novelonline Chapter 3739 Memories of Petals
Chapter 3739 Memories of Petals
Chapter 3739 Memories of Petals
Luvia then reminded her:
"Shad, the Fool doesn't just mean being foolish. As the sequence 0 in divination cards, it has a very rich meaning. Don't worry about that; focus more on your own destiny. A circle can help you defeat Mr. Snake's clone with the help of others, but it certainly can't defeat its true form."
"Yes, but we've already collected four rings after only the fifth act. There are still at least two acts left to be performed, so more rings should appear."
Shad pressed [Resurrection] against Xiaomia's back, who was sitting on his lap. The cat shifted uncomfortably but did not move away.
"That's all for now regarding the circle. Next, let's see what kind of information we have here."
The ice petal containing Valentine Halonin's memories was taken out by Shad and then placed directly on his forehead. The information in the memory was not much, and the petal melted away in just over ten seconds.
Luvia handed him a handkerchief, and as Shad wiped his forehead with it, she teased him again:
"You see, even if they are enemies, as long as they are women, you can get them to willingly hand over information."
"Luvia, you seem to be saying that I'm the kind of person who always likes to flirt with other women."
【Isn’t it? 】
She asked with a smile, and Shad, of course, denied that he only picked the prettiest flowers.
"In summary, there are three useful pieces of information."
The first point is about Mr. Snake's true form. She had told me several times that she had witnessed Mr. Snake's true form, so it seems to be true. However, she didn't share with me the specific appearance of that thing; what I remember is the way she saw Mr. Snake.
Luvia listened intently, noticing that Shad had frowned:
"After entering the temple, walk inside and then around the wall with the ouroboros wheel hanging from it. Walk through the corridor behind the wall and enter a small stone chamber. There are braziers in the four corners of the chamber. The murals on the walls are blurry in my memory. There are steps leading down in the center of the chamber, but she did not walk towards the steps. Instead, a huge black snake head emerged directly from under the steps."
The architecture and decor of that stone chamber were completely different from the temple. I suspect the chamber wasn't part of the temple at all; it was part of the seal.
"In other words, if we eventually reach the top of the mountain, what will our destination be?"
Luvia inquired, but Shad's reply was unclear:
"It's also possible that Mr. Snake escaped directly, and the battlefield is either a ruin or even directly in the snow-capped mountains."
He petted Mia, and the cat meowed softly.
"The second piece of information is about the fifth act. It contains memories of Valentine Halonen's complete life, as well as what she did during the ten years she was away from the island."
The plague of fate had already spread throughout the world, long before the doctor and I first met in 1853. Outside the island, she had also used the name of Mr. Snake to facilitate deals between him and mortals. The ordinary people the church recently discovered outside the island, who had no connection to Fatummst Island, were also traders, and they were connected to her.
"Ten years."
Luvia exclaimed:
"Ten years ago, I was just a clueless little girl. Don't argue with me, I know I had already joined the association back then."
She gave a small "warning":
"So, can we use her memories to catch the traders?"
"We can only capture a portion of them, because in her memory, although she was the first known person to have traded with Mr. Snake, there were other traders traveling all over the world during those ten years besides her."
Shad frowned for this very reason:
"We still greatly underestimated Mr. Snake's influence on the world beyond Falling Star Bay. She even remembered a trader who had traveled from Vesta Grove to Carsonrick to Dela Rion, from the southern jungles to the far north academy, from the Old World to the New World. Mr. Snake's traders had left behind troubles of all sizes all over the world. It's just that before the story of destiny began, those troubles only led to a series of tragedies of mortal fates, and on the surface, they did not seem to involve any supernatural factors."
Although it itself failed to leave the island, it had made far too many preparations before the story of its destiny truly began.
Luvia grabbed Shad's hand that was stroking the cat, and the weight of both hands combined on her body made the cat meow again.
"Let the church handle things outside the island. We just need to figure out how to deal with Mr. Snake's true form."
Shad nodded:
"Furthermore, after returning to the island, she met with many people who had traded with Mr. Snake. I can inform the church of this information later so that they can arrest them. Do you remember Ms. White saying that she suspected some of the current candidates had traded with Mr. Snake or had been used by him?"
Luvia raised an eyebrow:
"You saw someone?"
