Witch Redemption

Right now, it's raining heavily with snow outside, and the temperature is terribly cold.

A blonde woman with fairy-like features was building a campfire to keep warm in this place that was temporarily sheltering her from the wind and rain.

His real name is "Matilda vonse", and he is one of the foreign witches jointly wanted by the Elf Kingdom and the Naga Kingdom in the western continent. Although he disappeared with his accomplices for a long time, he has actually been lurking in the deepest part of this monster area, intending to spend the winter when the weather is extremely harsh.

“This place is well hidden. We’ve been hiding for so long, so there shouldn’t be any accidents. Sherry is in a bad condition right now. Just to be on the safe side, I couldn’t take her with me yesterday. I had to go into Southern Rain City alone to buy supplies. Without her, I don’t know if we’ll be exposed. Now I can only pray that everything goes well.”

The completely mutated Peggy lost her mind a long time ago and can only respond to his simple commands like a walking corpse.

Shirley Nancy, whose only hands have been mutated, has also been acting strangely for the past month. She is often in a daze and has even lost the ability to speak.

Matilda just felt very lonely, helpless, and desperate.

Over the years, he had watched helplessly as his two accomplices succumbed to depravity, gradually losing themselves in this insane power, and he was powerless to stop them. Even though he was an old man with rich life experience before his transmigration, having endured half a lifetime of hardship, he still found it difficult to bear the immense pressure brought by this painful life, and occasionally even shed tears over it.

“Peggy…”

As if praying for a miracle, he turned and called out, but the dark bull-headed figure blocking the entrance ignored him.

This companion seemed to have fallen into a permanent slumber, never to respond to him again.

“Sherry…”

He glanced away and called out to another, petite woman, but the result was the same: silence.

This witch, with feline orc features, also had her eyes tightly closed. Her hands had transformed into ferocious dark red claws, and now even her petite body was beginning to turn a terrifying dark red. It seemed that in a while, she would become an irredeemable monster, just like Peggy.

"hateful!"

The first day of the new year, which should have been a joyous occasion, was instead filled with bitterness instead of happiness.

Matilda gritted her teeth, suppressing the stinging sensation in her nose, and ultimately refrained from letting the sorrow spill over.

It's not the end yet. As long as we're alive, there's hope!

Yes, Matilda has always thought this way, and so have her people. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to survive until today after escaping the British Empire. They vowed to become stronger at all costs, to live at all costs, and to pursue that faint glimmer of hope at all costs.

This will continue to be the case in the future.

Even if Peggy and Sherry are forever trapped in depravity, and he is the only one left who remains conscious, he must continue on.

As long as he is still alive as a "person" and retains his rationality, perhaps one day he will be able to rescue his accomplices.

"After this winter, let's head to the northern wilderness. They're still waiting for us there; it's our promise."

Muttering to herself, as if she wanted to tell her two lost companions, Matilda, after eating to replenish her strength, began to curl up in front of the campfire, opened her natal magic book, and wanted to plan her specific direction after the start of spring.

But after he watched for a while, Peggy, who was supposed to be standing motionless blocking the doorway, suddenly stood up and slowly walked out of the doorway, while Sherry came to his side, raised her dark red claws and touched his shoulder.

"Uh... ah... let's go..."

In her confused state, she could only utter a few muttered words, but these very words made Matilda's expression change drastically, and she realized what had happened.

"We've been discovered? How is that possible?"

Several hours later...

After more than five hours of fighting and escape, under the cover of the fully mutated Peggy and the half-mutated Sherry, Matilda bypassed the outskirts of the southern Rain City and arrived at another pre-prepared hiding place. However, they did not expect that soldiers from the Elven Kingdom would get there first.

"No, it's getting dark, we can only rest here for the rest of the night!"

Having reached this conclusion, Matilda, the only one who remained conscious, made a decisive move, ordering the rampaging Sherry to single-handedly and with incredible speed to wipe out all the elven soldiers in the temple ruins. In an instant, the entire area was awash in blood, and the stench of blood filled the air.

Matilda was already used to this kind of killing life. She carefully protected her two accomplices, ready to protect them from any possible fatal attacks.

