novelraw Chapter 723: Is Hungry
Chapter 723: Is Hungry
"Caught you..."
Obviously no matter how one judges it, this woman with a Northern Border face before her eyes was merely an existence of a mortal rank. Even if at this moment because Renee's main body was still near The Ultimate and unable to use its power, it wasn't something she could touch porcelain (scam/provoke) with.
But unknown as to why, when the smiling woman before her eyes grabbed her wrist, a kind of unprecedented sense of panic still abruptly birthed within Renee's heart. The impact of learning the truth behind her true origin just a second ago colluded with the brief being struck with panic at this moment, making her shrink her pupils looking at the back of the hand grasped by Heidelin.
"You..."
"Discovered you can't turn ethereal? Thought I couldn't catch your avatar? An avatar is the consciousness of a Deity, and consciousness is the essence of a soul... how could I not catch it?"
Renee's complexion changed slightly. She took a deep breath and struggled, but Heidelin smiled slightly, saying,
"Haven't you never experienced the scorching heat of his soul... why not let you taste the flavor?"
Flavor?
Renee was slightly startled. Only to see Heidelin smile, the palm holding Renee's hand then flashed with a faint white light.
"Buzz..."When together with Fisher, because of Renee's shyness, every time Fisher approached her she would subconsciously dodge, using methods like turning ethereal or disappearing completely making Fisher unable to catch her no matter what.
But at this moment facing a female enemy, she didn't have any shyness, and her avatar was solidly caught by the person before her eyes using bizarre methods. Because of this, Renee's consciousness was still wholly and devotedly here.
Following the white light flashing on Heidelin's palm, a fluctuation once experienced on the soul instantly transmitted through the palm into Renee's sea of consciousness.
This is...
This is...
Renee's pupils shrank slightly. The first thing she felt was a heatwave scorching like magma surging into her heart.
That magma seemingly wanted to swallow her soul, wrapping her up; and every inch of scorching heat scraped across her skin like electric shock, transmitting Fisher's touch and aura seemingly close at hand.
Renee's complexion instantly became completely red. Unbelievably, her body went soft and almost kneeled onto the ground, even her avatar began to show extremely unadapted panting actions.
"Haha..."
With a completely red face, while in the extremely distant Spirit World outside the Barrier, that originally cold moonlight also confusingly flickered bright and dark, echoing the state of her consciousness from afar.
But that scorching heat wasn't scalding, merely seemingly wanting to tightly wrap Renee up to dispel her eternal companion of loneliness, even wanting to drive away all the haze within her heart.
Renee never imagined the temperature bursting out in this instant could unexpectedly make one linger so...
But Heidelin was like a smiling demon. Obviously such a happy, such a scorching temperature was hidden behind the door, yet she was like a stingy rich man merely lifting slightly a crack of the door. Before the "layman Renee" entirely felt the warmth leaking out from that crack of the door, she stingily closed the door...
In merely a brief second, the white light on Heidelin's hand completely disappeared, letting the warmth on Renee, who just immersed within it, recede completely clean in the blink of an eye. Making her freeze slightly, looking annoyedly with a red face at Heidelin who was still smiling before her eyes,
"You... lewd and despicable... Chaos... attempting to use this method to bewitch me... I tell you, I am me, I am not your Authority, nor am I my previous incarnation. I am currently Renee, and will remain Renee in the future... even if my Authority originated from you, don't even think I'll do anything for you..."
Yes, the current Renee has already ascertained the person before her eyes probably truly possessed countless ties with that Ocean. Even though Renee had repeatedly ascertained this Heidelin's current rank was truly very low, her understanding towards souls and the Infinity Authority made Renee unable to deny that truth she spoke...
The Infinity Authority might truly originate from the Ocean.
Then as it should be, as one of the legendary Outer Gods invading this world, the Ocean sending its unconscious Authority into the Barrier was probably also hoping she would assist Her in destroying this world, right?
So at this moment, Her coming to find her was also for this objective...
Renee's consciousness was made ill at ease by the touch of Fisher's soul shared by Heidelin, but those purple eyes remained firm and unshakeable,
"You want to use Fisher's touch... touch to bewitch me... no way..."
Hearing this, the Heidelin before her eyes instead shook her head sincerely, softly saying,
"I merely pity you."
"Pity me?"
"Yes... pitying a soul like you who thinks she is a step ahead of everyone in everything, but actually hasn't experienced any good things... merely treating it as charity to you. How is it, very wonderful, Fisher?"
