Chapter 674: 152. Home
After Fate Lord listened to Captain Alagina’s words, she instead scrutinized her expression, seemingly doubting whether the two of them were just thinking about going to the shelter for some romantic getaway at such a critical time.
However, Alagina’s expression was very serious, at least Fate Lord couldn’t tell what she was thinking.
It wasn’t that Alagina’s expression was flawless; it was rather that Fate Lord’s ability in this aspect was lacking.
In the past, Asuka had said that she “lacked the ability to read the air and see people’s expressions,” and of course, this was related to the incomplete heart of this Trans that needed to be “completed.”
“Or Alagina, you can take me into the Spirit Realm first, and then come back to bring Senior Ashley in? This time entering the Spirit Realm is to try to communicate with a deity; having Senior Ashley would be more secure.”
Alagina looked at Fisher, who hadn’t spoken yet, and next to them, David explained first,
“Ding ding. The operation principle of the Transferral Mechanism is not simply sending living beings to the Spirit Realm; it also provides shelter for beings below Rank 18. Otherwise, given your ranks, you wouldn’t be able to survive even a second in the Spirit Realm, and this shelter can only encompass two individuals. So when Alagina returns to reality, the living beings she brought will also be forced to return due to the end of the shelter.”
After David finished speaking, Alagina quickly added,
“. It’s not just because I want to go with Fisher that I said this.”
“.
Fisher and Fate Lord both looked at her simultaneously, but Alagina blinked in confusion, not understanding why the two suddenly fell silent and stared at her like that.
Fisher, who understood Alagina better, smiled first to break the deadlock and proactively said to Fate Lord,
“Then Senior Ashley, please wait here for a moment; I’ll inform you of the situation when I return.”
Fate Lord sighed and could only say,
“. It’s fine; I’ve heard about the dangers of the Spirit Realm. Just don’t forget to ask the important questions when you talk to Dalasgon. Make sure you don’t forget.”
Alagina looked over in confusion, but Fisher replied very calmly, “. I promise.”
With everything settled, Emhart also flew onto Fisher’s shoulder in an ostentatious manner, looking at Fate Lord and said in a very annoying tone,
“Ah ha, old lady, we’re off now; just wait for us to come back with news. My goodness, if we get too much information, I really don’t know how long it will take to tell you, but don’t worry, I’ll remind Fisher to do what he needs to do.”
“Ding ding. Just to remind you, this Mr. Book.”
“Ah?”
“Ding ding. Mr. Book, it seems you must also stay here.”
“What? I’m not human! I’m a holy artifact! Look clearly, little iron ball! My goodness, Alagina, you’re definitely making this little iron ball cover for you! Do you just want to have a romantic getaway with Fisher? What about me!”
“Ding ding. Although Alagina does indeed have a strong desire to be alone with Senior Valentina and Fisher, Mr. Book, you cannot enter, which is irrelevant.”
Before David finished speaking, he was silently caught and stopped from speaking by Alagina behind him.
Emhart, who was fuming, was about to say something when Fate Lord still sneered, making him more anxious,
“Shut up, you can’t laugh!”
Fisher ignored the exasperated Emhart, still leaning with the corner of his eye towards Alagina, only to see that despite her still expressionless face, the slightly rounded earlobes amidst her fluttering silver hair had turned rosy, resembling particularly appetizing cherries that weren’t fully ripe.
“Ding ding. Just to explain to Mr. Book, according to the records of the Gabriel angel in the residual database, the Tears of the Holy Artifact entering the Spirit Realm will be affected by unknown reasons, which is why the person in charge of the Spirit Realm shelter had to change the original plan…”
“We should set off now.”
But as he listened, Fisher suddenly voiced out, interrupting David’s explanation.
“What! Didn’t you just mention the news about Gabriel? You’re interrupting the robot!”
Emhart angrily flew over, yet Fisher gently swatted him with his palm, and after a moment of silence, expressionlessly pushed him away, as if casually brushing him off,
“. First, we’ll handle the Spirit Realm matters; we can talk about the rest when we return.”
“Shut up!”
Hearing this, Emhart flared up and flew out of the laboratory, and Fate Lord was also happy to see Emhart suffer, smiling slightly as she turned to leave the laboratory, only leaving behind a sentence,
“I’ll wait for you to come back here.”
Alagina looked at Fisher in confusion, then turned to grab some tools before instructing David to start preparing for the entry into the Spirit Realm.
“Ding ding. The preparation for the shelter transfer process is underway; we’ll start the transfer in thirty seconds, please stand close together and do not move; we will be arriving soon!”
