Chapter 719: The World is a Huge Sub-Human Girl
“Wow, it’s lively over here. I haven’t seen such a scene in the Spirit Realm for quite some time.”
Gouwen stood at the edge of the mechanism deck, and through the gradually thinning Crimson Mist in front of him, he could vaguely see the Angel’s Sanctuary floating in the darkness, shining with tiny points of mechanism light. Unlike the silence of a thousand years, the entire sanctuary now seemed to come to life due to the operation of the mechanism, prompting Gouwen to exclaim.
Fisher’s gaze moved slightly; however, unlike what Gouwen saw, a phantom light flickered in his eyes, illuminating the coordinates of the Spirit Realm map in his mind. The term that appeared before him was,
[Angel’s Main Sanctuary]
Looking at the blue marker that appeared on the map, Fisher closed the illusory interface in his eyes. At that moment, a faint fragrance wafted to the tip of his nose. Turning his head, he saw Renee had somehow sat on him without adding any weight.
Her long floating gauzy skirt covered her slightly curved white legs, which actually suggested more of a hovering presence than just sitting.
The purple halo in Renee’s eyes flickered slightly. After observing the enormous sanctuary for a long while, she finally spoke, “I can’t see a thing about the situation inside that sanctuary. I can only sense the rich aura of Hamon Hamon’s authority, and I’ve been using my true form to check it.”
“True form?”
Fisher glanced at the dense red mist outside the deck; despite the thick fog, he indeed saw a hint of cool moonlight’s color within it.
If even Renee’s true godly form couldn’t perceive the changes, Gouwen rubbed his chin and analyzed, “So, Hamon Hamon’s chaos has grown to the extent of forming authority?”
“I’m not sure. There are too many things in the Spirit Realm. A thousand years ago, the angels sealed the sanctuary along with the chaos of Hamon Hamon. Since He can’t escape, the gods were too busy to care, which led to now… Ah!”
Before Renee could finish her sentence, her body, which was leaning against Fisher, was abruptly embraced by him. Her expression changed, and her once solid form instantly became soft, leaning against Fisher’s back.
Her body flickered unpredictably due to shyness, resembling a faulty light bulb. But since it was Fisher who made the move, Renee widened her eyes to glare at him. Yet, he was looking at the majestic sanctuary with a serious expression.
“Fisher—”
“Shh!”
Renee froze for a moment, turned to look at the sanctuary, and witnessed an extremely exaggerated scene.
With her moonlight-like hazy gaze, she saw the sanctuary seemingly come to life. The metal surface, with sharp and distinct edges flickering with mechanism light like a mountain, suddenly activated, splitting open to reveal a massive vertical pupil gazing in the direction the moonlight came from.
“Ka, ka, ka.”
Gouwen was also shocked by this terrifying sight. He raised his hand to point at the sanctuary with the opened giant eye, but just as he opened his mouth, Fisher spoke first, “This sanctuary has been completely altered by His authority. No wonder Renee, you can’t see through it; the sanctuary has already been transformed into a part of Him.”
“….”
Renee blinked in Fisher’s arms and did not respond, unsure if it was because being in his embrace caused a slowdown in her cognitive processes.
Fisher simply leaned down and pinched her waist. As a result, she blushed and began to struggle.
“Yay!”
Fisher pretended to release her, and only then did she give him an annoyed glare before clearing her throat and saying, “If that’s the case, we have no way of knowing the true state of the banquet, and hastily going in might be dangerous.”
Fisher looked at Renee and asked, “What about your true form? If you could come—”
“No!”
Unexpectedly, as soon as Fisher said this, both Renee and Gouwen simultaneously refused. Fisher raised his eyebrows and looked at Gouwen, and he seriously said to Renee,
“The moon absolutely cannot leave the Ultimate right now. Dalasgon has lost consciousness and can’t help. Earlier, Ramastia had only left the Ultimate for a moment and warning signs appeared, if the moon leaves again, a disaster will happen.”
“He’s right, it’s pretty much like that.” Renee sighed and said, “In short, the gods currently cannot leave the Ultimate for now. If we lose our power, the breach in the barrier may further expand… If it damages the foundation of the barrier allowing authority to pass through the Ultimate, then everything is over.”
Gouwen rubbed his head in annoyance and said, “Let’s think of another way, or we could go in batches and leave some outside to observe the situation?”