"..."
Pity me?
Treat me as charity?
The flush on Renee's face faded bit by bit, the veins on her forehead also appearing bit by bit. That pair of purple eyes instantly burst forth with dangerous splendor, seemingly wanting to entirely swallow the Heidelin before her eyes.
She is Renee.
Honestly speaking, she had never paid attention to that group of females sharing relationships with Fisher in her eyes. Not only because of rank, but merely the psychological level made her always feel struggling with them was meaningless, also distaining to struggle with them.
Fundamentally speaking, how is this not a kind of charity?
But today, unexpectedly another person ran out wanting to treat herself as charity?
Although, but indeed, Fisher's flavor... she had never tasted it previously, and honestly speaking, stopping after a brief attempt just now actually left one with some aftertaste, always wanting to... that...
But!
This isn't charity you gave me.
The expression on Renee's face abruptly became ice-cold. The other party grasping her wrist was also a kind of imprisonment to her herself, this was an excellent good opportunity.
Regardless of whether you are the Ocean or something else, my, Renee's, self doesn't care, also doesn't need your charity.
"What, getting anxious?"
"Hehe..."
Heidelin saw the change in expression on Renee's face, also glimpsing the condensing moonlight on Renee's hands from the corner of her eye.
That moonlight was completely different from the previously condensed might. It could be seen Renee was already truly furious, unexpectedly already starting to utilize the Authority of the main body still stationed at the Barrier.
Heidelin shook her head, her smile remaining as before,
"Your Authority was once mine, I know your every action and movement like the back of my hand, why not relax making me also a bit more relaxed?"
"You are... coming for my Authority. Yes, you are the Ocean, your abilities couldn't possibly be this weak... because the Soul Completion Manual was sealed by Fisher, unexpectedly the manifestation of your power is also obstructed by the Barrier?"
"Take a guess, is it or not?"
Heidelin's expression was somewhat thought-provoking. But she was exactly like a riddle, even her words were unknown answering which inquiry of Renee's.
Renee felt Heidelin had a high probability of coming for her Authority.
Snatching Fisher's bodily fluid, borrowing his property, approaching herself... this sequence forming a complete set of consecutive moves.
"Buzz buzz!!"
Sure enough, the next second an attractive force originating from the soul transmitted from Heidelin's hand. Renee faintly felt certain things on her body were being snatched away by her.
Renee's expression chilled slightly. Hurriedly sealing the power of Authority, cutting off her consciousness from approaching her Authority.
Simultaneously, she shouted coldly, exerting force abruptly from her body. Following an incomparably blinding moonlight flashing by, the entire beach let out a massive boom.
"Rumble rumble!!"
Amidst that massive explosion sound, Renee knocked open Heidelin's hand fast as lightning, subsequently flipping her wrist, using her palm to strike viciously at her chest. But Heidelin's figure distorted sinisterly, producing an ethereal feeling like Renee, making that palm strike miss.
Avatar?!
Renee's pupils shrank. She entirely hadn't expected this woman before her eyes was unexpectedly the same as herself, both avatars of a Deity, the direct manifestation of a consciousness!
But why, her avatar was exactly like a human, her soul was also human shaped soul...
"Bang!"
Already too late to think, because Heidelin's smiling body condensed into reality in the next moment again, charging straight through Renee's defense line colliding towards her,
"I caught you again..."
Heidelin's palms presented a claw shape. While constantly approaching Renee, dots of purple light on her body were also sucked out by Heidelin, looking like it would soon approach Renee's main body.
"Kacha, kacha, kacha!"
But right when Renee was already prepared to turn ethereal to dodge, avoiding her laying a finger on her Authority with bizarre methods again, the space on the silver beach beside them abruptly shattered open.
Renee and Heidelin seemed to both be unable to forecast this sudden situation. They simultaneously turned their heads to look, and saw Fisher tightly shutting his eyes grasping his Fluid Sword with both hands had already charged from that shattered space into the battlefield.
"Buzz!"
A cold light flashed from his hands, the growing Fluid Sword blade then horizontally placed before Heidelin's neck, just a bit away from sinking into it, making the figure of Heidelin approaching Renee immediately stop before that sword blade.
"Fisher?!"
Renee's expression showed joy, hurriedly floating her body flying to Fisher's side, looking at him with some unbelief,
"You... how did you get over. Weren't you also locked up by the pollution she released just now?"
"Ah..."
