously must be related to the Chaos invading this world.
But precisely because of this, the question Fisher originally wanted to ask was also occupied by another larger doubt.
"But, shouldn't she have been enveloped by the Concealment Blessing like me? If so, even if she read content related to other Completion Handbooks she shouldn't have been affected by the power of Chaos. How did those Chaoses that could cause damage to her take effect?"
Regarding this, the tentacle's response hesitated slightly for a moment. Fisher clearly felt its writing movements become full of bluntness. After quite a while, the text on the Demi-Human Completion Handbook continued to be written out by it.
"There are some powerful deities, as long as any title corresponding to Them is mentioned, it will be detected, even if it is under the Shelter of 'Concealment'. For thousands of years, she had always been safe and sound under the shelter of the blessing, until one day she deciphered the truth of the World-Ending Prophecy and chanted out that corresponding title, thereby suffering the disaster of completely wiped out... Although she kept her life, she suffered the erosion of Chaos at all times."
Powerful deities, a power that could even see through the Concealment Blessing?
At this moment, suddenly feeling a chill down his spine, he thought of something. An idea rushed to his heart along with the surging of inspiration, making him lift the pen wanting to ask the tentacle about a clue possibly related to this powerful deity.
But the Naris text for "Diane" had just been started when Fisher thought of its reminder just now, worrying that even writing out that name would be discovered.
Thus, he cunningly changed to another question, asking the tentacle.
"Running into yesterday morning, were you scared?"
This question was quite cunning, because it bypassed directly discussing that unidentified inner court official head. But as the incarnation of Azanroth, those ordinary invading Chaoses shouldn't be able to arouse excessive vigilance from him. And if it admitted to being scared itself, Fisher would also be able to be certain of the power behind that inner court official head.
"..."
The tentacle stalemated for quite a while, before reluctantly writing on the book.
"...Yes."
And this, also indicated from the side, that inner court official head Diane very likely had a connection with that powerful deity invading this world it spoke of.
This was troublesome now.
The prosthetic eyes on Elizabeth had problems, the inner court official head beside her was a running dog of some deity, and that little girl he brought back was the Base selected by Life Chaos.
This Golden Palace was leaking wind from all sides, making Fisher, currently situated under warm room temperature, suddenly feel cold all over for a moment. Only the little tentacle beside him that could conceal his existence gave him the few senses of security.
Fisher didn't dare to ask more in this aspect, fearing he would walk the old path of Demi-Human Girl Con. Fortunately, he hadn't forgotten what the original purpose of launching a conversation with the tentacle this time was.
He rewrote his needs onto the paper. He needed to use transcendent power to launch research on the Treasure of Life, and hoped it could give an answer. And the tentacle truly gave Fisher a detailed response.
First of all, those things Fisher mentioned could truly be done.
Theoretically speaking, not only could he actively control the switch, targeted subjects, scope and degree of the blessing, he could also use transcendent power enveloped under the blessing and attach the concealed power onto certain other people, matters and things.
But there was one most crucial problem which lay in, according to this tentacle's own words, it was still incomplete. It needed to recover the power of the Concealment Blessing scattered and used by Demi-Human Girl Con in the past. Only this way could it proceed step by step to lift the imprisonment on the blessing.
Otherwise before then, the blessing would be in a fully powered uncontrollable state. The tentacle also listed some specific locations for Fisher. To his rejoicing, these unrecovered blessings were almost all within the borders of Naris.
Before her whereabouts disappeared, Demi-Human Girl Con seemed to have always stayed near Naris. This instead gave Fisher an opportunity to exploit. Later on he could just let Elizabeth take him there directly...
"Clatter!"
But right after Fisher obtained the crucial information from the tentacle here, a slight sound of collision suddenly sounded from outside the window.
He was truly worried that lifting his head he would see that "Diane" standing outside the window smiling entirely and waving at him. If that were the case it would truly be a horror story.
There was nothing more terrifying than right now being discovered by an extra deity that even Azanroth couldn't resist against.
But fortunately, outside the window there was only the faint light of the morning sun, without that terrifying human figure.
Could it be he heard wrongly?
After he restored to an ordinary person his hearing wasn't as good as before. Sometimes a slight rustle in the wind passing by would also be mistakenly identified as an auditory hallucination due to distracted thinking?
But Fisher still immediately closed the Demi-Human Completion Handbook in his hand that he was using to converse with the tentacle, and carefully walked to the window sizing up the scene outside.
It was better not to look, looking gave a shock.
Just as he stood by the window sizing up the outside, he suddenly saw a Cardinal outside the window seemingly used to monitor the airspace of the Golden Palace flying down, hovering at low altitude outside the window hitting up sizing inside.
However even though Fisher stood inside the window in front of the Cardinal, that Cardinal still wasn't able to see him.
