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Chapter 353: The Battle between Gods! (6k+)

"Mom, I want to have a pet. The books say witches usually have their own pets, usually toads or black cats."

Little Millie Tang stood in the dining room, clenched her fists and looked at her mother at the table. Her mother was holding a bronze magnifying glass and looking at a huge ancient book spread out on the table.

"Go away, can't you see I'm busy? Have you finished your homework for today?"

"Hmph, I've already done it. If I could have a pet of my own, maybe... I could give you more homework for tomorrow."

"I can't. It's hard enough taking care of your deaf father and you, why would I want to keep a pet?

Besides…”

Millie Tang's mother put down the magnifying glass, walked to the stove and poured the freshly made hot water into the teacup. The black tea bag also floated up:

"Besides, there's no such thing as a witch keeping a pet in a serious book. It must be a third-rate fairy tale your dad secretly gave you.

Or maybe I don’t have enough homework. I’ll read one more book tomorrow.

You also have pets... It's tiring enough to cook for you every day, and I have to cook for pets too, hum..."

"You can't even cook! You just fool me with oatmeal every day!"

Xiaomili Tang's face turned red with anger and she shouted at the top of her voice.

"It's only oatmeal porridge! If you like to eat delicious food, you can find someone else to serve you later! When you grow up, you can raise whatever you want!"

Millie Tang's mother was actually only in her early twenties, and when she saw her daughter talking back, she pulled her neck and yelled at her.

"Mom is the most annoying!" Millie Tang ran out of the restaurant.

That night, Xiaomili Tang was lying alone at the desk, reading an ancient book under candlelight.

"The time is right, the first full moon of Midsummer Eve, the materials are right, yarrow, acorns, stream water... and the location is right, the mushroom circle."

Millie Tang took a deep breath and looked out the window in the moonlight. After making all the preparations, she put all the materials into her schoolbag and walked out of the room carefully holding the candlestick.

Tonight she was going to try a forbidden spell, a mysterious spell that would allow her to travel to another dimension.

Even though it was midsummer, Millie Tang still felt the night was a little cold. The water droplets on the grass wet her slippers. Millie Tang checked the materials one last time and then scattered them around the mushroom circle.

After chanting the spell, she took a deep breath and stepped in.

5 seconds passed... 10 seconds passed... a minute passed... nothing happened.

Millie Tang couldn't help but question the authenticity of the ancient book that recorded this forbidden spell.

She shook her head and looked around to confirm that nothing had changed. She could only pack up everything and return home the same way she had come.

He gently opened the door and was about to tiptoe upstairs.

"Millie Tang!"

Suddenly, my mother's voice called out from behind.

"Mom, I went out to collect dew, but I didn't calculate the time well. There is still some... time before dawn."

Millie Tang turned around carefully, knowing she was doomed.

"Did you lock the door?"

"It's locked."

"Come here, I'll show you something."

In the darkness, her mother's figure could not be seen clearly. Xiaomili Tang Xin knew that she had made a mistake, so she shrank her neck and could only follow her mother silently.

As soon as she entered the restaurant, a furry creature jumped from Xiao Mili Tang's feet onto the table.

Millie Tang was startled and subconsciously took a step back. Then, with the help of the candle in her hand, she could see clearly that it was a chubby orange kitten.

"Like it?"

My mother's voice rang out in the darkness.

"I like it! I...I finally have my own pet!"

Millie Tang quickly put the candlestick on the table and gently touched the kitten with her hand. The kitten was so docile that she rubbed Millie Tang's hand with her wet little nose.

"You must be hungry. I made you an egg tart. Come and eat it."

"Egg tarts! There are still egg tarts to eat!"

Little Millie Tang had only seen this magical food in books. She heard that it was a puff pastry made of milk and eggs.

"But...I'll play with you again tomorrow."

Millie Tang reluctantly took her hand off the kitten's head:

"I have to go to bed early. You just wait for me in the restaurant. I will make a little nest for you in the room tomorrow. Of course, you can sleep on the bed if you want.

I will play with you tomorrow after I finish my morning homework."

Although Xiaomili Tang was excited, her mother's influence was still there. She was afraid that she would say something wrong and make her mother unhappy, and then she might not see the kitten tomorrow.

"Homework? You can take a half-day break tomorrow. You've been doing very well lately. You can sleep until you wake up naturally."

The mother came over and gently stroked the kitten's head, then pushed the egg tart in front of Millie Tang.

Xiaomili Tang swallowed her saliva, picked up the egg tart, and took a big bite. It was very soft and sweet, and ten thousand times more delicious than oatmeal porridge. However, there was no cinnamon powder on it. If cinnamon powder was added, it would definitely taste better.

“Cinnamon powder…”

Xiaomili Tang looked at the egg tart in her hand in astonishment. It was obviously her first time eating it, so why did she think of adding cinnamon powder on it?

