For a while, in the click, dozens or hundreds of heads of all ages and men in the square began to turn their heads to look at the stage in unison.

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and there was warm joy in his eyes, the whole scene was quite exciting, and even Xu Yue, who was mixed in it, couldn't help but get a little goosebumps.

In addition to the open-air square, the rest of the tents and floats of various colors are also crowded with a large number of people.

They moved stiffly and strangely, not at all as agile and free as Xu Yue had seen before, with a strange smile on their faces, staring at the huge stage in the center of the venue.

There are more and more people in the square, and as far as the eye can see, an extremely obvious uncanny valley effect is blowing in the face.

Whether it is the appearance or expression, these inhabitants are not much different from normal humans, but you can see at a glance that these beings are definitely not human creatures.

As time passed, after a few minutes, all the residents finally gathered at the front of the square and stared at the very center stage.

The scarlet curtain slowly opened, and a snow-covered ice and snow garden set appeared in front of everyone.

In the garden, a graceful and beautiful woman is walking and enjoying the scenery accompanied by a maid, while the gentle narration of the puppet spreads.

"Once upon a time, the countess of a certain country came to the garden to enjoy the snow in her spare time, and at this time, she found a delicate red plum in the snow and frost."

As the puppet narrated, the music with a hint of anticipation gradually sounded, and the beautiful woman on the stage also began to move.

She looked at the bright red of the pure Nitia scene, and said softly in an aria way:

"Oh, how I wish I had a daughter as beautiful as a red plum in the snow."

…………

At the end of the first act, the curtain closes again, but it is soon opened again, except that the scenery on the stage has changed.

"Soon after, the Countess gave birth to a girl in the winter of another year, and she was as the Countess had hoped, with pure white skin and beautiful lips, and after some deliberation with the Count, they decided to name her Nydia."

The second act opens, and the music becomes cheerful and happy, and on the stage is a cozy bedroom, where the Countess lies weakly on the bed, looking at the man on her right with her gentle watery eyes.

On the side of the bed, His Majesty the tall and majestic Countess was talking excitedly to the Countess with a little baby carved in pink and jade.

Xu Yue's gaze moved away from the earl and looked at the little baby he was holding in his arms, and the moment his eyes met, he only felt a roar in his brain.

The perspective in front of me quickly flipped and distorted, and the sound of the stage, the curtain, and the music in my ears stirred into a strange whirlpool, and then all disappeared.

When he finally came back to his senses, he was greeted by a mature and handsome face close at hand, this was the tall earl who had been on the stage before.

"Behold, madam, this is our daughter, and she is so beautiful, and she is like you."

The earl's deep voice sounded in his ears, and Xu Yue looked at the lower left corner of his gaze.

I saw that her face was a little pale, but it was still difficult to hide her gorgeousness, but the countess who was even more pitiful was lying on the bed, a pair of beautiful eyes were staring at him gently, and her lips were lightly opened.

"No, our daughter, she will be even more beautiful when she grows up, and she will become the most beautiful pearl in this kingdom."

At the sound of the lady's words, the count burst into laughter, and the laughter echoed throughout the bedroom.

"Hahahaha! That's right, our daughter, naturally, will grow into the most beautiful pearl. ”

The Earl's laughter was deafening, and at the same time startled the newborn baby in his arms.

A small cry rang out, and the count's laughter abruptly stopped, turning into a scrambled flattery.

As the baby began to cry, a strong sense of uneasiness began to emerge in Xu Yue's heart, but it was not from him, but from the crying baby in the earl's arms.

In just a few seconds, after scanning his surroundings a few times, he suddenly understood his current situation.

Now he seems to have entered the drama immersively, possessing the newborn Nitya in a ghostly state, and can simultaneously perceive all her emotions, even her physical touch.

But all he can do is passive perception, and beyond that, he can't make a sound, he can't touch anything, he can only become an ethereal spectator.

That's the drama of the violators, and there's something about it. ’

In the midst of the drama, Nitya's complex emotions in infancy began to constantly impact Xu Yue's reason, trying to make her completely integrate into Nydia's thoughts and fully experience everything she had experienced.

But in the face of this emotional impact, for Xu Yue, who has a spiritual barrier, it has no effect, and even the more violent the emotional impact, the more sober his reason becomes, with a condescending attitude, looking down on the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of this little baby with cold eyes, and not moved.

