Chapter 162: The Price of Wish (Part II)
"It's okay, don't be afraid, it's all in the past. Ulysses stroked Ayu's head with her hand, just as she had comforted Helen, Fari, and Iphia, and now she looked very weak in his arms, not at all as strong as Little Ayu.
The last Xiao Ya I saw was too strong, so strong that she didn't show any fear even in the face of death. That little Asia made Ulysses feel sad like never before, because in her he saw his sister Yuria.
Bear all the sorrow and sadness by himself, smile even in the face of the shadow of death, that kind of crystal-fragile beauty is fleeting, and when he really understands what it means, it is already too late.
Fortunately, Xiao Ya has Xiao Yu by her side, and she has summoned someone who can create miracles. So the tragedy is stopped at the end of the day, the broken strings are reconnected, and the lost souls return to this world.
This is the second time Ulysses has witnessed such miraculous powers.
The first time was in the center of the stage at the masquerade, when Liliji, whose soul had been burned to ashes, was resurrected.
The second time was in front of him, in the place where he was within reach, the moment when the dead Xiaoya was summoned back and finally came into the world in a new form.
Either the Soul Summoning Technique and the Soul Fusion Technique are miracles that violate the laws of life. Ulysses wants to get them, no matter what the cost.
"Woooo, it's good to have you here, otherwise I would be so sad that I wouldn't even be able to eat the carved fish grill. Ayu wiped his tears from Ulysses' clothes, not embarrassed at all.
"That's the big problem. Hearing this familiar tone, Ulysses knew that the naΓ―ve and confused Ayu he knew was back.
"It's sad and sad, but what has happened won't change, so just accept it when you think about it. Woooo, I thought I would be a princess......" Memories of the past have always haunted Ayu, and when all the mysteries are solved, she also finds her own truth.
"Ayu, are you really relieved?" Ulysses saw Ayu's past, the sad blood, not something that could be easily forgotten.
If it were him, it would never be possible to face it so calmly. However, Yayu, who was now in front of him, still smiled, it was the innocent and unworried smile he was familiar with, and it was the most suitable smile for Ayu.
"Well, what happened in the past was sad and sad, but now I'm happy. You can run around, you can eat delicious carayu yaki, and you can make new friends. β
"Although I was always poor and poor, I liked my life now, very, very much. The past is gone, and I don't know what will happen in the future, so happiness is the most important thing now. β
"Xiao Ya is not dead, but here now, I am Yayu, the Ayu of the Messenger of Dreams. β
"Thank you so much for that time, Ulysses. Although I have forgotten everything you taught, I ...... "At this point, Ayu stuck out her tongue, and now it was Ulysses who taught her again, and she couldn't remember it."
"So, have you found your most important thing?" asked Ulysses sincerely.
"Woooo......oo You ......" Ayu's face turned red at once, and it was very red, and she remembered the agreement she had made with Ulysses.
If Ulysses finds her most important thing in the world of her dreams, she will put her most precious and precious ...... Woooooo
Her hair is light red, and her body has the blood of a blue bird, and if she marries Ulysses and has children, then she should be born as a messenger with black wings.
"But isn't this your dream?, is what I've done here really your memory?" Ulysses looked at the ever-changing spring landscape around him.
Looking down from the high peaks, the town below has been rejuvenated, and the people who survived the winter plague are starting a new work.
The peasants who ploughed the earth with their oxen, the hunters who walked into the mountains with bows and arrows on their backs, and the merchants who started to set off with their vehicles on their backs, this is the view of the town that can be seen everywhere. Despite the loss of many lives due to the disaster, the human life force is very tenacious, and they are trying to restore order here. ,
As long as the river is still there, the land is still there, and the forest is still there, the people who have lived on this land for generations will not give up this town easily. Even if not so long ago there was a catastrophic epidemic here.
It's just that there will be no more children in that town who are always crying on the corner of the street, and she, like all the children who died in the epidemic, is slowly forgotten, and it seems that she has never lived in that town.
