Chapter 1042: Pan's Labyrinth | ̨ ̇꒳ ̇)?
Leaving the town to the east, Anne came to the forest, and by surprise she found some interesting traces of magic there, and so, for the sake of idleness and curiosity in her own heart, she found this ruined monument between the forest and the town's mill.
“……”
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Anne didn't bother the people in the quiet town not far away, because it was too much trouble to explain to the informed, incommunicated, and rarely communicative Shanyu where she came from, where she was going, or where the adults of her family were, etc., so she took advantage of the fact that no one had the opportunity to creep here, and stood in this place that she found to have some interesting magical fluctuations.
In front of her was a large stone arch with what appeared to be some kind of sheep-headed creature exclaiming, and a line of ancient writing inscribed on the arch, and inside the arch seemed to be a large broken wall of boulders, more than two people high, and looked like a labyrinth?
"Pan's Labyrinth?"
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“emmmmm……”
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"Humph!"
"It looks weird and weird, but people want to see, what is so rare in this tattered labyrinth?!"
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Although this place seems to be more than a thousand years old, and even those broken stones are about to be weathered to the point that they are not in shape, the more I look at it, the more I feel that there are all kinds of strange magic and fluctuations in this place, so I naturally picked up my little bear, and then strode directly towards this so-called labyrinth.
……
"Damn!"
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Perhaps, this labyrinth is really still playing some kind of magical role?
However, after a little girl accidentally got lost, and after she couldn't get out and get in for half a day, and after her patience was quickly exhausted and she no longer wanted to try to reach the end of the labyrinth in ordinary ways, she began to do things that damaged other people's 'places of interest' unceremoniously!
For example, she summoned the flames to melt any section of the stone labyrinth in front of her, and burned the ancient buildings that had stood for at least a thousand years to create passages, and then she stepped directly on the hot and scattered magma all over the ground with a big grin, and walked directly to the middle of the labyrinth at a straight distance, and saw a round, also cut by a boulder, spiraling down the mouth of the spiral staircase.
(…… )
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"Hah!"
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"Look, Tibbs! People just say, how can there be a labyrinth in this world that is difficult to overturn? No, they are really the smartest and most witty, and in less than ten minutes, they went directly to the end of the maze!! ”
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Looking at the swarthy stone staircase cave beneath her feet, which I don't know if there would be something inside, or a treasure, Anne smirked triumphantly.
If that pesky guy who set up the labyrinth thinks that she can be intercepted by a simple method and special magic fluctuations that interfere with human perception, she Queen Anne can be successfully intercepted or trapped in the labyrinth, then he is very wrong! Because, there is no labyrinth in this world that can stump her, the great Queen Anne, and there is not a single one!!
(Yes, yes...... )
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(Tibbs says that if the other man didn't have a straight molten passage behind him, burning out of the walls of a stone labyrinth of at least a few dozen lengths, he would have believed what he said.) )
"Humph!"
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"Tibbs, people know that you are not convinced, but no one said that you will not burn the wall if you break into the labyrinth, so people will not be as knowledgeable as you!"
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After saying this, without waiting for any reaction from the bear, Anne hurried down the spiral staircase in the middle of the labyrinth, which was covered with moss and vines, and was made of smooth black boulders, and ran down to the bottom of the hole.
As for whether there was some kind of huge treasure down there, or some terrible monster or something, she didn't care at all, because she just wanted to hurry up and see the rarity.
Moreover......
Is there anything more dangerous in this world than her Queen Anne, or her bear?
(…… )
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Although the spiral staircase was deep and long, little Anne soon reached the bottom with the speed at which she ran quickly, even jumping and sliding across several floors, and regretfully found that there seemed to be nothing here except a strange spatial portal formation that had not been activated, and a stone pillar carved with the face of a strange person and many words!
Of course, it's not nothing, at least, she saw a strange person in front of her who didn't know if it was dead, and was standing there in a strange posture, with thick moss on his body?
"Uh-huh......"
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"Hey!"
