Hate Me, Miss Witch!

In the Millennium City, the originally gentle atmosphere between Char and Ogutina became cold again.

Ogutina slightly raised her red-gold eyes.

The brilliance revealed in it is no longer the clear girlish appearance before, but more like a queen looking down on the world.

It was only at this moment that Augustina showed a bit of majesty that fit the title of "Queen of the Night" in front of Char for the first time.

Not just a legend, but a king overlooking all living beings from above the clouds.

Feeling the aura of the Queen of Night in front of her that was no less impressive than Sylvia, Char's movements never wavered.

He just calmly held out his hand.

The pitch-black undead metal transformed into a tiny sharp blade.

With a pop, a small gap appeared between Xia Ya's palms.

But then, before there was time for blood to flow out from the wound, the small wound quickly stopped bleeding and scabbed, and even the scar quickly faded and then disappeared.

"I have always believed that as long as any abnormal things happen in this world, there must be reasons and legal principles behind them."

Xia Ya's eyes fell on his scabbed wound.

"This ability to become immortal is too much like a vampire."

"Of course, the resurrection ability of ordinary vampires will never be able to reach this level... I am not afraid of sunlight, garlic, silverware, even crosses and holy water, they cannot make me feel uncomfortable."

"And even if I am bombarded to pieces by the fully liberated holy spear, I can still be resurrected intact."

"This ability, compared to the so-called "resurrection" and "self-healing"... is more like immortality on a conceptual level. "

Xia Ya raised his eyes slightly and looked at Ogutina in front of him with indifferent eyes.

"Ordinary vampires can't do this, not even a legendary vampire prince."

"However, if it is True Ancestor Kurohime who is chosen as the vessel for the arrival of the "Crimson Moon", she may not be able to do such a thing. "

"It's like the true God disappears into thin air, but as long as the believers' faith exists, they will one day return from the distant star realm."

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"Just by speculating on immortality, have you determined that I am the contractor of your fourth soul contract?"

"As you said, conceptual immortality is not exclusive to the "Crimson Moon". "

After listening to Char's statement, Augustina's hoarse voice sounded with interest again.

"Actually, there are other reasons."

Char thought for a while and spoke again: "For example, when I visited the Dark Night Garden, the stronghold of the Shadow Council in the imperial capital, Your Majesty Augustina, your attitude towards me was a little too abnormal."

"An ordinary information transaction, but it triggered your shadow incarnation to come in person... and later even offered to let me use my body to repay the debt."

Xia Ya's face was still calm: "At that time, I was not even a fourth-level master beast master. Although my talent was outstanding, it was nothing more than that... Logically speaking, I was not worthy of a legend at all. No, it was the throne that meant I’m so impressed.”

"And the dinner at the Borgia family... The Shadow Council has obviously adhered to the principle of neutrality for hundreds of years, but that time in the star realm, you chased the fleeing Guderian to death. From an objective point of view, it is undoubtedly helping me kill my enemies."

"I don't think there is any unreasonable preference in this world." He paused slightly: "Maybe some people will turn a deaf ear to the treatment of abnormalities and not take it to heart, but my personality prevents me from dealing with these abnormalities. "Ignore the treatment"

Xia Ya's eyes were indifferent: "So, Your Majesty Augustina, can you please tell me something?"

"The origin of this equal contract between us."

"Also, the history of Esgania thousands of years ago, what it was like before it was tampered with by Isadora and turned into a fantasy belt."

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Ogutina did not answer directly.

She just sat on the seat made of shadows, and a few strands of shadow turned into thorns, entangled in Augustina's white fingers, and she played with them casually.

After a long time, the clear voice sounded again.

"The end of the first era and the beginning of the second era."

"The True God of the Abyss "Crimson Moon" was defeated in the war that spanned the first era and the second era, between the main material plane and the abyss. "

"The divine body and most of the divine kingdom were destroyed by one of the original eight pages of the Black Tower. He had to carry his divinity and authority, as well as the remaining fragments of the divine kingdom, dormant in the star world."

"Even for an immortal true god, that is an unimaginable trauma. If you just wait for recovery like this, the recovery may take thousands of years, or even ten thousand years."