"No, this dream is different, this is my past. Yayu didn't dare to look at the once familiar place, and she smiled and pointed to a corner of the town.
"Look, that's where I live, when I was a child, I was very disobedient, I always liked to climb over the wall, but once I fell off the wall and fell half to death, which made my father and mother worry for a long time. β
Ulysses could now see the scenery there, all the power that bound him was gone, and he could now spread his black wings and fly into the sky if he wanted to.
Here, it is no longer a simple dream, but the past created by Yayu, her deepest memory.
"Ulysses, if you mess around, you can actually shatter this place, you should know it. Ayu pointed to the sky.
"Hmm. Ulysses nodded, he did notice something wrong with the world. If he really exerts all his strength, he can completely shatter the world that binds him.
The power from Astarrot could not be bound by such a dream world, which was something that no one in this world could do. However, if that power is really used, the world will be completely destroyed in his hands.
So he wouldn't do that, and he made a pact with Ayu to find the most important thing she had lost in this world. So even if he found out that he could only use the power of a fourth-level light magician, he didn't give up, but continued to search.
"Everything that happened here is actually Xiaoya's memory. Only things that fit the contours of her memories will appear in this world. Ulysses: Everything you do is actually something that happened. Ayu shrugged, as if trying to smell the memory of Ulysses.
"So, there really was a magician who came to this town and taught Xiao Ya to write?" Ulysses thought it was very incredible, what he did in this world actually coincided with someone I don't know how many years ago.
According to the way he saw the world, it was still in the middle and early stages of the development of the Church of the Most High God. Because of the Necromantic War, all kinds of local history have already been destroyed in the war, so he can't tell what era it is, only a time a long time ago.
"Yes, Xiao Ya can't remember what that person looked like, but there was indeed one such person who taught Xiao Ya for a month when he traveled through here. Yayu replied in the affirmative, although there were slight differences in the details, but everything Ulysses did did not deviate from Xiao Ya's most precious memory.
Everything that appears in this world is reproduced according to the outlines of the past, so when Ulysses makes the right choice, everything will naturally develop.
Xiao Ya would learn to write from him, and then write letters to ask her to send them, but this behavior only exacerbated the suspicion of the people in the town, and many people already believed that she was a witch and the culprit who brought about the plague.
There was no dare to accuse the magician who taught Xiaoya knowledge, and everyone avoided the two while the magician was still there, and Xiaoya also spent the happiest period of her life.
Then, it was the beginning of the tragedy, when Xiao Ya, who was identified as a "witch" by the people of the town, was abandoned without knowing anything. When the sorcerer left the town one day, all the people in the town pressured Xiao Ya's father to leave the town.
In this frozen winter, leaving the town is actually equivalent to a death sentence, and the desperate father finally chose to end his life and Xiaoya's life and go to the mother in heaven together.
"But in the end, I took Xiao Ya up the mountain...... Ulysses didn't think it was a thing of the past anyway, because there were still traces of Ayu's body temperature and blood in his arms.
That was Xiaoya's last dream, she wanted to die in the arms of the magician. Unfortunately, the truth is not so rosy. Woooooooooo Ayu's eyes began to turn red again. ,
Xiaoya who died in the arms of Ulysses was actually happy, because in reality, although she worked hard at that time, she died before she reached the place agreed by the two, and fell under a big tree, and the blood stained the snow red.
What happened in the end was what Ulysses saw with his own eyes, and it was the young blue bird who paid all the costs to summon the magician with incredible power and fused the souls of the two together.
"Wait, is that the magician the one who taught Xiaoya?" Ulysses really didn't expect that what he was doing would overlap with that mysterious magician.
"Well, that person has a similar smell to Ulysses, and it seems that you can also use some light magic. Of course, most importantly, he knows soul magic. Although he used the power of that person to complete the fusion with Xiao Ya, Ya You was not very clear about that person's affairs.
