novelraw Chapter 661: Desire
Chapter 661: Desire
"That Teardrop Relic on her body possesses a dense aura of death chaos, not only possessing a consciousness of its own, the most crucial problem lies in, within it still lodges the complete power of an Archangel provided for driving..."
Hearing Fisher's conjecture, the "eye" of the Lord of Fate nodded. That mouth of hers always floating atop her head was finally also no longer outside her body, but flew back onto that face of hers wrapped in ropes. Thus, the ropes on her face slightly untied a bit, revealing her lips.
"Exactly how did that prosthetic eye come about? Ten thousand years ago when I was still beside Asuka, the Tear of the World Tree vanished out of thin air in the Ideal State, the two Archangels Pandora and Remiel also died there bafflingly and unaccountably. Then after that, this thing was born..."
"Destiny cannot see clearly its causes of formation. Once this kind of situation arises it means chaotic power participated within it. However the current key lies in, must eliminate the 'Trinity of Death' gestating within her body. Those assassins all voluntarily came to help me, their homeland was snatched away by Naris, driven by hatred to become the cannon fodder of my operation this time..."
Fisher looked at the Lord of Fate before his eyes, he opened his mouth saying.
"Your original plan towards Elizabeth was also exactly like towards Alicia, killing them, right?"
"Accurately speaking, it was towards this little girl. As for Elizabeth, I don't possess absolute certainty. I am unclear to what degree the chaos within her body has gestated, and also don't know how much of the Archangel's power she can exert. So I can only rely on these people of the eastern side attracting her attention while attempting to kill her with a single strike in the dark... But since you are here, it seems the plan cannot be executed as originally planned then."
"..."
"Hong long long!"
Fisher remained silent for a moment. Following which gnashing his teeth thinking for a second, outside the room, the temporary palace which originally became exceptionally busy due to the Naris Empress's arrival suddenly transmitted a loud explosive sound reverberating through the clouds. Afterwards the entire ground along with the buildings above it swayed slightly, seemingly some kind of highly explosive dynamite or some kind of high-level lethal magic was detonated."Weng weng weng!"
Within the entire temporary palace the Cardinals originally on standby very quickly became noisy like a swarm of bees, obviously discovering the actions of these assassins invading.
But Fisher wasn't worried about the actions of these assassins. Like the Lord of Fate said, these assassins were originally just cover she set up to attempt assassinating Elizabeth, these ordinary humans couldn't do anything to Elizabeth.
And after a brief hesitation, Fisher then already had a decision. He rapidly arrived by Alicia's side stretching out his hand towards her.
"I will leave flesh and blood altering Alicia's constitution here first, then I will go find her, telling these matters to her, attempting to make the death chaos detach from her."
"..."
But the Lord of Fate beside merely quietly watched him lower his body placing his hand on little Alicia's forehead. After a moment, she then sighed a breath, laughing somewhat mockingly.
"Fisher, in this world only emotions will add a filter to one's perspective, Asuka was like this, you are also like this... Only a pity, your Elizabeth is not like this."
"What's the meaning?"
Fisher turned his head looking at the Lord of Fate beside him, but she merely smiled not speaking. Following which saying to him.
"Nothing... My originally established plan can already not continue, you won't let me kill Elizabeth, and right now I also don't have time to prepare methods to kill her. Such being the case, then just do according to your thoughts. I will hide behind following you, this... thing upon your body able to hide you might just unexpectedly have miraculous effects against those chaos, I won't get close then, unless the situation changes."
Fisher broke off a few of his own fingers, imitating Agreas's application turning the broken off fingers into flesh and blood transforming Alicia's constitution. Following which placing those fingers on Alicia's forehead. Those fingers then bit at Alicia's forehead exactly like crawling worms, staying upon it unmoving.
Only needing to alter a little bit is fine, won't harm this little fellow's body. She will still be human afterwards, it's just she will lose that precious "Treasure" trait. This process will last a relatively long period of time before completion, exactly so he also must hurry to Elizabeth's side.
