Chapter 189: 193. Chapter 193: Where did it come from, where should it go?

193. Chapter 193: Where did it come from, where should it go?

This wave can be called a real-life version of a snake swallowing an elephant.

What's relatively special is that the 'seed' snake has a larger capacity but weaker digestive ability.

Although it doesn't reach the point of indigestion symptoms,

but to completely devour and digest the soul of a level-4 extraordinary life Fairy King takes a very long time.

Lin Ke as well as Fulan Duo both lack the ability to speed up this process.

This means that, as the 'spirit' of the 'seed', Fulan Duo will be homeless for a period of time.

In the cultivation secret realm, after some unknown means by an unnamed expert, Fulan Duo's life form became extremely special.

Inside the 'seed' and in the real world, it is truly a living being, a living person.

It can also turn from substance to void and survive within Lin Ke's sea of consciousness.

Lin Ke's current situation is not suitable for summoning Fulan Duo out and keeping her by his side.

So, Fulan Duo must lodge in Lin Ke's sea of consciousness for a considerable period.

With Lin Ke's permission, Fulan Duo can move existing 'structures' in his sea of consciousness without touching the contents.

She can also create new 'structures' that have form but no practical use, as her dwelling.

"Master, may I build a small house?"

However, Fulan Duo did not rashly construct it; instead, she first sought Lin Ke's opinion.

"Sure, just build it beside the Library."

Lin Ke had no reason to refuse.

Fulan Duo has already been wind-eating; she can't possibly be sleeping outdoors again.

In that case, Lin Ke would truly become a heartless capitalist.

"Thank you, Master, you're really kind."

Fulan Duo's face broke into a big sweet smile as she cheered and jumped up happily.

Immediately, she multitasked: monitoring the movements of the Fairy King's soul inside the 'seed', happily working, tidying and constructing 'structures', while humming a little tune contentedly.

Lin Ke couldn't help but feel pleased seeing this.

Only when one is truly free of worries can one be free of concerns, making it easier to feel happiness.

He only hopes that Fulan Duo is truly free of worries and concerns.

Rather than suppressing her emotions and appearing carefree on the surface.

Even now, Lin Ke cannot forget Fulan Duo's reluctance and entreaty toward the God Slayers that day.

He cannot forget how Fulan Duo briefly regained paternal love, only to lose it in an instant, and then burst into tears.

The pain of losing a close relative, after the initial stage, becomes like water.

It is continuous and dense; subtle it is silent, great it surges.

Lin Ke hopes Fulan Duo will not, in some inadvertent moment, suddenly feel a sour nose and have tears streaming down her face.

That feeling is very unpleasant.

Having cleared his miscellaneous thoughts, seeing that both his sea of consciousness and the 'seed' are fine, Lin Ke no longer pays excessive attention.

He pulls his consciousness back to the real world.

After a period of patient waiting, the test results of the Fairy King's blood have now come out.

Lin Ke picks up the results, reads them carefully, and compares them thoroughly.

The detailed examination report, compared to the earlier hastily obtained results, naturally differs.

It gives Lin Ke an inference about the Fairy King's physical body undergoing a morphological change, providing more and harder evidence.

However, this result holds little special significance for the Special Forces Team's current situation.

On the contrary, it offers some hints for Lin Ke's research topics.

Before joining the Special Forces Team, Lin Ke already held two unfinished topics in his hands:

First, to investigate the essence of the fairies' innate talent abilities;

Second, to perfect the biochemical modification and enhancement plan for strengthening the fairies' innate talent abilities.

Up to now, these two topics still have much research work unfinished, and he has temporarily been unable to produce results.

One must know that Lin Ke's original intention in joining the Special Forces Team and penetrating deep behind enemy lines,

was precisely to find more materials for these two topics, conduct more experiments, and obtain more data.

Rather than to destroy the 'Biochemical Factory' and capture the Fairy King.

One must not put the cart before the horse.

Now that the Fairy King's soul has willingly walked into the net, Lin Ke can safely attend to his own affairs.

