OBS Chapter 3664 Goodbye Laplace Howard
Chapter 3664 Goodbye Laplace Howard
Chapter 3664 Goodbye Laplace Howard
After returning to the ship with Iluna, Iluna didn't rush to leave. Instead, she went to the Snow Mountain Hall to visit Ellie and little Leona. Only after having lunch with everyone did she say goodbye to Shad, promising to visit often.
"I'll send a letter if I have any leads~"
Luvia also appeared on the ship after lunch, but she didn't encounter Iluna and only stayed for half an hour. The purple-eyed girl breathed a sigh of relief after hearing from Shad that "Desire" hadn't cooperated with Mr. Snake.
"That way, the final enemy of the snow mountain is one less. So what about the demon and Mr. Snake?"
"I think it's most likely a cooperative relationship, but we don't need to worry about it too much. We already have a way to deal with it. After what happened with the fake human and the fallen star beast, I won't let it make me look so pathetic a third time."
Luvia braved the snow to visit everyone, and also to share some new information:
"The association may visit the temple again soon."
"Has the association found a way to locate the temple?"
"It's not about locating the location; the association has only discovered that the temple is still on the mountaintop. Mr. Snake simply moved its entrance. Moreover, the temple is definitely not everything hidden on the mountaintop; there should be a rather large-scale ruin there."
Recently, the association has been organizing the "Grand Symphony of Destiny" ceremony. Through this ceremony, they have learned a great deal about the snow-capped mountains from the Fatu people. Therefore, they are currently organizing a team to unravel the secrets of the Peak of Destiny at the summit. If all goes well, the entrance might be reopened after the ceremony.
"Won't that mean we'll have to face Mr. Snake again?"
Sylvia asked, but Luvia shook her head:
"The guild leader estimates that the snake can only move around inside the temple. The focus of this exploration is the ruins around the temple. For some reason, the guild leader seems to think that the ruins around the temple are more important than the temple itself."
"Because the real Upper Spring is there?"
Shad guessed that Luvia didn't know either:
"The other thing is information about the Ring of Fate. This information comes from the Church, and it was obtained from someone you would never expect—the Mad Omniscient."
Megan was also speaking with everyone in the ship's banquet hall, and she paused for a moment after hearing this form of address:
"Legins Priscilla? The first candidate for knowledge and wisdom who was defeated by Shad at the heart of the Pantanal?"
Megan didn't know Shad at the time; she heard about it later from other witches. Leighins Prisha had actually performed the ritual, but his power was subsequently sealed within the "Eikenora - Arrow of the Chosen."
He went mad after losing the power of the Chosen One, and the last time Shad saw him, he called Shad some kind of "outer demon" (Chapter 1164).
Sir Leigh Prisha is currently under the joint custody of the Five Churches, who believe that although he lost the struggle against the "Caller of God," he possesses some degree of omniscience. Moreover, in the past year, the Church has increasingly felt that the "Caller of God" is not the chosen one of "knowledge and wisdom" as they initially thought, and therefore they are paying more and more attention to Leigh Prisha.
However, he remains insane, and most of the sentences he utters are difficult to understand. Forcing others to listen and understand them may actually drive them into madness as well.
But this time, Mr. Snake occupied the temple, leaving the candidates for destiny without much information they needed to know. Therefore, this time, maintaining a neutral stance and not publicly supporting any non-cult candidates, only wanting to deal with the dangerous church on the snow mountain as soon as possible, they tried to find some information from him.
Whether by fate or simply good luck, some of the insane ramblings of Leigh Priscilla were actually deciphered as related to the "Ring of Fate."
"I've only heard the news so far. It's said to be related to how to obtain the Ring of Destiny. But it's not obtained from the outside, but rather by condensing one's own destiny. After the Church has sorted out the information, it will send the intelligence to the Association, us, and the [Clown Troupe]. It shouldn't be long."
Luvia said this, and it matched the information Stella had provided. The white-haired girl said that one needed to possess a Ring of Fate that matched their own to participate in the final act of the story, and at the time, Shad was curious about where the others were going to find their Rings of Fate.
If the candidates can also forge their own destiny, things will be much simpler.
Luvia came and went in a hurry. It was snowing heavily outside, and Xia De was a little worried, so he specially took her to the city.
Back on the ship, Shad took the "Heart of the Living Dead" that Iluna had brought that morning. Seeing that Shad wanted to see his ancestors, Megan also said:
“I will go with you. I will not enter death, but will just wait for you outside.”