Even as long as he is willing, through the spiritual barrier, he can directly cut off the emotional transmission from Nitya and become an independent spectator completely.

In the days that followed, he tried several methods, but he could not escape the drama, but to his surprise, he found that he could perceive the external physical situation through the mental space.

After making sure that his body was not in danger, Xu Yue also stayed in this real-world drama with peace of mind, quietly watching Nitya's life in this fairy tale.

In the play, the Nydia had a very happy childhood, the Count had no other concubines, only the Countess's wife, they were affectionate and harmonious, and they loved Nitya, the only daughter.

Time passed like this, and Nitya stayed quietly in this huge castle, living and growing up carefree.

Her favorite treasure was a set of small puppets given to her by her father when she was six years old, which was a magic prop made by a powerful witch.

There are five of these puppets, all of which are of different shapes, but they are all quite cute, each of them is the height of an adult's finger, and although these puppets are not intelligent, under the influence of magic, they can listen to some simple instructions from little Nidia and do as she is told.

Such as walking, running, jumping, lifting, turning, attacking, etc., her greatest pleasure on weekdays is to direct these five little puppets and do all kinds of strange games.

Her second favorite was a music box given to her by her mother when she was seven years old, which was a magic prop that the Countess had paid for a forest witch to tailor for little Nitia.

The music box has an automatic recording and playback function, and it stores the joyful singing sounds of thousands of birds in the forest, which was recorded by the forest witch herself, and she likes the sweet-looking little Nydia.

And after her mother got the music box, she even gathered the royal music troupe, and spent a month recording all the music that had appeared in the music box in the kingdom, with a large number and different styles.

So this music box became Nydia's second favorite treasure, because there seemed to be endless music in it, and she would never get tired of listening to it.

But in addition to these magical functions, what is more important is that these two treasures were carefully found by her father and mother for Nitya and given to her by hand.

She thought that such happy days would last forever, but she didn't expect it to last only ten years.

After Nitya grew up to ten years old, everything began to change quietly.

Nydia is getting more and more beautiful, even if she is only ten years old, but her alluring appearance has begun to attract everyone in the castle, and they are fascinated by it, and her lake-blue eyes seem to be the purest and most transparent gems in heaven and earth.

Nydia's appearance is so outstanding that it also attracts the attention of a witch in the kingdom, who practices the evil dark magic and needs to use the heart of a maiden to maintain her youth.

Therefore, she has been secretly searching for all the beautiful girls in the entire kingdom, even if Nitya is the daughter of the count, she has not escaped her coveting.

From the age of ten, the witch had been secretly watching Nitya, who was becoming more and more beautiful, and when she finally grew to the age of fourteen, the witch used magic to bewitch Nitya's personal guards and began her plan.

One afternoon, Nitya was brutally murdered in the forest by the guard, her heart taken away by the guards, and her body gnawed by the beast, leaving only a head and a blood-red package.

And when the moon was dark, the package moved strangely, and the blood-colored cloth was lifted from the inside, and one after another small puppets came out.

The beasts devoured Nydia's body, but the five puppets drank up Nydia's blood.

Under the effect of blood, their magic power increased greatly, and gradually developed a faint intelligence, and the small puppets whose height was originally only the size of an adult's finger continued to grow, and eventually they all became puppets of about one meter.

The golden morning light shone down, and the five puppets wept with a beautiful head in their arms, and they did not want to see the master who had given them life and soul dying so miserably, so they thought of a way.

Since the master's body is gone, then imitate the method of making puppets and recreate a body for the master, and since these puppets can regain life, why can't the master have them?

They began to disassemble and reassemble their bodies with each other, and after learning how to make magic puppets, they followed their senses of their master's body and hunted all the animals in the forest that had eaten their master's body.

They spliced together the bones of animals, mashed the flesh into mud, applied it to the bones to create new limbs, and then used Nitya's long jet-black hair as stitches to create an extremely strong body.

They knew that their previous master was so weak that they could be killed so easily by the guards, so they had to give their master a completely new body that far surpassed that of the guard.

After doing all this, the puppets sewed their master's head to the body with their hair, but the master still did not wake up, because they lacked the most important heart.

The heart had already been taken away by the guards, so even if they pinched out a new heart, they would not be able to wake up the dead master.

At this point, they had an idea for another magic item, the music box that had also absorbed the blood of its master, and they put it inside Nitya's chest as a heart.

