Chapter 143

As the first to proactively sign up, the first to throw herself into the new era's new atmosphere, dedicated to advancing the trend of Fairy Kingdom reform, that unusual name ultimately still reached Vivian's ears.

Vivian took it somewhat to heart as well, and after observing carefully, directly sought out Xia Zhi who was in seclusion cultivating a secret manual.

Although all told it had only been two days of seclusion...

However, because the person involved had actually already completed the current stage's cultivation plan, it wasn't a disturbance.

"——Oberon?"

"——The Fairy King appearing in Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

"——Could it simply be a pure coincidence? Like that Aurora, isn't she also sharing a name with a Roman goddess?"

While examining his cultivation results, Xia Zhi spoke casually, and couldn't help turning back to retort: "Although, if that Roman goddess knew about this, she'd probably feel quite unlucky."

"Different. Aurora's name is a coincidence, but some names aren't necessarily coincidences. After all, this world and Pan-Human History aren't completely distinct; they're actually born from the foundation of Pan-Human History, so there exists a certain specific corresponding relationship..."

Vivian examined this space thoughtfully.

Like a massive plaza suspended in the void, the surroundings were boundless gloomy darkness, dim and profound...

Directly above the plaza hung a pure white sphere of light, quietly suspended there, serving as this space's sole light source...

The light wasn't very bright, but neither was it dim; it was that just-right softness, making one feel extremely comfortable...

——In short, a very strange setting and style.

But it was indeed filled with mystery and solemnity; ancient aura blended with a trace of modernity, inspiring reverence while also giving an inexplicably awesome shock.

Moreover, the entire space had only one entrance/exit: a single door set at the plaza's edge, standing alone there, the path point for entering and leaving this special space — enter from there, exit from there.

"Specific corresponding relationship?"

"Oh, you mean Tetelot, and Melusine and those situations." After brief thought and a slight eyebrow raise, Xia Zhi thought a moment, then immediately realized: "Perhaps also the future Bagust?"

He also recalled.

Like Tetelot, she also appears in Pan-Human History, although she should seemingly be called Habettlot, a spinning-wheel fairy from Scottish legend. Legend says she can spin cotton and flax fibers into thread, weave cloth, and cut dresses.

Basically depicted as a hunchbacked old granny, small stature, equivalent to a human child. Also a fairy who assists brides in cultivation, who cuts wedding dresses for busy brides before marriage — the Dream Wedding Fairy.

And naturally there's Melusine —

She also appears in Pan-Human History, a fairy from French legend, also called Melusine, a half-human half-fairy beauty with a serpent's lower body and dragon wings.

Cursed with "only the lower body turns into a serpent on Saturday nights"; it's said once a lover sees her lower body turn into a serpent, the curse grows even stronger... although in this Britain Lostbelt, Melusine is merely a "Dragon" fairy,

As for Bagust, she's actually the future Fairy Knight Gawain, the Fang Clan's strongest, the Beast Calamity's main body.

But in Pan-Human History, Bagust is a fairy name appearing in northern England, possessing burning horns and eyes, a kind of black dog.

These are undoubtedly very typical examples —

All cases where, because the world changed, they changed similarly, completely alike yet utterly different.

Actually, even the girl before him is the same.

Subconsciously glancing at Vivian before him, Xia Zhi blinked, said nothing. The first time was ignorance, the second time was intentional probing, but now that the truth was confirmed...

There was no need to step on a landmine again.

Although, he actually didn't think — the name "Morgan" meant anything.

After all, whether Meng or Morgan, in his view they were both just one of Vivian's other names, no need for differential treatment.

"Indeed that's exactly it. Even many Fairy Lords in this world are like this — because their duties were fixed in the original history, yet they lost their purpose due to world changes, and thus met with misfortune..."

Vivian didn't know what he was thinking, merely answered calmly:

"Like Tetelot, she should have been a fairy who assists brides in cultivation, but in this world human culture couldn't develop; only fairies mimicking human society in a craze, the concept of marriage basically never developed..."

Fairies and humans have an essential difference.

