novelraw Chapter 761: Fallacy
Chapter 761: Fallacy
When Fisher opened his eyes, the first thing he felt was an intense pain coming from his chest that seemingly wanted to drill through his inner heart. That intense pain made him breathless, to the extent that even his just-awakened consciousness began growing dizzy.
Before his eyes, that floating Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook emitted a golden light. Its pages flipped rapidly in mid-air as if moved by an invisible wind.
Fisher saw that the pages of the entire Completion Handbook were dyed golden, transforming into liquid-like matter quivering in the void.
Along with that quivering, while its connection with himself grew increasingly tight, Fisher also felt that the book seemed to be getting thinner and thinner, as if at this moment, that plain and heavy book was about to wither, seemingly leaving barely the book cover intact...
Precisely because he noticed this point, Fisher was forced to forcibly rouse his spirits.
In silence, he reached out and pinched the continuously flipping pages, unexpectedly directly interrupting its process of mending his soul. Furthermore, as if this was still insufficient, he even gently reached out, pulling open the massive gap at his chest slightly.
That added pain made his consciousness increasingly clear, allowing him to place more attention on the current danger.
Looking around, Fisher solely perceived a patch of dead stillness, yet everything before his eyes was clearly in motion.
This abnormal phenomenon to the utmost extreme could presumably only be attributed to the property before his eyes.
He witnessed with his own eyes that Authority brighter than stars continuously devouring everything around it. Precisely because of this devouring, everything capable of transmission turned into nothingness, as if space had completely vanished, as if sound had completely vanished...But not knowing whether it was an illusion or not, Fisher constantly felt someone was anxiously calling out his name.
"Fisher!!"
It seemed to be Renee, seemed to be Eimhart, and also seemed to be the other ladies related to him in Reality...
In any case, there were people concerned about his safety.
And coincidentally, the source of those voices was also what Fisher yearned for day and night.
Therefore, he gritted his teeth, once again forcibly rousing his spirits to look at the Authority of [Nothingness] before his eyes.
Yes, this was an Authority, but Fisher didn't know how to describe it, how to depict it.
Fisher could feel it, yet was unable to use known words or language to narrate its properties. He could only repeatedly narrate how the reality influenced by it was like.
The reality was, everything in the Spirit World was about to be swallowed by it. Very soon it would be the entire Barrier, and afterward, Reality.
Exactly as Fisher and the Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook analyzed inside the cinema, right now Fisher had only one choice left: that was to send the property of [Nothingness] outside the Barrier. By using this to attract those deities glaring like tigers outside, letting Them place their gaze on this unparalleled mystery, they could borrow this opportunity to mend the Barrier as well.
The pain brought by his shattered soul made it hard for Fisher to endure, especially when Fisher attempted to start touching the property before his eyes in an attempt to push it away from the Barrier toward the Ultimate...
The Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook had already done its utmost to mend Fisher's soul, but the gap accommodating the departure of the Authority was truly too massive. At this moment, Fisher being able to regain clarity was already truly not easy.
He merely persisted just like this, persisting in wanting to push that property of [Nothingness] further away, until it neared the Ultimate...
"What is that?!"
"Light... light... light... light..."
Outside the imminently shattering Ultimate, those twisted silhouettes gathering rapt attention or abominable phantoms whispering softly at this moment all felt that mysterious aura transmitting from the Barrier.
They exhausted Their perception probing inward, yet could solely feel a light seemingly containing inexhaustible mysteries. That light patted against Their bodies. Regardless of what Authorities They possessed, it seemingly was unraveled at this moment, being informed of an answer...
Meaning.
Beneath the illumination of that light, even the weakest, most peripheral deities outside the Barrier saw it; the order of the universe became distinguishable at this moment.
As if finally at this moment, that profound, cold cosmic void spanning across the depths of time without any meaning turned into strings of characters with explicit meaning, as if it finally became a string of formulas sufficient to explain everything, as if it finally became a string of answers to the questions They had been seeking since birth...
It merely seemed because They were too far from that light, leaving Them unable to see it completely clearly.
If only They could advance a step further, if They could observe it at close proximity, then...