Alagina nodded, moved closer to Fisher, and secretly glanced at him while unable to help but question,
“Fisher, did you and… Emhart have a quarrel?”
“No, why?”
“Then, just now…”
“Oh, you mean why I didn’t let him hear David talk about Gabriel?”
“Mm,” Alagina nodded and said softly, “It’s obvious that Emhart cares a lot about that… Gabriel angel.”
“Not just caring, Gabriel should be considered his mother. Since he gained self-awareness, he has been searching for the Holy Spawn’s traces until he met me. In my view, he is actually looking for Gabriel.”
“But I heard David say that angels have no gender.”
“Mm, but not all angels are like that; some very few angels have a tendency toward gender, and some even completely transform into one gender.”
Fisher seemed to hesitate to speak further, but his mind wasn’t on Gabriel; rather, it was on another pair of blue-golden, smiling, scattered pupils.
Only, he didn’t know who the owner of those eyes was and whether they could still be considered an angel.
He subconsciously touched his chest, but Alagina nodded as if she understood,
“I see.”
“Emhart lost his memory in the Mythic War and was separated from the Gabriel angel. Although I don’t want to think that way, most evidence suggests that Gabriel died in the Mythic War, while Michael, who manages the Spirit Realm shelter, is missing and might still be alive.”
“So…”
Alagina seemed to suddenly understand something, looking at Fisher beside her,
“Gabriel was supposed to be the archangel in charge of the Spirit Realm shelter project, but because of Emhart, whom she regarded as a child, he was influenced and gave up entering the Spirit Realm, ultimately dying in the Mythic War.”
“Emhart… might believe it’s his fault for Gabriel’s death.”
“How foolish, Emhart?”
Fisher smiled slightly, reaching out to hold Alagina’s hand, but she didn’t respond; she just suddenly felt a pang of jealousy.
It seemed that all along, that book had been able to stay by his side.
Around them, David’s prompt sound rang out again, counting down before the transfer,
“Ding ding. Transfer countdown, three, two, one.”
“Buzz!”
With a whirl of dizziness, in the next moment, Fisher and Alagina were propelled out as if shot from a cannon.
Alagina’s consciousness was pulled back and forth, seemingly unstable during the transfer, but fortunately, she had gone through the process many times and was already accustomed to it; while Fisher, being integrated both mind and body, didn’t feel too uncomfortable but instead clearly saw the scene of the crack space burning fiercely.
It was as if a delicate and wide canvas had been ignited by a casually tossed cigarette butt, the sparks of the fire spreading across the surface of the canvas, already reaching a point where three-quarters had turned to ash.
“Boom!!”
In the next moment, while Fisher was carefully observing the crevice, he felt a sense of falling, looked down, and found that he and Alagina had arrived at a brightly lit sealed space.
This was a space adorned with materials rich in angelic aesthetic appeal, and the brightness of the lights embedded in the walls was just right, illuminating everything around without being painfully bright.
For some reason, Fisher suddenly thought of the times he discussed decorating the house with Elizabeth long ago.
When her eyes hadn’t been replaced by prosthetics, the lighting in the Golden Palace was actually rather dim, because her family’s eyes were all golden light-colored pupils with low tolerance to bright light. Even slightly brighter light felt dazzling, which is why the lighting in the Golden Palace was always kept at a dim level.
But Fisher’s pupils were black, with high tolerance to light; on the contrary, if the light wasn’t bright enough, it felt dark, which was exactly the opposite of Godlin.
This couple, still in love, even discussed how bright the lights should be if they lived together in the future.
In fact, it was a completely meaningless topic, just small talk between young lovers; however, if a conclusion had to be drawn, the lighting in the current shelter should be the perfect answer.
Yet at that time, Fisher had said that the lights at home needed to be a bit brighter, the brighter the better, and Elizabeth didn’t object after hearing that; she just thought for a while before suddenly smiling and saying,
“Father would definitely not agree, be careful he breaks all the bright lights you choose for our home.”
“. I won’t let him get his way.”
“Then I’ll rely on you, Guardian of Lights, Mr. Fisher, but before that, we still need to prepare for the Griffin competition.”
“.
“Fisher, are you okay?”
Fisher blinked, after a brief moment of daze, his gaze managed to refocus, and the hazy, distant face before him became clearer, turning into Alagina’s inquiring look.
“Welcome, Mr. Fisher; we have now arrived in the Spirit Realm!”
David’s voice was the same as before, but this time, it emerged from the small iron ball in Alagina’s arms and reverberated through the corridor of the room they had fallen into.
Fisher raised his eyes and soon spotted a beautiful youth with long flowing red hair floating in the air.
