Chapter 483: The Spirit of Magic
When Seraph and Lucifer arrived at the girl’s residence, Adele’s meditation had reached a critical moment. Logically, she shouldn’t be disturbed at this time, so meditators would usually set up a magic barrier or shield.
But Adele didn’t do this. The girl unconditionally trusted the people who knew she was here. More importantly, she believed Seraph would protect her in places she couldn’t see. This was the tacit understanding they had developed after spending so much time together.
Seraph looked up at the building, her heart softening at the thought of the girl inside. Lucifer glanced at her, her expression a bit complicated. Perhaps because… it was very similar.
Seraph’s current state was very similar to her past self, and them, when facing that person… The past seemed to be gone with the wind, but the longing for that person became even deeper. It was just that Lucifer, and the other fallen angels, had hidden this longing in the depths of their souls, never mentioning it for years, but it didn’t mean it didn’t exist.
“Please come with me,” Seraph greeted, and with a short-distance spatial movement, she appeared on the balcony of Adele’s bedroom. In the moonlit sky behind her, there were faint ripples like water droplets. These spatial ripples would soon be repaired and disappear by the world. Unless it was a spatial black hole formed by breaking through the barrier between worlds, the world’s repair ability was far beyond your imagination.
It was worth mentioning that in this country represented by the Eastern Capital, there had been the legend of Nuwa mending the sky since ancient times. In the secular world without magic, people regarded it as a myth. But in the extraordinary world where ability users and mages existed, later generations came to a conclusion:
That so-called Nuwa mending the sky… was very likely an extraordinary being from ancient times who mended the black hole caused by some supreme being using spatial travel, and this was seen by the ancestors, which gradually formed the legend of Nuwa mending the sky.
Of course, this was currently only at the stage of conjecture, after all, no one had really lived in that ancient era.
Lucifer came to Seraph’s side and followed her gaze to look at the girl meditating in the room. Was it her… the woman Seraph fell in love with and fell for?
If you talked about beauty, she was indeed beautiful. Petite figure, cute face. And that unguarded posture was also pitiful. How did Seraph usually… bully her? Lucifer suddenly became curious.
Although she was an angel, since she had fallen a long time ago, it meant that she was very familiar with that kind of thing between humans. It was indeed the case. They indulged freely in the ideal country of Sodom they created… But it wasn’t promiscuity!
Lucifer, and the other fallen angels, were only loyal to Shirley, who had almost infinite physical and magical power. Speaking of Shirley, her figure had to be said to be very similar to the girl in front of her, so it was especially surprising why such boundless desire and longing were hidden in her petite body, and she had the infinite physical strength to turn that desire into reality.
As for facial features, beautiful people were always similar. Therefore, it could be said that Adele and Shirley looked very much alike. The only differences were hair color and pupils.
Shirley had stunningly beautiful silver hair that seemed to be woven from moonlight. Any silver, white, or snow color paled in comparison to her hair. Adele, on the other hand, had jet-black hair, soft and well-behaved, long and straight.
Shirley’s pupils were shaped like a magnificent golden cross. This cross had already shattered when she fought against the Lord of Heaven. It was better to say that Shirley herself was also shattered. She ascended to godhood at a great cost, tearing off all the shackles imposed on her by the Lord of Heaven, on her body and deep in her soul.
She had had enough of those rules and regulations! As for the final result… even Lucifer, as the strongest among angels, wasn’t qualified to witness it. But later, the Lord of Heaven was still radiant, while Shirley’s whereabouts were unknown.
The fallen angels were saved by Hell Queen Jormungandr and fled to hell. As for why Lucifer suddenly remembered Shirley’s pupils and compared them with Adele’s, it was because the girl, sensing the presence of the two angels, had already returned to reality from her meditation and opened her soft, cherry-colored eyes.
Adele’s pupils constricted. She wasn’t surprised by Seraph’s appearance, but who could tell her… who that silver-haired beauty in battle-damaged attire was!
Seraph slid the transparent glass door on the balcony to the right and stepped in first. “Adele, let me introduce you.”
“This… is the former leader of the fallen angels. Her name is Lucifer.”