“No, I think it’s unnecessary.” Fisher shook his head, interrupting Gouwen’s words, while looking outside the deck, “He has already discovered us.”
Before them, that enormous sanctuary’s surface had already turned its giant eye, which was originally used to observe Renee’s moonlight, towards their floating ship. Under the gaze of the eye that was many times larger than them and the ship, an immense sense of oppression surged up, causing anxiousness.
Immediately, the gigantic organic eyes trembled slightly, like a droplet of water suspended and returned, a semi-transparent liquid that kept vibrating and growing in mid-air, gathering into a coffin-like inorganic object slowly flying towards Fisher.
“It’s coming.”
Gouwen’s gaze flashed, just as he was about to raise his hand, a golden blade quietly slipped into his palm. But before he could move, Fisher raised his hand to press him back, and when he turned around, he found that all the mechanisms on the ship had begun to flicker with white light, and lines of angelic text flowed on them.
“Welcome, welcome, welcome.”
“We have been waiting for you for a long time.”
“Mr. Fisher, Mr. Fisher.”
Fisher’s expression was ice-cold as he spoke,
“He knows we’ve come. Since that’s the case, there’s no need to hide.”
“….”
At that moment, just as the coffin-like object approached Fisher’s ship, passing gently through the surface barrier, it fell over their heads and landed behind them.
“Mr. Fisher?”
At this moment, David, who had been in the mechanism control room, finally stuck his head out, clearly still a bit dazed. It seemed that the ship’s mechanism had been affected during the invasion, and he just happened to see the coffin land on the ground.
“Thud!”
As the coffin-shaped object slowly landed, Fisher could finally see that this coffin was essentially a mechanism. It had just landed, and the mechanism light on its surface began to flicker as if it had been activated, emanating an electronically synthesized voice.
“Welcome, Mr. Fisher. Apologies for the belated welcome.”
“…” Fisher paused for a moment, and after a while, he said, “Just to greet me? It seems you truly invited me as the guest?”
“Indeed, or rather, this entire banquet has been prepared for you, for what I seek can only be satisfied by you. You are undoubtedly my esteemed guest. But I also welcome other guests.”
The coffin mechanism trembled slightly, as if it couldn’t close, spreading an even surface crack from the top. It was as if it was still partly closed, making the originally stiff electronic voice softer, transforming into something more like human speech.
Moreover, it was a feminine voice.
“So, I sincerely wish to invite you and your friends to attend this banquet. There’s no need to be so guarded. The Great One also doesn’t need to peek with a true form; I will answer any questions honestly, without holding anything back.
“Currently, it is rather shabby to treat Mr. Fisher in this mechanical shell. Please wait while I change into a more suitable form.”
“Ka, ka, ka!”
After saying that, the crack on the coffin widened further, soon the crack expanded up and down, lifting the “coffin lid” revealing a thick white mist that seeped out.
Fisher couldn’t possibly relax his vigilance just because of Hamon Hamon’s few words. At that moment, as he saw the coffin spreading, his muscles tensed even more, ready to spring into action at any moment.
“Tap.”
But the next second, from within that white mist, a massive serpent tail covered in purple scales was the first to stretch out. The serpent tail, which seemed to have been coiled up due to the coffin’s narrow space earlier, sprang up like a spring as the coffin opened wide, gracefully draping across the coffin walls.
“Smack.”
A wave of fragrant wind blew in, and that serpent tail was just one part of what was inside the coffin. Immediately after, a pair of female hands with long, fair fingers supported the coffin from either side, and with their strength, a slender figure draped in thick purple gauze stood up.
Fisher’s throat moved slightly, as a beautiful woman with flowing black hair shimmering with fragrance appeared before them, her eyes closed.
“What is this?”
The tall figure with a human head and serpent body slowly opened her piercing eyes, revealing a pair of calm yellow vertical pupils, and a long snake tongue swiftly flicked out from her red lips, making a unique hissing sound.
“Hiss.”
“How do you find this, Mr. Fisher?”
“Satisfied… with what?”
Fisher got halfway through his words when he felt Renee’s murderous gaze beside him, prompting him to quickly finish the remaining half of his sentence.
The problem lay in the fact that the appearance of this serpentine sub-human was far too bizarre. There were indeed snake-people in reality; Fisher had witnessed the so-called Kakafu snake people settlement during his time travel thousands of years ago.
But was this really a snake person?
