Chapter 494: I’ll definitely survive.

Chapter 484: I Will Definitely Survive
Bishop Mathers’ claim was quickly rejected by Ivars.

Imprisoning Master Noble would not be a gain for them – Alchemical Compound would be just a potion if it was in someone else’s hands, but in the hands of an alchemist it could have an exclusive effect.

And now, they were in need of hands. Neither Ivars nor Isabel had rejected the Equilibrium Pathway, so it was possible to accept help from the Stranger.

After Aiwas had pacified Bishop Mathers, he demanded the pieces of the red-handled sword from him.

With the familiar weapon back in his hands again, Aiwas felt much more at ease.

So Ivars found Isabel again and told her all about the arrangements afterward.

“It’s time to get ready to go,” Ivas said earnestly, “Take Shafia with you, and my father – Oswald will have to protect him after all, and can follow along to protect you as well. Diomedes to you, too, and you take them all ……

“Originally, you were bound to encounter danger on this road to the Church Kingdom. But that was based on the fact that Ms. Shafia was dead and we were going to the Church Country alone. Now that Shafia has been saved by us, there probably won’t be too many problems on your side with her protection. I plan to have both Bishop Mathers and Master Noble follow you as well …… Sherlock and I will stay here. I’ll keep an eye on him.”

“…… And you?”

Isabel looked at Ivars, but only asked rhetorically, “Do you have to perform the Shadow of Avalon ceremony?”

“…… You mean the one at the end of the promotion ceremony ……”

“That would either severely damage his soul or kill him outright as a result. Either way, it won’t leave him with enough memories …… of our previous play, and while it’s not broken at the moment, as soon as he realizes afterward that Ivars is ‘Fox’, or Isabel is ‘Lulu ‘, all the information we passed to him will be demolished.”

“Because of that, he will definitely give them the information after summarizing it. And even if he mentions about us, but as long as the mouth is silenced, then it’s dead.”

Aywas replied, “If he dies just by being recognized, although his soul will also be damaged, he won’t necessarily die. That’s why I plan to kill him a little more cleanly.

When Aiwas suddenly mentioned the Shadow of Avalon Ritual before, Isabelle felt something was wrong.

Isabel was a bit worried, ”Is it because your dream world is not stable anymore? Do you want me to go to the teaching country at full speed?”

A new doubt arose in Isabel.

“It seems to me that your father has guessed that this is a promotion ceremony. By hinting at it, we might be able to get him to help us get rid of that ‘counselor’ who feels so troublesome.”

“…… After all, it’s four days, isn’t it.”

“The advisor will have to be killed for that to happen.”

Isabel also understood, “They can’t write this stuff down if they don’t want to be recognized. So there won’t be much intel that ends up getting written down, it must all be the summarized version.”

Aywas nodded, “But I don’t plan on dragging the ceremony out until the fourth day …… I plan on ending the promotion ceremony on the second day.”

Isabel tried to stop Aywas, “If you want to secure the promotion …… don’t we just need to identify that fake Sherlock?

Isabel responded.

“You took the drunken dream tincture, right, and the dream is supposed to last four days?”

“That’s right.”

“But what if he tells his two students these details?”

“It won’t happen,” Ivars affirmed, “they won’t be able to remember so much. Because I’m not outright telling any secrets, all those things we’ve said have to be analyzed in the context of real intelligence to get useful results. If he had told the students the original text directly, they would have just missed a sentence or two afterward, and the meaning would have been completely different. Moreover, they didn’t have access to the secrets of Avalon, nor did they have enough experience to analyze them on their own.

They were getting more and more in sync now, and Isabel had guessed what Ivas was trying to do.

“You’ve said it before, haven’t you, that there is something wrong with that ritual.”

The editing of the “highlights” would most likely include Isabel and Ivars.

“Eat up, I’m fine. I was thinking about something else ……”

Aiwas sighed helplessly, “If it was any other Pillar God, I wouldn’t have a problem with it …… but this is a stage created by the Lord of Scale and Feather.”

As a priest, his native knowledge was theology.

He certainly knew the personality differences and personal preferences of these Pillar Gods.

The Lord of Scale Feathers loved to read stories of mortals surviving through hardships and dangers.

The little girl who was burned all over her body after a fire but still tried to survive; the warrior who was shot more than ten times in a war and had multiple limbs disabled but still tried to survive; the hunter who tried to survive the cold and hunger caused by a heavy snowfall or drought and tried to bring those around him with him. ……

All of these people may be blessed by the Lord of Scales and Feathers and become His apostles.

He is none other than the God who faces danger head on, savors suffering, and eulogizes hope.

“Adaptation” is not an escape, but an attempt to overcome. Like the principle of “bionics”, it is the victory of the weak.

