novelraw Chapter 730: Mikhail
Chapter 730: Mikhail
Actually when Fisher saw the clouds and mist swirling outside, the Sanctuary scenery as beautiful as exactly the same as a thousand years ago, the first question appearing in Fisher's mind was,
"Why did Hamon Hamon do this?"
If it truly was just like Hamon Hamon said, wanting to seek an answer from Fisher, then inviting him alone over would be fine, why still additionally invite Gou Wen, invite other Chaos-kin to come here to hold a banquet?
Not to mention, in the end the document Hamon Hamon requested them to open was still opened with David's help.
Looking back this way, many of Hamon Hamon's preparations were completely useless, exactly like letting Fisher and the others come over for a sightseeing tour, and then She would gift the Completion Handbook along with a part of Her Authority to Fisher.
This completely wasn't a proper reason, unless...
A bold thought rushed into Fisher's mind, making him grit his teeth tightly, accelerating all the way within the Shelter space gradually collapsing and emitting violent shaking all around, sprinting towards the original place.
"Whoosh!"
"Rumble rumble!"
On the ceiling, on the walls, large chunks of bricks and stones fell down, from behind those bricks and stones, streaks of bloody and intertwined materials accompanied it down, reminding Fisher the Shelter's situation was critical.But he still turned back without hesitation. When he passed through that massive gate from previously, the mycelium inside was as old, the figure with a human head and snake body was still standing before that screen, reading the information above word by word.
Her calm back figure formed a stark contrast with the collapsing, swaying space around, instantly grabbing Fisher's eyeballs.
When hearing the footsteps walking into this space behind Her, the tail behind Hamon Hamon swayed slightly. She turned Her head, a smear of incomprehension dyed in Her eyes,
"Mr. Fisher, why did you return? Is it to take away the Completion Handbook? Actually there is completely no need for this..."
"I didn't come for the Completion Handbook... and besides, actually the Completion Handbook is no longer important. What the Demi-Human Completion Handbook hopes is for me to read all Completion Handbooks completely, this way it can completely isolate the influence of Chaos invading the Barrier through the precious property within my body. One Completion Handbook corresponds to one Authority, right, Hamon Hamon? Or rather, I should call you, [Mikhail]."
"..."
The graceful back figure of the snake-person before his eyes finally turned Her head bit by bit after hearing Fisher say these words, Her eyes completely taking Fisher's figure into Her field of vision. After a long silence, She then suddenly said,
"When did you discover I have a connection with Mikhail?"
"Just now."
Fisher raised his steps slowly walking towards that snake-person's figure, while walking over, Fisher said,
"Because I couldn't think of a reason for you doing all of this, inviting me, Gou Wen here, and moreover Pisces and them were actually also invited by you, right? You also reproduced the scenery of the Sanctuary one by one, manufactured those things similar to Angels... Hamon Hamon doesn't have a reason for doing this, making me unable to understand despite much thought, but the file I saw just now gave me inspiration."
Fisher looked at the snake-person before his eyes, saying word by word,
"If it is Mikhail, then doing all of this would make sense."
Within that file, Fisher saw Mikhail's statement of fondness towards that period of time in the Sanctuary, the concern towards Asuka Karasawa and the Creator's Society, even the name of that file was the "Fisher Project"...
Merely seeing that file, Fisher's memories also seemingly were brought back to the time ten thousand years ago...
So...
"You invited me, invited Gou Wen, invited the Ocean, exactly Angel Helaire, besides Asuka whom you already knew had transformed into pollution, all the remaining people still existing from back then were invited by you, you merely wanted to see us once more, right?"
"..."
And Fisher at this moment had already walked before Him, he looked at the expressionless snake-person before him, he knew, this was nothing more than Her avatar,
"There is another point drawing my attention... in that file, you said you created a brand-new intelligent structure for David, able to break away from the drawbacks appearing from relying on algorithms as foundation and network as memory in the past. But actually, this technology didn't truly apply to David's body, right?
"I carefully pondered the process of conversing with David in the past, discovering he still relies on networking, relies on algorithm programs, otherwise he wouldn't have completely lost memories after disconnecting from the network, not even knowing where you and Michael went. And also at this time, I remembered a matter from the past..."
Still remember Herdor in the Northern Border?
