Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1205: Behind the Gift

As the female corpse's pale hand with abnormally long nails pressed on the edge of the coffin, the air around Angel instantly became dry, and then the temperature rose sharply, as if it was being scorched by the scorching sun.

Outside this secret treasure house, the seawater around the Blue Avenger began to steam, and the hot and dry air enveloped the entire Bayam, waking the sleeping residents from their dreams, feeling their skin tighten and their lips dry.

Some kind of incomplete "disaster"? Not as violent as a meteorite or an earthquake, but more widespread, and if it continues it could also cause a large number of casualties... Angel, who was sensing the outside world through the mirror world, frowned, his eyes fixed on the female corpse who was slowly sitting up with the help of the coffin.

Although she did not sense the characteristics of a high-ranking witch, she felt a sense of familiarity with this power.

That is a “gift.”

Was she blessed with the power of the "disaster" witch before she died? Perhaps there was a sequence in the path of the god of death that could resurrect her from death... Angel approached the coffin while analyzing it in his mind.

Then, she jumped up onto the coffin, grasped the head of the female corpse that was about to sit up, and pressed it back into the coffin, lying down again among the red satin.

At the same time, she fought "disaster" with "disaster", quickly calming the intensifying drought and high temperatures outside the "Blue Avenger".

"Can a living person be suppressed by a dead person?" She chuckled, sensing the temperature of the sea and the city quickly returning to normal. The cracked deck of the ghost ship also began to repair itself. Then she looked at the beautiful female corpse again and unexpectedly discovered that she still had the strength to struggle and seemed to want to climb out of the coffin.

The power of the "undead"?

Angel seemed to realize something, and took out the "Wing of Death" stained with Mr. Azik's blood, and put the white feather on the pale forehead of the female corpse.

In an instant, the female corpse lost all her strength and fell back into the coffin, no longer moving. The crown that was dotted with gems and pearls and looked like a flying bird spread its wings tilted to one side, revealing her long light yellow hair tied into a bun.

Only then did Angel have time to carefully examine the appearance and dress of the female corpse.

This hairstyle, the bright red dress, and the golden crown seem to be the traditions of the country Klein traveled to before. Hmm, the coffin is also a bit similar... Could she be from the "Western Continent"? But her hair color and facial features clearly lean towards the Northern Continent...

She glanced through the coffin and found no more meaningful items, so she simply took back Deathwing and closed the coffin lid again to prevent him from jumping out again and bringing disaster to the surrounding city.

From beginning to end, I did not sense the aggregation of Beyonder characteristics. It seems that the "Gift" I guessed just now should be accurate. This corpse has the Gift of Witch Path Sequence 2 "Disaster" and the Gift of Death Path Sequence 4 "Undead". The former gives her the ability to create disasters such as droughts around her, and the latter prevents her from truly dying. Instead, she repeats the cycle of death, resurrection, and death again in the coffin, just like Mr. Azik...

Angel walked around the coffin several times, guessing the condition of the female corpse.

Based on the gifts of these two paths, she almost immediately thought of the cooperation between the "Original Witch" and the "God of Death", but the timing did not match. The "Blue Avenger" and the treasure house inside were built during the Tudor Empire, and Chick and Salinger began to cooperate because of the fall of Tudor, with a difference of at least a hundred years.

"Unless the 'Original Witch' can freely enter and exit this space and has been working for Tudor's resurrection... this possibility cannot be ruled out, but based on the human skin, candles, and other arrangements found previously, it is more likely that this coffin was placed by Tudor himself.

"But there is another problem. Even for true gods, the time and level of 'gifts' are limited. Maintaining angel-level gifts for a long time will greatly weaken them. Otherwise, every true god can rely on gifts to form an angel army...

“Perhaps only the ‘Old Ones’ level can allow the gift of Sequence 2 to last for a thousand years, and Essence can also… That’s right, Essence!”

Angel's mumbling suddenly stopped, and a flash of lightning flashed through his mind.

"City of Disaster" and "River of Everlasting Darkness"!
Although the "Blood Emperor" Tudor cannot provide the gift of the Witch's Path, and the "Original Witch" cannot allow a corpse to have angel-level power for a long time, the "City of Disaster" can.

And if Tudor really used the special nature of the "Red Priest" to communicate with the source of the Western Continent before the War of the Four Emperors and mobilized other source powers outside the City of Disaster, it is entirely possible that he could bestow the "undead" power of the path of death on this corpse through the "River of Eternal Darkness".

After his thoughts were opened, Angel quickly found more evidence.

From Glade Soren, she learned that Adam had gathered many angels to observe the second "blasphemous slate" at the turn of the third and fourth eras in order to push the world situation in the direction he wanted. He even worked with Amon to help Alistair Tudor, who was Sequence 1 "Prince of Order Killing", to jump to Sequence 0 "Red Priest" and become a true god.

However, Medici mentioned that Adam promoted the outbreak of the "War of the Four Emperors" in the late Quaternary Period, forcing the "Blood Emperor" Tudor, who was at a disadvantage, to mobilize various source forces in an attempt to bury the gods, which eventually led to his own fall.