However, things didn't go as smoothly as usual today, and a nightmarish accident soon struck them.

They had cleared the entire temple ruins, and just hours after they had safely passed through the night, Matilda, gradually relaxing, was as usual curled up around the campfire for warmth.

Unexpectedly, a strong sense of unease suddenly surged into Matilda's heart. Before she could react, she watched helplessly as Sherry's head was severed by an unseen, hidden being. The gushing blood assaulted her trembling vision, causing her emotions to collapse for the first time!

...... ...... ......

Suddenly awakened from a nightmare, Li Lan stared wide-eyed, her face deathly pale. Everything that had happened in the dream was terrifyingly clear, and now it was all still vivid in her mind.

That blood-red dream was filled only with sorrow and despair, and with almost endless slaughter.

What exactly did I just see...?

Covered in cold sweat, Li Lan sat up, his breathing somewhat erratic. Only when he gripped the Libra Cross sword tightly in his hand could he barely calm down.

Indeed, what he saw were the last memories of Peggy, Sherry, and Matilda before they were killed.

Everything that happened in the dream matched exactly what the former witch Frien, whom Li Lan had previously killed, had said.

In the midst of severe weather with rain and snow, Matilda, having been exposed, was forced to flee with the irrational Peggy and Sherry, finally breaking into a temple ruin just before nightfall.

She thought she was safe for the time being, just like when Li Lan had lowered her guard a little when she was at that temple ruins. But she never expected that the former witch Frien, who was hiding, would be so ruthless. Under her powerful sneak attack, Sherry, who always had the advantage of speed, died on the spot.

Immediately after witnessing the death of her companion, Peggy fell into extreme rage and went completely berserk, while Matilda, due to emotional breakdown, underwent a physical mutation and also lost control on the spot.

Then Li Lan was awakened. The last blurry image in the dream was that after Shirley died, a short figure with dark green hair seemed to emerge from the shadows, ignoring the chaotic scene around him, and dripped a strange liquid onto Shirley's body.

The liquid should be a dark blue, viscous substance, like writhing blood.

"It seems Peggy and the others are probably..."

They were probably already dead, and the area where their bodies were left was the very center of the Lost Wastes, a place that would take quite a while to get to.

Feeling lost and dejected, Li Lan didn't know how to describe his current feelings. He just felt a little scared and a little sad, and could only sit there blankly, at a loss.

He should have known this reality long ago. From the day he went on the run, he knew that the agreement between the seven witches would probably be difficult to fulfill in the end. He originally wanted to be the first to break the agreement, but he never expected that he would be able to get to where he is now.

That's life.

The most painful thing in life is not dying young, but living on and carrying the lifelong ambitions of the dead.

"Hey!"

After the intense sadness, he was left with a sense of bewilderment. As witches who had also fled from the British Empire, they had all experienced various hardships.

After more than four years apart, when they intended to meet again, the two families found themselves on the same path.

More than two years ago, Peggy and her companions were driven to the brink of despair by the Elf Kingdom and the Naga Kingdom, and more than two years later, Li Lan has begun to walk the same path.

He would not regret his choice to go to the elven kingdom of Skandar, nor would he regret coming to this "land of death" belonging to his comrades. He was now racking his brains, thinking about how he could resist this damned fate.

As he was deep in thought, a sudden, unusual noise outside the room made him jump up. "Something's coming?"

"Snapped--"

In the dimly lit space, Li Lan only saw that something had broken a hole in the sturdy door, and then some pitch-black monster tentacles reached in.

He suddenly raised his Libra Cross sword to parry, but unexpectedly, the terrifying force that he could not withstand almost crushed every bone in his body, causing him to be thrown heavily backward.

The pain does not come from the body, but rather from the soul.

However, more than the pain, that second was filled with astonishment, extreme astonishment!

"Sherry?!"

He quickly got up from the ground. Overwhelmed by his longing and grief for his comrades, Li Lan lost his temper for the first time. He practically scrambled to his feet and charged toward the broken door.

"Wait!"

