Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 496

Chapter 496: Chapter 36
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Making friends with a rich man was very stressful for people. Especially when this rich man was kind to you, but then you did something bad to him.
If that rich elder sister (Queen of Water Elements) said that “I’ll kill you, and no one could save you in this world” or something like that, Sui Xiong, a master who had never been obedient to power, would let her go naturally just like a fart. However, besides her deep regret, that rich elder sister did not show any dissatisfaction. On the contrary, when Sui Xiong needed help, she helped him generously. It was just like a friend of yours needing your help to get promoted, but you didn’t help him. However, instead of being angry with you, he still treated you as a friend and tried his best to help you without hesitation when you needed his help.
In the face of such a friend, who could not feel ashamed? Who could feel no pressure?
Sui Xiong was no exception.
He sighed softly, but he didn’t find a solution for it. He directly put it aside and began to think about what he could do to kill time.
After thinking for a bit, he suddenly remembered something, and he couldn’t help but laugh again.
“That’s right! Now that I can use magic to go back in time and spy on what happened in the past, why not go back and find my real body?” he said to himself. “Maybe my real body is still sinking somewhere at the bottom of the sea.”
His eyes turned bright at that thought.
He was always efficient in action, so he set out immediately.
He first returned to Gold-Panning Town; it was the starting point for him to truly enter the civilized world. Then following the direction from his memory all the way down, he soon found White Leaves Village.
White Leaves Village had been destroyed by Sui Xiong’s anger decades ago, and it was still in ruin now. Sui Xiong could feel that there was still some cold air here after his attack.
He was surprised to find that some people were living here.
There were several adventurers—two warriors, two mages and a paladin. Sui Xiong observed them for several days and found that they lived like hermits. The two mages were a master and his apprentice. The two warriors were probably the relatives of that apprentice, and the paladin was hired by them. They lived here mainly because they needed the cold air in White Leaves Village to practice.
The older mage’s hair had mostly turned grey, and his power probably belonged to the mid-level. The apprentice was just twelve or thirteen years old and had barely stepped into the realm of a mage. Amazingly, the apprentice had very special talents, and he had an extraordinary affinity for cold power. No wonder his teacher and family were willing to accompany him to this dangerous place to improve the efficiency of his practice.
After that war, the negative energy near White Leaves Village was basically dispelled. With the shielding of the remnants of Sui Xiong’s cold air, there was no need to worry about the attacks from skeletons and other dead spirits. But there were not only dead spirits in Ashes Woods, but also many other Magic Beasts. It was really risky for these five people to live here.
Sui Xiong observed them for some time and found that they had good personalities. He nodded approvingly and made some secret arrangements in White Leaves Village to ensure that they would not be attacked or killed by Magic Beasts.
Then he left and headed for the sea along the road he had traveled before.
It was not difficult to find the road. Although it seemed to be the same everywhere in the forest, Sui Xiong could find his own breath along the way he had passed by before more or less. That breath was very thin now, but it was still enough for him, just like a clear line of footprints in front of him.
It was not long before he came to the seaside and found the place where he had landed before.
Sui Xiong smiled. Instead of getting into the water, he searched the air for the trace he had left in the past.
It was much more difficult than looking for a trace on land because the sea was moving. Thus, whatever that breath was, it could be washed away quickly. Sui Xiong spent a lot of time searching but still failed to find the breath that he had left before.
He sighed softly and began to cast a spell.
A bright circle of light appeared in front of him, showing the scene of the sea that was constantly changing. This was a spell to trace back to what had happened on this beach in the past.
This spell was called Recall the Past and was quite famous. It could trace back to any scene that had happened in the past at a certain place, as long as that place was not specifically covered by other spells.
Of course, the premise was that the spell caster needed enough magic.
Certainly, Sui Xiong had enough magic. If he wanted, he could even trace what had happened hundreds of thousands of years ago, not to mention what had happened just a few decades ago.
