novelraw Chapter 721: Wicked Woman
Chapter 721: Wicked Woman
"Please go this way, Mr. Fisher."
Fisher's gaze staring at the place where Heidelin disappeared ahead was pulled back to the spot by a sentence from Hamon Hamon. He narrowed his eyes and only then continued walking forward. Simultaneously, he glanced at Renee behind him, seeing her expression unexpectedly as usual, he felt surprised.
But regardless, Fisher still opened his mouth to explain,
"Heidelin is the maid who previously stayed by Valentina's side. After I went to the Northern Border previously she suddenly disappeared, highly likely related to the Outer God, Ocean."
"Ocean?"
Renee was half-believing and half-doubting, because the name "Ocean" was truly too ethereal. After Fisher returned to the past and she reached a cooperation with the Gods, she had only heard Ramastia and the others mention it a few times.
"The Ocean has a connection with you, why... Could it be because of the Completion Manual on your body?"
Fisher raised an eyebrow, looking at Renee and asked,
"Didn't Ramastia and the others tell you about my origin?"
Renee tapped her lips distressingly, saying,"Of course I'm not too clear. The Gods and I only started cooperating after you left reality, okay? Before that we had always had a relationship where well water does not interfere with river water. If I don't interfere with reality They wouldn't bother me... But I roughly have a bit of a guess, is it related to your constitution capable of possessing multiple Completion Manuals?"
"Roughly..." Fisher nodded, looking at his own palms, "A Transferred Person placed a very precious property related to the Sea of Souls inside my body. That thing can make Gods like Heon lose their reasoning wanting to take me away."
"That means to say, the Ocean paying attention to you is also related to the property inside your body?"
"...Probably."
Actually the more he understood the Ocean, when Helaire formed a connection with It, the more Fisher had a sense of illusion.
If the Ocean was so immensely powerful as to make the Gods fear It so, capable of making Heon perish in the blink of an eye, if Helaire was the Ocean's agent, the broadcaster of Its will, or even the avatar of Its consciousness, then would She still possess the so-called "emotions" of this narrow world?
Fisher didn't feel he had other reasons capable of attracting the Ocean, nor did he feel She would approach him because of the "love" possessed by creatures like so-called humans...
So the only remaining reason could only be: that precious property on his body.
Exactly corresponding to the description of the Gods stealing away Its precious object, wasn't it?
Figuring this point out, Fisher breathed a sigh of relief while simultaneously feeling his heart heavy.
The reason for being relaxed lay in that, in the past he had always felt Helaire's body was entirely filled with unclear fog. She was like an unsolvable riddle, unable to be understood, thus harboring a distance. But now there was finally an explanation for her baseless goodwill, and an understanding of her.
And the heaviness also lay herein, because Fisher had sincerely devoted true feelings for that wicked Angel. At least, in the past, otherwise he wouldn't have disregarded everything jumping into that Chaos to save her.
And her towards Fisher was entirely solely because of that precious property inside his body. This made Fisher produce a complex feeling, unable to be entirely summed up by simply disappointment and anger.
But thinking carefully, even those incomparably powerful Gods couldn't enter the Ocean's discerning eyes, let alone him, a mere mortal?
Feeling Fisher's emotions towards that so-called "Heidelin" or rather "that woman" gradually cooling, the corners of Renee's mouth however curled slightly up.
If even Fisher treated that woman as an enemy, then it seems herself also had no need to worry about anything. Putting the matter of the world-ending prophecy aside for now, just the idea of declaring war she thought of earlier was no longer needed, that was all.
Because, that woman seemed to already have utterly no chance of winning!
Renee covered her mouth, the joy of a victor revealing in her purple eyes, yet her tone hadn't jumped out completely too much yet. She merely comforted,
"Sounds like, that fellow is truly wicked..."
"Mhm, she..." Fisher hesitated to speak, ultimately using an evaluation with unknown praise or derogation, "Is an out-and-out wicked woman."
"Hmph hmph... In the past you even said I was a bad person. Now you finally know how good I am, right?"
Renee hugged her arms and snorted lightly, and Fisher also smiled helplessly,
"Yes, you are the best."
"Mhm hmph!"
Indeed, in comparison, those things Renee did in the past, eating Fisher's and drinking Fisher's while still secretly hiding his thesis, crazily teasing him and running away or whatever, was simply child's play.
