Chapter 210: 146. Erwind
As he watched the tall headless corpse uncontrollably falling into the pool of water on the ground, Fisher finally covered the wound on his lower abdomen and crouched down, finally able to relax for a moment.
Beside him, Jasmine gently covered her mouth, and tears fell from her eyes like pearls.
Perhaps she did avenge her aunt, but her aunt truly could not come back, and she ultimately did not get to see her one last time in her aunt’s final moments.
“Anna ran out from here. We need to leave this place quickly, Jasmine.”
Fisher’s face was somewhat pale as he pressed firmly on his recently injured lower abdomen, once again refusing Jasmine’s offer to heal him with her life force. He looked up at the enormous hole leading to the ground, unable to comprehend why Anna ended up distorting into such a monster in the end.
But in a place Fisher did not notice, the blood oozing from Blake’s headless corpse stained the pool on the ground a bit of bright red. Strangely, that bright red did not spread in the water but slowly coalesced into a small point.
Just as Jasmine was helping Fisher to stand, he suddenly had a sense of foreboding.
At that moment, all the hair on his body stood on end, and a strong sense of terrible danger surged in his heart.
That sense of oppression and weirdness far surpassed any enemy he had encountered. Fisher’s expression changed, and he hurriedly grabbed Jasmine beside him.
“No, Jasmine, there’s still an enemy.”
“Eh?”
But clearly, Jasmine noticed nothing. She looked around in confusion, but in this vast treasury, there was only the faint sound of flowing water.
In the next second, a voice that was neither male nor female came from somewhere:
“What a pity, this experiment has failed again.”
“That girl named Anna was so brave; she could contain so many people within her body. I thought the ‘Treasure of Life’ experiment was about to succeed, but in the end, it turned out just like the other test subjects, which is really unfortunate.”
In the next moment, Fisher finally noticed that the blood pouring from Blake’s headless corpse had somehow gathered into a small dot in the water, and that dot was spinning continuously, like a vortex in the water, clearly occupying a small space, yet it continually absorbed Blake’s body.
Once Blake’s body completely disappeared, it was as if it had reassembled; a brand new figure slowly rose from the water.
It was a person entirely enveloped in a black leather trench coat, but their gender could not be distinguished, as they wore a pitch-black mask resembling a bird’s beak over their head. The mask lacked facial features and other characteristics, resembling a bird’s head grafted onto the person.
The moment the person appeared, the “Soul Supplement Handbook” on the left side of Fisher’s chest began to act strangely for the first time. In Fisher’s line of sight, this person seemed to evoke a natural sense of rejection within him, making him want to kill them upon seeing them.
This person had another supplement handbook!
“Hmm.”
Just before the person spoke, Jasmine’s expression slightly changed. Her eyelids seemed to grow heavier, and she, who was initially supporting Fisher, quickly became someone Fisher had to hold up.
“Jasmine? Jasmine?”
“Hmm.”
Jasmine’s eyes were completely unable to open. After hearing Fisher’s call, she couldn’t even speak, only able to respond with a vague murmur, but that was already her limit.
In the next second, she collapsed into the water, completely losing consciousness.
Fisher hurriedly reached out to feel her neck, only to find that aside from losing consciousness, her physical condition was fairly normal. The current state was more like she had been poisoned by some sort of anesthetic.
But when did she get poisoned?
“Don’t worry, Mr. Fisher. It’s just a bit of whaling poison targeted at the Whale Folk. It won’t cause any burden or harm to this young girl from the Whale Folk. She’ll wake up in a few hours. But to be honest, your battle with Blake truly amazed me; I haven’t encountered such an exciting battle in a long time. I didn’t even have to intervene to ensure your safety.”
The person with the bird’s beak took a step or two forward, clapping their hands while looking at the treasure house surrounding Blake. When they saw countless gold coins flowing freely with the water towards the underground, they sighed in a bit of regret.
“Who are you?”
“Ah, I forgot to introduce myself. It’s our first meeting… no, we should say it’s our second meeting, Mr. Fisher.”
“Second meeting?”
Fisher’s expression changed slightly as he suddenly recalled that during the space magic attack on the Shivali delegation, he had conversed with a talking little bug, which, if nothing else, was this person.