"That weird Shu millet over there, don't pretend to be asleep, people know that you woke up, it was the little worm that kept following others just now who woke you up, right?"
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Looking at the bottom, she didn't seem to have much fun here, no treasures, no powerful demons, no other interesting things, and she didn't want to activate the boring portal that didn't know where to go, so she had to focus on the guy she had already found when she came down.
‘……’
Maybe it's because I can't put it anymore, maybe it's really just waking up? Anyway, when Anne opened her mouth and shouted, the guy who had been facing Anne trembled and turned around with a very stiff movement.
‘!! ’
'It's you! You're finally back! ’
However, to Anne's surprise, the guy in front of her, with goat's horns and transparent eyes, and his body like a withered and rotten branch, knew at a glance that he was not a good person, cheered in a comical tone of surprise?
"Finally back? You're not talking about me, are you? ”
ヽ(゜Q。 )ノ?
Hearing the other party's cold words and the action of wanting to rush towards herself, she couldn't help but take a small step back when she disliked the other party's dirty, rotten and moss-covered body, and there was some inexplicability in her heart. Anne was sure that she obviously didn't know the claw monster in front of her, so she felt a little puzzled by the other party's words!
‘!! ’
'Don't be afraid, I beg you, listen to me first......
Seeing Anne retreat, the Claw Monster hurriedly waved his hideous, clawed hands.
'Look! ’
'What is this?' ’
Maybe it was because he was worried that the other party would run away, or maybe he was afraid that the other party would not trust him, the sheep-horned demon thought about it, and simply opened the worn-out satchel that he had been hanging for an unknown number of years, and released the two elves in it.
“……”
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"Where are people scared? It's obvious that you're too dirty and smelly, and people think it's a little disgusting!! ”
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You know, Annickle likes cleanliness very much, and if she wanted to come down and find out and take a chance, she wouldn't come here at all, with moss, withered vines, damp, a lot of disgusting little bugs hiding in the cracks of the rocks, and I don't know how many thousand years no one has cleaned the broken place!
It's like her little bear Tibbs, if she doesn't throw herself into the bathtub every day to rub it and wash off the dirt on her body, or simply burn it with a flame and 'dry clean' it once, she will never sleep with her in her arms!
(…… )
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"Go away! Go away! ”
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After waving Tiebs in his hand and driving away the little things that flew to him and surrounded him, Anne, who said that she was not at all uncommon to elves, looked at the other party again with some impatience:
"Say it!"
"Who the hell are you, and what do you mean by that just now?!"
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If it weren't for the other party's words that aroused her curiosity a little, maybe she had already burned to death the sheep-headed monster in front of her just now, and she knew at a glance that it wasn't a good person, right?
‘……’
'My name?' That's too many, too long, I have a lot of names, those old words, only the wind and the old trees can say......
Seeing that the other party no longer seemed to be afraid of himself, and was very bold, unlike the little human girls he had seen before who came here, so that they all began to listen carefully to their words and speak normally, the sheep-headed monster began to relax and began to tremble as he moved.
"Alright!"
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"Then say the shortest name that a human can say!!"
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Anne didn't have time to listen to too many stories here, and she thought that it was likely that the non-talking elf who had just woken up the other party must not have told the other party how he came here, otherwise, I am afraid that the other party would not have spoken to her with such an attitude.
(…… )
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'Actually......'
'I am a half-man, half-sheep god of mountains and animal husbandry......
'I am your humble servant, my Highness! ’
After a pause, although it felt that Anne seemed to be different from the little human girls it had seen before, but, after thinking about it, it still trembled and told its script, and bowed respectfully to Anne.
"Huh?"
ヽ(゜Q。 )ノ?
"The ......"
"Although, people also know that they have a lot of subordinates, a lot of them! But no one can remember that there was a servant like you......"
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Anne really wanted to tell the other party that she was only coming to this world for the first time, so if the other party wanted to pretend to be her subordinate, it was better to come back in another world?