“Although I couldn’t find Chacoco, maybe she can answer your questions.”
Lucifer still looked aloof. She nodded. “I am Lucifer.”
“…”
This was really an unexpected “surprise.” Adele’s mouth twitched, and she immediately greeted politely, “H-Hello, I’m Adele.”
“Were you, modifying your magic circuits just now?”
“Eh, you could tell!?” Adele was a little surprised, and the level of power of the fallen angel Lucifer in her eyes instantly rose by more than one level.
Seraph was not good at fighting… This was something Adele understood later. Because everything Adele faced in the early stage was too trivial, there was no need for high-level combat power to intervene. So Seraph’s performance alone was enough to protect and support Adele to do anything she wanted to do at that time.
Later, as Adele became stronger, Seraph’s “strength” returned to its proper place. Then, Lucifer, as the leader of the fallen angels, must be a combat-type angel.
Since that was the case, her strength was conceivable. Maybe… at Headmistress Winona’s level, or even higher, approaching Elf True Ancestor Lislotte!?
Seraph’s trip really brought back an incredible person… “Then may I ask, Miss Lucifer, do you have any guidance on this?”
Adele stood up from her seat, walked into the bright moonlight, and faced Seraph and Lucifer. She saw the concern and hesitation in Lucifer’s eyes.
“Guidance…” Lucifer murmured. Of course, she understood the meaning of this word. The learning ability of fallen angels was very strong. She had completely understood… at least most of the things about this era and this world.
“I don’t know who created the current magic system.”
“It was just that the first time I came into contact with a systematic magic, it was displayed in front of us excitedly by her.”
“She really wanted to change the rules of this world and made almost every attempt to do so.”
“Modifying innate magic circuits was one of her boldest attempts.”
“Fortunately, she finally succeeded.”
This “she”… should be the legendary Primordial Witch Shirley, right? The “filial” daughter of the Lord of Heaven.
“How did she do it?” Adele asked curiously. She was currently in a bottleneck, realizing that magic circuits were the Tao.
But the Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. It was still far from the Tao she really wanted to interpret. Or perhaps the realm she wanted to pursue was destined to be something that could only be understood and not expressed in words.
Lucifer gently shook her head. “I don’t know.”
“Eh…” What a letdown.
But Lucifer then added, “Because she can’t say it.”
“She was the kind of generous person who was willing to share anything and everything with the people close to her.”
“Only this, was something she couldn’t do even if she wanted to share it.”
Adele was speechless. Wasn’t this the “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao” that she had just realized! It meant that “the Tao that can be explained clearly in the world cannot be called the eternal Tao.”
It sounded a bit mysterious, but the path to becoming the strongest should be like this. Adele was a little happy on the one hand, realizing that she seemed to really have the appearance of a “Chosen Girl,” and was actually able to comprehend to this extent.
Although there was the help of the philosopher Lao Tzu in this process, it was undeniable that Adele’s comprehension was still much higher than most people, approaching that of the amazing Primordial Witch Shirley in the mythical era.
On the other hand, she also felt a little pity because having comprehension and truly comprehending were two different things. Zero and one. Only by overcoming the difference between them could the qualitative change from nothing to something be realized. Otherwise, it was all empty talk.
Ah, this wasn’t saying that Adele was zero! She was definitely one, a true one! If you don’t believe it, ask Seraph!
“It’s a pity…” Adele muttered, but she quickly recovered her mood.
“Forget it, it’s not too late to comprehend later. Let’s talk about Sodom!”
“I think, Miss Lucifer, you should have already learned about my confusion from Seraph, right?”
Lucifer nodded and walked in from the balcony of the girl’s bedroom. The closer she got to Adele, the clearer her battle-damaged attire became.
Hiss… That fair and snowy skin, that ample shape, and… Ahem! Adele blushed and then forced herself to look away. Don’t look at what shouldn’t be seen!
And it was in front of Seraph. She didn’t want to be seen by Seraph as someone who only had lewd thoughts! She was now restraining herself, all her love was given to the girls she liked, and there was no room for other women to intervene.