"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"
"It's here..."
"That thing has come..."
Outside the Barrier, abominable murmurs and whispers pierced through the void in unspeakable ways, causing the heavily injured crowd and deities inside the Barrier to shudder uncontrollably.
When the severely damaged-faced Ramastia pulled His tentacles out from Ouyun's broken form, He also very quickly realized that the property sufficient to destroy everything didn't head toward Reality, but rather toward the direction of the Ultimate, outside the Barrier.
"This..."
He still somewhat didn't understand what had happened. However, Renee, who had been constantly calling Fisher's name, seemingly realized something. Her eye pupils slightly contracted. Looking at the halo obstructed by layers of obstacles consistently leaving her unable to see through to Fisher's figure, she told Ramastia and the others beside her,
"It's Fisher! It must be him causing that property to head outside the Barrier... he, he is creating an opportunity for us to mend the Barrier. As long as that property leaves the Barrier, the other Outer Gods about to charge in here will all be attracted by that property..."
Anabatos also understood everything. He hurriedly said,
"Right now all the arrangements the Outer Gods left behind inside the Barrier have entirely vanished. Now is the best opportunity, as long as the Barrier can be mended... Only, Fisher hasn't told us the method to mend the Barrier yet. Only he can contact Azanroth."
"I..." Renee opened her mouth. She had already learned the method from the Ocean, and judging from Fisher's reaction, the Ocean had spoken the truth.
But the problem right now was, the Dream Illusion's Authorities only had a portion remaining, which was insufficient to completely mend the Barrier, and she didn't know how many Authorities were still needed.
If this was the case...
Renee took a deep breath. Ultimately, her gaze also grew resolute,
"Mending the Barrier requires our Authorities."
As soon as these words came out, the present deities all fell momentarily silent, because They mutually understood that deities who lost Their Authorities would die. This action was equivalent to using Their lives to fill the Barrier.
It was still the head of deities, Ramastia, who spoke first. He glanced at the wreckage of the Dream Illusion's Authorities beside the gap of the Ultimate, opening his mouth to ask,
"How many Authorities are required to be sufficient... Inside the Barrier, the Dream Illusion's body was almost completely swallowed by Fisher's property. A conservative estimate is that no more than three Authorities remain. Adding the Authorities of myself, Anabatos, Dalasgon, Hamon Hamon, this fellow Ouyun, and yours, there are a total of ten."
"Hela's Authority has already merged with Reality, having transformed into a part of Reality..."
In actuality, before the Dream Illusion entered the Barrier, there were already seven Authorities inside the Barrier. The Ocean sending the Infinity Authority inside was precisely to make up for the Authorities being insufficient to mend the Barrier to begin with.
In other words, simply six Authorities were sufficient?
Renee turned her head, relaying her conclusion to Ramastia. Hearing this, He calmly nodded, telling Renee,
"If that's the case, using the Dream Illusion's remaining three, plus my two and Hamon Hamon's one, should be sufficient."
The suppressed Ouyun raised that massive head, looking at Ramastia above. Yet Ramastia merely told Him,
"When the edge of matter was destroyed, all your creations annihilated there. From that time on, this place merely became a cage to you... This is a disaster caused by me, hence I have no intention of blaming your betrayal. Since you wish to leave, then leave, before this Barrier is mended."
"Ramastia..."
Anabatos' aurora-like body flickered slightly. But Ramastia interrupted His words, conversely telling Renee earnestly,
"The matter of mending the Barrier is nothing, but the most crucial aspect is the Ocean... of the Ocean's four avatars, two have died now, and the one inside Reality is also about to die very soon, but there remains the final one, the one that has never shown its face."
"...But, there is no better way right now, Ramastia."
Renee gritted her teeth, looking at the Barrier enveloping this world that flickered between bright and dark, seemingly likewise sensing the Barrier's trembling,
"The Ocean came for the property within Fisher's body. We can only hope that sending that property out will make Her stay Her hand... That avatar has never shown its face. If this drags on further, the entire world inside the Barrier will be swallowed by his property, and Fisher he..."