Thus, after Asangde and Outesi finished their exchange, they saw Lin Ke becoming increasingly obsessed with various biochemical experiments.

"If you don't go mad, you won't survive."

Asangde shook his head and sighed, "Your mad enthusiasm actually matches well with Ai Rui Si."

Lin Ke, hearing this, raised his head in surprise, but then didn't know what to say.

After all, the other party is Ai Rui Si's future brother-in-law, and has taken good care of him along the way.

Ai Rui Si. Ke La Ke, who seems to be half a true fellow villager, has also done him no harm and even voluntarily wanted to feed him soft rice.

There's absolutely no need to say unpleasant things.

If the words aren't spoken, Lin Ke is the master.

Once spoken, Lin Ke becomes a slave to the words.

At that time, it might add complications, making everyone unhappy.

He swallowed the words that had risen to his lips, gave an embarrassed smile to Asande, and Lin Ke continued busying himself with various experiments.

Asande deliberately stepped back a bit, not wanting to disturb Lin Ke's research.

Until the support squad arrived, they came to meet up.

According to the frontline command's orders, the two squads merged and unified under Otis's command.

Another third-rank wizard stationed at the intelligence department, Valerian, assisted.

The mission was simple and clear: to capture the fleeing Fairy King.

This shows that the frontline command judged that the Fairy King at this time absolutely lacked the ability to deal with two third-rank wizards.

After the two teams met, they didn't waste time on pleasantries; directly under Otis's leadership, they began the operation to capture the Fairy King.

The initial progress went smoothly; they soon found the Fairy King's mutilated body.

Unfortunately, the Fairy King's soul was nowhere to be found. (Lin Ke muttered: I know.)

They preserved the Fairy King's damaged corpse, which had some research value, and the two squads continued their mission to capture the Fairy King's soul.

At first, Lin Ke thought the "seed" might need a long time to devour the Fairy King's soul, so he didn't pay attention.

He thought, let the search take as long as it needs.

He estimated it would take at most a day or two, which he could afford.

Who would have thought that even after the third campaign ended, the two squads still hadn't received permission from the frontline command to halt the search mission.

Yes, the third campaign has ended!

After the three major fortresses and the royal court fell one after another, while the Fairy King still hadn't shown his face.

The resistance of the Fairy King's clan instantly dropped to its lowest point.

Apart from sporadic small-scale resistance, the entire Fairy World can be said to be under the control of the Paragon Sage Legion.

Even the eldest, second, and third princes were captured alive one after another.

Aside from a few nobles and generals with extremely steadfast resistance who died on the battlefield, the entire Fairy King clan and royal family became prisoners.

The dukes of the major clans, kneeling one after another in haste, received orders to establish a five-clan joint government to rule the Fairy World.

Yes, the rainforest fairies are no longer royalty, but they remain one of the five major fairy clans, possessing equal political status with the mountain, plains, river, and deep-sea clans.

This made the dukes of the four clans quite dissatisfied, breeding resentment.

But the situation is stronger than people.

The overall situation of the Fairy World now lies in the hands of the Paragon Sage Legion.

The Paragon Sage Legion has spoken; the four clan dukes must listen openly to their opinions, and likewise must hear any dissatisfaction.

There is no room for bargaining.

If it doesn't work, replace the fairy.

Anyway, there are plenty of fairies eyeing their positions.

As the four clan dukes experienced higher authority, they also felt an invisible rope tightening around their necks.

The representative of the rainforest fairies certainly could not be chosen from the three princes, the royal direct line, or even the main royal branch.

The one who finally stood out was a lowly-born but highly respected civilian elder.

Such a choice helps to further appease the rainforest fairy clan.

After all, they ruled the Fairy World for nearly a thousand years; even if the Paragon Sage Legion annihilated much of the rainforest fairies' military strength, the rainforest fairies still have deep reserves, and with a little mobilization, training, and arming, they could raise a force to oppose the other four clans.