After a while, the scene of Sui Xiong’s initial landing appeared in the circle of light.
He laughed and continued to cast the spell, but he gradually raised it toward the sky, slowly pulling the lens away.
When the lens reached a certain level, the scene on the ground became very blurred. Even the original giant jellyfish became just a small black spot in the sea. If one didn’t pay careful attention to it, they could easily ignore it.
But the lens also reached far enough, at least for hundreds of miles.
Sui Xiong maintained the spell at the current state, traced the direction of the small black spot in the scene and moved forward.
This time, he flew slowly, and it took him several days to find the place where he had left the deep sea before.
At that time, he had been quite successful in practice and thought he had become powerful enough, so he left the ice trench in the sea for land, looking for the trace of civilization.
Now he had to go the other way around, looking for the place where he had come to this world.
Sui Xiong slowly landed and went into the sea.
He was very powerful now. Although the seawater couldn’t hinder his spell, it still influenced his sight. Thus, he had to shrink the vision of his spell to make sure that he could clearly see the path he had traveled before.
Luckily, it was just a short and straight path. Sui Xiong went all the way down and soon found the ice trench in the sea, just below the sea surface.
That ice trench was still sending out horribly cold air. Although Sui Xiong was very powerful now, he still couldn’t underestimate it.
He had known nothing about the ice trench at that time, but now he knew where it was from. A long time ago, a demigod master from the Ice Plane, a plane that was equivalent to the inner space of the material world, came to the human world and had conflicts with a demigod master from the sea. After a fierce fight, the Sea King killed the Lord of Ice Elements at this place.
The remains of the Lord of Ice Elements had been naturally taken away by the Sea King as a trophy. But his residual breath had been lingering here, turning into this extremely cold, ice trench.
Over the years, there had been many people practicing in this ice trench. Sui Xiong was not the only one, and he still knew some others.
However, that was something that had happened a long time ago. In recent years, Sui Xiong was the only one who had practiced and became a master here.
The circle of light was like a mirror, reflecting the solitary figure that had been busy practicing under this cold environment. Sui Xiong didn’t know how long it took him to finally find the scene when he had first come here.
In that scene, a strange-looking jellyfish came here cautiously, trying to touch the frost with one of its tentacles, but that tentacle immediately turned into an ice stick. Then the frost spread rapidly towards its whole body along with it. The jellyfish immediately cut off the tentacle and saw a long ice stick slowly sinking into the seawater, falling onto the glowing frost. Without bouncing, it silently turned into powder, sprinkling on the ground.
“I miss that so much…” Sui Xiong sighed. He continued to cast the spell to trace the way along which he had come here before.
This time, it was much more difficult because Sui Xiong had been swimming in the deep sea to search for this place before.
Relying on the scene reflected in the circle of light, Sui Xiong followed the footprints he had left behind before and went backwards. He stopped several times and then went on walking, adjusting the effect of the spell in order to ensure efficiency.
After a long time, he finally came to the shallow sea and saw himself fighting with the single-horned giant whale through the spell.
Now, he already knew the identity of the giant whale. It was a small but famous sea monster in the sea of the Northwest. It had a small clan, but almost every adult was a legendary beast.
Of course, that had been something in the past as well.
Sui Xiong watched himself kill the giant whale and couldn’t help but laugh.
When I killed this fellow by myself, I really took some risks and suffered great losses!
Who would ever have thought that a seemingly silly whale could still know how to play tricks?
And who would ever have thought that Sui Xiong, a smarter man among all creatures, the world-wide famous Majesty Void Mask, could have ever been deceived by a whale.
Sui Xiong shook his head and smiled bitterly as he watched the giant whale freeze the jellyfish and then bite off almost a third of its body.
“This fellow… Shall I say it’s smart or silly? At that time, if it had chosen to make friends with me instead of attacking me, maybe it would have been a powerful creature that would have a great influence on people. Maybe it would have become a god.”
