Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1194: The Samaritan Woman's Fountain

Angel was shocked to realize that she had forgotten such an important thing.

No, it should be said that she had not carefully considered the reasons why the "Witch Sect" hated female witches, but naturally thought that the "Original Witch" Chick would tear down other people's umbrellas because she had been caught in the rain herself, and wanted every witch who was promoted to a high position to experience the various extreme emotions that she had experienced.

It was not until Angel met Roselle on a small island deep in the foggy sea and heard the secret of Chick killing his own daughter that he discovered that the "Original Witch" did not simply hate female witches, but was worried that if they were allowed to advance, something terrible might happen.

According to Christmena's narration, Angel could be sure that this change occurred around the time of the Four Emperors' War, or even after the death of "Blood Emperor" Alistair Tudor. In order to avoid the appearance of a female mirror person, Chick even killed his daughter himself, integrated her remains into the seal of Trier in the Fourth Epoch, removed her extraordinary characteristics and made them into a seal, and split her residual soul into two, making it impossible for her to be resurrected by any means.

Being wary and fearful of the "Great Terror" in the mirror world, the "Original Witch" uses the power at the top of the path to spy on the mastery of each witch when she is promoted. This can only be blocked in places like catacombs that are protected and sealed by divine power.

Of course, when Angel looked back on her promotion process, she found that she did not feel any spying from any higher-ups. This was probably due to the protection of the Goddess of Night and Adam, who had been plotting a certain plan since she crossed over. She was on the verge of losing control several times during her promotion, which was probably the result of the secret struggle between these forces.

But Elaine...

When Elaine jumped through paths and was promoted to the Witch of "Despair" to become a true female witch, she was inside the "City of Exile" Morola, and the Archbishop of the Church of Knowledge there, Heraberg, had a name almost identical to that of Herabergen, the "God of Knowledge and Wisdom".

The various actions of this archbishop showed that he was either the god or the god's favored one. Either possibility meant that the God of Wisdom would set his sights on Elaine, which would effectively block the perception and spying of the "Original Witch".

So, Elaine, the female witch, has not yet been discovered by Chick, or the "great terror" in the depths of the mirror world? When Christmena eagerly asked "not to be promoted to the immortal witch", she was actually asking me to stop Elaine from continuing to be promoted?
Angel frowned and felt that such an idea was a bit like treating the Original Witch as an idiot. The latter descended into the body of the "Pain" Witch Lisa and had seen Elaine, an extraordinary person who possessed the dual powers of hunter and witch, and also saw the power of "immortality" bestowed on her and the scene of her resurrection from the mirror. She should be able to guess that Elaine must jump to another path in order to avoid losing control and mutating.

Unless He had forgotten about this matter, given the "Witch Cult's" habit of hunting down female witches, they would have come to Him long ago... Angel smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that this was simply impossible.

Perhaps it was because Elaine was too far away from digesting "despair" and completing the "immortality" ritual?

Another guess popped into Angel's mind, but then his eyes narrowed and he realized that he had made a big mistake.

She has been using her own experience of being promoted to "Immortal" as the standard, but in fact, many of the promotion rituals for the Witch Path in the blasphemous cards sealed in the "City of Disaster" are forged and customized for her!
The true "immortal" promotion ritual requires finding the man in your mirror, enslaving him, making him fall in love with you, or reconciling with him.

This does not require a long time, nor does it require any "privilege" from being a time traveler.

As long as Elaine digests the despair potion in the battle with the "Original Moon" believers in the southern continent and obtains a portion of the "immortality" trait, she can try to advance to Sequence 3 as a female witch at any time, attracting the "great terror" that both Chick and Christamuna fear.

No wonder Christmena was so anxious, but how did she know about Elaine? Did the "Original Witch" Chick already know about it, but just didn't have time to deal with it, or did she ignore this "accident" for some reason?
Angel's mind was full of thoughts, and he had an urge to immediately return to the ground, grab Elaine and give her the "War Bishop" potion.

On the one hand, this is due to the seductive influence of the "disaster" witch Cristalla, which has not yet completely subsided. On the other hand, Angel himself has a fear of the secrets deep in the mirror world under the influence of the other party's narration.

