Chapter 714: Just Hit Me
Chapter 714: Just Hit Me
"Hamon Hamon's Authority?"
"Quite a few Stars have already headed there..."
"The remaining Angels?"
Facing this brief message sent from Hamon Hamon's base, Fisher and the others each caught different key points.
David hurriedly leaned close, saying to Fisher,
"The message says there are other Holy Progeny Lords surviving within the base. Could it be Daddy and Mommy?"
Hearing this, even Emhart in Fisher's embrace poked his head out, looking at Fisher with that single eye. Unknown if it was because of Gabriel.
Frankly speaking, Fisher didn't think the Angels and Hamon Hamon being sealed together for thousands of years could still leave survivors. However, based on the fact that the other several people in the know, including Renee, all felt strange regarding Hamon Hamon's extremely abnormal action currently, this made Fisher unsure.
"I don't know either..."
Fisher muttered, turning his head to look at Renee and couldn't help asking,"Hamon Hamon's main body should be outside the Barrier. His Authority is together with his main body. Shouldn't the Barrier forbid True God level Authority from passing through? This condition seems completely impossible to achieve..."
Renee nodded. Glancing at her own body, she explained,
"Indeed so, but actually this phrasing isn't accurate. More accurately, it's 'Authority possessing consciousness cannot enter the Barrier'."
"Authority possessing consciousness cannot enter... Why does this sound very similar to Hela's situation?"
Renee nodded, smiling as she said,
"They share similarities... And don't forget, there's also me."
Right. Fisher suddenly remembered that when he originally left the Sanctuary from ten thousand years ago, he witnessed the Mother Goddess descending with his own eyes. Had the Barrier already appeared at that time?
And at that time, Authority without any consciousness was just thrown into the Spirit World like that, until later it formed the Mother Goddess's consciousness again.
Renee held up two fingers, drawing an oval shape in front of Fisher and explained,
"Fisher, the world created by the various Gods is actually an egg-shaped structure. The outermost, hardest layer of this 'eggshell' is the [Barrier] formed by the God of Secrecy, while the 'egg white' within is the [Spirit World]. The innermost 'egg yolk' wrapped by another layer named [Crevice] is [Reality]... In other words, the entire world has two protective structures: the Barrier and the Crevice respectively.
"The outermost Barrier possesses Azanroth's power. It can isolate all external objects and rules from entering, and is the hardest part of the entire structure. It possesses some very special properties. Using his own Authority, which is [Mapping], Dagon duplicated a portion of its utility to become the Crevice, which is a weakened version of the Barrier.
"And the reason why Hela can exist within the world without devolving into a 'Chaos' that collapses reality lies firstly in subjective recognition, and secondly in the limitation of Authority abilities."
Speaking of this, Fisher seemed to suddenly figure something out.
Remember during the Battle of Naris, he once used Azanroth's Authority to hide Dagon along with his Crevice, resulting in Heon's avatar clashing with the outer Stars, ruining their plan?
The subjectivity of Azanroth's Authority was displayed right at this moment. It could detect subjectivity to activate utility, displaying to certain targets and hiding from other targets. And to the hidden targets, the hidden object was like it didn't exist.
Just like when Fisher used Secrecy to wrap himself back then, apart from the ladies related to him and Emhart, to others looking at him, it was equal to him not existing.
The Barrier also possessed the same property. It could isolate all external objects from entering, and could reject all rules from outside (namely Authority). This was actually two functions. Although the Barrier had a gap opened by an unknown powerful existence, losing the function of isolating all external objects from entering, the second utility of resisting rules was still there.
This caused the group of Outer Gods who wanted to purge the Gods to only be able to beat around the bush and grab Transferred Persons from other civilizations, then place their own faint power into them and send them in, waiting for those powers to slowly sprout within the bodies of the Transferred Persons, bypassing the Barrier and Crevice to become rules of Authority...
But the second rule had a massive loophole. It took effect based on the subjectivity of Azanroth's Authority. This actually wasn't a problem, because Authority was precisely the nature of Gods. Once it lost its will, that God would lose the corresponding nature. That nature would no longer belong to Him, becoming an independent nature. Moreover, most Gods only had one Authority and one nature. If cut off, He would die.
Therefore, even if the Outer Gods knew about this loophole in the Crevice's nature, they wouldn't do this. If not a free gift, what was this?
The Infinity Authority was exactly given up by an unknown God and sent into the Barrier like this, considered as setting an example for the Outer Gods.
Look at this. As soon as the "Infinity Authority" sent in by that God was sent in, after losing consciousness it automatically formed a new consciousness. Now great, it became the opposing side's Authority, running around every day falling in love for a person in reality.
