The Handbook for Completing Demi-Human Girls

Chapter 757: False God

Space in all directions suddenly shattered, causing the most fundamental elements of the dreamscape to violently dissipate. Fisher solely felt the scarlet mist surging from all directions like a tide, carrying an immense power akin to piercing through the entire Spirit World, blowing the kasaya on his body frantically.

He arduously raised his hand to block the howling of the shattering dreamscape. At this moment, the kasaya formed by the junction of the dreamscape and reality on his body also grew increasingly unstable, to the point of turning to ash and thoroughly annihilating.

"Teacher Fisher!"

"Crack, crack, crack!"

Within the thick and frantic scarlet mist, the figure of Asuka Karasawa, with her black hair fluttering, constantly changed. She dashed madly toward Fisher's side, yet her hair constantly shifted between blue and black, alternating between Jasmine and Asuka.

But as she ran, the blue-haired Jasmine seemingly gradually separated from the black-haired Asuka. An invisible power transmitted from the thick scarlet mist, as if transforming into countless tearing hands that dragged Jasmine and Asuka, pulling them back.

"Jasmine, Asuka!"

Fisher's complexion changed. He hurriedly dashed forward and reached out to grab Jasmine's hand.

Simultaneously, the entire world seemed to turn upside down, twisting the red mist as if collapsing, treating Jasmine and Asuka as a center and surging madly toward that direction. Yet no matter how it snatched, it could no longer tear Jasmine away from Fisher's hands.

"No!!!"From within that scarlet mist, a sharp and twisted voice suddenly resounded. That pained, roaring sound seemed to begin distorting and shrinking amidst the massive commotion of the dreamscape shattering.

Fisher knew that this was the consciousness of the extremely powerful Outer God from beyond the Barrier...

[Scarlet Dream Illusion].

"Rumble!!"

Under Fisher's shocked gaze, that scarlet mist sufficient to permeate the entire Spirit World completely contracted at this moment, shrinking to the size of a tiny singularity. Along with it, Jasmine and Asuka's figures also completely vanished from sight.

While all around, the shape of the Spirit World had already recovered, proving Fisher and the others had broken away from the dreamscape and returned to reality.

David, Gou Wen, Xuan Can...

These real people who had been swallowed into the dreamscape were all floating unconsciously within the void of the Spirit World at this moment. Only Fisher stood alone, still awake.

Renee should still be with Helaire, yet now she couldn't be seen anywhere, and Helaire was even more nowhere to be found, as if lying dormant in the dark.

Everything quieted down following the shattering of the dreamscape; everything seemingly subsided.

The scarlet mist gradually dissipated, revealing the quiet, profound Spirit World outside. This seemed to be the first time in several millennia that the Spirit World revealed its appearance without being eroded by contamination. Only that extremely bright Sea of Souls could be seen.

"Haha..."

Panting, Fisher temporarily released his grip on the Fluid Sword. But in the very next second, he seemingly sensed something and said softly,

"Helaire, you failed..."

"Step."

He didn't turn around. The blonde figure behind him, who had appeared at some unknown time, paused slightly. She smiled, placed her hands behind her back, looked at the back of Fisher holding the unconscious Jasmine, and replied,

"Very well done. To think you recognized so quickly that you were the crux of Asuka's sweet dream."

Fisher slowly turned his head. At the same time, high in the sky of the Spirit World, the power fluctuations of several deities also began to manifest.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

Anabatos radiating golden light, Ramastia shrouded in chaos as if possessing hundreds and thousands of blurry faces, and Dalasgon who had just barely awoken with an aura still slightly weak...

Fisher's gaze lowered slightly, before raising again to look at the smiling Helaire before him,

"Inside the dreamscape, you didn't manage to take the property within my body in time. Coming out now to face several deities, relying merely on your avatar, you shouldn't be able to achieve it, right? Tell me, where is Renee?"

Helaire nodded and said honestly,

"Indeed... As for Renee, rest assured, she is fighting my other avatar. This group of little cubs should be capable of sensing that she is safe and sound for now."

Fisher glanced at Ramastia above, only to find They were all looking in a certain direction. Clearly, that was where Renee was fighting, which could also prove that Helaire was telling the truth.

Fisher felt somewhat reassured. Only then did he refocus his gaze on Helaire close at hand.

Perhaps this was the closest they had ever been, not meaning physically near.

