Mage Manual-Chapter 204 - 179 Lissdia

Chapter 204 -179 Lissdia

When Ash was deemed irretrievable rubbish, in the bustling Imperial City of Nabistin far from them, there lay a succession of grand and solemn palaces. In the midst of these palaces, the most eye-catching was the soaring tower established on a central island within Yalan Lake, with white walls and blue roofs, orioles singing among verdant trees, and doves circling around. This building seemed as though it did not belong to this world but existed only in fairy tales.

“…and so, the brave knight defeated the fire-breathing evil dragon and found the beautiful Princess in the dragon’s lair, and the two of them returned to the capital amid everyone’s congratulations. The King presided over their wedding, and the knight and Princess lived happily ever after. A cause for celebration indeed, a cause for celebration,” the kindly old grandmother said with a smile, closing the picture book as the clock in the room rang its chimes and a cute cuckoo bird popped out to tell the time.

“Princess, the 12 o’clock chimes have rung; it’s time for you to sleep,” the old grandmother said softly as she gently pulled the blanket, as if afraid that this small action might harm the Princess lying in the bed.

The Princess blinked her lovely light green eyes that sparkled like stars and emitted a dazzling light. She had skin as purely white as snow, lips as red as blood, and long, waterfall-like shiny black hair that spread out on the pillow like a fan.

“Grandmother Martha, when will an evil dragon come to snatch me away?”

The old grandmother laughed and patted the Princess’s head: “The brave knights are protecting you from the outside, so the evil dragon can’t come and take you, my dear Princess.”

“Eh? Won’t the evil dragon be very disappointed?” The Princess looked a little worried. “It wants to capture me so much, just as much as I want to see Nina… Grandmother Martha, when will Nina come to visit me?”

“Princess Nina is very busy. When she has some free time, she will surely come to visit the Princess.”

The old grandmother turned off the bedside lamp and left the room quietly.

The Princess lay in bed daydreaming. In her mind, she pictured what the evil dragon might look like: it would have four beautiful sharp horns, shimmering scales, and a mouthful of fierce but neatly arranged sharp teeth; its eyes as large as a half-body mirror—I can see myself reflected in its pupils…

When the Princess turned over, she was startled: right outside her window was a bronze dragon that perfectly matched her imagination, gently flapping its wings in the air, peering at her through the glass with its vertical pupil.

The Princess got out of bed, lifting the covers. Wearing a pure white cotton pajama set and barefoot on the cold marble floor, she walked to the window to meet the gaze of the bronze dragon.

“Are you here to capture me?”

The bronze dragon did not speak; it only looked at her quietly.

But the Princess, as if she heard something, smiled broadly: “Okay, I will go with you.”

Compared to the knights who were always guarding beneath her tower, the Princess felt that the evil dragon before her seemed more like a hero come to save her—she would ride on the back of the evil dragon, soaring through the skies, looking down upon the magnificent earth, embarking on breathtaking adventures. This was precisely the life she had longed for.

She carefully climbed over the window sill; the barrier that used to stop her appeared to have vanished in that instant. With her two cute, crystal-clear little feet gently swaying, she sat on the ledge and opened her arms to the bronze dragon: “Thank you, evil dragon.”

However, the knights below the tower were, in fact, guards.

And the bronze dragon didn’t exist in reality.

But the Princess, she really did jump down.

As a piercing whistle cut through the night sky, the entire Imperial Palace was alarmed. Palace Mages were urgently summoned, and the Three-winged Holy Sanctuary Mages flew directly to the top floor of the tower to conduct a carpet search, but still, nothing was found.

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“Where is the Princess?”

“The Princess is gone!”

“Search quickly! Bring over the Prophet Mage!… No, ask the ‘Gospel Book’ for the Princess’s location! No matter how many points, how much Gospel it takes, just use it!”

“It won’t work, the ‘Gospel Book’ isn’t responding!”

“How is that possible…”

The frantic trackers soon left the Princess’s room, which they had turned upside down, and expanded their search to the entire Imperial City.

Nobody noticed that an unwelcome guest had already appeared in the room, watching this drama unfold from the sidelines.

He walked to the window, leaning his hands on the sill, and stuck his head out to overlook the magnificent, lit-up royal city below. Layers of curtains, like the aurora, gradually unfurled above the City, as thousands of ‘Eagle Eye’ drones took off everywhere. The ground glowed with laser-like patterns, all surveillance systems were fully activated, and within minutes, every corner of the City was checked, and all Space Miracles purified—all to find the missing Princess.

“It did save me some trouble,” he said with a chuckle, supporting his chin, “Educating the Sword Maiden sure took me quite a bit of ‘time’.”

“Who are you?”

A huffy voice suddenly came from behind. The Observer turned his head to look at the black-dressed girl standing by the bed. She had a breathtakingly beautiful face, skin pure white as snow, lips red as blood, with long, lustrous black hair.

Unlike the serene and charming Princess who had just jumped down, she seemed furious, hands on hips, puffing up her cheeks as she glared at the Observer, as if she was about to charge at him like a swooping bird.

“Though I would like to say it’s our first meeting, we’ve already had a moment of eye contact,” the Observer said, spreading his hands, “Pleased to meet you, Witch. I am the Final Observer, but you may call me Observer.”

“I am not a Witch!” She walked straight up to the Observer, poking his chest with her finger, “I am Princess Lissdia, you may call me Princess Liss or Princess Diya. I’ve never had such a strange title as Witch!”

