As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 796 About Bigamy

When Miaham uttered the name "Galdera, the Demon Goddess," it was already clear that this woman's background was extremely complicated.

“Demon God…” Amuro: “You mean…our ruler…”

“Yes, do you need me to explain something?” Miaham asked, then said directly, “Let me reintroduce myself. My name is Yavin Miaham, formerly known as the ‘Mother of the Ovary.’ I came from the Borderlands. Later, I lost my power and came to this world using a teleportation toy, which happened to be at the beginning of the Third Era. Since then, I’ve been staying in this world… well, actually, just playing.”

“Playing…you mean killing Mr. Derby…” Amuro hesitated, then stopped.

“This?” Miaham lifted Mr. Derby’s heart, squeezed it, and a ball of yellow fire surged out and flowed into her body.

“Didn’t Mr. Derby say before that there was a forbidden object sealed in his heart? I just thought it was about time to reveal my identity, so I took it out.” As Miaham spoke, he put the heart back into Mr. Derby’s chest and snapped his fingers at his corpse.

"Ah!" Mr. Derby sat up abruptly, and when he saw the smile on Miaham's face, he said with lingering fear, "I think you just ripped my heart out?"

Miaham nodded indulgently: "You're a really smart kid. You might just change the world someday."

Mr. Derby: "Child? You call him a child?"

Snapped!
Miaham flicked Mr. Derby on the head, knocking him unconscious.

Players have witnessed that she possesses the power to control life and can resurrect those she kills.

"Is this... the power of a higher-dimensional demon?" Aita asked.

Miaham: "High-dimensional demons... those guys are nothing more than high-ranking servants."

"Hold on."

The person who interrupted her was Fenrir.

“You…” Fenrir laughed, and said, “I remember you, Miaham, you are the product of the Church’s experiments, how could you…”

“Fenrir, shut up,” Miaham interrupted him, smiling as he said, “I’ll talk about what to do with you after I’ve explained things to my guests.”

Fenrir said nothing, raised his wrist, and the red light emitted by the blood gem on his arm armor became even more intense, even emitting a purple glow.

The blood gem transformed into a golden cup. Holding this divine artifact in his hand, he unleashed dense golden threads that pierced the sky before disappearing into the clouds.
A red halo appeared on the clouds.

A thin thread descended.

The thin line descended vertically, landing on Miaham's head. Her pupils looked upward, her face expressionless.

"You want to destroy this place, and then use the released energy to open the [Gate of the Borderlands]?"

Miaham spoke up, revealing Fenrir's plan.

Fenrir did not answer; the blood gem in the golden cup shimmered, signaling an "attack."

A red ray surged down from the clouds, the blizzard stopped, snowflakes looked like crystals coated with cold light, the cold wind in the air froze, and in an instant, the ray suddenly accelerated, crashing into Miaham with an oppressive feeling of destroying everything.

boom--! ! !
The crimson light struck the earth, whipping up a blood-red storm. This ray could burn souls, and all living things within a radius of several kilometers would be killed. Only the dragon named Midil was protected from harm by Fenrir in advance.

Wait for the storm to pass.

Aita stood in the center of the players, immune to the impact by a protective shield made of [Black Pearl] magic.

Miaham was holding a black umbrella. Not only was she unharmed, but Mr. Derby, whom she had knocked unconscious, was also unharmed.

But Fenrir had already achieved his goal; the explosive energy washed over the earth and opened the Gates of the Borderlands.

He didn't originally intend to open the Borderlands Gate here.

The original plan was to hold a maze competition on January 5th, allowing players to enter the maze and fight to draw out abnormal energy to be used as a key to open the [Gates of the Borderlands]. Now, it's just a last resort. The great maze is right below Yharnam, and this world in the painting is his treasure, which cannot be destroyed.

Fortunately, the Gates of the Borderlands opened. He had a large number of Blood Gems inside his body, which could absorb the power of the Borderlands. These methods came from his years of research and the approval of the player Lennon.

The gates of the border prison slowly opened.

An eerie, sinister, and dazzling red light shone through the crack in the door. Fenrir had evolved, and then he could... travel to the previous two eras to carry out his "journey to godhood".

Snapped.

Miaham snapped his fingers.

The Gates of the Borderlands have disappeared.

"what……?"

Fenrir slowly looked at Miaham, who looked puzzled.

“Why don’t you let me finish speaking?” Miaham said. “The border prison you’re going to is my hometown. Of course I can decide whether to open the door or not. If I want to, I can open that door anytime. Why do you have to go through all this trouble?”

"What are you talking about?" Fenrir's face stiffened.

When a person's beliefs collapse, it is very similar to the phenomenon of a mountain collapsing; the mindset usually collapses in an instant.

For example, Fenrir now.