Humans' life path is: first be born, live out life's colors, experience growth's tempering, only then explore life's meaning, seek existence's purpose.

Fairies are the direct reverse: they first have an existence purpose, are born into this world for that purpose, as if from the start bearing a mission.

But when the established historical process is forcibly interrupted, the society and culture that should have developed don't appear on schedule, yet fairies are still born sequentially in the established order... then "distortion" naturally arises.

This portion of fairies are truly tragic.

It's not because of their own reasons that they lost purpose and faded on their own...

But because the world underwent massive change, they lost purpose from the very start, unable to do anything before reaching a dead end.

Tetelot's case is still alright — just an ordinary fairy, usually can't find a target and can't cause too much harm, at most more ferocious, but because her nature is still very kind, even if excessive it doesn't go too far.

But for those Great Fairies who inherit the Aralin Bloodline and hold domains —

It's a completely different matter.

Many Fairy Lords appear this way; even long after they die, their obsessions don't truly dissipate, causing the rule domains they dominated in life to remain branded on the land of their death, forming dangerous forbidden zones.

Many forbidden zones in the Fairy Kingdom came about this way...

Quite fitting the conventional tropes of those magical worldviews — there are always some mysterious and dangerous locations.

As if specially prepared for the Providence protagonist, just waiting for them to stumble in actively or passively, triggering key plot points...

"So you suspect that Oberon is a similar case?"

Xia Zhi thought a moment, then asked.

"Correct. After all, you also know... such a situation shouldn't exist." The girl's pupils faintly flashed with dangerous light, "I'm not like you, reincarnated too many times, able to remember every person's name within the cycles."

"But at least those special examples, I should have impressions of them..."

This is the reason she suspects him as a key focus, maintains attention.

Otherwise, merely a fairy who hasn't even reached the Fanliu Ling level, fundamentally couldn't stir a ripple of her attention.

"Then just ask directly, shouldn't you get the answer?" Xia Zhi looked at Vivian strangely, "Or is it..."

"I asked, seemed fine, but I always feel that Oberon is hiding something." Vivian shook her head, "Maybe he has some special ability, or maybe I'm about to lose these eyes..."

Her expression was somewhat complex, she lowered her head slightly, rubbed her brow.

"The Selected Staff is almost completely broken..."

"My eyes are the same—they're deteriorating faster than I imagined. I might soon be unable to tell lies from truth……"

That day would come eventually.

It was just arriving a bit sooner than expected.

Because in her "memories" of the future, both the Selected Staff and the "Fairy Eye" were lost during a long journey.

Because she had experienced many failures, many discouragements, many despairs, she ultimately chose the path of ruling the fairies through terror.

But this time, probably because from the very beginning she had already abandoned her original mission to save the fairies, and had made up her mind to defeat and rule them—so the intuitive result presented was that this day arrived even faster.

The staff that healed allies had become a long spear to defeat enemies……

Her innate eyesight had also been lost……

"……"

"……"

After a moment of silence, Xia Zhi nodded slightly without speaking, but his voice still rang out——

"I understand. Then I'll go confirm it once I'm done waiting…… Actually, the answer doesn't matter; suspicion alone is enough."

The training result standing at the center of the square, or rather, a figure exactly like a mirror image, opened his eyes. He moved his hands and feet, then said seriously to Vivian: "We actually don't need evidence."

"There's no need to eliminate them directly. We can check the situation first……" The girl shook her head. "Specifically how, we'll discuss it at length."

"Understood."

The Mirror Clone waved his hand, walked a few steps to that lonely door at the edge of the square, pulled the door open, and strode out.

Light blossomed, overflowing.

The figure stepped onto the light, disappearing into the silhouette behind the door.

"How is it? How do you feel?" Withdrawing her gaze, Vivian looked at Xia Zhi's main body. After all, it was using the technology she provided, so if there were any problems, after-sales service could be provided at the first opportunity.

"emmmmmm…… Running well. Synchronization Rate 400%, Latency Very Low."

Xia Zhi sensed it seriously, gave a thumbs-up with a face of agreement, and laughed heartily.