Shad had no objection to this, and Claire, who happened to be on the ship, had originally wanted to go with them—she was very curious about what Shad's house was like. However, she didn't have a spatial rune, so she wouldn't be able to easily return once she went, and could only watch Megan leave with Shad.
Mia was home alone today, but Dorothy had prepared lunch for her. So, after eating, the cat, who was taking a nap on the windowsill, heard Shad come in and just stood up and meowed once as a greeting before jumping back onto the sofa to continue sleeping.
Shad, carrying a suitcase, arrived with Megan in the third-floor corridor. The rune of "True Death" illuminated the center of the corridor, revealing a black iron gate adorned with elderflower and datura flower patterns.
"May the end of eternity protect me before the end."
The hinges that had been wrapped around the two gates rattled off, and Chadla, holding Megan's hand, pushed open the gates and stepped into the white mist.
[Outsider, you have entered the "graveyard of souls."]
A white mist filled the surroundings, within which various stone tablets could be seen standing everywhere. Megan had entered this place before with Shad, so she only glanced around out of curiosity. Shad, on the other hand, took out the frozen heart from the box and held it upwards.
The white mist swallowed the heart, and the massive stone gate slowly and silently emerged from the thick fog of the cemetery.
Although Megan had seen Shad do this before, she still looked on with awe. As Shad bent down, lowering his center of gravity, and placed his hands on the two doors to open them, the moonlight seeping through the cracks made Megan feel even more strongly that she shouldn't go any further.
“I’m not the kind of witch like Flora who would accompany you into a place like this. I’ll just wait for you here. Go and come back quickly. If the ancestor is unwilling to answer questions, you can threaten him with us. Actually, he still values the continuation of the bloodline.”
Megan spoke to Shad with her hands behind her back, and Shad nodded, then slipped through the crack in the door and returned to the mudflats illuminated by the dark moon.
Silent, still, yet beautiful, countless pure white souls shimmered on the water's surface beyond the mudflats, moving towards the half-hidden moon in the distance. A small wooden boat lay aground on the mudflat's edge. Shad squinted at the moon for a moment, then walked to the bow of the boat and called out from the shore:
"Laplace Klein Howard".
His voice didn't actually travel, but he believed that whoever was meant to hear it would.
After waiting patiently for a while, a figure appeared before the Dark Moon, moving against the flow of the surrounding souls. Soon, the luminous, translucent soul arrived at the shore. Laplace Howard no longer possessed the frenzied demeanor he had displayed during the final battle, surpassing the thirteenth ring with the "Edwardsden Divine Art." His expression was calm, and he looked at least ten years younger than before, now appearing as a refined middle-aged man.
"I guessed you would come to me in death. Although I was defeated by you, you still need me. So, you're in trouble now?"
He stood three meters away from the mudflats and asked Xia De, but his tone was more like a statement than a question, which Xia De did not deny:
"Yes, it is indeed a bit of a problem. That's why I thought of you; I'm sure you can help."
The thirteen-ring fortune teller neither agreed nor refused:
"Has the story of the chosen ones begun?"
“On the island of Fatummst, I’m not surprised you could guess.”
The diviner, standing on the water, continued calmly:
"Then let me guess again—do you want to know information about the frozen fate from me, or do you want to know about the path of the pilgrims of fate?"
"These things are important, but I already know them."
Shad described what had happened in the month or so following the year-end holidays, and Laplace Howard listened patiently, only calmly sighing after Shad finished speaking:
“It’s very interesting. I also knew something about what was sealed beneath that snow mountain, but even before I left the Association, I didn’t know that it was ‘the fate of the end of the First Era.’ It sounds like it’s more dangerous than me having completed the Edwardsden Divine Spell. It is indeed fitting as the ending of the story that Mr. Ring hoped for.”
Their "conversation" was more like a spiritual exchange, as neither of them actually opened their mouths. Behind Laplace Howard, countless souls moved forward silently; the place remained unchanged by the arrival of the outsider.
"So, is there anything else about the Ring of Fate that you know but I don't?"
Shad asked again, and the soothsayer did not answer immediately, but looked at him calmly. Just when Shad thought he would refuse, he said instead:
"Although the arc is an incomplete destiny, when it is embedded into a person whose destiny aligns with it, it can resonate with that destiny. Once the host finally achieves the destiny guided by the arc, the arc may transform into a complete ring of destiny. This is something the Prophet Association has long known. Destiny can be shattered by external forces, but it can also be repaired."
Although this information was not useful to Xia De for the time being, it filled a gap in his knowledge. He had never thought that an arc could become a circle.