OBS Chapter 3992 Creation and Life
Chapter 3992 Creation and Life
Chapter 3992 Creation and Life
"Spell: Life Spark? Does this refer to a normal life spark? Why is it life, and not creation? Also, how can there be another voice deep within Vige's soul?"
Shad was quite surprised, while the witch, who was still feeling the power and warmth of Shad's great soul, had no idea what Shad had discovered from her own soul.
Her unique soul structure made her fundamentally different from normal people. The influence of the [Jade Record] power kept her soul in a chaotic spiral for a long time, but after coming into contact with Shad's soul, she actually felt as if she had returned to her mother's embrace.
She had a feeling that Shad's soul was forcibly permeating her own, causing her soul to temporarily return to order.
So even as the master of the dream, she couldn't immediately perceive Shad's changing mood. She took a deep breath—though it meant nothing in the dream, she still used this action to draw upon the scattered soul light from Shad's soul as it interacted with the world.
She felt as if she were becoming addicted, her soul craving more, yearning to devour the soul before her, or to merge with it. It was the instinctive yearning of the inferior for a higher being, the desire of the imperfect for a "flawless soul," but as Vige's consciousness became somewhat hazy, Shad spoke up, asking:
Did your mother find the "Jade Record" before she died?
Viggo realized she seemed to have lost her composure, because she found herself burying her head in Shad's arms as if trying to burrow into him.
The blushing witch immediately fled from Shad's embrace, but having lost the warmth of Shad's soul, she subconsciously felt a deep sense of loss.
"I don't know. All I know comes from my relatives, alchemists, and my mother's notes. My mother died after giving birth to me."
She glanced at Shade, and that single look almost made her want to throw herself into his arms again. However, Viggo also noticed Shade's strange expression:
"Could it be that the Jade Record is really inside my body?"
Shad immediately shook his head:
“That shouldn’t be the case, but I heard a voice that doesn’t belong to you in the echo of your soul, and the other party recited a sentence from the Jade Record.”
Wei Ge pursed her lips, resisting the allure of that soul:
"How do you know that's a sentence from 'The Jade Record'? Have you read that book?"
Shad also blinked:
"Yes, how would I know that was a sentence from the Jade Record?"
[Because the power of the relics felt in the sentences belongs to the whispering element of "The Jade Record".]
"Because of the power of the relics felt from the sentences, the whispering elements of the Emerald Book in your soul."
Shad explained:
“That sentence itself has power, and I don’t know how it ended up in your soul. Maybe it was left there by your mother on purpose, or maybe it’s the influence of the accident back then.”
Wei Ge then asked again:
What was that sentence?
Shad said it aloud:
"It's like this—the lower is like the upper, and the upper is like the lower, thus achieving a unique miracle. Hmm?"
In the study on the second floor of Fragrant Residence, Xia De suddenly opened his eyes. The power of the dream master directly jolted him out of his dream.
He heard the sounds of bells and whistles. He got up and saw that Wei Ge was floating in the air in a daze, with the eleven-ringed life ring appearing behind her.
The life ring was spinning rapidly, but Shad could still see Vige's core spirit rune; she, like Shad, possessed two core spirit runes.
Chaos, Secret
She was clearly inscribing new spirit runes, but she was in a daze, which was obviously wrong.
The dark iron-colored aura was emanating from the life ring. The intensity of the whispering element that Wei Ge was displaying at this moment was no longer just about inscribing spirit runes; she clearly seemed about to lose control.
"Mr. Watson!"
Miss McDonald, standing to the side, cried out anxiously, while Shad had already stood up and embraced the witch who was floating in the air. A powerful soul imbued with divinity forcefully channeled her surging elements and spirit, and then Shad used a miraculous technique he hadn't used all year—
"Miraculous Technique: Revelation from the Spiritual Spring!"
This is the power that Shad received from the Archangel when he sought help from the Archangel regarding the "Academy of Different Trees." Placing a drop of water between the eyebrows of a humanoid creature can calm the mind and enlighten wisdom; it is the spirit rune corresponding to the "Water of Wisdom."
This time, when Shade was casting the spell, he bit his finger and put his blood on Vige's forehead.
This was quite effective; the rippling divine light suppressed the surging whispers. Although the ring of fate behind the witch was still spinning rapidly, the dark iron aura gradually calmed down, and Viggo, held by Shad, opened her bewildered eyes.