Miaham looked at Amuro and the others, then closed her umbrella. The players' eyes never left Miaham. From the moment this woman stopped pretending, everyone understood that Fenrir was now dispensable.

"As you all know, the Borderlands is a very large place with many rulers, including Galdella and me. However, it seems that Galdella is the only ruler left in the Borderlands now. Yes, the one you know, the King of the 'Corridor of the End,' the Demon God Galdella."

She looked up at the sky and shouted.

"You must be watching, Galdella! Long time no see!"

……

World Tree, the Administrator's Roundtable.

The demon god Galdella lowered his head: "So it was her..."

Schwarel laughed and said, "See? I told you it had nothing to do with me, it was this white-haired kid's problem."

"You bastard, you have no right to talk to me like that." The demon god was a little angry; he couldn't get over Karl being replaced.

"Stop arguing," Valkyrie said, acting as peacemaker. "Who exactly is that woman?"

Galdella: "She... she's a filthy bitch."

The Valkyrie smiled and asked, "When you look at me and say that, you're actually insulting me, aren't you?"

Galdella: "...No."

Valkyrie: "Let's have a duel, Mr. Demon God. Let's settle the problem between our two corridors with our two bosses. It's not about who's better, it's about life and death."

……

Miaham straightened his back and nodded with a smile: "Where were we..."

Xiao Wu: "You said... you have a powerful ovary..."

Miaham chuckled and gave the middle finger: "Ugh, that's called the Mother of the Ovary. I used to be the Queen of Succubi!"

At that moment, Miaham's gaze fell upon Fenrir.

Fenrir was standing in the snow, trying to hide his surprise with a stern expression. He had been using dreams to his advantage, and he was trying to imagine that what he was experiencing was just a dream.

Miaham took a deep breath: "Mr. Fenrir, you should listen to this too. It's about me, and it has something to do with you as well."

She said, "I am not the ruler of any world, but merely a being who has come into contact with high-level world power. The secrets of this world have nothing to do with me. All my actions are related to Bulma's appearance. It was Bulma's company that allowed me, who had been deep in the border prison and the world of secrets, to see the power of technology for the first time. I always felt that I had to do something, otherwise, if the technology of this world becomes stronger, I will become meat on the chopping block sooner or later."

“So,” Miaham paused, “I wanted to try to access the First Age, the laws of the Golden Tree concerning godhood.”

“Theoretically, you are already a god,” Amuro said.

“Then you should ask Galdera what curse he placed on me.” Miaham didn’t say much about it. She didn’t want to bring up the time when she was defeated by Galdera in the Border Prison. She looked at Aita: “I envy you. I want to become a god like you, or at least a god who can control a part of the power of a world.”

Aita: "Um...sorry, I'm actually just a god in name only..."

Although she is considered one of the twin goddesses in the Ys world, the true goddess there is Tia of the Tanggula Mountains.

But to become a god in this world, Tia's power alone is not enough. This place has been invaded by the power of "Dragon Ball" and is interfered with by technology and energy outside of the World Tree. Its strength is the highest level in the Border Prison scenario. There are no more than five worlds of the same strength in all corridors.

Therefore, for Miaham to become a god, he must be able to suppress the Dragon Ball energy in this world.

Miaham: "That's the plan, but I still need to find a few people to do it, and we can't be too blatant. You know, on the other side of the continent, the Bulma Trading Company has already made a time machine. That machine was made using an ancient god as a test subject. As you can imagine, if I'm too reckless, I might also encounter some misfortune."

She had calculated it.

If the Bulma Merchant Guild and several major powers mobilize all their military and technological resources to target her and wage war, the world will be destroyed, civilization will enter the Fourth Age, but Miaham herself will also die.

"Then I set my sights on you, Mr. Fenrir, you're a proper occult fanatic."

Miaham teleported in front of Fenrir, stood on tiptoe, and gently lifted his chin with his fingers.

"Do you still remember? About a hundred years ago, the whispers of God you always heard in your dreams..."

"..."

Fenrir's eyes widened. Of course he remembered that back then he was just an ordinary businessman and an amateur scholar interested in the occult. One day, he began to hear the "whispers of the ancient gods" every night and pieced together a map of a maze in his dreams, pointing to a great underground labyrinth.

It was from that time that he met Lennon, and a series of coincidences led him to become the acting bishop of the Healing Church, a position he holds to this day.

“I remember… the person who had that dream was a bishop from the Healing Church…”

“It’s me, you idiot,” Miaham said with a laugh. “Every night I would imitate the ‘whispers of the Old Gods’ under your bed to lull you into dreams. But I gave up on you thirty years ago because I got married then. After my husband died, life became too boring, and I remembered you. I found out you were still studying the Old Gods, so I played with you while continuing my previous plans.”

