Now, with the Moonspring, she could recover her life origin. After advancing to Fourth Grade, her lifespan was restored to the standard length that Fourth Grade adepts should have.
This Fate prayer ritual was incredibly important to her. It was unbelievably crucial to her life!
As the many Fate Witches and apprentices prayed zealously, a projection of the River of Fate slowly appeared in the hall. It emerged midair and seemed to lead towards the distant sky. It was bold and broad, magnificent and colossal. It felt as if one’s soul was frozen in place, and the very core of your being trembled when your Spirit came into contact with it.
No one could see the source of this long river, and no one could see where it was headed. Anyone would be able to feel their insignificance in front of such a long river steeped in the flavor of time and history like this.
The Fate Witches here might have all witnessed the River of Fate multiple times throughout their lives. However, that oppressive aura that pressed against their faces still caused them to become enlightened to countless truths.
The Fate apprentices were already in a dizzied, confused state when the projection of the River appeared. Their souls simply weren’t resilient enough. Only the eyes of one girl among the apprentices glowed brightly, signifying her still calm and rational mind. She lifted her head and looked at the slowly roaring torrents of Fate before her. She couldn’t resist reaching out to those strange ribbons of light.
When her youthful fingers touched the ribbons of light formed by the projection of the River of Fate, her entire body trembled. The very origin of her life and soul trembled as if they were about to be washed down the River of Fate by its mighty power.
Just then, a slender hand radiating starlight landed on her head, covering her entire person with starlight power.
With the protection of the starlight power, the young apprentice’s finger finally broke free of the River of Fate’s flow. The two pretty layers of ribbons rubbed against each other but did not intertwine. It no longer felt as if she would be washed away and ground to dust by that merciless Fate power.
“Lucia, do not act brazenly simply because of Fate’s favor to you.” Alice caressed her long hair and shook her head slowly. “Fate is a high power! It is cold and merciless. If you want to swim freely in the River of Fate, you must first understand it, comprehend it, and obey it. Fate is also the fairest power in the world. It will always allow you an equitable exchange. If you know everything about what you want, then what exactly do you intend to use to exchange Fate for it?”
“My life, my soul, my knowledge…I am willing to offer my everything for it!” Lucia lifted her head stubbornly, staring straight into Alice’s pretty eyes as she insisted.
“Girl, everything you just mentioned is insignificant to Fate! If you want to trade with Fate, you will first have to make yourself possess value. So, since it is not yet time for you to make contact with Fate and trade with it, it’s best to continue your studies first! When the time is right, you can stand where I stand, proudly and bravely negotiating and trading with Fate! ”
“Alice, can the power of Fate of the World of Adepts change the fate of the arcanists?”
“That is impossible! Morrian Plane, where the Arcane Empire existed, is a primary plane, only one step away from equalling the World of Adepts. The power of Fate here is insufficient to change the fate of a plane of the same level.” Alice lowered her head and looked at the disappointed Lucia. She continued, “But you don’t have to be disappointed. Your existence is the continuation of the Arcane Empire. You carry with yourself a branch of the Morrian Plane’s Fate that has yet to fade. As long as you don’t give up, the Arcane Empire will have a chance of rising again.”
“Then what does the power of Fate of the World of Adepts hope to gain from me?” An ordinary girl might have been moved to tears at this point, grateful for the chance she had been given. However, even though Lucia’s soul was weak and powerless right now, the perpetual gleam of wisdom glowed in her heart.
“I don’t know either!” Alice smiled and concealed nothing. “Perhaps it is waiting for the remnants of the Arcane Empire to strengthen this branch flow of Fate before assimilating it into a branch of the World of Adept’s own Fate, turning the arcanist into a part of the World of Adept’s power system.
“There are simply too many possibilities. Even I cannot give you a proper answer. In all honesty, every word you say and every decision you make now are all subtly affecting the direction in which this branch of Fate flows.
“Fate is whimsical and unpredictable! However, Fate is also a ‘future’ piled up by one ‘present’ after another ‘present.’ To some extent, it is possible to divine its flow and manipulate it. As for how to do that? You will have to continue studying and practicing. Otherwise, you will remain as you are now, powerless as you watch the torrent of Fate.”
Lucia opened her eyes wide and stared at the pretty, goddess-like Alice before her. After a long while, a bitter smile appeared on her face.
“Thank you, Alice. I can feel the sincerity from the depths of your soul. Thank you for not lying to me or coaxing me. However, I must remind you; there seems to be a calamity waiting for you today. You must be careful! ”
Calamity?
Alice’s heart trembled. She conjured a magical mirror of water with a wave of her hand and looked at her appearance.
The gentle aura that her beautiful face radiated was enough to brighten the mood of anyone who saw her. The hair tied up above her head was brilliantly shiny, adding a hint of matureness to her youthful beauty.
Judging from her aura, her appearance, and her color, it did not seem as if any ill fate would befall her today!
