Millennium Witch

What's even more astonishing is that the sea monster wasn't a carbon-based creature like the usual mutants. Its body was covered in scales, and the small parts of exposed flesh were actually steel skeletons left over from centuries ago!

Yes, by this time, Yvette already knew that the mysterious factor that had caused biological mutations could infect not only carbon-based life forms, but also AI-controlled mechanical puppets and magical mechs, some of which would be infected and parasitized by them, fusing into a crazy form that was half mechanical and half biological.

No wonder the Origin Civilization perished.

Even machines can't escape infection, how can humans possibly resist?

So Yvette silently named the sea monster "Iron Seadragon" and sincerely hoped that it would roll as far away as possible and preferably never come near Ish Island.

……

That night, the aurora borealis appeared in the sky, a rare occurrence.

Nearly 300 years after her time travel, this was the first time Yvette had ever seen the aurora borealis in the night sky.

She moved her small stool over and sat on the top floor of the three-story wooden house in the manor, quietly enjoying the view. Behind her, the interior and some of the tree branches in the manor were brightly lit, all powered by a simple magic energy generator that Yvette had repaired some time ago.

Just as she was immersed in this tranquility, suddenly, an extremely abrupt scream came from the forest city outside the manor.

"ah--!!!"

In an instant, Yvette's pupils dilated in shock. Her first reaction was not to immediately save the person, but to realize that she had seen a ghost.

—She had been exploring Ish Island for so many years and was quite certain that there couldn't be anyone here. How could a clear human female voice suddenly come from there?!

Coming from the sea? Impossible. The sea is full of mutated creatures; how could anyone possibly cross it under such conditions?

It came from the sky? That's more likely, but how could she not have noticed at all?

Could it be a mutated organism?

Has a humanoid mutant awakened its memories and is now able to speak?

Soon, intense curiosity overcame her vigilance, and Yvette flipped over and leaped down from the third floor. Stepping on a whirlwind, she flew directly towards the direction of the shout. Four fire dragons emerged from the runic ring and swept outwards from her, illuminating all directions with their flames.

All the mutated creatures drawn from the darkness, whether humanoid or non-humanoid, were reduced to ashes in the engulfing flames.

A minute later, on a highway at the end of the darkness, on the roof of a vehicle that was reduced to a skeleton, Yvette saw the source of the voice. It was indeed a human being, even a blonde, blue-eyed human girl, probably not even 10 years old, wearing an exquisite classical dress, her pretty little face filled with panic.

"Σ(⊙▽⊙"a%!~zxcvb&*!!"

Upon seeing Yvette, she waved excitedly and uttered a string of unfamiliar words that Yvette could not understand at all.

It's not Black Tide language... Is this Jade language? Or Silver Mirror language?

Yvette's mind raced. She had only learned the Black Tide language in the dream mist. Now that the language was different, her first reaction was that the other person was a survivor from either Emerald Continent or Silver Mirror Continent.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" After landing on the road in front of the other person, she looked at the little girl who jumped down from the roof of the car in a panic and decided to try speaking in Black Tide Language first.

But the girl immediately looked confused, clearly not understanding what Yvette was saying.

This is a bit troublesome... no, it's alright, at least she doesn't seem to be a mutant, but a genuine human being. We'll deal with the language issue later...

With that in mind, Yvette stopped talking and instead gestured, guiding her toward the manor.

……

A few minutes later, back at the large estate in the city center, Yvette settled the little girl in her three-story wooden villa.

When she built the house, she didn't consider that there would be a second tenant, so she had to give up the only bedroom to her and sleep on the sofa herself.

At the same time, she took out some meat and vegetables from her homemade mini-fridge and made some simple magical barbecue to soothe the girl's emotions.

However, the girl was surprisingly well-mannered. Although she looked extremely hungry, she did not lose her composure when faced with freshly grilled meat and fruit.

At the table, she first bowed slightly to Yvette to express her gratitude. Only after Yvette nodded did she sit down, put her hands together in a prayer gesture, and finally picked up her knife and fork to eat small bites.

Of course, despite this, it was clear that the girl was quite wary. While eating, she was also carefully observing the environment inside the room, and every now and then she would steal a few glances at Yvette with a look of awe, and before their eyes met, she would quickly look away as if she had been electrocuted, pretending that nothing had happened.

Seeing this, a hint of gentleness appeared in Yvette's calm eyes, like a river that had been frozen for hundreds of years quietly melting away.

She thought that life from now on wouldn't be as boring as before.

Chapter 12 Witch and Evil God

Morning light streamed through the French windows, casting a slanted glow on the desk. Yvette's slender, pale fingers moved gently between the yellowed pages as she turned the pages of a book titled "Linguistics: From Beginner to Expert."