Speaking to the end, Renee's voice couldn't help but choke up with sobs,
"Every World-Ending Prophecy, be it Saint-Nazareth opposing Heon, resolving Hamon Hamon, or opposing the Dream Illusion, they were entirely Fisher stepping up during times of crisis. This time facing off against the Ocean, even if ultimately unsuccessful, I also beg you all to be considerate of him just this once... I only want him to survive, I'm begging you..."
Ramastia gave a faint sigh. He looked at the moonlight-wrapped Renee before Him. He gently extended His water-like tentacles, telling Renee,
"No need for this, Renee. Originally it was us who wronged Fisher. If a price is required, I am duty-bound not to decline. I merely worried about leaving an impending trouble without resolving it once and for all. Merely, it seems arriving at this critical juncture now, we also have no other choice... Then so be it. Let us depart, to mend the Barrier. This is the end."
With His words finished, Ramastia slowly floated up, glancing at that property nearing the Ultimate, subsequently charging fiercely forward.
The aurora-like Anabatos also hurriedly turned into a wave of light, bringing Dalasgon toward that direction,
"That property might destroy the Barrier. I don't know the method to mend the Barrier Fisher told you, but just in case it isn't enough..."
Renee gave the departing Anabatos a grateful glance. Immediately after, she glanced at the massive Ouyun beside her still standing blankly on the spot. Subsequently, without saying a word, she also transformed into moonlight, heading toward the direction of the Ultimate.
After a moment of silence, Ouyun also slowly stood up, struggling to head toward the direction of that Ultimate.
"The property! The property has already reached the gap of the Ultimate!"
Before the Barrier, following that terrifying property nearing the gap of the Ultimate bit by bit, beneath the extremely dazzling light, even the deities like Ramastia were completely unable to perceive what was happening ahead.
Sound, existence, and all lines of sight were occupied by that seemingly void-like light. It was still Renee at the very back who roughly saw the direction the light source departed, thus being able to speak a reminder.
While reminding Ramastia ahead, she was also simultaneously exhausting her utmost to search for Fisher's figure, regrettably to persistently gain nothing.
As that property began leaving the Barrier, Ramastia began mending the Barrier. Renee's inner heart also began growing increasingly agitated, and an extremely ominous feeling also instantly welled up in her heart.
"Crack, crack, crack, crack..."
"It's here... it's here... the light... it's here..."
The Outer Gods outside the Barrier had already blocked the gap of the Barrier until it was watertight. Logically speaking, the universe outside the Barrier should be extremely expansive, a place where neither stars nor planets are seen, and gravity is negligible; yet at this moment, due to Their mutually incomparably massive bodies, They attracted and collided with each other, to the extent that even lines of sight were occupied by the bodies mutually repelling yet still delighting in gathering together.
Them, they were entirely for that tiny bit of light revealed from within the Barrier.
"It's here..."
But what welcomed Them was not a laurel crown satisfying Their thirst for knowledge, but a cavity bordering on annihilation.
"Something's wrong!"
"Buzz!"
When that light revealed itself, deities perceived something was wrong. Reasonably speaking, even the likes of Ramastia inside the Barrier could dodge away in time, not to mention the deities gathered outside.
Many smarter ones directly retreated a distance away. Only a minority of unlucky ones who got too close swallowed a large half of their forms, directly perishing on the spot, to the extent that even Their Authorities vanished without a trace.
But those retreating deities weren't terrified to the point of leaving either. Instead, They revealed a far more excited feeling, excitedly looking at that increasingly bright light.
Especially when They discovered a deity in soul form remained standing firm before that light, not being instantly devoured...
"A soul... wrapping it with a soul might work..."
An ancient wise one abruptly murmured aloud. In an instant, it seemingly also caused the light emitted by that property to brighten a few fractions...
And however the situation was outside the Barrier, Renee was completely unclear and didn't want to be clear no matter what either. She merely perceived that following that property's departure of the Barrier, the light inside the entire Barrier dimmed somewhat, while the originally Ouyun-destroyed Ultimate was further destroyed by the property of [Nothingness].
"Crack, crack, crack, crack!"
