Chapter 211: Death and Rebirth

As the ceremony progressed, the air around began to become psychedelic.

A faint aroma came, which could make people's heartbeats speed up and their faces turn red.

Everything around became more colorful and gorgeous. Whether it was color, light, taste, or smell, they all became so gorgeous and dazzling.

It was like the real world that was usually boring to see suddenly turned into a beautiful painting; it was also like the whole world was seen as a more fantastic dream under the effect of an alchemical mixture that could produce hallucinations.

Walls spread out of walls, and colors spread out of colors.

And the intersection of countless illusions gathered in the air and turned into an extremely gorgeous butterfly.

He seemed to be here, but also seemed to be gone. It seemed to be just an illusion, but everyone present could see this illusion. At the same time, it was still changing - the pattern on the butterfly wings kept collapsing and reorganizing, and every time it reorganized, it could change the whole world around.

[Your request——]

The voice of Die Tiansi came.

It was a beautiful and light girl's voice.

"Offer the blood of ouroboros--"

Meg said solemnly: "I pray for the privilege of performing the sacred ritual of 'molting' on my own!"

[Promise--]

The Butterfly Celestial Master agreed.

[I give you the right to 'molt and be reborn'--]

The next moment, the illusion of the butterfly shattered in the air. It turned into countless pink scales and wings.

The purple liquid on the ground evaporated and dissipated... The whole space was purple and pink, and it was like a dream for a moment.

When all the purple smoke evaporated and dissipated, Meg was already shrouded in the pupa shell. Two things like blood vessels were connected to the infinity symbol, one pumped out a silver-white illusory liquid, and the other pumped out an orange-red liquid, which kept spinning at high speed in the ritual groove and merged with each other.

The intense pain of the body disintegrating made Meg scream.

The scream was so thrilling that Lily and Isabel, who were watching the ceremony on the side, couldn't help but pinch each other's palms.

Aiwass stood in front of the ritual circle with a serious expression, watching every step of the ritual carefully.

He was not too panicked... Although Meg screamed miserably, the most difficult part was over. Next, he just had to hold on and not end the ritual early or be interrupted by others.

The painful wailing lasted for a full twenty minutes. The two-color liquid in the groove was completely mixed and turned into a new viscous liquid. It became like mercury, and also like the silver-white nail polish with sequins and glitter powder.

Then, they were injected into another pupa shell again.

——It was the promotion egg constructed by the power of Huantiansi. It slowly absorbed the silver-white liquid until the purple shell completely turned silver-white. Then it became quiet.

"...Is it over?"

Isabel waited for a long time before asking in a low voice.

Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and shook his head slightly: "Not yet... but it's basically successful."

——Meg really held on.

The increase in willpower brought by bathing in dragon blood made her not even cry. Just by shouting loudly, he completed the most painful first molting.

This basically means that he has successfully changed his job.

Shedding is the authority of Die Tianshi, but he does not want to "shed his skin infinitely".

Rather, just like a bug turning into a butterfly, he completely changes his body, race and appearance through the molting ceremony.

When the bug is in the pupa stage, most of its internal organs will melt into pupa fluid and become a pot of soup. Except for those "adult components" that exist at birth but are not used. The molting ceremony comes from this phenomenon.

But for Die Tianshi, all he does is collect rewards and then help others complete molting and rebirth.

In other words, it is a per-time fee. And it will become more and more expensive, because Die Tianshi does not like capricious people.

The molting warlock uses the "molting ceremony" as a tool to achieve the purpose of continuous evolution - the power of this profession comes from the self-devouring, eternally cyclical Ouroboros, that is, Huan Tianshi.

In order to allow mortals to shed their skins infinitely, Huan Tiansi had to pay a price to Die Tiansi, who directly helped Meg "buy out" the molting ceremony. In the future, when Die Tiansi comes to help shed her skin, there is no need to pay extra compensation.

Because the concepts of abandoning the past, self-devouring, and infinite evolution fit Huan Tiansi, which will not only please Him, but also mean that there is a chance to become His apostle in the future - as long as Meg's "molt magician" level is higher than her profession of the authoritarian path, then her soul will belong to Huan Tiansi instead of the Silver Crown Dragon.

And this is considered an advance investment.

If Die Tiansi is dead, then the molting ceremony only needs Huan Tiansi to preside over it, and then Huan Tiansi can complete the job transfer in batches - anyway, the power of molting is not his thing, it is the powerless authority that has died and has not yet been controlled by the new Tiansi.

But now He needs to pay an additional compensation - Aiwass doesn't know whether He thinks highly of Meg and thinks this deal is meaningful. This is the possibility of the failure of the ceremony.

Fortunately, He finally agreed to this deal.