Fisher's gaze was somewhat complicated. After a long silence, he said to Helaire,

"So, Helaire, let's talk, right in front of Them."

Helaire smilingly remained silent. Above in the sky, Ramastia and Anabatos also slowly landed in the void beside Fisher, while Dalasgon silently pulled all the scattered people nearby to His side to prevent them from falling toward other directions of the Spirit World.

And Ramastia also looked toward the Helaire with her hands behind her back, speaking in a low voice,

"Respected Ocean, it is our utmost honor to converse with the legendary You here."

"..."

Helaire remained silent, merely looking at the speaking Ramastia. She saw the countless chaotic faces on His body all close their eyes, curbing their expressions and gazes to express Their respect for the Ocean.

But with the situation reaching this point, what had to be said, what had to be discussed, had to be spoken.

Fisher narrowed his eyes, gently put down the unconscious Jasmine in his embrace, walked up to Helaire, looked at her, and said,

"The property within my body was ignorantly stolen by the gods; it originally should have belonged to You. You take it away, then leave this place to preserve this world. Former grievances are written off, alright?"

"We are willing to pay the price of life and Authority for our offense."

Ramastia and Anabatos also spoke at the same time, telling Helaire sincerely,

"But this world is our painstaking effort, our ideal... Please leave Dalasgon, Ouyun, and Hela intact, and leave this world hosting our ideals."

Helaire, who had originally been looking at Fisher, smiled teasingly upon hearing Ramastia and Anabatos' voices. She shook her head, smilingly saying,

"Oh? Weren't you so certain of victory? Why discuss with me? Wouldn't it be fine to just destroy my avatar and seal the Barrier?"

"...Aside from the three discovered avatars, You have always preserved one avatar that has never revealed itself. Objectively speaking, even if those three avatars are destroyed, it wouldn't dispel Your gaze upon this world, which is why we chose negotiations to settle this once and for all. As for Fisher..."

"He genuinely wishes to talk with You."

Ramastia's words were realistic, for Fisher actually didn't know there was another avatar discovered by Ramastia and the others.

While Helaire smiled slightly, looking at Fisher as she said softly,

"Sure, give me the Authority inside your body, and I will leave."

"...Okay."

Actually, when he heard Helaire personally agree, even though it was the most appropriate answer, a faint sorrow still blossomed out of thin air within Fisher's heart.

He clearly knew long ago that her goal was the property inside his body, yet deep down he still seemed to hope for some other coexisting answers, even if just a little bit.

Because if it were like this, wouldn't it mean everything he had once poured out for her was false, and her reciprocation was false too?

Perhaps this was merely a deity's joke. When the joke ended, nothing would remain.

Fisher thought this way, yet on the surface he still nodded, pretending to be calm. Walking towards Helaire, he told her calmly,

"Come."

"..."

Smiling, Helaire raised her hand and placed it over Fisher's heart.

The heart area seemed to be exactly where that precious property resided.

She didn't act immediately, drawing some confusion from Fisher,

"What are you waiting for?"

Helaire gave him a reproachful glance, merely saying,

"Extracting the property without harming you requires a lengthy process. Moreover, if a soul isn't used to wrap that property, it cannot be extracted..."

"Is that so?"

"Yeah, after all, this property is extremely precious..."

Helaire stroked Fisher's chest, opening her mouth to say,

"Are you ready?"

"Mn."

"Then I will..."

"Pfft!"

Fisher's pupils widened bit by bit. A severe pain transmitted, but not from his chest.

He dazedly lowered his head, only to see a scarlet mist seemingly materialized into physical form having already pierced through his lower abdomen, and then, pressing forward indomitably, equally piercing through Helaire's body.

This is...

Dream Illusion?

His head whipped back, only to horrifically discover that countless fine scarlet tentacles had fiercely darted out from around Asuka, already pulling on the bodies of Ramastia and Anabatos nearby, firmly pressing Them down in place.

How is this possible...

This power...

The power of the Dream Illusion has arrived?

Helaire also widened her eyes. She opened her mouth, but blood surged out more and more,

"Fi..."

"Helaire!"

"Swoosh!"

Looking at the Helaire before him whose avatar's aura was growing increasingly dim, Fisher wanted to reach out and touch the other party. However, that scarlet mist piercing both him and Helaire simultaneously retracted abruptly, releasing Helaire while simultaneously dragging Fisher flying toward Jasmine's direction.