And this time's destruction was seemingly a fatal strike, causing the entire Barrier to be unable to endure it anymore and begin collapsing. But right before completely collapsing, exactly like a dying madman grabbing onto a lifesaver, it frantically sapped the Authorities left behind by the Dream Illusion on the edge of the Barrier.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz..."
And in merely an instant, those three Authorities of the Dream Illusion vanished without a trace, as if they never existed.
Yet even so, it merely slowed down its speed of collapsing slightly...
Still not enough!
"Lord Ramastia!"
Behind them, Xuan Can and Gou Wen hugging the unconscious Jasmine seemingly had already noticed the current peril, and also seemingly understood amidst the unseen world that Ramastia had already made that decision. Hence, they instinctively urged out that voice calling upon Him.
And Ramastia lingering before the Ultimate ultimately also had to turn His head, taking a final look at the currently extremely quiet and beautiful Spirit World.
The Spirit World devoid of scarlet mist contamination, was left solely with that brilliant Stream of Souls remaining the same, exactly like a flowing fluorescent river amidst utter darkness, simultaneously symbolizing the endless life and growth of the entire world.
And exactly at the end of that Sea of Souls, linking to that incomparably magnificent core world.
Was there a problem with this world?
Yes.
Perhaps every idealist was like so. Harboring the noblest ideals, they conceived a world within their minds capable of lasting through the ages, wanting to realize it.
But the heavy gravity of reality would invariably drag that ideal and smash it onto the ground, making it twist, making it deform, making it unable to turn into the original form they envisioned in their minds no matter what, making them inevitably disappointed. Even deities similarly couldn't escape doom...
Hence, every realist would unhesitatingly mock—mock their futile effort, mock their lowered heads in disappointment, mock the so-called unworthiness and illusion of ideals.
People standing within reality couldn't help but ask: Even if the so-called ideal had a mere one percent chance of becoming reality and ninety-nine percent chance of turning into a patch of ruins, even so, was it worth it to worthless try to realize it?
And every time, the answer they obtained from the mouths of idealists was consistently an answer that made them scoff at it—
Worth it.
Ramastia did not regret escaping the cold universe, harboring ideals to come here and establish a world belonging to Him.
Although looking at the result, His ignorance brought sin, ultimately triggering a settling of accounts...
Then, taking it as paying back the sin is fine too; please let Them pay with their lives and Authorities.
But please also use this to rectify their name: Their ideals were without fault.
"Buzz, buzz..."
Ramastia did not hesitate. After looking at the world inside the Barrier for a final glance, He brought Hamon Hamon's Authority to directly throw Himself into the Barrier before His eyes.
Like the Dream Illusion's three Authorities, almost instantly, Ramastia completely vanished from sight.
However, the speed of the entire Barrier's diffusion merely slowed down further, failing to successfully mend.
Still not enough.
Anabatos remained silent for a moment. Together with the twisted Dalasgon beside Him, They simultaneously charged into the Barrier. In an instant, They similarly vanished into the Barrier.
Sending forth two more Authorities, that continuously diffusing collapse finally stopped, and that expanded Ultimate also shrunk a circle...
But compared to the most initial Ultimate, its volume was still several times larger.
Indeed, the Ultimate first suffered Ouyun's strikes and the destruction of the Dream Illusion entering, and just passed through Fisher's property sufficient to devour everything. The traumas it sustained were several times more than Renee imagined...
Still not enough, but...
Inside the current Barrier, the Authorities available for use were only Renee and Ouyun's.
Renee stood before that Barrier, taking a deep breath. The moonlight wrapping her body also seemingly flickered between bright and dark in tandem with her mood.
Abruptly, Ouyun's massive body walked past beside her.
"Boom!"
The sound seemingly returned to the Barrier once more. Renee froze slightly, turning her head to look at Ouyun beside her.
Seemingly feeling Renee's substantive line of sight, Ouyun's body paused slightly.
"..."
Yet subsequently, He merely wordlessly walked toward that massive gap of the Ultimate, rather than the Barrier.
Renee merely watched Him walking toward the Ultimate in silence like so. Thereafter He passed through the Ultimate, departing from within the Barrier. Solely His voice echoing like a booming bell transmitted over,
"..."
