Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 337 Hope Has Been Preserved
The Scarlet Witch said that every time Milo used his clairvoyance, he was reminding the hounds in those different timelines that Milo was still alive.

Today, Milo is already using his psychic powers to the fullest extent he has ever done.

When faced with Sothos's afterimage, Milo's heart pounded faster than ever before.

It wasn't until just now, when he saw the space beneath Nero's staff and sword begin to distort, that Milo realized that part of his sense of danger actually came from the hounds.

……

Yog Sothoth never dreamed that it would be tricked by a human, and tricked terribly.

It must be admitted that during the years that Nero lurked in his mind, it was assimilated by certain base human traits.

That's the only explanation.

Otherwise, who can explain why a high and mighty Outer God would be deceived by a human with words?

……

As for Milo, he had to be thankful that the hounds appeared just when his series of pilgrim lines were about to fall flat.

Thick smoke billowed out, and some strange, slimy substance began to spread.

Beneath the staff and sword, several ghostly, semi-solid black figures emerged from the torn spatial rift.

They locked onto the most powerful life form in this mist-walled space, which also exuded the strongest Milo scent—Yog Sothoth.

Why Sothos?

Because it has already replaced Milo, the process is just one step away from completion, and Milo is on the verge of extinction.

Outer Gods do not belong to this world; if they want to remain in this world, they must replace an existing being.

Sothos's original plan was to create a life form, namely the newborn in Kai's womb.

But now that the plan has fallen through, it has no choice but to settle for second best and choose Milo as its avatar.

But it didn't know that Milo was the one who carried the hound's curse.

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Click...

The afterimage had largely merged with Milo's body.

But the hound's fangs and long claws forcibly ripped it off Milo.

For the first time, Sothos felt fear and helplessness. These emotions, which had nothing to do with divinity, were born in its consciousness for the first time. They were things unique to humans...

It regrets it.

But the mad dogs in the angular space cannot recognize what Sothos's true form is, and those living in the void don't care about such things.

Before Sothos's will could even utter a cry of surprise, it was caught by the claws of countless hounds and dragged into that void.

Then, the staff and sword shattered.

The angle disappeared.

On the shattered floor, only Milo remained, staring blankly at the thick smoke before him.

His nerves were on the verge of collapse.

Because at a certain moment, Yog Sothoth had indeed seized control of his will and had successfully plundered everything from him.

That's why the hunting dogs mistook it for Milo.

Thus, they were crushed in that angular space...

……

"Dogs really are man's best friend..."

Milo's heartbeat was gradually calming down, but he was still experiencing occasional palpitations.

As the hounds dragged Sothos away, he could even clearly feel something being torn and peeled away from him.

Fortunately, Sothos had taken over for Milo in those two minutes and had taken the hits from the hounds in Milo's place.

This plan cannot be described as flawless; it is simply a complete mess.

But Milo won the bet.

He survived to the end in this battle between humanity and the Outer Gods.

Moreover, at the very moment Sothos attempted to replace him, Milo saw Sothos's true form in the stars within the previously sealed ancient memories of Geragi.

He recalled and understood some cryptic messages.

Just like when he recognized the King in Yellow when he came into contact with the underground altar in Arden Village, Milo saw Yog-Sothoth from Glaqi's perspective...

At that moment, Milo realized just how incredible something had just been killed.

Although it was just one of the countless worlds from which Sothos had differentiated, and it could be considered a corrupted wisp of will that had long since lost its former divine status.

But it did come from a true Outer God after all...

……

As Sothos's afterimage vanished.

The area where the boss battle took place began to crumble.

All the chaotic forces that were originally affecting this floor disappeared, the building debris that was floating in the air fell to the ground, and the fog wall also faded away.

Logically, the background music should have stopped by now, but that damned Rick was still endlessly playing his requiem at the South City Enforcement Office. Through the ears of the Dream Guide Grasso, Milo could still hear the chorus's melody.

……

Currently, the upper half of the entire law enforcement headquarters building has been almost completely razed to the ground.

Some of the wall pillars have collapsed.

Everything is calm.

The largest amount of blood remaining on the ground came from Nero...

Kay lay not far from Nero's corpse, her mycelium completely reduced to dust, the curse that had shrouded Icam for countless years finally broken at this moment.

She did not wake up.

But tears were already streaming down the child's haggard face.

Clearly, subconsciously she knew exactly what had happened here and what she had lost.

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That night, humanity won a Pyrrhic victory.