Some things cannot withstand comparison. The longer the time, the more Fisher felt this reasoning was sincere.
"It's him..."
"Core..."
"Fisher..."
"Authority... and him..."
Passing by the Chaos-kins standing on both sides all the way, those sparkling compound eyes sweeped up and down Fisher. Mostly they were looking at Fisher and Renee. Conversely, Gou Wen and David behind them instead seemed like air in the eyes of that group of Chaos-kins.
Feeling the glares from the side, Fisher's eyes leaped slightly and he looked back. Many Chaos-kins looked back motionlessly, just like sculptures yet capable of emitting ethereal "buzz buzz" sounds.
"Hiss hiss..."
"Deity Hamon Hamon..."
Moving forward all the way, the several Chaos-kins led by Pisces standing deep within the platform saw Hamon Hamon bringing Fisher along. He swayed the tentacles on his body blocking in front of Hamon Hamon, looking at Fisher behind Her abruptly opening his mouth to interrupt,
"What we proposed earlier... How has Your Excellency considered..."
Hamon Hamon stopped Her footsteps, saying expressionlessly,
"Regretfully, I have no desire to obey the Ocean's commands. But even so, I still ask you all to continue enjoying the banquet, no need to act like outsiders."
"You want to disobey the Ocean... Did Your Excellency not see Heon's outcome?"
Hamon Hamon turned her head and shot a glance at Pisces. Pisces' body amidst that glance suddenly stiffened. In that instant, Pisces even felt he was merely a stone, rather than a Chaos-kin or some other creature.
Only after an instant did Hamon Hamon withdraw her gaze, shaking her head and softly saying,
"I saw it, yet didn't experience fear. Whether killing my main body outside the Barrier, or making me suffer unimaginably, I invite the legendary Ocean to do as It pleases."
"..."
Hamon Hamon continued walking forward, and Pisces only then seemed to change back into a Chaos-kin from a stone. The tentacles on his body trembled, yet no longer having any other obvious actions, evidently feeling lingering trepidation.
Why, could it be Hamon Hamon's Chaos had already, through the Transferred Person, surpassed a Demigod condensing to the extent of an Authority?
Theoretically, the end of the growth of a portion of Outer God power lodging on the body of a Transferred Person was the extent of condensing an Outer God Authority. But all Transferred Persons since ancient times, even those few outstanding ones who caused massive destruction among them, the Chaos on their bodies at most only reached the extent of a Demigod...
The possessor of the Life Completion Manual who killed the World Tree, the possessor of the Soul Completion Manual who heavily wounded the Dragon God...
Could it be because it was within the Spirit World, so the Chaos on the body of Hamon Hamon's Transferred Person could ultimately surpass a Demigod reaching the level of a Deity? But surpassing a Demigod entering a Deity also means forming an Authority. If there is Hamon Hamon's Authority here, then what would the Authority of His main body outside be like?
Although Pisces was a Demigod, he was ultimately a consciousness natively born in this world, having never witnessed the heaven and earth outside. At this moment facing this foreign Deity he surprisingly knew nothing like a frog in a well.
Yet he after all had confidence within his heart...
Because he had tangibly heard it, the voice of that Ocean...
He heard it!
Pisces' consciousness that was shocked horrified by Hamon Hamon gradually calmed down, filled by endless confidence. Only then did he raise his compound eyes to look at Fisher and Renee walking past him, Fisher also perfectly exchanging glances with his many compound eyes.
Fisher had no intention of paying attention to them, and Pisces also didn't utter a word, merely watching them follow Hamon Hamon walking towards the depths of the base.
Until they walked slightly far away, a Chaos-kin behind Pisces then approached him slightly asking,
"Pisces... deity Hamon Hamon exactly..."
"We know too little of matters regarding Deities. Her objectives and trump cards are all unknown to us..."
"Then Lord Ocean's will?"
"We cannot give up... It was so hard for us to obtain the favor of the Ocean, finding the hope of liberation, we cannot let Lord Ocean be disappointed..."
Pisces turned his head to look at this bustling banquet. There were many of his compatriots inside, yet not all Chaos-kins shared the same stance with him, willing to be driven by the Ocean and Outer Gods.
