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Chapter 1196 Apple and Belt

Under the guidance of the counterfeiter, everyone rushed directly towards their destination.

Compared to Blaze who was horrified by the dissolution of the sea monsters, the people of [Somado] looked accustomed to it. Greenland even said [Congratulations] for no apparent reason while clapping.

This unusual behavior made Blaze think that Greenland was possessed by evil spirits, and he almost punched him, leaving the others to explain.

Simply put, more than a hundred years ago, foreigners discovered a world where life could melt into water, and this situation has become commonplace today.

In the world discovered by the stranger, life, or more precisely, people, dissolve into water because the barriers between people disappear. But because of the disappearance, the independence of the spirit is lost, and it is precisely because of this that humans are dissolved and integrated into water.

This principle is also applicable to the dissolution phenomenon in the bottle of life, because the spirit is highly unified into tranquility and serenity, and finally loses its own appearance and becomes the water of life.

Greenland also gave another explanation, which is that they have a bottle that can hold people and then melt them into blood after a period of time.

However, to use this dangerous weapon, you need to call out the target's name first.

This also explains why strangers have a lot of weird names that don't sound like their real names. It is very important to hide your real name.

Although they were chatting idly, their pace was not slow at all. They reached their destination in just a few tens of seconds.

There were no traps or enemies along the way. We did encounter a few pirates, but they all looked very happy, and even if we spoke to them, they would only mutter to themselves.

"This is it." The forger glanced at the compass, then raised his head and looked around. The coordinates were correct, and the surrounding environment also looked the same.

The surrounding trees seem to have been carefully planned. The golden apple trees here appear thicker and more weathered than those outside. The bark is covered with lines of time, and looks calm and solemn.

They surround it, with lush yet slightly drooping branches and leaves, as if paying tribute to the center.

In the center of this pattern stands a unique tree.

Its trunk is straight and upright, its bark is as smooth as silver, emitting a faint glow. Its branches stretch out in all directions in an elegant manner, but are slightly gathered at the top, forming a natural tray shape.

And on this "tray", a golden apple was quietly suspended, as if held up by an invisible force.

It was the only golden apple in the entire golden apple forest that was not growing on a tree. It looked as if it had been picked and placed there.

【Golden Apple】

[It is dedicated to the most beautiful goddess]

"Dedicated to the most beautiful goddess?" Blaze frowned. Pais's goal was to restore his posture as the goddess of youth Hebe. The words youth and beauty were basically tied together.

No matter how you look at it, this thing is there to help Pais recover his divine body, and has nothing to do with repairing Audrey's face.

Blaze held back his hands and looked at the strangers. He still remembered that he couldn't help but scoop up the Fountain of Youth with the magic bag, which resulted in the accidental awakening of the surrounding skeletons. If it weren't for that mistake, he would have pushed Pais into the Fountain of Youth to wash on the spot.

Greenland and others didn't dare to move. They recognized what it was and whoever picked it up would be in big trouble.

"We don't have much time, rock, paper, scissors!"

The game of who would be the unlucky one was decided in an instant, and Blaze's rock lost to the pistols of the others. Blaze sighed in regret. He had wanted to use dynamic vision to observe what others would do. When he saw the abnormal speed of the index fingers of others, he thought they would use scissors, but he didn't expect it to be a gun.

But the problem was with him. He actually forgot that strangers like to find hidden professions and hidden skills, and they would dig deep even for a very simple game of rock-paper-scissors. He thought it was too simple.

He was convinced to lose.

Blaze took a deep breath, walked to the tray tree in the middle, and then climbed up the tree. He was extremely vigilant during the whole process, fearing that the tree would suddenly attack him, but until he grasped the golden apple and took it away, there was no change around him.

Normally, just the three steps of him approaching the tree, climbing up the tree, and getting the golden apple would trigger a battle, which did not violate common sense.

There must be something wrong when things are out of the ordinary. But for now, they can only honestly suppress their anxiety and take the golden apple back.

On the way back to the pirates' retirement village, Blaze glanced in the direction of the stream. The sea monsters were still invading the world, but all of them were dissolved into water of life within a minute.

Not to mention the amazing melting efficiency, at least hundreds of sea monsters have melted so far. If all the sea monsters were melted into an equal amount of water of life, then the stream would have turned into a small lake by now.

But nothing changed there.

After returning to the Pirate Retirement Village, the Chainsaw Demon and Baguette Cake who were in charge of staying behind shook their heads at them, which meant that Pais sat there leisurely throughout the whole process and did nothing.

"The thing has been retrieved. How can we use it to heal the wound on Audrey's face?" Blaze threw the golden apple to Pais. At this point he was too lazy to test the apple.

"I bet she'll act like she just got an authentic toy and say 'I finally got it'!" Greenland whispered, holding the staff in his hand.

There is a high probability that Pais will turn hostile after getting the things.

Pais caught the golden apple, looked at it with nostalgia on her face, and whispered in admiration of its beauty. Then she slowly stood up and came to Audrey.

"Take it. When you have it, the scar on your face will disappear, and the appearance of the Moon Goddess will be restored, becoming more perfect and the most beautiful being."

Audrey looked at the golden apple that Pais handed to her. It was the most perfect fruit she had ever seen, shining like a little sun, and its surface was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting her damaged face.

"...Forget it. This kind of self-praising thing is quite pathetic." Audrey sighed regretfully, slowly backed away, and entered the protective circle.

Pais's expression did not change, but many shadows appeared on his face, and the hand holding the golden apple dropped.

"What a foolish choice. I wanted to at least let you briefly feel the feeling of being the Most Beautiful, and for others to get rewards commensurate with their efforts. But now..."

The golden apple shattered in Pais's palm, and golden juice gushed out like flowing starlight, flowing over her fingertips and then sliding down.

The pulp and juice are intertwined, as if guided by an invisible force. Transparent silk appears between the flowing juice, and the juice becomes the lines.

The flesh turned into a gem on the belt, sparkling with charming light.

【Kistos Belt/World Class】

"You have lost this blessing."

(End of this chapter)