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Chapter 968 Becoming the Child of the Ghostly Cry

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When the voice of Igor, the father of all snakes, rang out, Hughes was finally able to retreat into the shadows with a sigh of relief and hide away like the other snake people.

Hughes was not unafraid of the figures who had dared to trespass into the Dark Serpent's Lair; in fact, he was terrified, perhaps even more so than the other serpent-men.

Because ordinary snake people with low intelligence may only instinctively feel threatened, while Hughes is very clear about what kind of beings he is facing.

They are capable of killing themselves completely.

So thoroughly that even the rebirth order of the snake-people couldn't save him.

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Because they are the Four Horsemen of Favor.

Well, to be precise, only three people came.

Greed with wings, plague covered in scripture totems, and a mask carrying a spear.

Even in the era of the Dream Gods, these few were feared beings in the Dream Realm, because if they were willing to concentrate their power, they had the ability to wipe out any temple except for the top-tier ones.

The Four Horsemen do not belong to the Khadath pantheon; they do not even belong to the Dreamlands.

The reason the Dream Gods allowed their existence and freedom was because the Four Horsemen played a special role in the War of the Stars, which laid the foundation for the Dream world.

As is widely known, the Four Horsemen serve the most mysterious Outer God, who has countless titles: the Many-Faced God, the Black Pharaoh, the Crouching Chaos…

The Outer Gods are the opposing forces to the Dream Gods in the Star Wars.

However, in that war, the Four Horsemen stood on the side of the Dream Gods.

The Four Horsemen have always played an indispensable role in the series of historical events surrounding the establishment of the Dreamland and the sealing of outer space.

It could be said that they, along with the one behind them, betrayed the stars.

As for its purpose, perhaps even Nordens, the lord of Mount Kadas, could not know.

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In the Star Wars, Igor, the father of the Serpents, is also caught in a tug-of-war between the two sides.

His role may be more complex than that of the Four Horsemen, because Ig himself is not a member of the sequence of dream gods, but is slightly younger than the real Old Gods.

And it's possible that at the beginning of the war, He was genuinely biased towards the Outer Gods, after all, He had an Outer God wife.

Idhaila, the Dream Witch.

That must be Igor's true love, as can be seen from his current attitude towards his two sons.

The youngest son, Hughes Iger, is Idhaila's child. As for Woti, well, let him do whatever he wants.

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"Yousi rarely has uninvited visitors."

Ig, draped in tattered robes incongruous with his status, dragged his somewhat simple and primitive body as he paced back and forth across the dark and decaying land of the grotesque.

As the first snake-man, he possessed many ancient characteristics that seemed somewhat outdated among the snake-man race of this era, leaning more towards the primitive style depicted in murals.

Igor strolled at a leisurely and elegant pace, not very fast.

When facing the true forms of three of the Four Horsemen, He displayed a composure that the Kadath pantheon lacked.

What are your demands?

He didn't even think that the knights had come to cause trouble for him.

If it were Kadas Mountain facing this lineup, some Dream Gods would probably already be clutching their weapons.

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However, Igor was right; the Favored Knights were indeed not there to cause trouble.

They do have a request.

bang——

A dirty, rough burlap sack was thrown on the ground.

The sack was not completely sealed, exposing its contents.

It was a brownish substance, resembling minced meat or a viscous liquid, in a semi-fluid state, constantly wriggling, with occasional bubbles rising to the surface.

It is the plague that speaks.

He appears to be the most talkative one in the group, as the other two don't even have a complete "mouth" structure.

The scriptural totems wrapped around the plague were so tightly bound that when it opened its mouth to speak, the bandages on its face made a strange pulling sound.

"We beseech the great Serpent Father to grant salvation to one of our friends."

…Igor, dragging his long robe, walked leisurely and calmly to the sack, bent down slightly, and used a long, deformed fingernail to pry open the sack and take a close look at the strange, viscous substance inside.

His tongue flickered, capturing scent molecules in the air, then he turned away listlessly and began pacing back and forth again, talking as he walked:

"Shouldn't this be something you seek out from the one you serve? It's not my place to save his child."

“Because they are abandoned children,” the plague replied.

"Those who were abandoned have turned to Yousi... Fine, I can ignore your rudeness."

Igor was like a very old man.

He had no energy or spirit, and seemed uninterested in everything around him, not even the desire to be angry. He didn't even glance at his youngest son.

"But why should I save an abandoned child?"

“Because He can be your child,” the plague answered calmly.

"Do I look like the kind of old man who lacks children?" Igor spread his hands slightly.

Behind His decaying, ancient body, countless eyes lit up from the dark depths of Hissing.

Those were all His offspring.

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As for the "child" that Igor mentioned that was abandoned.

It was actually a natural disaster.

The sticky, semi-fluid substance in the sack was scraped off bit by bit from the Gobi Desert by the other three knights.

It was a natural disaster that was smashed and shattered by Milo outside the city of a thousand pillars in the north.

He has indeed been dead for some time.

But it is, after all, a CCD. If other god-level companions are willing to pay a sufficient price, there is a chance to save Him.

Of course, it's just like the resurrection spells recorded in those evil scriptures of the conscious world.

It often comes at an incomprehensible price, and the person who is ultimately "saved" is most likely not the same person who died.

But these are not problems for the Four Horsemen.

It wasn't a problem at all for the other three knights, since it wasn't them who were killed.

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The plague said very sincerely, "But this will be a very obedient and well-behaved child."

At this point, the intentions of the Favored Knights have become quite clear.

They wanted to borrow Ig's metamorphic order.

Bring natural disasters back to life.

It's that simple.

As for what kind of monsters they will become after surviving the natural disasters, they don't care.

If one's own Lord has abandoned Him as a believer, then from that moment on, natural disasters no longer belong to the category of plagues, masks, and greed; they are reduced to mere tools.

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Igor sat upright on the ground, lost in thought for a long time.

It was as if He were asleep.

He must be weighing the pros and cons.

It's also possible that they didn't consider that aspect at all.

After a long time, He waved his hand:

"To join the Order of Metamorphosis, one must become a member of the Serpent People, so..."

Even when He finally agreed to the request, He did not impose any corresponding conditions.

"Let her be my eldest son's partner."

"Speaking of which, I was originally owing it a mate, but the deal with the daughter of the golden tree fell through..."

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Deep within the eerie silence.