OBS Chapter 3714 Promises and Calamities
Chapter 3714 Promises and Calamities
Chapter 3714 Promises and Calamities
As Mia pounced, the silvery-white snake suddenly grew larger. Eventually, the cat and snake became entangled, until the snake locked the cat securely in a rather complex manner.
"The feeling of stretching and lengthening the body is very strange."
As Shad the snake spoke, he released the cat while Sirius covered his mouth and laughed. Sensing that Shad didn't want to be close to him, the cat dejectedly jumped back onto the chair and returned to the table, where it drooped its little head at the edge of the table, watching the snake.
"Strange? Not bad. It doesn't look scary at all; it's quite beautiful."
Sirius continued, smiling, but Shad still didn't quite like this attitude:
"The serpentine posture, apart from enhancing the newly acquired snake venom spell, does not bring me any other improvements. To be honest, I can't see any use for it for the time being."
He then changed back to his original form and subsequently conducted a "memory erasure" experiment using the white mouse that was bound by the moon halo.
Ms. White was able to give this power to dissolve memories because the water veins of Fatummst Island can dissolve everything, making matter, spirit, memory, and even destiny part of a cyclical process.
Through experiments, Hillis also verified that Shad's "snake venom" was not a toxin existing in a physical form:
"This is a kind of psychoactive toxin, and its effect on memories is more like dissolving them than erasing them. This means that once you are exposed to your toxin, even if the toxin cannot completely erase the memories, it will make the memories fragmented and indistinct."
Through experiments, Hillis demonstrated that the toxin takes effect almost instantly, while the length of time a memory can be erased depends on the duration of contact between Shad and the other party, as well as how much the other party cherishes that memory.
The drawback of this spell is that it can only affect recent memories initially, and only after a sufficiently long period of contact can it affect more distant memories. For ordinary white mice, ten seconds of continuous contact with Shad is enough to cause their minds to permanently collapse due to excessive memory loss.
To thank the white mouse for its contribution to the experiment, Shad personally opened the rift of death, allowing its soul to continue its journey. After the rift disappeared, Sirius, leaning on the table, smiled and said to Shad:
"Let me imagine some possible applications of this spell—"
Knowing you likely wouldn't return from the final battle, you kissed a particular girl as you said goodbye, placing your hand on the back of her head during the kiss. After you left, the girl just touched her lips blankly, feeling as if a part of her life was permanently missing.
"This"
Shad blinked:
"There must be similar plots in the chivalric novels that seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls like Adelina would like to read, right? I would never do such a thing. Memory is the most important component of a person. Erasing memory is equivalent to erasing a part of a person."
He hooked his arm around Sirius's hand and emphasized it again:
“I will not do that.”
Hillis then reminded him:
“I’m not worried that you’ll do that. I just want to tell you that your mental poison, though potent, is useless against me. I will always remember you, so don’t do anything dangerous, and don’t leave like a father.”
"Of course I won't."
So Shad hugged her:
"Why did this topic suddenly come up? Did Bella give you that sheet music too? Oh, I really won't do what we did at Moon Bay again."
Hillis shook his head and hugged Shad as well:
"It's not that I'm worried about the sheet music, but I'm telling you this in advance to prevent that from happening. I've been a little worried lately."
"What are you worried about? Vanessa and I are doing just fine, aren't we?"
As Shad spoke, he sat down in the chair, and Sirius sat sideways on his lap, the blonde girl leaning against Shad's chest like a lazy cat.
"I've been hearing you all say lately that everything comes at a price, so I'm wondering if the happiness I have now also requires a price to pay?"
"Haven't the price already been paid? And the saying 'everything has a price' doesn't mean we should be anxious about everything we've achieved. We should have confidence in our lives, after all, we took every step ourselves."
Sirius hummed in response, then raised his head and kissed Shad without saying a word.
"Shad, after winter ends, Vanessa and I will be leading the opera company to Moon Bay. We don't know how long it will be before we see each other again."
"Things here at the snow mountain aren't over yet, and winter is only just coming to an end; spring is still a long way off. But I will visit you at Moon Bay then."
"You're mainly here to visit Vanessa, right? After all, that kind of relationship you have now."