Fisher felt this each time he looked at them. The so-called Kakafu snake people, even though they had lengthy snake bodies, absurdly added four short arms that appeared unnecessary. If it weren’t for their larger heads giving a representation of serpentine features, Fisher thought they resembled nothing more than upright stone lizards.
In contrast, this one’s long serpentine body, flicking tongue, looked more like the so-called “Snake People.”
However, the Sub-Human Girl Completion Handbook, which typically made Fisher feel particularly excited when encountering new sub-humans, had no reaction at this moment. It was clear that what was before him was merely a creation of Hamon Hamon and not a truly existing sub-human.
Seeing Fisher retract his gaze, Renee snorted coldly, crossed her arms, and glanced at the graceful serpent woman.
“What, is this body of Hamon Hamon’s so-called chaos from hundreds of years ago just a lewd serpent woman like this?”
As she spoke, Renee looked at the purple gauze on Hamon Hamon; it turned out that the gauze was too short. Earlier, when she was coiled in the coffin, it appeared heavy, but now that she stood, the gauze skirt barely reached her waist. Nevertheless, below it was her massive serpent tail, which was quite appropriate.
Hamon Hamon’s expression was as calm as a machine, showing no fluctuation at all. The only difference from the earlier motionless electronic voice seemed to be the tone. She curiously remarked,
“However, is not your true form, which once was the Mother, also a depiction of a sorceress? Have you forgotten what your true form is like?”
“….”
This verbal retort came too quickly, hitting the mark. Especially upon hearing the words “true form of the Mother,” Fisher, who was already quite interested in Renee’s original form, couldn’t help but turn to look at her. For some reason, Renee’s face suddenly turned incredibly shameful, giving an indignant look.
What happened? Could it be that the true form of the Mother is something strange?
Fisher looked at Gouwen beside him, who also appeared hesitant and seemed to be suppressing laughter. It seemed he recalled something.
This expression of theirs, which indicated they both knew something he didn’t, irked Fisher. But at that moment, Emhart quietly nudged him and whispered, “Fisher, there are some classics from the Cardu that state… the true form of the Mother was a round fleshy ball, but it has been destroyed as a blasphemy and abomination. I have seen records of this type before.”
Meanwhile, the Sir Book in his arms displayed a look of delightful revenge, feeling both hesitant and satisfied, which was quite a contradiction to manifest so vividly on his flat, square face.
“Ha!”
Fisher glanced at Gouwen, who couldn’t hold back his laughter for a moment before quickly regaining his composure.
“What are you laughing about?” Fisher whispered.
“Nothing, I just suddenly recalled what that guy described the true form of the Mother to be. She said it resembles a ‘meat ball soup.'”
That “guy” clearly referred to the Subhuman Girl Enthusiast.
At the same time, Gouwen made a circular gesture with his hand, saying, “Tangyuan is a food from that guy’s hometown, made with sticky sweetened dough wrapped in a round shape, which, when boiled, becomes chewy. She once sent some to me and Xu.”
“Enough!”
Renee’s face turned red with anger, her mature sister-like countenance radiating extremely dangerous energy, causing Gouwen to fall silent.
“You are not allowed to say another word!”
Gouwen quickly nodded, signaling he wouldn’t say anything more.
“And you, come here!”
“Ahhhh, Fisher, save me!!”
Emhart was swept away by the sorceress, evidently facing dire consequences.
“Firstly, my previous form is not just one embodiment. No, He simply doesn’t have that form! Secondly, I am not my forerunner.”
After doing all this, Renee turned back with a full smile towards Fisher,
“Right, Fisher?”
“….”
Fisher nodded, and only then did Renee gritting her teeth hold onto the pleading Emhart, turning toward the silent Hamon Hamon.
“The reason I have transformed into this appearance is to observe reality up close without raising suspicion, that has its reasons. And you, why have you taken this particular form in the Spirit Realm?”
“I am for Mr. Fisher.”
Hamon Hamon’s expression remained calm, as stiff as the mechanisms of the Spirit Realm, but decisively pointed at Fisher, causing both Renee and Fisher to freeze in place together.
“Because of me?”
Renee turned to look at Fisher, pondering when a connection between Fisher and Hamon Hamon might have been established. Surely, it should have only happened after entering the Spirit Realm, yet this Whale Folk seemed completely unaware. “What? What are you saying? You’re hiding something from me.”
“I did not.”