Moreover, what was Lucifer’s current state? Single? No, right? Married? That wasn’t right either. Then wasn’t she… a widow?? It seemed to be true.
Because of the fall of Primordial Witch Shirley, the ones who still existed in this world in her harem weren’t they “widows”? Adele couldn’t do such a thing as coveting a widow!
Lucifer didn’t care about Adele’s gaze, she only cared about the city in Adele’s dream. “If possible, could you please draw the scene in your dream? I might be able to discern something from it.”
Adele nodded with some guilt. “I’ll try.” The girl didn’t have any confidence in her drawing skills.
She rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and found the watercolor pens and various paints that First Snow and Xiao Ai usually used for drawing games, then began to draw on the white paper.
A huge city, houses of different heights, the palace in the center, and the walls made of unknown stones…
The process was smooth, but the final product was…
“…” Lucifer and Seraph looked at the final painting and fell silent.
“I-I call this modernization! Abstract art, you know!” Adele argued for herself.
“Otherwise, let’s do this, Adele.”
“You use magic to control the watercolor paints, then recall the scene in your dream.”
“Trust your own magic, it might give you a satisfactory answer.”
“This is a method of using magic that we used to call ‘spirit’.”
“We believe that magic is a life, and it may also have its own… spirit.” Lucifer patiently taught the girl.
“…Spirit?” Adele was lost in thought. Although she wanted to say that according to the scientific explanation, it was actually the subconscious mind at work, but the next moment, she bit her lip.
“Then I’ll try!” Saying that, Adele let her magic power attach to the colored paint. This step went very smoothly.
Countless colorful dust particles floated up, not from Adele’s will, but just the magic freely flying and then combining. At the same time, Adele put aside all other distracting thoughts, and focused all her mind and attention on recalling the scene in her dream.
When she came back to her senses, in front of Adele and the two fallen angels, the colorful dust had formed a vivid picture.
Chapter 484: The Exchange
“Whoa! It really works!” Adele was the first to exclaim in surprise. Looking at her masterpiece on the drawing board, her eyes lit up. Seraph and Lucifer, on the other hand, had their surprise suppressed by other emotions, so they only reacted later.
Seraph was the first to react. A faint impression of the city Adele depicted also surfaced in her mind. Then came Lucifer, who had been in a daze for a long time. Seeing the expression of this former archangel, Adele basically realized that her guess might have hit the mark!
The city she saw in her dream was indeed the former utopian country, Sodom. So the question became, why did the memory of it exist in her spiritual realm? Did “Adele” have anything to do with it?
In fact, this wasn’t just Adele’s confusion. At this moment, Lucifer looked at Adele with an expression of excitement, like a hunter who had found its prey.
“I’m very curious, why you…” Her gaze was sharp, as if it wanted to pierce through Adele’s skin and see into the girl’s heart.
Adele felt a little creeped out and couldn’t help but cross her arms and rub her own. “Don’t say you’re curious, I’m also curious!”
“But can you not look at me with such a scary look as if you’re going to dissect me!!”
Fortunately, Lucifer was still someone who could communicate. At least so far, she hadn’t shown any hostility towards Adele. Therefore, facing her overly direct gaze, Adele could only verbally admonish her.
“My apologies.” Lucifer wasn’t stubborn. Her gaze returned to the drawing, looking at the magnificent buildings on it, feeling as if a certain shackle in her heart had become loose, and memories related to the past came flooding back.
Lucifer sat there in a daze for a long, long time. Adele took the opportunity to wink at Seraph. Seraph obediently came to the girl’s side, and Adele put her arm around her, whispering. But it looked a bit like intimate whispers between lovers.
Especially since Adele wasn’t being honest at all, always getting close to Seraph’s ear, licking it from time to time while talking, making Seraph blush, and her body gradually feeling something she couldn’t ignore.
“How come I feel… a little unreliable?”
“Is she here to answer my questions, or am I here to help her recall the past?”
“…Sorry.”
“Silly, why are you apologizing? You’re also doing this for me… so it’s okay. On the contrary, I should reward you well, Seraph. Do you want…” Adele began to whisper like a succubus.