Fisher didn't answer immediately, instead a burst of bizarre wriggling occurred on his head before slowly opening his eyes. After that, he seemed to change back into Fisher from a sword-wielding puppet.
His eyes leaped looking at that equally somewhat surprised Heidelin, raising the finger of his other hand pointing at his temple saying to Renee,
"Didn't you teach me, overcoming Spirit World pollution requires emptying thoughts... I tried, imitating Senior Aris' methods using Usurping Life to tamper slightly on the brain, thinking of nothing crossing the Spirit World pollution arriving here."
The Heidelin whose throat was pointed at by that cold light carried a warm smile, raising her index finger adding a sentence,
"Actually not all thoughts were stripped away by you, otherwise you wouldn't have raised your sword blocking me as soon as you arrived here... You stripped away all thoughts, leaving only finding Renee and protecting her, right?"
"..."
The Renee floating beside Fisher was slightly startled. She looked at Fisher beside her. Obviously it should be an emotion of being moved, but unknown if it was because Heidelin just gave charity... no, shared the touch of Fisher's soul with herself...
So at this moment, when Renee looked towards Fisher, she seemingly surprisingly felt that scorching heat close at hand across the space. Her throat rolled slightly, and her eyes inevitably swept up and down him.
Unknown as to what she thought of, her complexion reddened again slightly, hurriedly shifting her eyes away...
Renee, you... you truly were bewitched by that Ocean!
At this moment obviously Fisher had his mind on yourself charging over to protect yourself, how come you keep thinking about that kind of thing instead?
What doing this and this and then that and that to him...
Could it be you are hungry?
Renee shook her head, yet that soul seemingly having its appetite awakened wouldn't settle down no matter what, especially with Fisher this plate of "delicacy" still beside her.
"Are you alright Renee, did she do anything to you just now?"
"...No! Nothing at all!"
Fisher's concerned gaze turned over, and Renee only then returned to her senses like waking from a dream. She hurriedly shook her head, saying thus.
"That's good."
"..."
Looking at Fisher's sigh of relief appearance, Renee instead suddenly felt a bit embarrassed. Because the more he was like this, unknown as to why, the hungrier Renee was.
Seeing Renee was fine, Fisher finally turned his head, frowning slightly, the Fluid Sword in his hand also closer to Heidelin's neck,
"Helaire, what exactly do you want to do?"
"What are you talking about, son-in-law... I'm Heidi..."
"How long are you going to pretend for?!"
This sound, Fisher almost coldly shouted out, instantly causing the words Heidelin was about to say to break off in her mouth.
Heidelin still maintained her smile, merely those pupils flashing blue-gold light surged slightly, as if wanting to swallow Fisher's shadow reflected within them,
"Looks like, you know quite a lot from Ramastia..."
Fisher frowned. After a moment of silence he only then said,
"I always hoped to know from you, it's just that from you, I have never heard the truth, and I no longer expect to hear any truth from you."
He lifted his sword, gently pressing against Heidelin's neck, slowly walking forward, pushing the blade, forcing Heidelin to step backwards, farther and farther away from Renee,
"The creator of the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual placed the precious property stolen by the Gods inside my body, using this to resist your attempt at taking it away; since you came for the precious property inside my body, then just target me, stay away from other people..."
"Careful Fisher... she is the Ocean's avatar, although her rank is very low, she possesses the properties of an avatar, and can turn ethereal."
Hearing Fisher's words, Heidelin's backward stepping action suddenly stagnated. She suddenly stopped on the spot, but Fisher's blade still had forward inertia, thus that sharp Fluid Sword blade slightly sank into the fair skin of her neck, from there bleeding drop after drop of scarlet red.
"Drip drop... patter patter..."
Fisher's eyes jumped slightly, hurriedly stopping the forward Fluid Sword, looking at Heidelin who was still smiling, yet hearing her say,
"You think so?"
"...I think so."
Fisher's eyes drooped for an instant, saying thus.
Hearing from Ramastia, it was indeed the Gods who were at fault first, They also admit this point. It was Them who stole the Sea of Souls that seemingly had no owner, hiding it within the Barrier, using it to create all living beings...
So, the world and all living beings were tainted with the original sin committed by the Gods from birth.
Even if returning His Sea of Souls to the Ocean now, even if the Gods self-destructed in order to repent for their sins, the cycle of souls within the Barrier will also cease to exist. Because all living beings currently active within the world, whether humans, demi-humans, or Chaos-kins, are all a part of the Sea of Souls.
