"It's just a small victory, it's only temporary." An Liuli said.
"Um?"
Rumble——
The ground suddenly shook.
Xing Liuli turned around and looked behind her.
The iceberg that was originally hanging upside down began to slowly disappear, and the divine descending ceremony was forcibly interrupted. A large amount of light red mist began to appear, rushing towards Murodo, whose entire existence in the iceberg was "still".
"It's really too arrogant to use other gods to descend in other people's dreams." An Liuli said.
The ceremony was interrupted, all the icicles on the ground were broken, the icebergs melted, and the starry sky also disappeared after a wave of fluctuations.
"Squeak!" The sharp insect chirping spread out along with the strong air waves, blowing on Xing Liuli's face. She instinctively wanted to cover her ears, but her only remaining arm could only cover one ear.
The mist spread, and a huge figure emerged from it.
It had lost its original holy form, and large cracks appeared in its carapace, from which an unknown scarlet liquid continued to seep out.
The body was lying on the ground, and its originally slender body had become fat due to the overflow of energy. It had completely changed from the posture of an advanced insect race back to the most basic insect life form.
"So big..."
"Our work is over, the remaining giant enemies should be left to guys of the same level to deal with." An Liuli said.
"Same level, who?" Xing Liuli said blankly.
"Then what do I have to say?" An Liuli rolled her eyes, feeling that she was really being scolded for being stupid.
Immediately afterwards, the ground shook again.
"Ouch--" Accompanied by a deep voice echoing, an arm covered in black armor directly penetrated a wall of Hallownest and violently stepped into it.
The Moon Tomb, about twenty meters high, appears.
"Moon Tomb?! How did you become like this?" Xing Liuli was stunned.
"Ouch -" Yue Tomb said, Alon let it use its imagination, so it tried as he said, and it feels really good now.
"That idiot's belief and will are beyond anything we can compare to. It's not surprising that he can reach this level. Let's not get in the way. Let's go." An Liuli shook Xing Liuli's shoulder to calm her down.
Come back to your senses.
Xing Liuli had nothing to say, watching the Moon Tomb pass over his head lightly. In front of him, even though he was crawling, the big insect was only slightly shorter than the current Moon Tomb. He stretched out his limbs and charged towards the Moon Tomb.
The two big men collided together, and the entire Hallownest was shaking. The faint color of the starry sky and the scarlet mist were also engaged in a fierce confrontation at the same time.
An Liuli was right, this level of confrontation was no longer something she could participate in, so she fled immediately.
Yue Tomb violently beat the big red and white beetle on the head, then held the opponent's head and hit him with his body. The resulting movement turned Hallownest in the dream into ruins.
The insect's body was defeated by the collision with Yue Tomb. A light flashed in his eyes, and several light guns were concentrated and pierced into Yue Tomb's chest and shoulders.
Yue Tomb let out a muffled groan, but he didn't care about the spear on his body. His arm condensed and shattered the spikes and struck down with a heavier fist.
"squeak!"
Letting out a cry of pain, the tip of the insect's horn condensed into a high-speed rotating and cutting light wheel and pressed hard against Yue Tomb's waist.
Sizzling——
Debris from the armor flew away, accompanied by large sparks. Yue Tomb's body trembled violently. He took a step back but immediately took a step forward. He grabbed the insect's horn and pulled it out with strong force.
away from one's own body.
"Squeak! Squeak!" The big insect kept shouting, swinging its limbs rapidly and charging continuously, but at this time, it was blocked by Yue Tomb with one hand and could not move forward at all.
Yue Tomb raised his knife towards the single horn.
"Ouch——!"
The red spikes surged, and with the blessing of shadows and giant bowls, the thick horn broke on the spot.
"squeak--"
Chongzi screamed in surprise, Yue Tomb immediately stepped aside, walked around Chongzi's side and kicked him to the ground.
The six legs moved helplessly toward the sky. Yue Tomb stretched out his hand, and the thunder vortex condensed into a moving thunder ball in the palm of his hand. It was wrapped in the shadow's black energy and then thrown out.
The thunder vortex bomb exploded violently on the insect, producing a cloud of smoke.
"squeak……"
The insect crawled out of the smoke, the light in its eyes had dimmed a lot, almost no part of its carapace was intact, and its legs were so broken that it could hardly support it to continue crawling.