The power that even a true God fears must come from the "source essence" and may even involve the Old Ones. Yet, this power that could potentially destroy the world can be easily triggered by the advancement of a Saint?
Angel took a deep breath to calm himself down, and decided to put this problem aside for now and deal with it after exploring the catacombs. After all, Elaine still had some time to digest the Sequence 4 potion, and whether Sequence 3 would jump back to "Hunter" or continue to be a "Witch" was entirely up to her boss.

At most, it would make Tracy suffer a little more... She made a joke in her mind and walked around the "Chrismona Night Pillar" with a smooth surface that was so dark that it seemed to absorb all the light, and came to the mottled stone steps behind it that marked the entrance to the fourth floor.

The area below was as dark as the third floor where Angel was currently, like the entrance to hell, but in Angel's dark vision it was not much different from the other tombs. At best it was a little tidier, without the skeletons densely piled up in the corners.

This shows that very few people enter the fourth level to bury the dead. Is it the influence of some kind of force, or... everyone who goes in disappears?
Next time, bring Fors here and let her collect materials on site to write a book called "Angelica and the Empire of Death"... Angel pursed his lips, walked along the stairs across the rock wall covered with human head reliefs, and stepped into the fourth floor of the dead underground tomb.

As soon as she stepped into the tomb passage surrounded by ancient stones, Angel felt a cold breath enveloping her, causing her body temperature to drop rapidly and her thinking to become slow, like a dying old man.

Is it the power of dusk and death... "The River of Eternal Darkness"?
Angel guessed the source of the power, and used the power of "War Bishop" to ignite a circle of purple flames around him, but this high temperature did not give her any warmth. Instead, it made her feel strangely that her spirituality was disappearing at an accelerated rate.

This isn't right. Even an angel like me can clearly feel the discomfort. An ordinary person would die on the spot if he stepped even one toe into the fourth floor... The higher the sequence, the more obvious the perception of this power?

Angel seemed to have realized something and stopped trying to raise the temperature nearby. Instead, he unbuttoned the first button of his shirt and gently stroked the special mark of the "War Bishop" in the valley on his chest, strengthening his connection with the source "City of Disaster".

In an instant, the suffocating and cold feeling that had surged over her like a tide and almost drowned her disappeared without a trace.

Only source substance can fight against source substance... these words appeared in Angel's mind again.

There is no doubt that this power of death and eternal sleep is the biggest factor that prevents official Beyonders from entering the depths of the catacombs. High-Sequence Beyonders are more susceptible to the influence of the Source Essence and may even be directly contaminated. Mid- and low-Sequence Beyonders are unable to handle these abnormal situations. Instead, college students and tourists holding candles have the opportunity to enter here and view the skeletons buried here since the Quaternary Epoch.

Angel looked up and found black lines indicating the direction. This meant that the fourth floor was open to the public like the three upper floors, but the influence of the source material still existed. Even ordinary people would feel uncomfortable because of it and rarely came to this depth.

She looked around and was embarrassed to find that she didn't know which passage led to the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain". The signs only pointed to tombs with different names.

Fortunately, she was prepared when she heard the name "River of Eternal Darkness". She stretched out her hand and grabbed a handful of air, and took out the feather condensed by the Sequence 4 "Undead" characteristics and stained with Mr. Azik's blood from the mirror space, and let go of it and let it float in the air.

The feather did not fall straight down due to gravity, but floated slowly as if lifted by some force, and then flew in a certain direction until it was blocked by an ancient, mottled stone wall.

It was in that direction... This was just a seal of the "Death God" path, and it was attracted by the power of the Essence and floated away on its own. If a Sequence 4 "Undead" walked into the fourth floor, it would probably lose control and become a prisoner of the Essence power...

Angel watched the feather cling to the wall, then he took it off, found the "Secret Holy Emblem" and put it back on, and continued forward along the passage next to him. From time to time, he let the feather fly into the air again to indicate the direction, and relied on the faint induction of the holy emblem on his wrist to slowly approach the "Samaritan Woman Fountain".

The passages here were different from the three upper floors. There were no bones piled randomly on the roadside. It looked very neat. The entrances of the ancient tombs were also tightly closed, making the originally spacious and huge underground tombs look like a maze of narrow passages. As she twisted and turned, she did not meet any visitors holding candles. The passages were as silent as death, with only the sound of her footsteps and the friction of feathers against the stone walls.

Swish, Swish.

She held up a white candle that emitted a faint light and walked cautiously, trying to draw out something unusual.

Unfortunately, apart from the floating feathers, not even a zombie appeared.