"So, in order to reorganize a new divine body, Zhu Yue..."

"Choose me, who is also specialized in the authority of the night, shadows and secrets, as the vessel chosen by Him to descend."

"In other words, he is what outsiders call the first true ancestor."

In Augustina's red-gold eyes, the clarity that belonged to a girl slightly dissipated, and was replaced by the profound ancient meaning, as if it had spanned eternity.

But Char just listened calmly.

Most of the research areas of the archaeological community in later generations are concentrated on the history of this era, and they know very little about the historical secrets of the old era, almost zero.

However, after obtaining the Holy Grail of Knowledge, Char has gained a lot of knowledge. The historical secrets he knows are not much inferior to those of the ancient demigods and thrones.

The Fourth Age is the era that Char lives in in reality, with the opening of the sacred calendar as the node.

The historical reverberations of Esgania where Char lives are at the intersection of the Third Age and the Fourth Age.

As for the First Age, not much is known about even the Holy Grail of Knowledge, because its power can only understand the present, and the First Age was before the birth of the Holy Grail of Knowledge.

The symbol of the Second Age is the enlightenment of arcana and the development of the system of wizards and beastmasters.

Also, the establishment of the Black Tower.

That's right, although today the Black Tower, the True Red Tower and the White Tower are collectively known as the "Three Wizarding Towers" in the Western Continent.

But in fact, the White Tower was founded by the "Blue Silver Witch" Sylvia in the middle of the Fourth Age. It has a history of only five hundred years. In the Three Towers, she is just a little girl who just makes up for the numbers.

The True Red Tower, or the Red Tower, is slightly better, but it only sprouted at the end of the Third Age.

Only the Tower of Extreme Blackness was born at the end of the First Age and directly affected the opening of the Second Age.

According to the Holy Grail of Knowledge - the Black Tower is the origin of arcana and wizards, magic, and can even be said to be the beginning of the history of civilization in the Western Continent.

Of course, the Holy Grail of Knowledge itself was bred from the soul crystal of the Great Sage, and is inextricably linked to the Black Tower. How much of the words he spoke were just flattery brought about by a crooked butt, and how much of it was It's not quite true, so it's hard to say clearly.

"Tsk, you are indeed someone who knows about the Prison Cup and may even have been tricked by it. Is Ogutina also from the Second Age?"

"Also, according to Ogutina."

"The True God of the Abyss, "Crimson Moon", who was in perfect condition and in his prime, was actually beaten to a disability by the first eight pages of the Black Tower? "

"Since it is one of the eight pages of the Black Tower, it means that the original eight pages did not embark on the road to becoming a god... Using a human body to cripple a true god? Are the wizards of the Second Age such an exaggeration? ?"

"The current entry threshold for the Eight Pages of the Black Tower is only legendary. And to be able to cripple a true god in full glory, even an ordinary throne can't do it."

"I don't know who is more powerful compared to my teacher or the original eight pages..."

Xia Ya thought secretly in her heart.

On the other side, after a brief recollection, Ogutina began to talk again.

However, this time her eyes fell directly on Xia Ya's face.

"Zhu Yue needs a new body, or a vessel to descend."

"However, the chosen vessel is naturally unwilling to become His body."

"It's just that, after all, it is a true god...with too many means to corrode and corrupt the prey he chooses."

The golden light flickered slightly in Augustina's eyes.

"For example, at the cost of half of my divinity, I was given the urge to suck blood."

"My identity as the True Ancestor gives me greater power, but my blood-sucking impulse is equivalent to a curse."

"Every time the blood-sucking impulse is stimulated, it will make me take a step closer to blood-sucking corruption, or in other words, the direction of the container that Zhu Yue desires."

"In order to calm down the blood-sucking impulse, I had to expend a lot of mental energy to suppress my body...but this desire will continue to accumulate, and I have to use eternal sleep to suppress it."

Her eyes slightly scanned the land beneath the Thousand-Year City.

"The believers of the Scarlet Moon were wiped out with the collapse of the Kingdom of God in the war at the end of the Second Age."

"However, after two epochs, Zhu Yue has also recovered some strength, and used this strength to create his own new family, which is what you call vampires."