"...Mm, Eimhart, let's go."
After finishing doing all this, his broken fingers grew out out of thin air anew. He then just called Eimhart who was always floating in mid-air beside him, preparing to leave.
"Hi hi, we're finally together again, staying with this little brat every day bored me to death."
Eimhart whistled flying back onto Fisher's shoulder. Fisher patted his book cover, taking one more glance at the Lord of Fate beside him gradually transforming from human shape back into eyes and mouth again. Following which not saying anything else, merely soothing the tentacles of Azanroth upon his body down again, entering the concealed state. Only then lightly tapping one step, then transforming into a blurry afterimage vanishing within the room.
Only leaving Alicia alone frowning in place, seemingly extremely uncomfortable.
"Ah ah ah ah!"
"Quickly flee ah! There are assassins!! Asssassins!"
"Your Majesty?! Protect Her Majesty!"
"Where is Her Majesty? Quickly go find Her Majesty!"
"Her Majesty is on the beach, quickly, guards, quickly go to the beach, assassins have already entered there!"
"Weng weng weng!"
The entire temporary palace fell into unbearable chaos because of the assassins the Lord of Fate let in using spatial power. Especially the previous explosion directly blew off the temporary palace's electricity and the covered bridge connecting to the sandy beach. Back then over there were entirely servants busying themselves listening to Elizabeth preparing for the honeymoon activities. When the incident occurred suddenly they all squeezed into a ball, making the guards entering from outside the main gates only able to choose detouring from outside the temporary palace.
But the Cardinals capable of flying above the celestial vault could take a step ahead. Simultaneously, there was also Fisher directly flying out from the side palace directly flying towards the sandy beach.
Crossing the Cardinals fluttering in confusion around him, a distance of a thousand meters arrived in a twinkling. The previous second Fisher was still inside the room, the next second he then already appeared upon the sandy beach.
Originally the sandy beach of the royal private beach was famous for its color as pure white as snow, but at this moment due to the previous explosion, on the white sandy beach close to the temporary palace there were many more building fragments and charcoal blocks dyed pitch-black.
Fisher raised his eyes taking a look, then discovering in front there originally was also a temporarily set up beach venue. The shape of a room carved hollow on all four sides, exactly able to enjoy a candlelit dinner in front of the beach. Looking like it was precisely prepared for their original honeymoon trip, but at this moment it also collapsed because of the explosion. The fine wine, tables and chairs and the sort placed within spilled all over the ground.
On the uneven sandy beach, the servants who lost their lives suffering the attack swayed unsteadily scattered about, many even had their bodies mutilated, which goes to show the explosion occurred extremely close to them.
Yet what's weird was, at this moment the entire sandy beach appeared exceptionally quiet, exactly as if everything had never occurred, leaving vainly the sound of ocean waves slapping the coast.
"Elizabeth?!"
Fisher could only open his mouth calling Elizabeth, incidentally walking towards the direction of the ocean. And the more he walked towards there, large patches upon large patches of humanoid stone statues then entered Fisher's line of sight.
Not only humans, together with the greater half of that constructed hollow housing and a small patch of waves on the ocean, at this moment had all transformed into stones of some unknown material, as if freezing time at the moment the attack occurred just now.
And on the edge of the coast, the center of all the petrification phenomena, a golden-haired back figure kneeling on the ground instantly grabbed Fisher's gaze.
"Elizabeth!"
That back figure slightly blanked, following which turning her head back, it was precisely Elizabeth Godlin intact without any damage.
Her hollow golden eyes and expressionless face upon seeing Fisher exactly resembled spring snow thawing. She smiled standing up walking towards him with quick steps, quite worried asking.
"Are you alright? Just now there somehow got messy over there, surprisingly letting this gang of guys sneak in. You are so weak right now, if..."
She subconsciously stretched out her hand to caress Fisher's body, but yet slightly blanked instantly upon touching him. Following which, her hollow golden eyes raised a little bit, looking at him abruptly asking.
"You recovered from the state of ordinary human?"
"Mm..."
