Chapter 527: Old Days

Dorothy wasn't pretending to be strong or anything; in fact, she wasn't really angry about Xia Wa's apology.

Even though this Mother had just admitted the fact that she had abandoned her, it wasn't an abandonment without reason, and that promise of wanting to be a good mother in the next life sounded a bit ridiculous to others, but to her, who had truly come from the future, it sounded very sincere.

Long Ma was indeed trying hard to be a good mother now.

As for the mission Xia Wa spoke of, even if this nun mother didn't explain it in detail, Dorothy could guess the content of that mission.

What else could it be? As a primitive deity, her current mission must be to resist the angels and save the world.

Between the choice of raising her daughter and saving the world, this Moon Goddess chose to save the world.

This was also a very classic old question. Most heroes who had families before shouldering their missions would generally face this unsolvable choice.

Was it to choose family, or to choose mission?

After all, not all heroes' spouses could follow their partners on the journey to the battlefield. In history, many heroes' spouses were actually ordinary people. When the heroes stepped onto the journey for their mission, these spouses who were just ordinary people could only wait at home in worry, not knowing whether the hero would ever return.

Therefore, it often happened that when heroes returned to their hometowns after achieving fame and success, they found that their spouses had already grown old, and their children had long since grown up.

As husbands or wives, they missed their lover's youth; as fathers or mothers, they directly missed their children's entire childhood.

They might have won the praise of the whole world, but they were the only ones who owed their closest family members.

Such people could be called heroes or even great men, but they couldn't be called qualified family members.

Therefore, compared to the protagonist's fate destined to be extraordinary, Dorothy actually longed more for an ordinary life. She didn't ask for much glory; she just hoped to live happily with her friends and family every day.

It's just that she could also understand this nun mother's choice. If that difficult choice were placed before her, she might also make a similar decision.

After all, without the "big home," where would the "small home" come from? If the world were to perish, where could her family find peace? Even if it wasn't for any glory or mission, just to guard the family beside her, she would have no other choice.

Therefore, if this nun mother was truly forced to abandon her for such a mission, as a daughter, Dorothy would choose to forgive this mother who could indeed be called a heroic savior.

In reality, before the misunderstanding was cleared up, she hated Long Ma so much mainly because the reason Adam, that pit-man, gave was too ridiculous; the Home Witch really disdained having a mother who would easily abandon her husband and children for the pursuit of power.

What she cared about wasn't the mother's company and care—she wasn't a "mama's girl" who couldn't live without a mother; compared to these, she cared more about some more essential things, such as whether her mother truly loved her as a daughter.

If she loved her, that was enough; if she didn't, then don't disturb each other, and give each other the decency of strangers.

And just now, in the reaction of this nun Xia Wa facing her as a daughter, Dorothy had already found the answer she wanted.

Although this nun mother couldn't be called qualified, and even somewhat disqualified, the one who was wrong wasn't her; the one who should take the blame was this Angel side.

Of course, although Dorothy chose to forgive, as an abandoned child, she didn't have much closeness to this nun mother.

After all, some things could be understood and sympathized with, but that was limited to being understood and sympathized with.

Adults always had to pay the price for their choices. It was impossible to want this, want that, and want everything; that would be too greedy and would violate the eternal truth of equivalent exchange.

Since parents were absent from their children's growth, they naturally couldn't blame their children for not being very close to them.

Dorothy was now willing to call the nun Xia Wa "Mother"; this was because the other party did indeed have the grace of giving birth to her, and she recognized this identity, but as for more mother-daughter affection, that was out of the question.

Affection was something that needed time to cultivate; how could it be said to exist just because one said so?

Long Ma was also gradually recognized and accepted by her during these two months of getting along, and as for whether to recognize this Goddess Mother, only time would tell.

At the very least, at this moment, the Home Witch's heart for gossip and watching the show was stronger.

Hmm, hurry up and tell the story of you and Priest Adam this time; I'm really curious about what kind of melon you two enemies can come up with this time.

On the other side, although Xia Wa felt a sense of relief and happiness she had never felt before when she heard her daughter forgive her so easily and even willing to call her "Mother," she was exceptionally ecstatic.

But at the same time, looking at her daughter's indifferent attitude—willing to eat snacks and full of gossip, too lazy to scold her irresponsible mother—a stronger sense of guilt and loss surged in her heart.

She also saw that although her daughter forgave her, she wasn't close to her. This attitude like a stranger was the most uncomfortable thing. If possible, she would rather her daughter hate her a little and scold her a few times.

But in the end, the Moon Goddess sighed and accepted reality.

This was the retribution for her choosing to leave the child to Adam as soon as she gave birth to her back then; it was the sin she had committed herself.

Although she felt guilty and lost, she didn't regret it; in fact, it was precisely because of this daughter's existence that she valued this mission of saving the world even more.

As the last surviving god in the world, resisting the invasion of those angels from other worlds was a mission she couldn't refuse, and her daughter's birth back then gave this mission another meaning.

She wasn't just executing this mission for her own survival, but also to win a world for her daughter to grow up in.

And to execute the mission, what she should do most now was actually to immediately drive her daughter and her friends away to prevent her identity, which she had operated for over five hundred years to obtain, from being exposed.

However, looking at her daughter opposite, she ultimately couldn't harden her heart again.

Over five hundred years ago, when she had just given birth to her daughter, she was still a high-and-mighty Moon Goddess, but during these five hundred years of lurking in the Glory Divine Kingdom, she had been in contact with people for too long, and coupled with the continuous weakening of the world, her divinity was no longer pure, and she had long lost the decisiveness and sharpness of five hundred years ago.

For people, this was growth, but for gods, this was wear and tear.

If it was just accompanying her daughter for a while, the impact shouldn't be large. She wanted to hear a story, so she would tell her a story.

