Chapter 65: A World of Complete Ignorance

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  Elemental Spirit Realm, in some unknown space.

  The entire space is filled with the purest water element between heaven and earth.

  This is the domain of the Water Spirit King.

  At some point, a woman's voice echoed through space.

  The voice above is telling something in ancient spirit language.

  "Hmm... a visitor from another world?"

  "Whatever, I'm about to collapse anyway, might as well gamble with what's left..."

  "Don't let me down..."

  In space, a strong divine energy suddenly burst forth.

  Gensokyo, Home of Lost Souls.

  Tzu suddenly furrowed her brow as she savored the blue bubble tea.

  Closing her eyes, she stood silently beside him, his worried gaze a deep blue.

  After a long while, Zi suddenly said: "Hmph, since you didn't have any ill intentions, I won't hold it against you..."

  "It seems like this is just right, and it's also solved a worry for Mo Er..."

  "What's wrong, Lord Purple?"

  Lan tentatively asked a question.

  Her eyebrows curved and she smiled lightly: "Nothing..."

  Although worried about Mo Shao's safety in her heart, seeing Zi had no reaction, Lan could only suppress the anxiety in her heart.

  After all, in any case, Violet would not be disadvantageous to Yagumo Kuroba.

  "Daddy...... Daddy......"

  In a daze, Bayun Mo seemed to have heard someone calling out to him.

  "Dad... wake up... Dad..."

  His brain hurt like a needle stab, and Bachiko couldn't help but let out a pained cry.

  Slowly opening her eyes, what was closest to her was Yui's worried little face.

  Yazuki Moku woke up and her originally furrowed cute eyebrows finally relaxed, and the tone of Kudou's voice also became cheerful as she opened her beautiful big eyes.

  "Dad! You're finally awake!"

  "Uh... Yui..."

  One hand propped himself up from the ground, one hand covering his forehead, Bayun Mo was temporarily unclear about the situation.

  "What's going on here..."

  Before crossing over, Yakumo Suke let Yui turn back into a pendant and put it around her neck. Then, he pulled Akane's hand and they crossed over.

  Unlike the previous time, when he crossed into the world of Sword Art Online, Yún Mò had always maintained a clear consciousness. This time, however, just as he was about to break through the spatial barrier and enter the fantasy world, his body seemed to have been interfered with by some unknown external energy.

  That energy was extremely powerful and pure, in that instant, Yakumo Suke seemed to have seen... water?

  Or water element.

  The purest water element.

  Then, Bachun Mo lost consciousness.

  "I don't know, I was just following Dad when he crossed over, and at some point my senses were suddenly blocked out. When I came to again, I found Dad lying here!"

  Yui looked troubled, seemingly frustrated that she couldn't help Yakumo Saku.

  "And... Mom is gone..."

  Yakumo Moku was startled and looked around, but he couldn't find Akane's figure anywhere.

  In a quiet forest, it seemed like there were only two people, him and Yui.

  "Tomorrow!!!"

  Ignoring the pain in his body, Hachiguma Tsumu stood up from the ground and shouted loudly.

  Unfortunately, there was no response.

  "What the...! What's going on here?!"

  This world can't possibly be a straightforward one like Sword Art Online where there's no mystery to it, if there exists something that can knock people out cold.

  What if an ordinary person like Akane were alone in such a world and encountered danger?

  Enduring the sharp pain that kept coming from his brain like needle pricks, Yakumo Saku released his spiritual energy to search for Akane's figure in all directions.

  Unfortunately, after spreading his spiritual power to the extreme, he still didn't gain anything.

  Just as Yagumo Taro was about to retrieve his spiritual power, he suddenly discovered that in his Spiritual Sea, apart from the Fantasy Seed, something else had appeared once again.

  That extra thing has no physical existence, but Yakumo Sumi can clearly feel it.

  It seems... like some kind of contract...

  It was very strange, in Hachiguma Inkmind there was a voice constantly telling him that it was the Spirit Contract.

  Akane is a Spirit Master and he made a contract with Akane as a spirit.

  "Spirit Master... Spirit... Contract?"

  A flash of insight, and Yún Mò seemed to recall that this setting was similar to a certain anime from his previous life.