Putting a vigorous, prestigious fairy in charge as the rainforest fairy representative would just be asking for trouble.

Nipping this bud at the root saves trouble. The first thing after the five-clan joint government was formed was a public trial.

The public trial targeted the Fairy King (absent), the three princes, other royal family members, and some nobles of the royal clan.

The charges in the public trial were a laundry list, ranging from bullying and market domination, abducting wives and daughters, corruption, wanton killing, to extravagance, large-scale construction, waging war, wasting the people's strength, and so on—too many to enumerate.

The sole purpose was to destroy the positive image of the Fairy King clan, royal family, and the Fairy King, casting them as villains, thereby eliminating the war's repercussions and preventing possible rebellion.

Those who participated in the accusations and hearings were mainly poor representatives of the lower classes from each group.

Nobles could merely observe, not forced, purely according to personal willingness.

The public trial assembly lasted three days from the start.

Later, the scene even became somewhat out of control.

Because the Fairy King clan and royal family had indeed done too many terrible things.

There were far too many lower-class commoners who had suffered oppression from the royal family and clan.

Drop by drop, it became a sea; so many victims gathered together, recounting the oppression and persecution they suffered, sparking great anger among many fairies.

They wished they could devour and flay those hateful scum and parasites on the spot.

Later, thanks to the five-clan joint government's strenuous efforts to maintain order, it was not completely lost.

The final result was that the three princes on trial, other royal family members, and some nobles of the royal clan were simply beaten to death.

Their corpses were left intact.

The observing fairy nobles, later on, each turned pale with fright.

Especially the congenitally disabled third prince, who before his death shouted, "Today it's me, tomorrow it'll be you; I'm waiting for you."

This made many fairy nobles tremble with fear in their livers.

Everyone knows that among the three princes, the wisest and most far-sighted is the third prince.

His shouting before death surely had purpose, but also surely indicated he had seen some trend.

Perhaps the social structure of the Fairy World will still undergo even more earth-shaking changes.

All the clan nobles hope their status, power, and interests won't suffer too great an impact.

Thus, each eagerly participated in building the five-clan joint government.

From the central to the local levels, all departments and institutions found the formation work unusually smooth.

The Paro Sage Legion's conquest of the Fairy World this time smoothly entered the transitional stage mainly of second-stage thought war, assisted by third-stage appeasement rule.

These are all the True Spirit Wizard Asande, who can be called a human-shaped radio; to relieve boredom, he reads the Legion Gazette aloud every day, and the content read out is as follows.

Lin Ke listened a bit, just enough to understand, and actually didn't care much about these.

What he cares about now is when this doomed, fruitless manhunt will end.

Even if the two squads wandered in the Fairy King Forest for a long time, it would be meaningless.

Unfortunately, without permission from the Frontline Command, the two squads could only wander around in the Fairy King Forest.

Repeating the same thing day after day, with no technical content and unable to show any difference, it was extremely boring.

Lin Ke had two projects on hand that were about to yield final results, and they also needed time for research.

Thus he grew increasingly bored and irritable.

If it weren't that the 'seed' easily attracts covetousness, Lin Ke would want to lay his cards on the table.

Tell everyone, he could soon kill the Fairy King's soul!

Then he wouldn't have to keep wandering aimlessly in the Fairy King Forest all day!

But he didn't dare; he could only whisper to himself in his heart.

No choice, Lin Ke could only activate the Brain Seal Technique, blocking the related emotions and toughing it out.

Thus, another 7 'days' of time were wasted.

That day, the Frontline Command received news that Paro Sage had confirmed via special means that the Fairy King was completely dead.

The will of the Wizard World had fully infiltrated the will of the Fairy World.

The two squads were permitted to end their manhunt mission and return to the forward base to rest and recuperate.

Yes, the main force of the Paro Sage Legion remained stationed at the forward base.

Only a small portion of departments needing to liaise with the Five Fairy Clans' joint-governance government would be stationed in the royal court or elsewhere.

The first thing upon returning to the base was, of course, to report for duty.

