novelraw Chapter 709: Re-Re-Re-Renee
Chapter 709: Re-Re-Re-Renee
At this moment, the synthesized voice of Lady Bojiang didn't sound like asking a question, but rather as vicious as a butcher sharpening his knife waiting to carve out a piece of meat from Fisher's body.
Somewhere in the dark, Fisher seemed to have noticed the underlying meaning behind Lady Bojiang asking these questions. He suddenly remembered when Gou Wen introduced Lady Bojiang to him earlier, he mentioned she used to be a supporter of the Mother Goddess in the past.
Although it couldn't directly prove she still possessed a connection with the current Renee, just like how the Chaos-kin, who were similarly supporters of the Mother Goddess, already had no intersection with Renee at this moment.
In the final analysis, Renee was a new consciousness independent of the Mother Goddess. But Fisher couldn't guarantee that Lady Bojiang truly had no connection whatsoever with Renee.
Right now they were still in the Spirit World. It looked like it was solely Lady Bojiang asking Fisher. If following the degree of difficulty in solving the problem, it would definitely be answering whoever asked. But the Gou Wen behind him representing Jasmine...
Speaking of which, earlier Gou Wen brought up the Moon in the Spirit World. It was just unknown whether he understood the relationship between Lady Bojiang and Renee. If he knew, could it be he was specifically waiting for him here.
Fisher breathed out. Within a short few seconds, countless surges of surging clouds rolled in his heart, but it didn't show on his face. He simply pondered,
"Female I know..."
Fisher's mind turned very fast. After a moment of silence, he raised his head to look at the drooping head of Lady Bojiang before him, speaking softly,
"Nun Teresa."Gou Wen behind him rubbed his brow, while Lady Bojiang's slightly rotating head swayed gently, as if expressing denial,
"You know what I'm asking. To a certain extent, this is evading the question..."
"That's right, that's right!"
Before Fisher even opened his mouth, Emhart, acting as the "new supporter of Jasmine," floated up and spoke with righteous indignation,
"Although you haven't said it verbally all this time, there is definitely an answer in your heart. I cast a vote for Jasmine. Having stayed by your side for so long, I've long been crystal clear about your thoughts!"
Fisher raised his eyebrows, looking at the unprincipled Emhart before him, not knowing down where he got this conclusion from.
He waved his fist at Emhart, immediately scaring him into sticking out his tongue and flying a bit further away.
But turning back to look at Lady Bojiang, Fisher only said,
"I have already truthfully answered all of your questions. Now is the time to fulfill your promise."
"No..."
"How is it truthful? If you ask me, why don't you just say Jas... Re-Re-Re-Renee?!"
"Enough!"
Right when Lady Bojiang was swaying the red threads in front of her head, and Emhart was also filled with righteous indignation wanting to say something more, behind Lady Bojiang, a black-haired silhouette carrying a faint fragrance appeared at some unknown time.
Only to see that woman with a Witch's appearance sigh. Crossing Lady Bojiang's body, she suddenly opened her mouth to stop it like this.
Meanwhile, Emhart, whose words were only halfway out of his mouth, was so scared by the suddenly appearing silhouette before his eyes that his entire book body turned pale. He couldn't even care about Fisher settling accounts, throwing himself into the net by hurriedly running behind the back of Fisher's head, his voice also growing quieter and quieter,
"...I think you should say Lady Renee... Mhm... Just like that..."
"Renee?"
Fisher was also a bit surprised. He originally only guessed that Lady Bojiang might have a connection with Renee, but he didn't expect Renee was actually right here.
Renee's purple eyes looked at Fisher whom she hadn't seen for a while, closely followed by a trace of a curved smile flowing out from between her brows.
Facing Fisher's surprise, Gou Wen also raised his eyebrows and walked to Fisher's side. Taking a look at the appearing Renee, he looked at Fisher with a speechless tone and said,
"No wonder Lady Bojiang didn't even open that Relic but wanted to ask you questions. So it turns out the avatar of the Moon is here."
"Every time I go looking for the Moon, she would pour out her heart to me over and over again and ask me about these boring matters... I'm so sick of hearing it, yet I don't know why she always never asks in front of him... I might as well just ask on her behalf..."
Just as Renee smiled and was about to say something, behind her, Lady Bojiang, who was retracting the red silk threads into her body string by string, suddenly spoke indifferently, making Renee's words instantly get stuck in her throat. She could only cast a slightly blushing, scolding glance at Lady Bojiang.
However, Fisher didn't mind. He merely hurried forward, looking at the Spirit World space wrapped in scarlet mist outside the barrier, and couldn't help asking,
"Renee, how is the situation over at The Ultimate? Did you come nearby with your main body or..."
