Millennium Witch.

Chapter 47 - The Beginning of the Journey
Rosalyn left behind many letters, but on a time scale, the intervals that follow always become longer and longer.

In her unchanging life, Yvette's life became increasingly monotonous and dull.

She regularly goes out to sea to hunt, devouring aberrant creatures at stage two or higher. She often stays home reading, both professional books and all sorts of other books. She's addicted to sleeping on rainy days, finding it helps her forget all her troubles. Occasionally, she'll go to the area under an overpass to check on the few pheasants her students are so fond of.

In this daily, year-after-year life, only when a crucial year arrives and she can open the next letter can a slight emotional fluctuation appear in her usually calm eyes.

But during this long wait, a somewhat sad answer seemed to be forming in her heart.

……

One hundred years, and another hundred years.

There were no aurora borealis, and no familiar sound either.

Until one sunny morning after the rain, after reading the letter that represented the 200th year and was also the last, Yvette turned her head and stared out the window for a long time before finally picking up paper and pen and deciding to start writing a letter.

This is a letter to students, and also a message before a long journey.

She thought that if Rosalind was still alive and had indeed returned to the Land of the End, she was more likely to appear on one of the three main continents of this world than on Ish Island, due to the uncertainty of where the Abyss would land.

Therefore, compared to waiting, taking a long trip to travel around the three continents and see the sights will actually greatly increase the probability of meeting the students again.

Of course, she knew this was just wishful thinking.

According to research by Black Tower Medicine, magical cultivation has very little impact on lifespan and is limited by life form. Under the condition that genes remain unchanged, living to 180 years old is the limit. Considering Black Tower Medicine's leading edge in life extension technology, these statements should be considered quite authoritative.

But the Radiant Continent is, after all, a world of medium or high magic, a world where true gods exist.

Who knows what happens in another world?
She would keep hoping until she saw Rosalyn's tombstone with her own eyes.

That's why she's writing this letter here, lest her students suddenly return after she's gone on her journey and find their teacher gone.

In her letters, she would tell her students about her travel route, which cities she would visit and leave messages at historical sites along the way. If they saw the messages, they could go to the final destination and travel in reverse so that they could meet sooner.

……

Leave a note.

Seal off the doors and windows.

Put all the important things in the basement.

After completing all preparations, Yvette, dressed in a black dress and carrying an alloy battle blade on her back, sat in the driver's seat of the magic motorcycle, ready to begin her first post-apocalyptic world tour.

Compared to the scrap metal she used two hundred years ago, the silver-white magical vehicle she is currently using has a more mechanical aesthetic and is much larger, practically a motorhome.

This was, of course, the result of modifications. After all, she was about to embark on a life of wandering the world, and she needed a place to shelter from the wind and rain. Otherwise, sleeping in the wild would not only be unsafe, but would also easily get her clothes dirty or attract insects.

Of course, she could go without sleep altogether, but she would get very sleepy. She has a high tolerance for hunger, but it's a different story when it comes to being sleepy; given the opportunity, she really enjoys sleeping.

……

Half an hour later, driving a large magical motorcycle the size of a truck, Yvette watched as everything outside the window was gradually swallowed up by the boundless blue sea.

Ish Island receded into the distance, becoming a tiny dot, while on the distant sea, waves rolled wildly in the sunlight, resembling a school of golden fish.

This ocean is called "Yuanliu Sea," and it is the ocean west of Kuroshio Island.

If you look at a square map, the distribution of the three continents of the Origin Civilization actually looks like a straight line diagonally from the upper left corner to the lower right corner.

That is, Black Tide Island is in the upper left corner, Emerald Island is in the middle, and Silver Mirror Island is in the lower right corner.

In this way, travel planning will be much easier, since you can just go diagonally downwards.

Soon, after leaving the waters surrounding Ish Island, underwater monsters began to emerge intermittently, attacking passing RVs, only to be pierced through their bodies by the silvery hair, turning into fleeting, desiccated corpses. This was another major reason why Yvette chose to embark on her journey—she had already collected all the high-level aberrations in the waters surrounding Ish Island.

Although she wouldn't target the first-stage aberrations because it wouldn't be worth the risk, the magical boost provided by the second-stage aberrations was better than nothing.

Therefore, she was looking forward to encountering more third-order aberration variants on this long journey, as only at this stage could she gain significant benefits.

However, the total amount of aberration magic is still difficult to calculate. If we take the first stage of aberration as the unit, then her current aberration magic is about 4 points - while her current magic value is only over 2000.

However, this comparison is definitely problematic. Aberration magic diminishes with each use, while magic power can be quickly restored through meditation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, as long as conditions permit, she will first use magic to cripple her prey before devouring it with her tentacles, which can save a lot of expenditure on aberrant magic.

……

The days adrift at sea lasted for about a week.

In fact, given the speed of a motorhome's flight, two to three days would definitely be enough to reach the west coast of Kuroshio Island.

Unfortunately, she encountered a monster battle halfway there, forcing her to take a huge detour.

One of the sides in the monster battle is the "Metal Seadramon" that Yvette once witnessed.

On the other side was a massive, purplish-red jellyfish, as large as a mountain range, its umbrella-shaped body covered with the outlines of agonizing human faces. It primarily attacked with its tentacles and was named "Nightmare Trap" by Yvette.

While observing from a distance, Yvette had speculated that these two giant aberrations might simply be large in size, and not actually highly evolved.

But when she saw them fight and start using all sorts of mysterious, unfathomable spells to counter each other's energy, Yvette became certain that these two giant mutants must have a very high level of evolution, at least higher than stage three.

She even suspected that the pulse beams spewed from the mouth of the Steel Seadramon could shatter a mountain.

In short, it was far beyond her current ability to stage an accident, so she simply chose to take a detour. It wasn't until a week later, after endlessly getting lost, that she finally found the west coast of Kuroshio Island and landed with great difficulty.

……

On the first day of arrival, it was already close to dusk.

Yvette parked her RV on the beach and slept there for the night. The next morning, she set off for the nearest metropolis belonging to the United States of New Eden, guided by a pre-apocalyptic map she had on hand.

The target city is called "Agasha". Before the apocalypse, it was a metropolis that was in no way inferior to Ish City. Its level of development was among the best in the entire New Eden United States.

She planned to stroll around the city, enjoy the scenery, collect some junk, and leave a trace in the city center.

Because flight mode consumes five to six times more energy than regular mode, in order to save energy and to give a better travel experience, she uses four wheels to run on the ground while moving forward, kicking up clouds of dust and flying stones wherever she goes.

Several hours later, as the number of ruined buildings ahead gradually increased and she was getting closer to the city ruins, she suddenly saw a figure emerge from a ruined building and stand on the abandoned highway in the distance, waiting for her to drive closer.

Yvette paused for a moment. Although she had imagined whether she could encounter other living people on the continent, whether they were survivors or transmigrators, she didn't care.

But to run into him on the second day after arriving is a bit too fast.

Then, through the glass, she could see what the other person looked like.

At first glance, she appears to be a human girl dressed in adventure gear, carrying a flashlight, and exuding an adventurous vibe. However, upon closer inspection, one can discover subtle differences between her eyes and those of a human, noticeable circular seams at key points on her arms, and a luster that does not quite resemble human skin.

—This is actually a mechanical puppet.

"Hello, kind lady."

After Yvette stopped the car, the magical girl said in a tone that was neither emotional nor polite, "I am a traveler from Silver Mirror Continent. My car has run out of power and cannot start. Could you please give me a ride to the nearest sanctuary?"

(End of this chapter)