Millennium Witch.

Chapter 83 - Intelligence
A brief silence fell over the cold, damp air. Yvette and Dugraby both fell silent as they watched Abella deliberately put on a fierce expression.

The Witch of the End has awakened, and the day of the end is about to arrive... Chewing on this information, Yvette felt somewhat bewildered, wondering if the Witch of the End really existed.

Is the answer to the apocalypse really that simple?

The evil god descended, bringing with him an army of aberrant beings. According to messages from beneath the abyss base, it may have started in the ocean, then the original civilization was destroyed, and the evil god slumbered, preparing to destroy the next world...

that's all?

That's all?

"What a terrible story," she thought. "If this is a story, then it must be a terrible story. No matter what, the Origin Civilization is a human civilization that has developed for thousands of years and has achieved brilliant success, yet it suddenly dies in such a mechanical deus ex machina. Isn't that too boring?"

No... it's not necessarily that simple.

Perhaps the End Witch did not exist initially; she later became the "goddess" among the aberrations, just as the sixth stage is called the "ruler" and the seventh stage is the nine "monarchs".

"God" may only be one of the later stages.

However, what connection lies behind her appearance in the mainstream mythology of the Radiant Continent?
Furthermore, the Spider Witch claims that the gate to a new world is about to open. What is this so-called "gate"? Could it be the aurora borealis?

……

Unlike Yvette, who was expressionless but actually deep in thought, Dugrabi's feelings were much purer. After all, in its understanding, the Witch of the End was the king of evil gods who threatened the entire human world, so it didn't have many doubts.

After a moment of shock, it asked urgently, "The Day of the End? What do you mean? You mean the Witch of the End is going to wage war against the human world? Wasn't she sealed away?"

Abella gave a cold laugh, intending to keep everyone in suspense, but seeing the black dragon raise its claws, seemingly about to strike her, she immediately became obedient and shrank back, saying, "I... I only know that the day of reckoning is coming, I don't know anything else! But that's probably what it means, which is why the King of the Sea is working so hard to plunder resources everywhere and desperately cultivate high-ranking subordinates..."

After the black dragon lowered its claws, she breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but steal a glance at Lady Loshivia, wondering what this commander was up to. Why didn't she convert the black dragon that had smuggled itself from this new world into a divine offspring?

Wait, could she be a spy for the Divine Heir?
Abella swallowed hard after considering this possibility, but after a while, she felt that the probability was not high.

Although no one knows what the consequences of disobeying the goddess's will will be, for the divine offspring, disobeying their superiors is absolutely unacceptable.

Through the special existence of the "Mother Nest," the hierarchy within the Divine Heirs is extremely strict. For example, in Cux, if the Purple Commander asks the Spider Witch to do something but she refuses, the Purple Commander can use the control of the Pale Mother Nest to make her commit suicide on the spot, turning her into nutrients to reward other Divine Heirs.

If the Mother Nest can do this, then the power of the Goddess is even more undeniable, so an internal traitor... uh, that's probably impossible, right?
Am I overthinking it?

In any case, this Lady Loshivia is definitely the leader of the gods, there is no doubt about that. Just look at her strange hair and her terrifying ability to devour evolution factors, it is impossible for those ants in the new world to do that. The ants occasionally wander into the Origin World, but they are terrified of evolution factors, how could they dare to devour them on their own?
At this moment, Yvette, who was standing to the side, had finally finished processing this information. Suppressing her doubts, she asked again, "What secret were you talking about just now?"

Putting aside her wild thoughts, Abella said, "...I don't know how many vacancies there are among the nine monarchs, but there is no monarch in Black Tide Continent...The day of the end is approaching, and it is an opportunity to perform meritorious service for the goddess, so the King of the Sea sent Commander Zi to secretly come to this place on the edge of the North Sea and Black Tide Continent to establish a stronghold and plunder the nearby resources...That's why I said this place is special."

Dugrabi suddenly realized, "So you guys came here to steal things after all." "...That's about it." Abella glanced at it.

"Are the nine monarchs forbidden from plundering each other's territories for resources?" Yvette asked.

"I...I don't know...It might be because the monarch hasn't been born yet." Abella thought to herself, "If even a commander doesn't know, how could I possibly know?"

The probability that plundering is prohibited since no monarch has been born is higher... Otherwise, this rule of prohibiting plundering feels very inconsistent with the style of raising mutated creatures to kill and devour each other and evolve... Yvette made a judgment in her heart.

This also means that secretly coming to Black Tide Continent to plunder nutrients is a violation of the rules, which explains why Abella couldn't judge the Purple Commander's actions. From the other side's perspective, since they've come to Black Tide Continent to steal, they should definitely keep a low profile; how could they possibly clash with the other local commanders?

Dugrabi continued, "How many of the nine monarchs are there now? Where are they located?"

Abella shook her head: "I only know two. One is the King of the Sea whom Commander Zi is loyal to, and the other is the King of the Abyss, who is the King of the Sea's mortal enemy... Commander Zi should know more, right? He is qualified to challenge for the position of monarch. Hmm, so is Lady Loshivia."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Furthermore, the nine monarchs rule over the sea, land, and sky, but I only know that the King of the Heavenly Sea is the ruler of the Northern Sea of ​​Abyss Flow; I don't know anything else..."

Upon hearing this, Yvette's heart stirred slightly.

As far as she knew, there were three continents and four oceans on the Origin Star, or the Land of the End.

The former are Black Tide Island, Emerald Island, and Silver Mirror Island.

The oceans are represented by the "Northern Ocean of Abyss Flow" and the "Southern Ocean of Abyss Flow" at the top and bottom of the world map, the "Rune Ocean" in the middle left, and the vast "Ocean of Consciousness" on the right.

Does the fact that the King of the Seas rules over the North Sea mean that each of the four oceans has a monarch?
The fact that a monarch has not yet been born in Kuroshio Continent does mean that each of the three continents also has a monarch.
In this way, there are two monarchs left out of the nine monarchs, who are the monarchs who rule the sky.
……

With Dugrabi acting as her mouth double, Yvette was able to remain silent for most of the subsequent interrogations, maintaining her persona as the leader of the Aberrations, while Dugrabi, posing as the "New World Dragon," extracted more information from her.

She learned that the internal hierarchy of the aberrations was extremely strict, and that from the third stage onwards, advancement was impossible without the help of the hive. There were only three paths: become the hive master, become a subordinate of the hive master, or be both.

She also learned that the Spider Witch Abella was actually a local elite from Black Tide Continent. After the Purple Commander arrived in Kux, she was chosen by the Purple Commander due to her high intelligence, and received a promotion and an enhancement, which made her one of the three guardians of the Kux Mother Nest—which is why she is the only one without the characteristics of a marine creature.

As for the mountain whale hordes that continuously fly out of Cooks, they are elite-level combatants produced by the Pale Mother Nest using the nutrients it has plundered. They will travel along the route through the mountains and into the North Sea beyond the snow-capped mountains, with the aim of expanding the mutated legion under the King of the Sky and Sea in preparation for the coming of the end.

"Any... other questions?" After rattling off a whole bunch of things, almost emptying her head of knowledge, Abella asked, feeling dizzy as the two fell silent. At the same time, her dislike for Dugrabi reached its peak.

She was getting annoyed to death by this black dragon that had come from the new world! The commander next to her hadn't even asked a few questions yet, and it was just whining and asking a bunch of stupid questions!
If I had known this would happen, I should have kicked it a few more times! She thought bitterly.

"Well, there's one last question." After digesting this new information, Yvette looked at her and suddenly asked, "What do you know about the 'God of Machines'?"

(End of this chapter)