However, as a Witch of Fate, she could not ignore even the smallest of omens or portents. In particular, the Fate prayer ritual today was a crucial moment that concerned whether Alice could successfully replenish her life origin. With a slight mistake, anything could happen. Losing a Fourth Grade treasure was the least of it. More importantly, her lifespan from now on could be affected as well.
What could go wrong here? Was someone scheming against her?
Alice closed her eyes and started to silently sense and work out the cause, process, and result of everything surrounding today’s event. Strangely enough, the power of Fate sent no signals of warning to her. The result of her divination was also neutral. She could not find any problems.
Believe in Lucia’s feelings and give up on the ritual? Or continue the ritual?
For a moment, Alice could not decide!
“Alice, it’s time!” Little Fairy Helen beat her wings and flew out of the array. She circled Alice. “If you don’t hurry up, we will miss the best time to activate the starlight array. What are you waiting for?”
Alice took a deep breath and grabbed Helen. She leaned in by her ear and whispered, “I will go into the array alone later. Stay outside. If…and I mean if…anything happens to me, look for Greem immediately. He might be the only one that can save me then!”
Helen’s eyes opened wide. She could not understand what she was hearing.
However, as Alice’s contracted spirit, she agreed to do as ordered.
Chapter 1195 - Primal Water and the Spirit World
Fire Throne.
Greem, who was dealing with the Orb of the Fire God in the isolated dimension, felt his heart twinge. He turned and left immediately.
When he hurried to the teleportation room on the fifth level of the tower, a white light flashed as spatial flux filled the room. A familiar, tiny silhouette slowly appeared.
“Helen, why is it you? Where’s Alice?” A bad feeling appeared in Greem’s heart when he saw Helen’s face.
“Bad guy, go see Alice, quick. She…it doesn’t seem like she’s going to last much longer!” Helen hastily circled around Greem like an aggravated bee, grabbing his hair and yanking him towards the teleportation array.
Greem’s face turned pale. He dove into the teleportation array w
ithout any hesitation.
A short moment later, Greem arrived at the astrology hall under Helen’s lead.
The radiant starlight power here had yet to fade entirely. A large group of Fate Witches and apprentices was standing silently around the room, while Sofia and Snowlotus helped Alice slowly walk out of the array.
Alice’s face was deadly white. Even her pretty hair had turned completely white, and wrinkles could be seen at the corner of her eyes, her face, and on her hands. It had only been a few days, yet it seemed as if she had already reached the end of her lifespan. The lifeforce in her body was so weak it could barely be sensed.
“What happened? What…what happened to you?” Greem pulled Alice to his side and sternly asked the two witches that were helping her.
Before Sofia and Snowlotus could explain, the dying Alice grabbed Greem’s arm weakly and shook his arm as she said, “No…not their fault. I was not careful…fell into Maysa’s trap.”
“Maysa!” Greem’s eyes opened wide when he heard that name. Flames burst forth an inch from his red eyes.
However, he quickly suppressed his anger and asked in a solemn tone, “How did she do it?”
Even though Alice had always been fighting against Great Witch Maysa, she was always protected by the World of Adepts’ planar laws while she was here. Even as much as Maysa hated Alice, there was nothing she could do to her.
Protected by the planar laws, further shielded from Fate by the Tower of Fate, and favored by the Fate powers themselves. From all aspects, Alice should never have fallen victim to Maysa’s scheme.
“She did something to the Moonwell!” Alice leaned helplessly on Greem, so tired that she could barely open her eyes. “Go…look for Emelia. It is a death trap. Only she……”
At this point, Alice’s body went limp as she fell unconscious.
The Tower of Fate was sealed from the public once more.
It was the only option that Sofia and Snowlotus could think of.
The Tower of Fate was sealed from the public once more to cut off all news of Alice’s accident from spreading.
Fortunately, the Tower of Fate was located in the remote Dragonblight. Communications with the outside world were infrequent, to begin with. Shutting off the Tower from the rest of the world for a few months was no problem.
However, people would start noticing after a while.
After all, ever since Alice advanced to Fourth Grade, the Tower of Fate had become the center of attention of the witches. Being sealed off from the world for an extended period was likely to draw the attention of people with ill intentions.
Alice had been poisoned with a sort of time poison.
Her life origin was already very lacking. The purpose of the Fate prayer ritual was to recover this missing portion of her lifeforce. However, an unusual time poison had actually been hidden in the Fourth Grade Moonspring, the most important component of the ritual. Consequently, the poison managed to reach Alice’s life origin rapidly.
This poison could rapidly devour life force and was exceedingly hard to remove.
Thus, the last bit of Alice’s lifeforce was being corroded, leaving her instantly at death’s door!
Life was like a candle; it would not stop burning the moment it was lit.
The candle that represented Alice’s life was already eighty percent shorter because of the Fate blessing she placed on Greem. Only a small segment of that candle was left. Alice had hoped to recover her lifeforce with her advance to Fourth Grade and the aid of the Moonspring. However, she had fallen victim to Great Witch Maysa’s time poison.
What remained of her candle was instantly shortened to a tiny film of wax. It had lost all the thickness that a candle of life should have. Naturally, this meant that the candle could no longer sustain the burning of the flame of life.
