Chapter 1372: Chapter 32: Night of the Witch (4)
"First... come with me, I’ll take you to a beautiful place."
So, she began to float away as if she was escaping, following the vast moonlight and moving farther from the Dragon Court.
Watching her fly further and further away, Emhardt looked at the Fish beside him with dead fish eyes and said to him,
"Suddenly, I don’t feel like going with you guys anymore, maybe I’ll just go back to sleep."
"Can you sleep without me?"
"...I can already foresee what will happen next. I don’t want to be a third wheel and watch you two hold each other under the moonlight and the beautiful scenery."
Fisher smiled slightly, put him into his embrace from his shoulder, and replied,
"I wouldn’t do that."
"Ha ha, as if I just met you on the first day."
"You don’t understand your Lady Renie, nor do you understand me in front of her."
Before Emhardt could respond, Fisher took a deep breath. As he watched Renie’s silhouette fade into the distance, Erwin’s words suddenly flashed in his mind.
Originally, he wanted to jump up directly, but he suddenly paused, and then behind him, a strange pair of wings, similar to those of a Phoenix, slowly began to grow. The sound of the "click-clack" of the flesh and bones startled Emhardt, who poked his head out, opened his mouth in surprise, and said,
"My god, did you just learn that... I can only say, Lady Valentina will be ecstatic."
"This is just a clumsy imitation. I haven’t completely understood Erwin’s Completion Manual, let alone the content behind the Mythical Gate. I haven’t even fully penetrated the first two mountains..."
"Mountains? What mountains?"
"...It’s nothing."
Without explaining the content related to the Life Completion Manual to Emhardt, he was lifted by the wings, and with a piercing sonic boom, he was instantly carried by the frosty wings behind him and soared up to the sky, quickly joining Renie, who was using the Witch’s body.
"Fisher, come this way!"
The moon in the sky was motionless, as if it had lost all its vitality except for its brightness, casting a pure glow on the ocean surface. By comparison, the Witch floating in the air ahead was more like the moon of the night, so bright and dazzling.
They traveled from the south of the Dragon Court, through the ocean heading further south, through waves and chasing each other, for an unknown amount of time. When they felt the moon was at its zenith, the faint fluorescence began to float upon the sea surface ahead.
Renie beside him kept descending, and at this moment, Fisher, who was not quite used to flying with Phoenix wings, also adjusted his movements to descend.
The originally dark ocean turned clear and light blue here, seemingly proving that it was not deep; within the vast ocean, several sharp mountains and small islands suddenly emerged, lush and hiding an uninhabited mystery.
Moonlight fell from the sky. On a cloudless night, it spread starry light across the uneven sea surface. Through the mountains on the islands ahead, a network of scattered islands gradually revealed themselves.
This place was extremely quiet, and at this moment, only the sound of waves hitting the rocks could be heard.
Inside the oval island under the high mountains, a blue pool emitted a faint fluorescence, like a sapphire hidden in the greenery formed by emeralds.
Fisher was absorbed in admiring the beautiful scene before him, forgetting to chase Renie’s silhouette. When he looked up again, he found that Renie had disappeared at some point.
"Renie?"
He couldn’t help but speak, breaking the tranquility of the place.
"I’m here!"
The moment he asked, Renie, who reappeared after virtualization, patted his shoulder from behind, letting him look at the beauty below,
"How about it, beautiful?"
"Very nice... right, where are we? We seem to have flown quite far."
"Since we’re out to play tonight, does it really matter where we are?"
"True..."
"However, you should have been here before."
"I’ve been here?"
Fisher looked at the island settled farther than the Bilan Continent, thinking that perhaps the most adventurous explorers of the Western Continent might have never been here, which deepened his bewilderment.
"Yeah, didn’t you say you’ve been to the Elves’ homeland in the past?"
"?"
Fisher turned his head to look at her, seemingly incredulous,
"You mean..."
"Ah, that’s right, Fisher, this is all that remains of the Tree Continent, which sank in the Mythical War."
Renie and Fisher looked at the sharp mountains in front of them and the sparse islands behind them. How it appeared, the area of these islands was only a few dozen kilometers in radius, and this was the only remaining part of the giant Tree Continent Fisher had once traveled to...
By comparison, the islands before them were just a drop in the ocean compared to the original vast Tree Continent.
It was only at this moment that he truly felt the change of ten thousand years.
For some reason, he suddenly thought of Tangze Asuka, the girl who said she would wait to reunite with him ten thousand years ago...
If a continent could shrink so much over time and war, from vibrant to small and desolate, then what about these worldly affairs for a person?
"...did we come here just for the scenery?"
"Yes, but not entirely..."
Renie floated next to Fisher, looking at the island’s pool as blue as a gemstone and touched her red lips, saying,
"Under that pool, there are actually relics left by the Elves. I went in and saw them, but wasn’t very interested at the time, just looked and left..."
"But didn’t you just say you saw an Elf in the past who looked exactly like me..."
"Was it called... Gui?"
