Pioneering

Chapter 365: Traces of foreign gods, fierce battle!
In the palace, Zhong Ming fell into deep thought after listening to the experience told by Gretel holding the deer.

It’s been a long time since I heard such a serious Fairy tale.

Both the beginning and the end are almost consistent with the world-famous candy house.

The only slight discrepancy is that Yao is still the first heir and has not officially become the king, but he is about to become the king. Zhong Ming came back this time with the purpose of inspecting him.

If nothing else, the next development is that Yao falls in love with Gretel, and then Hansel the deer lifts the curse, and the comedy ends happily.

This is really a perfect story that even the upright Zhong Ming finds awkward. It is a rare and perfect retelling.There were few fairy tales before that fit so closely with the story of Blue Star in his memory.

but……

"Gretel, why are you crying? Is it because your brother was turned into a deer? Don't worry, my father is very powerful and will definitely help your brother turn back into a human." Yao glanced at Gretel with pity and said, comforted.

"I feel so sad, so sad. Maybe it's because of my brother."

Gretel's tears were like dewdrops from broken flowers, crystal clear, sliding down her slender fingers.

His eyes were as clear as autumn water, but filled with inexplicable sadness, like a deep pool.

'What a beautiful woman shedding tears, no wonder Yao Hui...tsk tsk. ’ Zhong Ming sighed secretly.

A hint of aunt's smile flashed across Zhong Ming's face, and then he became serious again, putting up his father's airs:

"Yao, since you want me to help your little lover, why don't you give me a seat first and let me investigate?"

As Zhong Ming spoke, he glanced at Yao's hand on Gretel's shoulder.

Yao seemed to be embarrassed after a little boy got a zero score and his parents found out. He blushed instantly and moved his hand away forcefully and unintentionally.

Zhong Ming shook his head slightly and raised the corners of his mouth. He didn't care whether Yao really fell in love with Gretel. He was even more pleased that a commoner extraordinary person would become his daughter-in-law and the future queen of Yaxia.

After marrying into the big nobles in the country, the only big nobles in the country now include John, Rene, Dipper... and a few other military nobles, and their influence is not that great.

Even John, who had a record of military exploits, only held the title of marquis, and was not in a position to appease this interest group of military nobles without marriage.

On the contrary, if Yao really marries the daughter of a noble family in the country, it will actually give the "foreign relative" hope of rising up.

What's more, Yao Cai personally launched a major purge recently, bringing the bureaucracy within the Yashai Empire to the brink of paralysis.

Many of these domineering bureaucrats are nobles who have infiltrated into the administrative system of the Yashai Empire. Of course, there are even more wild evil spirits.

Yao's purge can be said to have directly cut off the Asshai nobles' reach to greater power, and also confiscated their investment in the advancement of criminal officials. They often resented them, and the married nobles may not have a harmonious relationship with their husbands. .

In contrast, marrying a wizard with no foundation in five-ring strength is actually a good choice.Moreover, Gretel is less than a hundred years old, and she has the potential to be promoted to a nine-ring wizard and become a demigod.

Of course, we still need to check Gretel’s background carefully before talking about it...

Zhong Ming will not deliberately add fuel to the flames, just let everything happen.

As his thoughts flashed, Zhong Ming's investigation of Xiaolu was completed.

"This transformation spell, well, it's quite interesting and wonderful." Zhong Ming admired.

Now he has solidified nine natal spells, and he can be regarded as a nine-ring wizard. In addition, he has collected books and inheritances from various human kingdoms after unifying the Northern Continent, as well as the backup book collection that he obtained when he defeated the Fritz Empire and the Hero Empire. After a hundred years of digestion and absorption, Zhong Ming can be called a truly knowledgeable man.

Soon, Zhong Ming figured out a way to reverse the effect of this spell.

Zhong Ming asked Gretel to put the deer on the ground and reach out a little.

An undetectable trace of divine power seeped into the deer's body and swam around inside it, destroying the abnormal energy circuits in its body just right, but like a targeted drug, it never harmed its body.

The deer glowed with a faint white light. In the light, its body continued to expand and change, and soon it took on a human form.

When the light dissipated, Zhong Ming withdrew his divine power, and there was already an intact young man in the palace.

