Demi-human Girls Completion Manual Chapter 1659 - 118: The Ex

"On the day of my 20th birthday, I accidentally blew open the gate to the Spirit Realm with my self-created magic.

Before I turned 20, I was merely a Magic Apprentice, relying on a relatively affluent family to travel and practice magic across various countries. Until one winter so cold I couldn’t move, I stayed in the Northern Realm and lived there. In a twist of fate, I used an extremely ingenious Space Magic to open a passage to the Spirit Realm.

That was just the beginning, for at that time I hadn’t realized that the other side of magic was the outer layer of this world. Caution and prudence made me instinctively aware of the dangers within, and only the faint passing voice of my deceased Mother left a deep impression on me. I thought I had discovered paradise, not only a paradise of magic but also a paradise of souls. But at the beginning, I only focused on its magical aspect, ignoring the rest.

The occasional magic power fluctuations from the space connected by magic gave me much inspiration about magic. You can imagine a devout Magic Apprentice bowing down before the desire for knowledge, recording the patterns of those magic power fluctuations every night, then corresponding them with classics and theories, creating their own magic, so thrilling.

It was a long winter, a winter full of harvest.

After that, it was only when Helson Laczette closed the Spirit Realm magic and left the Northern Realm, returning to his hometown Nali, did he truly start to become famous.

The young me was more wanton than any genius; every bad thing you can think of, I had done. I even, along with the old King (Gedelin the Eighth, Elizabeth’s grandfather) Damian, went to peek at maids bathing. He helped me write love letters, pursue the Lady I fancied, and would come to comfort me because of my poor conversational skills after we met.

At that time, I had already forgotten about the Spirit Realm magic constructed in the Northern Realm. Because after I returned to Nali, that magic no longer worked. I even thought it was the Frost Phoenix of the Northern Realm that appeared and manifested the Nonexistent Village in front of me.

But as the years passed, as my dear friends and love ones left one by one, the flames burning within this over fifty-year-old man’s heart began to weaken. You’re still young and may not realize that desires within the heart sometimes fade with age, or rather, they don’t really fade, but just become fewer in variety.

The sexual desire, appetite, and such had all diminished by then. Inside me, apart from love for my children and prayers for peace, all that remained was a blazing curiosity - the curiosity for Truth, for Magic.

As expected, I once again recalled the magic I inadvertently inscribed in the Northern Realm during my youth, thought of the world on the other side...

A terrible idea surged in my mind: since I had already grown so powerful, why not venture inside to explore?

Yes, at the time, a human Mage mastering Fourteen Ring magic actually had such a notion, indeed showing some ignorance of the magnitude of heaven and earth. These are stories for later though, because at that time, I naively prepared to head to the Northern Realm, and there embarked on quite a breathtaking and thrilling adventure...

There, I saw mysteries hard for humans to imagine, met unforgettable friends throughout a lifetime, and certainly encountered threats to my life and curses.

Do you remember the Soul Magic you showed me when you first returned from the South Continent? At that time, my soul left my body and wouldn’t return. Old Damian thought I was dead. Fortunately, I had a Resurrection Magic in reserve to survive that time.

You probably think it’s because I’m too old that the attraction between my body and soul has become weak, causing the soul to leave the body. In fact, it’s entirely because I once entered the Spirit Realm, causing the Sea of Souls to record my essence before my death, hence at that time it was so eager to take me away...

During my long journey in the Spirit Realm, most of the time I was experiencing it alongside the stars, forging a deep friendship with them, thereby facing a common enemy together.

My disciple, perhaps you already have some understanding of the scarlet and eerie entity within the Spirit Realm, because as I write this piece, I just heard you’re in the Northern Realm, and also because there you paired with another woman, causing Elizabeth’s fury.

You may have already learned that the scarlet existence is an unconscious Divine, and perhaps know that it’s attempting to enter this world through the remnants of the ancient Phoenix, but you surely don’t know why it’s so obsessed with entering this world.

It’s a Divine with only Authority but no soul, and its only purpose of entering reality is to bitterly seek its long-lost soul."

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"Big Brother, Big Brother..."

"...Mr. Helsen?"

Fisher hazily opened his eyes, only to see little Alicia standing nearby, looking around in all directions, as if searching for Fisher’s figure, yet he was sleeping right in front of her, but because of the Hidden Blessing, she couldn’t find him.

It was at this moment that Fisher finally came to his senses from the rare slumber. He quickly sat up, along with Emhardt sleeping on his chest and Mr. Helsen’s notes he hadn’t finished reading last night, all rolling to the floor.