Chapter 1177: Chapter 926 He’s Already Gone Mad
"My dear child, I always knew you would be on my side, my throne, my Heaven Realm, everything I have is prepared for you! For you, I had her wings severed, and for you, I had Selena gouge out her Celestial Heart. And now, for you, I will start a war, I will make her and her ambitions disappear forever from the Heaven Realm!"
"No!" Sajia said excitedly.
"What? My child, what are you nervous about?" the Emperor asked, puzzled.
"Starting a war now is too hasty. Elsa’s power has already become incredibly strong, and she has the formidable Ghost Spirits as her support," Sajia explained.
"Hahaha, truly worthy of being my child, considering the bigger picture above all! Yes, yes! Of course, I know she’s strong, but I am not unprepared!" declared the Emperor mysteriously.
"Prepared? With what?" Sajia asked, perplexed.
"That is still a secret for now, but soon you will know! Remember, my child, all this is for you!" The Emperor’s eyes were filled with madness.
Just then, a commotion arose outside the gambling house, and the doors of the gambling house burst open. Nim entered first, followed by Elsa. The two of them entered the gambling house one after the other.
"Princess Your Highness!"
"Princess Your Highness!"
The gamblers, who were deep in the midst of betting, immediately rose to pay their respects. No matter what happened in the Imperial City, Elsa was, after all, still a Princess.
To those gamblers, Elsa returned each greeting, speaking with a smile, "There has just been a little unpleasantness, and to express our city of Ghost Spirits’ apology to everyone present, I have decided each guest may receive a gold chip as compensation, and I hope you will not take it to heart!"
With these words, the entire place roared with approval.
A gold chip was no small thing. The money one could exchange for a gold chip was enough for a moderately wealthy family to live on for ten days. Such a good fortune seldom came for just a minor incident.
Of course, this money was mostly coming from the two parties who had been involved in the earlier fight.
After announcing this, Elsa looked around and, noticing nothing out of the ordinary, she then entered the back office of the gambling house with Nim.
"I didn’t believe you when you said that Emperor His Majesty and Lord Sajia had come, but now I believe it," said Nim in the office.
"I am also surprised. Instead of staying safely in the Imperial City, what are they doing here?" Elsa was also somewhat puzzled.
"Naive. Perhaps just curious?" Nim suggested.
"Or perhaps," Elsa continued, "they have a reason that necessitates their presence here."
Soon after, a little girl walked in. She was Youyou, the first person Elsa transformed into a New Spectral Ghost.
"Our people have inspected the entire city and found several Arrays. However, these Arrays are very special, and we did not dare to touch them rashly. So we recorded them to consult with you, our master," Youyou reported.
As she spoke, Youyou’s eyes shone with light, showing the content that a Ghost Spirit had seen. It was a complex Array etched on the walls of a sewer, made entirely of metal and further embedded with gemstones as auxiliary energy sources—it was undoubtedly not the work of ordinary people acting on a whim.
"A remote-controlled Teleportation Array," Elsa said.
"Someone plans to suddenly send forces here?" Nim exclaimed.
"There’s no need for the phrase ’someone,’ because both you and I know who would do such a thing. What truly surprises me is the construction of this Array. It isn’t in the style of the Heaven Realm at all, but rather, it comes from the Okaman people."
On hearing this name, Nim was truly shocked. In the Heaven Realm, the Celestial Clan claimed to be the strongest in terms of military, technology, and economy. However, the Celestials were not the most populous race, nor did they have the most territory.
In the Heaven Realm, when speaking of strength, one race that must be mentioned is the Okaman people.
These grey-skinned beings were taller, stronger, and had greater fighting prowess than most humanoid intelligent races in this Plane. Their relatively lower intelligence resulted in slower societal advancement. But when it came to offensive prowess and innate combat talent, the Okaman people would be ranked among the very best. Initially, before the Great War that swept through the Heaven Realm, the demon realm, and Hell had mysteriously begun, the relentless conflict between the Celestial Clan, favored by Giants, and the Okaman people had nearly suffocated the Celestials as their territories continued to shrink.
Later, when the great war across the three realms inexplicably started, these beings—who found joy in combat and considered fighting an essential part of their lives—quickly shifted their enemy from the Celestial beings to the creatures of the demon realm and Hell.
The Okaman had a highly unique physiological constitution. In extreme situations, they could make their bodies resemble plants. They were able to draw nutrition and water directly from the ground by taking root. They could fight continuously for more than ten days without any rest, as their four small brains could take turns resting. And more frighteningly, once the Okaman truly sensed danger, every organ of their body that fell to the ground could potentially grow a fierce plant, which would eventually become a new Okaman person.
