NovelsAlex Chapter 488: The Variable Gazing at the Starry Sky
Chapter 488: The Variable Gazing at the Starry Sky
“Huh?”
“Huh, huh, huh?”
“Huh!?!”
If this went on, Adele wouldn’t even recognize the word “huh” anymore! But this was indeed the girl’s thoughts at the moment. What was going on!
Why did she, after accepting Shirley’s inheritance, not become stronger than before, but instead, even all the power she had gained through cheats disappeared!
Or rather, it wasn’t disappearing... It was just that before she found a way to replace the original magic circuits and use that magic power, she could only maintain her current state of being unable to use magic.
Was this the legendary... destruction before construction? Although Adele could understand this method of becoming stronger, she also felt a bit troubled. Coupled with Shirley, this riddle master... she didn’t explain the so-called “Tao” clearly at all.
Or perhaps it couldn’t be explained clearly at all? The last message Shirley left for Adele was only... “Find the answer for me.”
“Understand what it means to be human.”
What it meant to be human? What a grand proposition... Adele couldn’t help but bite her thumb, putting on a thinking expression.
At this moment, there were three hours left until dawn. Seraph had been staying in the room, looking at Adele, who was immersed in magic research, with gentle eyes. It wasn’t until she seemed to wake up from a dream that the girl took a step, came to the balcony, and gently hugged the girl’s body from behind.
She didn’t speak, and Adele didn’t speak either, just conveying a simple but important message through actions. I’m here by your side, Adele.
Feeling Seraph’s embrace and warmth, Adele’s originally chaotic mood gradually calmed down. Yes, she had only temporarily lost the power that didn’t originally belong to her. But she still had the love of all the precious girls, including Seraph.
They hadn’t, and would never leave her, just as she would never abandon them. Since that was the case, what was there to worry about?
This was probably the life philosophy of “everything can be lost except for them” that Adele and Shirley both believed in. Although they lived in completely different eras, they had an uncanny resemblance in temperament.
Coupled with the fact that Shirley could call out her name for no reason... Adele. It was hard not to suspect that there was some secret connection between them.
And there was another question that Adele forgot to ask Shirley just now! It was about Xiao Ai’s existence! Seraph called her the “creation of a false god.”
Obviously, for angels, the true god was the Lord of Heaven, so the false god... was naturally the Primordial Witch Shirley, the enemy of the Lord of Heaven.
Could Xiao Ai be Shirley’s thirteenth drop of divine blood? Obviously, whether or not, she had an inseparable secret connection with Shirley.
“There are really more and more difficult things to understand...” Adele closed her eyes, muttering as if resting.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand.”
“No one will force Adele to understand all that.” Seraph comforted her gently.
“That’s what you say...”
“But I’m just not reconciled...” Yes, no one would force Adele. From beginning to end, it was she who forced herself, wanting to do more... especially those things that perhaps only she could do.
“Seraph, can you feel my magic power?”
“Why suddenly...!” She wanted to say “Why suddenly ask this,” but before she could finish, Seraph noticed something wrong, and her deep blue eyes widened slightly.
“Adele...?”
The girl slowly raised her hand and looked at her palm. “I can’t explain this clearly either. In short, my magic circuits seem to have merged into my body.”
“It can be said that I have lost all my magic circuits.”
“It is also possible... that my whole body is a carrier of magic power, has become the source of magic power, not just circuits.”
“I think this might be a good thing, a miracle that countless mages cannot replicate no matter how long it takes.”
“But the side effects it brings... are also obvious.”
“First of all, I can’t adapt to my body without magic circuits yet. All the experience I learned in using magic in the past has become void, useless.”
“I have to explore and comprehend how to feel and use magic power myself.”
“It’s like...” Adele quietly clenched her fist.
“It’s like the first human being born in this world at the beginning of the world, clumsily feeling the surrounding elements and magic power with her body, and then trying to use them.”
Was this the “Tao” that Shirley mentioned? Returning to the most primordial state of human beings, re-feeling everything in this world, understanding what it meant to be human.
Everything was unknown to Adele. Shirley couldn’t tell her anything either because that might be a field even she hadn’t explored. The Primordial Witch once wanted to do this, to break and then build, but perhaps in order to protect the people close to her, in order to fight against the Sword of Damocles hanging in the sky, which might fall at any time, from the Lord of Heaven, she didn’t dare to gamble, so she could only give up and maintain her already demigod-level strength.
Because only in this way, together with other people, could she maintain the protective shield of Sodom, the utopian country, and resist the attack from the Lord of Heaven. But this was not a long-term solution, so Shirley could only turn to an expedient measure, using the power of everyone «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» to rebuild the Tower of Babel and ascend to godhood.
What a helpless move... Just like what the current Black Emperor Ying Zhou and the humans were doing. This whole world, which was gradually guided by them to move smoothly towards the revival of spiritual energy, was actually just a helpless move to fight against the returning, more powerful Lord of Heaven.
And Adele was a variable beyond this path. The girl realized how heavy the responsibility she bore on her shoulders was. Her eyes, which were used to acting cute and spoiled, gradually became firm. Even Seraph had never seen such an Adele before.
She didn’t know what to say for a while. On the contrary, it was Adele who smiled.
“Thank you for your comfort... Seraph.”
“For the rest of the time, let me be alone, and slowly think and comprehend.”
“...Okay.” Seraph’s hands passed through the girl’s slender waist, all the way to the position below Adele’s chest, hugging her tightly. Then, she left a light kiss on Adele’s cheek and let go of her hands, leaving without a trace.
The stars and moon, like countless eyes from distant time and space, looked at the girl from afar. Adele also looked at them from afar.