158: Chapter 158 Lan Tigos

These things were charging towards the square, their giant horns slamming against the Barrier of Nak-Titer, causing the light curtain to fluctuate violently with every single strike.

Xie Feng was currently chanting the Song of Hastur, leaving him with no spare mouth to cast Spells.

The twine on the palm of his left hand loosened.

Ygolonac's sewn-shut mouth slowly wriggled across his palm, its swollen lips squeezing out viscous, sticky fluid from between the gaps of the twine, and its thick tongue licked back and forth across the palm lines, emitting a cloying sound.

It said that as long as he loosened the thread, it would help him cast all the Spells he needed.

Byakhee, Formless Spawn, Xyclotl Star-spawn—name it and you got it, no magic points required.

Xie Feng lowered his head and glanced at his palm.

Underneath the stitches of twine, that mouth was curving its corners in a slight, smug manner, waiting for an inevitable answer.

Xie Feng turned his head to look at his left hand, rolled his eyes, and his Brain Matter wriggled out from his forehead, speaking a sentence to his left hand:

"Very well, but I refuse."

Using his right thumb and index finger, he pinched the loosened end of the twine and gave it a hard pull. The knot tightened once more, even more forcefully than before, causing that mouth to let out a muffled, disgruntled grunt as its tongue was yanked back into the palm and even its lips shrank beneath the twine.

Craving such remnants of the Great Old Ones that took pleasure in toying with humans was still worse than blowing oneself up.

Cthugha's Living Flame, Cthulhu's Contact Deity, Tsathoggua's Summon Deity—if all else failed, there was still the Gate of the Silver Key in his right eye socket.

Any of them were better than making a deal with the God of Depravity.

Xie Feng turned his mind, and his Brain Matter began to act as his second mouth.

He turned his head and shouted to Lu Mingyuan: "Leave that group of Noph-Keh to you! Don't fight them head-on, just buy time! The Imperial Guards haven't finished rescuing people yet!"

Lu Mingyuan's mental fluctuations swept across the edge of his consciousness.

With his ten fingers spread open, a Spacetime Gate silently unfolded along the charging route of the Noph-Keh swarm. The multi-armed, giant-horned creatures charging at the very front crashed headfirst into the Spacetime Gate, flying out from the gate on the other side of the square to roll into a ball and smash into the frozen ground, half of their horns smashed crooked.

Xie Feng's gaze changed.

Wasn't the destination of the portal altered? Why?

Snowflakes began to drift around.

Oh, so Ithaqua couldn't openly oppose him, so it was playing dirty?

That's uncalled for; it was a lesser Great Old One after all, why be so low?

Did it want Third Princess that badly? What on earth was inside Third Princess?

However, watching the Spacetime Gate stabilize, Xie Feng activated the Yog-Sothoth mark, and several different methods immediately surfaced in his mind.

The wind and snow in the square suddenly became violent.

A violent storm swept over from the direction of the volcanic cone, hugging the surface of the frozen ground.

Countless sharp shards of ice crystals, carried by the wind, slammed against Xie Feng's Barrier of Nak-Titer, every single grain producing cracks on the surface of the grey-green light curtain.

The city lord stood right in the center of the altar ruins, both hands raised high above his head.

The sound emitting from his throat was no longer any human language; it sounded like low, sharp wind howling, summoning some distant and deep existence.

Crap, he went and called his daddy.

The Seal suppressing the Children of the Wind completely vanished at the exact same instant.

Xie Feng swallowed the lyrics of the Song of Hastur back down his throat, withdrew the barrier, turned around, and roared in a suppressed voice amidst the wind and snow: "Fall back! Everyone move towards the back rows of the grandstand! Lu Mingyuan, how much longer for the gate!"

"The Spacetime Gate is being interfered with! Someone underneath the permafrost layer is using frequency resonance to neutralize my spacetime coordinates!"

Lu Mingyuan crouched in the very last row of the grandstand, his ten fingers swiping extremely fast in the void.

That old Wind-Walker really lost face, a Great Old One actually stepping down to play in person?

As the barrier vanished, the giant hexapedal monsters had already charged close. The few remaining Imperial Guards had already drawn their blades, preparing to fight to the death.

As a result, the Noph-Keh stopped in the square.

The multi-armed, giant-horned creatures charging at the very front abruptly checked their giant limbs about a dozen steps away from Third Princess, their hooves plowing several gullies into the frozen ground.

Their messy white long hair fluttered wildly in the blizzard, their giant ears twitched constantly, their eyes swept back and forth over Third Princess, and then they retreated half a step.

Standing at the edge of the grandstand, Xie Feng's spiritual power perception saw this scene clearly.

The Noph-Keh were hesitating?

When they rushed near Third Princess, they clearly wanted to approach, but after approaching, they retreated again. Their giant heads swung back and forth, as if they were being repeatedly torn between two contradictory instincts.

While preparing to summon mythos creatures to bombard the Children of the Wind, Xie Feng began to rapidly deduce the clues.

The Noph-Keh had many objects of worship.

They worshipped the "God of the Ivory Throne" Rhan-Tegoth, the "Wind-Walker" Ithaqua, and possibly the "Obscene Twins" Zhar and Lloigor.

These four Great Old Ones were all their revered deities; since there was a reaction now, Ithaqua was ruled out.

And on that bone-tablet prayer scroll in the royal library, the prayer inscribed in illusion-script was "May the deity upon the Ivory Throne help us destroy Shituolin Swamp".

It was a sealed item brought back from Hyperborea by the royal expeditionary force. Emperor Zhou Weixi had personally said that the thing inside Third Princess was not hair, but tentacles.

It was Rhan-Tegoth!

Xie Feng successfully deduced it.

Rhan-Tegoth had six legs, an elongated body, crab-pincer-like forelimbs, and three fish-like staring eyes distributed in a triangular shape, with its torso covered in numerous tiny tentacles.

Although it looked like a crab, it could consume creatures through the tentacles in its mouth. Its digestive System was extremely powerful; if it didn't feed, it would begin digesting itself until it fell into a dormant state.

And after it fell dormant, these hexapedal giant beasts that worshipped it were beaten away by the Voormis where Master Huo was located, because behind the Voormis stood the God of Toads. In the end, the Noph-Keh had no choice but to switch their faith to the "Wind-Walker" Ithaqua, after which they rose to power and launched a counterattack against the Voormis.

Now these guys were hesitating when they saw their former revered deity!

The reason was readily solved. No wonder, no wonder Ithaqua desired it so much.

According to rumors, Rhan-Tegoth would play a decisive role in the awakening of the Great Old Ones, which was why Ithaqua, suppressed by the Old Gods, had to get its fragments.

"Isn't this just a rumor among Rhan-Tegoth's cultists? To think it's actually true!"

Xie Feng cast a weapon enchantment on his blind stick, flew up, and swiped a Child of the Wind away with a single blow.

Ithaqua wanted to lift the Old Gods' suppression on itself.

"I thought the Ivory God was Chaugnar Faugn, but it turned out to be Rhan-Tegoth? Then I can definitely not give it to you! You thousand-year-old geezer are eyeing our little girl?!"

After Xie Feng stopped the Song of Hastur, his mouth was finally free, and his left hand slid slightly.

Formless Spawn flowed out from the ice sheet, and the Byakhee let out a piercing shriek.

There were also a few new friends, the Lloigers. Just as this group of huge, terrifying lizards crawled out and wanted to counterattack their summoner, Xie Feng slowly pulled open his clothes to reveal the mark of Ghatanothoa, and this bunch of fellows obediently charged toward the Children of the Wind.