Yeah…that guy Ricky adds cinnamon to his tarts.

Millie Tang raised her head suddenly and saw her mother's face emerging from the shadows. Under the candlelight, she still had the familiar long hair and pointed chin, but her eyes...

Millie Tang suddenly discovered that her mother's eyes had turned into golden vertical pupils like the cat on the table!

"You are not my mother! This...is not reality! This is a dream!"

Millie Tang stood up suddenly, and when she looked down at herself again, she found that she had returned to her adult height. It turned out that it was all a dream from the beginning.

"You found out? As expected... you are a witch."

The illusion of the mother in front of him gradually dissipated with the smoke from the burning candle, and the one who spoke was the orange kitten on the table that Millie Tang had just stroked.

"Meow meow meow……"

The sounds of cats meowing continued. Millie Tang looked around the restaurant again and saw more and more cats slowly walking out from the darkness and surrounding Millie Tang.

The plate racks, sinks, and tables in the restaurant also disappeared, and the ground underfoot was no longer hard floor, but soft sand.

“I can use the way gods and humans communicate to let you know what happened, and I can also use the way humans communicate with each other to tell you the next story.

Which one do you choose? "

The orange cat sat on the table and licked its paw gracefully.

"who are you?"

Millie Tang has regained her previous composure. She has distanced herself from the orange cat on the table and has given her own answer.

"Bastit."

"What would happen if I indulge in this fantasy dream?"

"You're a witch and you're asking me this question?"

Under the candlelight, the orange cat's face was full of sarcasm. Millie Tang remained silent. Although the god in front of her looked easier to get along with, he was still a god after all, and did not care that much about the lives of mortals.

The reason why I entered this dreamland is that the other party must have her conditions.

"what do you want to do?"

"The witch has become smart again. I need you to do something for me. This is equivalent to a contract between us. If you agree, I can lend you some of my power.

Of course, you can refuse and I will release you from the dreamland. Of course, you will be turned into a pool of minced meat again in the emerald light in the next second. "

Millie Tang sneered. She clearly had no choice.

"You say it."

"Go to the wild continent in the south and retrieve my Bastis Forkbell."

"Let me think about it... okay."

Millie Tang pretended to be very reluctant. In fact, she could accept this condition. The conditions offered by other gods were not so generous. Those guys wanted to suck the blood and flesh of the holders of the ancient relics and crush the last hope in their minds before they were willing to sign the contract.

The cat in front of him who called himself Bastid seemed to have his own difficulties.

“Don’t forget what you promised me, otherwise not only you but also the person who made the egg tarts for you will be retaliated by me.

I will give you specific instructions on how to find that thing in the future."

After the cat finished speaking, a ball of cotton-like stuff squeezed into Millitang's mind, where she saw the yellow sand all over the sky, the creatures worshipping under the pyramid, the distant stars, and the shameful betrayal. But now was not the time to care about these things, Millitang could feel the darkness around her slowly fading away, and the white snowflakes poured in again.

When he opened his eyes again, the Emerald Dervish who had occupied Alva's body was still standing there about ten meters away from him, and in his hand was the amber necklace that Ricky had given her.

The amber had turned to dust, and only a lonely cat's fang remained hanging on the rope.

Ricky told Milly Tang the origin of the necklace. He found it on the assassin during the mission to escort Nicholas. The assassin and Balkan were both subordinates of Prince Herama.

Kurt was in the southern continent. The god named Bastet asked him to go to the southern continent, which should be related to the feud between the Kurt Kingdom and the southern continent.

Taking a deep breath, the coldness felt in the lungs brought Millie Tang back to the battlefield again!
Now that I have signed the contract and accepted the curse bestowed upon me by the gods, I should make good use of it.

The Emerald Dervish stared at Millie Tang, seemingly wondering how she could survive his attack.

The emerald-colored book named "The Mysterious Road" appeared in front of Millie Tang again. The desire for knowledge is an instinct inherent in human beings, and it is also the supreme secret treasure that the Emerald Ascetic has mastered since his birth.

As expected, the unsuspecting Millie Tang fell into the trap again.

Her eyes were attracted by the supreme mysteries recorded in the books, and this time the Emerald Ascetic obviously lost her previous patience. After only a dozen seconds, Millie Tang's head exploded.

Leaving behind a beautiful corpse standing there with broken bones and flesh hanging on its neck.

The Emerald Dervish waved his hand, and the "Mysterious Road" in front of Milly Tang's body disappeared. The Dervish did not feel complacent about killing a mortal in the dreamland. He just admired the snow scene around him and waited for the dreamland to slowly fade away.

But the illusion did not disappear!

