Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

Suddenly, amid the clicking sounds, dozens or hundreds of heads in the square, old and young, male and female, began to turn their heads to look at the stage in unison.

There was a smile on the corner of the mouth and warm joy in the eyes. The whole scene was quite exciting. Even Xu Yue, who was mixed in, couldn't help but get some goosebumps.

In addition to the open-air square, a large number of people were also crowded inside the various tents and floats.

Their movements were stiff and weird, not at all as nimble and free as Xu Yue had seen before. They all had weird smiles on their faces and stared at the huge stage in the center of the venue.

There are more and more people in the square. Looking around, there is an extremely obvious uncanny valley effect.

Regardless of their appearance or expression, these residents are almost the same as normal humans, but you can tell at a glance that these existences are definitely not human beings.

As time passed, and a few minutes later, all the residents finally gathered at the front of the square, staring at the central stage.

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

In the garden, a graceful and beautiful woman was walking and admiring the scenery accompanied by her maid. At the same time, the warm narration of the puppet spread.

"A long, long time ago, a countess from a certain country came to the garden to enjoy the snow in her spare time. At this time, she discovered a delicate red plum standing proudly in the ice and snow."

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

She looked at the bright red in the pure scene and said softly in an aria:

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

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At the end of the first act, the curtain closed again, but soon opened it again, but the scenery on the stage had changed.

"Soon after, the countess gave birth to a girl in another winter. She was just as the countess expected, with skin as pure as snow and lips as beautiful as plum. After some discussion with the count, they decided to give birth to a girl. She was named Nydia.”

As the second act begins, the music becomes cheerful and happy. On the stage is a warm bedroom. The countess is lying weakly on the bed, looking at the man on the right with a face full of joy with her gentle, watery eyes.

Beside the bed, the tall and majestic Earl was holding a pink-carved baby in his arms and was talking excitedly to the Countess.

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

The perspective in front of me quickly flipped and distorted, and the stage, curtains, and music in my ears were mixed into a bizarre whirlpool, and then they all disappeared.

When he finally came to his senses, what caught his eye was a mature and handsome face very close to him. This was the tall earl who was on the stage before.

"Madam, look, this is our daughter. She is so beautiful, just like you."

The count's rich voice rang in his ears, and Xu Yue followed his gaze to the lower left corner.

He saw the countess, whose face was a little pale, but still unable to conceal her beauty, which made her even more pitiful, lying on the bed, her beautiful eyes staring at him tenderly, her red lips slightly parted.

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

After hearing the lady's words, the count immediately laughed, and the laughter continued to echo throughout the bedroom.

"Hahahaha! Yes, our daughter will naturally grow into the most beautiful pearl."

The earl was so excited that his laughter was so heroic and deafening that it also shocked the newborn baby in his arms.

A small cry sounded, and the earl's laughter suddenly stopped and turned into a frantic sound of flattery.

As the baby began to cry, Xu Yue began to feel a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, but this did not come from him, but from the crying baby in the count's arms.

In just a few seconds, after scanning the surrounding environment for several times, he suddenly understood his current situation.

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

However, all he can do is passive perception. Other than that, he cannot make a sound or touch anything. He can only become an insubstantial spectator.

‘This is the drama of the violators. Sure enough, there are some tricks. ’

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

But in the face of this kind of emotional impact, it had no effect on Xu Yue, who had a spiritual barrier. Even the more violent the emotional impact, the clearer his reason became. He looked down at this little boy with a condescending attitude. The baby's joy, anger, sorrow, and joy remain unmoved.

Even if he wanted to, through the mental barrier, he could directly cut off the emotional transmission from Nidia and become an independent spectator.

In the next few days, he tried many methods, but was still unable to escape from the drama. But to his surprise, he discovered that he could perceive external physical conditions through the spiritual space.

After confirming that there was no danger to his body, Xu Yue stayed in this real-world drama with peace of mind, quietly watching Nidia's life in this fairy tale.

In the play, Nidia's childhood was undoubtedly extremely happy. The count had no other concubines and only had one wife, the countess. They were a loving couple and the atmosphere was harmonious. They also loved Nidia, their only daughter, very much.

Time passed like this day by day, and Nidia stayed quietly in this huge castle, living and growing up without any worries.

Her favorite treasure is a set of small puppets given to her by her father when she was six years old. These are magical props made by a powerful witch.

There are a total of five small puppets in this set, with different shapes, but they are all quite cute. Each puppet is the height of an adult's finger. Although these puppets are not intelligent, under the influence of magic, they can listen to some simple things from Little Nidia. instructions and do as they are told.

Such as walking, running, jumping, lifting, turning, attacking, etc. Her greatest pleasure in daily life is to command these five little puppets and play all kinds of weird games.

Her second favorite was a music box given to her by her mother when she was seven years old. It was a magic prop that the countess spent a lot of money to hire a forest witch to tailor-make for little Nydia.

The music box has automatic recording and playback functions. It stores the cheerful singing sounds of thousands of birds in the forest, which are melodious and melodious. This was recorded by the forest witch herself. She likes the sweet-looking little Nidia very much.

After her mother got the music box, she convened the Royal Music Ensemble and spent a month recording all the music that had ever appeared in the kingdom in the music box, with a large number and different styles.

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

But apart from these magical functions, the more important thing is that the father and mother carefully found these two treasures for Nidia and gave them to her personally.

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

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

Nydia is becoming more and more beautiful. Even though she is only ten years old, her stunning appearance has begun to attract everyone in the castle. They are all fascinated by her. Her lake-blue eyes seem to be the world between heaven and earth. The purest and clearest gemstone.

Nitya's appearance is so outstanding that she also attracts the attention of a worshiped witch in the kingdom. The witch practices evil black magic and needs the heart of a girl to maintain her youth.