Zhong Ming asked the attendant to take Hansel down to wash and change clothes. He turned to look at Gretel, only to find that she was still crying.

Tears fell down softly like silk, brushing her cheeks.

The wind gently brushed her cheek and danced her clothes, making her thin and thin.

Such a beauty that I just pity!
Zhong Ming took a breath, as if he saw his own pig indulging in the taste of a certain cabbage.

"Gretel, your brother has returned to human form, why are you still crying?" Yao Shuhan asked warmly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Your Highness Yao. Without your help, we, brother and sister, don't know what would have happened."

While Gretel was grateful to Zhong Ming and Yao, tears still flowed down her face and she said, "But I don't know what's wrong. Even after seeing my brother return to normal, I still feel very sad..."

"It's like... it's like I've forgotten something very important, I've forgotten a very important person, and I feel so empty..."

"Obviously the memory is in the most important position in my mind, but I can't touch it..."

"And I feel like I'm still forgetting and ignoring this important memory. I...I seem to be almost unable to even remember the memory of the lost memory!"

Gretel's last words were full of fear, confusion, unwillingness, and anger...

"What did you forget?" Yao was confused, "Do wizards also have bad memories?"

Zhong Ming ignored the speech of his eldest straight man and thought to himself, it seemed that he had encountered this situation not long ago?

It was so close, but he subconsciously ignored the cave...

I haven’t felt this kind of depression and fear of being toyed with and applauded for a long time...

Perhaps, it's time to go to that cave again to find ZhuVi.

After thinking for a moment, Zhong Ming made up his mind and looked up, only to find that Gretel had stopped crying.

"Gretel, aren't you sad that you forgot something important?" Zhong Ming asked.

"Forgot? I don't quite understand what you mean, Your Majesty." Gretel tilted her head and replied in confusion.

"Yes, father, Gretel is a five-ring wizard, how could she forget anything." Yao Ye said.

"What about you just now?" Zhong Ming frowned and pointed at the tears on her face.

Gretel lowered her head, and Yao glanced at her with pity and said, "Father, why do you not understand women's hearts so much? You unlocked the spell on her brother and made people cry with joy. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Gretel nodded slightly, acquiescing to Yao's statement.

Zhong Ming felt a chill surge up from his tailbone to Tianling. He shuddered subconsciously and glanced at the two of them in disbelief. "Wait, didn't she just say, what did she say..." Zhong Ming was horrified, and his body disappeared from the place and entered his own kingdom of God.

The power, magic, spiritual power, spiritual power, qi and blood in the body were used in turn. In the end, when the third-level extreme spiritual force field enveloped the whole body, Zhong Ming recalled what had just happened.

Zhong Ming left the Kingdom of God with a gloomy expression, flew to the mysterious cave in the Jueling Mountains without looking back, and tried his best to cover the seal body with a spiritual force field, and then started talking to Zhu Bi.

Soon, Zhong Ming rushed back to New Chang'an.

"Gretel is ZhuVi's apprentice, well, she is still a closed disciple."

"Then, the important memory that Gretel forgot is about ShuVi."

"So Gretel's forgotten memories are most likely related to the big guy who escaped from the seal."

"The 'old witch' chasing their siblings, maybe..."

Zhong Ming, who flew back to the palace, found Gretel immediately: "Gretel, can you show me the flute you took from the old witch?"

According to Gretel, the brother and sister stole the witch's wand and flute before escaping. On the way, they relied on the wand's transformation ability to barely escape to the vicinity of New Chang'an. Unfortunately, the wand was taken back by the old witch accidentally, and her brother was also taken away. Turned into a deer.

The flute was of no use at all, or maybe she wasn't strong enough and didn't find a way to use it.

Zhong Ming ordered a search for Gretel's past traces, trying to find any clues, but there was still no clue.

The traces of ZhuVi around Gretel are like sketches erased by an eraser.

In desperation, Zhong Ming could only look for Gretel first.

Gretel would not refuse the request of the benefactor who saved their brother and sister, so she gave the flute directly to Zhong Ming.

Zhong Ming was not polite. He took the flute and played with it for a while. The result was... It was really useless. It was just an ordinary flute, and there was no residual breath at all. It was treated very cleanly.

"...Ms. Gretel, may I ask you to check all of your things? Well, everything!" Zhong Ming said.

