novelonline Chapter 3721 Soul Tears
Chapter 3721 Soul Tears
Chapter 3721 Soul Tears
Shad's attack was not without effect. Although her reappeared human body appeared intact, a closer look revealed tiny red and silver cracks covering her surface. If she were just a simple human, she would have died long ago.
The black, curved object emerged from the surface of the woman's tattered dress. She grasped it in her right hand and said to Shad:
"I find you increasingly strange, so perfect that you seem out of place in this world. The world has endowed you with such power, wisdom, and courage, and so many girls adore you. I've paid such a high price just to have one person, so what price will you pay?"
“If that’s all you have to say right now, I’ll be very disappointed. Mr. Snake and I have discussed this topic, and your eloquence is clearly far inferior to his.”
The weak woman laughed:
"This is not my true form, but if I can hold you back for even a moment, I will have won. Go and find the location of my true form. No matter who wins tonight, I will always remember you—this is absolutely not a lie."
As she was about to plunge the curved blade into her chest, Shad spoke again:
"The body you're controlling is innocent. Since you've lost, how about you leave with some dignity? This body is innocent. Even if you use this curved arc to do something else, you should know that it won't stop me."
The arc you've drawn has rendered this body utterly unfit for life. Since she's already died because of you, at least let her body rest with some dignity, okay?
Behind Shad, Grace and Helen, hand in hand, appeared, looking at her expressionlessly. The blonde "sorcerer" also landed on the water's surface, and she saw a clear ray of silver moonlight emerging in the far distance behind the woman. The power of the relic and the arc had finally brought forth the Dark Moon.
Valentine Halonen smiled, then shook his head:
"You really are something else."
She actually lowered the curved bullet that was aimed at her heart:
"Mr. Snake has bestowed upon me a powerful charm, yet I still feel that my charm cannot compare to yours. Because I cannot attract you, but you have truly attracted me."
If I had met you instead of him more than ten years ago, probably none of this would have happened.
She looked at the curved shape in her hand; the moonlight from the far distance behind her made the black curve appear even more textured.
"When you carried me down the snow-capped mountain, you said you wanted to be a good person, not a bad one. Now I understand what you meant. Yes, who wouldn't want to be friends with someone like you?"
She then suddenly swung the curved sword in her hand towards Shad. Neither Grace nor Helen stopped her, because it wasn't an attack, and Shad easily caught [Death].
The woman said to Xia De:
"I'll be waiting for you on the snowy mountain. No matter what the outcome, it's my good fortune to have met someone as interesting as you."
She closed her eyes, and as the body fell into the water like a puppet and slowly sank, the consciousness that had been controlling the body left the scene.
Xia De looked again at the faintly glowing arc in his hand, then looked up at the silver moon phantom slowly rising from the horizon in the far distance of the water.
"Miraculous Technique - Gate of Death".
There were no gaps opening around, and with the slight resonance of the curved arc, the distant silver moon almost became a physical entity, yet this place did not truly become a dead waterway.
However, from the spot where the sunken corpse lay, the pure white soul of a strange girl rose from her bent-over position. She looked blankly at her body, then, as if understanding something, bowed slightly to Xia De, before turning around and walking towards the dark moon.
Grace and Helen stood on either side of Shad, tugging at his sleeves as they watched the girl's soul depart. Adele Isabella, watching the three figures gaze at the moon, felt a strange sense of harmony in the scene, as if the three were meant to stand together like this.
"No, no, why would I think that?"
She shook her head, while Shad sighed and turned to join Miss Sabel in destroying the enormous fangs. Daniste and Miss Ingram were close to succeeding; without the protection of the "Lustful One," the fangs were nothing more than sturdier wooden stakes.
But before Shad could speak, Helen whispered to him again:
"Sir, don't rush to leave. Look over there."
Shade turned around again to look in the direction of the still-present Mingyue. The strange girl continued walking away with her back to them, while two figures brushed past her. The pure white souls, supporting each other, walked towards Shade with their backs to Mingyue, but stopped at just the right spot.
Shad saw the two faces; he recognized them:
"Mr. and Mrs. Otto!?"
The ghoul, who was once sent to his death by ship by Shad and left him with the ancient fairy tale "Snow White" and a heart, is now not in his youthful form, but in an old age he has never experienced before.
The short figure beside the elderly Mr. Otto was none other than Mrs. Otto, the neighbor of the Reinhardt family, who had spent her life waiting for her husband, who was frozen in front of the ice castle.
The old woman's body emitted a faint light, and she smiled and nodded gently to Xia De before the moon. She had passed away.
The two who eloped to this island in their youth have finally stood together again. When Shad and Stella dealt with the ghoul Mr. Otto, they knew that Mrs. Otto didn't have much time left to live, but they never expected to see them here now.
"We were just about to leave, and we were regretting that we didn't get to thank you again, but we didn't expect to have this opportunity. This trip is to say goodbye to you."
