Sword of Dawnbreaker

Chapter 426 - 425: The Blurred Border of the Material World

No one is more suited to examine Emily than Kamel—as an energy spiritual body creature trapped in the defied Fortress for a thousand years, Kamel had nothing to do in the last few hundred years of entrapment. He explored every brick, beam, and crevice of the Fortress and thoroughly researched every detail and mystery of his own body. This ancient Arcane Master once said:

”As a researcher, I am experienced both in researching and being researched.”

Emily’s situation is not entirely the same as his, but at least the essence of ”energy creature” is common. Based on his own research results, Kamel knows how to proceed when faced with another energy creature.

After some tentative negotiations, Kamel first confirmed Emily’s current state of consciousness: ”Her thinking ability is intact, but her modes of perception and feedback are somewhat chaotic, likely due to the dislocation caused by a sudden change in life form. That’s why she’s acting somewhat... unlike a normal person.”

Gawain nodded, watching Emily floating around Amber—this little girl seemed curious about every stranger in front of her, approaching everyone present with the mindset of ”researching new things.” But during this process, she did not have much effective communication with others; she seemed to immerse herself in her spiritual world, merely allowing limited interference from the reality of the material world, which made her behavior somewhat peculiar.

According to Kamel, when a human suddenly transforms into an energy body creature, the world in their eyes will be ”overlapping” and ”illusory” for a short time, much like observing a flame through layers of curtains, elusive in nature. The transformer’s mind will also change accordingly to match this bodily mutation. This displacement is not permanent, and Emily is clearly in the middle of this change now—the only consolation is that she seems to be adapting quite well.

”Does she still retain her memories?” Wright couldn’t help but ask curiously, ”I mean... is she still Emily?”

”Most will generally remain, just like I did, but how she deals with these memories is unpredictable. It depends on her later mental reconstruction,” Kamel said. ”But either way, she is still herself, able to retain her identity—which is the biggest difference between us energy creatures and the undead.”

Speaking with a slight sigh, Kamel added, ”The child must have a very special Holy Light Affinity Talent... This talent should have manifested before she died.”

”She once said she saw a circle of light around me...” A glimmer flashed in Wright’s eyes as he suddenly recalled forgotten details from that night, ”I thought she had mistaken the campfire’s glow for something else...”

”What she saw might be the Holy Light surging around you—those lights have never left you, but you cannot perceive them, causing them to scatter and drift away,” Gawain speculated. ”And I remember you said that the people who adopted Emily said the child was ’not quite right in the head’?”

Wright nodded, ”Yes, they said Emily had odd ideas from a young age, often experiencing hallucinations, sometimes even startling adults.”

Pittman marveled, ”A talented poor girl—such things do happen occasionally, but compared to those children who can receive a good education and develop healthily from a young age, such things usually only exist in the imaginations of the impoverished... It’s just all too coincidental.”

”No, I don’t think it’s a coincidence,” Wright suddenly shook his head, looking at Emily with a strange light in his eyes, ”I believe it’s the guidance of the Holy Light... The Holy Light brought Emily to guide someone as dull as me.”

Emily heard Wright’s voice and giggled, gently landing behind Wright, grasping the latter’s shoulder like a layer of fine gauze. After apparently pondering something with a tilted head, she swung her arms at Kamel, emitting a warm and bright glow.

Kamel paused briefly, then responded with a soft laugh, raising his arm to emit a cheerful light-blue radiance as a reply.

Amber, watching from the side, was baffled, unable to help poking Gawain’s arm: ”Hey, can you understand what the two of them are doing?”

Gawain couldn’t fathom the communication mode between two luminous beings and could only guess, ”...Perhaps after transforming into energy bodies, they can resonate communication?”