Chapter 148 The Girl and the Snake (2)
Maggie is a venomous snake. Compared to the highly toxic venom, Maggie's venom is much milder. It can put people into a continuous psychedelic state and they will not feel any pain until death.
He was reluctant to bite the little master, but the previous death request made him distinguish between the little master and Ximena.
So he went against old Milaji's teachings and bit Cling Graydon, but Ximena didn't react at all and could still look at him as gently as usual, as gentle as his little master.
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His little master died in his hands after all.
He rolled his little master into their favorite woodland, where Maggie put her and called a bunch of new snakes, and he identified them one by one. He played another game of hide-and-seek - this time he gave up the victory. Maggie found every snake in the name of the little master, and then all the snakes gathered around Ximena and performed a snake funeral.
When Alberto found them, it was too late. He threw Maggie, who was leaning on Ximena's hand, away like a madman, and cast a spell on the snake regardless of the consequences. However, Maggie had become basically immune to all spells after his experiments.
Maggie intended to bite him to death, even though Alberto still had many alchemical props in his hand that could hurt him, he still planned to do so. However, he couldn't do this in front of Bronte who also hurried over, so he obediently accepted all the damage from Alberto.
He was the one who was supposed to die anyway.
However, at Bronte's pleading, Alberto spared Maggie's life. He took the lifeless Ximena away and set fire to the entire Clinggreton Manor that night. He burned everything in Clinggreton and also burned himself.
What about patricide and matricide? That little brat Bronte didn't dare to do anything except scream a few times.
Maggie and Bronte were left behind, but there was no one left in the Clingretton family. Bronte, who lost everything in one day, changed his last name to Dorothea and officially began his wandering with the murderer of his mother as well as his endless youth and lifespan.
Immortality is just a simple word, but the time behind it is vast; hypnosis sounds like a small ability, but it does give an individual a little power over others.
And both of these things can alienate people.
Bronte was sad and numb at first, but when time had filled his pain a little, he became dissolute and indulgent, using his abilities to do evil in the Muggle world. Maggie was sure that Bronte was obsessed with the feeling of breaking the rules for a while.
But as mentioned before, he is immortal. Time can fill pain, but happiness cannot fill time. So Bronte became numb again and wandered in the Muggle world like a ghost.
Maggie has always been with Bronte, just like she used to accompany her little master, and follows Bronte in everything. He has thought about death, but his existence at that time has essentially deviated from the original concept of existence. Their eternal life is not immortality, but living in pain and dying voluntarily are two different things. Bronte is not as brave as Jimena, and Maggie is not qualified to choose liberation before Bronte.
The Muggle world is changing very quickly, and they seem to be always one step behind the times. Just when they have adapted to the machines that seem to be powered by magic, an unprecedented war comes.
The wide scope of the war, the heavy casualties, and the cruel means made them terrified as they had witnessed countless deaths. At that time, Bronte's eyes were not so useful. Because of the war, people's emotions had reached various extremes. Bronte made a prompt decision to take Maggie and hide in the mountains and forests.
They didn't know how long they had been hiding in there. Bronte had no intention of counting the days, after all, there was infinite sand in his hourglass of life. Maggie could still remember a small fruit sapling in the distance growing into a big tree, because he met Doreen there.
Doreen was not that beautiful. Maggie would say that no one was prettier than Ximena, but Doreen's smile was very special. She always laughed without restraint and her laughter was clear and unpretentious. If you looked at her again at this time, you would find that her blonde hair was so soft and her blue eyes were so bright.
Maggie liked to hide in the bushes and secretly watch Doreen and listen to her exciting laughter when Doreen came to pick fruits. His little abnormality soon attracted Bronte's attention, so Bronte also came. In this way, the handsome boy met the warm-hearted girl.
The fairy tale began again. Although Doreen could not speak snake language and could not play hide-and-seek with Maggie, she would take Maggie to pick fruits. She let Maggie climb to the top, and Bronte helped her hold the ladder. Doreen climbed to the trunk and took the sweetest fruits one by one from the flexible snake's tail because they were closest to the sun.
Doreen is just like the fruit closest to the sun. She is ordinary and the sweetest. She also makes Maggie happy again.
Only at this time did Maggie experience the pleasure of indulgence. The beauty of fairy tales may not last long, but it is indeed addictive. Whenever Maggie recalled the past that had turned into a nightmare, Doreen could always bring him happiness.
Later, Doreen became pregnant. This was the happiest time for Maggie, and he even felt that he could go back to the past.
Although Doreen and Bronte did not have the last name Clinggreton, they loved each other just like old Clinggreton; he was also a big green snake now, just like old Milady, and he thought that the little master in Doreen's belly should be able to talk to snakes, and he wanted to find a little white snake to give to her, and then teach her all the skills just like old Milady.
There would be no more Ximena in this world, but there would still be him, the old snake from the Clingreton family.
