Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2274: Chapter 2269: Bow and Night

”What did you see when you touched the statue?”

The Witch didn’t hide her pleasure at the final display of tacit understanding.

However, despite such a thrilling experience, she still didn’t waste time on a replay but went straight to the point.

Inside the corridor, it was clear that Fu Qian had gained something, but he hadn’t communicated to save time.

Whatever seemed to relate to ”Mother,” the Witch was visibly interested.

”Remember the Full Moon Garden I mentioned? The place where I first touched the Transcendent.”

Fu Qian didn’t intend to hide anything, pointing to himself as he spoke.

”The statue made you see that directly?”

The Witch was visibly taken aback.

For her, it was naturally easy to grasp the implications.

Previously, because of the flowers discovered in that place, she vaguely suspected that the enlightenment of this Temple Knight of hers might have involved the will of ”Mother.” Was this direct proof?

”Yes, and inside, besides the flowers your mother likes, there were many other traces, like the bright and white full moon, half-human half-wolf monsters, and a barefoot doctor who could communicate...”

Fu Qian recounted the scenes in the Full Moon Garden in detail.

”So that garden, is it in the world you belong to?”

After a moment of contemplative silence, digesting this lively scene, the Witch soon proposed a somewhat leap of logic.

”I think so too, after all, your mother left quite a mark in that world, and yet you can’t touch it at all.”

Fu Qian clearly also thought this was the most likely possibility.

As for the Full Moon Garden, the Witch could sense the peculiarity but couldn’t probe into it at all.

This exaggerated concealment barrier was actually something she had just encountered not long ago—when she forcibly descended on the Other Shore.

Despite expending a significant amount of effort, almost sacrificing the entire Divine Remains, once on the Other Shore, her evaluation of the outside world was ”completely unknowable.”

Considering the subsequent leakage of the Other Shore’s attributes, which even seemed to contaminate her ”homeland,” one can’t help but suspect that the Other Shore’s inherent special nature played a significant role in her ability to descend at that time.

Even the Witch herself admitted that the effect of the descent was much better than imagined.

Now thinking back, the rejection of the Bookstore World towards her might be much higher than imagined.

If she had carried out the sacrifice outside the Other Shore, it might not have had much effect.

In summary, a place full of moon elements that the incarnation of the moon cannot touch, only this level of explanation can make it seem reasonable.

...

”So this bow... it was intentionally sent to you by Him?”

Conspiracy theories are always quite an enjoyable affair, leading to frequent lengthy discussions right off the bat.

After receiving Fu Qian’s confirmation, the Witch continued to consider the issue of Blasphemy’s Embrace.

And as she spoke, a shimmering, radiant object even appeared in her hand.

Though it’s already useless, she’s still carrying it...

Fu Qian examined the gift he had given away.

It was precisely because of this object that this faraway place hadn’t completely severed contact after that mission.

Judging by the direct confiscation of mission items from the warehouse, there was a high likelihood of not intending to assign related missions to him again.

From this perspective, this item, which seemed useless at the selection time, bore the responsibility of connecting two worlds as a tool.

So if he had chosen another item back then, what would the scenario be?

Quietly experiencing the handiwork of the Superior Being, Fu Qian couldn’t help but think of the other item he had given up on.

This bow, an item he could choose to use or not, even unless he first shot at the sun, could the Witch even actively seek him out?

The Demigod ritual... that sort of thing was much more exaggerated.

The Divine Road, oath, contamination... on this journey, he had witnessed far too many costs of choosing the wrong path.

Had he not been so confident back then, had he chosen that shortcut, it seemed the only job apart from the warehouse was to be a tool person.

The initial First Generation Dark Moon might have been a romantic who loved flowers, but Fu Qian didn’t think such an elaborate setup was just for fun.

”It seems that He seems very familiar with the power behind me, though the exact purpose is yet to be confirmed.”

He nodded in acknowledgment of the Witch’s idea in the next moment.

Unlike the Prism of Radiant Transformation, although the initial move of the First Generation Dark Moon also targeted the warehouse and the Administrator, the hostility was much more subtle.

It also didn’t seem like an arrangement for ”invading” that world, the arrangements clearly inclined more towards this side.

So was it to find a tool person for a ”descendant”?

Perhaps the process was a bit too convoluted, but this possibility couldn’t be dismissed.

After all, this ”tool person” implied an ability to certain extend access to the Power of Space-Time of the warehouse.

Even in the subsequent events like the reappearance of ancient Leytin, he had indeed played a part.

”If it hadn’t been for your arrival back then, I would have soon faced my end.”

The Witch next to him clearly recalled this same thing and continued to gesture at the scroll in her hand.

”And this time, if it hadn’t been for you, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to enter the corridor and retrieve this item either.”

...

”It’s part of the job, and besides, you’ve already given the reward, haven’t you.”

The Pontiff highly praised him, but the person in question, Fu Qian, hadn’t forgotten his identity as a Temple Knight, naturally waving his hand.

Although the points raised by the Witch indeed had strong elements of planning.

But honestly, the core was still relying on his subjective initiative.

Even if one had obtained Blasphemy’s Embrace, whether one would use it as freely as he did always felt like a rhetorical question.

Later on, when the Witch lost her response, without his sufficient reserves, he seemed incapable of conducting the whirlwind rescue.

From this perspective, the initial First Generation Dark Moon had a rather casual laid-back approach, letting creation take its course.

”When I obtained this item, the description of its effect was a temporary seal of the sun.”

Admitting that what happened today was of his own doing, Fu Qian then shifted his focus to another problem.

The item description of Blasphemy’s Embrace, although not long, was nonetheless memorable.

And if it indeed belonged to the First Generation Dark Moon’s former weapon as seen in the Nightmare Corridor—did the moon obscure the sun?

This scenario indeed begged for association.

If he remembered correctly, the start of the Long Night was marked by the loss of response from both the moon and the sun, leaving only the stars in the sky.

Not long ago, he even collaborated with the Night Watchman and the Native Council to confirm this point from a millennium ago.

”Are you trying to say... about that Long Night?”

Reading the nuance in his words, the Witch also quickly made connections, though the conclusion was somewhat substantial.

”As far as we know, your mother was indeed quite active in that Long Night.”

Fu Qian nodded affirmatively.