After a while, she closed her eyes in pain, leaned back in her chair, and let out a delicate yet painful moan.

Over the past two days, she has tried her best to communicate through gestures, compare words, use phonetics, and consult information, but she still cannot figure out where the language spoken by this blonde foreign girl comes from.

Not only does it not belong to the Jade Language or the Silver Mirror Language, but even the hundreds of dialects derived from it from various continents don't seem to match up.

The feeling of having no results despite her efforts left her feeling utterly exhausted.

Then she turned her head slightly to look into the manor through the French windows, where the girl was sitting on a wicker swing. Looking at her exquisitely made classic dress and the intricately embroidered collar, Yvette gradually formed a bold idea.

Could this little golden retriever also be a time traveler?

However, unlike her own soul transmigration, she took the physical transmigration route? That's why her clothes were so new and exquisite when she suddenly appeared, with a strong medieval style?

With this in mind, Yvette, who was no longer willing to work on the topic of "the study of the origins of civilizations and languages," gradually turned her attention to another field.

That is mind magic!

Yes, in the Origin Civilization, telepathy and hypnosis are genuine, restricted forms of magic.

However, its use is subject to many restrictions. Qualification certificates, special conditions, and related equipment are all required, so in most cases, it is only used to treat mental illnesses or interrogate criminals.

Now, what Yvette needs to do is to use her years of experience in rune design as a foundation to quickly develop a communication-type mind magic to meet temporary communication needs.

Two weeks later, after visiting the ruins of psychiatric hospitals, police stations, and other places, Yvette's initial attempt at mind magic finally yielded results, combining the information she had gathered with her years of experience in rune design.

This is a large-scale spell with an extremely high level of skill and nearly 5 runes. Even Yvette, a magic expert whose mental strength has increased significantly and whose total magic power is approaching 600 points, is completely unable to cast it independently.

Fortunately, her years of collecting scraps hadn't been in vain. In the past two years, she obtained a relatively undamaged magical terminal called "Furnace Ring X3," manufactured by "Ember Scar Chemical."

After a period of learning, research, and hands-on repair, things took a turn for the better.

"The rune capacity is 50, but according to the system self-check, 80% of it is 'bad sectors,' which means the actual capacity is only a little over 10... It's so-so, but it's enough..."

"Wait, why is the energy decay of the elemental capacitor so severe? A capacitor with 20 points of magic power has decayed to only 1%! It's about to shut down right after I turned it on? Phew, luckily I have plenty of magic power, enough for a stable 24-hour power supply..."

Stroking the ring on her middle finger, after some study, Yvette input all 5+ runes into it, naming it "Words of the Heart".

Incidentally, she also recorded a new spell called "Vitality," which she had developed some time ago but hadn't yet optimized. Its main function is to improve the body's recovery ability to heal external injuries or diseases, and its rune specification is around 6000.

"With this, the remaining space is suddenly only 44,000... How extravagant! Where did I go back to the Abyss Base, where I spent years iterating on spells just to optimize 7 or 8 runes?"

With a silent sigh, Yvette went downstairs and saw the little golden retriever sitting by the flowerbed in the manor, intently observing two squirrels mating.

Seeing Yvette come downstairs, she looked up and smiled sweetly. The sunlight was cut by the lush foliage above her head, dappling her face, creating a beautiful scene.

Yvette nodded quietly in response.

She has been spending more than half a month with this little girl. Although they don't speak the same language, they have developed a good understanding through simple body language.

In addition, this little golden retriever was the most obedient child under the age of ten that Yvette had ever seen. It never showed any signs of being naughty, rebellious, or willful. On the contrary, it was well-mannered, obedient, and sensible. This further increased Yvette's liking for it and made her more and more curious about its background.

She guessed that this little golden retriever must have had an extremely good family upbringing, otherwise it wouldn't have been able to remain so calm and mature after arriving in such a terrifying and unfamiliar world.

She walked over and beckoned, and the little golden retriever immediately walked obediently to her, patiently waiting for her instructions.

Yvette raised her hand, and she immediately understood, raising her palm so that Yvette could place her hand in her palm.

"..."

Yvette suddenly felt something was off; how come this looked like the "handshake" in dog training?

But she could swear she hadn't done anything, so she could only attribute it to the child's exceptional intelligence, which allowed him to understand her meaning immediately.

Without further thought, she immediately activated the Word of the Heart, using skin contact as a medium to create a subtle connection between her spirit and the other's spirit.

Five seconds later, the rune set finished loading, and the veil of the mental world was suddenly lifted—

"Sigh, when will this life of flattery and fawning ever end..."

When this thought, filled with agitation, echoed in her mind, Yvette's gaze froze slightly.

She looked at the girl's well-behaved and lovely face, and saw that the girl's big, watery eyes met hers without any hesitation, with a frankness that also carried a hint of pitiful timidity.