Hearing this, Renee smiled faintly. She didn't answer directly, but rather, as if to alleviate the embarrassment of Lady Bojiang revealing her background, she spoke to Fisher,
"Do you want to see my main body that much?"
Actually, speaking of which, for some unknown reason, Fisher indeed held a bit of curiosity towards the appearance of Renee's main body.
In his dreams, he had witnessed the end of the spreading cold moonlight countless times, but he always felt that the Moon's appearance had a massive difference from Renee's true appearance.
"Mhm."
Not expecting Fisher to answer so burningly, Renee surprisingly became tongue-tied for a moment. From the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Emhart, who was suspected to be air, hiding behind the back of Fisher's head. With a kind expression, she reached out and gently sucked, and his square book body flew into her hands, frightening him out of his wits.
"Th-that, Lady Renee... Wuwu..."
"Oh, you understand Fisher very well, huh? Even knowing the woman he loves the most is Jasmine?"
"Hahaha, actually I don't understand that well, not as well as you... Ouch, ouch, it hurts!"
Within Renee's power radiating purple light, Emhart felt as if he had returned to the time before meeting Alajina together with Renee at Pirate Port. Thus he was once again forced to recall the agony of that time...
Of course, there was also loyalty!
Behind Fisher, Gou Wen curled his lips. He hadn't seen the avatar of this newly birthed Moon at all. The "solitude accompanying through the ages" that Renee spoke of in the past was no joke.
Because of the mistake committed by the Mother Goddess, from the very beginning of her consciousness's birth, to thoroughly shaking off the haziness and starting to gaze at the world, apart from Fisher she basically hadn't seen any other living beings. Usually when she had free time, she would also directly go look for Fisher, absolutely not wandering around in this boundlessly vast Spirit World.
So now should be the first time Gou Wen and this avatar of Renee met.
Just while Renee was teaching the traitor Emhart a lesson, Gou Wen had already impatiently entered the main topic, to avoid letting Fisher happily enjoy catching up with Renee again.
"Since that's the case, Lady Bojiang can tell us the specific coordinates of that shelter now, right? Also the contents you promised earlier..."
Lady Bojiang didn't reply. She merely casually flicked out specks of light carrying some kind of information using those glowing, branch-like tentacles. Gou Wen reached out and caught those specks of light. Closing his eyes, he immediately began to visualize. Although Fisher didn't know what he was doing, the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual at his chest abruptly heated up.
Closing both eyes, as the illusory interface floated up, the map of the Spirit World also instantly gained several coordinate points hidden in the darkness. Counting carefully, there were over ten of them. One point close to the Crevice emitted golden light; that seems to be the shelter where Fisher left the Fluid Sword.
"Many thanks..."
Renee clapped her hands gently. Looking at Lady Bojiang behind her, she added,
"Originally I came wanting to tell you the method to temporarily overcome the Spirit World Contamination. After all, the Spirit World is different from reality. When you were attacked by the Spirit World Contamination inside that shelter earlier it was exactly like this. Because the distance was too far, something almost went wrong. Fortunately you thought of a way to seal up the shelter yourself..."
Previously when Fisher was wrapped by the mist of the Spirit World Contamination, a ray of moonlight had struck, dispersing the Spirit World Contamination. Thinking about it, it must have been Renee taking action.
"...However, coming this time I have a piece of bad news and a piece of good news. Which one do you want to hear first?"
As she spoke, Renee tossed the pitiful Emhart back into mid-air. At the same time, she stretched out her hands clenched into fists, asking Fisher thusly,
"...Bad news?"
One pink fist held by Renee bloomed like a lotus, and she also spoke smoothly,
"The bad news is, currently my main body and the main bodies of the other deities still cannot leave The Ultimate. Moreover, regarding the next step of the plan to resolve the World-Ending Prophecy, I see Ramastia seems to have encountered a difficult problem. He hasn't told me, and probably hasn't told you either..."
Fisher nodded. Previously when he conversed with Ramastia, He indeed hadn't mentioned the next step of the plan regarding the World-Ending Prophecy, as if after thwarting Heon and the other deities' plan to assassinate Dagon, the entire World-Ending Prophecy was finished like that...
But at this moment, just looking at the pollution permeating everywhere in the Spirit World, one would know it wasn't so yet.
It's just that Fisher himself also needed a period of time to catch his breath. Not only because of the successive massive battles and severe injuries earlier, but even more so because of the thoughts in his heart.
Regarding Elizabeth's future, Asuka's, and Jasmine's...