While outside the base, within the vast Spirit World, that Scarlet Mist was still dense, giving Pisces' inner heart a bit more thought,
"Hamon Hamon's situation, we will know once we try..."
Pisces was the first to float up, flying towards the Spirit World outside.
At this moment because Ramastia previously intervened to prevent the Spirit World pollution from approaching the Crevice, its activity was greatly reduced. The pollution that originally permeated everywhere loving to attack living consciousnesses was lazy as a wisp of colored mist right now.
But the method of driving away the pollution that Elizabeth previously told these Chaos-kins could actually activate these mists and make them stay far from them. Thinking in reverse, using this incantation could also drive these pollutions towards a certain direction.
Thus Pisces and the others flew out very far arriving amidst the lazy pollution and then faced the direction of the base. Seeing the distance was about right, Pisces and the others then started chanting the so-called incantation,
"Okaa-san... Okaa-san..."
"Rumble rumble!"
Following this curse-like incantation sounding out in the Spirit World, that originally thin and calm pollution instantly surged like a tide fleeing from Pisces and the others.
And the more that excited pollution distanced itself from them, the closer it was to Hamon Hamon's base. Watching that surging and turbulent pollution heading towards that bright base, Pisces and the others only then stopped chanting the incantation, silently watching that base that was gradually enveloped by scarlet red...
While within that base, there were still many Chaos-kins who didn't believe in Outer Gods together with Pisces and the others inside the banquet hall.
"Rumble rumble..."
"Beep beep... beep beep..."
The crisp sound of Cardinals operating within the base became increasingly obvious after Hamon Hamon led Fisher walking towards the depths, just like gradually awakening from the pipe dream of the Holy Sanctuary ten thousand years ago, arriving at a place similar to the Shelter David was at previously.
The clouds and mist around them gradually thinned out, and David couldn't help but become nervous. Those pupils resembling Michael's shrank slightly. Looking at the corridor behind the surrounding clouds and mist he suddenly murmured,
"Here... I've been here before."
Fisher turned his head to look at him, but discovered David's expression becoming increasingly distressed. Fluorescence continuously flashed in his pupils, arduously reading his database, but no matter how many times he tried, what returned was gaining nothing.
Hamon Hamon ahead swayed Her tail, raising Her hand casually, a gate full of technological sense then opened, revealing an even more dark and depressing corridor within it,
"Thousands of years ago, here acting as the first Shelter constructed by the Angels, all Cardinals had served here, presumably you are no exception."
Looking at the dark corridor ahead, Fisher couldn't help but ask Hamon Hamon,
"What exactly does the Ocean sending Pisces and the others here need you to do?"
"Declare war on the Gods, as I did thousands of years ago."
Hamon Hamon said so calmly, yet absolutely no interest could be seen on Her face. She merely continued guiding Fisher and the others forward,
"But I am already uninterested in this. What I care about right now is only them, and a question they brought... This question, perhaps only you can help me answer."
'Them? Question?'
"Mhm," Hamon Hamon nodded, merely walking forward impatiently, "Come with me and you'll understand."
"Rumble rumble!"
But just as they were about to advance, the entire base produced a violent shaking, seemingly as if something smashed onto the exterior of the base.
"Rumble rumble!"
Gou Wen and Renee's expressions changed slightly. They had been in the Spirit World for a long time, their feeling towards pollution almost turning into an instinct. Just the moment this smashing sound sounded, a feeling making one's hairs stand on end surged into their hearts.
"Not good, it's pollution!"
Fisher hurriedly turned his head to look, and saw the Scarlet Mist raging like a flood had already occupied the gap outside the base, blocking the entrance. Within it, that pollution like a caged ferocious beast was swallowing towards the Chaos-kins standing on the spot dumbfounded.
"Quick... quick flee!"
"It's pollution..."
"Go!"
But the entrance was already blocked by the Scarlet Mist. Where could those starlight-flashing Chaos-kins go, they could only all come towards this direction of Fisher and the others.
Fisher frowned. Just as he was about to turn his head, a massive snake tail blocked in front of him and Renee and Gou Wen behind.
"Hiss hiss..."
Hamon Hamon darted Her tongue, saying to Fisher and the others,
"Please hide inside, I will handle the remnants of Dream Illusion's power outside, lest Mr. Fisher encounters an accident amidst the turmoil, once everything subsides I will come find you."