At that moment, Li Lan heard Yu Hui's unique, anxious call from behind. However, the intense pressure of the past few days, coupled with the nightmare that had recently made him feel extremely depressed, made him forget everything and only want to catch up with this familiar aura.

More than two years ago, Li Lan was in dire straits and could only watch his comrades die in a foreign land. But this time, as long as his comrades are still alive, he will do everything in his power to rescue them from this sea of ​​suffering once again.

Just like when they escaped the British Empire four years ago, "saving" was Li Lan's original intention that had never changed.

"That idiot! Oh well, that guy who attacked him showed mercy. There might be some hidden story behind this."

Little did they know, what chased after them was not Li Lan's physical body, but his soul.

Upon noticing the unusual activity outside, the black-haired Yu Hui hurriedly transferred a wisp of his consciousness to a humanoid follower, intending to grab the impatient fellow's hand to stop him, but he was still a step too late.

Now, this creature, who looks like an old woman, lies down in front of the threshold, just like the bunch of elves outside, as if it has fallen into an eternal slumber.

"Ah, things are getting a bit complicated. In some ways, this guy might be even more stubborn than I thought. It seems that it really was those false gods who provoked him? What should we do now?"

The gray humanoid follower, who made the sound of boiling water, thoughtfully pinched his chin, lost in thought.

At this moment, due to the loud commotion, the twin witches, White Antelope and Snow Antelope, who should have been asleep, were awakened, their expressions changing drastically. "What happened? Grandma Karen, she..."

A gray humanoid summon was signaling the other summons around it to take up positions, while it went up alone and dragged the old woman up like a dead fish. The other summons widened their eyes and hurriedly tried to stop it.

"What's going on with you? You're not Grandma Karen's summoned creature? How could you...?"

Without a word, the twin witches pushed the guy away and helped the limp Li Lan up, looking rather flustered. The other three elven girls, who had been startled awake, also gathered around in panic.

"You bunch of jerks, how rude of you!"

The gray humanoid summon held its right hand in its left, leaned its body slightly backward, and made a strange gesture. Its right hand covered its faceless body, and it continued to make a sound like boiling water.

"I am not a summoned creature!"

"I am the great and true God, Shub Nicholas... Hey, did you hear me?"

Ignoring the guy, the panicked twin witches started pressing on Li Lan's philtrum, "What to do? What to do?"

"..."

"Never mind, it must be the humanoid follower with black hair, Yu Hui." He took two steps forward. "He's fine. He went to the center of this chaotic vortex. The master here has no ill intentions towards him. I believe he will be back soon. During this time, you must not leave this place, understand?"

"Really?"

The twin witches, Bai Ling and Xue Ling, were almost in tears. Hei-haired Yu Hui originally wanted to tease them, but then realized they couldn't take a joke, so he replied, "I am his master, of course I know what his condition is. You two should repair this door first. The space pouch left by the servant is there, and the food inside can last you for a month."

After giving the instructions, the black-haired Yu Hui leaned against the wall. "That's it. Remember, no matter what happens, don't leave here! Especially at night, going out means certain death!"

On the surface it was a warning, but in reality, the black-haired Yu Hui was very uneasy. "Without this servant's summons, relying solely on this follower with a partial understanding of my consciousness, I can only hold on for about ten minutes. Moreover, this guy is so impulsive that I can't stop him. The situation is completely out of control now."

"Tsk, if things go wrong, everyone here might die. I can only hope that this servant will be careful from now on."

"You must understand, the vortex of chaos is incredibly complex! It might even be a battle between two creators!"

Chapter 47 A Reunion After Many Years

"Sherry!"

Overwhelmed by complex emotions, Li Lan followed without hesitation, intending to persuade her former comrade-in-arms to stay.

He had a very strong intuition that the mutated monster that had just attacked him must be Sherry Nancy, one of the witches who had escaped the British Empire with him.

Unfortunately, as soon as Li Lan rushed out of the room, it was as if she had crashed into a thick curtain of water. Before she knew what had happened, the gray mist that should have covered the entire area vanished without a trace, and in its place was a crazy world full of blood!

"here it is......"