"Hehe... hehe..."

And from the increasingly thick scarlet mist around Jasmine, a twisted voice lightly rang out,

"Did you think I would thoroughly vanish just because the dreamscape shattered... The moment the dreamscape shattered also meant that that damned Asuka Karasawa's suppression over me completely vanished. Her power has completely vanished, but I am now already capable of taking over everything within the Barrier..."

"Earlier, I learned some interesting things from Hela and the others... The Ocean's Treasure is actually inside your body! That's why I pretended to be defeated by you... Now, a Treasure ten thousand times more precious than Azanroth's Hidden has fallen into my hands."

Fisher clutched his lower abdomen continuously trickling blood, yet still stared at the avatar of Helaire in the distance falling down and gradually turning to ash.

It felt different from that avatar killed by Hamon Hamon inside the Angel's Sanctuary before. This avatar...

Has truly died.

Fisher gritted his teeth, looking at Ramastia and Anabatos who were being suppressed all around... No, not just Them; even Dalasgon in the sky...

But why?

Could the Dream Illusion's contamination be this powerful?

"Even if... you take away the Treasure here, do you think you've killed the Ocean? Her main body is still outside the Barrier. Could you possibly be Her match? Even if you obtain the property now, you will gain nothing."

"Yeah, but aren't you curious why I can effortlessly suppress these few fellows now?"

The Dream Illusion's voice loomed indistinctly amidst the scarlet mist. But prompted by Its reminder, Fisher suddenly seemed to discovered something. Turning his head toward the Barrier's location, he saw that at the Ultimate, the gap was absolutely unprecedentedly massive.

And outside that gap, before a colossal, planet-like scarlet shadow, an eye like a scarlet sun was death-staring at the Spirit World within the Barrier.

That was the Dream Illusion's main body.

"The Ultimate... why would... Ouyun?"

Fisher suddenly saw that near the Ultimate, Ouyun, who originally should have been guarding against the Barrier's expansion, was unexpectedly raising the massive star-hammer used for forging stars, viciously smashing it toward the edge of the Barrier, causing the fractured Barrier to grow increasingly fragile.

And through that continuously enlarging gap of the Ultimate, the power of the Dream Illusion outside the Barrier was finally able to thoroughly cross the Barrier's blockade, continuously surging into this Barrier.

So that was why the scarlet mist beneath him possessed such powerful energy at this moment?

"The Barrier is a cage. Under long siege, as the Forger of this world, They each hold their own thoughts regarding destruction. And all of Ouyun's creations at the physical boundary had already been destroyed during the Mythic War. He is the most disheartened deity among all the gods... He entered here for a shared ideal, but in the end, His ideals were the first to be sacrificed..."

"He had long established contact with me, having long betrayed this world. What a pity that aside from your Creator, this group of little cubs who thought the Barrier was an iron bucket discovered nothing at all!"

As the words fell, the Dream Illusion's scarlet mist spread further into Fisher's body, searching for the location of that precious property.

Demi-Human Girl Con...

Discovered Ouyun's betrayal?

The firmly suppressed Ramastia froze slightly. Amongst those countless faces, that Transferred Person with a head of unkempt, scattered long hair suddenly surfaced.

That woman chuckled mischievously, telling a meaningful fable before Ramastia,

"Ramastia, don't you understand yet? This world is a large ship, the varying beings upon it are its passengers, and you are the captain, first mate, second mate, helmsman blah blah blah of this large ship... Just as the ship sailed upon the boundless ocean, the Reaper suddenly appeared, teasingly uttering a prophecy to the captain, first mate, and the others on this ship. But no one could decipher what exactly the prophecy said, merely knowing one fact: this ship is doomed to sink. But where it would sink, and how it would sink, remained an enigma."

"The Captain said: 'Since it's so dangerous, let's quickly return from our voyage, back to where we started!' The First Mate, however, said, 'Wait, Captain. What if the prophecy points to our ship sinking exactly at the place we return to? We should bite the bullet and sail forward, then find a nearby place to dock!' The Second Mate said, 'Ha, isn't there a possibility that it sinks while we are finding a place to dock?' The Third Mate said, 'We should sail straight to our destination, don't deviate from the course!' The Helmsman said, 'Why don't we just await our end like this...'"