"Zzt zzt!"
The originally bright entire Shelter began to grow dim because of the erosion of the pollution. Wires lingering inside countless Cardinals scrambled to rush out the surface, turning into colorful carp streamers in mid-air, plummeting downwards.
"Thump!"
Those Angels with smiles pretty as flowers also abruptly expanded their heads amidst that Scarlet Mist, turning into tumblers with two giant blushes on their cheeks, shaking their heads charging towards the surroundings,
"Happy New Year... Happy New Year..."
While smashing the surrounding scene to smithereens, those tumblers concurrently said this in Japanese.
Hamon Hamon's snake woman avatar finally also gave no other explanation, charging towards the continuously spreading scarlet pollution.
"Fisher..."
"Fisher..."
Right at the instant Fisher and the others watched Hamon Hamon's back figure moving away, from behind Fisher suddenly affectionate calls transmitted over one after another. That vocal chord was familiar, if not Heidelin's then whose was it?
Renee and Gou Wen were both looking at the direction of the scarlet pollution, wanting to see how Hamon Hamon resolved this Chaos, seemingly completely unable to hear Heidelin's call.
While Fisher turned his head, then saw at the end of the dark corridor behind, that Heidelin wearing a servant's attire was smilingly looking at himself.
It was her who incited the Spirit World pollution...
The instant he saw Heidelin, Fisher then realized everything happening right now was related to her.
His jaw uncontrollably clenched tightly. Emhart in his embrace was still wondering why Fisher suddenly turned his head, hurriedly poking his head out, that figure of Heidelin then abruptly smashed into his eyes, frightening him out of his wits,
"Bai... Baimon!! It's that Baimon who deserves a thousand cuts!! That wicked woman!!"
He screamed a sound, making Renee also look towards Fisher's side,
"Baimon? What Bai-"
Before her words were finished, Fisher beside her then like lightning rushed out, abruptly disappearing into that corridor,
"Fisher!"
Amidst Fisher's unexpected, full-strength sprint, that over ten meters of corridor distance arrived in almost the blink of an eye, and that smiling figure of Heidelin also continuously magnified in Fisher's pupils that had almost shrunk to a dot.
He reached out his hands, one hand grabbing towards her shoulder, while the other ruthlessly pinched her neck.
And this time, unexpectedly solidly grabbed the real thing!
The Heidelin before his eyes actually existed, not an illusion!
Fisher's massive strength like lightning enveloped by inertia, abruptly slammed Heidelin firmly beneath him. But right behind where Heidelin stood was surprisingly a broad space with an elevation difference of several tens of meters. This move from him then brought Heidelin's body plummeting downwards.
For his current rank, these tens of meters was merely a small hurdle. But the moment his hand touched Heidelin's shoulder, Fisher then realized, the figure before his eyes was no different from an ordinary person, equally fragile.
You who are so immensely powerful, could you only be a human?
Fisher tightly clenched his teeth, still fastening her beneath him, as if wanting to thus press her down to viciously smash onto the ground.
One could imagine, under that massive impact force, a mortal body would be smashed to pieces, and Fisher merely thus waited for her to display divine powers related to the Ocean.
But the Heidelin beneath him was merely due to weightlessness, thus the smiling expression on her face became slightly panicked, her eyes trembling slightly, subsequently unexpectedly seemingly closing her eyes in fear, seemingly merely waiting thus to land...
Fisher who firmly pressed her was slightly startled. Could it be she was merely an Ocean believer, her true rank only human?
No, impossible, back then according to Emhart, she had changed back into Helaire's appearance. But the body touched in his hands tangibly was feeding back to Fisher, she only had the rank of a human...
Watching the ground below continuously approaching, and Heidelin having completely closed her eyes, Fisher took a deep breath, abruptly clenching his teeth and withdrew his force, changing from the posture pushing her smashing into the ground to pulling up.
"Bang!"
Fisher ruthlessly smashed onto the ground, but the Heidelin pinched in his hands was firmly pulled by him, dispersing the force.
"Wu..."
Heidelin pinched by him whimpered a sound, seemingly her entire body tense as a bowstring. But the expected process of being smashed to death on the ground never came, making her instantly unbelievable.