"They are Zhu Yue's most devout slaves, and they also follow Zhu Yue's will. Since their birth, they have been constantly looking for traces of me, hoping to make me completely fall into the blood-sucking desire and become what their master expects. The purest and most perfect vessel.”

Ogutina glanced at Char's eyes, as if she wanted to see something in Char's eyes, but in the end she found nothing.

"I know that in the eyes of outsiders, I and those vampires are of the same race."

"But - in fact, in my opinion, those vampires, whether they are lords or princes... they are just puppets in Zhu Yue's hands. They are also my enemies, enemies of life and death."

"So, I massacred the entire ancestral land of the Vampire Clan - the Thousand-Year City, and slaughtered all the six Vampire Princes, all the ghouls, dead apostles, and blood servants among them."

"After that, while hunting the remaining vampires, I sealed myself in the Millennium City and used eternal sleep to suppress my blood-sucking impulse that accumulated more and more over time."

"It's just that it was just a temporary measure after all. As time goes by, the accumulation of blood-sucking impulses will increasingly occupy my mental power. At the most difficult moment, I had to use more than 70% of my strength to suppress it. On top of the blood-sucking urge.”

"Because of this, due to Zhu Yue's calculation not long ago, my blood-sucking impulse was still triggered."

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Ogutina's mouth, and she stretched out her scarlet tongue and licked the corner of her mouth.

"As you can see, you have become the target of my first blood sucking."

"Or, as the vampires call it, you were my "first embrace." "

"This is the way ordinary vampires develop their own offspring. Generally speaking, the person who is first embraced will be transformed into the same vampire regardless of their original race."

"Of course, I am not a vampire in the ordinary sense, and I will not really turn you into a vampire. But through that first embrace, we also signed an equality contract... and a part of Zhu Yue's divinity and authority in my body also used this. was shared with you.”

There was a smile in her eyes, but underneath the smile, there was a glimmer that was difficult for Xia Ya to see clearly.

"In the battle of the Second Age, there were many true gods who completely fell and could only wait for a long time to return from the distant star realm... and Zhu Yue was able to retain some of her strength and consciousness precisely because of her immortality. Even among the true gods, they are among the strongest."

"This is the reason why your fourth soul covenant is abnormal and why you have immortality."

Ogutina retracted her gaze and lowered her eyes slightly.

"Since you have gained immortality through the contract, and have also shared part of Zhu Yue's divinity and authority... then you will naturally enter his sight and become one of the selected vessels."

"And because of this first fate, you will cooperate with me to fight against the Vermilion Moon."

"Finally, completely wipe out the remaining vampires on this land, and finally work together to defeat Zhu Yue, who is currently in a disabled state."

"In your words, you beat him back to the spring water and entered the resurrection reading. If he is not bought alive, he will not be able to come back to interfere with the main material plane for thousands of years."

"Although the entire Esgania will be a little sad because of the loss of Cain, under the rolling historical trend, a new empire will still be established, and the Knight King will die at the end of his life. At that time, he died with great enthusiasm..."

"If the distortion of the Utopia Zone had never occurred...then what I said above should be the development that Esgania's history should have."

"It's just that today's history is skewed."

Augustina lowered her eyes and looked at the chalk city at the end of the earth.

Char also lowered his eyes and looked towards the holy city that would be named "Camelot" in the future.

What he clearly saw was a fiery and vibrant landscape where countless craftsmen were working in full swing.

However, in the "astral vision" achieved by Char's mental power using the astral realm.

It was clearly noon at this moment, but the seemingly majestic and sacred imperial capital was shrouded in a bloody night.

A crimson red moon was hanging high in the sky.

The blood-colored moonlight poured down, falling on the indifferent and slender figure.

She was obviously holding the holy sword in her hand, and she was obviously wearing the familiar military uniform, but the Isadella at this moment was completely different from the figure in Char's memory.

She is no longer the princess who, despite being stern and stern, still reveals a bit of girlish thoughts from time to time...but the "Red Queen" who only retains her divinity.

What Ogutina said was not wrong.

The fantasy zone opened up by the Holy Sword is already independent of the long river of time.

Therefore, even if we return to the first year of the Holy Calendar, everything is irreversible.