Renee opened her mouth, subsequently giving a helpless smile. Looking at the still massively unparalleled gap of the Ultimate before her, she didn't know what to do.
Yes, even if Ouyun filled His own Authority in, it still wouldn't be enough...
But, what if it was her own?
Her own Authority was the Ocean's Authority. Counting its quality and might, compared to other deities, it should be more powerful, furthermore...
[Infinity].
It wasn't until this moment that Renee abruptly thought through, why did the Ocean have that many Authorities, yet solitarily sent an Authority representing [Incalculable Order of Magnitude] inside the Barrier...
Perhaps, what the Ocean said was true. Her sending herself over was exactly to fill this gap.
Renee lowered her head, her fists clenched tightly, exerting force to the extreme to the point her body began shaking uncontrollably.
At this moment, the space nearby the Barrier seemingly turned into a patch of void, solitarily leaving a patch of darkness, rendering the other weaker living beings extremely distant behind her too far to be any further.
Renee could no longer hear the voices of others, but in her peripheral vision, before that shattered Ultimate, a suspended body unexpectedly attracted her attention.
"Fisher..."
Renee's eye pupils contracted. She hurriedly flew toward the Fisher staying a proximate distance from the Ultimate.
Outside, countless deities surrounded that property of [Nothingness] that had for some unknown reason suddenly halted, no longer advancing forward. They had already discovered one could wrap this precious property with a soul, and seemingly were currently debating its ownership.
The deities outside had already gathered to an unknown number, having already reached a point Renee completely couldn't imagine. Densely packed, it was entirely the resonance of deities' Authorities...
She even felt that perhaps half the deities outside the Barrier had come... although she didn't know how many deities there were outside.
However, she also cared not anymore. Within her eyes, there was only the Fisher currently closing his eyes, bearing a massive soul gap on his chest.
At this moment, the severed limbs and broken arms of those deities outside the Barrier slowly drifted into the Ultimate, forming a floating object resembling an island outside the Ultimate, although releasing a twisted stench top to bottom.
Fisher was exactly floating on that island formed by broken remains. His hands drooped down, letting the massive gap on his chest leak the power of his soul outward.
Looking at Fisher's appearance, Renee almost shed tears.
It was as if after that property left the Barrier, the things Fisher was previously devoured of entirely returned. His physical body which had been completely devoured began growing automatically due to his Rank, to the extent that even the grayish-white Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook and Fluid Sword were floating on the side...
But that massive soul damage on his chest could not be recovered no matter what. Renee could only look on helplessly as his soul became weak bit by bit.
"No, no, no... Fisher, wake up..."
Renee shed tears staying by his side, seemingly feeling something. Caressing his face, she spoke softly,
"In Reality Raphaela and the others have already killed the other clone... regardless of what happens, all this should have ended. Although there remains the final avatar of the Ocean, it's already enough, Fisher, truly..."
"..."
And outside the Barrier, the gazes of those arguing deities also slowly looked toward this gap of the Barrier.
Because the dispute over the property of [Nothingness] dragged on unresolved, many of Them lacking a say could only place Their sights on this gap.
"Here... just now a deity... came out... this place is... the origin of this property..."
Feeling the terrifying gazes outside looking toward here, the tearful Renee hurriedly raised her head. She tightly hugged Fisher, pressing her face against his chest, subsequently gently kissing his cheeks, pushing his broken form into the interior of the Spirit World bit by bit.
"I have no way to save you, but Gou Wen and the others are here. They can definitely find a way to save you, Fisher..."
If they can save you, then this way, you can properly live inside the Barrier, finally able to rest for a period of time...
Although... although yielding you to those women like this makes me extremely unhappy, but...
This is also a matter of having no alternatives, right?
Watching Fisher slowly fly into the Spirit World due to inertia, Renee wiped away her own tears. The moonlight on her body also grew increasingly condensed, and the Authority of [Infinity] within her body also grew increasingly active.
She had already made her decision; ultimately, it would be up to her to fill the Barrier.
She gave Fisher a final look. Subsequently, she resolutely withdrew her gaze, turning her head to look at the Barrier, to use her body to fill the Barrier...