She looked into Shad's eyes, and Shad understood the young woman's emotions:
"I will be going to the Randall Valley soon to ask the Earth's Guardians to come and help. But recently, the land has been plagued by disasters, so they probably won't come until the final battle. After the final battle, I will talk to your father about our relationship. After that, I will ask you out on a date."
Hillis confirmed:
Is this some kind of invitation?
Shad found a better explanation for this:
"This counts as a promise."
The blonde girl laughed, adjusted her position, wrapped her arms around Shad's neck, and kissed him again, while "she" softly asked in Shad's ear:
Can you still clearly remember how many things you promised to do after the story of fate ended?
"Go to Mount Karas with Daniste, invite Claire to our home, visit Hillis at Moon Bay, and of course, visit Margaret in Velendale. If I forget, please remind me."
She smiled gently but with a hint of helplessness. As for Sirius, the young girl had already taken Shad's hand and made him appear where he should be.
Although Silris had received many of Vanessa's memories, this follower of the goddess of memory was still somewhat shy when it came to her own.
At ten o'clock in the morning, she walked quickly out of Shad's room, head down and face flushed, then, as if afraid of being seen by others, she walked to the left side of the corridor and disappeared in the blink of an eye. When Shad and Mia also left the room, intending to check when lunch would begin, Miss Aurora quickly found him:
“Mr. Hamilton, the teacher and Miss Reinhardt said that you need to go to the banquet hall as soon as possible.”
Lunch hadn't started yet; Sevier and Claire were looking for Shad for other reasons:
“Something’s happened on the island, Shad. We need you to go to the snow mountain again to purify the ‘Mad Earth.’ Also, strange light phenomena have appeared in the eastern part of Time Wheel City. The Church is organizing people to seal it, but if you have time, it would be best to use your Nightfall Seal to suppress it.”
"What's going on? How did so many things happen?"
As Shad immediately prepared to depart and emerged from the cabin, Claire was still explaining to him:
"It should be a secondary disaster caused by the impact of fate. In addition to these two problems, other situations have arisen throughout the island. Sylvia and Luvia have already taken people to deal with other matters. The Mad Earth and the Strange Light are currently the most dangerous."
Shad then went to town and found Ellie. With Ellie's high-speed flight, he and Claire first went to the snow mountain to purify the polluted land, where they met Winnie and Flora, who had already arrived.
Although Winnie didn't possess the divine magic of the "Earth Power" series, her power was able to control the raging earth and stop it from expanding, something no one had ever done before.
Dealing with the "strange light" in the city afterwards was simpler. Although no one except Shad and Mr. Albert could directly come into contact with this dangerous light, thanks to Shad's "[Night Seal] Open Source", those who had mastered spells could gather together and use the power of the night to suppress the light, allowing others to prepare for sealing.
When Shad arrived in the city, things had already been mostly resolved. He exchanged a few words with the Dawn Church's "Radiant One" who was there to control the situation, and then hurriedly headed to Luvia's location.
Luvia and Sylvia work together to deal with a problem that is a dark calamity that appears after the story of the "Chosen Ones" ends.
When the initial stories of the chosen ones took place, the world was relatively stable, so the calamities were not very severe. The "Dark Calamity," now known as the "Dark Turmoil," manifests as an impenetrable darkness.
This darkness does not devour matter or spirits, but it cannot be dispelled. Moreover, once it appears, it will continuously cause negative and dark thoughts in the surrounding beings with souls, and lure them into that darkness, where they will eventually transform into some indescribable and terrifying things.
Darkness will thus expand and, after a certain period of time, begin to affect soulless, inanimate objects, causing those substances to undergo terrifying changes.
Although the effects of "Dark Turmoil" do not take effect immediately like "Special Light," its stealth is far greater than that of the Calamity of Light.
This dark calamity only came into everyone's view after the Green Lake incident, and began to occur frequently after the Moon Bay incident last summer, so this was not the first time Shad had heard of such a thing.
When he arrived at the village in the northeast of the island riding Ellie with Mia, Luvia and the witch had already begun to deal with the problem. The nemesis of darkness is light; ordinary light cannot dispel such darkness, but divine magic like the "Light-Sealing Sword" can effectively control the range of this calamity's influence.
The Great Witch of Light, Sylvia, in the Witch Council also has a way to seal away this darkness. Although Sylvia was busy with other matters and did not come, she prepared some methods for Luvia and Sylvia.
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