Gretel's face changed slightly, her cheeks flushed, and her beautiful eyes revealed a hint of annoyance: "Your Majesty, please be respectful, I..."

Zhong Ming didn't wait for her words of rejection to be finished, and in one thought, he fully opened his mental force field to cover her.

For a moment, Gretel froze on the spot, tears and cold sweat streaming down her face: "Teacher...thing...fake teacher..."

Gretel took out a small box from her storage bracelet in a daze and handed it to Zhong Ming.

Zhong Ming was not hesitant. He took the small box, separated his clones, and asked the clones to open it.

Inside the box is a glass bottle wrapped in sponge and embedded in it. Inside the transparent bottle is a drop of bright red blood.

Zhong Ming knew in his heart that this was the monster's essence and blood that Zhu Bi said.

After confirming that there was no problem, Zhong Ming took the glass bottle from the clone's hand. Feeling the connection between this drop of blood and a certain location in the dark, he looked to the northwest with a grin.

With such a direct and irreplaceable reliance on blood, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to find the rightful owner?

……

"Vlad, let's go, stop smoking." Flounder advised Vlad, who was still obsessed with collecting guilty souls.

"Isn't it because of your cognitive shielding? I believe in your strength, my great Outer God." Vlad replied without opening his eyes, intoxicated as he felt the souls of the sinners in his body being absorbed by him while crying. road.

Jeduf, the Outer God who appeared in the form of a flounder, could no longer bear it. He thought about the power he had accumulated during this period, and felt that he should be able to block the attack of Yggdrasil for a short while. If he could take Vlad down and capture him back to the abyss... …

Just do it.

Flounder's body suddenly emitted a chaotic radiance, and the body of a young and strangely charming humanoid female bloomed from the radiance.

"Vlad, I say it again, follow me back to the abyss immediately. There are many ways to restore your strength there. Don't force me to do anything to you."

"Ah!" Vlad looked at Jeduf in human form in surprise, "You"

"Haha, do you know why Chaos sent me to your world? It's because my greatest traits are 'survival' and 'adaptation'.
In order to survive in various environments, I will absorb the vitality of countless plane creatures and their abilities and talents. In the process, their memories will also be absorbed by me.

This gives me the performance of "immortality" and "devourment".The so-called 'cognitive shielding' and 'probability modification' abilities are just the result of a certain meal I had.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to move around within the World Tree, even in this stupid image. "

Jeduf stretched out his enchanting posture: "Vlad, don't force me to do anything to you, you are very important to us."

Vlad looked behind him, his eyes flickering: "No problem, no problem, how dare I disobey my savior..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a low groan, and a black shadow suddenly appeared behind Jeduf, and the golden sword covered with authority stabbed hard at his waist.

Jeduf's expression suddenly changed, and strange fluctuations came from his body. Zhong Ming suddenly had a premonition that he was about to be stabbed.

Zhong Ming gritted his teeth, his invisible mental force field resisted the fluctuations, and stabbed forward without hesitation.

On target!

Purple-gray blood flowed down from the waist and dripped on the ground, and a large area of ​​land quickly grew a fleshy carpet.

Jeduf glanced at the wound expressionlessly, opened his purple lips, and a string of strange runes flowed out of his mouth and quickly spread in the surrounding space.

At this moment, time seemed to be frozen, and the air was heavy and cold.

'You were the one who gave me bad luck last time, right? '

Zhong Ming didn't say anything. His eyes flashed with a ruthless look. With a flick of his finger, the mighty divine power surged out in the silent night sky. The dangerous fission products were "converted" out of matter as if for free, and they were destructive. Heat waves are born in a chain reaction.

The sharp golden blade split the sky, the "gold" edge was fully exposed, and the cracks in the solidified domain spread rapidly.

The strange power and divine power of the outer gods merged rapidly, becoming indistinguishable from each other.

The figures of Zhong Ming and Jeduf intertwined, as if they were engaging in a wonderful contest in a wonderful dance.

Dangerous energy waves bloomed in the air, exploding like sparks, carrying an aura of death and destruction.

Weird power surged wantonly in the space, creating a confusing and terrifying scene.

Seeing the ghostly shadows crisscrossing each other, it was as if the veil of another dimension had been unveiled.

A strong light burst out, covering the entire scene.

(End of this chapter)