This made Angel guess: all the ghosts and zombies in this level of the tomb have been attracted and swallowed by the "River of Eternal Darkness".

And I was heading in that direction... She stood silently for a moment, caught up with Deathwing who was floating faster and faster, and soon came to a tomb with half-collapsed walls.

As she expected, the passage here was littered with many shapeless, pale bones, as if the corpses had slowly crawled here and were unable to open the door of the tomb by their own strength, so they could only gather at the door until they turned into real dry bones.

And the "Wing of Death" was rubbing against the half-open stone door.

Looks like this is the place... Angel put away the feather, pushed open the shaky stone door, and walked into the huge tomb chamber.

There were several skeletons scattered around, and an upright coffin in the corner with the rotten coffin board casually placed aside. Inside the coffin stood an old man wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and yellow trousers. His face was deeply wrinkled and the exposed skin was covered with brown spots like corpse spots.

If his chest hadn't been still rising and falling slowly, Angel would have thought he had come across a body that had just been placed in a grave.

It was very much like the guard who was guarding the interior of the Chanis Gate in the Church of Saint Samuel, and had been eroded by the power of eternal sleep... I don't know if it was because of the power of "Deathwing" that he mistook me for a companion and did not wake up... Angel quickly determined the other party's condition and did not disturb the old man guarding here. Instead, he followed the direction of the scattered bones and came to a gentle downward slope.

The skeletons of various ages are more dense here, some are already mottled and weathered, some are still hanging with dry flesh. They all lie down or kneel down towards the depths of the gentle slope, as if they are worshipping something.

From that direction, an illusory crashing sound came.

The sound of water... Is it the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain"? Angel was not surprised, but became more alert.

She first chanted the honorific name of Klein the Fool, informed the "Spirit Bug" on duty above the gray fog of the situation here, and then prepared for battle before walking past the dead attracted by the source power and walking down the gentle slope.

The sound of water became clearer and clearer, and the kneeling skeletons became gradually complete, and even their shapes before birth could be seen. However, there were not only humans with two hands and two legs, but also monsters with bony wings on their backs, or two pairs of extra arms growing from their ribs, or a vertical gap between their eye sockets.

This is the incomplete mythical creature form of the three paths mastered by the "River of Everdarkness"... Angel pondered and became more and more uneasy.

It was not until the slope became flat that a huge underground cavity appeared in front of Angel.

In the pitch-black cave, besides more and denser bones, there was only a pond-sized spring in the center. The spring was surrounded by dark things like silt, and pale water was surging inside.

Inside the water flow, strands of black hair like water plants floated freely. Inside, there were shadows everywhere, and countless figures tried to climb out, but their movements were extremely slow.

At the edge of the spring, a white figure was wandering among the skeletons. She had black hair, dull eyes, and a beautiful but lifeless face. It was none other than Christena, whom Angel had just met.

He had returned here... No, that Christine just now said that her "fallen part" was lingering beside the Samaritan Woman's Fountain, could it be this one?

Angel's thoughts raced, but before he could make any move, that "Chrismena" suddenly turned her head and looked over here with pale blue eyes full of malice.

wow-

The pale water in the spring shrank back into the dark hole in the center, along with the black hair and the figure trying to climb out. Almost instantly, all that was left in the center of the cave was the sunken area washed by the water and the hole that looked like a black eye.

This...the Samaritan woman ran away?

Angel opened his mouth, unable to believe his eyes.

But the next second, spring water that was darker than before gushed out of the black hole, followed by strands of black hair that gushed out like twisted worms, followed by figures wandering at the bottom of the water, trying to climb out of the spring.

Angel saw a rotten corpse wearing a golden crown, a calm woman with pus flowing out of her body, and a skeleton with greasy feathers. They had ferocious expressions and stretched out their hands to grab Angel, but because they were submerged in the spring water, their movements were as slow as before.

But among these monsters, there was a figure surrounded by them, like an emperor. His face, which was chopped by knives and axes, was full of traces of decay, revealing the metallic bones underneath. He had long dark red hair draped behind him, and his eyes were iron-black with a hint of blood.

His body was ignited, covered, and burned by intense colorless flames. Yellow magma-like liquid kept dripping, and was extinguished by the surging spring water.

Angel recognized that figure; it was the historical projection that Antigonus had summoned.

He, no, He is the "Blood Emperor" Alistair Tudor!
(End of this chapter)