Fisher opened his mouth. Looking at Renee before his eyes and listening to her origin, he suddenly remembered that dream he had countless times again.
He once dreamed of an incomparably pitch-black ocean. Above that incomparably solitary and boundless cold ocean, he dreamed of a cold moon slowly rising, letting its light shine through eternity...
The Infinity Authority was sent in by the Ocean?
But why was it that just when it was sent in, Helaire appeared before him, lowering two of her three raised fingers?
That game, the Give One and Receive Three game...
Fisher squinted his eyes. Just at this moment, having learned many secrets from Ramastia, he suddenly felt that this person Helaire very likely had a close connection with that incomparably powerful Outer God...
Fisher lowered his head. When David beside him saw him suddenly fall silent, he hurriedly leaned close and asked Renee with hope,
"Inquiry: Therefore, the condition proposed by that Hamon Hamon is possible to form?"
"Ah, exactly... if He is willing to give up His own consciousness and hand over His own Authority. But for a God, doing that means suicide."
Renee also felt somewhat surprised. She looked at the text on the display screen, continuing to say,
"In this aspect, Dream Illusion was the smartest. It was He who created the method of letting power lodge onto Transferred Persons and slowly growing into Chaos that destroys the world... And the most unfortunate thing is, the Transferred Person chosen by Dream Illusion, who possesses the most powerful strength, was also the Transferred Person who survived the longest. That Chaos had completely become a part of her, almost approaching half of Dream Illusion's strength, causing the Gods to already be powerless to handle it when it erupted..."
Fisher tapped his chin, instead growing more and more interested in the banquet mentioned by Hamon Hamon.
He glanced at David eagerly anticipating beside him. Pondering for a moment, he said,
"David, come with us. We'll go back and meet our companions, then we'll go take a look there..."
That machine-like expressionlessness of David finally dissolved bit by bit upon hearing Fisher's words. He nodded and said,
"Okay."
Reality, Saint-Nazareth, Night.
After a day of fierce fighting, the people of the Dragon Court and the Northern Territory temporarily set up camp and rested near the battlefield of the Golden Palace. Currently Isabelle, with Elizabeth's tacit consent, began cleaning up the after-effects of the war. This work was very difficult, especially for her.
Even if it was just a short day, she could clearly feel Naris top-to-bottom's distrust and dislike towards her.
The one they truly loved and esteemed was her sister Elizabeth, not her, this traitor who inexplicably disappeared for several years and was staying with that group of demi-humans when she returned.
Yes, in the eyes of the Naris people who profoundly distrusted her at this moment, Isabelle was undoubtedly a traitor who fell towards outsiders. This gave her immense pressure, and also made her feel somewhat wronged.
It wasn't that she didn't love Naris. Perhaps she merely believed her sister's unscrupulous methods for the sake of Naris were wrong.
However fortunately, Elizabeth already felt tired. Under her tacit consent, at least the army and a minority of ministers still obediently followed her dispatch and maintained order.
Within the tent area of the Dragon Court, Raphaela had already gone to sleep. Because of her pregnancy, Jasmine actively took over the many matters of the night, staying up late to coordinate overall right now. However, after entering the night, aside from silence there were no extra matters to worry about. Mother also still hadn't left. She had been communicating with father all day today. For some unknown reason, the content spoken always avoided Jasmine, making her feel even more mindful of it...
Was her inability to enter the Mythic Rank inevitable?
But, why?
Raphaela had entered the Mythic Rank, while she still hadn't. She couldn't help with anything, she couldn't even detect Elizabeth's prosthetic eye activating its ability on her, and even the emotion towards aunt and the attitude towards her had to be decided by her?
She also watched helplessly as Fisher entered that Crevice to save Elizabeth, almost unable to even return...
Without realizing it, thinking about these heavy topics, Jasmine's eyelids also grew heavy.
She sat on the chair, the candle fire beside her swaying slightly due to the wind outside the tent, casting ripples on her reflection in the water cup beside her...
What appeared inside was a young woman with long black hair whose face couldn't be seen clearly.
Jasmine blinked and closed her eyes, but the "girl" in the water slowly opened her eyes. At the same time, the long blue hair on Jasmine's head also changed into ink color bit by bit, as if stained with pollution.
Curse... Curse...
The Curse was back again?
Hadn't she already overcome the Curse under Mother's guidance?
"Teacher Fisher..."
Jasmine's tired gaze trembled slightly, because this sentence overflowed from her mouth uncontrollably. But the tone was secluded, like someone else was speaking instead of herself.
She panted slightly, and strange lines also surfaced on her face once again. Those lines looked dark and bewitching, completely different from when Whale-kins were controlled by the Curse in the past. Actually from a young age Jasmine felt her Curse was somewhat different from ordinary people, otherwise why was her Attendant Sea Beast so massive, and even so couldn't completely suppress her Curse...
