[Later]
Azrael left promising to wait for the results of『』's long plan to the conquest and to suggest at the next meeting to ally themselves with Elchea.
And now Xiao Qiangwei, Sora, Shiro, Plum and Jibril were into a cube inside Avant Heim, it was Jibril's previous residence, which had been turned into a storage warehouse.
Inside the room were old books and some trophies, which in a Flugel's mind, were skulls of different races. In the middle of the room there was stacked a pile of books that had been collected from almost a hundred Flugel who had sword on the Pledges.
Sora and Shiro were buried in those books, trying to find a solution, while Xiao Qiangwei was doing the same but in a empty corner, however he was reading slower than them, he wanted to enjoy the reading.
Plum was exhausted in the floor, and Jibril was looking around, sometimes advising them to take a small rest when she realized that they didn't slept for 5 days since Plum arrived in the Eastern Federation.
Sora and Shiro seemed a bit mentally tired while Xiao Qiangwei looked as if he just woken from a long slumber, thanks to his vitality he didn't needed to sleep for at least a month, then he would feel a bit of fatigue.
And when he will reach Immortal Life, he will not need to sleep due to the almost endless vitality he will get.
Sora: Tch… There are clearly 19 types of Pledges… But why isn't there any difference between the awakening conditions?
Plum: Could it be… We came here… For nothing…?
Sora: ...The problem's even more serious than that… I'll straighten it out for you!
He sighed and turned to Plum to explain.
Sora: The Empress of the Seirens is their full representative, so the fact that she bet all her rights in order to enter a slumber to the Seirens would mean that as long as someone else were to wake her up, their Race Piece would be taken which would be tantamount to death.
So they hid the condition to awaken her.
Plum: Y-Yes… That's true…
Sora: The ultimate form of concealment is not letting anyone know, which is why Plum couldn't find out the condition herself.
The current Empress had entered slumber before becoming the Empress, so the Seirens should have tried all possible methods to awaken her already… Which means, previously someone knew how to awaken her, but those conditions have probably been modified by someone now.
Can you understand everything up to here?
Plum nodded in confirmation.
Sora: In the previous 800 years, there were of course people that played games in attempts to wake up the Empress, among which 19 of them were recorded by Avant Heim over 5 races, and they had found the Pledge back then.
As long as we can find that information and cross-reference it with everything we have, we can retrace back to the past and find the conditions to wake the Empress, that was my initial plan.
However… "The person who can wake up the Empress"... That's the limit to which we can retrace.
Xiao Qiangwei: *Sigh* I wished the Pledges wouldn't work with me… I would have smashed flat the crystal where she was and forcefully wake her…
The atmosphere around them seemed really depressing, and Jibril immediately said.
Jibril: ...So for a change of mood, can I tell you all about something that happened in the past?
She snapped her fingers lightly and instantly the walls and ceilings of her home turned transparent as glass.
Everyone looked around and noticed that they were currently in the edge of the atmospheric layer, the same wall that divided the territory between a Immortal and a True Immortal, the world and the universe… No, dimension, from Xiao Qiangwei's knowledge…
Then they suddenly heard a calming sound, like the call of a whale.
Sora: ...That was…?
Jibril: It was "Him"... The sound of the Phantasma Avant Heim. "He" was a disciple of my late Master, the Old Deus Artosh.
Artosh died at the end of the Great War… But "He" couldn't accept it, so he drifted from place to place in search for him, approaching any single presence of Old Deus he could find.
The red moon is the dwelling place of the 13th ranked, Lunarians, as well as the Old Deus that created them. Whenever Avant Heim sees the red moon, he will attempt to raise his altitude upon detecting the presence of a Old Deus, but… Avant Heim can't do it.
Everyone: ...Can't do it?
Jibril: Avant Heim doesn't fly in the sky, he revolved about the planets… He swims within the Spirit Circuit that the Imanity cannot see, so he can't go into space where there are no Spirits… So… He's looking at the red moon… And crying.
Suddenly, flashes of light streaked past as though to cover the red moon up.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Wait, do the Phantasma have feelings as well?
Sora: ...Even the Phantasma know love, but I don't…
Jibril: Huh? Why do you say "He" knows love?
Xiao Qiangwei: He knows to cry for his Master, and he has a Master to love… Even if it isn't THAT love, doesn't that mean that he knows love? And then, Sora, you are just a particular case, everyone knows you love Shiro, it's just that your morality is placing his palm towards you to stop you from doing something wrong.
Sora: …
Sora couldn't answer back, it was the truth, he loved his sister as a sister, not that type of love there is between a couple… It is really complicated talking about love in general… And now Jibril seemed to have some doubts on herself, and asked.
