Chapter 3688: The Truth of the Fifth Act

"Mr. Snake agreed to my wish."

The Baron's gaze crossed the three people by the fire, looking from the top of the mountain toward the stars and the moon. This night was about to pass:

"However, he didn't give me any spell or magical object, just saying that the wish would definitely be realized. I knew that no wish was free, so I asked Mr. Snake what kind of price I needed to pay for this."

"Did he let you find a chance to devour Valentin Halonin?"

Doctor Schneider asked. The Baron shook his head; "No, he told me at the time that the price was to let me know the truth. Mr. Snake told me the truth about my legs being disabled, letting me know that all this was because of the wish she made.

At that time, I was very happy because I knew that she really loved me deeply too. After leaving that dream, I rejoiced at being granted eternal love, and the price paid was so insignificant.

But the things that happened later you all know. She left me and has been missing ever since. I don't know the reason, I could only pray every day that she could return, but she never appeared again after leaving.

Thus, I dreamed of the temple for the second time and saw Mr. Snake. Mr. Snake told me that my first wish was still in effect, and she left me because she loved me. So I made a second wish. I not only wanted her to love me, I also wanted her to be by my side forever."

Xia De glanced at the woman's soul who was silent, just looking at the scenery of the mountains outside the peak:

"What about the realization method and the price this time?"

"Mr. Snake said that she would return in ten years. At that time, she would get into big trouble. And I needed to let her come to see me voluntarily, and then strangle her with my own hands. In this way, I could let her soul accompany me forever. She provoked so many enemies, accompanying me after death, this situation was already good enough."

"This..."

The three men listening to the story by the fire could not understand:

"Before this, what you pursued was still eternal love, why did it suddenly become strangling her?"

The Baron said calmly; "Ten years of waiting, ten years of not being able to get what I wanted, the love in my heart had almost driven me crazy."

His right hand covered his heart. Of course, there was no heartbeat in the soul state:

"I therefore hate her, hate why she wanted to leave me, why she made a wish but still wanted to leave. I still love her, but I also indeed hate her. So I thought, to let her not leave me a second time, letting her become a soul is also a very good choice.

After all, we both love each other deeply, life and death will not block our feelings."

He completely did not realize how wrong what he said was:

"The things that followed you all know. When Mr. Watson appeared in front of me, I had a strange premonition that you could help me realize my wish. So I entrusted you to dig out the token of love necklace, and told you our story, and entrusted you to find Halonin, but she was always unwilling to come to see me.

So I entered the dream for the third time, begging Mr. Snake to give me a chance. Mr. Snake sent me to her side tonight, and after that, it was the things of tonight."

Although he said a lot, his story was not complicated. The man who was loved also longed to get love, and thus stepped into the abyss step by step under the manipulation of the same snake.

And for Valentin Halonin, her story Xia De had already fully understood before tonight. The girl who was afraid of losing love made a wish to the snake, and then was also manipulated by the snake and finally stepped into the abyss.

The beginning of the story was the gentleman and the girl who fell in love at first sight in the orphanage, and the end of the story was the two souls under this starry sky. Mr. Snake promoted the story to have such an ending, so Xia De was dragged into it.

So, the story of the fifth act was really promoted by that snake single-handedly.

If there was no such snake, the love story of the man and the woman might have had a good ending. Even if love finally shattered, it would just be an extra white moonlight in the man's heart, an extra face that could not be forgotten in the woman's memory, instead of now causing so many people to die, and they also appeared here in the form of souls.

But it is too late to say these things now. Everything that happened cannot disappear. Love is not the original sin, and longing for love is not an unforgivable crime. Just... Xia De by the fire at this moment does not want to evaluate this story.

The woman's soul was also lifted from the restriction of not being able to speak by Priest Augustus, but she just looked at the Baron in the wheelchair, and ultimately did not say any words to him.

She no longer had the madness when fighting Iluna tonight, but had recovered to the appearance when she met Xia De many times:

"When we met for the last time, I said that if I lost, I hoped to lose to you in the end. Although it was not done by your hands, those young girls, it seems that every one of them has a relationship with you."

In the spirit state, she was still the beautiful appearance in middle age. She did not try to make any defense for any of her behaviors, she just asked Xia De:

"If I hadn't met Mr. Snake, do you think my story with him could have moved toward perfection?"

Xia De by the fire did not speak. The priest said:

"Probably, although you were worried about losing at that time, your love was at least natural and real."

Doctor Schneider, however, gave a different view:

"You were worried about losing, which shows that you had no confidence in your own love. I have dealt with many similar patients... similar friends over the years. Usually, even if they finally moved toward marriage, the marriage would also break in the seventh year.

Someone has done statistics, the seventh year of marriage is the time node where love completely shatters most often."

The woman looked at Xia De again. Xia De grabbed a handful of snow from his side. While exhaling cold air, he twisted his fingers, and an ice flower that was crystal clear appeared in his hand:

"Is it beautiful?"

"Of course it is very beautiful."

"Can it exist for a long time?"

"It will always melt."

