With a searing pain tearing through him, the whispers of madness uncontrollably infiltrated Fisher’s mind. It wasn’t just the Soul Completion Manual this ti, but also so other voices he couldn’t clearly discern, yet were intense enough to drive him to madness. He dropped to his knees, eyes bloodshot, one mont facing a sea of rotten pus and blood rising above his knees, the next a golden rice field with a faint fragrance, and then calls from Elizabeth.
"Erwin!"
Fisher roared with all his might, clenching his teeth and trying to push Erwin’s sinking body away with a backhand, but Fisher’s soul, completely against his will, uncontrollably generated an intense suction, seeking to completely devour Erwin behind him.
"Fisher! How are you?!"
From afar, Valentina flew over, her pupils shrinking slightly at the sight of the eerie standoff between the battered Fisher and Erwin. She instinctively started to rush over, but Fisher, having spotted her in advance, imdiately shouted,
"Don’t co over!"
Valentina stopped dead in her tracks, suddenly seeing the grotesque faces on Fisher, mouths agape with hunger, now tearing into Erwin’s flesh. For a mont, she couldn’t comprehend the situation and dared not move recklessly, heeding Fisher’s words.
Erwin, feeling his soul being bitten by Fisher, sneered as he bit through Fisher’s neck, splashing blood that represented soul fragnts, squirming as if alive, burrowing under Erwin’s mask. Yet, seemingly unfazed by the pain, Erwin sneered,
"Fisher, look at your soul. You’ve always known you’re drifting further from humanity. How different are you from ? Yet even so, your mind remains clear. The secrets of the Magic Minister are beyond my grasp, and that incompetent liar, the Cardinal of Destiny, has chosen you this ti. Alright, I will hand over everything I gained from the Life Completion Manual to you. Let’s see how far you can go!"
"You...madman..."
Fisher gritted his teeth, trying to push Erwin away, but the sucking force of his own soul completely negated his intention, making it impossible to push Erwin away. He also didn’t dare let Valentina co closer, as he could feel his soul’s hunger for Valentina’s soul—it too wanted to devour her...
"Crack, crack, crack!"
At that mont, as the aftermath of their battle dispersed bit by bit, layer upon layer of dreams began to crumble and shatter. The deep red energy outside receded like the tide, seemingly disappearing completely, yet as the red energy faded bit by bit, the surrounding dreams shattered faster.
The sound of shattering glass continued to echo in their ears as Fisher and Erwin’s familiar surroundings gradually vanished, and with it, the ti and space in the real world, which had been stalled by their energy, also began to flow once more.
Valentina’s blood on the ground slowly flowed toward the incomplete base. As drop after drop of Phoenix Blood completely infused into the base, beyond the shattered dreams in the gap, the shadow of the giant tree which served as the base also solidified, signifying that it had beco whole once more.
The pollution of the Spirit Realm was about to descend.
"Kononinnihamugasô...mujin sô, mu shujô sô...mu hisashi mono sô gaarimasu..."
At the next mont, a terrifying aura powerful enough to scatter any living creature’s intelligence and consciousness imdiately locked onto the becoming-complete base from the deep layer of the world. Whispers like a song, unheard and unknown in their specific anings by Fisher, ca from all directions within the Gap. Just hearing this simple whisper, the Magic Circuits of everyone present suddenly lit up, and their forms shook as well.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
Afterward, outside the Dream, the spiritual shackles representing the "Gate" inevitably shattered bit by bit, and the rules constructed by Dalasgon shattered as though they were nothing in front of that terrifying entity.
An endless crimson fog howled out from the gaps in that doorway, seemingly effortless yet easily pushing the broken Spirit Realm gate wider, and soon revealing an indescribable entity, larger than the galaxy and shimring with a crimson brilliance.
That massive entity was covered in a thick crimson fog, obscuring its true appearance, that eerie crimson fog about to enter the Gap, but in a mont, its form suddenly halted, as if behind it, deep in the Spirit Realm, another entity was preventing it from entering the Gap.
But after all, the base forged by the Phoenix Species had beco complete, and the power behind and the rules of the Gap were clearly unable to compete with its strength, and it still slowly moved towards that base.
Its body had not fully entered the Gap, but the boundless crimson fog beside it had already seeped into the Gap, bit by bit corroding and damaging the space of the Gap. Despite being far away from the broken gate, Fisher suddenly slled an extrely bizarre, yet seemingly most fragrant scent in the world, causing the hair on his body to stand on end.
At that mont, behind him, another voice intermittently rang out,
"Close... your... eyes..."
Although the pronunciation of the Nali Language was sowhat strange, Fisher imdiately recognized the familiar voice as the Big Eyes that had spoken to him once in the South Continent...
Dalasgon!
The terrifying fluctuations outside did not interrupt his and Erwin’s stalemate, but owing to this sudden change, it caused Erwin to temporarily halt the process of rging into his body, allowing Fisher to catch a huge breath. He hurriedly did as told, and at the sa ti, turned to Valentina beside him and shouted,
"Valentina, close your eyes! Don’t look up there!"
"Ware sô sunawati hi sô...ninsô...shujô sô..."
The whispers of despair continued, within this vast Gap, the boundless Dream where Fisher stood crumbled layer by layer, yet this originally magnificent Magic seed trivial in the presence of the distant terrifying Pollution, incomparable.
But within this Dream, his and Erwin’s stalemate behind seed to be infinitely magnified like a replica...
They too fell into a tangled stalemate.
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