What Char has to face is not the familiar Knight King Artolis, but the one who has become strange, paranoid, and hateful after thousands of years of obsession and the corruption of Zhu Yue. The king of the fantasy band who can't see clearly the appearance of a girl.

"In order to pursue immortality, and to wait for your return in the Hall of Valor...Isadella chose to cooperate with Zhu Yue."

"He took the initiative to accommodate Zhu Yue's divinity and became the other party's container. At the cost of this, he gained the near-infinite lifespan of the True God."

"However, the price of doing so is that her humanity will gradually be swallowed up by the divinity belonging to Zhu Yue, until she is finally completely deified and becomes--"

"The new god, "Crimson Moon." "

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After finishing her words, Augustina looked at Char.

Xia Ya raised his head slightly and smiled faintly.

"If that's the case, then what we have to do is actually much simpler and clearer."

He pointed to the Holy City shrouded by the blood moon, as well as the direction between the thrones in the center of the Holy City.

"Nothing more than two enemies."

"One Zhu Yue, one Princess Palace... Oh no, I have to call her Her Majesty the Queen here."

"Since he is the True God Lao Deng who was crippled in the second era, then Lao Deng should have the consciousness to withdraw from the game, die obediently, go to the star realm and wait for resurrection to read the note."

"As for Her Royal Highness, it would be best if she can wake up. If she still can't wake up, then use the Friendly Face-breaking Punch until she wakes up."

Xia Ya smiled slightly and spread his hands: "What a simple thing. You see, the law of victory has been determined."

"Of course, it is said that two fists cannot beat four hands. Your Majesty Ogutina, you will help me. After all, I will beat your enemy."

"Okay... Although Zhu Yue has chosen another container now, if Zhu Yue really gets a new body and comes back to the world, that is something I will never tolerate."

Ogutina nodded.

But then, her eyes were locked on Xia Ya.

"But do you really know what you are doing?"

"I know that as Cain, you previously accomplished many shocking feats, such as the battle in the Valley of the End, and were able to escape unscathed in the end."

"However, you should know that that is what you did by relying on Zhu Yue's immortality."

Augustina's eyes were dark.

"However, once you become an enemy of Zhu Yue, no matter whether you succeed or not... it means that you will lose the protection of your immortal body."

The Queen of Night's gaze swept across Char's face: "Your body is only six rings... Even if you can match the legend with the bonus of that magic construct, even Prince Flanders has the ability to directly The ability to attack the heart...Other legends naturally have ways to break through external defenses and attack the body."

"What's more...what you are about to face is far from an ordinary legend."

"But a throne holding a holy sword."

Augustina's soft words echoed in the silent garden of Millennium City: "Aren't you afraid of death?"

"Of course I'm afraid."

Char's answer came without hesitation.

"However, people will die when they are killed. This is a matter of course."

"If I didn't want to die, then I would never choose to go back to a thousand years ago from the beginning."

"Besides..."

In Char's eyes, Yui's runes rotated slightly.

In the warehouse that has reached the level of "Transcendence to Sainthood", a huge structure with a streamlined metal shell is reflecting silver-white light.

On the metal shell of the popular line, there is a line of text engraved in correct Chinese -

"Tsar Bomb"

Look at your arsenal being filled to the brim.

Then read the only route that Yui passed on through the soul contract, and was finally determined after millions of simulations and selections.

A slight smile could not help but appear on the corner of Xia Ya's mouth.

"Besides, even without my immortality...I never thought I would lose."

"I think, if the total is 100%, then the chance of Zhu Yue and Her Royal Highness winning should not exceed 50%."

His eyes looked towards the strange blood moon.

It was obvious that she had a thin figure that was not very strong, but at this moment, Ogutina clearly felt that a powerful aura that was not inferior to her own was erupting from Char's body.

"It's time for the legend of the King of Knights to come to an end."

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"It will take me some time to prepare and deploy."

"Then, Your Majesty the Queen of the Night."

"See you in Camelot in seven days."

Char waved to Ogutina calmly.

Then he got up and walked towards the outside of the Millennium City.

Looking at the retreating young man's back, Ogutina's beautiful eyes flickered slightly.