Xia De let that ice rose float into her hand:

"If you firmly believe in your love, believe in yourself and him, maybe this rose can be maintained for a very long time. The current situation reminds me of another story that really happened. In that story, there is also a person sitting in a wheelchair, but that was an old lady."

He told the people present the story of Mr. Otto the ghoul and Mrs. Otto, the couple who eloped when they were young, separated for a long time because of an accident. One was frozen in the snowy mountain, but relied on obsession to return many years later, and one waited silently at home until the end of life, also believing that the other party would definitely return.

"Just this... counting the time, it was actually yesterday, that Mrs. Otto also passed away. They held hands and said goodbye to me, and I also obtained the antidote to the love curse because of this. A drop of tears of true love, using it to dissolve the immortal flower of love, watering it with this, to break the curse of love.

Your story and their story both happened on this island, and there were also long separations in the story. At the end of the story, it was also two souls standing in front of me, but these two stories are completely different."

The wind rolled the snowflakes and whistled past the mountains, and the starry sky flickered above the snowy mountain. Valentin Halonin looked at the rose in her hand and did not speak for a long time.

Until the Baron in the wheelchair spoke:

"When the snake said it could give me eternal love, it didn't give me a spell. I think your spell should be two-way. Now that the spell has been lifted by Mr. Watson, having experienced so much, I really want to know, without the spell, do you still love me now?"

"Then what about you? Without the love spell I cast, do you still love me now?"

The woman asked, but still focused on the ice rose in her hand.

The Baron moved his gaze away from her face:

"That is not important anymore."

"Yes, that is not important anymore."

The woman plucked a petal from the ice rose, pasted it on her forehead, and then returned it to Xia De:

"Regarding Mr. Snake, I have branded everything in this petal. I think this is what you need."

After Xia De accepted that petal, she said to Xia De again:

"Mr. Snake told me that you are seeking my flesh and soul for a powerful existence. Now my flesh has been damaged and turned into a ring, and the ring has already disintegrated. Then take my soul. If this can help you confront Mr. Snake, this can also be considered my atonement for the sins I committed before."

Priest Augustus looked at Xia De, wanting to say something but did not speak, but the doctor spoke out the words the priest wanted to say:

"Even if that soul is our enemy, I still do not approve of using souls for trading."

The Baron in the wheelchair also wanted to speak, but thinking of the crimes she committed that he knew of, he ultimately said nothing, just looking at the starry sky outside the cliff.

Thus, two choices appeared in front of Xia De. The mask given by "Desire" was on his body. Putting it on the woman's soul would complete this commission, and the reward would be the shield inlaid with the 【Breeding】 curved arc; and if he chose to give up the commission, Valentin Halonin's soul would continue to walk on.

When she was an enemy, Xia De did not think he would hesitate. The hesitation now was considering the views of Priest Augustus and the doctor, or rather, as long as it is a normal person, one would not feel that trading a person's soul to an evil existence is correct.

Bennett of Vesta Land signed a contract with Desire himself, so even if he escaped to other times, he was finally obtained by Desire; and Valentin Halonin...

Xia De closed his eyes, but opened them again after only two seconds:

"You indeed committed a crime. Even if this was all committed under the guidance of Mr. Snake, the harm you caused to those innocent dead and this world still has to be attributed to yourself."

"Yes, I understand."

But Xia De said again:

"But this is not a reason to trade your soul to an evil existence. I have no power to take someone else's soul for trading. What kind of end your sinful soul will have is something you have to face after you continue to walk on yourself."

"Maybe you don't have the qualification to climb the Wall of the Faithless, but there will be other things welcoming you."

Behind that water area is the end, and in this magical world, what exactly is at the end is something the living Outlander will never be able to figure out.

He said, took out the mask given by Desire, and after sighing, broke it into two halves.

The priest and the doctor both nodded slightly. Valentin Halonin looked at the mask and laughed at herself:

"That sentence I once said to you was not a lie—even though I possessed such powerful supernatural charm, that charm was far from as strong as the charm you naturally radiate."

She held the rose in her left hand and looked down at her right hand:

"I have witnessed Mr. Snake's main body, seen that pure and powerful fate of doomsday, so a part of my soul was also twisted into fate. I absorbed so much mental power, my own soul was tempered to be incomparably powerful, so I had the level of nine rings as soon as I became a Ringed Shushi.

I think I know what kind of price I should pay. Since you are unwilling to use my soul to exchange for power from an evil existence, then this power will be given by me."

Her right hand pierced into her own spirit body. Amidst the cracking sound of the soul and the uncontrollable screeching of the soul, the color of her spirit body quickly became dim, and then that trembling arm dug a black ring out of her soul forcibly amidst the huge pain of soul self-destruction. ===== CHAPTER 3689 =====

The Ring of 【Resurrection】 was forcibly bestowed by the snake, which is why it was just knocked away by the human-shaped Aili; the 【Fool】 resonated with her own self and should have departed with her, but at this moment, she discarded most of the power of her own soul and half of her essence, separating that ring from herself amidst the immense agony of her soul's self-destruction.