Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1326: Breakthrough
At the geographical center of the southern continent, on the ridge that runs across the continent at the junction of the Star Plateau and the Harvest Plains, Angel's figure walked out of the mirror world.

On the top of a mountain a thousand meters high, the wind was blowing hard and the temperature dropped sharply, but her black dress was not affected by the environment at all. Instead, it clung to her body, outlining her beautiful figure that could make everything bow down to her.

Looking around, his sight lingered for a moment on the Fertile Plains with thick fog and the Star Plateau with large tracts of barren land. Angel took out a palm-sized brass compass from his arms and began to fiddle with it.

This is a Level 1 seal provided by the Church of Steam that is not recorded in the numbering system. Under normal circumstances, it can indicate the direction of the thing that the user desires most in his heart, and emit vibrations of varying frequencies depending on the distance to ensure that he can find the specific location of that thing.

However, during use, the Steam Church discovered a problem: the "most desired thing" that the person holding the seal insisted on might not be what he truly desired, and some experimenters were not even sure what they needed most, which led to them being misled by the compass and heading towards danger.

In addition, the negative effect of the brass compass will cause the user to unknowingly fall in love with someone they shouldn't love, and have the urge to release their inner desires on the person. Even a saint would find it difficult to persist for too long.

Angel suspected that this sealed object was a relic left by a saint who was contaminated and died out of control. However, given that the internal information of the Steam Church was not detailed, the source of the contamination was most likely an alien god, such as the "Mother Tree of Desire".

Of course, all this has nothing to do with her. The only purpose of the compass in her hand today is to track the information hidden in the body of the "evil god" Su'a and lock His location.

This can only have a short-term effect, and then the "divine evil" who is proficient in curses and anti-divination will clear this information from the body, immediately move to another location, and continue to hide with the believers of the "Original Moon" under the protection of the old days such as the Mother Tree of Desire.

A short time is enough...

Angel played with the brass compass in his hand, which was covered with tiny scratches and faint green rust on the surface, waiting for the signal to start the action.

All the saints and angels of her "Witch Church" took action, carrying the seals they owned or temporarily allocated to garrison in major cities on the southern continent and the Rorsted Islands, protecting believers in places with witch and fool churches to prevent the evil god cultists from jumping over the wall and making a desperate attempt to deal a major blow to her and Klein's anchor of faith.

The last time they raided Utopia and solved the problem of the Hidden Sage, these Old Ones drove the cultists who believed in these great beings to attack many cities, especially Intis and Loen, who believed in the "God of Steam", as well as some churches of the "Fools".

This siege of the "Original Moon" believers can almost be regarded as the "last battle" within the barrier. After that, no matter whether Angel can become a god or not, and who wins or loses between Klein and Amon, the Earth, which once again possesses multiple gods, will reinforce the barrier to prevent the power of the Old Ones from infiltrating. It will be difficult for their angel-level combat power to appear on Earth again.

Therefore, the "Mother Tree of Desire" and other Outer Gods will definitely protect the "Bound Gods" Tolzna and Sua at all costs, or at least use this opportunity to severely damage the inside of the barrier and prompt the end of the world to come early. Otherwise, their originally "sure victory" situation will tilt to the other side because of the birth of the real Old Ones inside the barrier.

As for the Northern Continent, all the gods will protect their believers. Who told you not to support Klein and me in building a church? Until now, the Witch Church only has the Saint Triss Church in Backlund, which was funded and allocated land by the royal family... Sigh, I hope that the attacks by countless evil god believers in various places will cause fewer casualties... Angel muttered in his heart.

She thought again of the "Shadow Tree" that Gray had mentioned before. This tree had been planted on the ruins of Trier in the late Fourth Age, when the new Trier had not yet been built, right next to the seal built jointly by the Eternal Sun and the God of Steam.

And because they were in a hurry to build a city and consolidate the underground seal, and they had to go to the star world as soon as possible to maintain the barrier that had become fragile after the War of the Four Emperors and the Pale Disaster, even the two gods did not notice this sacred tree which was just a sapling at the time and had no abnormal aura at all.

In the following thousand years, nourished by the indulgence, desire and songs of the city above, the "Tree of Shadow" had long since merged with the entire Trier, just like the original body and the man in the mirror that were completely connected. Unless the metropolis was destroyed and all its residents were killed, even if the true God came, he would not be able to truly destroy the towering tree.

Of course, according to the Eternal Sun Church's speculation, there is another way. All they have to do is move the capital of the Republic of Intis and relocate Trier and its millions of residents to other locations. This will cause the Shadow Tree below to lose nutrients and gradually wither. In this way, after a few decades, the sacred tree can be safely eradicated without threatening the corresponding millions of people.