Is it Elizabeth?
"Elizabeth?"
Fisher opened the window, treating this Cardinal as Elizabeth's "eyes" hitting him up sizing in the front courtyard. And exactly as Fisher previously deduced, when he subjectively and subconsciously believed the Cardinal before his eyes was Elizabeth's "eyes" looking at him, the Cardinal before his eyes hitting up sizing the interior of the Golden Palace in this second suddenly saw his existence through the blessing.
"Beep beep!"
The Cardinal before his eyes was startled with a shudder, even rolling an unbalanced circle in mid-air, making Fisher somewhat speechless and break into laughter.
But very quickly, the flying Cardinal before his eyes swiftly charged towards him. Fisher was slightly stunned, and gently opened his arms. Sure enough, this Cardinal before his eyes dived into his embrace in one swoop, as if wanting to hug him.
Fisher was slightly stunned. Emracing the Cardinal in his embrace he raised it up a bit higher, looking at it laughing.
"Didn't you just leave, and you already miss me? Also how did you manage to do this, using what method to operate this Cardinal so dexterously?"
Previously Fisher had seen how Elizabeth used that ring worn on her hand to operate Cardinals, but even using her method, it was merely issuing execution commands to the Cardinal. But this monitoring Cardinal before his eyes was extremely nimble and lively, just like she was borrowing this Cardinal's sensory organs, very miraculous.
"..."
Yet upon hearing Fisher's words, the Golden Palace monitoring Cardinal in his embrace merely raised its head looking at him, without saying a word.
Without saying a word was actually understandable, this kind of Cardinal wasn't equipped with any vocalizing devices anyway. But for some unknown reason, it itself also didn't have any other actions, seemingly just looking at him like this. This inevitably made Fisher bewildered opening his mouth again calling out a sound.
"Elizabeth?"
"..."
Who knew, after Fisher spoke this name, the Cardinal in his embrace became even more stiff and motionless, as if that Cardinal flickering with moonstone radiance also suddenly crashed, not daring to move its body, staying dumbfounded on the spot.
This Cardinal, why is it so strange?
Could it be the technology of the angels is too profound, and the people of Naris haven't completely grasped it yet?
This was also true. Previously Fisher discovered, when humans utilized Cardinals it was generally controlling them at close range using some remote control devices. Yet he clearly remembered, back then in the Ideal State, when Michael had just created the initial prototype of the Cardinal he could remotely command them from the Sanctuary to fly down and save people.
Although this was of course related to the artificial intelligence "David" inside the Cardinal, it was also enough to show the gap between the Cardinals currently used by Naris and the technology of the angels from thousands of years ago was very large.
Fisher looked at the dumbfounded Cardinal before his eyes, thinking it was some malfunction on Elizabeth's side so she temporarily couldn't control the Cardinal, thus he didn't concern himself with its reaction either. He merely embraced this dumbfolded Cardinal holding it carrying it back inside the bedchamber, incidentally also closing the window.
Who knew if Elizabeth was having a meeting discussing official business with that group of ministers and suddenly used the Cardinal to snatch a little leisure. Better to temporarily bring this Cardinal that seemed to have broken down back. He wasn't an expert in repairing this aspect either, wait until Elizabeth comes back to talk about it.
As for now...
He'd better go check on Alicia and Eimhart's side, to see if he could obtain a little bit of research progress regarding the "Treasure" when unable to use transcendent power, even if it was just a little.
Fisher placed that Cardinal that seemed to have broken down onto the table behind him where he ate breakfast. While he himself felt the clothes he just changed into weren't quite fitting, taking taking off his shirt preparing to change into another one.
He didn't realize, when he stripped off his clothes, the camera on the surface of that Cardinal lying on the table that seemed to have malfunctioned had also been twisting all along, following the movement of his voice, watching him strip off his clothes, revealing strong muscular muscles... and also the pink hickeys distributed all over them.
After Fisher changed his clothes he prepared to go out to look for Alicia and Eimhart. He turned off the lights inside the bedchamber and walked towards the door. Who knew "beep beep" sounds came from behind him again.
Looking back, that malfunctioning Cardinal for some unknown reason floated up again, slowly following behind him.
"Elizabeth? Have you fixed it?"
"..."
Still not saying a word, even starting to remain motionless, just following behind Fisher.
No, why does this Cardinal look weirder the more I look at it? What exactly is the situation here?
Fisher frowned, increasingly feeling the Cardinal before his eyes was extremely weird, preparing to walk forward to find out the truth, even having the thought of taking it apart to study it thoroughly. But outside the door, Eimhart's sound had already gotten closer and closer.
"Not good not good, a little incident happened to Alicia last night! Ouch!"
"Mr. Book..."
Alicia had an incident again?
