Chapter 1720 - 137: True Nature

Success!

He really is transforming into the so-called "treasure"!

Truly effortless...

"Wait, Fi... Fisher! What’s wrong with you!?"

"What do you mean..."

Fisher felt nothing, only unprecedented comfort, but meanwhile, Emhardt next to him let out a sharp screech, evidently quite frightened.

This left Fisher puzzled, as he dumbly extended his hand, lifted it to look, only to find his hand had somehow become semi-transparent, and it wasn’t even a human hand, but something resembling a phantom-like tentacle.

No, what is this thing?!

Could it have failed?

"No way, look, look! How did you become a Chaos Species?! This appearance, you... wow, my heavens!"

Chaos Species?

Fisher was greatly startled, but quickly wanted to rise and find a mirror to see his appearance. Upon getting up, he floated upwards, like a weightless soul, reminding him of Renie’s virtualized state.

In disbelief, he flew to the bathroom, turned on the light, and looked at the mirror, which immediately stunned him.

In the reflection was a phantom figure very similar to his original appearance, but this figure had no facial features, like a coffin box, with a strange black hole resembling a vortex at the head position, and all limbs were irregular tentacles, reminding him of the "Pisces" he saw in Star Magic.

As he virtualized into this form, everything on his body slipped off, clothes, Fluid Sword, and other Completion Manuals, except the Demi-human Girls Completion Manual still adhered to his heart position, like a plaster connecting to his phantom surface.

"Fisher, speak up! No way, how did you become like this, did you fail? Or..."

"No... I don’t seem... to have failed..."

Fisher looked blankly at the mirror in front of him, a thought hardly believable suddenly rising in his mind.

He tried to harness the power of the Life Completion Manual and, instantly, he changed back to his familiar human appearance, even better than before, glowing with vitality.

"You’ve changed back again, that’s great, just now what exactly..."

"No, Emhardt..."

Fisher opened his mouth, touched his face, increasingly incredulous, yet still turned to Emhardt beside him and muttered,

"I seem... not to be ’changing back’ now, but just now, just now was when I truly ’changed back’."

"Wh... what do you mean?"

At this moment, Fisher’s mind also dizzying, but soon realizing what it was, though it was too unbelievable, rendering him momentarily unable to accept it.

He just now indeed succeeded, he had indeed replicated the treasure trait from Alicia onto himself.

Remember the nature of the so-called "treasure"?

It’s that, no matter the "transformation," his essence would remain unchanged.

In other words, when Fisher entered the "treasure" state, he’d revert to his essence state, just like how Alicia’s essence was human no matter how her transformation disrupted.

When Fisher acquired the treasure’s trait, he also returned to his essence state, meaning from now on, no matter how he uses the Life Completion Manual, he’d never depart from his essence.

And his essence, in fact, has always been in a "transformative state" as a Chaos Species, until unlocking the treasure trait restored him to his original form.

He swallowed, yet still attempted reasoning,

"You might have remembered, when we visited Nali, we once visited the former dwelling of a Transferee, that Transferee, in the true sense, should be akin to my... Mother. In my soul’s chaos, I can’t see my past life, indicating I wasn’t a naturally born life, but crafted by her through various mimicry and chaos authority..."

Fisher stretched his hand, looking at his palm, then continued,

"So basically, since birth, I’ve been unconsciously maintained in human form by her replicated [transformative] authority, potentially, my soul, my everything might be formed by her replicated authority... yet I haven’t understood why my essence is exactly like a Chaos Species."

Emhardt opened his mouth but soon calmed down, rationally analyzing,

"So essentially, you’ve never been human... No wonder, no wonder you dislike normal human activities."

Fisher glanced at him, seemingly considering which angle would best rip off the book cover, frightening Emhardt into quickly continuing,

"...However, regarding why you exhibit traits of Chaos Species, I do have a thought. The so-called Chaos Species, are souls born from the Sea of Souls within the Spirit Realm, meaning their bizarre unique traits are related to the Sea of Souls. You mentioned you have no past life, your soul might’ve been created by that Transferee through chaotic authority, then is it possible that there’s something else from the Sea of Souls on you?"