"Then, what about the good news?"
"The other good news is..."
The other pink fist bloomed, but Renee didn't speak immediately. Wait until Fisher looked curiously at her face, only to see her blink her left eye in a cute and extremely charming manner,
"My avatar is free during this period of time, there will be a young, cute, beautiful young lady staying with you during this period of time~ How about it, is it good news?"
Fisher opened his mouth, but his eyes unavoidably shifted downwards. From her charming eyes resembling fine wine all the way down, until stopping at her slightly parted red lips.
Suddenly, Fisher became a bit thirsty as if he hadn't drunk water for a hundred years, and the only place that could quench his thirst was those lips where her lilac tongue could be faintly seen...
Clearly it's just an avatar, why is she so cute?
Thinking thus, Fisher swallowed hard and subconsciously shifted his eyes away a bit, instead asking,
"Just what exactly is the situation over at The Ultimate? Ramastia also hurried back very anxiously, meaning all of your main bodies cannot leave there for too long?"
Renee blinked, floating closer to Fisher with a wicked smile, and asked in a low voice,
"Shy now?"
Fisher shifted his eyes back, meeting her sparkling colorful eyes. Just as he was about to say something, he saw behind her, Lady Bojiang's head, extended and spiraling like a tree trunk, had already slowly stretched over. That pair of golden threaded irises were exactly like two lightbulbs, making Fisher feel a bit unnatural watching.
Seeing he had no response, Renee paused slightly, her peripheral vision also similarly catching a glimpse of Gou Wen with a dark face behind Fisher.
She only saw Gou Wen looking at the currently extremely close Renee and Fisher. The resentment on his body was about to turn into substance, as if he was going to turn into an evil ghost and swallow Fisher into his stomach.
Renee laughed "puchi," but didn't continue the little flirting game either. Instead she explained seriously,
"This is very difficult to explain, because the contents related to The Ultimate involve the outside world and secrets. It requires you to personally cross the Sea of Souls and go there to be able to understand."
"The Sea of Souls, huh..."
That thing stolen by the deities, was also the place he truly came from.
He remembered the dream he had earlier. He dreamt someone seemingly salvaged him from that boundless place resembling an ocean, and he also heard the muttering to oneself of that Demi-Human Girl Con...
He would go there, don't forget he still had to obtain pure souls for the two fetuses in Raphaela's belly.
Fisher withdrew his gaze, turning his head and walking towards Gou Wen behind him. But Gou Wen behind him glared at him. Before he could explain innocently, Gou Wen took the lead to turn his head and leave. While coughing he said,
"Cough cough... Rest here for a period of time first. I will try to contact reality, check on the situation there... then we'll depart for that shelter you mentioned, and finally decide whether or not to go to Hamon Hamon's base... cough cough..."
Fisher nodded. Watching the receding figure of Gou Wen covering his lips and coughing, he couldn't help but frown.
Only when he went a bit further away did Fisher pick up Emhart who was playing dead on the ground. Turning his head to look over at Renee, she was staying by Lady Bojiang's side communicating something with her.
Fisher originally planned to walk over to Renee's side, but turning it over and over in his mind, he still cared a bit about Gou Wen's current physical condition. Moreover, he also wanted to contact reality to know the current situation over there...
Under his all-out efforts, the rest of the ladies were all very safe. This was precisely the significance of him risking his life to stop the Crevice from shattering.
But only, he was still worried about Elizabeth's safety...
Right now she had just lost her prosthetic eye, yet he still couldn't immediately use Usurping Life to restore both of her eyes...
She was most afraid of the dark, how could Fisher not know this point?
Fisher thus changed his steps midway, and after saying a word to Renee, he walked towards the direction Gou Wen left. While searching for his location, he also familiarized himself with the environment of this Spirit World hiding spot.
"Cough cough... cough cough..."
At this moment, in a basement beneath the ground in the small island's woods, the lights suddenly turned on. Under the illumination of the light, a spacious space furnished with various potions, maps of the Spirit World, and stacked scrolls was revealed.
This was Gou Wen's laboratory, and also the place where he rested.
Covering his lips, he painstakingly held onto the handrail beside him to go down. While coughing, scarlet mist also continuously spread from his body.
"Cough cough! Cough cough!"
He hurriedly arrived at the tabletop full of potions, rummaging through the medicine he created. On the tabletop were many photos recorded using Cardinal cameras. His beloved wife Xuan Can's; the expressionless Michael and the smiling Mikhail's; a newly born Whale-kin infant's; and also a group photo of a young black-haired girl holding a wooden walking stick, wearing a simple and unadorned magic robe, smiling and standing between Xuan Can and Gou Wen making a "V" sign hand gesture...