As the music box inside turned, a faint sound of music came from Nitya's chest, and the blood-colored magic spread to the body along with the music, and the small eyes opened suddenly, revealing a pair of lake-blue watery eyes, but the inside contained endless blood.

Finally, a complete monster was born.

[You watched the birth of a strange monster in its entirety.] 】

[You have obtained the Black Arts Item Recipe - Puppet Puppet Construction, which has been included in the Blacksmith subclass.] 】

"Surprise!"

In mid-air, Xu Yue, who was in a state of nothingness, raised his eyebrows slightly, he didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain, the gold content of this formula is very high, at least now he is by no means the opponent of the newly born monster under his feet, that weird sense of horror makes people shudder.

Nitya is alive again, but is it really Nitya who has come back to life?

It doesn't matter, she has Nitya's appearance, all the memories of Nydia's past, and recognizes her identity, then she is the nitya who has come back to life.

The extremely strong body with a petite head on top of it looked very strange, but it also gave Nitya the power to destroy the decay, and she was very satisfied with her body.

Unfortunately, this power was not enough to sustain her against the witches who were worshipped throughout the kingdom, and her use of the music box as her heart did not last, and she had to turn the music box clockwork every once in a while.

Only when the music box is in motion can she move freely with her magic.

In the time that followed, Nitya spent a great deal of energy training in the art of puppet assassination.

When the time came, he ordered them to infiltrate the witch's castle and use an herb found in the forest to stun the witch and stealthily rip out her heart.

With this heart, Nitya took out the music box from her chest and let her body return to its once beautiful form under the nourishment of magic.

After recovering intact, Nitya did not choose to return to the kingdom, and the experience of being betrayed by her personal guards made her full of malice towards the whole country, so she went to a powerful country hostile to her own kingdom.

There, she relied on her stunning looks and strange puppet-making methods, and spent several years, first becoming the queen, and then secretly making the king into a puppet at her mercy.

This was the first puppet she made, but by no means the last, and from this day on, Queen Nitya began to secretly rule the country, and more and more puppets appeared quietly in the army.

Two years later, Queen Nitya had gathered enough strength for the war to break out, and she was aggressive against her former kingdom.

The undaunted puppet legions were invincible on the battlefield, and in less than a month, the enemy country collapsed, the capital fell, and Nitya returned to the country where she had lived for fourteen years.

But she is no longer the image of a weak girl in the past, but an iron-blooded war queen.

In the capital, the former witch was not dead, and after losing her heart, the power of the dark arts kept her alive for a short time, and she began to frequently plunder the hearts of young girls to keep her alive, and the level of madness has even aroused the alarm of the rulers of the kingdom.

But before the king could act, the witch who sensed that something was wrong was killed first, and then, relying on black magic, she quietly became the new ruler of the kingdom.

As for Nytia's Earl family, she was brutally murdered by the witch who became the ruler of the kingdom soon after, and in three years, she devoured thousands of hearts, but she still could not resist the onset of aging.

By the time the Worship Witch was dragged out of the gloomy castle by Nitya, she had become a dying old man.

Nitya put her red-hot iron shoes over the countess's feet, making her dance until she died, and then let her body be devoured by wild beasts.

And the guard who killed her with his own hands was quietly dealt with by the witch when he returned to the capital many years ago.

After settling the witch worship, Nitya merged the two countries and became the ruler of this huge kingdom, and she made the people call her the Puppet Queen.

She doesn't believe in humans, but has a growing interest in puppets, inheriting the witch's legacy, her magic methods have become more bizarre, and the trick of turning kingdom creatures into puppets has tired her, and she needs more fun puppet toys.

For her to have fun with, for her to fight, so she remembered the magic mirror.

In the dark chamber of the castle, Her Majesty lifted a witch treasure covered in black silk cloth, and a magnificent full-length mirror appeared in front of her.

She tossed a large number of fragments from the first five puppets into the mirror, along with the music box, her scarlet lips slightly open.

"Magic Mirror, go and bring me more, stronger puppets."

"As you wish, my Queen."

The magic mirror devoured the fragments of the puppet that had been thrown into it, and the mirror slowly fluctuated.

Behind the queen, Xu Yue's phantom stared at the magic mirror in front of him, and his eyes were bright.

"The root of the memetic infection, found."

(End of chapter)