Seraph was a little shy and tugged at Adele’s skirt, telling her not to continue because… Lucifer could definitely hear her! Maybe she was even secretly laughing at her!
Unexpectedly, Seraph, who was usually expressionless, would also have such worries one day. Lucifer was her past sister, friend, and also enemy, and possibly even her superior. Although the Lord of Heaven didn’t explicitly divide ranks, Lucifer, as the strongest among the angels, had always taken care of the weak Seraph.
But Lucifer really wasn’t secretly laughing at Seraph. On the contrary, she only felt envious and nostalgic because love was such an intoxicating, even corrupting thing. It came from the soul, a puzzle that even gods couldn’t solve.
“Miss Adele, could you please draw a few more pictures of Sodom for me?” Lucifer suddenly requested, interrupting the gradually increasing, indescribable intimacy between Adele and Seraph.
Adele quickly coughed. “Cough, cough! Of course.”
She saw Lucifer’s longing for that city, which was completely different from her own curiosity and need to uncover the secrets. The girl was also happy to make up for the regret in Lucifer’s heart, especially since Seraph had told her that part of Lucifer’s memory had been sealed by a powerful law.
Lucifer’s expression turned serious, her eyes full of gratitude. “Then I’ll have to trouble you. Please rest assured, I’m not… a freeloader, is that how you say it in this era?”
Wow, was this the learning ability of an angel… she even knew the word freeloader. But why didn’t Seraph feel this way at all? Perhaps because Seraph hadn’t fallen in the past, so she was very slow to accept new things? She instinctively resisted everything in this world, this era, until Adele became the bridge connecting her and this world. Only then did she gradually become willing to familiarize herself with and learn everything about this world.
And Lucifer was different. Because of that girl, she had deeply loved this world from the beginning and was naturally willing to protect it. Perhaps this was why the Human Race was willing to accept these fallen angels and let them act freely.
“I will give you corresponding compensation, also a very important relic to me.”
“!” Adele’s eyes lit up instantly when she heard the word compensation. But then when she heard the following “relic”… She suddenly felt a little reluctant to take it from Lucifer.
Because the existence that could be called a “relic” by Lucifer, if nothing unexpected happened, was most likely something left to her by the Primordial Witch Shirley, right? Seeing the hesitation on Adele’s face and sensing her concern for herself, Lucifer smiled and shook her head.
“It’s okay, I’m just keeping it for her.”
“If she was here, maybe she would hand it to you herself.”
“…” Huh? What? If that Shirley was here, Adele would have already given up, okay! She didn’t want to get involved in the drama between her and the Lord of Heaven. The girl just wanted to spend a leisurely and relaxing daily life with her harem and live a meaningful life.
But if the Lord of Heaven wanted to destroy this daily life, then regardless of whether He was a god or something, Adele would definitely raise the weapon to strike down gods.
At Lucifer’s request, Adele immediately began to diligently draw. Was this method of using magic to generate drawings considered “AI drawing” in the magic world? Although it was equally convenient, it seemed to be two completely different directions from the fundamental concept.
One image after another of the city of Sodom was drawn, but without exception, Adele removed the existence of “Adele” from them. The current situation was that Adele and Seraph had concealed the existence of “Adele.” Lucifer wasn’t one of those who were qualified to know this secret.
Although Adele knew better than anyone that the spiritual imprint of the utopian country Sodom… was very likely directly related to “Adele,” it was basically the domain she explored and mastered. Adele was just a traveler who strayed into it.
Before the right time came, she wasn’t even allowed to enter, just like how the girl was driven out by “Adele” today.
“Finished!”
“I’m exhausted!” Adele said in an exaggerated tone. In front of her were dozens of images of the city of Sodom recorded from various angles. Tears even faintly appeared in the corners of Lucifer’s eyes. N-No way!
But for Lucifer, of course, there was a way! This was too much! Adele had never experienced the mythical era and didn’t understand the hardships before and after the establishment of the utopian country, nor the romance and revolutionary friendship, even love, that transcended gender, race, and any conditions of the people in that era.
What appeared in Lucifer’s eyes was their former “Sodom”! “Thank you, Miss Adele.”