From his appearance, he was androgynous and had a stunningly beautiful face, almost instantaneously reminding Fisher of the archangel he had seen ten thousand years ago.
They were so similar, but compared to that archangel, the young man’s face lacked that much indifference and had instead turned into a friendly and warm smile.
“This body… was created by Michael, right?”
He wore a white angel’s robe, and when he raised his hand to welcome Fisher, the mechanical parts were also revealed at the joints.
This was a mechanism, not an angel.
David tilted his head, at this moment, he didn’t need the “ding ding” speech prompts to open his mouth,
“To be precise, I was created by both Papa and Mama together; Michael the angel is my father. I just noticed that when mentioning my father, Alagina’s mood shows detectable fluctuations, so I stopped using that word in front of her.”
“. After I left, did Mikhail change gender?”
“Mother Goddess bless, but Mama probably hasn’t changed her original gender; she is still male. It sounds a bit strange, but I think Mr. Fisher will get used to it soon.”
“.
Fisher raised his eyebrows and looked at David, while Alagina slightly smiled and moved beside Fisher, saying somewhat proudly,
“When I first came here, David still had cracks all over him, but after he taught me the mechanism technique, I was able to repair him.”
“That’s right, all thanks to Alagina; she even fixed the damaged shelter.”
“Oh really.”
Fisher looked at Alagina in surprise, not expecting that she had such a talent.
He thought that such things were of interest only to beings like Mikhail or the angels; unexpectedly Alagina, a human and troll hybrid, could do it as well.
But after the surprise, Alagina continued to stare closely at Fisher, as if her gaze held some kind of expectation.
Fisher hesitated for a moment and tentatively said,
“. You’re amazing, Alagina.”
“!”
Alagina’s face suddenly turned red, she pursed her lips, lowered her head slightly, and even awkwardly covered her chest with her hand, clearly feeling her heart racing a little,
“I-if Fisher learns, he will definitely do better than me.”
Her somewhat shy voice and this cute reaction made Fisher feel that she resembled a large Northern Region sled dog. If she had a tail, it would surely be wagging excitedly, leading Fisher to want to pat her head or hold her.
But before he could reach out, Alagina hesitated for a long time and then suddenly said,
“Fisher, um… let me show you around here first, to let you understand roughly the situation of the shelter… besides me, you’re the second person to come here… By the way, I also have something I want to show you and a question to ask you.”
Originally, Fisher had wanted to cut straight to the point and try to reach Dalasgon, but thinking about it, this seemed to be his first time entering the Spirit Realm. Now this place looked like it was inside some facility, yet he knew nothing about the actual situation in the Spirit Realm, so getting to understand the situation here might be more helpful.
Moreover, Alagina’s serious expression seemed to indicate that what she wanted to say to him was very important; and while she could only bring him here due to objective factors, there was definitely a bit of selfishness involved.
“Okay.”
“Come with me, David; I’ll take Fisher to see the dock.”
“Sure, Alagina; I’ll wait for you both in the hall.”
Alagina nodded, taking Fisher by the hand and walking toward the corridor.
It seemed that everything around them was sealed off; even the windows that originally could see outside were boarded up, presumably done by Alagina and David, because angels wouldn’t use such crude and ugly materials.
“Fisher, the outside of the Spirit Realm is very dangerous; when I first came here, I almost got killed several times by that crimson mist outside. That mist can cause hallucinations and alter reality; in short, it’s very dangerous. So I entrusted David to help me seal this place to prevent being affected by outside things.”
As Alagina led Fisher along, they walked through the hall and various rooms, which were vaguely filled with countless machine tools and mechanisms.
Looking ahead at the path, he couldn’t help but ask,
“Is there a dock here?”
“Mm, but it’s not the kind of dock we think of. The original purpose was for a mechanism flying device used by angels to travel in the Spirit Realm, but I haven’t built it yet. Now, it has something else that I made inside.”
Alagina paused slightly, and before Fisher could inquire about what that was, they stopped at the end of the corridor.
Pushing open the door before them, an extremely spacious hangar-like space came into view.
This space was extraordinarily large, making Alagina and Fisher appear small in comparison.
“Zzzzzzz!”
Inside, the sound of some kind of welding tool operating continuously could be heard, and Fisher raised his gaze to see a massive ship docked in the dock, with many smaller mechanisms working busily to build that highly sci-fi steel warship.
This ship wasn’t very large, only about one-third the size of the former Iceberg Queen battleship, but it appeared much more dangerous than that steamship.
At this moment, the ship was just a half-finished product, with the mechanisms buzzing around it welding the outer shell.