But it still managed to hold up its body.
It's time to end.
Seeing this, Yue Tomb stood up straight and stretched out his hands forward.
Hallownest, and even the entire insect nest, fell into darkness in a brief moment.
The next moment, dark light tore through the darkness.
"Squeak!" The insect raised its head, and at the last moment, it condensed scarlet mist into a light gun and shot it out, facing this devastating blow without flinching.
The light gun collided with the dark light, and after a brief stalemate, it was quickly defeated. The jet-black light flow poured on the big insect.
"squeak!"
The black light continued to spread, and the power of the starry sky penetrated this dreamland through the fluctuations of light.
This fictional insect nest gradually faded into nothingness and became a blank.
…
"What is that, Mr. Astrologer?"
"That is an existence that we can never reach. If possible, I hope that he can protect our family."
"But, that adult seems to be very sleepy now?"
"Yeah, so He may never wake up."
"Then He will never be able to truly protect us, so why do everyone still believe that He can bring us hope?"
"Because there are many things that we mortal beings cannot do alone. What helps us persist in our ethereal mission may not be a sense of mission, but just a glimmer of hope. We can only hope that after this existence wakes up,
It can bring us salvation.”
"Even if that's stupid?"
"As a mortal, being stupid is not a bad thing. When you are confused, stupidity is a false destination for self-satisfaction. But at a determined moment, when you criticize yourself for your own stupidity, only mortals can move forward. At this time, there must always be something that symbolizes stupidity.
as a stepping stone to innovation.”
"Are we stepping stones too?"
"I hope you are, but I also hope you are not."
"If possible, let me become a symbol of stupidity and let Munduo and the others move towards a new life. That would be pretty good, right?"
"..."
"Master Astrologer?"
"Murodo..."
"I will become a priest serving stupidity, Lord Astrologer."
…
Xing Liuli opened her eyes, feeling an uncomfortable pain coming from her back.
After getting up from the ground with his only remaining hand, he stretched out his hand to cover his groggy head: "I just seemed to hear something... is this a memory?"
"Woo~."
A familiar voice came, and Xing Liuli realized that there was a small clay figurine curled up next to her, and her previously bright eyes dimmed.
Patting the little clay figurine's butt, Xing Liuli showed a smile: "You are still awesome, little bastard."
"well done."
The sound of footsteps came from behind along with approval.
Xing Liuli looked behind her, and of course it was Aron.
Aaron looked at the two of them with eyes full of kindness and a touch of pride. Feeling his eyes, Xing Liuli felt that the pain in the wound had eased a lot, and her heart was not as sweet as honey.
If Moon Tomb was awake, he might be so happy that he would forget his own shape.
Showing a somewhat embarrassed smile, Xing Liuli lowered her head, not daring to look at Aaron's eyes again, and asked, "Um, where is the god of the insects?"
"Here." Aaron stretched out a hand, holding an emerald green insect cocoon the size of an egg. It looked unattractive, as if it were just a stone covered with some moss.
No one would have thought that an old god slept in this cocoon.
"Its dream is broken, and it will sleep forever in the endless dreams I weaved for it. Without my permission, it will never be able to break through the cocoon I weaved with dreams, and its body was sealed by me in this emerald green world.
In the cocoon.”
"Oh~." Xing Liuli looked at the little cocoon and couldn't help but marvel.
Old God, although I have never faced anything of this level directly, the gradually deepening mist in my dream is the other person's thoughts escaping in his sleep.
Xing Liuli and her other self managed to defeat the first form of Murodo, whose will was attached to him, by using the divine descending technique to reproduce the "quiet" afterglow.
And it was a miserable victory.
The reason why Moon Tomb was able to fight against the second form that showed signs of awakening later was because it used the part of Alon's power that it could control.
Now, such a powerful thing has become a small toy in Aaron's hand.
Sure enough, no matter how powerful a person is, the most powerful one is still his own puppet master.
At this moment, Hallownest was also in a mess. Obviously, the previous movements were not all just in dreams. The most conspicuous change was the collapse of the previously high altar.
When Xing Liuli woke up, she was walking among the ruins of the altar.
Looking at the emerald green cocoon that Aaron took out, Mundo and the astrologer, who were watching at the entrance of Hallownest, looked at each other and slowly exited Hallownest.
Murodo has gone, and they still want to see other bugs.