Then if wanting to return the Sea of Souls, should these be returned or not?
Or to say, only need to return that precious property and Authority wrapped by the Sea of Souls is enough?
If it's like this, Fisher instead would feel relaxed. As long as handing himself over can reduce the liquidation of an extremely powerful Deity, that can already be considered an extreme profit.
But many times, after stealing other people's things it's not as simple as just returning it.
Even the Laws of Naris have extra punishments for the crime of theft, let alone towards such a powerful Deity?
Because of committing mistakes, thus the punishment of destroying the world was sent down. But all living beings were deeply bound with the Sea of Souls, in order to refuse the destiny of destruction they could only be forced to resist.
Fisher cannot say living beings resisting destruction and punishment to survive is wrong. Just starting from his standpoint, for the sake of these people he cares about around him, he also couldn't abandon them.
Fisher also cannot say the Ocean is wrong. The Gods committed mistakes so He must punish. He wanting to take back the things stolen from Him must inevitably destroy this world flowing from the Sea of Souls...
Could it be Fisher must play the emotion card with Him?
Emotion...
A Deity like Him probably wouldn't have this kind of thing. Him paying attention to himself without a reason was entirely solely because of that precious property inside his body.
Since conflict is unavoidable, then it can only be like this.
Fisher struggled to shift his gaze from the dots of fresh blood seeping from Heidelin's neck. He told himself, this was merely the Ocean's avatar, even killing her here would be completely irrelevant to Him. What's the point of you worrying if it hurts her, worrying if you injure her?
Don't forget, she came here to target Renee!
Thinking of this place, Fisher's palm gripping the sword hilt became increasingly steady. He firmly pressed the Fluid Sword against Heidelin's neck, seemingly as if wanting to completely isolate her from himself and Renee.
"Is that so..."
Heidelin smiled. She also didn't step forward to approach, merely looking at Renee sighing,
"It seems today you won't let me succeed... But it doesn't matter, it can be considered a success to a certain extent..."
"Kacha, kacha, kacha"
Following her manipulation, the silvery-white beach around also began to turn into faint Scarlet Mist. That mist dissipated bit by bit in mid-air, revealing the dark appearance of the Shelter outside.
Heidelin released the barrier of pollution.
At this moment the Shelter suddenly quieted down. The noise and shaking generated by the Spirit World pollution invading outside ceased to exist, making Heidelin look at the direction outside above muttering,
"The side over there has already been resolved by Hamon Hamon? Looks like the action is still..."
"Pfft!"
Right when Heidelin's words were still unfinished, amidst Fisher and Renee's shocked gazes, from the darkness behind, a massive snake tail instantly pierced through her extremely low-ranked body like a cannonball, bursting a blood mist before her chest.
Heidelin's eyes widened, her complexion abruptly turning pale. She turned her head to look back, and saw the snake-man-appearing Hamon Hamon had already expressionlessly appeared behind her at some unknown time. In that direction there was also Gou Wen with an equally shocked face.
Hamon Hamon expressionlessly lifted her snake tail, hoisting up the pierced through Heidelin into mid-air and twisting her back around to meet Her eyes, subsequently abruptly yanking out the snake tail piercing through her body, tossing her onto the ground, scarlet blood instantly flowing all over the ground.
"Pfft..."
Looking at Heidelin lying on the ground continuously trembling, rapidly losing her life force, Hamon Hamon expressionlessly said,
"Undeserved praise, merely just managed to rush back in time."
Renee raised her hand, looking at Hamon Hamon in disbelief and saying,
"You... you killed the Ocean's avatar? She..."
Heidelin lying on the ground had her mouth open, fresh blood continuously pouring from her body that was completely no different from a human's.
She trembled her pupils, staring at the direction of the ceiling, continuously whimpering.
Fisher frowned, the hand tightly grasping the Fluid Sword also trembling slightly. He hesitated for a moment but still clenched his teeth and arrived by Heidelin's side, lowering his head to look at her wound,
"You..."
"Heh... Fi... Fi..."
Heidelin had her mouth slightly open. While bleeding profusely, her blue-gold pupils also dilated bit by bit. Until the very end, those eyes reverted back to a lifeless grayish-white again.
She lost her life force, and became motionless again.
"Kacha, kacha, kacha"
Closely following, her entire body began to fracture, densely packed cracking traces splitting open from the surface...
A second or two later, she completely turned into flying ash, disappearing on the spot.
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