This can be seen in the character of his apostle Acropolis – the savior, commonly known as the “medic”, who saves all who wish to be saved equally. He often appears on the battlefield as a dove to save soldiers who have a strong desire to live, and occasionally as a sparrow to kiss the terminally ill, giving a miracle of life to those who are suffering from a terminal illness but still trying to live.

Given the character of the Lord of Scale and Feather, this ritual will either become more and more intense, or there will be dangers that must be resolved with courage. And no place is absolutely safe.

The reason why Ivars had saved so many people was so that Isabel could arrive safely in the Church Country.

And Ivars then intends to stay on the Glass Island until the end.

“If we delay until the last day, it will be dangerous on my side. That’s why I want you to arrive in the Church Country before dawn on the third day. But it had better not be too soon, because I still have to look for Olive. Or rather, I have to wait for Olive to find me.”

Aywas looked seriously at Isabel, “Although we go through the promotion ceremony in order to be blessed by the Pillar God to raise our ‘rank’. But the promotion ceremony is still essentially for ‘simulation’. “Since it’s a simulation, it’s natural to test those things that can’t be tested in the real world. Let’s take the ‘Shadow of Avalon’ for example. I can’t use the Queen’s Blood to perform the ritual myself, so I need the help of other ritualists. I don’t know what will happen after the completion of the Shadow of Avalon …… so I’m planning to complete the ceremony at dusk tomorrow, and you’ll enter the Church Kingdom after dark.”

Ivars gave Isabel good instructions, “We’ll move separately. There’s no way to contact each other in the middle, so we’ll have to rely on tacit understanding. So I can’t have anyone else stay here for me …… Only if I stay here by myself, I can rest assured; only if you control the time to go to the Church Country, I can also rest assured.”

“…… Sure enough, Olive is Master Iben, right?”

Isabel was finally sure.

If Olive was someone else, there was absolutely no way that Ivars would trust him so much. Much less would he have told the other party the secret of the Shadow of Avalon.

“Well,” Aiwas nodded slowly, “the only problem, and that is that this plan will leave Iben-sensei in a dangerous place. But I will try to protect him as well ……”

“–You have to protect yourself, Aywas.”

Isabelle interrupted Ivars and said in an incredibly serious manner.

Knowing that there were still people of her own around Aywas, Isabelle also relaxed a little bit.

She joked and said softly, “Don’t forget …… that tomorrow night, we have a date. Be sure to survive, Aywas.”

“There’s no such thing as absolute safety in a promotion ceremony …… but I’ll definitely be able to survive.”

Aiwas smiled, “After all, my side isn’t completely empty, at least Leia is still following me.”

“–Who is Leah?” Isabel was a little wary.

“The Butterfly of Paradoxical Flame. I just named her, is it good?”

“It’s okay.”

Isabel vaguely skipped over the topic.

She turned to ask, “Do you know how the Shadow of Avalon ceremony is held? Do you want me to tell you?”

Although there was still some uneasiness in her heart, she chose to trust Ivars.

Silver Coronet’s Dragon, Twin Mirrors ……

I hope you will watch over Aiwas. May he be safe and sound.

“That will require serious teaching from …… Lulu-sensei.”

Aiwas grabbed Isabel’s wrist and leaned in to her ear to lower his voice and laugh softly.

But in fact, Aiwas wasn’t as settled as he appeared to be.

The Lord of Scale and Feather himself made the copy …… surely isn t that simple.

He was not worried about his side. He could survive on his own anyhow, the big deal was to give up the Shadow of Avalon ritual. It was just an experiment and also to brush up his score. But if it was compared to the safety of himself and his friends, he also knew what he should choose.

Everything seemed to be going well so far, but that was all because of Aiwas’s intelligence advantage, the fact that it allowed him to choose the best possible outcome in every event.

But on Isabel’s side ……

Aiwas could only do his best, stuffing her with any teammates he found and saved.

“I call upon the Lord of Scales and Feathers, the god whose holy number is six. The God of scales and feathers, the God of a thousand garments and appearances ……”

Ivars also prayed silently in his heart, “I hope Isabel will be safe.”

And just then.

Within an area of the Dream Realm, nine transparent souls sat on marble chairs, heads hung low, and entered the Dream of Dreams.

Acropolis, on the other hand, stood right in the middle of them, boredly teasing the small snake on his cane. Every now and then he glanced at them to see how they were progressing.

He suddenly narrowed His eyes.

“–Please stop, Miss Ernie-O.”

Acropolis said slowly.

Only a short distance away, the red-haired girl clad in light armor and drenched in blood quietly emerged.

She held the invisible hammer that the hurricane had transformed into, and with one step and one bloody footstep, she came towards Aiwas’s spiritual body.

When she appeared, a storm filled with the smell of blood swirled around her.

“Stop.”

Acropolis warned again.

He raised his serpentine staff in his hand and looked coldly toward Bear Tennessee’s apostle, Ernesto, the City Breaker.

“I don’t want to say it a third time.”

(End of chapter)