Millennium Witch.

Chapter 69 - 69 - Mountain Whale
"Whoa, God of Machines above, how can there be such a terrifying horde of mutated monsters! Kind lady, how come you don't seem scared at all?" After the whale horde left, Bingyu snapped out of her defensive posture and couldn't help but say.

“I believe the god of machines will protect us,” Yvette said.

Bingyu immediately puffed out her cheeks, feeling that she was being perfunctory, but she had no evidence, after all, she couldn't very well question the great God.

Then she remembered the earthen wall that the silver-haired girl had summoned just moments before. It didn't seem to use any magical artifacts, but it had actually done it perfectly, just like a legendary human magician.

Taming beasts, magic... Miss Kindness's methods are getting more and more sophisticated. Is she really going to evolve into a human?

Thinking of this, Bingyu, a human worshipper, couldn't help but feel envious, which dispelled the panic brought by the whale pod.

Although the first mechanical being to ascend to human form has not yet been born, there is always a first time for everything. Judging from the level of understanding and mystery shown by the kind lady, Bingyu felt that the possibility of her successfully ascending was quite high.

At least with her, Bingyu never found that awkward feeling of deliberately imitating a human; every move she made was exceptionally natural, which was quite rare in the entire mechanical race.

If one day the kind lady could truly become human, then she would be a good partner to humans! She secretly believed this, thinking that wouldn't be so bad.

the other side……

Noticing the whales had departed, Dugrabi breathed a sigh of relief, released himself from his prostrate position, raised his dragon head again, and reclaimed the pride of the dragon race.

In its view, that was undoubtedly the most critical moment since it crossed over. Those terrifying giant filthy demons were most likely the powerful henchmen of the Witch of the End, capable of easily destroying a continental city. Even though they were hundreds or thousands of meters apart, it still felt terrified, as if it had just walked through the gates of hell.

The Land of the End is indeed terrifying; monsters lurk everywhere! Fortunately, I have divine protection by my side…

It stole a glance at the silver-haired girl and suddenly felt that this third-rate wild god, who had previously humiliated it and made it hate it so much, now looked surprisingly kind and made it feel safe. It even felt less resistant to pulling the carriage.

Well, to be honest, I did damage the car myself. Towing it is a way to make amends for my mistake, which is in line with what a dragon would do...

……

After witnessing the terrifying pod of mutated flying whales, Dugrabi, unwilling to linger, began to pull the cart even harder, and before nightfall, he, Yvette, and Ice Rain arrived at a valley near their destination.

According to Bingyu, there is a puppet kingdom in this valley, which is also the only puppet kingdom around the ruined city of Kux.

"Where is the village?" After translating for Dugrabi, Dugrabi, who had driven the car to the bottom of the valley, looked around. All he could see were the ruins of towns and mountains almost completely swallowed by the heavy snow, a vast expanse of white, and not a single living person in sight.

Bingyu and Yvette were also a little confused. They looked around for a while and even made a little noise.

Not long after, a hidden stone door suddenly opened below the nearby mountain range, and Yvette saw a dilapidated puppet poking its head out, looking at everyone with a puzzled expression.

It had no mouth; the speaker was inside its body. It asked in a hoarse, synthesized voice, "Who are you...?"

Yvette didn't speak immediately, but instead looked it over and found that the puppet had a particularly industrial style. The lower half of its cylindrical body had two short legs, while the upper half had a spherical head and two tweezer-like arms. The design was very crude and covered in rust. It must have belonged to some factory in the past, replacing humans as mechanical laborers on the assembly line.

"Hello! We are travelers passing by!" Bingyu greeted them as she walked over. She was the only pure-blooded mechanical puppet among the three "people," and the occasional exposed seams and ball joints on her body effectively reduced the wariness of the other mechanical races.

"So you're a traveler." The tattered puppet relaxed instantly. Although its smooth face was expressionless, the change in its tone was quite obvious. But then it noticed the black dragon pulling the carriage, froze for a moment, and said in horror, "What is that?!...A mutated creature?"

“No, that’s a domesticated wild animal. Look, it’s pulling our cart, just like the horse-drawn carriages of human civilization,” Bingyu said.