"Ah my, and me, a rat on this ship, happen to be absolutely brilliant. It just so happened I eavesdropped on the prophecy the Reaper told the Captain and the rest, and even unintentionally cracked what that prophecy truly meant..."

Ramastia didn't know who that group of "Captains" and "First Mates" referred to. He perhaps always felt He Himself was the Captain, yet He clearly held no thoughts of returning... meaning, leaving the Barrier and returning to the outside world.

It wasn't until this very moment that He barely realized that that Transferred Person was reminding Him: among you, a [Traitor] had appeared...

A [Traitor] who wished to [Return].

"No, no..."

Ramastia clearly knew that that Transferred Person had already been firmly targeted by the Ocean, forced to hide everywhere, hovering at the brink of madness, liable to encounter danger at any moment, even wanting to end her own existence countless times... Hence, many things could not be stated clearly...

If He had been a bit smarter, not so ignorant, capable of understanding the subtext of her words...

"Ouyun!!"

Ramastia let out an unwilling roar, but at the Ultimate of the Barrier, the gap was already large enough for the Dream Illusion to transmit the majority of Its power over.

Teasingly lifting Fisher up and looking at the hate-filled Fisher, the Dream Illusion softly said,

"Although still not my complete power, still merely my despicable replica, capable of being called a [False God] at best... But, to deal with you group of little cubs, it is sufficient enough."

"Weren't you wondering how I would survive after offending the Ocean? I will give you the answer right now..."

At this moment, those scarlet tentacles tightly pulling Fisher's body gradually turned physical. Beside his ears, chants of Buddhist scriptures seemingly transmitting from a distant horizon surprisingly rang out...

"Namu... Mara Devaputra..."

Like the low chanting of countless devout saints, crimson lotuses simultaneously began to bloom within the void in all directions. The crisp sounds of wooden fish echoed time and again, pulling Fisher's thoughts to the point of nearly crashing down.

Yet what he attained upon crashing down was not tranquility, but rather an unprecedented mania.

"Ugh!"

Fisher clutched his head as it throbbed with a splitting pain. Struggling, he lowered his head, only to see that the void of the Spirit World had, at some unknown time, already transformed into a lotus pond of scarlet bloodwater.

"Namu Mara Devaputra... Amidst Paranirmitavasavarti and Brahma-kayikas..."

"There resides the Mara Heavenly Palace, spanning six thousand yojanas wide. Seven folds of palace walls, seven folds of railings, seven folds of nets, seven folds of aligned trees... down to countless varied birds chiming in harmony..."

That decadent voice chanted continuously, carrying the trembling sound of the entire world, stirring ripples in the scarlet lotus pond beneath Fisher.

"Rumble!!"

In the next moment, a massive figure slowly surfaced from that lotus pond.

It was a black-haired female bearing a dignified Buddhist visage, a Dharma wheel rotating behind her. Her black hair was coiled atop her head, a holy, milky-white headscarf fluttering slightly, complementing those slightly narrowed compassionate black eyes...

Her appearance was completely identical to Asuka Karasawa, looking like a being of great wisdom who had yet to attain Buddhahood, bearing the appearance of a Bodhisattva.

Her mountain-like massive palm rose from the scarlet lotus pond without a speck of dust clinging to it, her fair skin still faintly glimmering. With one hand, she compassionately and peacefully held up a jade vase, while simultaneously looking down from high above at the extremely minute Fisher tightly grabbed by the other hand.

"Whoosh..."

That holy, compassionate gaze was like a deity's, yet the words spoken were incredibly vicious,

"I will eliminate this group of traitors and their remnants completely, leaving them with nowhere to hide, no place to seek refuge..."

"Then, after that, I will usurp the magpie's nest, entering the Barrier, utilizing the Barrier to form a shield to shelter me until I thoroughly grasp that incomparably precious property within your body!"

The Dream Illusion gave a "Hehe" chuckle. Narrowing Its eyes, It spoke rather sanctimoniously,

"I have a premonition that that property, is what can rival the Ocean..."

"The Peerless Existence."

Yet listening to the words coming from the Dream Illusion's mouth at this moment, Fisher's heart suddenly jolted.

A sound akin to a Reaper's light chime circled within his heart, reminding him:

The World-Ending Prophecy had not been resolved yet!

[The False God from within the Barrier will leave the thieves' remnants nowhere to hide, no place to seek refuge!]

(End of Chapter)