Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 764 Lao Deng
Milo was brainstorming to find a way out. He felt that intense storylines like boss battles were not suitable for him at this stage, and even he might not have been able to handle them during his Shadow era.

Only after the annoying noise from the alley came out did he finally feel completely relieved.

...

……

The sound quickly attracted the knight's attention, and he turned to look at the alleyways of the city.

Beneath the tower behind Milo, Yan's figure flashed a hundred meters away and appeared beside Milo:
"Wait, is it the person I'm thinking of?"

"Which one came to mind?" Milo asked.

"Old Deng, the most capable fighter in Nanwei City and the surrounding area." Yan clearly hadn't forgotten his repeated defeats back then.

"Probably," Milo said thoughtfully.

...

An inconspicuous, tattered yellow cloak appeared in the sky above the city, braving the strong winds.

If the holy light emanating from the knight gave ordinary psychics a sense of holiness and awe, then the inconspicuous, solitary yellow-clad figure only evoked a sense of strangeness and incongruity.

It resembled the hues of a gravel desert, withered and yellowish, yet lacking the scorching heat of a gravel desert, and carrying a chill more terrifying than the cold plains—the aura of Kakosa, the repository of the souls of the dead…

That yellow-clad figure was once a deep and indelible mark of killing intent in the war of the stars, and now it has reappeared in the form of an elderly law enforcement officer.

...

The knight from the Temple of the Golden Law stared blankly at the yellow-clad figure in the distance for a long time, before finally muttering to himself from beneath his armor:
"Hastur...you actually lived a second life...could it be that the path of the Divine Embryo is really feasible?"

The man in yellow's response still carried that characteristic arrogant air of middle-aged or elderly people:
"A divine embryo? It seems you lackeys of the dream gods have really gone senile. Without that blessing, you don't even know how to survive. You've gotten so used to being dogs that you've forgotten how to be human. And you, a Great Old One, are thinking about how to resurrect those old geezers at this critical juncture?"

The knight remained silent for a long time.

He then took the two-handed greatsword he was carrying on his back and slowly assumed a sword stance: "Since you lost in the War of the Stars, you should have fled into the starry sky with those external gods and should not have come back."

Upon hearing this, Huang Yi spat out a mouthful of saliva: "Pah, I'm not one of them. I just can't stand you and those bastards above you. I can go wherever I want. You couldn't stop me before, and you can't stop me now."

As he spoke, the tattered yellow robe spread and expanded in the air, instantly amplifying and expanding the eerie atmosphere of death, starry sky, and deep sea.

The entire city fell silent.

That was the King in Yellow.

But Milo still prefers to call him Old Theon.

Because he is Theon the Elder.

...

Just as the two ancient beings were about to clash in the air, Milo very inopportunely interrupted their battle of wills:
"Um, hold on a minute, I want to ask about Emma and the others..."

Old Theon didn't give Milo much of a warm welcome, and immediately launched into a tirade of curses from high above:

"Are you stupid? I'm an avatar, an avatar formed in the Dream Realm after the Blood Moon. How would I know what happened to your wives? Please, if you can't help, don't make things worse. This avatar I painstakingly forged in the Dream Realm, incorporating the faith of most of Kakosa's people, is going to be destroyed here today. I'm really annoyed!"

"Why not just give that little scarlet a drop of blood? It even jumped out to help you take the blame, but it had to make me lose an avatar before it was happy! Damn it!"

...

"Shh... why did you bring up the avatar thing?" Milo shrugged, as if to say, "You've given yourself away in front of the enemy."

How can an avatar compare to the original body? Moreover, they are beings of the same level.

Yog-Sothoth's reputation is quite formidable, isn't it? He's a renowned Outer God, but look at the level of his corrupt incarnation—he got bitten to death by a dog.

Although it wasn't an ordinary dog...

...

In theory, it is almost impossible for an embodiment of the past to win against another entity from the past.

But Theon was not afraid at all, because he was the Yellow King, and he had no intention of protecting this avatar; he was simply throwing caution to the wind.

Moreover, the reality is not one-on-one.

...

While the two sides were locked in a standoff, Xiao Yan, who had been fighting fiercely, quietly retreated.

"What's wrong? Tired of playing?"

"No." Xiao Yan nudged their backs, gesturing for them to turn around and look: "That big snake seems a bit strange."

The giant python was merely a behemoth, or rather, a soulless lump of rotten flesh, possessing only a terrifying physique and strength. To put it bluntly, it was just a corpse that hadn't completely decomposed. In this encirclement and hunt, it could only be considered as a showpiece, not as good as the priestess played by Imnar, and even less so than the knights of the Golden Clan.