Fortunately, Alice had an omen that this would happen prior to the ritual. She protected herself with all of her equipment and managed to survive the first explosion of the time poison. However, even with the protection of the unique Fate Witch equipment, Alice still didn’t have much time left.
Emelia was soon summoned to the Tower of Fate. Here, she saw Alice, who had been sealed in a starlight array.
While she was worried sick and unsure of what to do, Greem finally spoke up.
“Before being sealed, Alice said that you were the only one that could save her!”
“I,” Emelia was stunned. Surprise was written all over her pretty face. “I don’t even know what kind of poison this is. How am I supposed to save Lady Alice?”
At this time, Lucia, who had been following behind Snowlotus, suddenly spoke up.
“Lady Emelia, Alice mentioned that only you could save her. She might not have necessarily meant that you would be able to cure her of the poison directly, but something else. For instance, you might have heard of this poison, or you might have seen something or someone that could save her, or perhaps you have some means of helping her regain lifeforce.”
Emelia’s expression shifted several times when she heard Lucia speak. In particular, when Lucia mentioned a method of regaining lifeforce, Emelia’s expression changed most drastically. It looked like she was deep in thought about something.
“Did you think of something?” Greem didn’t dare disrupt her thoughts. He waited until she was completely calm before he asked impatiently.
“I can’t do anything about the time poison that Lady Alice has been poisoned with. I have never even heard of such poison. However……”
“However, what?”
“However, I have heard rumors of the Moonspring.”
“Rumors? What kind of rumors?”
Emelia’s expression turned into one of pain for a moment. After struggling for a while, she finally turned towards Greem and spoke honestly, “My lord, you already know of my true identity, don’t you?”
Greem paused for a brief moment.
“You mean the soul of the Spore Princess that has assimilated with you?”
Emelia smiled bitterly. She knew this little secret she had been keeping for a hundred years could not be concealed form this high-grade adept. The reason she hadn’t been captured and used as an experimental subject was purely because of Gargamel and Eva’s protection.
“Since you know that my soul has assimilated the consciousness of a spore princess, you would know that the magical sporepeople are not native creatures of the World of Adepts. They come from an ancient plane known as the Spirit World.”
“The Spirit World.” Greem was acquainted with this name because the Spirit World was just as described by Emelia. It was an extremely ancient and well-known plane.
All sorts of unusual spirits of all shapes and forms existed in that plane!
Spirits were unusual, immaterial consciousness bodies. They had no physical forms but possessed unimaginable and strange abilities. Many powerful spellcasters would communicate with spirits from the Spirit World and form contracts with a suitable one.
After completing these magical contracts, spellcasters would be able to easily summon spirits from the Spirit World to their current position to aid them in some tasks.
Many companion creatures summoned by adepts were, in fact, these spirits merged with some native creatures. This way, the contracted spirit would have a material body and would be able to exist for an extended period in a material world.
After going through all the information he had in his mind about the Spirit World, Greem still had not found a way to save Alice. He couldn’t help but ask solemnly, “What is there in the Spirit World?”
“It isn’t a question of what there is in the Spirit World, but what there is with us magical sporepeople.” For some reason, when Emelia mentioned the magical sporepeople, her pretty face was completely distorted. It was filled with hatred, anger, and vicious fury. She gritted her teeth as if her entire being was seething was hatred.
“Tell us, what do the magical sporepeople have? If your suggestion can truly save Alice, I will be w
illing to fulfill any request you have along the way!” As a high-grade adept, no mental flux from Emelia could escape his senses.
Not to mention how obvious Emelia’s emotions were.
“Primal Water!” Emelia explained firmly. “The magical sporepeople have Primal Water in their hands!”
Primal Water?
Greem quickly searched the Chip’s database but found nothing at all.
This situation was very rare!
Either the contents were too taboo and had been sealed away by high-grade adepts, or even the high-grade adepts had never heard of such a thing and had not recorded it.
Greem glanced at Sofia and Snowlotus. Both witches looked confused as well. Instead, it was the apprentice, Lucia, who seemed to be thinking about something.
“Explain a little!” Greem looked at Emelia and said.
“Primal Water is an unusual state of water elementium when gathered at the very birth of a plane. As the plane is born, the Primal Water continues to split, filling the plane with an endless supply of clean water.”
“There’s something as miraculous as that?” Greem couldn’t help but exhale, impressed by the wonders of the multiverse. “Then what are the specific uses of this Primal Water?”
“Purification!” Emelia replied. “I don’t know if it will be able to save Alice, but it will most certainly be able to purify the poison that has polluted the Moonspring. With the proper Moonspring back, we should have no problem with saving Alice.”
Greem looked back at Sofia and Snowlotus.
Both of them nodded.
Obviously, they agreed with Emelia’s opinion!
Chapter 1196 - Travelling to the Spirit World
The Spirit World.
The forest during the night was quiet.
Tall, towering trees were everywhere.
Beneath the trees were wild, verdant growths of bushes and vegetation, as well as massive, colorful mushrooms whose caps were the size of umbrellas.
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