"So that's how it is, that's amazing." The simple and honest old puppet immediately believed it, without a second of doubt. It said warmly, "Please come in and have a seat, you two guests who have come from afar."

"Wait, am I supposed to stay outside forever?" Dugrabi shouted as he saw Yvette and Ice Rain walk toward the stone gate and then gestured to show the height of the stone gate.

“Go find somewhere to stay for a while,” Yvette said.

"Damn it..." A minute later, after entering the stone gate, Bingyu immediately asked curiously, "What did Mr. Camel Beast just say? Was he angry that we abandoned him?"

Because of her lack of understanding of animal training techniques, she didn't find it strange at all that wild animals could talk. She even deduced that in the age of human civilization, communication between humans and wild animals was probably commonplace. She only regretted that she didn't understand animal language and couldn't be as versatile as humans.

“It says it prefers to be alone and asks us not to disturb it,” Yvette said.

"Oh, I see. I thought it was lonely," Bingyu said shyly.

As she spoke, Yvette turned to look around.

Unlike the puppet town of Agasher, the members of the puppet kingdom here were staying in a place that looked like an air-raid shelter. Considering that the puppets, although they imitated humans, did not feel cold, this puzzled her.

"Mr. Puppet, Mr. Puppet," she whispered.

“Miss Traveler, you can just call me ‘Copper Skin’.” The puppet turned around, its face only showing two red-glowing cameras that served as eyes; it had no other facial features, and its empty face looked somewhat sinister in the dim environment.

However, its tone was actually very gentle, with a rustic charm reminiscent of a country youth. Yvette quickly introduced herself and asked, "What's the name of your kingdom? Why do you live in air-raid shelters?"

“Miss Yvette, our kingdom is called the ‘Kux Family.’ We are a group of mechanical people from all over the world. We don’t have the illustrious ‘noble bloodline’ of the four great kingdoms, and there aren’t many of us. There are no more than 30 of us right now,” Copperskin said. “We don’t want to live in the air-raid shelter forever. We want to go outside and repair the houses left by the Creators, but there are often terrifying mountain whales passing by outside. They will attack, so we have no other choice.”

"Mountain whale?" Bingyu said in surprise, "Is it a very big, whale-like, flying, mutated creature that travels in groups?"

"Yes, you saw them?" Copperskin asked in surprise. "Those mountain whales are dangerous. Are you alright?"

“They didn’t spot us,” Bingyu said.

"That's good."

"Where did the mountain whales come from?" Yvette asked immediately, thinking of the many suspicious things about those mutated whales.

She didn't think those giant flying whales were mutated from ordinary whales. She had seen real mutated whales when she crossed the sea, and they were on a completely different evolutionary path.

“We don’t know either. They appeared suddenly from the city center of the ruined city of Cux. It was too dangerous there. After we prayed to the gods, the Sanctuary headquarters sent a gracious man, but he couldn’t get close to the place and was almost seriously injured.”

"Even the Godsbane..." Bingyu said in surprise. This was the strongest combat force of the Mechanical Race, and the main force of the Holy Temple in protecting the various kingdoms!

When she and Dugrabi teamed up, they faced a perilous and chaotic battle against a Phase 3 Aberration, but if it were a Divine Grace, they would be instantly killed!

Even such an invincible being can get hurt?

"The Benediction told us that the monsters in Kux are all very strange, possessing a danger far beyond their normal level, and that venturing deeper would be a losing proposition. Furthermore, it advised us not to stay here and to move the kingdom away, but unfortunately, everyone has lived here for a long time and developed an attachment to it, so..."

At this point, Tongpi sighed: "Actually, I support moving, but everyone is unwilling, so let it be. After all, everyone likes this place very much, likes its history, its scenery, and the memories we created together."

Hearing its sad tone, Bingyu seemed somewhat empathetic, probably recalling her hometown in Silver Mirror Continent.

Yvette, however, frowned, her attention still fixed on the mountain whale.

The danger far exceeded what should have been the expected level, which meant her judgment was correct. Those mountain whales were only stage one mutants, yet they possessed flight techniques that could only be mastered by stage three or higher... and there were many more of these bizarre and dangerous mutants in Cooks...

Is there any point in hunting then? What if, after a round of hunting, the mutated magic power within me not only doesn't increase, but actually decreases?

(End of this chapter)