"Mo... Mother..."
Panting, she felt more and more uncomfortable, wanting to stand up and look for Xuan Can who was nearby.
But she was unsure whether she had opened her mouth to call for Mother yet. According to Mother's ability, even if she called softly for the other party, the other party would definitely be able to hear it. It was like this when at the seabed.
But why right now...
Right now it actually...
Could it be she wasn't calling out for Mother?
Jasmine blankly raised her head. Feeling dizzy before her eyes, she looked around, yet suddenly discovered that the scene before her eyes had already changed from a tent to a gloomy living room.
A primordial fear suddenly struck her spiritual altar. She panted and looked at the dark room before her eyes, seemingly suddenly dreamily seeing a woman reeking of alcohol and heavily made-up pushing open the room door.
Her blurred expression intoxicated in alcohol and a life of luxury was instantly smudged by the desolateness in the room after entering the house door. Squinting her eyes, she suddenly reached out a hand towards Jasmine who was very far away from her. Obviously just standing by the door, that woman's hand seemed like noodles constantly lengthening, overturning downward like the Five Fingers Mountain.
Jasmine opened her mouth wide. At this moment, the "Curse" outside her body became increasingly dense. She didn't realize in the slightest that as those Curses continued to deepen, those originally bewitching lines on her body instantly twisted, changing into square symbols one by one...
Those were Chinese characters one by one, all contents she didn't recognize. Written on them was,
"Subhuti. What do you think? Did the Tathagata attain Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi..."
Jasmine's pupils shrunk at once. Curled up painfully on the ground, she hid in fear.
But it was also precisely within such hiding that she seemingly recalled blurry scenes time after time.
She faintly recalled some memories. Those memories were all about...
Teacher Fisher!
For some unknown reason, Teacher Fisher's appearance wearing a kasaya always flashed across her mind... Eh, why did she know that weird attire was called a kasaya?
But it seemed it wasn't important anymore. Jasmine seemed to remember that Teacher Fisher talked to herself time after time.
It seemed she initially even considered that Teacher Fisher to be fake, an illusion, but slowly, she felt that Teacher Fisher was clearly real...
He had always stayed by her side, he had never left her...
Ha...
"Asuka... Asuka, don't be afraid, I'm here... Moreover, you also have magic, your mother can't hurt you..."
Jasmine trembled her body, carefully opening her eyes. Only at this moment did she discover that she didn't know when she had already familiarly hidden under the wooden table in the tent, just like she often hid like this when she was young.
But how could there be tables and chairs inside Xuan Can's palace deep in the ocean? These things weren't needed at all underwater...
"Asuka, who is that? Teacher Fisher, I'm Jasmine!"
Jasmine hugged her own knees. The Buddhist scriptures on her body continuously spread, finally even densely laying out the text of Buddhist scriptures on the whale tail and ears on her body. But Jasmine seemed completely unaware, merely blankly looking outside the wooden table she was hiding in.
There, Fisher, wearing a kasaya, was half-kneeling on the ground, looking at Jasmine hiding within like a small beast with a warm smile.
Only to see that Fisher paused slightly, saying to Jasmine,
"Is this the new name you came up with... But it's fine. Jasmine is fine too, as long as you are you, I will always be here."
"Re-really?"
Jasmine took a deep breath, but puffed her cheeks and said,
"Asuka must be another woman Teacher Fisher met somewhere, right? Just like that... Phoenix and Angel Helaire... Hey, who is Angel Helaire?"
Jasmine dizzily tapped her own head. That Buddhist scripture had already wrapped around her neck, making her increasingly hazy,
"Ne-never mind, I'm going to tell Raphaela and Mr. Gou Wen, tell him... eh, no, it should be Father..."
"It doesn't matter, Jasmine... I also hate other women the most, the one I like the most is you, Jasmine... If you see me with other women again, it's fine even if you punish me. I just want to stay with you, Jasmine..."
Outside the table, the kasaya-wearing Fisher's expression was exceptionally sincere. His black eyes flickered with blazing love towards Jasmine, like flames making Jasmine feel increasingly mesmerized.
"Re-really?"
Fisher smiled slightly. Reaching out a hand towards her, he said softly,
"Really. It's all other women pestering me, making me unable to stay with you... Actually, in my heart, Jasmine is the woman I like and love the most most most most..."
Jasmine blushed slightly. Covering her burning cheeks, she said,
"Re-really? This really isn't a dream?"
Fisher shook his head. The words he spoke were also extremely earnest, bearing the sorrowful appearance of a chaste and fiercely loyal man,
"Ah, if you see me talking to other women again, just beat me to death, okay, Jasmine?"
"Eh?"
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