This reaction made Fisher increasingly doubtful, yet still didn't let go of the neck pinching Heidelin tightly.
He frowned, lowering his gaze to look at the Heidelin pressed onto the ground. Because of the massive force just now, one or two messy strands of the originally neatly combed black hair on her head dropped down, making her seem exceptionally fragile...
The skin of Heidelin beneath him was tense. But right when Fisher was sizing her up, that Heidelin pinched by Fisher suddenly lowered her head, gently sticking out her tongue, licking the back of his hand pinching her own neck, making Fisher freeze slightly.
Raising his eyes to look, where was there still that nervous and afraid tense look. Within those opened eyes, a smear of blue-gold light flashed, replaced by, that deep smiling intent,
"So painful, my dear~"
This woman...
"You..."
"Fisher, why did you..."
Fisher's heart skipped a beat. But beside him, that light figure of Renee also landed on the ground. Just as she was about to open her mouth concernedly, she saw that woman pressed beneath Fisher, instantly freezing on the spot.
"You you you... she she she..."
And feeling Renee's gaze look over, the Heidelin beneath him was even more pitiful. Fisher was unwilling to let her go, worried she would flee again, then turned his head wanting to explain to Renee. But on his hand, the place licked by Heidelin just now suddenly felt numb as if set on fire.
"Smack!"
Closely following, the hand he grasped Heidelin's neck with was like it disconnected from the soul. The physical hand abruptly lost its strength, while his soul in the shape of a tentacle still firmly maintained the grasped appearance. And this feeling was still continuously spreading towards his body, very quickly the entire body began to produce this feeling of powerless numbness.
The strength of this sudden attack wasn't strong, yet won on its suddenness and oddity. Fisher didn't know what method formed this strike, so he could only divert part of his mind to analyze the reason his body was temporarily out of his soul's control.
The body lost its strength, Heidelin then broke free of her shackles.
Fisher originally thought she would run away just like this, still wanting to ask Renee to subdue the trajectory of her escape, but the Heidelin beneath him didn't retreat but advanced instead. The entire person smiled and abruptly opened her arms, pressing the momentarily weakened Fisher into her embrace at once.
"Bang!"
At this moment, Fisher had just opened his mouth preparing to speak to call out to Renee. And this opening of the mouth, was exactly like a city with its gates wide open luring the enemy to drive straight in.
Only to see Heidelin abruptly embrace Fisher back, and in the panicked gaze of Renee sealed Fisher's lips with one bite.
"Ha?!"
Fisher's eyes widened, and Renee was also unable to close her mouth. It was only after one second that her nearly blank brain reacted to what had exactly occurred before her eyes.
This wicked woman right in front of her... did that?!
"Ahhhhh! Let go this instant!! Fisher!! You're still kissing?!"
"Mmph mmph..."
The Gou Wen and David above still had their reason. They were still watching Hamon Hamon's method of dealing with the pollution ahead, turning back these two people disappeared?
Everything that happened just now was but a fleet within a few seconds. Only at this moment did they reach the platform before the drop. At the high place just as they were about to speak they heard the flustered, exasperated and extremely angry scream of Renee below, instantly covering their ears.
How does it feel, the smell of gunpowder below suddenly thickened?
This abrupt feeling made Gou Wen above hesitate, unknown if he should go down...
"Hey, exactly what is the situation below?!"
No choice, he could only open his mouth to inquire.
But the situation below was urgent, where was there leisure to bother with Gou Wen's out-of-the-loop inquiry.
"Pop"
If that lick just now was a poison that separated Fisher's soul and body, then this sweet kiss was like an antidote, making Fisher's mind shake while violently struggling free from the state of soul and body separation, giving his unfeeling limbs strength all of a sudden.
While the smiling Heidelin before his eyes premeditatively took a ghost-like step back, looking contentedly at the fragrance left on Fisher's lips...
She wore lipstick, thus leaving a massive red mark there.
Closely following, Heidelin only then pretended to be shy and muttered,
"You absolutely must not let the young miss know, Mr. Fisher~"
Still pretending?
You still consider yourself to be Valentina's personal servant, right?
Fisher gnashed his teeth and raised a finger to wipe the fragrant lipstick on his lips. Just as he was about to speak, Renee's killing gaze beside him had already shot over explosively...
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