Cornflower Witch

Chapter 362 Bedside Narration
It was completely dark outside, and a light rain was falling. Inside the room, Luo Weier was holding her pale golden cat, talking to it softly while glancing out the window.

"Hedra hasn't come back yet." She was a little worried.

“Yes, if we haven’t seen him by 8 o’clock, we’ll go out and look for him.” Aurora sat at the table, flipping through a book.

After spending time together, Aurora felt that her roommate was not careless or prone to changing her mind at the last minute. If she came back late, something must have happened that delayed her, but she wasn't sure what it was.

This is the Asura District, the heart of the Mage Alliance. For the safety of the new students, the security has always been quite good. Nothing should happen, right? Thinking about this, she couldn't concentrate on her book anymore.

Aurora glanced at the clock hanging nearby. It was only 7:30. It seemed a bit of an overreaction to make such a fuss about searching for someone who was only an hour late. Besides, she wasn't very familiar with the area. If she really wanted to mobilize people, she would have to rely on her family's resources, and as for her family... Aurora didn't want to contact them right now.

As the clock ticked past 8 o'clock, the two stood up and prepared to change into clothes that would make it easier to go out. Considering that it might rain on the way, they would also need to find longer boots.

Just as the two were rummaging through their clothes, preparing to leave, there was finally a knock on the door.

After two quick knocks, the door opened with the sound of a key, and Hiltiya returned with a wet handbag and dripping wet hair. The lower half of her dress was stained with blood and water, and there were mud spots on her socks.

"Hedra, you're finally back." Lovir wanted to hug her, but she was frightened when she saw the blood on Sylvia's body.

"What happened?" Aurora walked over calmly, helped Sylvia put her things down, and then handed her a towel.

"Uh, I encountered some unexpected situations on the way." The girl wiped her face with a towel, then walked to the side, squatted down, found her slippers, and took off her soaking wet shoes and socks.

"Is it dangerous? Is Hedra injured?" Lover asked with concern and fear.

"It's all over now, and thankfully I wasn't hurt." Hearing that she was alright, the other two finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What happened?"

"That's a long story." The girl lightly touched her chin with her finger, thinking about how to describe and explain it.

"Can I take a shower first, and then I'll talk to you?"

"It's alright, it's alright, go take a shower, you'll get sick if you get wet," Luo Weier replied quickly.

Thank you~

Afterwards, Hilti took a change of clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower, while Aurora picked up the girl's discarded dress, examined it carefully, and even sniffed it gently.

Upon seeing this, Luo Wei'er's eyes widened, seemingly surprised by her roommate's behavior. Under her gaze, even the usually aloof Aurora had to offer a few words of explanation.

"I just wanted to check and understand."

"So, did you find anything?"

"The smell of rainwater has diluted the blood somewhat; Hedra may have washed it off briefly on the way."

"The fact that you can wash it off with water afterwards means it's not a big problem," Aurora analyzed simply and rationally.

Half an hour later, after taking a hot bath, Siltia reappeared in front of the two of them wearing a loose nightgown and a fluffy headscarf.

Afterwards, the three of them sat around on the bed, looking at Hilti, who was simply wrapped in a blanket, and listened to her talk about what had happened when she went shopping that afternoon.

"...There were no more public carriages at that time, so I had to walk back. It was drizzling, there weren't many people on the road, and it was quite dark." "So, unsurprisingly, I ran into robbers, though they weren't after me."

“At first they only wanted a few gold coins, but their appetite grew and they couldn’t stop,” Hiltiya recalled.

"How many of them are there? Are they powerful? How did Hedra escape?" Luo Wei'er couldn't contain her curiosity and was eager to know.

"There were four people in total, all orcs, very tall, and the leader was at the second rank." Hearing "second rank," Aurora felt something was wrong.

Most orcs choose to advance to the 'Beast Fang' and 'Blood Law' affinities, as these are the affinities they can most easily perceive and comprehend. At lower levels, these two affinities greatly enhance combat strength. Other affinities are often inferior to these two in the early stages of combat, unless they are the superior affinities 'Blazing Sun' and 'Dragon Eye'.

“I couldn’t run fast while carrying things, and my legs weren’t as long as theirs, so I had no choice but to fight,” Hiltia thought for a moment.

"I happened to be taking a course called 'Sobis Thread Manipulation' during this period, so I tried to improve some of the spells I had learned before and then used them in battle." She knows quite a few beginner and intermediate bird rune spells, which is traceable and will not cause any problems with her identity. In addition, the special courses taught at the school during this period did mention various uses of 'thread' spells.

"It was a very dangerous fight, and then we finally managed to take down the robbers." The girl omitted the details, because if you really wanted to describe it, it would have been a complete rout.

"Sigh, is it all resolved?" Luo Wei'er looked left and right, seemingly trying to find something different about Xilutiya.

"There are four of them, including one at level two." Luo Wei'er felt that they would need some kind of trump card, powerful item, or something else to have any chance of winning.

Fortunately, Aurora on the other side was more rational. After all, she was also a genius and could understand that a powerful person could easily fight against multiple opponents of the same level, and even if they were a level higher, it was still possible.

"May I see the spell Hedra used?"

"Of course." It's not exactly a secret, is it?

Hiltiya stretched out her hand from under the covers, and a few strands of silk appeared in her palm, outlining and then quickly weaving into a beautiful purple bird. Its tail trailed a thin silk thread as it twirled and flew around the room, the silk thread tracing a beautiful arc in the air.

"So beautiful!" Luo Weier clenched her hands. The kitten beneath her also looked at the flying bird with curiosity, climbed out of her body, and was eager to try. Unfortunately, it was not agile at all. It jumped a couple of times, waved its paws, and when it saw that it could not catch the bird, it went to the side and pretended to groom its fur.

A short while later, the purple birds disappeared, and the two roommates roughly understood the situation and asked how it was finally resolved.

"I took the defeated orc to the nearest police station and handed him over to them."

"Didn't the police ask you any questions?" Aurora asked, slightly surprised.

"I did think about it at the time, but I told them I was a freshman and my roommates would worry if I went back late. Also, I might catch a cold if I got caught in the rain."

"After thinking about it, they only asked me to leave my name and address before letting me go," Hiltiya said after recounting what had just happened.

"That's good." Aurora nodded, then took out some snacks from her cupboard and handed them to Sylvia.

"Hedera, have something to eat. You must be hungry by now."

[Blueberry Cream Cake] (Tier 1, Excellent); A premium dessert sold at 'Vanilla Hut', it restores stamina and spirit. (Stamina Recovery +1, Spirit Recovery +1, Deliciousness +1)

"Wow, I want to feed Hedra too!" Seeing this, Luo Weier remembered something and quickly brought out her treasured snacks and pastries, piling them up next to the girl.

"Okay, okay, thank you all, but I can't eat too much, it'll go bad if I leave it here." Amidst the laughter and comfort from the group, the night finally passed peacefully.

(End of this chapter)