Fisher nodded, but after confirming Elizabeth was indeed entirely fine, even if he knew this outcome in advance, he still sighed a breath of relief. Following which, he sized up a glance at the assassins all around basically entirely transformed into stone blocks, still couldn't help but open his mouth saying.
"Compared to this, Elizabeth, I have a very important matter to tell you, this matter is very very impor..."
He spoke halfway, yet discovering Elizabeth at this moment was looking at her with a gaze that made him quite uncomfortable. Fisher couldn't well describe that kind of feeling, because looking at it her gaze still had no difference from that kind of hollowness previously. If he had to say it, he just felt this gaze was more dangerous compared to the line of sight previously?
But after Fisher paused, that gaze then vanished exactly like an illusion. Elizabeth raised her head looking at him in doubt, opening her mouth asking.
"What very important matter do you want to say? Is it related to the assassination this time?"
"Unrelated... What I want to say is, a matter I have been always attempting to resolve after I separated from you a very long time ago, leaving Naris. Elizabeth, above the current time there has always been a matter enveloping above all of our heads. There is a prophecy capable of destroying the entire world, it involves many people and matters in this world, even the rules by which this world operates, and even the deities humans are ignorant of are implicated within it..."
Fisher looked at Elizabeth, attempting as much as possible to explain many past matters sufficiently briefly to Elizabeth.
This point was actually quite difficult, because he needed to avoid stepping on landmines with names of other females to avoid drawing away Elizabeth's attention. Honestly speaking, he also didn't really want to dump all such bad deeds of himself having relationships with other ladies onto the World-Ending Prophecy.
"Elizabeth, because I want to resolve the World-Ending Prophecy, that's why I slept with those demi-human girl ladies, you have to believe me."
If Fisher said it like this, don't even mention if Elizabeth believed it or not, just the eyes of Eimhart beside him would probably roll to the sky.
But the current Fisher truly wanted to elaborate the severity of this problem for Elizabeth. Those matters with other ladies were responsibilities he had to bear, how to talk about it later whatever is fine.
"...Can you understand, Elizabeth? Outside this world there are currently enemies as powerful as deities attempting to invade this world. Before I left Naris, whether going to Schwari, going to the Southern Continent, going to the Northern Border, up to vanishing for this entire four and a half years, are all closely related to this prophecy of annihilation. I want to stop it from occurring, letting everything in this world remain...
"Before I didn't tell you these because you didn't have the most direct connection with this World-Ending Prophecy, what more we even produced estrangement because of those matters, separating from each other for a period of time... But it's different now, Elizabeth, you are now targeted by the enemies invading this world. Can you understand the danger within this? Targeting you might be a powerful deity we cannot comprehend, this is an extremely dangerous matter."
While listening, Elizabeth also turned her head looking at the honeymoon cottage that collapsed because of the assassination attack beside her. She slowly paced towards behind Fisher, with some pity looking towards the shattered black mamba red wine bottle on the ground.
"What a pity, this bottle was a century-old fine vintage I specially prepared for our honeymoon, but now so easily wasted..."
"Elizabeth, this is already not a question of honeymoon or no honeymoon, right now the important thing is not what honeymoon. I am not lying to you, this is also not some excuse and reason. Regarding the matters of other females I confess them all, but this truly isn't an excuse for me to evade again, I am serious..."
But Elizabeth merely let out a long breath, then turning her head walking towards the ocean.
"No, Fisher, you are wrong... Right now, the important thing is still the honeymoon. The assassins over here have already been resolved, I'll just have those servants prepare anew and that's fine, it's just it will be slightly later that's all."
She lowered her head picking up that half-shattered wine bottle. Her two hands cupping the slightly swaying, yet-to-be-fully-spilled wine within. Barefoot stepping on those sands which had completely turned into stones, emitting crisp ringing sounds.
Fisher frowned, hurriedly attempting to pull her back figure with his eyes. But following the sea breeze gently stroking past, what was pulled onto was only the fluttering slender white skirt hem on her body.