During this period, Adam's attitude towards Tudor changed drastically, most likely because this "Red Priest" tried to communicate with the source sealed in the Western Continent, posing a threat to Adam behind the scenes.

This also coincides with Christmena's memories that her parents became radical and extreme during that time, and were plotting a "great terror" that the angel kings of the Tudor Empire had no way of knowing about.

“So, after observing the blasphemous slate, Tudor knew that as long as the ‘Witch’ and the ‘Red Priest’ mastered the City of Disaster, they would have a chance to become the Old Ones… and Amon’s brother knew for sure that the five paths of the ‘City of Disaster’ and the ‘River of Everlasting Darkness’ could be interchanged, which meant that the two sources had a close connection that was different from other sources… “According to the timeline, Tudor first became the ‘Red Priest’, and then gave birth to a child with the ‘Original Witch’, and cooperated with her to study the power of the ‘Source’ in a special mirror world… He used the special nature of the Red Priest to contact the ‘City of Disaster’ sealed in the Western Continent, and even attracted the power of the ‘River of Everlasting Darkness’, and explored whether the two non-adjacent paths could be merged through this female corpse…

"That being discovered this, and for some reason secretly promoted the war between the Four Emperors, preventing Tudor and Chike from conducting research, forcing them to fight hastily. In the end, one of them died, and the other fled to the northern continent to cooperate with the God of Death..."

Feeling that his thoughts were much clearer, Angel nodded with satisfaction.

She still had many doubts in her mind, such as why the female corpse was wearing clothes in the style of the "Western Continent", as if she was performing a ritual; and how Tudor communicated with the sealed "City of Disaster" without offering a sacrifice of God War...

"Maybe that corpse oil candle is one of the results of his research..." Angel muttered, waved his hand, put the entire coffin into the mirror space, and prepared to take it out for further study.

At the very least, the power of the "Disaster" witch cannot be left in this ghost ship, otherwise, if we are not careful, Bayam will become the new Bansi Port.

After doing all this, she returned to the translucent corridor surrounded by the star-lit gates. The quaint silver full-length mirror still stood quietly at the end of the corridor, firmly sealed by the power of the underworld man in the "Secret Holy Emblem".

After rearranging the mirror maze, Angel used invisible silk thread to remove the holy emblem. The force that smashed the mirror from the inside, causing the mirror to clang, reappeared, even crazier and more anxious than before.

Angel could not be put into the mirror's phantoms that reflected the surrounding environment layer by layer. She saw a huge city and an ancient well that swallowed countless iron chains.

…saw a giant dragon as big as the city, hovering inside the city’s shadow.

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"...In my experience, if the crew is away from land for more than half a month, their spirits will be affected to a certain extent. If they are away from land for more than two months, they will ignore the laws and decrees on land. Once they sail on the sea for more than three months, even if the captain has extraordinary power, he will not be able to suppress their madness...As a leader, in addition to caring about the food reserves on the ship, you must also pay attention to the mental state of the crew."

In the lecture hall of the "Church of the Waves", Cardinal Alger Wilson was talking to several pirate captains, first mates and boatswains who belonged to the Church of the Storm.

These pirates, dressed casually and roughly, were actually believers of Storm, receiving salaries from the church and having received a lot of help. Although they were full of doubts about the bishop summoning them to the church for "class" so late at night, they did not dare to complain.

Only Alger himself knew that he could no longer hold on to this impromptu speech.

If I continue, I can only introduce them to the locations and prices of brothels on the surrounding islands... Alger frowned slightly and was suddenly surrounded by the emerging gray fog. The soft voice of the "Queen" also came to his ears.

"Tonight's class ends here. Don't leave Bayam for the time being. The church may take action."

He immediately announced the order to disband, and at the same time found a suitable reason for gathering these pirates today with vague words.

Alger heaved a sigh of relief only after the audience left the room and walked towards the dock with the sailors who stayed nearby.

He had just learned that Miss Queen's operation had been successful, and that the ghost ship did possess a treasure trove of the Tudor Empire. Unfortunately, apart from the characteristics and seals related to "Hunter" and "Witch", there were not many valuable items.

Therefore, as compensation, the Queen will give him a copy of the characteristics of the "Witch" pathway sequence 4 and the corresponding potion formula.

In addition, a method on how to complete the promotion ceremony by "using quality over quantity" is also provided free of charge.

The characteristics of a witch... I actually want the characteristics of a hunter more... Thinking of the various magical abilities of the "Iron-Blooded Knights" of Feysac and Intis during the war, Alger was a little disappointed.

"If I had discovered the treasure house of the Blue Avenger earlier, all of this might have belonged to me... But I don't have a way to open it. Even if I told the church, they would take the ship away, and it would not be my turn to explore..."

He muttered to himself, realizing that letting Miss Queen explore and collecting the entrance fees himself was the best option.

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In the mirror world, Angel spiraled downward into a black and red passage covered with thick gray fog, and came to the mirror image of the "City of Disaster" surrounded by volcanoes and broken earth.

Her "person in the mirror" was standing on the lonely street, studying with interest the coffin she had sent into the mirror world.

(End of this chapter)