It felt so good to be close to the witch!

"Please look." Without saying much, Lilia raised her hand, and shadow magic flowed in mid-air, creating a black and white projection.

Everyone looked over.

Although the black and white color scheme makes the image less vivid, it is still enough for Roy and the others to see the specific situation clearly.

The magnificent metal pillars, hundreds of meters high; the black crosses driven into the ground; and the witches on the crosses, all on the verge of death…

This ignited a fire of anger in everyone's hearts.

Roy took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his anger. He looked at the border duke, ready to hear if the duke had any other discoveries, but the scene that came into view made Roy slightly stunned.

The border duke stared blankly at the black and white projection in front of him, his gaze fixed on a certain black cross.

The black cross was in a special position, located closest to the array of twelve metal pillars. It was also several times larger than the other crosses. There were four similar black crosses in total, and three of them were adorned with witches.

"Your Majesty the Duke..."

Roy called out, but the border duke seemed lost in thought and did not react at all. Seeing this, Roy turned his gaze to Fuma beside him and found that her expression was also a little strange - it seemed to be sadness and anger, and also joy, the complexity of which was hard to describe.

Seeing the father and daughter's reaction, Roy had a bad feeling.

Three seconds later, the words of the border duke, whose expression returned to normal but whose eyes still betrayed sadness, confirmed Roy's suspicions.

“She is Mayna… Fuma’s mother, my wife.”

"The temple...you deserve to die!"

These words were spoken in a cold, flat tone, yet the intense emotional fluctuations caused a trace of the border duke's demigod aura to involuntarily leak out. In an instant, all living beings within a thousand meters felt as if the sky were falling and the earth was collapsing, and immense terror surged from their hearts. Fortunately, this feeling was only fleeting; otherwise, countless people's spirits would have collapsed under such terrifying pressure.

"call……"

Roy let out a soft breath. His strength had greatly increased after absorbing the blood essence of the four Divine Punishment Seats. He didn't feel much when facing this leaked demigod pressure, since the amount was too small. On the contrary, Fuma, Ais and others were quite frightened.

"Feel sorry……"

The border duke took in everyone's reactions and bowed slightly to express his apology.

“Mother…” Fuma pursed her lips, her teeth clenched tightly. This was the first time she had seen her mother’s true face—for more than ten years since she was born, her mother’s image had always been a cold, lifeless photograph.

I never expected that our first one-sided meeting would turn out like this.

Depressing, dull...

After a long silence, the border duke finally spoke again: "I can't see the function of this formation, but I can see that the giant magic vein deep in this place, the nearly one thousand witches, and even more things not shown in the picture... are all conditions for activating this terrifying twelve-pillar formation."

"I need to go to the capital again."

His calm voice carried an undeniable firmness.

Roy frowned slightly: "Your Grace, but are you confident that you can break through the layers of defenses and get deep into the Archbishop's territory?"

"Whether we are confident or not, there are some things that must be done." The border duke shook his head: "Of course, some preliminary preparations still need to be made."

"Latie, could you take me to Witch Island? I want to speak with the old guild master in person."

The border duke's gaze fell on the silent Space Witch, Latie.

“…Okay.” Latie nodded almost without hesitation.

The border duke had his reasons for going, and so did she.

Mayna is the second disciple of the old president of the Witch Guild and also her senior sister. There are so many innocent and tragic little witches. As the vice president of the Witch Guild, how could Latie bear to stand idly by after knowing all this?

Moreover, the temple has set up such a grand operation deep within the Confucian Cathedral; if it were allowed to complete, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Now, the border duke alone is far from enough to breach the Privy Cathedral and rescue these witches.

The battle a while ago is irrefutable proof.

While no single individual at the Privy Cathedral possesses greater combat strength than the Border Duke, they outnumber him and possess numerous A-grade forbidden items. Even for a demigod-level Border Duke, another trip there would likely be disastrous.

The people in the temple aren't stupid.

Latiyi made two moves: once rescuing a border duke and once escaping from outside the capital. If the people of the temple still couldn't guess that it was spatial ability, then they might as well commit suicide. Not to mention that the temple had known about Latiyi's spatial ability for a long time. However, Latiyi's spatial ability had always been so limited that she could barely participate in the legendary ultimate battle, which is why the temple was not on guard against her at first.

But now that we're prepared, it won't be so easy to escape using spatial abilities anymore.

With the temple's centuries-old heritage, who knows if they possess any A-level forbidden artifacts capable of imprisoning space?

Therefore, to save lives, one must possess absolute strength.

The former president of the Witch's Guild is of utmost importance.

“I’ll come along to Witch Island too,” Roy said, standing up just as Latie and the Border Duke were about to set off.

“Okay.” Latie nodded. Although she didn’t know what Roy wanted to do on Witch Island, she figured she was taking him with her whether he was alone or with two people. It would just be a little more tiring, so she didn’t care.

After all, Roy's trip to Witch Island would only bring benefits, not harm, to the witches of the Witch Guild.

Latie had always wanted to invite Roy to Witch Island to help the witches who were suffering from pollution and persecution, but for various reasons, she never dared to ask. Now that Roy had offered to go, that was perfect.