There are two requirements for the snakes in Clingretton's house: they must be able to grow big but not be too big, and they must be deadly but not too poisonous. This can kill a lot of snakes. Maggie also wanted to find those with red eyes and white skin, so he wandered all over the mountains during that time.
When he wandered, he would think a lot. He wondered what kind of child Della would be in the future. Would she play hide-and-seek with him or go fruit picking with him? He was also fully willing to do something else because he knew it would be happy.
Then one day, before Maggie found the little white snake she wanted, all his expectations and happiness were gone.
The Muggle world was already very safe at that time. At least there was no major war breaking out. People were living okay and there was no chaos. However, the wizarding world, which they had forgotten for so long, was carrying out some cruel actions.
In the past few hundred years, Bronte had either been indulging in debauchery or indulging in self-pity. He had completely lost touch with magic, and even if he had some usable alchemical items at hand, he would have lost everything before he could react.
It's really useless. At least Aibotu never let others hurt what he had.
Bronte used alchemy to barely keep Doreen, but Della left completely, which undoubtedly made them lose Doreen again. No mother can accept the departure of her child, so Bronte devoted himself to studying alchemy, wanting to bring back everything he had lost.
Once you get it, you don't want to lose it again. Maggie saw the shadow of Alberto in Bronte.
But this time, Maggie didn't want to lose again. He couldn't even resent Abbotu as a matter of course, and he couldn't understand why he bit Ximena at that time.
Aibotu left them behind, leaving marks on them, and these marks eventually led to the birth of new Aibotu.
It would not have been bad if things had turned out this way, because everyone who has experienced loss wants to get it back, and it would still be a long time before they got bored. But just when everything was about to be taken back, Voldemort discovered them.
The man's eyes were embedded in his inhuman face, and he looked at them from top to bottom. He looked very arrogant, but seemed to have a special resentment towards the union of wizards and Muggles. This resentment reached its peak after Bronte used Parseltongue to tell the snake beside him to go away.
There was nothing much to describe, no thrilling, life-and-death struggle; Bronte didn't even have time to resist; he and Doreen died at the same time.
Maggie knew that the man was terribly strong, but he had nothing left, so he pounced on him and bit him without hesitation. He bit off a large piece of flesh from the man's cold leg, making blood everywhere, and then he was knocked away by a head-on spell.
The spell was probably meant to kill him, but Maggie just fainted. It was this spell that allowed a tiny drop of Voldemort's soul to enter Maggie's body. That bit of soul should have been the price of Voldemort's killing, but it remained because the soul that should have left did not dissipate.
Maggie's soul is extraordinary. Just as Della said before, the soul and the body are inseparable. In his previous physical transformation, his original soul was scraped away, and other souls infiltrated into the new flesh.
The Maggie of the past had indeed died a long time ago, but the snakes around Ximena all chose to become Maggie.
A drop of Voldemort's soul also seeped in and completely merged with this soul community. The unique rationality of human beings brought a subversive perspective to this soul that carried hundreds of years of memories.
Maggie was happy at first. He was happy about eternal life. This joy made him completely criticize Maggie's past memories that started with fairy tales and ended with nightmares. However, living things are not just wild. The snake's hundreds of years of painful wandering slowly dissolved people's criticism. In the process, a new soul was born.
This new soul is as calm and vicious as Voldemort. He obtained the eternal life of Maggie's body, acknowledged Maggie's past happiness and pain, and willingly inherited Maggie's hatred of Voldemort, so he also chose to become Maggie.
In fact, the word "willing" is not so appropriate here. The new Maggie herself has this intention. Like Voldemort, she wants to become powerful, the only powerful
That’s right, the Maggie who thinks this way is the Maggie she knows.
At this time, Della, who had been hidden in her memory, walked up to Maggie. She looked at Maggie's pupils that suddenly stood up and smiled, "This is not a dream, Maggie."
The sound of a baby crying suddenly rang out. The little baby, who had originally no breath, cried loudly, and her blonde hair had turned black at this time.
Della glanced over there, and after seeing her parents on the ground, she lowered her head slightly. She mourned for a while, then raised her head and said to Maggie who had been staring at her:
"Hai-hiha-ya (I now forgive you for your earlier departure from our agreement, and next time, we can discuss how you would like to see Voldemort leave this world without a single piece left).
Sure enough, people would not think of the past for no reason, but there was something that made him happier than being honest.
The concept of Maggie has been changing from the past to the present. The original Maggie, the Maggie beside Jimena, and the Maggie beside Bronte, these Maggies are always naive and emotional, which is contrary to his current nature.
And his girl, who had seen all of Maggie, all of the moving pain and hesitation, had only appeared before him.
He was not so reluctant to become Maggie at the beginning, but the new him was born too suddenly and the emotions of the past were too strong, which eventually made him become Maggie.
But now, he was completely willing to be Maggie, the Maggie next to Della.