“This is the best gift I’ve received in thousands of years.”
“Seraph, you’ve really fallen in love with an amazing person.”
Lucifer organized the pile of drawings, magically mounted them to ensure they were safe, and put them into her space stone. Then she took out another thing from the space stone.
It was a crystal magic ball. In the center of the magic ball was the mysterious silhouette of a girl. From the sudden gentleness in Lucifer’s eyes, it could be seen that the silhouette in the center of the magic ball should belong to the legendary Primordial Witch Shirley.
“This is…” Adele asked in a puzzled voice.
“A slice.”
“Huh!?” Adele was startled.
“Not the scary kind of thing you imagine,”
“But a slice of magic power,” Lucifer explained.
“A slice of magic power? What is it used for?”
“Inheritance.”
“Shirley hoped to find more like-minded partners, so she cut off her own magic power and injected it into the magic ball.”
“Don’t underestimate this slice of magic power.”
“It contains a huge amount of magic power that countless mages may not be able to accumulate in their lifetime.”
“Ordinary people can hardly do this. Only Shirley… she seems to be the source of magic power, with an inexhaustible and inexhaustible source of magic power.” Lucifer’s eyes were full of admiration, and there was also nostalgia in her eyes as she looked at the silhouette in the crystal ball.
She seemed a little reluctant, but in the end, she still handed the crystal ball to Adele carefully.
“…”
Adele felt the warmth of the crystal magic ball when she held it, and she felt a sense of responsibility in addition to nervousness. After the exchange, Lucifer seemed to be ready to leave. She stood up from her kneeling position and looked at the bright moon outside the balcony behind her.
“W-Wait, there’s one more thing!” Adele suddenly seemed to remember something and called out to stop her.
Lucifer turned around and looked at her with gentle eyes. Adele explained, “Actually… it’s like this.”
Then, she told Lucifer about the “Gu Domain” carried by Tang Linlang. According to the previous analysis, the war the Gu Domain wanted to participate in was precisely the war between Shirley and the Lord of Heaven in the mythical era.
It was just a pity that there was a little deviation, and it was later artificially sealed… It was really unlucky for this insect civilization. Of course, it was also possible that they had calculated something, so they were willing to lie dormant until this life and reappear in the world.
Theoretically, today’s war with the Lord of Heaven was a continuation of the war in the mythical era. The girl wanted to learn about this otherworldly insect civilization from Lucifer.
Lucifer’s eyes also changed from confusion to sudden realization, then to admiration and emotion.
“Unexpectedly, what Shirley once said… is true.”
“Huh, did she tell you about the alien insect civilization!?”
Lucifer nodded. “She did. After she got drunk once, she couldn’t help but show off.”
“Saying that… she had already become a god believed in by an insect race in another world, and taught them how to evolve or something.”
“Everyone thought it was nonsense, and no one took it seriously.”
“Shirley, who was dissatisfied, simply used this as an excuse and…” Lucifer stopped in time because she realized that the next process, in this era, seemed to be something that could not be spread by words or any other medium.
Otherwise, it would be considered illegal. Adele’s mouth twitched. The actions of this Primordial Witch Shirley… why were they so similar to someone’s?
She definitely wouldn’t admit that this “someone” was herself, meow!
“Th-Then what else did she say?”
“I suddenly thought, drunken words are sober thoughts. Since the insect civilization has been confirmed to be real…”
“Then does that mean that the other boasts Shirley made after getting drunk are also real!” Adele asked curiously.
Lucifer’s lips parted slightly. “What you said seems to make sense.”
“Let me think carefully.” Saying that, Lucifer fell into deep thought.
“I’ve got it. She talked about a giant evil god egg the size of a planet in another world. She used words that penetrated the world barrier to guide it to hatch, and as a result, she seemed to be treated as its mother.”
“She had seen a blue planet with no spiritual energy at all, but it was a very beautiful world.”
“And she developed a new position… ahem, nothing!”
After listening to Lucifer’s words, Adele was completely dumbfounded. This one was really not a quiet person… But she was very curious.
“Why… could she communicate with so many worlds?”
