Chapter 42: The Authority of True Love
Tang Qi was tumbling, his body breaking away from the magic of all things and entering an incredible world of ink bubbles, magical scenes as far as the eye could see, they surged, interpreted, entangled, and constantly burst into new bubbles.
While rolling, Tang Qi's mind was still thinking about the "puzzle" left by the ancient Mรกrquez.
"To have a ray of hope to be their client?"
"To be the master? no, to be the supreme hope?"
"Whew"
Thinking to no avail, Tang Qi quickly smashed into the final bubble.
In the next second, he saw a new world.
Just above the ruins of that grotesque town, a realm of wonders and illusions is rapidly taking shape.
It is so vast that it is impossible to see the edges, and the inhabitants who should have withered and died due to the loss of the "forced narrative domain", those who should have been expelled from it, whether it is ordinary beings or all soul projections, have been given the opportunity to re-narrate.
This means that each of them can rebuild their own "room".
No matter how outrageous the fantasy is, it can become a reality here.
The world in front of you can no longer be described as bizarre, it will become a real "Gensokyo".
Tang Qi saw the upside-down mountains, the land of death, the ropes that led nowhere, the land of thunder, the cities made of pure "food", the fields full of fairies...
In the process of all this becoming a reality, Tang Qi also felt that his majestic divine power was being extracted in large quantities.
"It's not enough to provide fantasy and coercive narrative authority as support, and it's a bit surprising to reshape the town of the Grotesque in advance. โ
Tang Qi sighed and silently calculated the lost divine power.
If this output rate continues, he will soon be sucked dry like Knosaus, and he will enter a state of hunger and weakness.
Fortunately, with the formation of the new grotesque town, it seems to have entered a different mode, self-sufficiency and no longer drawing Tang Qi's divine power.
Each of the residents who have resettled in the town has begun to contribute to its own efforts to keep it running.
The respective permissions are the same, except for ...... Donch.
As the power support provider of the town's existence, although Tang Qi has lost his "dominance", he does have authority over other residents.
At least everything in New Grotesque is unguarded against him.
As long as Tang Qi was willing, his eyes could instantly reflect everything in the town, all the residents, all the forced narratives, including the story of the projection of the gods.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Tang Qi felt something, and surprise and joy appeared on his face.
He initially thought it was a delusion, but soon confirmed that it was real.
"I have a certain authority that is rising. โ
In the midst of a whisper, Tang Qi's mind moved to the sky above an ongoing "forced narrative domain" in New Grotesque Town.
"Forced Narrative Domain [The Curious Affair of Van Meller]...... Ongoing. โ
With this fragment, Tang Qi saw the whole life of a person.
Van Melle, the protagonist of the narrative domain, is not a transcendent being, or rather a low-level transcendent human who does not possess any combat power, and the only peculiarity is that he has the physique to attract horrors and the limited ability to beautify them...... The overall tone of the story is gray, and horrors don't become normal because of limited glorification, and those events are still terrifying.
Van Melle grew up in tragedy, losing loved ones, friends, lovers and even his own lives.
According to common sense, he should have been tired of this story and chose to die, or leave the town of the Strange and return to reality.
Although Don Chi provides fantasy authority that allows him to "modify" the story to a certain extent, it is a pity that this modification cannot change the overall structure of the narrative, which will cause the narrative domain to collapse, so the protagonist only changes time, and he prolongs every time he spends with his relatives, lovers, and friends.
Naturally, the pain is also prolonged.
But incomprehensibly, Van Melle was happy with the change.
He is completely immersed in the story, feeling family, friendship, love and ...... It cannot be eradicated, and the pain is becoming more intense.
Tang Qi glanced at it a few times, and then moved away from another narrative realm.
Inside the eyes, new fragments flowed out.
"Forced narrative domain [Never Separate]...... Ongoing. โ
This time, the story is a male and female protagonist.
They are also human beings, but they are not ordinary, they all have the aura of high-level divinity on their bodies, that kind of divinity Tang Qi is very unfamiliar, but any ten thousand spirits can perceive it, it is the divinity of time.
The two protagonists of the narrative realm are both chosen by the "temporal powers", and both have the powerful ability to travel in the long river of time, and they can freely backtrack, speed up, and pause for a certain period of time.
On the mystical side, this is undoubtedly powerful.
The hero and heroine can use this power to break away from New Grotesque Town and advance through their own cultivation, and they both have the potential to become "time travelers" and other professions.
But if they stay in town, the two have only one choice, to immerse themselves in the story "Never Separate".
In this narrative realm, the two will be thrown at opposite ends of the long river of time, and they will have to break through all kinds of obstacles, just to meet at the middle node and spend the night together, and then they will be forcibly separated, and the cycle repeats.
