As the ritual progresses, the air around it begins to become psychedelic.

The vague aroma can make people's hearts beat faster and turn red.

Everything around you becomes more colorful and delicate. Whether it is color, light and shadow, taste, and breath, it has become so brilliant and dazzling.

It's like the real world, which is usually tired of watching, suddenly becomes a beautiful picture; It's like under the effect of an alchemical mixture that can produce illusions, and the whole world is seen as a more fantastical dream.

Walls spread out of walls, colors spread out of colors.

And the intersection of countless illusions gathered in mid-air and turned into an incomparably brilliant butterfly.

He seemed to be here, and he was not there. It was as if it was just an illusion, but everyone present could see it. At the same time, it is constantly changing—the patterns on the wings are crumbling and recombining, and each time it reassembles, it transforms the entire world around it.

[Your appeal——]

Butterfly Tenji's voice came.

It was a girly voice that sounded wonderful and light.

"Sacrifice the blood of the Ouroboros—"

Meg said solemnly, "I pray for the privilege of the sacred ritual of 'molting' on my own! ”

[Promise——]

Butterfly Tenji agreed.

[I give you the right to 'molt and regenerate'——]

The next moment, the illusion of the butterfly shattered in the air. Turned into countless pink scales, like countless wings.

The purple liquid on the ground was steaming and dissipating...... The whole space is purple and pink, and it is like a dream for a while.

By the time the purple smoke had dissipated, Meg was shrouded in a chrysalis shell. Two vessel-like things were connected to the Infinity Symbol, one pumping out a silvery-white illusory liquid and the other drawing an orange-red liquid, constantly rotating and merging with each other in the ritual grooves.

The pain of her body disintegrating was so intense that Meg couldn't help but scream.

The cry was so thrilling that Lily and Isabel, who were watching the ceremony, couldn't help but squeeze each other's palms.

Ivus, on the other hand, stood in front of the ritual circle with a serious expression, carefully watching every step of the ceremony.

He wasn't too panicked...... Don't look at Meg's screaming, but the hardest part is over. Next, as long as you can hold on, don't be so painful that you end the ceremony early or be interrupted by someone else.

The wail of pain continued for a full twenty minutes, and the two colors of liquid in the groove completely mixed and dissolved into a new viscous liquid. It became like mercury, and it looked like silver-white nail polish with sequins and glossy powder.

Subsequently, they are injected into another pupal shell.

- It was the Ascending Egg constructed by the power of the Celestial Division, slowly sucking the silvery liquid until the purple shell was completely silvery white. Then it became quiet.

“…… Is it over? ”

Isabel waited a long time before asking in a low voice.

Ivus breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and shook his head slightly: "Not yet...... But it's basically succeeded. ”

- Meg managed to survive.

The increase in willpower brought by bathing in dragon blood made her not even cry. Just shouting loudly accomplished the most painful first metamorphosis.

This is basically a successful job transfer.

Molting is the authority of Butterfly Celestial, but He does not want to "molt indefinitely".

Rather, like a worm turning into a butterfly, it completely changes its body, race, and appearance through the molting ritual.

When the insect is in the pupal stage, most of the internal organs will melt into pupae and turn into a pot of broth. Except for those that are present at birth, but are not needed for "adult components". And the molting ritual comes from this phenomenon.

But for Butterfly, all he does is take a reward and help others to complete their molting.

In other words, it's a pay-per-view fee. And it's going to get more and more expensive, because Butterfly doesn't like capricious people.

The Ascendant Warlock, on the other hand, uses the "Molting Ritual" as a tool to achieve the purpose of continuous evolution—the power of this class comes from the self-devouring, eternal cycle of Ouroboros, also known as the Celestial Ring.

In order to allow mortals to molt infinitely, Huantiansi had to pay the price to be handed over to Butterfly Tiansi, and directly helped Meg "buy out" the molting ceremony. In the future, if you call Butterfly Tiansi to come over and help molt, you don't need to pay extra compensation.

Because the concept of renunciating the past, self-devouring, and infinite evolution is itself in line with the Celestial Circle, which will not only please Him, but also the opportunity to become His apostle in the future - as long as Meg's "Ascending Warlock" is higher than her authoritarian profession, then her soul belongs to the Celestial Celestial Circle, not the Silver Crowned Dragon.

And this is considered an upfront investment.

If the Butterfly Celestial Division is dead, then the metamorphosis ceremony only needs to be presided over by the Huantian Division, and then the Huantian Division can complete the transfer in batches - anyway, the power of molting is not his thing, it is an unsovereign authority that is already dead and has no control over the new Celestial Division.

But now he had to pay an extra sum of money - and Ivas didn't know if he liked Meg and found the deal meaningful. This is the possibility of ritual failure.

