?Chapter 1973 A Little Bit


    All the while Ryu was being put through the wringer, Hope could only sit there in a nervous mess. He had gone through many cycles of injury and recovery, and he looked as though he had almost died several times now.


    How could she not be nervous?No?v(el)B\\jnn


    The only thing stopping her from crying out was the fact that Ryu did seem to get a little better every time he went through one of these cycles.


    But no matter how much she tried to keep herself calm, it was nearly impossible to do so when her husband started blowing up like a balloon.


    It sounded like bombs were going off in Ryu''s body, or like a Heavenly Tribulation had been triggered right in her presence.


    However, all the while, Ryu''s eyes remained almost lightly closed and his face was entirely


    expressionless. One could have thought that it was someone else''s body undergoing such horrors and not his own.


    That calm sort of sharpness seemed to stir something within Hope.


    She remembered the first time she met Ryu. Then she remembered the first time she learned that Ryu''s Fate wasn''t anything special at all. In fact, it was shackled and might have been even worse than her own.


    Even now, she had no idea how Ryu had made it through with such poor Fate, and it hadn''t made any sense to her until he exited the Dark Holy World they had just left the vicinity of.


    With high affinity for Space... one was no longer bound by it.


    With high affinity for Time... training in a time warp was possible for you when it wasn''t for anyone else. It was an ability that most would absolutely kill for.


    And with a high Fate affinity... could it be that you stood outside of its influence?


    Was this the reason her scribe had fallen onto Ryu? Did it calculate this?


    No...


    She looked up for a moment, realizing that they had been found, but the calmness in her gaze didn''t fade in the slightest.


    She had only allowed Ryu to try so hard on his own because he knew that whenever he was pushed into a corner, he would force his way out. And this time, he had managed to make it 90% of the way through.


    In that case, she would cover the remaining 10%... and pretend as though she couldn''t cover the full bill.


    The funny part about all of this was that she had had a solution within a few minutes. However, she allowed Ryu to take the reins nonetheless.


    Now that there were enemies here... she could give her husband''s ego a light massage.


    Hope waved a hand and the laws of the world solidified into runes. Magical energies swirled and her slender fingers looked as though they were plucking at the stars and gliding through the silvery rivers of Fate.


    Then, she made a plucking motion.


    In that moment, a pill condensed from the Runes and the skies above suddenly shook.


    Hope smiled and then giggled to herself. Maybe she liked being patronized by her husband a little bit... but only just a little bit.


    Now was time for her reward.


    She pressed the pill to her lips and then kissed Ryu.


    Ryu was taken aback for a moment because he felt the medicinal effects pour into his body.


    His eyes snapped open with hints of surprise in them, but he still couldn''t move for a moment as his Meridians rumbled.


    All at once, his body shuddered and the Dark Seed qi vanished into the air.


    BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!


    Hope looked off into the distance, a sinister light in her eyes.