Jibril: ...H-His Highness, forgive me for asking, but could you listen to a single request of mine?
Xiao Qiangwei: Hmm?
Jibril: Could you please berate me?
Xiao Qiangwei: …"What?"
He talked again in chinese from the sudden surprise.
Jibril pressed her forehead on the ground while bowing deeply, and said.
Jibril: Just don't ask… Please.
Xiao Qiangwei: Ahem… Jibril… You are a damn disappointment every fucking bloody day… Just let me alone.
He emphasized the last words to give them more meaning, and the results he got from it were… Shocking...
Jibril: H-H-H-H-His Highness!!
Xiao Qiangwei: AAHHHHHH!!
She teleported so close to Xiao Qiangwei that their heads almost connected, and almost caused Xiao Qiangwei to have a heart attack.
Jibril: W-Why is this? I'm currently feeling the same sensation of my spine tingling as I licked the feet of that long-eared one under His Highness' orders, and the time where I was kicked away from His Highness' leg during the FPS in the Eastern Federation…
And a feeling as if my chest is being constricted! What exactly is this unknown sensation!?
Xiao Qiangwei: Get the fuck away from me, you damn masochist!
Jibril: Here is it again!
Xiao Qiangwei placed a foot over Jibril's cheek and pushed her away as much as he could.
Suddenly, Shiro stood up from Sora's lap, making everyone turn towards her.
Sora: Huh?! W-What was that, Shiro, my heart nearly leaped out of my chest!
Shiro: ...Unknown sensation… I don't know… Can't reach… Yearning… Azrael couldn't find it… Jibril found it… One-sided… The unknown… The future… Hope.
She suddenly began to fly through the books.
Shiro: ...The Empress that deceived everyone… The Empress'... Victory condition… Wasn't changed… Nii… Wei… I know… The condition… To awaken the Empress now.
Everoney leaped up together and looked at Shiro.
Xiao Qiangwei: Talk!
And then… Shiro revealed the answer.
?: Aaaand, cut!
The screen became black, revealing the Grandmaster Higher Heaven who was evilly grinning.
Higher Heaven: You thought there was the answer, too bad, it's Cliff-Hanger! And if some of you want to spoil it in the comments, you will need to wait 1 more day for the next chapter…
*Evil Laugher*
[Later]
Azrael left promising to wait for the results of『』's long plan to the conquest and to suggest at the next meeting to ally themselves with Elchea.
And now Xiao Qiangwei, Sora, Shiro, Plum and Jibril were into a cube inside Avant Heim, it was Jibril's previous residence, which had been turned into a storage warehouse.
Inside the room were old books and some trophies, which in a Flugel's mind, were skulls of different races. In the middle of the room there was stacked a pile of books that had been collected from almost a hundred Flugel who had sword on the Pledges.
Sora and Shiro were buried in those books, trying to find a solution, while Xiao Qiangwei was doing the same but in a empty corner, however he was reading slower than them, he wanted to enjoy the reading.
Plum was exhausted in the floor, and Jibril was looking around, sometimes advising them to take a small rest when she realized that they didn't slept for 5 days since Plum arrived in the Eastern Federation.
Sora and Shiro seemed a bit mentally tired while Xiao Qiangwei looked as if he just woken from a long slumber, thanks to his vitality he didn't needed to sleep for at least a month, then he would feel a bit of fatigue.
And when he will reach Immortal Life, he will not need to sleep due to the almost endless vitality he will get.
Sora: Tch… There are clearly 19 types of Pledges… But why isn't there any difference between the awakening conditions?
Plum: Could it be… We came here… For nothing…?
Sora: ...The problem's even more serious than that… I'll straighten it out for you!
He sighed and turned to Plum to explain.
Sora: The Empress of the Seirens is their full representative, so the fact that she bet all her rights in order to enter a slumber to the Seirens would mean that as long as someone else were to wake her up, their Race Piece would be taken which would be tantamount to death.
So they hid the condition to awaken her.
Plum: Y-Yes… That's true…
Sora: The ultimate form of concealment is not letting anyone know, which is why Plum couldn't find out the condition herself.
The current Empress had entered slumber before becoming the Empress, so the Seirens should have tried all possible methods to awaken her already… Which means, previously someone knew how to awaken her, but those conditions have probably been modified by someone now.
Can you understand everything up to here?
Plum nodded in confirmation.
Sora: In the previous 800 years, there were of course people that played games in attempts to wake up the Empress, among which 19 of them were recorded by Avant Heim over 5 races, and they had found the Pledge back then.
As long as we can find that information and cross-reference it with everything we have, we can retrace back to the past and find the conditions to wake the Empress, that was my initial plan.