"...And...what about it?"

Fenrir pointed to the distant dragon Midir.

This giant dragon was also a gift from the bishop of the Healing Church who "took a dream" to him. Originally, it was a fleshy tumor. He used experiments to inject the tumor into the bodies of virgins, allowing them to have offspring with the ancient gods. In the end, he took the children of the ancient gods and sacrificed them to awaken the giant dragon deep in the labyrinth.

All the instructions came from a dream sent to the bishop of the Healing Church.

"It was all a joke."

Miaham covered his mouth and laughed.

"Pfft~ Sorry, I'm from the border prison after all, I'm too playful~ Seeing how superstitious you are, I couldn't resist teasing you, and ended up fooling you for decades, you're such a fool. If you had just checked under the bed to see if anyone was there, you wouldn't have been fooled for so long."

“But…you have a spiritual communion with the ancient gods…” “Idiot, think about it. I used to be a succubus, infertile. The one who truly had a spiritual communion with the ancient gods…” Miaham revealed a chilling smile: “is your descendant.”

Fenrir: "Huh...?"

Miaham: "I transformed your offspring into my likeness and sent you to the ancient gods' experimental table. Think about it carefully."

Suddenly Fenrir drew his longsword and held it to Miaham's neck.

"What did you say?"

"Don't be impatient. The Mortal Blade only works on high-dimensional demons or low-level gods. It won't work on me."

Miaham said with a smirk, "Just kidding, Mr. Fenrir. Actually, the one who communicated with the ancient god back then... wasn't me, not your descendant, it was you."

Fenrir: "..."

“Look at that child.” Miaham shifted his neck to the side and pointed at the dragon. “From the moment that child appeared, it has been very obedient to you, but it is very irritable to other creatures. Only food can soothe it. Can you guess why? Mr. Fenrir, you should remember, that child was summoned by a tumor of divine communion. That tumor has been inside its body for a long time.”

Fenrir's gaze gradually became unfocused.

Miaham: "Succubi are neither male nor female, and gods have no gender. In the eyes of the ancient gods, you are both a man and a woman capable of bearing children. The world is a dream, and you cannot distinguish the truth. Just like what I am saying now, it may also be a deception, but what if it is true? What would you do?"

Fenrir's legs went weak, and he used his long sword as a crutch, plunging it into the thick snow to keep himself from falling.

"Have my life been a lie for the past few decades?"

"It depends on how you think about it, Mr. Fenrir. Identities can be fabricated, falsehoods can become reality, and reality can just be a dream. You can guess for yourself."

Fenrir stood there like a fool, becoming a scarecrow in the snow.

Miaham turned his head and said, "Well... one of my abilities is probably this, Li, Li Nuo... you understand now, right?"

She had actually been explaining to Li Nuo.

During the long time they were talking, Li Nuo and his twenty clones all wore the same foolish expression, as if they had lost their souls.

"Oh no, I've been tricked again..."

This is the second time since the black marketeer.

“I really didn’t lie to you about liking you!” Miaham explained, “The whole incident isn’t your fault. My ability is called [Cognitive Bias], which can modify a person’s first impression of things. So when I took off your clothes, all of your perceptions were going in the wrong direction.”

Seeing that Li Nuo still looked utterly hopeless, Miaham let out a sigh of relief.

"With your souls swapped with Ms. Mutou Sora, your perceptions are misaligned, and you experience strange physical sensations, which will affect your observation abilities."

Miaham turned his palm over, and a book appeared.

This book is Lennon's "Notes on Watch".

“I don’t know what happened to Mr. Lennon. When my men found him, all that was left was this book.”

There is a letter in the book that needs to be given to Fenrir.

Lennon fled.

It had nothing to do with Miaham. He was frightened by a guy who had been hiding in his dreams. Theoretically, he was a "Lost One," and no one could find him if he wanted to, but he still managed to escape.

In his letter, Lennon described it this way: There is someone watching me. That guy doesn't belong to this era. I really can't figure out who it is, but the sense of danger makes me unable to stay any longer. I'm sorry, I need to leave immediately.

Miaham said, "Mr. Lennon didn't take the book with him when he left. I guess he was afraid there was something wrong with it, so he simply abandoned the prop. I can't use it either, because it has an owner, but I can roughly... well, make some simple modifications to its contents."

The book's pages are turned, and it stops on one page.

It reads: If Lino and his team fight Fenrir, they will be completely focused and will no longer dwell on the problems around them.

Miaham's fingers trembled, and the book was burned to ashes.

"We don't need it anymore."

However, Li Nuo and Xiao Wu still did not return to their original bodies, indicating that Miaham must have kept something in reserve.

She added, "Besides, Amuro, guess who else I know?"

Even Amuro, slow to realize, understood: "We from the Corridor have found you."