Therefore, she has been secretly searching for all the beautiful girls in the entire kingdom. Even though Nidia is the daughter of an earl, she cannot escape her coveting.

Since she was ten years old, the witch has been secretly spying on Nidia, who is getting more and more beautiful. When she finally grew up to fourteen years old, the witch used magic to confuse Nidia's personal bodyguards and began her plan.

One afternoon, Nidia was abducted by the guard into the forest and brutally killed. The guard took away the heart, and the body was eaten by wild beasts, leaving only a head and a package soaked in blood that turned blood red.

But when the moonlight dimmed, the package moved strangely, the bloody cloth was lifted from the inside, and tiny puppets came out one after another.

The wild beast gnawed away Nidia's body, but these five little puppets drank up the blood that Nidia spilled wantonly.

Under the influence of blood, their magic power greatly increased, and they gradually developed weak wisdom. The little puppets, which were originally only the size of an adult's finger, continued to grow, and eventually became puppets about one meter tall.

The golden morning light shone down, and the five puppets held a beautiful head and cried. They didn't want to see the master who gave them life and soul die miserably just after they gained wisdom, so they thought of a way.

Since the master's body is gone, then imitate the puppet manufacturing method and create a new body for the master. Since these puppets can have life again, why can't the master have it?

So they began to dismantle each other and reassemble their bodies. After learning how to make magic puppets, they followed the induction of their master's body and hunted down all the animals in the forest that had eaten their master's body.

They spliced ​​the animal bones together, mashed the flesh and blood into mud, applied it to the bones to create new limbs, and then used Nydia's long black hair as sutures to create an extremely strong body.

They know that the previous owner was so easily killed by the guards because he was too weak, so they want to give the owner a new body that is far superior to that of the guards.

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

The heart has been taken away by the guards, so even if they pinch out a new heart, they can't wake up the dead owner.

At this time, they had an idea and thought of another magic prop, the music box that also absorbed the owner's blood. So, they used the music box as a heart and put it into Nidia's chest.

As the internal music box rotates, a faint sound of music comes from Nidia's chest. The blood-colored magic power spreads to the whole body along with the music. The small eyes suddenly open, revealing a pair of lake-blue moist eyes. , but there is endless blood inside.

Finally, a complete monster was born.

[You have completely watched the birth process of a strange monster. 】

[You have obtained the black magic prop formula - Golem Puppet Construction. This formula has been included in the blacksmith sub-profession. 】

"What an unexpected surprise!"

In mid-air, Xu Yue, who was in a state of nothingness, raised his eyebrows slightly. Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected gain. The formula contained a high gold content. At least now, he was definitely not the opponent of the newly born monster under his feet. The weird feeling of horror made him People shudder.

Nidia is alive again, but is it really the Nidia who came back to life?

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

The extremely strong body with a petite head looks particularly weird, but it also gives Nidia the power to conquer all odds. She is very satisfied with her current body.

Unfortunately, this power is far from enough to support her against the witch who is worshiped by the entire kingdom, and using the music box as a heart does not last long. She has to turn the clockwork of the music box every once in a while.

Only when the music box is running can she move freely with magic power.

In the following time, Nidia spent a lot of energy training puppet assassination techniques.

When the time was right, he ordered them to lurk into the witch's castle, stunned the witch with an herb found in the forest, and quietly dug out her heart.

With this heart, Nydia took out the music box from her chest and allowed her body to return to its once beautiful shape under the nourishment of magic power.

After recovering well, Nidia did not choose to return to the kingdom. The experience of being betrayed by her personal guard made her full of malice towards the entire country, so she went to a powerful country that was hostile to her own kingdom.

There, relying on her beautiful appearance and weird puppet-making methods, she 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 it was by no means the last. From this day on, Queen Nydia began to rule the country secretly, and more and more puppets appeared quietly in the army.

Two years later, Queen Nydia had accumulated enough strength, so the war started, and she launched an attack on her former kingdom.

The fearless puppet army was invincible on the battlefield. In less than a month, the enemy country collapsed and the capital fell. Nidia 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 worshiped witch did not die. After losing her heart, the power of black magic maintained her short-term vitality. She began to frequently rob the girl's heart to continue her life. The level of madness even caused The vigilance of the rulers of the kingdom.

But before the king could take action, the witch who sensed something was wrong was killed first. Then, she relied on black magic to quietly become the new ruler of the kingdom.

As for the count family where Nidia belonged, they were brutally killed by the witch who became the ruler of the kingdom not long after. In three years, she devoured thousands of hearts, but she still could not resist the onset of aging.

By the time the enshrined witch was dragged out of the dark castle by someone sent by Nidia, she had completely turned into a decrepit person.

Nydia put red-hot iron shoes on the countess's feet and made her dance until she died. Then she let the wild beasts eat her corpse.

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

After solving the enshrined witch, Nydia merged the two countries and became the ruler of this huge kingdom. She asked all the people to call her the Queen.

She does not believe in humans, but becomes more and more interested in puppets. After inheriting the legacy of a witch, her magic methods become even weirder. She is tired of the tricks of turning kingdom creatures into puppets, and she needs more interesting puppet toys. .

It was for her to play and conquer, so she thought of the magic mirror.

In the dark secret room of the castle, Her Majesty the Queen opened a witch's treasure covered by black silk cloth, and a gorgeous full-length mirror appeared in front of her.

She threw a large number of fragments from the first five puppets together with the music box into the magic mirror, her scarlet lips slightly parted.

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

"As you wish, my Queen."

The magic mirror swallowed up the puppet fragments thrown into it, and the mirror surface slowly fluctuated.

Behind the Queen, the phantom of Xu Yue stared at the magic mirror in front of him, his eyes shining brightly.

"The source of the memetic infection has been found."