She exhausted her utmost effort to bloom out her Authority of infinite magnitude, linking it with the Barrier bit by bit...
The instant the Barrier touched that Authority, Renee's face turned pale. It was as painful as if something was drawing her blood from that Barrier.
Arduously, she raised her eyes, wishing to look toward the direction of the Ultimate, to look at the situation outside that Ultimate...
But turning her head to look, what entered her vision was not the gap of the Ultimate, but a boundless stretch of darkness.
"Wha—"
"..."
Fisher opened his eyes with some agony. Panting, he hurriedly lowered his head to look at his chest, only to see that the gap there seemed to have grown slightly smaller, and his soul was no longer leaking outward. Merely, it kept him feeling immensely weak, rendering his consciousness extremely blurry.
His eye pupils remained motionless. Giving a pained moan, his hand nonetheless inevitably bumped into the Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook and Fluid Sword floating on the side...
"Fisher! You're finally awake!!"
Fisher gently reached out, tremblingly taking back that already completely grayish-white Demi-Human Girl Completion Handbook and Fluid Sword. Yet even accomplishing this simplest of matters proved to be overdrawing his physical strength.
And at this moment, Renee's voice seemingly weeping tears of joy abruptly transmitted over.
Fisher's eye pupils twitched. He arduously shifted his eyes to look at the Barrier before his eyes, only to see a certain terrifying power currently charging inward at that gap of the Ultimate, seemingly wanting to squeeze into the world inside this Barrier.
"Let me... in..."
"Light!"
Outside the Barrier, terrifying murmurs and overlapping incredibly powerful auras of Authorities surged forth like a tide. Fisher's vision instantly went black. In extreme agony, he clutched his chest and crouched on the ground—strictly speaking, this wasn't the ground, but an island formed from the severed limbs and broken arms of some unlucky deities.
And before that Ultimate, black hair fluttering in the wind, Renee was currently raising both her hands with a pale face, using moonlight to resist the entry of that terrifying deity.
After seeing Fisher affected by the deity's aura, Renee gritted her teeth, once again urging out the seemingly incomplete Infinity Authority, exhausting all her strength to push the deity wanting to squeeze inside out,
"Get... out!!"
"Boom!!"
The entering silhouette temporarily retreated, yet thereby exposing the scene of the overlapping deities outside surrounding that soul-wrapped property of [Nothingness] presently discussing something, attempting to divide it up.
Renee's face was pale, yet she still hurriedly ran back, looking at the Fisher before her with a face full of anxiety,
"Fisher, are you okay? How is it, do you feel any better?"
"...I... I'm fine... the Barrier..."
Renee bore an expression of hesitating to speak. She subsequently softly said sadly,
"I told the method to mend the Barrier... to Them, but I didn't anticipate the property within your body passing through the Barrier would cause such severe damage to it... They... boohoo... They all sent Their Authorities into the Barrier, yet were still unable to mend the Barrier... Ouyun left, now only I am inside the Barrier. I am already using the Infinity Authority to mend the Barrier, it'll be finished mending right away, when the time comes everything is..."
"No, Renee..."
Hearing this, Fisher hurriedly reached out to press onto the weak Renee's shoulder, yet seemingly pulled his soul's wound, making him painfully lower his head further,
"You cannot mend the Barrier anymore, doing this you will..."
"But there is no other way right now, Fisher!"
Renee shed tears. After hearing Fisher's words, it was as if she couldn't suppress her inner emotions anymore. The fragility hidden before her loved one leaked out like opening floodgates. Sobbing, she said to Fisher,
"I merely want you to be well. If the Barrier isn't mended, the deities outside will enter sooner or later!"
"...Ocean, still has an avatar left... we cannot mend..."
"It's too late, Fisher, even if..."
"Boom!"
Just as Renee was still thinking of saying something, another terrifying loud noise transmitted from the Barrier. It seemed something happened anew with the group of deities outside scrambling for the property of [Nothingness], causing Renee's expression to change. She hurriedly stood up to look at the Ultimate, shielding Fisher behind her back.
"Fisher, there's no time... I must mend it right now... Bar... boohoo..."