Of course, it may not be of much use, because ah, Anne is very confident, even if she is blind, even if she is blind, even if she is blind, she will not take this rotten creature in front of her, who seems to have no strength, and is covered in moss, and smells stinky, as a servant!
'No! ’
'I am your servant, esteemed Princess Moana, daughter of the king of the ancient Underworld......
After saying that, the sheep-headed monster once again saluted Anne's possession in a proper manner.
“……”
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"It seems that you have recognized the wrong person, and her name is Anne, so she is not the princess of 'Moana'! Moreover, the nasty father in the family is not a king at all!! ”
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'No, no, no! ’
'You're not the daughter of men...... Once upon a time, your true father was the king of the ancient kingdom below, and your mother was the goddess of the moon, who made us open portals around the world for your return...... And this is the last well-preserved portal to the ancient kingdom, mortals will definitely not be able to come here, since you can come, you must be the reincarnation of Princess Moana! ’
'So ......'
The sheep-headed monster was still so funny and trembling and solemn, as if he didn't see Annie's deeper and deeper brow?
"Shut up!!"
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Finally, Anne got angry and directly interrupted the other party.
"Let me tell you......"
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Anne, who was a little impatient by the other party's lies, stopped the other party, and directly grabbed a blazing fireball, and only continued after seeing that the other party's face finally showed a trace of surprise:
"My name is Anne Hasta!"
"My father is the occult sorcerer Gregory Hasta, and that nasty mom who doesn't care about anyone at all is called Shadow Witch Amoline......"
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"And! I'm here, of course, because I've never been mortal! ”
"Now what else do you have to say? Demon with horns, do you want to continue to deceive me, or do you want to wait for me to capture the moon goddess and confront you? ”
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Grabbing a fireball and sneering, Anne saw that the other party's face was finally getting more and more ugly, so she continued while grabbing the fireball:
"What about the gods of mountains, forests and animal husbandry, haven't you seen demons for me?"
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‘!! ’
'You .......'
Obviously, the sheep's horn monster who never expected such a situation to happen, the guy who claimed to be the god of mountains, forests and animal husbandry was a little overwhelmed for a while.
'Wait! ’
'I have something to say, I really ......'
However, before the guy with the demon's head and the god of mountains and animal husbandry could finish his words, he was shocked to see that a fireball the size of his head had already smashed towards him?
Rumble~!
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"Humph!"
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Seeing that the other party seemed to want to run, a fire smashed towards the other party, and after watching the other party burn into a piece of red charcoal in an instant, little Anne stepped forward with a cold snort, and next to the ashes of the other party's corpse, she picked up the book that she deliberately did not burn and a piece of chalk that seemed to be some kind of space item.
“……”
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"Book of Astray, Keys, Cruel Daggers, and Innocent Blood ......"
"Humph! Dare you say that it's not a common tactic used by demons, trying to trick people into helping you get things, and asking for other people's blood to open portals, do you think people will do what you say stupidly like those guys you killed? ”
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Flipping through the 'blank' book without a single character, Anne quickly pouted disdainfully and threw it onto the ashes of the unburned corpse of the clawed demon, allowing it to ignite and burn little by little.
Anne didn't believe the nonsense of the underground kingdom kingship written in it, because she had probed it, and there was no underground kingdom at all, it was all a conspiracy, a well-disguised excuse for the demon to steal the underworld, to steal the remnants of the gods who fell after Ragnarok!
However, although Anne burned the book, she ended up leaving the chalk behind.
"Tibbs!"
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"This piece of chalk seems to be able to connect to some interesting place, why don't we go and see it now?"
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Now that she had dealt with the Sheep's Horn Demon and shattered the trust of the other party's ignorant children, and then sacrificed her life in exchange for power, Anne didn't think much of it, but impatiently drew a large circle on the wall with that piece of chalk.
soon
As the traces of chalk that formed the large circle flickered on the wall, and when some magical power came into play in the middle of it and a circular door appeared, Anne threw away the chalk that could be used many times, and pushed the door in......