She fell silent and continued to listen.

"What is this evil god doing? It keeps staring at me, it's so scary... Can't it just leave me alone?"

An evil god? Yvette was slightly taken aback. She had clearly saved the other person, so why would this little girl mistake her for an evil god?

Is there a logical connection between these two?

"Damn it, how could I be so pathetic, forced to fawn over an evil god like a dog just to survive..."

“This isn’t my fault, is it…” Yvette couldn’t help but defend herself.

Then she saw the girl's expression instantly turn terrified.

"Who...whose voice?! Is it her? Can she understand my thoughts?"

“This is a magic that enables telepathic communication, bypassing language barriers.” Yvette broke her silence.

But what she didn't tell the little golden retriever was that she had hidden a backdoor in the procedure. When she needed to think, she could selectively mute herself to prevent her thoughts from going unheard, and she could know everything the little golden retriever was thinking.

Finally, she added, "Also, I am not an evil god."

"I...I'm sorry, Lord Evil God, I didn't mean to, I just...I just..."

The little golden retriever changed his expression very quickly, kneeling down with a thud, his face as pale as paper and his body trembling like a leaf.

From her turbulent emotions, Yvette could also sense a real fear. She seemed truly convinced that Yvette was an evil god, not an angel, a deity, or any other more positive figure.

"Why do you insist that I am an evil god?" Yvette helped her up, maintaining physical contact to ensure the spell continued.

"Because...because this is the 'Land of the End,' the place where the legendary evil god 'Witch of the End' was sealed."

When replying, the little golden retriever seemed extremely resistant, but dared not not answer: "I... I noticed that you live here alone, and you are a beautiful woman, so I felt that the legendary Witch of the End could only be you..."

Before Yvette could respond, the girl's mind quickly turned to despair, and she replied with a heart full of despair, "Anyway, I will not betray the human race, so just give up on that idea... You, you might as well just kill me!"

"..."

For a moment, the manor fell silent.

Looking at the little golden retriever in front of her, eyes closed as if waiting to die, yet unable to resist peeking at her reaction, Yvette was silent for a moment before changing the subject: "How did you come into this world?"

She was now absolutely certain that the child was a transmigrator from another world, but that world seemed to be less advanced, so there were still significant limitations in thinking, and the child didn't even have a concept like "planet."

"The Abyss." The little girl gave it a name that was unclear in meaning.

"what is that?"

“I read in a book that there’s a celestial phenomenon called ‘Aurora,’ which appears only once every hundred years… When it appears, you can find ‘Abyss’ nearby. It’s a spiral-shaped entrance that connects to the Land of the End, and it only lasts for a few minutes… These entrances appear and disappear, and sometimes terrifying demons come out… I came here by crossing Abyss…”

Aurora… Yvette chewed on the word, immediately recalling the magnificent sight she had seen in the night sky three months ago.

At the time, she didn't think anything of it, simply appreciating the natural scenery, when she heard the golden retriever's loud barking. Little did she know, the aurora borealis that night would be the catalyst for connecting two worlds.

She then asked, "What is a demon?"

"Those are the monsters you killed outside... The book says that these monsters are called 'Filthy Demons,' and they occasionally come out of the Abyss to attack people and livestock. They are covered in evil filth, and once you are scratched by them, you will be assimilated..."

Although more than half a month has passed, it is clear that the mutated form's bizarre appearance has left a deep impression on the little golden retriever. Whenever it is mentioned, Yvette feels the fear surging in her mind.

This does indeed fit the pattern of how aberrations infect other animals... Although we don't know how they previously infected mechanical creations, blood transmission is now their primary route of creating other aberrations...

Yvette nodded silently in her mind and continued to ask, "When did this phenomenon begin?"

She suspected that the world on the other side might be connected to the Origin Civilization.

"I don't know, it's not mentioned in the books, but it seems to have existed for thousands of years." The little golden retriever shook its head blankly.

Chapter 13 Expectation

Thousands of years?

That's impossible. Thousands of years ago, civilizations were just beginning to emerge. There were no mutated creatures there...

Yvette frowned slightly, not dwelling on the question any further: "...Why did you enter the Abyss?"

"I was forced into this place by the demons... The demons launched an invasion of the Eastern Continent, and my family and I were separated... While escaping, the aurora appeared in the sky, and then I saw the Abyss, so I fled into it..."

Recalling the sad past, the girl's voice revealed genuine sorrow, like a dandelion seed scattered by the wind.

Furthermore, since it is extremely difficult to deceive in a spiritual exchange, after carefully reading through her thoughts, Yvette was basically certain that she had not lied so far.

Demons... the Eastern Continent... it seems the other world isn't just inhabited by humans...