Thankfully, he agreed to the deal.

Of course, it could also be because this was the first order, and he also felt that this kind of transaction was a bit of a statement...... So he decided to open a big business and make money at a loss.

The three of them waited until the sun rose completely off the horizon. The two egg shells in front of and behind the mirror finally made a sound of shattering at the same time.

First cracks, then sudden cracks—

The eggshell in front of the mirror shattered, leaving only some blood-stained clothing inside.

Immediately after, the eggshell behind the mirror shattered.

The next moment, Isabel's eyes suddenly widened.

The ritual of rejuvenation was a success!

I saw Meg coming out of it, not even human—

She had two silvery-white dragon horns like sheep's horns, some silver scales on her skin, and a dragon's tail behind her. Her hair turned silvery-white, the color of a silver-crowned dragon. Her pupils are an elegant dark green, and even the contours of her face are completely different from before.

Although it was the Green Dragon that used to be killed, she is now a White Dragon similar to the Silver Crowned Dragon. Only the color of her eyes could see some traces of being bathed in the blood of the green dragon.

- Only a small problem.

That is, Meg looks like she is only eight or nine years old at the moment. She looked even smaller than Yulia.

"Looks like the ritual was a success."

Ms. Meg was undressed, but she gestured generously, without concealment or shame.

She looked down at her body for a moment, then walked around to the mirror for a moment. Then he raised his head to look at the three of them and grinned, "Yo, you have become so tall." Looks like I'm back to my childhood - fuck, back to shit. I couldn't have been so cute when I was a kid. ”

The newborn half-dragon girl made a childish voice.

and her casual to almost domineering tone of speech, full of disobedience.

Isabel hurriedly rushed over, took off her coat and draped it over little Meg.

She knelt on the ground and buttoned her up. Meg just smiled at her, reached out and touched her hair and pinched her earlobe.

"Good boy, thank you."

The young girl with dragon horns said softly.

She then turned back to Ivus, "Thank you, little fox." I'll take note of your kindness - you saved my life and helped me rejuvenate.

"Such a young and energetic body...... Ha, those who go to the way of twilight will regret it for the rest of their lives if they know it. ”

"Don't you forget...... We can't rest on our laurels. Once you start to ascend, you have to move on to the next one. ”

"Ahh Don't talk about such a bad thing—"

Little Meg waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "If I really fail at that time, you don't have to worry about me." You have helped me a lot and I thank you very much. ”

She didn't care about the contractual requirement of "can't stop evolving" at all, and she didn't hate change anyway.

If you can evolve, you will evolve, and if you can't evolve, you will put it.

After all, for her, living one more year is earned. Not to mention still living with this young and energetic body.

She stood there and thought for a moment, then suddenly strode towards the door.

Isabel hurriedly ran over to stop: "Where are you going?" ”

"Show Sophia."

Little Meg grinned and made a crisp voice: "She must be envious to death." ”

"Let's go change our clothes first."

Isabel stubbornly said, "You can wear my childhood clothes first-"

"Tsk." Little Meg smacked her lips.

"Also, you can't drink right now."

"-That's not going to work, but this one," Little Meg was suddenly unhappy, "I want to rejuvenate myself so that I can do as I want without worrying about my body." ”

"But, Miss Meg......"

"Alright, [leave me alone]!"

Little Meg's majestic voice sounded, as powerful as the roar of a dragon.

Isabel's footsteps suddenly stopped, and her face turned a little pale with words that were more powerful than before.

But when little Meg reached the door, she suddenly stopped.

Ivus walked over to reassure Isabel for a moment, then walked over with a smile: "What, Miss Meg?" Can't reach the handrails? ”

Hearing this, Little Meg gave Ivus a blank look.

"I was just thinking...... I can't be called 'Meg' anymore. Even if I continue to call me Meg, no one will think that I am the Meg of the past. From this point of view, 'Meg' is socially dead. ”

Little Meg thought, "The old is dead and the present is alive...... What should I be called? ”

She thought about it for a while, then gave up thinking: "Forget it, I haven't thought about this kind of thing for a long time."

"Little fox, you're still young - help me come up with a name."

"Me?"

Ivus was a little surprised.

"The ritual you helped me complete gave me this body. It does make perfect sense that you can give me a name. ”

Little Meg clasped her hands on her chest and nodded happily.

…… But when you say that all of a sudden, I really can't think of a good name.

However, the resurrection of the dead, the resurrection of the old, the desire to survive, and the strong willpower......

Ivas remembered a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

"Your name is Lygia, how?"

Ivus asked.

"Let's call it Lygia Dannay. Dannay was my real last name before I got married—"

The newborn little Lygia smiled and said, "It's the first time we've met, everyone.

"—I'll be Lygia from now on."

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