“When the Shivali delegation was attacked, and also in the Healing Room, it was you who left me a message.”
The person shook their finger and then added,
“And just now, you saw the letter I wrote to Blake. Originally, I wanted you to stop Anna from breaking the bell, but in the end, she chose to die herself. It’s truly unfortunate; although she had reached her capacity limit, perhaps if she had contained one or two more people, she might have succeeded. At that time, she might have been able to live on in a brand-new form of life. Ah, Mr. Fisher, don’t worry. The part that is implanted only carries the last remnants of the test subject’s small obsessive thoughts.”
“In reality, they have no self-awareness. Muxi was like this, and Anna was too. So now, Anna just wants to cross Saint Nali and leave the Western Continent. Don’t worry, someone will take care of her soon. Let’s talk about our matters, shall we?”
Saying this, he suddenly opened his arms towards the injured Fisher and said,
“To reintroduce myself, my name is Erwind, the head of the life council in the Creation Society. You can also call me Life Lord, but that isn’t important.”
“Is the Life Lord Feilon one of your people?”
Erwind admitted without reservation,
“Ah, Feilon, he is the seat leader who has been with us for the shortest time. He has a good mind, but several months ago, he reported a situation to the association saying that he discovered a supplement handbook that was not on record.”
Fisher’s expression changed slightly, but he didn’t speak. Erwind continued,
“All the supplement handbooks we collect have corresponding marks that indicate other handbook owners. However, when you first encountered Feilon, you did not discover that he had a handbook, which led him to determine that you possess an unknown supplement handbook.”
“And once two supplement handbooks come close, their owners will inevitably clash until one seizes the other’s handbook or has their own taken. He was defeated by you before support from the association arrived, but in the end, he chose to cover your tracks, making it impossible for us to find you. We could only guess that the one who defeated him was a master of magic.”
Fisher suddenly realized something; at the time when he fought Feilon, Feilon had specifically blocked all the city gates of the inner city to cover his tracks. If he had called in other soldiers to fight him, his chances of winning would have been much lower.
The reason he wanted to keep himself and his group there was not because of the soul of the Dragon Race, but because of the supplement handbook he carried!
“After discovering that Fisher Benavides was the one who possessed two supplement handbooks, I reported the information about the person who defeated Feilon to the association in Saint Nali. They hope I can find you and attract you to become the new head of the Soul Council and go to the Southern Continent.”
After hearing this, Fisher raised his eyebrows slightly and after a brief moment of silence, he smiled,
“If you really wanted me to join the association, you wouldn’t have reported to your association after knowing my identity. You want to kill me and seize the two handbooks from me?”
Erwind tilted his bird beak slightly at Fisher’s words, his androgynous voice casual.
“Mr. Fisher, the Creation Society is a very loosely organized body; everyone is dedicated to researching the ultimate knowledge recorded in the supplement handbooks, hoping that one day they can reach the truth through the knowledge within. As the saying goes, there are many paths up the mountain, but there is only one peak.”
“However, after long periods of research, I have found that although the knowledge recorded in other supplement handbooks is vastly different from what I possess, it is of great help to my research. If I can obtain more knowledge about souls, perhaps Anna wouldn’t have turned into the way she is now, but would have become the ‘Treasure of Life.’”
Fisher’s eyes darkened for a moment; at this moment, the enormous, twisted hollow above their heads seemed to mock Erwind’s words. That was not a treasure of life at all, but a distorted, malformed monster.
But to be honest, at this point, Fisher had already reached the end of his strength.
His body had been injured from battling Blake, and Jasmine had been knocked unconscious by his whaling poison. He had waited so long just to reveal his fangs for this moment to kill himself and seize the supplement handbook.
Thinking of this, Fisher sighed and calmly stood up again, raising the Fluid Sword in his hand towards Erwind, and asked,
“This young girl from the Whale Folk, she will be safe, right?”
“Such admirable virtue, Mr. Fisher. Don’t worry; I have no ill intentions towards this young girl. After Mr. Fisher’s death, I will ensure she safely leaves Saint Nali and returns to the underwater. I guarantee this with my character.”
“All you need to do is obediently go to your death.”
求求投票、打赏和支持，这对我来说十分重要。
万分感谢支持！
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(End of chapter)