The Observer took a step back, asking, “So, should I address you as Liss, or Diya?”

The other party blinked, “…Diya.”

“But I think Witch sounds nicer.” The Observer turned to look out towards the Imperial City, which was becoming increasingly busy, “So, Witch, how does freedom feel?”

“Are you mocking me?” Diya grabbed the Observer by his collar and twisted him back around, nearly lifting him off his feet, “Who on earth are you? How can you break through so many Barriers to enter the royal City, even into my tower? Without the aid of the Bronze Dragon, it would be impossible for me to leave this prison!”

“A Legendary Mage might possibly sneak in here, but that you can see me means you’ve completely transcended the realm of mortals,” Diya said earnestly, “I am not a soul, not a spirit, not Magic Power, but an illusion, a thought, a mood… Apart from Liss, no one else could possibly notice my presence. No one in this world can see me.”

“How can you see a thought?”

Diya carefully examined the Observer’s misty appearance, “Are you the Divine Lord?”

“I’m sorry to disappoint you.”

Being held up by Diya, the Observer didn’t get annoyed at all and calmly said, “I am not a god, at least… not yet. On the contrary, I have come to request your help.”

Diya tilted her head, “What help?”

“Become my companion, accept my arrangements.”

“Should I take that as your declaration of enslavement?”

“I swear to defend your right to free imagination with my life.”

“Absurd.”

Diya sharply pushed the Observer out of the window, and pure white hues radiated from her as the center, instantly turning the entire world into a vast expanse of white, leaving only the standing Diya and the falling Observer.

The Observer’s dark red coat gradually turned gray, his whole being froze there, as if time had become stagnant around him.

“Although I don’t know who you are or how you can see me, since you can communicate with me, it means you are within my thoughts,” Diya said emphatically. “Intruding into someone’s mental realm is a very dangerous thing.”

She put her hands together, “Be shredded into pieces by countless moments, Observer!”

As soon as Diya finished speaking, the Observer’s body shattered like a mirror, breaking smaller and smaller until he turned into a puddle of sparkling sand.

Hmph, is that all… Just as this thought surfaced in Diya’s mind, suddenly, the sound of breaking came from all directions!

Crack!

Diya looked up to find that the pure white world she had created was now cracking like a shattered mirror! In each fragment of the world, the Observer’s hazy and indistinct appearance emerged!

Above and below, in all directions, boundless and omnipresent!

“Neither phantoms nor illusions, each one is the real me.”

The voices of the Observers boomed like thunder, the resonance almost trembling Diya’s figure, “We come from a second ago, a nanosecond ago, one-millionth of a nanosecond ago… Instead of using time to kill, you should learn how to use time to survive.”

“It seems I can’t save the energy I wanted to.”

…

When Diya came back to her senses, she found herself sitting on the edge of her bed with the Observer still beside the windowsill as if nothing had happened.

But Diya knew she had lost the mental confrontation just now, even within the realm of her own thoughts, and she had lost miserably. She couldn’t describe the feeling—her free thoughts had been defeated!

She rolled across the bed and hid behind it to avoid the Observer’s gaze like a startled rabbit, and cautiously asked, “Does a being like you really need my help?”

“You seem to overestimate me a bit,” the Observer chuckled. “I am actually just a distant longing, and if not for some special means, I would never be able to see you. My true self has just stepped onto the Time Continent without even a single Gold feather, my strength is even less than yours, having your help would make the exploration of the Void Realm much easier.”

How is that possible… Diya didn’t believe the Observer was only Two-winged, but she quickly caught on to the key phrase the Observer mentioned, “Void Realm Exploration?”

“Yes, you will join my team for Void Realm Exploration, and together we’ll make our way through the Time Continent,” the Observer nodded. “But don’t expect me to provide any information, you know more about the Void Realm and the Time Continent than I do.”

To explore the Void Realm together? Diya subconsciously wanted to dismiss this absurd idea, but when she thought it over, compared to the Observer being able to see her, teaming up in the Void Realm seemed ordinary.

The point was, the Observer had no reason to deceive her, a mere Two-winged Mage, even if she was the Two-winged Mage favored by the Bronze Dragon.

However, if the Observer’s strength really was lesser than hers, then that meant…

“Right,” the Observer suddenly seemed to recall something, “I also have a Sword Master companion, we’ve traveled the Sea of Knowledge together, slaying many enemies.”

Diya suppressed the bold idea that had emerged in her mind, “Do I have the right to refuse?”

“I also have a Sword Master companion, we’ve traveled the Sea of Knowledge together, slaying many enemies,” the Observer repeated with a smile.

She angrily pointed at the Observer and shouted, “You’re threatening me!”

“I prefer to call it persuasion,” the Observer tilted his head. “But I swear to defend your right to free imagination with my life.”

Diya seemed about to say something else, but suddenly her expression changed, and she quickly blurred and vanished.

“Not even a farewell, what an impolite Princess,” the Observer lazily sat on the dressing table chair, “Just because she got caught by cult believers, what’s there to be so nervous about? She should have known that the favor of the Bronze Dragon isn’t so easy to endure.”

“Compared to her, she’s really much more mischievous.”

The Sword Maiden sat on the edge of the windowsill, her long silk legs swaying lightly in the air, her expression somewhat concerned, “But she’s too mischievous, I’m more worried whether Ash can handle her.”

“Don’t worry.”

The Observer said with an amused smile, “Isn’t Sonia here too?”