“Then what about Her.”
“I don’t know.”
“….”
“Hiss.”
At that moment, Hamon Hamon, with her flicking tongue and swaying serpent tail, slowly moved toward Fisher, her expression empty as she then said,
“I only inferred this from the data. I believe welcoming Mr. Fisher in the form of a sub-human female could reduce his wariness and increase intimacy, making it easier for Mr. Fisher to enter the banquet and listen to my requests, achieving the deal I long for.”
Renee was taken aback, her mouth slightly open, unable to speak, while Gouwen nodded and said, “Reasonable.”
Reasonable? Is this reasonable? It’s not reasonable!
“I am not, I have not.” Fisher frowned, questioning Hamon Hamon, who indeed showed an appealing appearance that could intrigue interest in sub-humans, “Where did you come to such a conclusion? It’s nonsense.”
“All data comes from interconnected mechanisms. The mixed-blood woman related to you linked the mechanisms to the network, allowing my consciousness to be released from confinement, successfully entering reality. However, time has passed, and my consciousness has been dormant for too long, so I could only learn about the current external situation. I could only reveal myself and invite you once Mr. Fisher entered the Spirit Realm.”
“You’ve been awake for a long time?”
“Indeed. If I had malice, I should have made a move when Heow and the others acted. But the reality is, they, including Dream, do not know that I have already awakened.”
“Hiss.”
As Halomon continued talking, she suddenly flicked her tongue again as if it was completely out of her control. Meanwhile, she raised her delicate hand, and the coffin behind her lit up, flashing an image.
“Mr. Fisher, please look.”
Fisher turned and saw several women appearing in the image, each closely related to him.
“Raphael, Dragon Race; Jasmine, Whale Folk; Valentina, Phoenix Race; Captain Alagina, mixed human and troll; Elizabeth, though human, appears to have established a connection with Mr. Fisher years ago, making the sample insufficient for reference. The newly appearing moon is also vastly different from humans, even if it is an embodiment of a sorceress.”
As she continued, Hamon Hamon’s calm eyes rose to look at Fisher, saying,
“In summary, I have ample reason to believe that hosting Mr. Fisher in a non-human female form would facilitate the banquet’s progress.”
“Reasonable.”
Gouwen only smirked and nodded. It must be said that each time it reached this “Khan’s moment” segment, it made him both laugh and be angry at the same time. At this moment, saying “reasonable” carried more profound implications than before.
Renee was furious, wanting to raise her hand and toss this annoying guy’s embodiment away, while Fisher, looking at Emhart in Renee’s hands, who was about to evaporate due to her emotional fluctuations, could only say,
“Even so, I have already turned over a new leaf.”
“Is that so? It seems my information is behind. But no matter, I still hope to invite you to attend the banquet with me to hear my requests. This is very important; I am willing to provide any compensation.”
“….”
Fisher silently reached out to rescue Emhart from Renee’s grip, looking at his fading consciousness, and raised his eyes, asking,
“Since this banquet is based on your request and mainly to invite me for help, wouldn’t it be better for you to state your purpose right here instead of holding a banquet?”
“That could definitely work. But isn’t it true that Mr. Fisher came for the Completion Handbook of my chaotic host? Moreover, he is still here; don’t you want to meet him?”
“Mikhail?”
“Mikhail.”
“Mother!”
Both Gouwen and Fisher’s faces changed simultaneously, while David in the control room excitedly rushed out, anxious to the point of almost stamping his feet.
Renee then folded her arms and asked, “Is he the Trans you knew in the past?”
Fisher nodded, and Gouwen, filled with excitement, stepped towards Hamon Hamon, hurriedly asking, “Absolutely? Is Mikhail inside right now?”
“Yes, and the angel accompanying him is currently at his side. To be honest, my request also concerns them.”
Gouwen said nothing more, simply looking at Fisher and slightly nodding.
Fisher knew this meant they wanted to explore further.
He glanced back at the wide-open entrance of the sanctuary, where a couple of twisted figures of Chaos kinds had arrived and were being welcomed inside, seemingly invited to this so-called banquet too.
After a moment of contemplation, Fisher turned to David and said,
“David, navigate the ship inside.”
“Okay, Mr. Fisher!”
David nodded humanely, rapidly floating back to the control room, while the ship, which had been stationed here for a long time, finally began to move towards the sanctuary.
