God's Gift

Lu Keming stared at the fire, his eyes darkened, and he stretched out his hand to touch the fire.

"Is this the gem?" Ye Li looked at the dark red flame burning and jumping in Bai Gu's eye sockets, and a look of doubt appeared on his face.

Is this what's inside Antti's gem?

But what exactly can make Antti's soul immortal and Asta's body intact?

Lu Keming's thin, cold white fingers paused in mid-air, with unclear emotions in his eyes. He turned his direction to Asta's hand bones, grabbed the bones, and applied a little force.

Asta's hand bones moved out a little, pulling the other bones out with them.

The Wendigo's body began to tremble, and mud clung to its bones and fell down.

Yu Youyou stood behind Lu Keming, looked at the trembling Wendigo, took off the bag on her back, put it on the ground and unzipped it.

Nine chubby white elves lay neatly in the bag, looking up at Yu Youyou through the gap in the zipper.

"It needs you now." Yu Youyou looked back at the Wendigo and spoke very softly so that only she and the elf could hear it.

"Go."

The elves climbed out of the bag one by one and ran towards the Wendigo with laughter.

Lu Keming, who was pulling out the bones, saw a few elves crawling up from under the Wendigo's feet.

A thinner elf grabbed the feet of the elf above it, and the elf above it swung its feet, throwing the thinner elf down.

Lu Keming frowned, stretched out his free right hand, and caught the elf in mid-air.

The elf thought it was going to fall to the ground and closed its eyes in fear, but found that the falling trend stopped. It opened its eyes and found that it was lying in the palm of a hand.

"Hey!" The elf cheered, climbed up, hugged Lu Keming's fingers and kissed them.

Lu Keming frowned even deeper, with a hint of disgust in his eyes. He grabbed the elf and quickly placed it on the Wendigo.

The elf turned around and waved to Lu Keming, happily followed the other elves, and crawled into the Wendigo's mouth.

The Wendigo opened its mouth, and the little elves sat in rows in its gums, turning into teeth.

Ye Li looked at this scene and opened his eyes wide in surprise, "These elves..."

"It's teeth." Yu Youyou smiled and answered Ye Li's question. She stepped forward, grabbed Asta's other hand, and began to pull it out with all her strength.

Lu Keming withdrew his gaze, glanced at Yu Youyou, and started to exert force.

Ye Li took it.

A faint white glow emanated from the Wendigo's body, and the fire in Asta's eyes became much smaller, as if it was suppressed.

The subsequent process went exceptionally smoothly.

As the bones fell off, the mud on the Wendigo's body continued to fall down and piled up on the side.

Yu Youyou held her breath, pulled hard, and pulled the last bone out of the Wendigo's body.

"Huh..." The motionless Wendigo let out a long sigh of relief after the last bone left its body.

Bones were piled on the ground, covered with mud. Lu Keying half lowered his eyes and looked down at the bones on the ground. Just as he was about to put them into the storage space, the surrounding scene began to shake.

Yu Youyou raised her head and looked at the sky. There was a crack there, and it was constantly expanding. She exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow……"

Lu Keming raised his head and looked upwards. Seeing the sky constantly cracking, he subconsciously walked towards Yu Youyou and grabbed Yu Youyou who was still staring at the sky.

“The dream is breaking.”

He held Yu Youyou's hand tightly and protected her behind his back.

The surrounding scenery was constantly changing. The water level in the swamp dropped, revealing bare land, and the land dried up and cracked.

The plants in the swamps withered and collapsed, melting into the soil. The trees in the forests lost their leaves, leaving bare trunks.

Yu Youyou looked at the castle behind her.

The vines on the walls withered and the castle walls collapsed.

This is a desolate place more desolate than overgrown weeds. The real castle beneath the green skin of the dreamland has lost all life, like dry and charred bones under a beautiful skin.

The fire maintains the dream, but the price is life.

Just like the Endless Country.

Behind the three people, the originally messy and broken bones gradually condensed into a blurry human figure, fleeing towards the forest at a rapid speed.

Yu Youyou looked back and saw that there was no trace of Asta's body where the fire was.

The Wendigo stayed in the swamp, and the mud on its body was drying up little by little, and it would soon become the same as the dry swamp.

The blessing on it is still sustaining its final life.

The Wendigo was stunned for a few seconds, then climbed out of the swamp and ran towards the castle, of which only a few ruins were left, faster than ever before.

Inside the castle, the rest of the people also came out of Andy's memory and looked at the Wendigo blankly as it ran past them and towards the castle.

The dried mud on its body kept falling off as it ran.

The Wendigo became smaller and smaller, until it was only as tall as a child.

But it's still running.

For the one it has been waiting for.

Arriving at the remaining wall of the castle, the Wendigo stopped and looked up at the window without glass expectantly.

A little girl leaned her head out of the window and looked down at the Wendigo standing blankly against the wall. A smile flashed in her blue eyes and she waved at the Wendigo.

The Wendigo's eyes, which had been dim for many years, finally lit up. Time seemed to be constantly going back to the time when it was as young as Antti.

The Wendigo climbed up the wall to the second floor. Its body became smaller and smaller as it climbed, and was finally caught in Andy's arms.

"Okay, Wendigo." Antti held up the Wendigo, turned around happily, and then said:

"You found me."