Exactly at that time beside Valentiina, via the technology provided by the Lord Cardinal of the Creator's Society, the consciousness of Valentiina's teacher was completely replicated into a Cardinal, while within Herdor's body there was no soul, only the light of the Cardinal, this then could prove, that replicated consciousness actually was a kind of artificial intelligence, an artificial intelligence inheriting the thoughts and memories of a truly living person.
And that, was exactly the new intelligent structure Mikhail successfully researched and handed to the Creator's Society!
"You replicated one copy each of Michael's consciousness and a part of your consciousness, then cleared the memories within placing them into David's body as your child, so this exactly is the reason he would possess the appearance of an Angel. But if it is so, a brand-new conscious intelligent system shouldn't lose memories due to the influence of disconnecting from the network, this differs from the new intelligent structure you described... His intelligent structure was swapped out, right?
"I don't know the reason, I can now also only infer this much, but I can now determine with incomparable certainty, you are Mikhail, or rather you are a part of him, because I can also sense the aura of the avatar's Authority from your body... Mikhail, back then, what exactly happened?"
"..."
The snake-person before his eyes grew increasingly silent, Her gaze lowered for an instant. After a long while, the corners of Her lips slightly curled up, squeezing out a trace of humanity familiar to Fisher from that heavy Divinity,
"Fisher, you are always so able to perceive the thoughts of others, so the thoughts of those women could then be guessed by you, becoming endlessly entangled with you."
Fisher opened his mouth, because at this moment when He opened Her mouth, seemingly it already confirmed Fisher's speculation was approaching the truth.
"... However, I also don't know whether I exactly am Mikhail or not. Perhaps I am, perhaps, I am a brand-new, successfully alienated Hamon Hamon, these two do not contradict each other, anyway it's also no longer important now, because, I am about to die..."
"You..."
"Back then what exactly happened to me?"
He darted Her tongue, turning Her head looking towards the direction of the instruments,
"What you said is correct, David originally was born exactly like this. As for afterwards why he again changed back into a preliminary intelligence that would be influenced by disconnecting from the network, this is entirely my fault... Actually back then ever since the war began, the Chaos within my body began to stir restlessly. In this process, I grew to understand Him increasingly more."
The snake-person raised Her hands, describing the survival method of a Deity for Fisher,
"Hamon Hamon's Authority predestined Him to continuously undergo complete qualitative changes, His memories are sealed, but body and consciousness would irregularly change. To Him, this kind of change is no different from our death... a new Hamon Hamon just born from a complete qualitative change, before waiting for Him to even study and understand His past memories, He might then again undergo a qualitative change because of the Authority, equivalent to losing once again, everything returning to zero..."
Fisher opened his mouth wide. Listening carefully, he surprisingly felt the ecology of this Deity Hamon Hamon was exactly like,
"A short-lived mayfly."
"Yes, so no matter which Hamon Hamon they all exhaust everything seeking the [Unchanging Thing], His joining Dream Illusion's alliance to invade this world is also equally because of this."
"But, this cannot explain why you and Him turned into the current appearance now."
"From the very beginning after I knew of His existence, I then knew of the thing He pursued. Merely I was too superficial, also merely treating Him as Chaos to resist, just maintaining mutual consumption with Him like this all along... until the situation of the Mythic War grew increasingly severe. I missed Michael's safety every hour and moment, I couldn't bear watching him suffer harm in the war, I couldn't bear to lose him...
"But the worst thing still happened, the mighty power sent down by the Mother Goddess overturned the Sanctuary, he suffered tremendous trauma within, when returning beside me in the Spirit World, he was already..."
The snake-person's gaze leaped, Fisher also inevitably looked towards the phantoms of Michael and Mikhail appearing beneath those white mycelium. Exactly as what they saw previously, Michael having a broken arm, injuries all over his body, the illusory wings of light behind him shattering one after another, the halo above his head also becoming extremely dim.
This is, an omen of impending death.
"I looked at his weakly breathing appearance, I simply couldn't believe it, I couldn't accept his departure, completely unable... Do you know how long he accompanied me? Seven thousand years of time, seven thousand years ah... He has long been a part of my life, in order for him not to leave, I am willing to pay everything, give up everything... So at that time, I thought of a method, only to be able to save him, even if merely his consciousness."