But after the yellow-clad figure appeared, the giant python began a series of strange changes.

Foul-smelling blood began to gush from its huge, empty eye sockets, burning with a magma-like luster, and something seemed to be writhing beneath its entire body.

Only those with high spiritual insight can sense that certain broken souls have returned to this decaying body once again; these are fragmented wills unwilling to leave.

...

They say that the giant serpent was the younger brother of Igor, the father of all serpents. It participated in the divine war that ravaged the stars, and ultimately met a tragic end.

The one who slew the ancient serpent under the witness of the stars was none other than Hastur, the Yellow King, as the knight had spoken of.

The brief revival of the giant python's mangled body is then easily understood; it was naturally the aura of its enemy that awakened it.

"Do you think the three of us combined could beat Igor's brother?" Milo suddenly raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Yan.

The latter returned him with an even more innocent look and asked, "Who is Igor?"

...

“Let’s go,” Milo sighed.

"Where to?" Yan asked.

“Back to Ussa,” Milo said.

...

"What about the giant snake?"

"Leave it to Old Deng in the yellow shirt in the back."

"Won't it stop us?"

"Oh, it really went for Old Deng."

……

Thus, a horrific battle erupted over the city of Derasrien.

From the Old Days series, and specifically the most terrifying Shadows within that series…

Of course, the knight from the Temple of the Golden Law was not in his full glory, the python was just a remnant soul and a zombie, and the yellow-robed figure was not the real person, but only an avatar.

Even so, it was still a disaster for the city of Derasrien.

The clever people had already fled the city, and even the neighboring Kingdom of Silan had adopted a defensive posture, with martial law declared throughout the country.

So in the end, those who were affected were mostly not very smart idiots, and those who survived all went crazy.

As a result, the ending of this power struggle between those in power was subject to much speculation, none of which matched the truth.

Soon, the news arrived...

Fishermen witnessed the Black Knife assassins of the Golden Kingdom retrieving a partially moving body from the central ocean, the remains still embedded with fragments of armor…

Then some saw serpent priests from the grotesque serpents arrive at the ruins of Derasrien, weeping amidst the mangled remains of the ancient serpent.

...

Perhaps time in the dream world passes too quickly, and people have forgotten the true name of that yellow-clad figure, as well as the terrifying events it once caused in ancient times.

The man in yellow has been gone for too long, and hasn't appeared since the war of the stars. It's normal that he's been forgotten.

……

The battle of Derasrien silenced the Pantheon for a long time.

It was clear that the guy from the world of lucidity was beyond their control. Regardless of the truth about Derasrien City, the fact was that those who had caused trouble in the past had all suffered.

In today's world, no force can afford such losses...

The covert investigation never stopped; they wanted to find out if Milo and the Yellow Robe really had some kind of unclear relationship. If it was as the rumors said, then perhaps no one could do anything to him before the gods returned.

...

Who would have thought that Milo, Igor's younger brother and a knight of the Golden Law, hadn't even touched a hair on either of them, and suddenly the achievement notification of "fighting two against one" popped up on the screen out of nowhere, consuming one incarnation of the King in Yellow.

It's hard to say whether this deal will be profitable or not.

The good news is that both the temple and the snake people have temporarily quieted down.

However, out of caution, Milo did not head south from the port of Derasrien. Instead, he took a detour, venturing further west into the peninsula of the six kingdoms, until he reached the border of the gravel desert before heading south to find a port to cross the sea.

One important reason for doing this is that Freya is still unable to transform into her dragon form for the time being.

Despite Usagi's cat doctor saying that Freya's injuries had fully healed and the remaining dragon grease had been removed, every time she tried to transform into a dragon, she could only make constipation-like noises for about ten minutes before helplessly putting her clothes back on.

According to Yan's explanation, a cat doctor can only treat cats, not dragons.

But Milo felt it was most likely some kind of psychological issue. He had considered using dream manipulation to help Freya, but later dismissed the idea. Perhaps it was because he hadn't found the source of Freya's fear, or perhaps his strong sense of humanity wouldn't allow him to do so...

In short, the rest of the journey south can only be undertaken by long-distance ships.

...

Milo, Yan, Freya, Xiao Yan, Morgan from Usagai, and several cats who were good at sailing arranged by Arthur, boarded a black-spruce sailboat that they had bought from the Cold Plains people and slightly modified, and began their sea voyage from the Pag Jungle in the west.

It's worth mentioning that an abstract cat's head was drawn on the black sail of the sailboat with crooked lines.

(End of this chapter)