“This is…”
“The new Iceberg Queen; do you want to come up and take a look, Fisher?”
Alagina smiled as she turned her head, then took a step back, elegantly placing her hand on her chest in a gentlemanly manner, as if inviting a noble from the Sardinia kingdom out on a date.
“Ugh!”
Fisher sighed, suddenly stepping forward and picking her up by the waist directly. Alagina’s gentlemanly gesture hadn’t even lasted a second before she was pulled into a weightless sensation by his irresistible great strength, panicking as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Her face slightly flushed, her eyes blinked as she looked at Fisher, seemingly still unaware of what just happened, making Fisher unable to resist kissing her cool lips, before then graciously agreeing to her invitation,
“At your command, Lady Alagina.”
“. You. You put me down first, Fisher.”
“What’s wrong? Didn’t you invite me up?”
“N-no, it’s not like that… I’m a woman, you…”
“Are we going up the ship or…”
Alagina, rather embarrassed, reached out to stop him from saying the next word but also knew that Fisher wouldn’t easily put her down, so she could only tighten her grip around his neck a little more.
Her long legs, tightly wrapped in black pants, twisted around his arms as she swayed and rocked.
Since it was just the two of them here…
“Then let’s get on the ship; I’ll show you the structure inside.”
“Alright.”
Fisher effortlessly leaped up while holding Alagina, the dozens of meters in height reached in an instant. He gently landed on the half-finished deck, where the mechanical components were clearly visible.
Once here, Fisher still didn’t put her down but instead curiously looked at the mechanism structure below, not seeing any so-called crew cabin or similar layout.
He looked up again at the captain’s cabin above and found it to be pitifully small, not seeming capable of accommodating many crew members.
“Isn’t a crew cabin needed, or is it still unfinished?”
“. It looks almost finished here.”
Fisher shifted his gaze, suddenly recalling the conversation with Paz before entering the room.
At this moment, Alagina, who was in his arms, maintained a calm expression as she looked at the still uncompleted captain’s cabin and suddenly smiled,
“This ship, after this, will no longer have any other crew members; it can be operated by just me and David; the weapon systems and engine systems are all controlled by mechanisms, very intelligent.”
“Alagina, what about your crew members…”
“My crew members have been with me sailing at sea since I came of age, nearly ten years now. Along the way, they’ve endured hardship, and to be honest, I never managed to repay their loyalty, even though I divided the rewards from every job as much as possible among them; it still fell far short.”
Alagina opened her mouth; a hint of loneliness appeared in her smile,
“Because there are some things that are more important than money in a person’s heart; I think that thing is actually family, is stability. When we were ambushed by the Black Chieftain, we had already lived in the Pirate’s Haven for three or four years; many crew members had put down roots there and built families, only to be destroyed in a single day.
“When the betrayal happened, many sisters did everything they could to disembark and return to the Pirate’s Haven to get their families back onto the ship, but they never came back. I feel guilty towards them; I hope to give them a stable environment, so I’ve already decided that after this matter, I will leave all the mechanism technology to Paz and my sisters, and then I’ll pilot this ship alone and leave.”
Fisher furrowed his brow, looking at her profile, momentarily unable to understand why she would do this,
“. You’re going to leave your sisters who have been with you for so many years? Why?”
“First, I must take revenge on the Black Chieftain; he must pay for his betrayal. With me and my mechanisms, that will be enough for revenge; my sisters don’t need to risk their lives again— even one sister that dies, I can’t accept; secondly, David has helped me so much these days; without him, I wouldn’t even be able to stand here, so I also want to help him.”
Alagina looked down at the warship beneath her, saying with pride,
“This warship can sail in the Spirit Realm, so perhaps I can help David find the whereabouts of his lost parents.”
Fisher didn’t rebut her naive thoughts nor spoke about how dangerous the Spirit Realm truly was; he just looked at her and suddenly asked,
“Besides these two reasons, there are other reasons, right?”
“.
Alagina opened her mouth, and the smile on her face, which was already faint, vanished without a trace.
She seemed a little embarrassed, making an inappropriate gesture for a woman from the Sardinia kingdom at that moment, actually lowering her face, as if a shy man was weakly hiding,
“I don’t know… I just feel… a bit anxious.”
“Anxious?”
“Mm, whether it’s Paz or other crew members, even if other crew members haven’t yet built families with others, I can know what they truly want, yet I don’t know what I want. I just feel like, I can’t continue to stay under Valentina’s Parasol Tree.”
Alagina opened her mouth, after a long while, she finally struggled to say that word which felt like a knife cutting,
“Here… is not my home, Fisher. Not.”
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