Chapter 20: Side Story 1: Moli and the Sphinx

Endless desert. It was covered in strange barriers, written with seemingly irresistible commands: all who entered would lose their powers.

A white-haired woman in cloth armor guards a shrine in the middle of the desert. Red lips only visible under the visor, furry animal ears, behind them are a pair of dark red wings, but the hands are like the claws of a dragon.

She sat lazily on the ground and yawned. Her name is the Sphinx, Desert Watch, and she rules the Order of the Winds.

Suddenly, she seemed to have noticed something, and the red lips under the visor drew a nice arc.

"There's a little guy who strayed into here, I wonder if you can answer that question?"

Mo Li walked in the desert with a sad face, and at this moment, Mo Li turned his face to the dirt, and even the wings that he usually paid the most attention to cleaning were covered with dust. Mo Li pursed her lips and seemed to be crying at any moment.

"Woo~ it hurts."

At this moment, Asgard is already out of order, and her Royal Highness the princess has run away. Dressed in feathers, the Valkyrie ladies rode Pegasus over Asgard.

In the main hall, Odin sat on the throne and looked at Heimdall kneeling in front of him with some anger.

"Heimdall, I need an explanation as to why the Murray disappeared without you even knowing it. I don't believe anything within the Nine Realms can escape your sight. ”

Haydamel replied with some shame,

"This is my rereliction of duty, Your Majesty the God King. Her Royal Highness may have erased the location mark you gave her and secretly left the Nine Realms. ”

Odin stood up and took out a scepter that shimmered with streamers, and the huge coercion instantly spread across the Nine Realms and spread to other places.

Suddenly, Odin's face froze,

"Yes, Moli went to the Forbidden Desert. Quick, Heimdall, you take the Valkyries there. The Asgard guards and I arrived shortly afterward. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the God-King."

When Heimdall heard this, he immediately got up and walked outside the temple.

Odin looked at Heimdall in the distance and clenched the scepter in his hand.

"Well, I hope the guardian of the desert hasn't discovered the ink glass yet."

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The Sphinx looked at the little angel in front of him who was holding his head and crying, and had a headache.

"I thought it was an ordinary creature that came to look for it, but it turned out to be a little angel of the Protoss, so I'm in trouble."

Time goes back some time ago.

Mo Li looked at the temple in the distance and almost cried.

"Whew, finally see something other than sand."

Mo Li flapped her little wings and swayed like a temple flying, and the sphinx in the temple felt the breath getting closer and closer, and slowly stood up, the claws in his hands flashing with streamers.

"Squeak~"

"Excuse me, there is ......"

"Bang~pia"

Moli struggled to push open the door of the temple, and was about to ask if there was anyone, when a dark shadow flashed and slapped her to the ground with a palm.

"Outsider, answer my question, what animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night? When he has the most legs, it is also when he walks the slowest and his physical strength is the weakest. ”

Mo Li looked at the black shadow in front of him in a daze, with tears in her eyes, her mouth pursed, and the wings behind her also flapped indiscriminately.

"Wow~ You beat me, you actually beat me, I grew so big, my father didn't beat me........."

Only then did the Sphinx begin to see the little guy in front of him clearly, with long silver hair and a little face with baby fat, he was already crying at this time. The three pairs of small wings behind him sobbed from time to time with their master, flapping irregularly.

The Sphinx was a little flustered,

"It's... I... I didn't know you were from the Protoss, don't you cry, okay? ”

Looking at the Ink Sphinx, who had finally quieted down, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Little angel, my name is the Sphinx, the guardian of the Forbidden Desert. What's your name? ”

Mo Li looked at the Sphinx in front of her and looked at her hand with some curiosity.

"My name is Moli, daughter of Odin. Can I touch your hand? It's weird. ”

The Sphinx shook his head and put his hand in front of Moli.

"No, my hand has the concept of tearing, and if you touch it, it will ......... you What, how is it possible?! ”

The Sphinx looked at the small hands that held her hands, and the touch as warm as nephrite made her lose her mind for a while.

"It's incredible, this is the only one since I was born that can touch my hand without being torn... Goods. ”

The corners of the Sphinx's mouth curled slightly, and he asked Moli with a seductive spokenness.

"So, Moli, can you stay with me forever?"

Mo Li stared at the Sphinx in surprise with wide eyes.

"Do you want me to be your guardian angel? No, my dad said I was a girl and I was looking for a male god. ”

The Sphinx was a little annoyed, Odin, an old thing, did such a young child start brainwashing her?

The temple began to shake violently, and the Sphinx's heart trembled.

"Someone forcibly broke into the forbidden desert, little one, you wait here, I'll go and come back."

Moli took the hand of the Sphinx,

"No, it's Heimdall and Valkyrie, he's coming to pick me up."

Outside the temple, Heimdall and dozens of silver-clad Valkyrie forcibly broke the barrier and surrounded the temple. A golden streamer of light in the sky rushed in, and around it was surrounded by a dozen silver streamers--Odin the Lord of Asgard and his Asgard guards.

The Sphinx took Moli's little hand and walked out of the temple and curtsied to Odin.

"I really can't imagine that Odin, the lord of the dignified fairy palace and the king of the gods, would come here."

Odin, who was armed with the Eternal Spear, breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at Mo Li unharmed.

"Your Excellency the Guardian, my daughter has no intention of breaking into here, can I leave her in Asgard?"

Although he said a consultative statement, he revealed a tone that could not be refused.

The Sphinx looked at the Valkyries who had begun to inject divine power into the long sword in their hands, and the corners of their mouths twitched slightly.

They all started to collectively hold back their big moves, do I dare to disagree?

"Of course, Your Majesty the God King, I am very happy to spend half a day with the little princess..."

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Looking at the ink glass that had already left the Rainbow Bridge, the Sphinx's heart was empty. She resumed her previous job, asking the same questions as passing creatures, and the losers would be killed by the Sphinx with their claws.

A long, long time has passed, but after all this time, no one has been able to accurately answer the answer to this Sphinx mystery, and even the Sphinx is beginning to wonder if there is really an answer to this puzzle. But she persevered because the god told her that the moment she heard the correct answer, she could leave the forbidden desert.

But after so many years, the Sphinx even began to feel a little tired of killing, and there was no shortage of wise people in those creatures that passed by, but they still couldn't answer.

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The Sphinx saw in the distance - a figure approaching, yawning and saying rules and riddles as usual. The man pondered for a moment and gave his answer.

"People."

In the surprise of the Sphinx and the man's horrified gaze, the ancient curse was transferred to the man.

The Sphinx spread its huge wings behind him, and despite the man's terrified shouts, he quickly flew out of the forbidden desert.

"Moli, I'm looking for you."

By the time the Sphinx arrived in Asgard, the World Tree had collapsed and the Nine Realms had dissipated. The Sphinx used her claws to gouge through every inch of the Nine Realms, and finally found the dying Odin at the base of the World Tree, and she shook the Lord of the Nine Realms vigorously.

"Tell me, where is she?"

Odin stretched out his hand and pointed to the east, and then, the god king who had fought in the Nine Realms, his divine body collapsed with a bang.

In the streamer that emanates after Odin's death, the Sphinx flies to the east.

"Moli, I'll find you, and then ...... Take possession of you. ”

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"Traveler from afar, have you seen a seraphim dragging a sharpshooter?"

"Sorry, no ......".

"Puff~"

The sound of claws tearing flesh was heard...............