The figures of the two elderly people were outlined by the dark moon behind them, and their voices seemed to echo from a great distance:
"Thanks to your help, without you, we wouldn't have been able to meet in the final moments of our lives, nor would we have been able to support each other and walk together after death. Although we couldn't spend our entire lives together in life, at least in death, we can finally be together."
"you."
The stranger, who had remained expressionless since the start of the battle, now showed sorrow and melancholy on his face, and the two old men comforted him:
"Young man, don't be sad or upset for us. Everyone has to die eventually. You should know this better than we do."
Their hands were clasped together, and their faces were both growing younger under the cool glow of the setting moon:
Cherish the people in front of you, do your best to hold their hands, and don't wait until you can't hold on to regret it. Life is limited, but fate is unpredictable, so don't leave yourself with regrets.
The young woman and the handsome young man, laughing and crying, held hands, waving goodbye to Shad. Their figures gradually blurred before the setting moon, until they finally disappeared, leaving only a few crystal tears falling onto the water's surface. Grace then directly moved those tears to her own eyes:
These tears are tears of the soul~
"Lovers' tears water the flowers, and the warmth of the soul melts the unyielding ice."
Professor Manning's words spoken in front of the fireplace seemed to echo in Shad's ears at that moment, so Grace gathered her tears, while Helen reached out and gently grasped the box containing the "Eternal Flower" in her hand.
Helen took out the crystal-clear flower and handed it to Shad. As Shad picked up the rose, Grace manipulated the tear crystals to approach the flower.
When the tear of the soul touched the gift that the puppet boy had given to Shad before the year-end festival, it melted like ice meeting fire.
The melted "Eternal Flower" transformed into a crystal-clear liquid, still retaining its whispering essence, even stronger than when it was in flower form. Anyone who saw that shimmering liquid would instinctively mistake it for tears.
Shad didn't investigate whether this was a derivative of the relic or a transformed form of the relic itself. He collected his tears in an empty test tube, and Miss Sabel only asked at this moment:
"Was that a preserved flower just now?"
"Now, in my view, this is the antidote."
"What antidote?"
"The antidote to tonight's biggest predicament—I was worried things might go wrong, but it seems everything's fine now. It seems fate is truly capricious; it just so happened that today, with the arc of death, the church's relic, and me—none of these conditions could have been met."
He put away both the test tube and the curved plate:
"Let's deal with that snake fang here first. I think the battles in other parts of the island are almost over. At least the opponent we're facing here isn't particularly strong."
He then asked the blonde sorceress:
"Next, I'll be going to the snow mountain with Ellie, Grace, and Helen to support the most important battle. Do you want to come?"
The witch hesitated for a moment, then shook her head. Even with the disguise of the council's power and the strength given by "another self," rashly contacting so many familiar colleagues still carried the possibility of being exposed.
"Never mind, I'll go back to town. If I encounter any other problems there, I might be able to help. By the time you come back, I may have already left. This time I'm saying goodbye to you, so don't say I'm leaving without saying goodbye again."
She waved her hand at Xia De with a stern face, and Xia De said:
"I never said you left without saying goodbye, so be careful. See you next time."
"See you next time."
Even though the [Veil of Obscurity] had not yet been removed, she still leaped up and disappeared into the sea.
"Grace, Helen, let's go too."
Shad spoke to the two sisters, and then they flew together toward the island to help.
At that moment, Helen's voice appeared in Grace's mind:
"Sister, that sorceress just now... Although her true appearance, soul characteristics, and even the trajectory of her destiny were all obscured by the indistinct chaotic light, did she use the power of a witch when she cast her spell?"
For them, who have lived since the Fifth Age, the power of a witch is infallible. Shad's [Witch Detection Badge] is useless against Miss Sabel, but their senses are far more acute than any alchemical artifact:
"There have only been thirteen great witches in this era. Sister, that sorceress from earlier, could she be one of them?"
Shh~ Don't say it out loud.
Grace's voice, emanating from the white dress, reached her younger sister's ears. Helen looked curiously at her older sister, Shad, on the other side:
"Aren't you going to tell the sir?"
Do you think the gentleman didn't notice?
"Hmm, you noticed it too, sir?"
Grace tried hard not to smile and continued flying with Shad toward the "island":
"Whether the gentleman can see it or not, I certainly don't know. But if he can see it, is there any need for you to remind him?"
"of course not."
"If the gentleman hasn't noticed, Helen, does he need you to remind him?"
The girl in the black dress thought for a moment about Luvia and the cat beside Shad:
"It doesn't seem necessary."
"Then why did you expose her identity?"
Now Helen understood:
"I understand now, my sister truly lives up to her reputation!"
Grace actually smiled this time, and when Shad asked her why she was smiling, the girl in the white dress simply said that she had thought of something very funny.