Of course, it may also be because this is the first order, and he also thinks this kind of transaction has some meaning...so he decided to offer a big discount at the opening, even at a loss to gain publicity.

The three of them waited here until the sun completely rose above the horizon. The two eggshells in front of and behind the mirror finally made a shattering sound at the same time.

First there were cracks, then suddenly they cracked——

The egg shell in front of the mirror was broken, and only some blood-stained clothes were left inside.

Immediately afterwards, the egg shell behind the mirror shattered.

The next moment, Isabel suddenly opened her eyes wide.

The rejuvenation ritual was a success!

The Meg who walked out was not even a human being——

She has two silver-white dragon horns like sheep's horns, some silver scales on her skin, and a dragon tail behind her. Her hair turned silver-white, just like the color of the Silver Crowned Dragon. Her pupils were a rather elegant dark green, and even the outline of her appearance was completely different from before.

Although she killed the green dragon in the past, she has now transformed into a white dragon similar to the Silver Crowned Dragon. Only in the color of her eyes can one see some traces of being bathed in the green dragon's blood.

——There is only one small problem.

That is, Meg looks about eight or nine years old at this moment. She even looked much smaller than Yulia.

"It seems the ceremony was successful."

Ms. Meg was not wearing any clothes, but she acted openly, without any concealment or shame.

She lowered her head and looked at her body, then walked around to the mirror and admired it for a while. Then he raised his head and looked at the three of them, grinning: "Hey, you guys have become so tall. It seems that I have returned to my childhood - what the hell. I was never so cute when I was a child."

The newborn half-dragon girl made a childish voice.

It was full of contradiction with her casual and almost overbearing tone of conversation.

Isabel rushed over, took off her coat and put it on little Meg.

She half-knelt on the ground and helped her button up. Meg just looked at her with a smile, reached out to touch her hair, and pinched her earlobe.

"Good boy, thank you."

The young girl with dragon horns said warmly.

She then turned back and looked at Aiwass: "I won't thank you enough, little fox. I will remember your great favor - you saved my life and helped me rejuvenate.

"Such a young and energetic body... Ha, if those who have taken refuge in the path of dusk know about it, they will definitely regret it for the rest of their lives."

"Don't forget... you can't be content with the status quo. Once you start to ascend, you have to continue to the next one."

"Ah, I will. Don't say such disappointing things——"

Little Meg waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "If I really fail then, you don't have to worry about me. You have helped me a lot, and I am very grateful to you."

She doesn't care at all about the "cannot stop evolving" requirement in the contract, and she doesn't hate change anyway.

If you can evolve, evolve; if you can't evolve, let it go.

After all, for her, being able to live for one more year is earned. Not to mention living with such a young and energetic body.

She stood there and thought for a while, then suddenly strode towards the door.

Isabel quickly ran over and stopped her: "Where are you going?"

"Let Sofia take a look."

Little Meg grinned and made a clear voice: "She must be so jealous."

"Go change clothes first."

Isabel said stubbornly: "You can wear my childhood clothes first -"

"Tsk." Little Meg smacked her lips.

"Also, you can't drink right now."

"——That won't work, only this won't work," little Meg suddenly became unhappy, "I want to rejuvenate myself just so that I can do whatever I want without worrying about my health."

"But, Ms. Meg..."

"Okay, [leave me alone]!"

Little Meg's majestic voice sounded, as shocking as the roar of a dragon.

Isabel's footsteps suddenly stopped, and her face turned pale due to the more powerful word spirit than before.

But when little Meg walked to the door, she suddenly stopped.

Aiwass walked over to comfort Isabel, and then walked over with a smile: "What, Ms. Meg? Can't reach the armrest?"

Hearing this, little Meg rolled her eyes at Aiwass.

"I was just thinking... I can no longer be called 'Meg' now. Even if I continue to be called Meg, no one will think that I am the Meg of the past. From this perspective, 'Meg' Ge' is socially dead."

Little Meg thought: "Old death and now life... What should my new name be?"

She thought for a while and then gave up: "Forget it, I haven't thought about this kind of thing for a long time.

"Little fox, you are still young - help me think of a name."

"I?"

Aiwass was a little surprised.

"The ritual you helped me complete gave me this body. It is indeed possible to give me a name. This is completely reasonable."

Little Meg crossed her arms and nodded happily.

...But when you suddenly said that, I really can’t think of any good names.

However, resurrection from the dead, new life from the dead, desire for survival, strong willpower...

Aiwass was reminded of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

"How about your name is Ligeia?"

Aiwass asked.

"Then let's call her Ligeia Danai. Danai was my maiden name before marriage——"

The newly born little Ligeia said with a smile: "This is our first meeting, everyone.

"——From now on I will be Ligeia."

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