Where he came from, where he was going, what he really looked like, these are all blurred. Only that special smell still has a clear memory, and Ulysses now has that smell.
Light, darkness, there seem to be some, but more of it is an ambiguous gray, representing the color of the blurred twilight.
"What's his name?" Ulysses couldn't wait to hear the news. If he knew the name, he could find clues and find a path related to the highest level of soul magic.
Isn't the reason why you are so desperately pursuing Ayu because you want to know the use of that "key"?
"Name, I don't remember...... It seems to be a Filipino...... Later, I met him a few times, but I never saw him again. "Ayu's memories are clearly not reliable at all.
Ulysses was a little disappointed, and sure enough, the secret of soul magic was not so easy to find. However, since he knew that there was someone in this world who had reached the highest level of soul magic, it meant that he could do it too.
No matter how much it costs, but how dark the abyss to sink into, he also wants that kind of power, the power that can work miracles.
"Don't talk about that, Ulysses, you just asked me if you found the most important thing...... Now, it's already here. Ayu pointed to his chest, blushing.
"The most important memory, Xiao Ya's dream of hope, has finally come true. So Ulysses, you did it. β
"Well, I don't think I'm making a difference, but it's really good. Ulysses has also experienced the sadness of losing his memory, the heartache and inexplicable tears when he saw the pink-haired girl in his past dreams, which are things that he tried to find but couldn't find, treasures that were forgotten because they were too precious.
It's a very, very happy thing to be able to get that precious thing back. Even if there is endless sadness in that memory, it is the most important thing that belongs to you.
"So...... I also...... I will also fulfill the promise that will be most valuable...... The most precious thing...... Woohoo!" Ayu's voice grew quieter and quieter, almost inaudible.
Her pretty face is getting redder and redder, and in the colors of spring, it looks particularly delicate and lovely, like a small flower that has just sprouted.
"Thanks, I really need something like that. Ulysses was naturally referring to the "key" in Ayo's body, the door that summoned the Fish of the Winds. According to known conditions, it is an indispensable prop for evokemonism, the ritual centerpiece of the entire masquerade.
"But, though, it's really, really important, and it's going to hurt, Ulysses, you really want that. Ayu looked at Ulysses with some pity, wishing he could be more gentle.
Although she almost agreed, it was too shameful to be needed so bluntly.
"Well, it's very important to me, so Ayu please!" Ulysses sincerely asked Ayu, for him, Ayu, who holds the "key", is the key to resurrecting Yuria, and no matter what, he can't lack someone.
"Really...... Really...... Such a direct ......" sounds like Ulysses just now in Ayu, and Ulysses can be translated like this.
"I want you very, very much, like like like you, so please give me everything you have!"
Woooooooo ,
Although she doesn't hate it, and after recovering her memory, she found more familiar tastes, but she really doesn't know anything about love or anything. Still, if it's Ulysses, if it's him who gets her most important past back......
What to do, my face was so red that I couldn't speak. However, no matter how rapid it develops, it is too much to make such a request all at once. The hug is already there, and the kiss is too excited just now, so what's next?
No, it's been going on all the time, didn't Ulysses chase her for three days and three nights and confess to her, it's enough to count. Then all that's left is the last step, the ritual that she wants to complete, even if it's just two people.
"I, I grant your request. But before I can hand over the most precious thing to you, you still need to do one more thing, you have to do it, you have to do it!" Ayu's nervous body was trembling, and even the small winged backpack behind his back was trembling together.
I've seen what others do, but I'm always scared at this time, what should I do?
"No problem, what else do I need to do?" Ulysses readily agreed.
This was already much better than he expected, and if Ayu didn't agree desperately, it would be the biggest problem, and he couldn't capture Ayu and imprison him as Sharon said.
"Ceremonial ...... It's a must...... If I want my most precious things, I have to complete the ritual. Ayu plucked up his courage and confessed his wish to Ulysses.