  It's just a pity that the anime "Sword Dance of the Spirit" only had one season, and almost no key plot was mentioned.

  Furthermore, I didn't read the original work very carefully myself.

  So tragically, Yakumo Sumeragi was completely ignorant of this world...

  Don't even know what the main character's name is, truly completely ignorant.

  "This is going to be trouble..."

  Ba Yunmo rubbed his forehead and let out a low sigh.

  "Dad..."

  Yui stepped forward and grasped Yakumo's sleeve, her beautiful large eyes filled with concern.

  He felt a little comforted when he saw his daughter, and as he stroked Jingyi's head, the little guy showed a cute expression like a kitten.

  "Don't worry, Yui, Daddy will definitely find Mommy!"

  "Definitely!"

  It seemed like he was trying to reassure himself, Yakumo Mukuro repeated it once more.

  "Uh-huh! Yui believes in Daddy!" Nodding her small head, Yui said loudly.

  The eight clouds of good mood stirred up the fantasy seeds in the spiritual sea, and began to feel the power of this world.

  "So powerful..."

  In an instant, Bachiko Moku saw a power of fantasy that far exceeded the realm of the sword god.

  "But I've also become much faster at absorbing..."

  As his own strength increases, Yakumo Suke's absorption speed of Fantasium also becomes faster and faster.

  "It seems like it's going to take several more years..."

  "But... this world seems a bit strange..."

  In his recent feelings, Yakumo Mokuto keenly sensed that the power of this world was a bit off.

  Apart from the power of illusions left over after the birth of the world, this world is filled with six basic powers: fire, water, wind, earth, holy and dark.

  However, the dark power among these six basic powers seems extremely weak.

  At the same time, apart from the six basic powers, there is a very uncomfortable power existing.

  That power and this world are mismatched, as if it didn't originally belong here.

  Moreover, this uncomfortable foreign power is constantly eroding the six basic powers that originally existed in this world.

  "Whatever, never mind all that, let's go find Akane first..."

  In the spiritual sea, that mysterious spirit contract made Yakumo Sumeragi feel that Akane Minadzuki was not in danger at present.

  But it was also impossible to determine where she was.

  Kotaro picked up Yui and Hachiguma set off in a random direction.

  "Hah......hah......hah......"

  In the forest of the Elemental Spirit Realm, a young girl was running continuously among the curved trees.

  Behind her, a terrifying roar was heard.

  "Why, why did the originally gentle tree spirit go berserk?"

  While fleeing for her life, the girl desperately screamed in her heart.

  I am nothing but a reject from the Spiritual Academy's selection of Spirit Princesses, merely a laughing stock for the royal family.

  Even if I die here, no one would care...

  Being able to come to the Elemental Spirit Realm to attend this Sword Dance Festival as a spirit is still just a nominal title of being the Second Princess of the Odesia Empire.

  In reality, the girl who lost the ability to use the spirit's power again was always ridiculed as the Fallen Spirit Princess.

  Even those nobles who were supposed to swear allegiance to the royal family cast contemptuous glances at her.

  The disheartened girl left the arena of the competition and wandered alone in the dangerous forest.

  "Ah——"

  In a moment of carelessness, the girl was tripped by a branch underfoot and fell heavily to the ground.

  The giant tree spirit behind him had already rushed up.

  With this... with a tree spirit of this level, as long as I can summon a knight...

  Thinking so in her heart, the girl tried to recite the incantation.

  "You, knight of the Sword Saint who serves the Son of Man!"

  "Obey the ancient contract of blood and become the sword that guards me!"

  The girl's chest, where the spirit crest was carved, began to emit a dazzling light.

  The girl's body, which had originally been guided by the divine energy, suddenly interrupted, and the light dissipated.

  The summoning failed...

  I guess I'm really done for...

  Despair appeared on the girl's face.

  Before his eyes, a gigantic and ferocious tree spirit let out a terrifying roar, swinging its thick branches to heavily strike down.

  Then, a sword flashed, and countless colorful magic bullets hit the tree spirit at the same time.

  "Huh?"

  With a wail, the tree spirit fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

  The girl stared blankly at the three people in front of her.

  A sword-wielding young man, a girl embracing a little girl... a maiden? A young man?