A moment later, when the speed of her life ring returned to normal, a new whisper—[Creation]—had appeared on her life ring.
"teacher!"
Miss McDonald approached worriedly. Shad tried to let go of Viggo, but the witch clung to him, refusing to let go.
"I heard it too."
She spoke softly, tilting her head slightly to look at him from within his arms. In those golden eyes, he saw longing and confusion:
“That was my mother’s voice. Although I had never heard it before, I was certain it was her voice! I could feel that the sentence came directly from the Jade Record! It wasn’t something my mother had seen elsewhere! My mother had really read the original Jade Record! She had really obtained that relic!”
It was clear that Wei Ge was somewhat excited, but even more so, she was puzzled. Before this, she had never believed the Jade Alchemy Association's claim that "your mother found the relics but kept them hidden and secretly studied them herself," but it turned out that the alchemists seemed to be right after all.
But she couldn't be sure whether those words were deliberately left behind by her mother or whether they remained in her soul due to an accident.
If she hadn't completely opened her soul to Shad, if Shad's perception hadn't been so powerful and if he hadn't been able to repeat those words directly in front of her, given the level of concealment that even Adele hadn't noticed, Viggo probably wouldn't have heard those words hidden deep within her soul until she herself became a thirteenth-tier witch.
The appearance of the "Creation" rune, of course, did not improve her condition. On the contrary, the agitation of the four elements just now made her even weaker, but "Creation" was undoubtedly a powerful force.
When Viggo finally agreed to release Shad, she drank a mouthful of blood wine to temporarily recover some of her strength, and then demonstrated her gains to Shad and Miss McDonald:
"That's pretty much it."
As Wei Ge spoke, she touched the teacup on the coffee table, and the teacup gradually transformed into pure gold.
"The art of alchemy?"
The young woman asked, but Wei Ge shook her head:
"No, cough cough, it's not alchemy. I can now forcibly transform the material of objects at the cost of consuming my spiritual energy and my own life force. It might not work very well on beings with souls, but it should be able to transform ordinary objects. Cough cough, cough cough, but the consumption is huge. Creating gold in this way, cough cough, cough cough, is really not worth it."
Although neither Shad nor Miss McDonald were alchemists, they both understood what this power meant.
"Don't speak for now, take a rest. But can a single sentence from the unknowable relic, the Jade Record, really grant you this level of power?"
Xia De helped Wei Ge sit down on the sofa. Even after drinking the blood wine, her condition was still very poor.
"I think what echoes in my soul is not just a single sentence; the power that constitutes my soul is a rubbing of the original words from the *Jade Record*, reflecting the essential power of an unknowable relic. Cough, cough, Mother, Mother, what have you done? Mother."
Even as Shad left Fragrant Mansion, he was still pondering Viggo's words. Viggo needed rest most of all, and she drifted off to sleep with groans. So, after taking her back to her bedroom for a further examination and confirming that she was only suffering from severe mental damage, Shad left after instructing Miss Rowling and Miss McDonald to take good care of her.
So much happened this Monday afternoon. The explosion of the Church of Creation and the appearance of the giant "Spark" should have been the biggest events, but Shad never expected to discover such a significant secret from Vigo's soul.
“Vige has gained [Creation], and I can gain [Life] by listening to other sentences. Could the [Jade Record] really be something written by the ancient gods themselves? And what exactly did Vige's mother do?”
Despite his many thoughts, he did not go home immediately. Instead, he went to the gear workshop in the outer city to find Mr. Finch, as agreed with him that morning.
Originally, Shad was supposed to confirm with Mr. Finch whether the Church of Creation was indeed researching the "Spark of Life" in the evening, but now Shad didn't need to confirm it at all; Mr. Finch probably knew less than Shad did.
As he stepped down from the carriage, Shad was still thinking about how to explain to Mr. Finch what he had "seen," but upon arriving at the shop, the young apprentice told Shad:
“Mr. Finch came back an hour ago. He left you a letter and left in a hurry.”
The letter was short. In it, Mr. Finch said he had confirmed Shad's guess from that morning and suspected that the afternoon's explosion was related to it. He explained that after visiting a friend at church, he encountered other acquaintances on his way back and got caught up in the refugee disappearance incident in the outer city. Therefore, he asked Shad to come see him again tomorrow so they could discuss things in detail.
Are there any missing refugees in the area?
Shad asked the young apprentice, who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old. He was a local of Arcadia City, but not a ring sorcerer.