"Dorothy."

Xia Wa called out this name after a long time.

"Gift of God"—this was the name Adam had chosen before her daughter was born, but at that time, she, who was still young, didn't actually like this name much, and could even be said to hate it.

But now...

This was indeed a good name, the best gift.

The Moon Goddess thought so in her heart now.

"Everything actually started with an adventure. At that time, I was active in the world as the Moon Witch, crazily thirsting for power. I wanted to become strong, strong enough to drive all those invaders from other worlds out."

"But this world was too weak. Finding a way to become strong within the world was not feasible. Among the things native to this world, there was nothing stronger than gods like me. Fortunately, the angels were not the first outsiders to descend into this world. Before the angels, a meteor from outside the world had once fallen into this world."

"The gods once tried to investigate that meteor, but back then we couldn't even get close to it. The power leaking from around the meteor was enough to make us weak gods tremble with fear."

"In the end, the gods of that time decided to join forces to seal the meteor. But now, in order to perhaps obtain power, I decided to investigate the meteor again. That was the only method I could think of to obtain power."

"To use the power of outsiders to defeat outsiders."

Xia Wa opened her mouth, recounting while recalling the past.

And Dorothy had originally just wanted to eat the melon of a vulgar, dog-blood family drama, but the Home Witch never expected that this time it wasn't a family ethics drama, but a fantasy adventure epic.

Under the invasion of foreign lands, the last survivor of the gods, the Moon Goddess, disguised herself as the Moon Witch and walked the earth. She embarked on an adventure to pursue the power sealed by the gods back then.

At that time, the naive Moon Goddess didn't know that she wasn't the only one eyeing the sealed extraterrestrial power.

In fact, long before the angels descended, the Demon God in the Abyss had already sensed that a great secret was hidden in this plain little world.

Thus, the Demon God quietly sent down an avatar to explore this little world for many years. However, even as strong as a Demon God, he ultimately gained nothing. But the Demon God had patience; knowing he had no connection to that power, he patiently waited for the appearance of a fated person.

As a demon, what the Demon God was best at was directly plucking the sweet fruit from the hands of the winner.

However, the Demon God's actions couldn't deceive his old rival; the Angel Lord of Heaven sensed the Demon God's anomaly.

Thus, the Angel Lord sent down divine power. Not knowing what conspiracy the Demon God had, she decided to directly harvest this little world and thwart her old rival's scheme from the root.

The Angel Lord's power turned into miracles in this weak world. Ignorant mortals chased after the miracles and worshipped this extraterrestrial existence, who aimed to harvest the world, as a god. They established a sect for the Angel Lord and blindly worshipped her.

Until many years later, a young priest was talented and became a bishop of the church at a young age.

He was like the hero recorded in ancient legends—handsome, kind, brave, and powerful. His shining soul once alarmed the high and mighty extraterrestrial gods in the sky, making even the cold Angel Lord feel a sense of cherishing talent, intending to absorb him to become her new compatriot.

To give this talented young man a final test, the Angel Lord sent down a divine oracle, giving the young man a task: he needed to go to the city established by the Demon God to probe the Demon God and find out the Demon God's conspiracy.

And at the same time, the Moon Goddess, who had transformed into a witch, also arrived at that city of sin, because the sealed power was beneath the city.

However, the Demon God, who had waited for many years, also smiled. He felt the vibration of fate and knew that the fated person he had been waiting for had finally arrived. The Demon God's avatar found the young man and the witch and guided the two to meet.

Amidst the Demon God's deception and arrangement, the three-person adventure team was formed. Each with their own thoughts, they embarked on the journey to find the "treasure" sealed by the gods.

In the end, after experiencing hardships, the three successfully arrived before the "treasure," and the adventure experience along the way also made the three familiar and close.

The priest envied the witch's beauty, the Demon God marveled at the priest's soul, and the witch, thirsting for power, vaguely discovered the Demon God's mystery and power.

And when the three finally arrived before the powerful sealed meteorite, facing the treasure that only had one copy, the three laid their cards on the table.

The priest stated his mission, the witch indicated her identity and thirst for power, and the Demon God directly prepared to pluck the final fruit of victory.

Former teammates had now become the final obstacles.

As mortals, the priest and the witch shouldn't have been the Demon God's opponents, but as a reward for these two former teammates, the Demon God, feeling that victory was already in his grasp, decided to satisfy one wish for each of these two mortals he had recognized because of his pleasure.

Thus, the witch made a wish thirsting for power.

And the priest...

Well, the witch still didn't know what wish the priest had made; she only knew that she had fallen into a coma directly after making her wish.

And when she woke up again, she was pregnant with a child.

But the bizarre thing was that when she checked her body, she found that she was still a virgin; this child's arrival was bizarre.

And just when she was puzzled.

The Demon God appeared again and told her that both of their wishes had been fulfilled; the father of the child in her womb was the priest, and this child was also the power promised by the Demon God to the witch.

Just like that, the exposed witch and the priest became enemies from then on, and after giving birth to the child, the witch embarked on the path of pursuing her mission alone again.

Although the Demon God had promised her that the daughter she gave birth to possessed the power she thirsted for, that was, after all, a child she had carried for five years before giving birth to. As a mother, she might not be qualified, but she hadn't fallen to the point of using her own child as power.

"Hmm, that's about all I know. So, did that shameless scoundrel Adam really say nothing to you?"

Although she didn't resent this daughter, Xia Wa would never forgive that damn shameless scoundrel Adam.

And regarding this, Dorothy: "..."

The Home Witch was silent; she was also stunned by this story.

Damn, so I'm actually a child bestowed by a Demon God.

... Dorothy in confusion... ===== CHAPTER 528 =====