Looking at that scene, Fisher's pupils contracted slightly, he suddenly thought of something saying to the snake-person,
"Could you have planned at that time to follow the same recipe, replicating Michael's consciousness stuffing it into David's body right?"
"... Correct."
The snake-person closed Her eyes, frankly saying to Fisher,
"I panicked at that time, I truly didn't want to lose Michael. Yielding the body for Michael's consciousness, I then uploaded the backup of David's consciousness from another Shelter, resetting it to an artificial intelligence no different from the past. And exactly at that time, the more anxious, the more active the Chaos within my body became... the alienation virus was born because of this, spreading from all directions around me, not only this Shelter, together with the network also became its channel of propagation.
"Seeing as about to upload Michael's consciousness, but exactly at that time, Michael sobered up. He looked at me resetting and uploading David's consciousness to the network in order to save him, saw me to save him completely ignoring the Chaos that had already spread... yet he merely looked at me, looking at me with those eyes making me entranced, telling me his choice..."
"Rumble rumble!"
The sounds of collapse all around grew increasingly violent, the lights also began turning bright and dark intermittently, making the snake-person's figure before his eyes bright and dark intermittently.
Just at this bizarre moment, in the distance beneath that mycelium, the scene of the two people embracing suddenly seemingly came alive becoming vivid.
The mycelium above also continuously vibrated, seemingly familiar with the road simulating the sounds back then.
Fisher first heard Mikhail's voice,
"I cannot lose you... I... I have already viewed you as an indispensable part of my life, already unable to withstand any changes... if you die, I would rather die together with you..."
"..."
Amidst the silence, Fisher finally once again heard Michael's genderless voice, merely compared to the arrogance ten thousand years ago, his voice was faint at this moment, yet carrying the countless tenderness of sharing several thousands of years,
"Mikhail... we have always been independent... Starting from now, we will then truly become one body..."
Mikhail lowered his head, tightly embracing Michael's body. Subsequently, he heard the final sentence Michael softly spoke,
"My transience, is exactly your unwaveringness, is exactly David's unwaveringness... so long as you all still remember me, I will then forever be alive."
"..."
Listening to that sentence gracefully spoken by Michael, Fisher seemingly understood Michael's meaning.
Michael didn't hope Mikhail used this kind of method to upload his consciousness entering David's body then replacing him, this way although he seemingly became unchanging, David's consciousness however would disappear from here on, returning to variation...
Michael didn't hope Mikhail completely ignored the goodness he lived through for him, he knew of Mikhail's kindness, but now Mikhail however had to indulge Chaos massacring the Shelters of the Spirit World for him, had to indulge the remaining living beings of the Spirit World and reality being infected by Hamon Hamon's Non-Self...
For Michael's unchangingness, could it be replacing Mikhail's original kindness and gentleness into this?
So, rather than this, Michael preferred himself entering the "variation of death", also wanting to maintain the unchangingness of Mikhail and their child David.
Also because of this, he then rejected Mikhail wanting his consciousness uploaded placed into David's body.
"... What should I do?"
The voice of the Shelter remained silent for a long time. Subsequently, Fisher then heard the choking voice of Mikhail transmitting from amidst that mycelium.
Answering him, was Michael's calm and relieved voice,
"Close the network, seal everything here, then confront the Chaos within your body... defeat Him ba... I believe you can do it, right, Mikhail."
"Buzz buzz buzz!"
That voice came to an abrupt end. Up to here, Fisher finally knew why the network would be disconnected, why this place would be sealed up to here.
The snake-person's voice was sorrowful, as if at this moment that expressionless etherealness was finally stirred up waves by the dust-laden memories, She softly said,
"I followed the words doing so. I closed the network, placed the reset consciousness of David back into his body, then, I then always embraced the deceased Michael sitting quietly here, carrying out an ideological confrontation with Hamon Hamon's Chaos..."
"You won."
"No... perhaps it's lost."
The snake-person laughed bitterly once, She looked at Fisher saying,
"Michael's words not only made me rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff, but also made Hamon Hamon seemingly find a possible solution to His problem of unchangingness.
"[My transience, is exactly your unwaveringness].
"Therefore, He ate my consciousness, making me completely become a part of Him, a part unaffected by the Non-Self Authority..."
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