As Renee spoke, her crying tone squeezed her voice, leaving her unable to utter the final decisive words.
"Renee..."
"I... I also don't want to die! I want to be with Fisher, I don't want to yield you to those women who harvest without toiling! Fisher will forever live happily together with them, only I, only I alone will not be by your side, this kind of... this kind of thing..."
Renee wept, lowering her head, as if her all bodily strength was stripped away by the fear of death.
If Fisher didn't voice out to ask her to stay, she definitely could have bravely marched to her death.
"I clearly already prepared myself to face death, why did you have to wake up again, shaking my resolve to such an extent... Fisher..."
Fisher kept his head lowered, abruptly saying softly,
"There is still a way..."
"Eh?"
"That property seems unable to leave me too far, moreover I can still manipulate it to a certain extent... but I have no way to manipulate it inside the Barrier, the Barrier isolates the interior and exterior. As long as I go out... cough cough, control that property, as long as... as long as we kill the other deities outside without swallowing Them, using Their Authorities... we can save you..."
"R-really? But this is too dangerous, no, Fisher! You cannot go!"
Fisher shook his lowered head, saying softly to Renee,
"But the problem right now is, the Ocean still has one avatar inside the Barrier..."
"But, where are we going to find that avatar... it's already too late now, Fisher."
"Indeed... it's too late..." Fisher nodded. Subsequently, he told Renee, "Renee, help me to the Barrier, I... can't walk..."
"Fisher you... you definitely have to be careful."
Renee bit her lip tightly. Tremblingly, she extended her hand, supporting Fisher's broken form, supporting him to approach the gap of the Ultimate bit by bit. Yet just after walking a step or two, he knelt onto the ground as if unable to walk anymore,
"Renee, let me pause for a bit... watch the Ultimate, we cannot let Them in..."
"Fisher..."
Renee anxiously turned her head back to look at the currently incredibly weak Fisher, looking at his appearance of panting with his head lowered. After repeatedly checking he had no major issues, she turned her head to look at the peril-ridden Barrier ahead.
And behind her, Fisher, who was breathing in less and exhaling more, tightly clenched his fists. He opened his shriveled mouth, as if abruptly recalling something, muttering to Renee,
"The ineradicable fallacy of you all... will compose your epitaph with its singing voice..."
"World-Ending Prophecy?"
"Ah..."
Fisher kept his head lowered, seemingly muttering to himself like so,
"The undying witch composes their epitaph for them with magic... This was the World-Ending Prophecy the Demi-Human Girl Con handed to me. She believed you... no, it's that she and this world constantly believed it was Renee... because of Renee's previous incarnation that was mistakenly recognized as Chaos, because of Renee's previous incarnation that intervened in the world causing destruction and was subsequently killed... everyone misidentified you, thereby viewing you as a fallacy...
"But... she actually thought wrong... everyone thought wrong about everything. Me... the same."
Fisher's speech was halting, evidently having already weakened to the extreme. And arriving at this moment, his words seemingly were dyed with a crying tone brewed with a layer of faint sorrow,
"She does not know how to sing... she is also not ineradicable... the truly ineradicable one is the avatar You hid away... is Your hidden aim making us all think wrong...
"This is the true fallacy, correct..."
The Renee nervously focused on the Ultimate froze slightly, just about to turn her head back to look at Fisher making such a voice at this moment.
But entering her vision, was his black hair hanging down obscuring his face, yet both hands were firmly gripping the Fluid Sword handle, having already aimed that extending blade of the Fluid Sword at her figure.
One could imagine, that power gripping the Fluid Sword was already his final bit of strength.
But his gaze fixedly stared at the Renee before his eyes. That gaze seemed to carry a hint of tears, not as if looking at Renee, but rather looking at another existence...
An existence he both loved and hated.
"Buzz!"
"Helaire!!!!"
With red eyes, he tremblingly roared, as if at this final moment he finally traversed thousands of difficulties and myriad hardships, finally awaiting the prey he had waited a long time for...
That white blade fiercely slashed towards precisely the Ocean's final avatar lurking within the Barrier,
"Pfft!!"
(End of Chapter)