He arduously stuffed several unknown pills from a bottle into his own mouth. As the medicine entered his mouth, the scarlet mist spreading from his body also dissipated bit by bit, as if it had never existed.
At the same time, his terrifying coughing symptom was also alleviated quite a bit.
He panted, reaching out to pick up an intermittently flashing fluid crystal on the tabletop. That was Ramastia's creation, and also the tool used for the two husband and wife to contact each other. At this moment, the flashing of the fluid crystal meant Xuan Can had sent him a message.
He hurriedly took the crystal in his hand. In an instant, a ripple that only Whale-kin could hear spread out.
As Gou Wen listened and listened, his expression became colder and colder, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. In the end, the fingertips tightly clenching the crystal were also pushed pale by the immense force.
"Bang!"
In the next second, Gou Wen, with a cold face, violently smashed that crystal out, viciously smashing it on the descending stairs, emitting an explosive sound.
But the crystal's strength was very high; just this was still unable to destroy it. It merely borrowed that immense force to bounce a few times in this underground space, and rolled to the corner.
"Huhu..."
Gou Wen lowered his head, panting. And at this moment, a hand suddenly fell, quietly picking up that crystal that flew into the corner.
Gou Wen's eyes shifted up inch by inch, only to see Fisher holding the crystal standing at the entrance to this basement.
Gou Wen paused slightly, the corner of his mouth curving up a bit as he asked,
"The Moon has even come, this is a rare occurrence. Not going to accompany her?"
Fisher didn't pick up on these words, nor did he ask him why he smashed this thing. He merely sized up this crystal creation of Ramastia's in his hand while asking,
"Just what exactly is going on with your body?"
Gou Wen took a deep breath, covering his chest with his hand as he replied softly,
"It's nothing..."
"Still 'it's nothing,' looking as fragile as a human who contracted pulmonary tuberculosis... You are a world-renowned traveling doctor, don't you know the symptoms of a disease cannot deceive people?"
Gou Wen fell silent for a moment. His curved smile swayed downwards a distance, outlining a bitter meaning,
"It's the lingering effect of the Spirit World Contamination. I have been in contact with it for too long. No matter how careful I am, day after day it accumulated into illness. Not to mention thousands of years ago when Asuka fell into the Sea of Souls, I once proactively entered the pollution attempting to save her. As a result, in the end it was Ramastia taking action that accomplished the rescue not to mention, the hidden illness was also contracted at that time..."
He opened his fingers, and scarlet mist was still continuously seeping out from them. That was the meaning of the Authority,
"The pollution within my body has already become dense to the degree of destroying the rules of reality if I enter reality. Moreover, once I enter reality I'm afraid the symptoms will even worsen... So for so long I could only stay in this place, separating from Xuan Can while simultaneously deepening the degree of being polluted. It's nothing more than an incurable vicious cycle..."
"Incurable by medicine doesn't mean incurable by methods."
Fisher put down the crystal, looking at the densely packed scrolls in the surrounding laboratory. Casually unrolling one, it was full of records of various experiments Gou Wen conducted to eliminate the pollution within his body.
He had tried, and should have a deep understanding regarding this.
"There is exactly one method..."
Fisher looked at the scroll in his hand. Narrowing his eyes, he also put down the scroll, connecting the remaining words,
"Thoroughly eliminate the pollution in the Spirit World, Dream Illusion's Authority leaves, the pollution within your body will naturally dissipate?"
"Mhm..."
"At least there is a bit of hope..."
Fisher nodded, arriving in front of Gou Wen, returning the crystal he threw out earlier to him.
"Many thanks..."
Gou Wen expressed his thanks, extending his pale hand to grasp the crystal still carrying Fisher's residual warmth. After caressing it twice, he frowned and suddenly said to Fisher,
"This thing was given to me by Ramastia to contact my wife... Just now, a message came from reality."
"Oh? What did the Ocean Emperor say to you?"
Gou Wen's eyes lifted bit by bit. From here on out, every single word of his words also became exceptionally icy. He said,
"Ramastia is preparing to let Jasmine enter the Spirit World..."
"What?"
Fisher was somewhat in disbelief, hurriedly asking,
"Isn't Jasmine the soul the Spirit World Contamination is looking for? Letting Jasmine enter the Spirit World, isn't that equivalent to sending a sheep into a tiger's mouth? And the most crucial point is it will also place her in completely unnecessary risk..."
Gou Wen sighed, nodding as he said,
"Indeed so... But Ramastia said...
"She must inevitably face her past."
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