At this moment it was already approaching dusk. At this place closest to the ocean, the ocean in front possessed no mountains to obstruct, then was able to see the horizon where water and sky connected into one color.
Above the celestial vault the dusky sunset glow was exactly like the scarlet wine leaking out from that shattered wine bottle, dyeing the clouds like thin cotton thoroughly red, leading to the sea surface connecting the sky being polluted as well.
Looking carefully, that originally wasn't any sunset glow, but the illusory scarlet mist revealed by the shattered crevice. At this moment, the crevice burning in the Southern Continent had already crossed the ocean, arriving upon the sea surface not far from the West Continent.
From when Fisher left the Southern Continent arriving at the West Continent, it's just been properly a bit over half a month.
The burning speed of the crevice was still continuously accelerating.
"You... tyrant!!"
Elizabeth cupping the shattered wine bottle arrived at the edge of the sandy beach. In front of the ocean, at this moment, amidst the bunch of petrified "matter" to the side, a miserable and shrill roar of anger suddenly transmitted out from within the stones.
Casting eyes taking a look, it was originally an assassin who hadn't died yet half-embedded within the stones, currently difficultly opening his mouth roaring angrily towards that Elizabeth who walked to the seaside.
Pandora's petrification was absolutely not as simple as covering an object's external appearance with a layer of stone. This kind of transformation was completely irreversibly turning the essence of existence into stone blocks. And exactly as such, at this time that assassin still surviving embedded within the stones was because his upper body was blocked by companions in front thus escaping by sheer luck.
But upon his body, his entire part below the chest cavity had already all transformed into stones, which also meant, he lost all organs below the chest cavity, obviously not long for this world.
Even like this, he still stared at Elizabeth before his eyes with eyes full of hatred, using a voice exactly like a wild beast cursing and howling towards her.
"Your Holy Ointment Army snatched our hometown, why?! Why must you do this? Tyrant? Besides death and chaos, what did you obtain? Why, that was originally a place devastated everywhere, why when we obviously already faced precarious situations like this, finally having a time to catch our breaths, why must you still add a handful of fire on top?"
His angry roar and questioning came from an ordinary person massacred by the Holy Ointment Army supported by Naris on the eastern side of the West Continent. Only a pity, an ordinary person seemed so insignificant in front of ranks, similarly so within the World-Ending Prophecy.
Only a pity, it was exactly like Elizabeth turned a deaf ear.
Fisher sighed a breath stepping forward. He took a glance at that assassin not long for this world beside him, couldn't bear but feel sympathy, wanting to obtain an answer for him. Because he knew, if it was himself inquiring, Elizabeth would definitely answer himself.
"Elizabeth, you doing all these is very likely to have been bewildered by Pandora's prosthetic eyes, you don't understand what kind of dangerous thing that is after all, you don't understand the power coming from what existence is boarded within it, He..."
"End of Impurity, right, Fisher?"
But Elizabeth merely smiled slightly, accurately speaking out that noun.
Fisher slightly blanked, looking at Elizabeth standing by the sea before his eyes, watching her shake the shattered red wine bottle in her hand, following which gently tilting it, slowly pouring the liquid stored within into the ocean.
That scarlet wine liquid compared to the ocean was nothing but a drop in the ocean, probably in a brief time would dissipate into formlessness. It's just that within Elizabeth's hollow eyes, the liquid within that cup yet hadn't depleted, instead something dense became increasingly thick and heavy...
"Fisher, perhaps you always thought it was Pandora's prosthetic eyes manipulating me, thought, my mentality was influenced by the words she spoke and her abilities?"
Elizabeth's hollow gaze looked at the ocean. Following which, she shook her head simultaneously as she smiled. Amidst her "hehe" sneering, she continued to say.
"No, you are wrong. In Naris five years ago I already told you, she doesn't have any demands towards me, just hoping to see me pursue the things I want that's all... In other words, it's not Pandora's prosthetic eyes picking me, but I picked Pandora's prosthetic eyes..."
"And right now, what I want is exactly this honeymoon."
(End of this chapter)