In Raven's calculations, perhaps it was Monquia who killed Milo and stole his spiritual vision, or perhaps the roles were reversed, with Milo stopping the Outer God's descent ritual. But the Necronomicon ultimately did not provide Raven with the most comprehensive view; he could not have foreseen that the Outer God would be blinded by humans and ultimately meet a tragic end at the hands of the hounds.

It is even more impossible to have foreseen that Nero, who had been unconsciously enslaved for decades, would draw his sword against the gods at the last moment.

Perhaps the moment Nero awoke, the battle had already declared humanity's victory.

A weak soul can actually resist the temptations of an evil god; this is the most valuable message that tonight's brutal battle left Milo with.

...

Milo ignored the dying Monquia beside him, picked up the unconscious Kai, and left this filthy place.

By this time, the torrential rain that had lasted all night had stopped.

There was no longer any rolling thunder in the sky.

Monqueya put away his weapon fragments and disappeared into the darkness just before the first rays of the post-rain sun rose.

Meanwhile, atop another tower in Nanwei City, a witch draped in a scarlet cloak gazed towards the direction of the Law Enforcement Headquarters.

Her withered long hair obscured her face, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"If even the Outer Gods cannot take his life, then the odds of this gamble have already tilted in favor of this era. Let's hope this momentum can be maintained."

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On the muddy streets, Diracho, a church official in a grey robe, was also one of the bystanders in this battle.

He witnessed the annihilation of evil, and also the rise of another unpredictable force.

Fortunately, the weapon the church had arranged for him to use was no longer needed.

Regardless, it can be considered that a horrific disaster was averted.

Dillah looked down at his hands, which were soaked in the blood of an unknown substance; every pore and every vein shone with a fiery luster.

He tucked his hands under the long sleeves of his cloak.

...

When the Outer God, who was almost about to descend, released its death threat upstairs in the Law Enforcement Headquarters, Diracho also received those images.

The scene depicted all living beings in the entire city of Nanwei being submerged in blood...

In that world, the church's high bridge collapsed, and the last rays of light atop the Starry Bell Tower were dying.

Everything that Dillashau believed in and protected was destroyed.

He suddenly realized how foolish he had been to hide the truth from Daisy.

Yog Sothoth reminded Dirashaw that these apostles of doom, watched over by the stars, would one day destroy the civilization that humanity had spent thousands of years building.

Descartes rushed back to the church, utterly distraught.

He had to hand over the girl, who was also an apostle of calamity, to the contracted organization; he couldn't wait any longer.

……

...

An explosion occurred in a residence in the 23rd parish a dozen minutes earlier.

The hunters failed to break through the Shadow of Exile's defenses.

In the end, they were unable to set foot in Valrocan's home.

Yan, the righteous hero who blocked the door, never dreamed that the attack he would ultimately suffer would come from inside the house.

A small explosion blew open the second floor of a back-to-back residential building.

Everything is due to Emma's sudden realization.

She saw the shadows within the 38-sided crystal and realized she was falling into an abyss.

Without hesitation, he tied it to the solidified nitroglycerin and lit it.

She should have been with the crystal, which had already been blown to pieces.

At least that's what she thought.

The explosion only destroyed half of the building and did not injure anyone, including herself, who was closest to the blast.

The collapsed floorboards buried everyone.

Fortunately, Yan and the Shadows of Exile quickly dug the Valrokan family out of the ruins, and everyone suffered only minor injuries.

But what no one knew was that the dark red, octagonal crystal was not destroyed in the explosion.

Yan found it in the ruins.

Because he heard a voice calling him...

Ultimately, driven by some strange idea, he took the crystal for himself.

...

This night.

The roar of the deceitful god still echoes through the muddy ancient city.

Inside the city, hunters who had suffered heavy losses were searching for a way to escape.

There was a law enforcement team that had just returned from the suburbs.

Some church officials hurriedly left the city, brushing past the law enforcement team.

There were county council members who were disheartened and felt hopeless about their future.

There was also the old law enforcement officer who inherited the power of the tattered yellow robe and killed a group of hunters, sitting on the street corner smoking.

……

But all the disputes subsided as the first rays of sunlight fell on the streets.

The gaze that had been hidden in the shadows was once again concealed.

As it turned out, that night in Nanwei City was not the best time for them to appear.

The fall of a wisp of Outer God's will shocked the Shadows who were already stirring.

They need to wait patiently.

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(End of this chapter)