On Millie Tang's body, a fist-sized tumor suddenly appeared on her neck, which was originally bleeding. The tumor was rapidly expanding outward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a blink of an eye, the tumor had the outline of a head. First, bones grew, then flesh and skin, and after the flesh and skin grew, even a fluff of cat hair grew.

A half-human, half-cat head appeared again on Millie Tang's neck.

"It turned out that he didn't help me resist the previous attack, but resurrected me..."

Millie Tang shook her head, and the cat hair on her face fell down, returning to her original appearance.

Learning from previous experience, Millie Tang turned around and ran!
With the power of the two gods, he already has the capital to deal with the Emerald Dervish. The last time Ricky faced the Dervish, he cast "Predator's Smile" on him, proving that the forbidden spell is effective.

Now all he had to do was delay time as much as possible and wait for the "gray smoke of doom" to slowly take effect on him!
A difficult escape battle unfolded in the snowy dreamland. Millie Tang did not look at the Emerald Ascetic and just ran forward on her own.

She knew that the opponent had gradually transformed into a god. The reason why she was able to communicate with the worm head-on and attack the opponent before was largely because her opponent at that time could still be called Alva, and the Emerald Ascetic was just occupying that body.

But as time goes by, the divinity of the gods will gradually become more prominent in him.

Just like looking directly into that strange emerald book, even a hint of the ancient knowledge leaked from it would make his head explode.

So you can’t look directly at the gods! You can only run!
Millie Tang didn't have Liu Yonglu's ability to teleport, so she could only control the weather to block the Emerald Ascetic's sight as much as possible. Of course, whether this would be effective or not, Millie Tang felt... the effect would not be great.

In just five minutes, she was killed four more times by the sadhu.

However, after each death, her consciousness would float in the air for a short time, watching the Bastid resurrect her again.

She didn't know whether this resurrection had a price, or how many times she could last, but she could only run!

Behind Millie Tang, the Gray Smoke of Doom did work on the Emerald Dervish. This forbidden spell would cause irreversible physical aging to the target over time.

At this time, Alva's body was covered with wrinkles, and gray-brown age spots appeared on his cheeks.

If it was any other projection of a god, they wouldn't be so afraid of this forbidden spell, but the Emerald Dervish was a little different. He had to change his body every 200 years. Today, he happened to occupy Alva, and just as he got familiar with this shell, he was defeated by Milliton. Although he was chasing him slower and slower, he was becoming more ruthless in his attacks.

Just when the Emerald Dervish let the emerald green light descend on Millie Tang for the eighth time and crushed her, the worm that had been dormant underground suddenly broke out from under the frozen soil and bit the Dervish from behind again.

At this time, the ascetic's condition was no longer as good as before. Snowflakes were rolling on the ground, and the worms were like a desperate python, clamping the ascetic tightly.

The resurrected Millitang was also in a very bad condition. She looked pale and had a vague feeling that this might be Bastid's limit. She had to get rid of him while the ascetic was in a bad condition.

The double torture of body and mind made Millie Tang almost faint in the snow, and the ancient knowledge that the ascetic monk had instilled in her was also playing tricks on her.

At first, Millie Tang was able to remain calm and use the firm will that she had cultivated as a witch over a long period of time to fight against the whispers of the gods, but gradually, her consciousness became blurred, and only one voice remained in her mind.

"Live!"

The Emerald Dervish whose body is wrapped in worms is also struggling. It can be said that this is a confrontation between the will of humans and gods.

If a mystic happened to read this story, he would definitely sneer at Millie Tang's ignorance and her futile efforts.

But she had no choice. That was a living projection of a god. She had already put in all her effort to drag him into this situation.

An emerald halo glowed inside the worm's body. Millie Tang's pupils were cloudy and blurred. She didn't know what this meant. Was it that the worm had failed, or was it the last glimmer of light before the ascetic monk's will dissipated?

I don’t know how long it took, but Millie Tang went from standing to sitting, and from sitting to crawling like a worm.

I've never been so embarrassed before. Can I go out to meet that guy? I'm afraid it's difficult.

On the ice field ahead, the battle between the gods finally came to an end. The worms lazily loosened their bodies, and in the center of the mess, only the ascetic was lying on the ground, his emerald robe dimmed.

ended?
Millie Tang laughed bitterly as the worms were greedily crawling towards her. The final fate of every ancient relic holder would be eaten up by the gods who had signed a contract with them.

Since I have no value anymore, I can only please the gods with my flesh and blood.

Millie Tang tried to turn over, looked up at the sky, and watched the snow falling. She felt very cold, and her ability to control the weather was slowly disappearing.

There was not a single star in the white sky... Yes, Millie Tang raised her heavy arms and rubbed her eyes. There was a star... a star emitting a yellow halo.

It was falling rapidly towards the ground. He had never seen stars in his dream. That was...