"No, but in her memory, the Ringwitch from the Tyranny Club appeared in the temple. Didn't the followers of the God of Tyranny cooperate with two other cults?"
Xia De asked doubtfully:
"Perhaps this is a very important clue. Let the church investigate it, or let us do a divination after we get the new coin."
Luvia nodded:
"The new coins should arrive soon; the witches are helping to figure it out. So, what's the third message about?"
"The Snow Mountain Seal. In reality, what she did was not to destroy the seal, but to accelerate its rupture. The seal itself was already on the verge of collapse, including those giant snake fangs that appeared last night. All her methods were aimed at helping Mr. Snake escape more quickly."
The damage already done is irreversible, except through the purification methods provided by Ms. White. Besides Valentine Halonen, others are secretly influencing the seal; she doesn't know their identities, but she's definitely not Mr. Snake's only most important trader. She was merely the one thrown out; the other traders possess power no less than hers.
The 'Killer,' a murderer wanted by the Carsonrick authorities and empowered by Mr. Snake; the 'Lost One,' given a new purpose in life by the snake and capable of leading people astray in a fog; the 'Greedy Merchant,' who blames his business failures on his partner's greed and can incite greed in anyone. Each of these people in her memory had a failed life, and they all encountered the snake when they were desperate. In my opinion, all their thoughts should be sent to a doctor for purification and treatment.
Luvia wasn't too surprised by this:
"The snake itself has no hands, so it needs mortals as its hands. The failures of those people in life are probably also related to Mr. Snake. It seems that everyone has other things to do during the story of the sixth and seventh acts."
But Shad said again:
“There’s something even more important before that. Her memories indicate that the second shock of fate will occur on Saturday afternoon, which is tomorrow afternoon. Wasn’t the Grand Symphony of Fate originally scheduled to begin tomorrow afternoon? Notify the association to postpone it for now, otherwise the ceremony will definitely run into problems.”
"I see. So, that woman knows nothing about the Ring of Fate? Although she's not a Ring Sorcerer, surely she would know something about fate after all these years?"
Luvia asked again, and Shad shook his head:
"She doesn't know the whereabouts of any complete rings. The Curved Ring and the Ring of Fate were both given to her by Mr. Serpent from the temple. She got the Ring of the Fool ten years ago when she left the island. I do know how she used the power of that ring; you can refer to it if you're interested. In that case, others who made wishes to the Serpent might also have rings, but these rings resonate with them, making them very difficult for us to obtain."
Xia De hesitated for a moment:
"The last thing she remembered was a conversation she had with Mr. Snake. The snake told her that for the strong who know their own destiny, dice, curves, and rings are all superficial. The strong can resonate with destiny directly through their own efforts, without needing these external things. And the formation of the ring is just a process of knowing destiny."
"To conjure destiny out of thin air—that's something only heroes of the mythical era could do, isn't it?"
Luvia smiled and leaned against Shad:
"And what about you, Shad? Can you shape your own destiny?"
"Not yet, but I do have some ideas about my other two rings. The fate of [Resurrection] is not the fate of the future, but the manifestation of the fate of the past. However, even if the grand movement of fate is postponed, it will be at most next week. I am more worried about whether I will be able to get the 'All Things Unpredictable' card in the seventh act."
Shad then put his arm around Luvia's shoulder, and the purple-eyed girl whispered:
"If you can't get it yourself, I will definitely help you get it."
"Why do you say that?"
“Besides Xiaomia, you don’t have any other hobbies, you don’t want many things, and your material desires are very low. Rhodes is one of the few things you’re interested in. If we can’t even get that for you, then there’s almost nothing we can do for you.”
She spoke very gently, and Xia De hesitated for a moment:
"Luvia, don't even think about attacking the headquarters of the Prophet's Association."
"Why would you think that? Of course I wouldn't do such a thing. The association headquarters is not something we can take right now. But isn't that card supposed to leave headquarters and come here in the seventh act of the story?"
"It's best not to have that kind of thought either."
"You don't need to worry about that. Maybe the card will just appear in your hand unexpectedly, like before. There's still a lot to do today, so it looks like we can't rest for now."
The two quickly parted ways. Luvia took the [Breeding] item to Grandma Cassandra, while Shad went to find Sylvie and together they visited the girls who were injured in the battle the previous night.
(End of this chapter)