Mage Manual

Chapter 1732: Chapter 1281: In a Bad Mood (2)

But Felix still looked at her with a worried expression. Dedarose knew this reason couldn’t explain her anomaly. It might have worked with someone else, but Felix was her only relative. Dedarose hesitated for a while and still decided to tell Felix the truth: "As a tactile perception, even if the Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow doesn’t respond to me, I can always sense its presence seated in the chaotic dimension. However, just now... I couldn’t perceive its existence."

Felix sensed something: "So?"

"It might be gravely injured, hiding where I can’t perceive it." Dedarose said in a low voice, "This kind of situation isn’t unheard of before. Each God of Four Pillars has its own agenda, and conflicts happen often. The victor shines brightly, while the defeated one retreats and hides. Perhaps the Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow suffered a loss and thus fell into a state of slumber and seclusion."

"If it’s truly recuperating, how long will it be resting?"

"I don’t know, it could be years, decades, even centuries... Their scale of life isn’t something we mortals can fathom."

Felix’s eyes lit up: "Then Miss Lena, won’t you cease being the tactile perception in the future?"

Dedarose wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, slowly shook her head: "No, even if the Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow is asleep, I am still its tactile perception."

"Why? Would the other Gods of Four Pillars continue to command you?"

"No, tactile perceptions only obey their respective column, other columns have no right to interfere with my will."

"Since it is asleep, why do you still—"

"Felix, my dear Felix, you’re mistaken." Dedarose smiled and said, "It has never been the Pillar God needing the tactile perception, but rather the tactile perception needing the Pillar God. It’s like students needing a school, not the school needing students... Even if the school disappears, students will still continue learning."

"I happened to have this aspiration, and the Lord of Wind, Rain, and Snow happened to have a more advanced stage, thus we hit it off. The Gods of Four Pillars are not evil gods; they never seduce lives into decline. It is life that voluntarily declines, and the Gods of Four Pillars simply respond to this Heart’s Desire, just like the Void Realm responds to mages."

Felix looked at Dedarose with eyes as unfamiliar as if meeting her for the first time, she paused for a moment and then asked: "Miss Lena, did you also voluntarily decline?"

Under the starry sky, the first beauty smiled slightly: "Five years ago, when you first joined the Four Pillars God Sect, you asked me why we wanted to shatter the Heavenly Curtain, do you remember how I answered?"

"Because the world shouldn’t be this way."

"Yes, because the world shouldn’t be this way, but I seem not to have told you how the world should be right?"

"Probably a world without the Heavenly Curtain, real, free, and beautiful?" Felix guessed.

Dedarose shook her head and raised her hand to point: "The world I wish for should be like this."

Felix followed her hand, seeing a realm torn apart, shattered and destroyed, with earth upheaving, space rupturing, sunlight twisting, and invisible elemental turbulence annihilating all fragile life within the region.

"Some kittens love to nestle in warm blankets," Dedarose whispered, "but there are kittens who like to push cups off the table, listening to the sound of breaking porcelain."

Felix pondered: "So you follow Sonia because...?"

Dedarose chuckled and left her embrace: "I’ll go back and rest first, tell them I want to cook tonight, going back early to prepare, please do this for me."

Dedarose flapped her Void Wings and swiftly disappeared into the sky. Felix hadn’t recovered for a long time, suddenly feeling a strong urge to confide, but upon opening the Light Screen found no object of her speech.

She pulled open her collar to check today’s underwear, boringly took a selfie from the angle inside her clothes upward, feeling it turned out great but soon fell into confused emptiness again.

Rumble. A sound of the earth shaking came from below, Felix looked down to find the damage range on the ground had crossed the silver light warning line, immediately sending a signal to the sky, upon spotting it, Sonia and the others stopped their training and started to restore the terrain.

Since the Demigod Wonder’s damage to the terrain environment spreads like a toxin, far from slowing it continuously expands, Weiser established a caution line, once the ground damage crosses it the terrain must be reshaped, just like reshuffling after a card game.

Restoring the terrain isn’t difficult, Diya improved a Water Magic Wonder, paired with Weiser’s Silverization Wonder, the ground naturally forms a vortex phenomenon, spewing out rubble and restoring level ground, meanwhile smoothing away elemental turbulence. When Felix flew over, she found everyone already sitting down to rest, though the atmosphere seemed a bit off.

"Dedarose went back first."

Sonia wiped the sweat off her neck, drank half a bottle of water and casually said:

"That’s good, after half a month at Blood Moon Restaurant, I’m starting to miss Dedarose’s cooking."

"So tired." Diya sat hugging her legs, weakly asked: "How much longer are we going to cultivate?"

"The first recovery after half a month of rest should at least exhaust the Source Power right?" Weiser said, "My cultivation quota is 10 Source Crystals each time, now I’ve used up less than 2, you guys should have consumed not much either."

Vishi meditated with her eyes closed, sitting silently on the side.

The air fell silent for a moment, even the most lively witch had no desire to speak, the heavy atmosphere quietly spread. For Felix, it was the first time she felt uncomfortable staying near them, even when Demigods were doing nothing, their emotional radiation could still form a spiritual power field, when their mood was bad, no one around could be happy.

They... also have moments of unhappiness?

Some strange thought suddenly came up in Felix’s mind, yes, everyone has moments of mood swings, especially since they’ve been living together for over half a year, yet why does she have so few memories of their bad mood times?

"What’s wrong?" Felix cautiously asked.

Sonia noticed too that their status wasn’t right, took a deep breath to adjust her mindset, smiled and said: "Don’t worry about it, just a minor unease in the cultivation."

The first day’s cultivation was mixed martial training, aiming to quickly reacquaint oneself with the teammates’ combat styles in chaotic battle, restoring one’s combat status. But as soon as they started, everyone felt something was amiss.

"A bit strange," Diya looked at her hands: "Though we’re obviously the same as before, haven’t grown weaker, why is there a vague feeling of..."

"Tediousness." Vishi said.

"Yes, tediousness." Diya nodded, contemplating: "Just like when playing a game, to make it easy for players, it provides numerous interface information, so no matter what happens, players can see it clearly, but now it feels like all those information interfaces are gone, I’m unsure about the casting depth, hence there’s some tediousness in combat... as if missing a Void Wing."

"Probably the fatigue caused by vacation, right." Weiser said, "Witch, you play games?"

"Sure." Diya thought for a moment, "Though not particularly fond of them."

Felix breathed a sigh of relief: "So that’s all it is, I thought you guys were arguing."

"How could we argue!" Diya waved her hand confidently and said: "Any disagreement can be solved in bed! Let’s continue cultivating after resting."

Suddenly remembering something, she said to Vishi "Oh right, could you refrain from using the Soul Scream, it’s really uncomfortable, and not very effective, just purely disgusts people."

"Then don’t use Divine Awe either." Vishi calmly said, "You often use Divine Awe to block my Miracle, I feel uncomfortable too."

"You can use Divine Awe too, I’m not stopping you."

"You can also use Soul Scream to disgust me, I’m not stopping you either."

Diya clicked her tongue, muttered: "Don’t blame me for not knowing the Demigod Body Technique... training also uses the Soul Faction to disgust people..."

"Sorry," Vishi said: "Although I also have times when I have to fight like a beast, when possible I still prefer the more elegant Magic."

"Ah? What do you mean—"

Thud!

Sonia planted the sword scabbard on the ground, glancing at them: "What’s the point in quarreling, let’s continue cultivating."