The approaching worm seemed to be more sensitive than Millie Tang. It sensed something, closed its huge mouthparts that had already opened, and decisively left Millie Tang behind and drilled back into the ice.

After more than ten seconds, the wind and snow around suddenly stopped, and Millie Tang felt the air become moist and warm.

A minute later, the dazzlingly white snowfield gradually disappeared. Millie Tang shook her arms slightly and heard the sound of rippling water.

The towering snow-capped mountains are gone, and all that remains are the ruined castle on the cliff. It may have been glorious and splendid in the past, but now, only ruins are left. The wind blows through the broken bricks and tiles, making a whistling sound.

Suddenly a shadow covered Millie Tang's head. She turned her head and saw the Bayaki that the Emerald Dervish had ridden before.

The jay seemed to recognize Millie Tang. It first looked at the stars above its head warily and then stealthily lifted Millie Tang's collar with its mouth, pulled her out of the puddle in the shallows, and rested her against a big tree.

When it finished doing all this, the star with a yellow halo finally fell down and landed on the castle.

Baiyaki quickly distanced himself from Milly Tang and walked to the lake, lowering his head deeply, as if waiting for the arrival of the king in the castle.

"Hahaha."

Millitang shook her head weakly. She knew clearly what was happening before her eyes. She had fallen into another dream. A god whose status was far higher than that of the worm and Bastid pulled her in.

And the other party is most likely the real body of the Emerald Dervish, the King of Carcosa.

On the quiet lakeside, a crescent moon was reflected in it, a strange interstellar horse lowered its proud head, and a huge figure wearing a yellow robe and a yellow hood appeared out of thin air in the middle of the lake.

Millie Tang quickly turned her head away, not daring to look directly at the god.

Having reached the end of her rope, Millie Tang looked dazedly at the flowers on the grass by the lake, humming a song her mother sang when she was a child.

Although her eyes did not meet the Yellow King of Carcosa, she had already sensed the aura of chaos and destruction, and she accepted her fate calmly.

The huge shadow in the tattered yellow robe in the center of the lake flew forward with elegance and ease. When he passed by Baiyaki, the wriggling fingers under the robe touched Baiyaki's ugly and deformed horse back.

Only then did Baiyaki raise his head and follow his master in awe.

Under the huge shadow, Milly Tang leaning against the tree was like a seriously wounded martyred monk, with her neck tilted to one side, her face full of calmness, calmly welcoming her tragic fate.

There was a rustling sound coming from the front, but she still forced herself not to look at the god in front of her. Later, before her soul was completely devoured by madness and destruction, she could at least close her eyes calmly instead of being tortured into an ugly state in despair and madness.

The yellow strips of cloth twisted into finger-like tentacles in the air and slowly stretched towards Milly Tang's head. The King in Yellow under the hood seemed to enjoy the emotional and desperate roar of the unwilling prey before death.

Millie Tang said nothing and slowly closed her eyes.

Suddenly, the tall trees behind Millie Tang began to grow vigorously. The growth was so wild and wanton that the most primitive and vigorous vitality of life was squeezed out in an instant.

Trees that could have taken hundreds of years to grow into towering trees are growing wildly like ephemeral flowers at all costs! Millie Tang was supported by the tree canopy and lifted up to the sky in an instant.

"Don't hurt my aunt!"

This was accompanied by a dry statement from Xiaohu, his voice was still as monotonous as usual. This sentence was like an order, a declaration, and it could not be questioned.

Little Tiger appeared out of nowhere and stood in front of the King in Yellow!
So how did Xiaohu come? It must have been Liu Yonglu who called him. When Liu Yonglu attended the launch of the electric parachute, he temporarily left Xiaohu and Ling'er behind the booth.

Although Xiaohu is obedient, Ling'er is unsure. What if Ling'er suddenly has a whim and attacks Nicholas or Prince Andrew in front of her halfway through the press conference...he will be held responsible.

Therefore, Liu Yonglu gave full play to the subjective initiative of a family with many children. The older ones took care of the younger ones, and the eldest took care of the second child. He let Xiaohu look after his younger sister and would pick them up after the press conference was over.

Millie Tang entered the dreamland, and Liu Yonglu was so anxious that he couldn't chant any spell, and he couldn't enter the dreamland either.

So he hurried to find Xiaohu and Ling'er. When Ling'er heard that Millie Tang was in trouble, the corners of her mouth were so happy that they moved to the back of her head. She wished that the stinky witch would die quickly, so she didn't enter the dreamland to rescue Millie Tang. Xiaohu came instead.

And what was Liu Yonglu doing at this time?
As Alva approached the podium, he spoke two sentences in a broken voice, the second one addressed to his father and the first one to himself.

"Ricky, the relic."

Liu Yonglu understood what he meant. Wordsworth and his men must have tampered with the ancient relics borrowed from the Shelter Department!

(End of this chapter)