booktalesy Chapter 1506 - 72: The Base’s Location
Chapter 1506 - 72: The Base’s Location
Passing through the Love and Desire Gate, the pink hue that lingered in the ambiguous atmosphere slowly receded, as if the heat spreading from the lower abdomen gradually withdrew. It felt like a touch of untimely coolness in the Demon Dynasty...That was the feeling of a breeze brushing against the body.
"Ah, we’re almost at the [Performance Gate], finally about to pass through Fisher’s paradise."
Watching the steep rock wall ahead slowly transform from pink to a deep blue, Emhardt, standing on Fisher’s shoulder, couldn’t help but take a breath of the cool breeze coming from the distant cave, even his originally somber bookish expression softened a bit.
Moli covered her mouth and laughed softly, but soon asked in confusion,
"So, Sir Book Knight, the previous two gates, whether it was [Competitive] or [Love and Desire], are easy to understand in terms of desires, but what does [Performance] mean? It doesn’t sound like a kind of desire at all."
Emhardt pondered for a moment, seemingly considering how to explain the topic, then the Death Lord next to him just opened his mouth to join in the conversation, but unexpectedly Fisher suddenly said,
"The so-called desire for ’performance’ actually refers to a person’s desire to gain recognition from the outside world. In the Creation Scripture, people fell from the sky to the ground and were afflicted with ten wicked diseases, ’performance’ being one of them... The Mother Goddess said, ’As punishment, you will lose yourself, you will run tirelessly in the eyes of others until you are drenched in sweat and your body becomes weaker and smaller.’ This is the desire being referred to."
The Death Lord looked at Fisher with some surprise, clapped his hands while praising incredulously, and said,
"Truly adept in holy scripture knowledge... but Mr. Fisher, these are the original words recorded only in the source version of the Creation Scripture at the Kado Holy Cathedral. Even I only glimpsed these words belonging to us believers through the Power of Destiny of that Old Immortal upon joining the Creation Society, yet you..."
Holan scanned Fisher up and down, confirming more and more that this Nali man before him was definitely not a Mother Goddess believer.
In Holan’s view, Mother Goddess believers always had a strange feeling about them, a sense unbound by external things, even someone like him who seeks death every day and walks like a living corpse had this feeling, yet Fisher did not.
But the strange thing is, he seemed to be extremely familiar with the Creation Scripture, able to easily cite its vast source book vernacular at any time, a skill that most believers did not possess.
Fisher raised an eyebrow, puzzled,
"The source book?"
"Yes, it’s the ancient treasure stored on the deepest Divine’s Throne guarded by the Red Bishop in the Kado Holy Cathedral. Legend has it that it was the initial teaching granted to humans by the Mother Goddess. But because of its obscure nature and the mysterious power it contains, it’s not something ordinary people can learn. Only Kado Archbishop and above followers in the Holy Church are qualified to be taught its contents by the Red Bishop or even the Pope..."
The Death Lord spread his hands, and with this motion, he instinctively reached for the wine flask on his body, only to find nothing there, he was momentarily stunned, not knowing whether he had accidentally lost it earlier when surrounded by those pink skulls...
This made him more uncomfortable than not being able to die.
"...But this was just taught to me since childhood by the nun who raised me."
"Wait, are you serious? The nun who taught you wasn’t some Holy Maiden of Kado Holy Cathedral visiting incognito, and then found you with unique talent and decided to tell you the most profound and mysterious Mother Goddess source book in the world?"
"She was just an ordinary Nali Sister."
"And she never got encircled by the Judgement Knight sent by the Kado Red Bishop while you were asleep?"
"...She never made enemies, she only had friends, and she was quiet and unknown, not knowing many people."
"That’s strange, so how did she know such precious knowledge..."
"Are you sure what I just said is the source version of the Creation Scripture?"
"I’m absolutely sure, because I begged that Old Immortal for a long time to see this. It was not easily obtained, hence deeply memorable."
"...I see."
Listening to the expression of the Death Lord that seemed like his worldview was being challenged made Fisher realize the fact that what he had talked about as the so-called ’source book’ was indeed extremely precious, but how did an ordinary nun from the countryside like Teresa get such a thing when she came to Saint Nali?
To Fisher, Teresa was indeed very important, she had once been Fisher’s only relative in this world, so when he discovered that she might not have died a ’natural death,’ his mood would uncontrollably become restless.
Now, suddenly hearing another additional piece of information from the Death Lord, it seemed as if it had shrouded that ordinary devout believer in a veil of mystery.
This was just another episode, but Fisher’s mood remained as unsettled as it just was.
As mentioned before, it wasn’t just suspicions about Sister Theresa’s cause of death, it was also because of Helair’s deception.
Sometimes, deception is like cockroaches; when you uncover one, you have to consider whether she might have lied once over again about things said and done in the past without being uncovered until now.