However… "The person who can wake up the Empress"... That's the limit to which we can retrace.
Xiao Qiangwei: *Sigh* I wished the Pledges wouldn't work with me… I would have smashed flat the crystal where she was and forcefully wake her…
The atmosphere around them seemed really depressing, and Jibril immediately said.
Jibril: ...So for a change of mood, can I tell you all about something that happened in the past?
She snapped her fingers lightly and instantly the walls and ceilings of her home turned transparent as glass.
Everyone looked around and noticed that they were currently in the edge of the atmospheric layer, the same wall that divided the territory between a Immortal and a True Immortal, the world and the universe… No, dimension, from Xiao Qiangwei's knowledge…
Then they suddenly heard a calming sound, like the call of a whale.
Sora: ...That was…?
Jibril: It was "Him"... The sound of the Phantasma Avant Heim. "He" was a disciple of my late Master, the Old Deus Artosh.
Artosh died at the end of the Great War… But "He" couldn't accept it, so he drifted from place to place in search for him, approaching any single presence of Old Deus he could find.
The red moon is the dwelling place of the 13th ranked, Lunarians, as well as the Old Deus that created them. Whenever Avant Heim sees the red moon, he will attempt to raise his altitude upon detecting the presence of a Old Deus, but… Avant Heim can't do it.
Everyone: ...Can't do it?
Jibril: Avant Heim doesn't fly in the sky, he revolved about the planets… He swims within the Spirit Circuit that the Imanity cannot see, so he can't go into space where there are no Spirits… So… He's looking at the red moon… And crying.
Suddenly, flashes of light streaked past as though to cover the red moon up.
Xiao Qiangwei: ...Wait, do the Phantasma have feelings as well?
Sora: ...Even the Phantasma know love, but I don't…
Jibril: Huh? Why do you say "He" knows love?
Xiao Qiangwei: He knows to cry for his Master, and he has a Master to love… Even if it isn't THAT love, doesn't that mean that he knows love? And then, Sora, you are just a particular case, everyone knows you love Shiro, it's just that your morality is placing his palm towards you to stop you from doing something wrong.
Sora: …
Sora couldn't answer back, it was the truth, he loved his sister as a sister, not that type of love there is between a couple… It is really complicated talking about love in general… And now Jibril seemed to have some doubts on herself, and asked.
Jibril: ...H-His Highness, forgive me for asking, but could you listen to a single request of mine?
Xiao Qiangwei: Hmm?
Jibril: Could you please berate me?
Xiao Qiangwei: …"What?"
He talked again in chinese from the sudden surprise.
Jibril pressed her forehead on the ground while bowing deeply, and said.
Jibril: Just don't ask… Please.
Xiao Qiangwei: Ahem… Jibril… You are a damn disappointment every fucking bloody day… Just let me alone.
He emphasized the last words to give them more meaning, and the results he got from it were… Shocking...
Jibril: H-H-H-H-His Highness!!
Xiao Qiangwei: AAHHHHHH!!
She teleported so close to Xiao Qiangwei that their heads almost connected, and almost caused Xiao Qiangwei to have a heart attack.
Jibril: W-Why is this? I'm currently feeling the same sensation of my spine tingling as I licked the feet of that long-eared one under His Highness' orders, and the time where I was kicked away from His Highness' leg during the FPS in the Eastern Federation…
And a feeling as if my chest is being constricted! What exactly is this unknown sensation!?
Xiao Qiangwei: Get the fuck away from me, you damn masochist!
Jibril: Here is it again!
Xiao Qiangwei placed a foot over Jibril's cheek and pushed her away as much as he could.
Suddenly, Shiro stood up from Sora's lap, making everyone turn towards her.
Sora: Huh?! W-What was that, Shiro, my heart nearly leaped out of my chest!
Shiro: ...Unknown sensation… I don't know… Can't reach… Yearning… Azrael couldn't find it… Jibril found it… One-sided… The unknown… The future… Hope.
She suddenly began to fly through the books.
Shiro: ...The Empress that deceived everyone… The Empress'... Victory condition… Wasn't changed… Nii… Wei… I know… The condition… To awaken the Empress now.
Everoney leaped up together and looked at Shiro.
Xiao Qiangwei: Talk!
And then… Shiro revealed the answer.
?: Aaaand, cut!
The screen became black, revealing the Grandmaster Higher Heaven who was evilly grinning.
Higher Heaven: You thought there was the answer, too bad, it's Cliff-Hanger! And if some of you want to spoil it in the comments, you will need to wait 1 more day for the next chapter…
*Evil Laugher*