"Strength A, Agility A, Endurance EX, Magic EX, Luck…… probably around E~C++?"

"If we use the Servant Panel we're both more familiar with as a reference, it should be something like that? At least the ability parameters are indeed on the same level as the main body."

"Single Action A+, Magic Resistance EX…… these basic passives should also be inheritable. Next, we just need to see if there are any omissions in the core abilities."

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On the other side.

After opening the door and walking out, the youth appeared on a long corridor.

The corridor seemed to extend infinitely. Every certain distance, there was a door, and behind each door seemed to be an independent space. Many doors had a Plaque on them, either blank or with writing.

"Baopuzi"……

"Qi Cultivation Theory"……

"Magic Dragon Vortigern"……

"Holy Grail Summoning System"……

"Spirit Particle Transfer Technology"……

"Phantasmal Tree Cultivation Preliminary Concept"……

Strange words, yet they concisely marked the space behind the doors as places used for what kind of technique or data. Even above the door the youth had just walked out of, there was a Plaque marking it——

"Coffin Technique (Unfinished)".

Such a scene was very obvious, showing on the surface what place this was.

It was precisely the result of Xia Zhi recently using his personal space to renovate and reorganize, namely the concept of that "Inner Magic Workshop". The long corridor here also belonged to the overall structure of the Workshop, under the part of the "Archive Room".

All kinds of knowledge and techniques he had mastered in the past, mastered now, and would master in the future would probably be sorted and categorized here.

The youth scanned the area, then left this Archive Room very calmly.

He came to Outside, a brand-new town that changed every day, fully demonstrating the word "ever-changing day by day", the prototype of the so-called Royal Capital Londinium, and then quickly searched around.

Soon, he found the specific location of the target.

That Oberon—a Fairy with the name of Fairy King, looked on the surface like a male Fairy with Silver Eyes and Silver Hair, his appearance was quite good, and his smile gave people a feeling of sunlight.

At this time, Oberon had also received orders and was loudly preaching to the fairies on that Temporary Square about the rule and policies to be implemented next, explaining the intentions and necessary aspects of these rules.

And his efforts were not without reward——

At least he was greeted with waves of Noise, Commotion, Booing, and all kinds of Sarcasm, Yin-Yang Weirdness Heckling.

The fairies were simply unwilling to accept any of this, naturally unwilling to think about it, just extremely rejecting and disgusted by all of this.

"Indeed, it won't work. They simply can't listen at all……" Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was also working hard to maintain Order Maintenance at Beside, was very disappointed seeing this scene. When the fairies dispersed one after another, she sighed and spoke to herself.

However, she soon discovered that Oberon didn't seem discouraged at all, still smiling as he packed his things.

"Oberon, you…… aren't you disappointed?" She couldn't help but ask.

"Disappointed? That won't happen." Oberon glanced at her and said seriously, "We just need to do our own work well. No need to think too much about the rest. If the fairies were easy to persuade, things wouldn't have come to this."

"Then why did you take the initiative to do such a thing? Do you think they have a chance to change?" Fujimaru Ritsuka hesitated for a moment, then asked this.

These past few days, she had also pulled herself together and was putting in effort through action.

But the results were really not ideal. The fairies were like stones in a latrine—stinking and hard.

This made her unable to help but suspect and waver.

"Because this is a very rare opportunity, I must do this. As long as I do it, there is still hope. But if I do nothing, there is definitely no hope……" Oberon thought for a moment, then still said with a smile, "I also know the Fairy Kingdom is sick, but I still want to cure it."

"Tsk tsk, quite ambitious…… Too bad, studying medicine can't save the fairies, and you might even be repaid with ingratitude."

At this time, a joking voice came from beside——

"It would be better to just kill them all, settle it once and for all. At least you could have some peace and quiet, right?"

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Xia Zhi walked over, carefully sizing up the strange Fairy before him, then inexplicably laughed: "After all, apart from the Forensic Doctor, I've never seen any stable Doctor-Patient Relationship..."

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(PS: Neck almost couldn't move... Indeed need to go for Acupuncture or Massage... ())

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