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It can be said that during the Great War of the Three Realms, the Heavenly Realm won enough time to last until the end of the war by relying on the Okaman race’s nearly shameless reproduction rate.
In that war, to end the strife among the Okaman race, the Celestial Clan negotiated an agreement with the council of the Great Elder of the Okaman race, establishing that neither side would violate each other’s territory and both would rest and recuperate. In exchange, the Heaven Realm would provide the necessary assistance and support to the Okaman people.
Since that time, although the Okaman race had been waging wars year after year, they never provoked the Celestial Clan.
However, now the presence of the Okaman Array here seemed like an inauspicious omen.
"If my foolish father really went to seek out the Okaman, then I can only say, his brain has already gone bad," Elsa said.
"This... With all due disrespect, do you still think his brain isn’t bad?" Nim asked somewhat nervously.
"Yes," Elsa sighed heavily, speaking somewhat helplessly.
"I don’t know why, but I always feel like some prophecy is about to come true," Nim said.
The so-called prophecy, of course, referred to the one that had almost cost Elsa her life. When Elsa was just born, the Emperor heard the prophecy that she would bring destruction to the Heaven Realm. Because of this prophecy, the Emperor was very cold to Elsa from a young age. And when she was very young, the Emperor finally cut off her innate Light Wing, and afterward, Selena extracted her source of power—the Heart of Heaven.
In the end, the Emperor did not manage to kill Elsa, but instead, he sent her to a Plane that no other life form could easily reach—the Human Realm.
No one thought Elsa could survive, but fortunately, Elsa met the most precious person in her life, Long Yi.
Long Yi saved her, taught her, enlightened her, and eventually, she returned to the Heaven Realm.
However, everything once again started to develop in the direction of the prophecy.
"Actually, I have always had a question. The person who made the prophecy to the Emperor, who exactly was he?" Nim asked.
This question made Elsa stunned; honestly, she really didn’t know who the person who made the prophecy was.
Nim didn’t expect that Elsa wouldn’t know; he thought Elsa would have already investigated everything thoroughly. Obviously, Elsa had been deliberately avoiding the matter; she didn’t even look into these basic details.
"Well, I actually do know who made that prophecy," Nim said.
Elsa looked at Nim in surprise. This guard, who had joined Elsa’s camp out of admiration for Long Yi, at first seemed no different to Elsa than anyone else. But clearly, in this matter, Nim proved he was different; he had even thought of this.
"Who is that person?" Elsa asked Nim.
"His name is Descartes. If he hasn’t changed his residence again, his current whereabouts should be here."
Nim pointed at a wall in the room, where there was a huge decorative map of Planes, and the place Nim pointed to was a very remote small Plane.
The Heaven Realm resides in the upper Plane, which itself includes several smaller Planes. The name of the Plane where the Prophet lives is called the Eye of the Ancestor because the shape of that Plane is like a huge eye. Most people coming from that planet are mostly engaged in prophecy or act like strategists.
While some do not believe in their prophecies, the truth is that some among them have genuinely uncanny abilities capable of foreseeing events in the distant future.
Elsa believed in this because Long Yi even had a Time Traveler by his side. But the idea that an entire Plane of people had such abilities to some extent still made her skeptical.
Nevertheless, Elsa decided to go and see; she really wanted to know whether the prophecy made by the Prophet named Descartes was true, or was it just idle talk.
"I’ll go alone," Elsa suddenly said.
Nim understood that when Elsa spoke in such a brief manner, omitting much fluff, it usually meant she was somewhat impatient.
To undertake this journey, Elsa still disguised herself a bit, after all her appearance was too conspicuous. She disguised herself as an ordinary girl and returned to the Celestial Imperial City. At this time, both the Emperor of the Celestial Clan and the First Prince were still in the city of Ghost Spirits; they would never know that Elsa had suddenly returned here.
Elsa quickly found Selena, and when Selena realized that the ordinary girl in front of her was her sister Elsa, she nervously led Elsa into a secret chamber, "How dare you come back! Our father has gone mad!"
Seeing Selena’s very nervous expression, Elsa laughed, "I’ve known he was mad since the day I was born."
Selena shook her head vigorously, saying, "No, no, no! This time it’s different! From a reliable source, I’ve learned that our father is in contact with people he should not be dealing with!"
"The Okaman," Elsa said. (To be continued. If you like this work, we welcome you to vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
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