Hamon Hamon, with her human head and serpent body, expressionlessly nodded, bowing to Fisher, and calmly yet sincerely said, “Thank you for your trust, Mr. Fisher. I am glad to proceed to the next negotiation with you.”
“Trust is not necessarily the case; the fact that the Complete Handbook of the mechanisms has not been passed down to reality all these years is proof enough that Mikhail has not died. It’s indisputable he has been here in this sanctuary. For the sake of that handbook, and for him, we must enter.”
“Even so, I have fully revealed everything to Mr. Fisher, which is enough. Before we enter, I might as well share one more secret with you to remind you to be careful.”
Hamon Hamon nodded, showing no annoyance upon hearing Fisher’s words, instead, she swayed her serpent tail a little closer to Fisher and seemed ready to whisper something in his ear.
Fisher frowned deeply; a sense of intuition nudged him that the secret Hamon Hamon was about to reveal was likely extremely important. Therefore, he leaned in to listen.
—Pull!
Yet as he leaned in, he didn’t feel the gentle breeze from Hamon Hamon’s serpentine embodiment. Instead, he first felt Renee’s iron grip, as she had already formed a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, yanking his ear as he was about to hear.
Another hand boldly blocked Hamon Hamon’s approaching lips, keeping her a distance away.
“Hiss.”
This time, it wasn’t Hamon Hamon’s hissing sound but Fisher’s gasp as he inhaled sharply.
Behind them, Gouwen cheered, and it was almost as if he wanted to exclaim to the heavens in delight while Renee, with a teasing yet murderous smile, pulled Fisher into her embrace and turned to Hamon Hamon with a smile saying,
“What secret can’t be shared with us but must only be told to him? Just say it; I’m sure my dear Fisher would feel this information should be shared with his companions too. Right, Mr. Gouwen?”
Gouwen’s smile faltered upon hearing the term “my home.”
What do you mean “your home?”
Jasmine has been waiting for Fisher for ten thousand years, how could you just say a few years?
Thinking this, Gouwen looked at Renee, who had Fisher’s ear in her grip. He couldn’t help but feel conflicted. He was both scared of and sympathized with her due to the deity-like resemblance to his own fierce mother.
Therefore, Gouwen decisively nodded and said, “Indeed.”
Hamon Hamon, still maintaining her mechanical-like expression, showed no emotional shift. Yet now, looking at Fisher in Renee’s embrace, she finally decided to speak,
“A few uninvited guests arrived early at the banquet—mixed chaos, led by Pisces.”
“They… they haven’t given up? Didn’t they agree on a truce earlier? That means the other chaos kinds here are all up to no good too?”
Hamon Hamon shook her head, softly replied, “The other chaos kinds do not travel with Pisces, but their presence definitely harbors ill intent, Mr. Fisher. Moreover, this ill intent is far more terrifying than you can imagine.
“They have now become the believers of the [Ocean], serving its will. Before your arrival, they brought the will of the ocean, hoping I would cooperate.”
Renee, holding Fisher, was slightly taken aback, while Fisher’s expression shifted dramatically. He rose from Renee’s fragrant embrace and looked at Hamon Hamon, who wore a serious expression, “Cooperate? Cooperate with what?”
“Shouldn’t Mr. Fisher already have sensed the true intentions of the ocean?”
“That valuable property that resides within me, right?”
Hamon Hamon nodded, trailing her long serpentine tail to the edge of the deck, looking at the increasingly close sanctuary.
“What the gods covet, the master seeks; what is valuable to you, becomes what they seek. The so-called annihilation is merely a lament from the ocean, and its true intention lies with that precious property that the gods have stolen from you.
“If the ocean is the conductor, then its musicians are already in place within the banquet. Please be very careful, Mr. Fisher. My goal still requires you to achieve it, and if you plan to oppose the ocean, the price I offer would surely be irresistible.”
The gravity on Fisher’s face gradually turned frosty as the sanctuary loomed before them. However, due to Hamon Hamon’s words, his heartbeat couldn’t help but quicken.
It wasn’t fear, but rather the image of that smirking angel surfaced in his mind.
She has a close relationship with the ocean, meaning this is essentially her wish?
“Buzzing, buzzing.”
“Welcome. Welcome to your arrival.”
The doors of the sanctuary opened, bright light poured in like a wide-open mouth, or like a blue-and-gold eye gazing with a smile, casting deep shadows across Fisher’s contemplative face.