Boss Otis, as captain of the Special Forces Squad, got the opportunity to give a one-on-one report to Paro Sage.

The duration was thirty minutes.

Boss Vallian, also a third-rank wizard and captain of the Support Squad, could likewise give a one-on-one report to Paro Sage.

But he refused, having Boss Otis submit the duty report on his behalf.

This person was very taciturn; after the two squads met, aside from giving orders, he spoke no more than twenty sentences.

After the Special Forces Squad finished reporting, Lin Ke's secondment ended, restoring his 'free agent' status.

He bade farewell to Asande, to Luo Ken who always looked displeased at Lin Ke, to all members of the Special Forces Squad and Support Squad, and Lin Ke turned and entered the tent where Paro Sage was.

Lin Ke also had the qualification for a one-on-one report!

This made everyone both surprised and feel that it was part of the cleanup.

Throughout the legion, it had long been known that Paro Sage valued Linke Grand highly, almost treating him like his own son.

It was just a one-on-one report; nothing surprising about it.

"Anything? Just say it."

In the tent, Paro Sage leaned back in a rocking chair, eyes closed in a light doze, fatigue lingering in his brow.

Even a fourth-rank sage could not escape the weariness of official duties.

"My research will soon bear fruit, but I still lack some experimental materials—both corpses and living specimens are missing."

Lin Ke didn't beat around the bush, stating his purpose directly.

With the war over, conducting biochemical research couldn't be too blatant.

One must obtain permission from the Frontline Command to acquire experimental materials, then proceed covertly.

"Just apply normally; don't make it too special."

Paro Sage didn't object, merely adding a word of caution.

"Mm, I will."

Lin Ke nodded, hesitated a moment, but still didn't bring up the matter of the 'seed' and the Fairy King's soul.

Just as Paro Sage had once advised:

"Some things can be done but not spoken; some things can be spoken but not done."

"The matter of the 'seed' and the Fairy King's soul is something that can only be done, not spoken."

"Go back to the Rear Pharmacy Department, Old Man Murphy is waiting for you."

Paro Sage waved his hand, issued the expulsion order, and also gave Lin Ke arrangements for his next steps.

"Thank you, Paro Sage."

Lin Ke was very happy to accept this arrangement.

The work at the Rear Pharmacy Department was leisurely, the lab facilities were complete, and the direct supervisor was easy to talk to—where else could one find such a good job?

After bidding farewell to Paro Sage, Lin Ke immediately informed Old Man Murphy of his impending return, then headed toward the not‑far teleportation gate.

After queuing for a short while, Lin Ke entered the teleportation gate.

Moments later, having changed worlds, he went from the forward base in the Fairy World to the rear camp in the Desolate World.

Upon exiting the teleportation gate, Lin Ke immediately saw Old Man Murphy waiting eagerly.

Upon seeing Lin Ke's figure, Old Man Murphy opened his arms to greet him.

After giving him a strong bear hug, Old Man Murphy loudly shouted:

"I've missed you to death!"

This chapter is more transitional in nature.

Wrap up the storyline, also leaving a couple of small hooks for subsequent chapters.

As for conquering the fairy world, there has actually always been groundwork; the fairy world's upper limit is level 5, and the difficulty of conquering it is not high.

This is just a practice arranged by the academy for Paro the Sage, to help the character transform.

Incidentally, it also highlights the academy's characteristic, or rather its bad taste, liking to dig pits.

This plot likewise does not describe any battle or war scenes.

The focus is more on research in potions and biochemistry.

Then it introduced some settings, such as the five mainstream wizard factions, such as the destination of the four sacrificed saints, such as the wizard world's great weapon for conquering the heavens: World Will.

Moreover, it focused on writing some characteristics of the True Spirit Wizard and the Body Refining Wizard.

There's a lot I want to express, a lot I want to write.

I tried to cut back, but still feel there are too many shortcomings and entanglements.

Still not written well.

Keep striving!

Finally, the protagonist hasn't yet had his fill of this omen.