It was a shy confession of a girl, hiding a lot of complicated thoughts and expectations, probably every girl in this world will have such a dream.
"Ritual?okay, what do I need to do, what magic gems to find, or do I want to gather the Star Envoy?" Hearing the word "ritual", Ulysses naturally thought of the masquerade ball not long ago.
The huge magic array that swept through the entire Radiant Academy, the Wind Fish soaring in the sky, and the twenty-one Star Envoys led by Kalei joined forces to divide and distort the space, creating the momentum of a rotating stage. To obtain the most precious key on Ayu's body, it must be necessary to have at least this level of magical ritual.
After all, it was a great magic that was enough to resurrect the dead, a forbidden technique that reversed the laws of life!
"No, it's not that big, it just needs the two of us together. Wait for me...... Woo-goo...... Where's it going?" Ayu shook his head desperately, and began to search in his winged backpack.
"Woo-hoo, the cloak of darkness of invisibility, no!"
"The cloak of the Ghost King that summons bones, it's not!"
"The space baggage for discounts, isn't it!"
After digging out a mess of clothes or fabrics from her little wings, Ayu finally found a piece of clothing that she had loved before, but had never dared to wear.
It was a gown that looked unfinished, and the jewels set in the gown were a faint cyan, but it didn't have much brilliance, and it seemed to have lost some vital part.
"Give me this dress, and sayβ" Ayu blushed and placed the unfinished dress on Ulysses' body.
Ulysses took the gown, which didn't feel much magic, and always felt as if he had seen it somewhere.
Could it be some kind of magical dress for the ceremony? Ulysses thought he had guessed the answer.
"Happiness for you, my ......" Ayu looked at Ulysses in front of him with expectant and uneasy eyes.
"Happiness for you, my ......," Ulysses repeated Ayu's words without warning.
"Beautiful bride!"
"Beautiful bride!"
The wedding vows rippled in this world full of spring colors, and the ceremony that had been dull suddenly exuded an incomparably soft and beautiful color.
Together, the gems emerged into a swirling magic circle, adjusting the size and width of the gown with Ayu as the center. Soon, a brand new, azure bridal gown appeared in front of Ulysses.
Ayu's whole body was surrounded by such a beautiful cyan light, and she had already lost her wings, and a pair of huge and wide cyan wings could be faintly seen behind her.
Then, all the cyan crystals began to emit a dazzling light together, and in that light, countless esoteric golden magic runes were flying, and a huge magic array with a radius of ten meters formed around Ayu.
The ritual began, and the huge cyan wings surrounded Ayu, and the magic circle began to rotate at high speed, forming a huge spherical space. Ayu's original clothes began to disappear quickly, revealing her cute girlish body.
The beautiful pink strawberries, the soft and white skin, and the well-proportioned legs were all exposed to the air, and Ulysses could even smell the unique fragrance of the girl.
This beautiful spring light quickly disappeared, and the adjusted cyan dress was automatically worn on Ayu's body.
It was a sleeveless cyan gown, cyan gloves wrapped around Ayu's hand, a huge open skirt, and a ribbon that stretched out automatically, all exuding brilliant colors. On the chest of the gown, an azure crystal is inlaid, and in the center of the crystal, a large cyan bird with outstretched wings is sleeping.
This beautiful spring light quickly disappeared, and the adjusted cyan dress was automatically worn on Ayu's body.
It was a sleeveless cyan gown, cyan gloves wrapped around Ayu's hand, a huge open skirt, and a ribbon that stretched out automatically, all exuding brilliant colors. On the chest of the gown, an azure crystal is inlaid, and in the center of the crystal, a large cyan bird with outstretched wings is sleeping.
It was a sleeveless cyan gown, cyan gloves wrapped around Ayu's hand, a huge open skirt, and a ribbon that stretched out automatically, all exuding brilliant colors. On the chest of the gown, an azure crystal is inlaid, and in the center of the crystal, a large cyan bird with outstretched wings is sleeping.