Fisher's movement of walking towards the Cardinal halted. Turning his head back opening the main door of the bedchamber, he saw Alicia standing completely undamaged outside and Eimhart who was hugged in her embrace yelling and shouting loudly, looking extremely anxious.
"Shh... what's wrong?"
Fisher raised a finger making a silencing motion, while simultaneously vigilantly sizing up the surrounding environment, wanting to confirm whether that head maid named "Diane" was nearby. After seeing there was no one behind them, Fisher then looked at Alicia who was standing in front of the door pressing her lips together and Eimhart who wanted to say something to him.
"Last night... ooch, you don't know, she seemed to have had that whatever ghost dream again! You don't know what I saw?! I saw it with my own eyes her body produced a transformation during sleep! Like... alas, so hard to say, in short it was various bizarre objects not belonging to a human growing out from within her body! Growing while also sleep talking..."
Eimhart looked at Fisher nervously, performing the sleep talk Alicia said at that time.
"What did she say... ah, 'time is almost running out', 'descending immediately'... this kind of words, tell me is it scary or not?!"
"Big brother..."
Fisher looked at Alicia, she also lowered her head with a somewhat sad expression. Obviously she couldn't control herself at all, even if Eimhart hadn't told her this matter, she wouldn't even know what exactly happened last night.
While right when Fisher had completely placed his attention tightly onto the Alicia before his eyes, behind him, that weird Cardinal floating in mid-air motionless still used its surface camera to stare at Fisher's back figure.
Just not long ago, in the Northern Border isolated by mountains and seas thousands of miles away, inside the Wutong Tree, within a secret spacious office, or perhaps some kind of workshop, countless rays of slight blue Cardinal light resembling silk threads were currently surging within, illuminating the many piled up Cardinal parts inside the workshop.
And at the terminal ends of those large-scale data cables traveling among those parts, what it connected to, was a simple assembled metallic seat.
At this moment, a female with a tall and slender figure, a head of white hair, bearing extremely obvious apparent features of a Sardin Woman's Country person yet resembling an elegant young master was currently sitting on that metallic lounge chair. On her head was worn a pair of Cardinal head-mounted glasses. The glasses were also connected to a thick and long data cable below, seemingly this Sardin Woman's Country person was watching some scene from within these glasses.
As she watched, that Sardin Woman's Country person sitting on the chair couldn't help but firmly clench her fair and clear fingers, pulling a bit of abnormal redness out from the snow-like skin.
At this moment, what was revealed within those glasses, was the appearance of her beloved person displaying his body after stripping off his clothes.
Yet on those robust muscles, visibly everywhere were pink lip prints and hickeys domineeringly left behind by someone. This made her heart almost go into cardiac arrest, unable to catch her breath all at once.
She of course still remembered the situation when she was beside Fisher. She cherished Fisher very much, itching to use the gentlest method in the world to pour the love in her inner heart towards him.
Worried about hurting him, making him uncomfortable, even touching him had to be cautious and careful, terrified of harming his body, terrified of shattering him...
But why, why in the hands of other women, they could behave unscrupulously like this?
"Fisher, what exactly did you experience there..."
Alajina felt some heartache for Fisher, assuming he was forced to be so. After all Valentina also said he was captured by that Naris Empress...
How she wished she could open her mouth to speak, expressing her longing for him and care. But this Cardinal connected completely lacked a vocalizing function. She could only listen to Fisher looking at "herself", opening his mouth with some doubt.
"Didn't you just leave, and you already miss me? Also how did you manage to do this, using what method to operate this Cardinal so dexterously?"
"..."
"Elizabeth?"
"..."
Alajina couldn't open her mouth, only the fingers fastened on the steel seat clenched tighter and tighter, seemingly producing increasingly obvious fluctuations because of that name chanted out from Fisher's mouth.
But she still couldn't express it, only able to follow him, subsequently staring at his every action and movement inside the Golden Palace.
Fisher definitely didn't know the one looking at him right now was herself, right?
This was also no wonder...
She was already different from before. Not only did she secretly learn so much knowledge about Cardinals from that person called "David" inside that spirit world shelter, she could also apply them into reality.
Secondly, the network associated between Cardinals had been closed for so long, so he probably still thought these Cardinals were still under the control of that whateverElizabeth right? Alajina also researched for a long time before rebooting and connecting the network, and moreover it was only this one unit...
This could also show, Fisher was under that Elizabeth's monitoring at all times. To the point he had already been forced to accept this point, having to force a smile acting along when seeing Cardinal surveillance...
Truly dare not think, what kind of bitter days Fisher was living over there...
Alajina gritted her teeth, yet still couldn't express any words drawing support from that monitoring Cardinal. She could only act the role of that "strange Cardinal" in Fisher's eyes, expressing her longing and concern separated by thousands of miles.