But even the end of the world is only 16 years away, and it may even come earlier under the attack of the Old Ones. There is no time to eliminate the "Shadow Tree", and this giant tree may mature at any time, using the Trill people as nutrients to grow into the astral world and disintegrate the barrier from the inside, or its roots may break through the seal of the Quaternary Trill and release the source pollution inside. It itself can also be used as a sacrifice to achieve something that some angels cannot do...

It can only be weakened so that the believers of the "Mother Tree of Desire" cannot use its power... This is the task of the Eternal Sun Church, which is good at purifying everything with sunlight and fire. They are the only orthodox church that has not sent angels to the southern continent... Everything is going according to plan... Angel gathered his thoughts and stopped thinking about things unrelated to this battle. Instead, he emptied his mind and waited in the cold wind.

Suddenly, endless gray mist appeared before her eyes, and Klein's steady voice came:
"It's time to start."

Snap, Angel clenched the seal in his hand. The surface of the old-fashioned compass had twelve complex symbols representing both time and direction, and in the center was a twisted pointer that looked like it had grown from a tree branch.

Under Angel's spiritual touch, it quickly pointed to one location, then another, and turned back and forth as if misled by some force, without stopping. What I desire is not in the real world now... Angel chuckled, and a piece of information representing the location coordinates appeared in his mind.

That is the real purpose of a compass!
Following this information, she immediately disappeared into the mirror world and quickly shuttled through the deep and dim passage. In an instant, she came to a place with glass-like cracks all around, as if the space was about to collapse completely.

There was a loud sound of a mirror shattering, and Angel stepped back into reality, arriving in a dark forest where no sunlight could reach.

Although it is called a forest, all the trees within sight have completely withered, and the dry branches are twisted and pointing towards the sky like praying hands. The air is filled with a stench of blood and decaying flesh, so strong that it is almost tangible. The sky is covered with dark red clouds, blocking out the sunlight and the prying eyes from the spiritual and astral worlds. Only the blood-red moonlight can illuminate this land.

If one did not have the specific coordinates and entered this place through the mirror world, even if an angel flew over this forest, it would be impossible to detect any abnormalities inside.

This is not only the help provided by the Old One, the "Mother Tree of Desire". After all, He is still outside the barrier and cannot penetrate too much power into reality. However, "The Bound God" Tolzna can rely on his own unique authority as the "Bound One" to seal and isolate this area to prevent it from being discovered and invaded.

Only in this way, the believers of the "Rose School" and "Original Moon", who are able to take the initiative and not have their base camp wiped out, can fight against the Seven Gods for many years without being completely eliminated.

Of course, due to the contribution of the "evil god" Suea, this line of defense has now been torn apart.

Following the source of the power that protected this land, Angel looked up into the sky. A huge figure was in the dark clouds, shrouded by the red moon, and was wriggling in pain.

It was a mummy pierced by countless huge brown branches, with its body wrapped in yellow bandages. Between the bandages and the branches were a large number of thorns and thorny roses, which were constantly reborn and withered.

That was the "bound god" Tolzna, whose true appearance Angel had seen on the battlefield.

His abdomen sometimes bulges and sometimes shrivels, with face- or hand-shaped protrusions on the surface, as if a monster is being gestated, constantly churning, but for some reason it cannot be truly born.

But the power of the curse that seemed to be tangible and blocked the entire area remained undiminished, still demonstrating the power of the Angel King.

At His feet, there were countless creatures that looked like human beings but were deformed beyond recognition. They had suffered a fatal curse simply because they were close to the King of Angels. Their facial features were dislocated, pus was oozing from their bodies, and they had even turned into shapes of pigs, sheep, rabbits, etc. However, they still knelt down to Tolzner and kept praying.

It is impossible to tell how many of them actively believe in the "Bound God" and how many are ordinary people who were captured.

In the center of them, the figure of the "evil god" Sueana, like a twisted giant tree watered with oil, was dancing with arms that were much shorter than before, directing the believers to perform a sacrifice.

Sua, who already knew that this place was exposed due to his negligence, wanted to take advantage of the gap when many angels of the Orthodox Church had not yet gathered to attack and quickly move his position away from here.

His spirit suddenly felt a warning, and the countless bloodshot black and white eyeballs on his body and arms turned and looked somewhere in the forest.

There stood a terrifying witch whom He had attacked repeatedly but without success.

"..."

He screamed silently, praying to the Bound God, issuing orders to his deformed followers, and directing all curses at Angel.

But the next second, his figure disappeared out of thin air and was transferred by Angel to the mirror world.

(End of this chapter)