Sui Xiong always took good care of his friends, and with his help, most of his friends lived a better life now with growing power and a better career.
After watching the short battle in rewind, Sui Xiong finally improved the efficiency of his search again.
Before fighting with that giant whale, he kept moving in the shallow water. The distance was not too far, so Sui Xiong could see his figure clearly through the spell from the sky.
He saw that he was swimming and hunting while trying to modify his body, growing bigger and stronger all the while.
In other words, during his search, he kept looking at a strange jellyfish.
It could be described as a wonderful scene. Sui Xiong saw himself constantly changing. From the third perspective, he saw that he had once fantastically added all kinds of constitutions to his body, so he couldn’t help but smile at that.
Along the way, he had gradually come to a very distant part of the sea. Here, he finally found the place where he had become a jellyfish. But this was not the place where his space-travel had started.
Because he remembered that he had traveled a long way in the water in the state of a soul, just like a water ghost. It wasn’t until he had almost been swallowed by the single-horned giant whale that he had been scared to go into the jellyfish’s body.
The circle of light clearly reflected the scene when the single-horned giant whale rushed out of the deep sea but caught nothing.
Then, it also showed the sudden deaths of small fish and jellyfishes in the seemingly empty sea water of earlier times.
The souls of these weak creatures were taken away by Sui Xiong, and they died without knowing what happened.
Sui Xiong’s attack was powerful. Over the years, he had never missed his targets, and no one had escaped from him. There were no exceptions.
But he had rarely used this tactic.
In those days, in order to survive, he would attack those ignorant lower creatures in this way without hesitation. But when he stepped into a civilized society, he was reluctant to use this method to attack those wise creatures.
Either that, or he was strong enough that there was no need for him to use such a tactic. It was weird and horrible to him even now.
Sui Xiong had always been unwilling to use this tactic. Maybe it was because of his morality, or maybe he just thought it was unnecessary; perhaps it was because of some kind of presentiment in the dark.
He always felt that saving this tactic could be of great use in the future.
“Well, it may just be my illusion. There are many illusions in life, and I don’t care if there is one more,” Sui Xiong spoke to himself while searching carefully.
He searched for traces of the deaths of small fish and jellyfish to find his own figure.
It was strange. Although Sui Xiong had been in the state of a soul at that time, now he was certainly powerful enough to see that soul. Then why couldn’t he find his soul through the spell, Recall the Past?
That was really strange.
Fortunately, even so, he finally found the place where he had first come to this world.
In front of that place, no small fish or jellyfish died suddenly.
Sui Xiong marked this place with his spell. From now on, instead of spending time looking for it, he could find it as soon as he wanted.
Meanwhile, he also marked the current time to avoid any mistakes in his memory.
Although he wanted to search for his body immediately or go down to the bottom of the sea and start digging there, he still decided to wait.
He needed a rest.
This long journey had taken him about a month. During this period, he had continually cast the Recall the Past spell, so the consumption of magic was naturally high. That made him feel very tired.
At first, he was fine, but then… He traced back almost a thousand years ago!
Sui Xiong had never expected that he had stayed in the sea for nearly a thousand years.
It was roughly like this: several hours were taken from the start of his space-travel to become a jellyfish. Then it took about ten years for him to become top dog in the distant sea and eventually kill the single-horned giant whale. It took more than a year to find the ice trench. Finally, he spent more than a dozen days to get out of the trench and find land successfully.
These things were nothing serious. What really consumed a lot of time was his practicing in the ice trench.
If it hadn’t been for this trip, Sui Xiong would never have known that he had been practicing in the ice trench for almost a thousand years.
“In the myths and legends on earth, there are usually some old demons that have practiced in the mountains for a thousand years. I never thought I was such an old demon.” Thinking of this long period of practice, Sui Xiong could not help but laugh. “Well, hello, 1000-year-old demon.”