Besides Amuro, there were nearly a hundred other players who escaped from the Northern Undead Asylum.

“That’s right~” Miaham said happily, “Those guys found me before you met me, and were willing to help me ascend to the throne of God and go to the border prison to kill the demon god, so that it would be easier for them to rise to power in the future. As expected of the lunatics of your ‘End’, we cooperated very well.”

This is also one of the reasons why Miaham abandoned Fenrir. It's actually quite normal for the players of "The End" to be able to find her. They only need to investigate the Demon God Galderado to find out about Miaham's existence.

However, this is precisely the blind spot for Li Nuo and his team. The managers of "Redemption" and "End" are now in a cooperative relationship and will not delve into the details of the past.

Amuro uttered a name: "Quasimodo..."

Xiao Wu: "Huh?"

Amro: "We have a hidden 'Focusing Eye' in our cloister, named Quasimodo."

Xiao Wu joked, "The one who rang the bells at Notre Dame?"

"Ah."

"No way?"

"In a certain world, Quasimodo is quite famous..."

"so……"

Everyone looked at Miaham.

She said, "Hmm! [Focusor], ability [Intelligence-Degrading Aura]."

Everyone gasped.

Li Nuo also understood that Miaham's [cognitive bias] + [Notes on Things] + [Intelligence-reducing halo] + loss of [Denesha's insight] had resulted in him being subjected to four layers of buffs before he was able to overlook Miaham, whom he had been suspecting, at the most crucial moment.

"Then I was tricked too..." Li Nuo felt a surge of blood rushing to his head.

“Li Nuo…” Amuro whispered, “To be honest, it’s already quite impressive that you haven’t become mentally impaired after being hit with four layers of debuffs…”

Aita and Pippen nodded to him.

Li Nuo didn't want the fool's comfort.

Miaham said, "Really, really, that's amazing. I really didn't expect that it would take so much power to be used on you from behind just to make you stop thinking for a moment."

Li Nuo forced a pout and asked, "What exactly do you want... huh?"

He knew that Miaham was revealing these tactics now because they couldn't be used again, but why was she exposing them now?

"A major event will occur on January 5, 1888, the consequence of which will likely be that the world enters the Fourth Age."

Miaham took a deep breath.

Even if she doesn't say it, these guys will find a way to find out the truth, so she might as well just say it here.

She is usually very honest unless she's just playing around.

“All of Fenrir’s actions will bring destruction, which could be fatal to me. I only recently learned that, and I think it is necessary to stop Mr. Fenrir, that’s one reason.”

"This continent is called the Sumeru Continent. The first era, which will help me ascend to the throne of a god, lies dormant beneath the ley lines. That is the second reason."

"Ascending to the throne requires a special power. A guy named Marger did some good deeds and urged me to speed up the process. That's the third reason."

Li Nuo and the others were only curious about "what amazing thing Malje had done this time".

Miaham removed Fenrir's left arm armor and took off the blood gem from it.

"The only thing Mr. Fenrir did well was collecting the players' souls. With so many souls, I can accomplish what I need to do."

She turned around and gave Li Nuo a sweet smile.

“Mr. Li Nuo, I’m telling you all this for the sake of cooperation. Let’s make this clear first: if we don’t cooperate, and you interfere with me again, then we’ll all be enemies. But before that… I’ve said it before, I like you, I really like you. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because your personality and appearance are to my liking.”

Aside from Aita and Pippen, everyone knew that she was lying in the first part of her statement, and that if Li Nuo didn't agree to her next request, she would treat everyone as "people who need to be killed as soon as possible."

Miaham extended his hand to Lino.

"You should know that the path to godhood in the Elden Ring requires the union of a god and a king. I have already told you the basic truth about myself. So now, are you willing to marry me and become my king?"

The moon is very bright.

Snow is falling.

Everyone was stunned.

From Xiao Wu's perspective, Miaham is proposing to his own body.

Li Nuo forced a smile: "Well, this is such a big matter, I need to ask my wife."

……

Northern Immortals' Asylum.

Cha Bai was forcibly teleported out of the painted world, where she was greeted by Rumi, the only one still "alive" in the Undead Asylum. He was in charge of managing the small theater in the painted world, and it was he who used his privileges to forcibly bring Cha Bai out.

There was a talking sprite on the table, holding a folded letter in its hand.

Rumi pointed to the table.

I didn't look at what Li Nuo sent you.

"Didn't you see? Why are you hiding so far away?"

Cha Bai looked at Lu Mi, who was standing twenty meters away at the end of the corridor. Her first thought was that Li Nuo had once again acted recklessly, causing some events to become unmanageable.

She picked up the letter, glanced at its contents, and instinctively snapped the corner of the table in two.

(End of this chapter)