"Let's not delay, let's go now." Roy nodded and looked at Ais and the others: "You wait for us here."

Under the watchful eyes of the witches, Roy and his two companions were enveloped in a dazzling silver light, which merged into the ripples of space.

As the light faded, the three figures completely disappeared from the spot.

Inside the courtyard, the witches exchanged glances and quickly began to meditate.

As for Fuma, she sat silently in her seat, seemingly lost in thought.

……

This wasn't Roy's first time using spatial teleportation, but this was the first time he had ever teleported over such a long distance.

Compared to each other, the former is like a car traveling on an asphalt highway, while the latter is like an off-road vehicle struggling to move forward on a rugged mountain road, and even more so, the kind that accidentally falls off the mountain.

That taste, that tangy flavor, left an incredibly deep impression on Roy, who was experiencing it for the first time.

I do not know how long it has been.

When the silver light disappeared and his vision returned to normal, Roy opened his eyes and looked around.

This is a cliff on the edge of a mountain, with huge, surging waves behind it. Looking into the distance, you can see endless gray mist covering the sky and the earth, without a single gap.

Roy shifted his gaze slightly and saw a strange and magnificent sight.

Beyond the cliff lies a sunken basin, and in the center of the basin rises a mountain peak.

The strange yet familiar scene caused Roy's eyes to momentarily daze.

It felt unfamiliar because it was his first time here, yet familiar because he had seen this scene before in fragments of the Moon Witch Cecilia's memories.

A century has passed, things have changed, but Witch Island is still Witch Island, only now it bears the marks of time.

The overlap between memory and reality gave Roy the illusion of waking up from a dream.

He lowered his head, took out the dark blue doll from his inner sleeve, and placed it in his outer pocket so that its little head could clearly see everything outside.

"We're home, Sesil..."

Thinking this to himself, Roy then looked at Latie and the Border Duke beside him. Seeing their slightly puzzled looks, he smiled and said, "It's alright, let's go."

The two, anxious and without much thought, followed Latie's lead and the three of them flew quickly toward the mountain peak in the center of the island.

Thanks to Latie's guidance, no witches appeared to obstruct their path. Roy could sense the magical fluctuations of witches emanating from the caves at various heights of the mountain.

Based on a rough assessment, there are at least a dozen witches at the Grand rank!

This made Roy sigh with admiration.

In Cecil's memory, a hundred years ago, the number of Grand Witches in the Witch Guild was pitifully small. Thanks to the "Puppet System," the number of Grand Witches in the Witch Guild has increased considerably.

It wasn't until the three of them landed on the platform at the very top of the mountain that any obstacles appeared.

At the summit of the mountain, there are no magnificent buildings, only a few simple wooden houses and some centuries-old trees that require several people to encircle.

What blocked the three people's progress was a large, jewel-like serpent with a completely blue body.

It was as thick as an adult's waist and nearly twenty meters long. Coiled around an ancient tree, it descended to the ground, its head raised, its bright red tongue flicking in and out. Then, a slightly strange female voice emanated from the giant green snake's mouth:

"Vice President Latie, who are these two?"

If Lati had come alone, the giant green snake wouldn't have stopped her, but now that a stranger and a half have appeared, it has no choice but to come out.

The reason it's described as one and a half is that although it was the first time it had met the Border Duke, it had seen his image more than once over the years and could barely be considered someone it knew. As for the other young man with black hair and brown eyes, he was a complete stranger.

"Daqing, inform the teacher that I have something very, very important to tell her."

"Also accompanying them were the Border Duke and Freya's child, Roy Tulumber."

The large green snake shook its head, and the word "Freya" made its snake pupils shrink to almost a slit: "Please wait a moment."

No one knows what method the giant green snake used, but a second later, the wooden door of the tightly closed wooden house in the middle was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

A captivating figure appeared before the three of them in an instant.

She looked to be only in her early twenties, with skin as smooth as jade, but her long, snow-white hair and the unintentional hint of vicissitude in her eyes indicated that she was much older than she appeared.

"Freya's child..."

The woman's voice was magnetic, and her eyes, filled with dark lines, fell on Roy. But before she could take a closer look, as if drawn by some unseen force, her gaze fell on the dark blue doll in Roy's front pocket.

"Sai, Xi, Er?"

The calm sound, like the surface of a lake where a boulder has fallen, created ripples of unprecedented intensity.

Looking at the woman in front of him, Roy's eyes were also somewhat dazed.

He had seen her.

To be precise, I saw it in Cecil's memory fragments.

Even though her hair color had changed, the woman's face remained the same as before, without any alteration.

At this moment, time seemed to overlap.

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Chapter 197 The "Gift" from the Great Witch of Nature, Finage (Please Subscribe)

If we were to name the most memorable figures in the memories of the Moonlight Great Witch Cecilia, besides her family, it would be her mentor on Witch Island, the former president of the Witch Guild, and the mysterious witch who rode a giant eagle on a cliff overlooking the sea, leading Cecilia to Witch Island and possessing the ability to help animals grow and evolve.