765 Endnote 1 (1/2)
Chapter 765: Endnote 1
Following her memories, Raffaele quickly arrived at the secret room she had been at before.
Opening the door to the room with ease, she walked in and closed the door behind her. Raffaele walked straight to the wall at the very bottom of the room.
She rubbed the ring on her finger a few times, and the ruby on it immediately emitted a red laser-like light. The light shone on the wall, and immediately, it reflected a few spots of pure white back.
Raffaele was instantly overjoyed.
”The thing is still here. He hasn't noticed yet!”
She felt around the wall for a bit and found that ring again, tugging at it hard.
Crack…
Amidst the soft noises, she pulled a stone platform shaped like a cuboid out of the wall. There was a metallic cylinder embedded in the middle of the platform.
Raffaele grabbed the cylinder's ring. She pulled at it, but it was surprisingly heavy, and did not budge at all.
She frowned, and began to chant softly.
”Mother, grant me courage, blessings, and strength.”
As soon as she said those words, a red light flashed past her hands, and she just had to pull lightly, instantly lifting up the entire cylinder.
There was a hollow space in the middle of the cylinder, and inside there was a notebook with a black shell. For some reason, this book gave off a strange feeling, as though it was absorbing all the light from its surroundings, just like a black hole.
”This is it!” Raffaele quickly flicked her finger, and instantly held the notebook in her hands. She flipped through it lightly, and found that it was full of all sorts of high level secret techniques! She immediately looked ecstatic.
She quickly took a red paper board from her pocket, it was covered densely with many glyphs and symbols. She pressed this against the notebook.
”Mora!”
She quietly recited the chant to activate it.
Immediately, there was a burst of red light, and both the paper board and the notebook vanished at the same time.
”I did it!” Raffaele felt instantly relieved. Pulling the cylinder back again, she quickly left the secret room, looking left and right down the corridors. Once she was sure that no one had noticed her, she strode confidently down the other corner.
Not long after she turned the corner, Garen's figure abruptly appeared at the entrance to the secret room. He looked at the direction Raffaele had left in, but did not enter the secret room.
”Don't we need to deal with her?”
Tu Lan's figure slowly appeared behind Garen.
”It's too late,” Garen shook his head slightly, turning around to glance at Tu Lan. ”I might need to leave.”
”Leave?” Tu Lan was slightly taken aback. ”Where to?”
”I don't know…” Garen lowered his voice. ”If I leave, would you be willing to protect the Holy Fist Palace for me?”
Tu Lan looked thoughtful. She did not brush it aside, but instead she thought about it very seriously for more than ten minutes, and Garen did not seem impatient either, waiting for her quietly.
”I think it would be hard for me to stay for a hundred years,” Tu Lan spoke after much consideration. ”If it weren't for you, I would have left to train secret techniques on my own a long time ago. That would feel much better than wasting time here.”
”You sure are honest.” Garen shook his head and laughed, only then did he remember that Tu Lan's true personality had always been lazy and unambitious, living each day as it came.
”The only reason I'd stay a hundred years would be for you.” Tu Lan pouted, acting uncharacteristically mischievous. ”I'll watch your house for a hundred years.”
Her eyes shifted. ”Or else… Just take me with you.”
”Hah?” Garen did not expect to hear her say that all of a sudden. ”Why?”
”It's boring without you...With you around, I have a proper target to chase,” Tu Lan replied very honestly.
Garen was speechless, and decided to just ignore her. If he could take someone with him, he would have done it a long time ago, and this time was not like the last. This time the planet was repelling him of its own accord The Holy Phoenix Scriptures truly were impressive, they could help the Buddha Mother reach another level, a terrifying level. If he was perfectly honest, without the powered-up Buddha Mother, he probably could not have defeated Nadia. In the end, when the Buddha Mother had been utterly beaten up and broken, the body Nadia had descended into was already on the brink of collapse, and he only beat her because he faced her head-on in the Fifth Star state.
Although all these details were included in his calculations, the Buddha Mother powering up did indeed surpass his expectations, the Holy Phoenix Scriptures merged with the Buddha Mother, increasing its power again.
”The world will become boring when you leave.”
As Garen left the corridor, Tu Lan shouted from behind him.
”Who knows?”
Garen shrugged.
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On a small island near the North Pole
The icy cold seawater kept washing over the black rocks by the shore of the little island. The whole island was covered with black rocks, and it looked just like an oval black pebble in the middle of the blue sea.
In the blue sky, the sunlight was cold rather than warm, and the scattered clouds were like flights of stairs, floating slowly in the sky. Several fluffy white seagulls also flew past occasionally, some diving head-first into the sea and then quickly flying out again, with decently-sized fishes in their mouths.
Somewhere in the island's forest of black rocks, a beautiful woman with long white hair was crouching down slowly, looking at something placed on a red stone slab on the ground.