Tang Qi was staring at the scene at this moment: the quiet city, the hastily arranged church, a pair of lovers in wedding dresses, each with a weather-covered and extremely tired face, hugging each other tightly, the world behind them was being torn apart, and the irresistible force dragged the two apart......
Time and space were torn, the vision changed again, and new stories began to automatically appear in front of Tang Qi.
"Forced Narrative Domain [Monster Heart]...... Ongoing. โ
"Forced Narrative Domain [Invisible Wife]...... Ongoing. โ
"Forced narrative domain [ghost with sheets]...... Ongoing. โ
......
"So, is this true love?"
Tang Qi is like a god on high, he is above the ink-stained new grotesque town, which is both illusory and real, watching the story unfold.
There was a sudden throbbing in the depths of his heart, and he felt that his rising authority was one of Flora's gifts in the beginning, the divinity of true love.
"Bang Bang Bang"
At this abrupt moment, Tang Qi could barely contain the throbbing.
His expression changed drastically, and he didn't look at the other narrative realms in New Grotesque Town, nor did he feel the power that was also rising other than true love.
His form suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was already in the "Dream Country".
In front of Tang Qi, a new "node" is being born at a slow pace.
The first thing that came out was an apartment, but it was unreal, the layout inside seemed extremely blurry, and in the very vague kitchen, a familiar figure was slowly coming out.
Sally!
To be exact, Sally in the past, she maintained the outfit she had when she was in "Winstontown", with a look of apprehension and anticipation, holding a bowl of mushy red soup in her hand, coo~coo, bubbling, and walked towards Tang Qi.
Familiar fragments of information bubbled up on the red soup.
"Something Extraordinary: Merada's Favorite Potion ......"
This scene is familiar to Tang Qi to the extreme.
When he and Sally traveled to the prophesied return of the Immortal Earl to settle the curse, they pretended to be brother and sister and stayed in the apartment, and Sally brought a potion recipe from her unreliable teacher, the Merida Witch.
Tang Qi still remembers the wonderful taste of this decoction, which was sweet at first, and then sour and astringent born from at least dozens of flavors mixed together.
Just when Tang Qi wanted to take the decoction as he had done in the past.
Sally holding the potion seemed to have departed from the past, her face changed suddenly, and then she looked at her outfit and the bowl in her hand suspiciously, a look of surprise appeared, she quickly looked up at Tang Qi not far away, and opened her mouth to say something.
"My dear...... The next round of the game is ......"
Just as Sally was about to spit out something secret, [Pen Fun Island www.biqudao.xyz] was abrupt, and her voice was silenced.
The node in front of him also began to be violently disturbed, and the fog appeared for no reason, and after it flowed past, Sally and the potion were gone, and the already vague apartment became more and more abstract, and this new node was about to be erased at any time.
Tang Qi's face, which had already shown a look of surprise, suddenly became extremely cold, and he suddenly looked down at the back of his hand.
The imprint with endless black antlers and swaying countless threads of fate was getting hot, and the edges were filled with red light, wisps of black smoke were coming out of Tang Qi's skin, and the goddess of fate was sending a warning.
At this time, he didn't know that the change in the scene just now was due to a very special power he gained after the rise of his "true love" authority.
It seems that by chance, he bypassed the anchor of the fate with a more powerful "true love authority" divine power, and summoned Sally's will from the long river of fate to the past.
It was only soon that Donkey's summoning was discovered.
Sally didn't have time to leak the secret, and she was dragged back again.
Tang Qi suppressed the furious anger that welled up in the depths of his heart, and did not immediately use all his authority to resist, because it had no effect.
Following the inspiration from the bottom of his heart, Tang Qi unleashed the newly rising power of true love divinity.
A sense of confrontation on an unfamiliar level arose, but he was at a disadvantage across the board, and that wonderful summoning could no longer succeed.
No matter how much he called, he only felt a void on the mental level, and could no longer sense Sally's breath.
It wasn't until inside the mark that an extremely disgusting taunt came.
"True love, power is everything, you are too weak...... You are not even a god, a wizard who thinks you are powerful, and you will accept my play so that you can hope to see that poor and brave girl again. โ
As the words fell, the owner of the voice seemed to care about something, and did not linger any longer.
She let out a merry laugh that had closed the hole, and then vanished.
The burning pain subsides and the mark returns to normal.
The node that was almost erased in front of him is slowly recovering, although the speed is unusually slow, and there is no more Sally in it, but Tang Qi is still mustering his divine power, trying his best to keep this new node from dying, this is a small victory he has achieved at this stage, although it is very slim, but it is a kind of hope.
And the "ridicule" that sounded in his mind not only failed to cause any waves in his heart, but made him peek into more.
It's getting harder and harder for the of fate to maintain that kind of detachment in control when facing him, this is only the first round of the game of fate, and in Tang Qi's case, there are signs of losing control, and he seems a little annoyed, so he chooses to taunt at length.