That's a winning mentality.

And, the belief of mortality.

This huge self-confidence and awareness... slowly overlapped with the figure in her memory, no different.

"Are you willing to go to such an extent for this little girl Isadella?"

She shook her head slightly, then looked at Xia who was walking away, and spoke softly.

"But, this way."

"What am I to you?"

Char's steps paused.

It wasn’t that he didn’t understand the implications of Ogutina’s words.

In fact, since experiencing Sylvia, Xia has become extremely sensitive to these things.

When a strange woman comes to her door and expresses special affection and preference for her, it's just like Sylvia.

And then connect it to what Ogutina said before, the correct history that has not been distorted.

Just think about it and you can guess what happened... It was nothing more than fighting side by side against Zhu Yue, and then his "Beautiful Boy EX" characteristic was triggered again.

However, Xia Ya did not look back.

"how to say……"

"I don't know what happened in the correct history in your memory to make you, Your Majesty Ogutina, have such a preference for me."

"But, that is something I have never experienced at this moment..."

Char knew very well what the favor of a person who had been the master of the Shadow Council from the Second Age to the present... meant.

He just needs to be a little more ambiguous, and that means a new pair of white thighs and countless soft rice.

But... the correct history described by Ogutina may be regarded as a past life for him, or it may be another possibility... but he has never experienced it.

Since he has no so-called love between a man and a woman for the Queen of the Night in front of him... then he cannot respond to the other party's expectations, and Xia does not even want to keep the possibility of some ambiguity.

He is indeed a playboy, but if he does this, he is not a playboy, but a scumbag.

The reason why Xia chose to accept Sylvia's feelings and even responded with a confession was not because Sylvia was the lord of the White Tower and the throne... but because of his past events in the reverberations of the history of the ancient Cangting Kingdom. Here, they fell in love with each other for a long time, that's all.

"It is an honor for me to be the contractor and partner of Her Majesty Augustina."

"So, so far, in my eyes, I regard you as a good friend and ally, a trading partner."

"That's all."

After saying that, his figure quickly shrank and disappeared at the end of the Millennium City.

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"Looking at this posture, am I going to become a dog or something?"

Looking at Char's retreating back, Ogutina couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

However, there is no real regret on her face about "becoming a loser".

On the contrary, Ogutina's ice-like delicate face had a curve.

"But that's right, he really wants to speak like a scumbag with no basis for emotion, pretending to be stupid and hanging me up..."

"Then he is no longer the Chara I am familiar with and loyal to."

A flash of recollection suddenly appeared in Ogutina's eyes, and she lost consciousness in a daze.

He is so keen but confident, and will never waver in what he believes in.

It is simply the antonym of "elm-headed" and "Asashi".

"This is the Xia in my memory..."

After a long time, she came back to her senses from the memory and showed a faint smile.

"But...you were still deceived by me."

Ogutina stretched out her white fingers and tapped them in the void.

Most of the conversation between her and Xia Ya was true, but she concealed two points.

The equal contract between her and Xia Ya was not due to the first blood-sucking embrace plotted by Zhu Yue...

And in my heart, the good impression and preference for Char... did not originate from the history of Esgania at the end of the Third Age.

Rather, it originated earlier.

Long before the Black Tower was built, and the divine war between the Abyss and the Prime Material Plane broke out, that annoying Holy Grail of Knowledge only existed in the concepts and imaginations of the great arcanists.

At that time, Ogutina was not called Ogutina, but she had just emerged from her shell and looked at the first living being she had seen in this world in confusion.

A breeze blew in the Millennium City.

And the shadows and night that had shrouded Ogutina from beginning to end were quietly fading at this moment.

It revealed her true appearance that was originally difficult to see clearly, hidden by the hazy night.

Red-gold vertical eyes.

And, between the dark hair, the looming horns.

Unlike the succubus's gorgeous pink horns, the horns on Ogutina's forehead are not very ferocious, but they have a majestic arc.

Outsiders often regard the Vampires as a separate race.

But as the original true ancestor, before being selected as a vessel by the Vermilion Moon, Ogutina had another race...

"You said yourself that you wanted to be a dragon knight."

"Oh, defeated dog? How could I lose?"