Witch Redemption

At this moment, only one second had passed since Li Lan and Luo Lina suddenly attacked and injured people.

In that instant, the witch and the heretics in the Imperial Inquisition heard a roar. After the roar, countless chains exploded from the top of a tall building a kilometer away, transforming into a giant sphere of chains.

The true gods of the present world, who were lurking in the shadows, did not even have time to use their true power to intercept and kill the two witches before they discovered that the mastermind behind the attack, the Undying Iris, let out a bloodcurdling scream, and then his breath weakened, clearly indicating that he had been completely defeated.

"How is this possible?!"

The Undying Iris is a powerful being capable of unleashing god-level strength!

Even if these two witches were also god-level beings, they shouldn't have been able to completely eliminate the warden of the witch prison in just a second.

Although everything proceeded according to plan—the two witches' sudden attack gave the Empire ample reason to eliminate them—if the Undying Iris truly fell to these two witches in such a short time, it would mean that all the mortal gods besieging these two witches today, even if they were to kill them, would have to pay a heavy price!

This price will not only cause the capital to fall today, but also require the death of a certain number of gods in the present world!

Even though they evacuated the ordinary people of the capital from the very beginning, leaving only a large number of assassins and some high-ranking imperial experts, and even though they made all the necessary preparations from the start, judging from the outrageous strength displayed by these two witches, their risk assessment was miscalculated.

These two witches are definitely not that simple!

"Should we make a move at the cost of Iris?"

The immortal Iris was merely weakened and did not die. However, if these living gods had chosen to act directly now, their fate would certainly have been different.

The situation reached a stalemate, but then a gap suddenly appeared in the spherical "chain prison" atop the high-rise building, and two blood-soaked witch figures jumped down without hesitation.

Arrogant and disregarding everyone else, they began to walk along the wide street. Among them, the silver-haired witch, Karen Elf, was leading the way, carrying the Undying Iris, who had been hacked to pieces and was temporarily unconscious. Their target was clearly the Imperial Inquisition, a thousand meters away.

A few minutes later.

"Go ahead, yes, go ahead. We won't interfere with your sacred executions, but I'll let you know that we'll watch you kill these little brats, and then we'll slowly drag the Empire down with us! The warden of this witch's prison isn't very powerful? Let's start by killing her!"

Wasn't that stinky woman constantly hinting that they should stop the execution?

There was no need, and they didn't know what kind of trap this was, so the two murderous witches stood on the outer edge of the execution ground, with no intention of going in or stopping any executions.

Just because the tiger doesn't show its power doesn't mean they think these witches are sick cats.

"Lolina, it's time to lay your cards on the table."

Standing here are not two witches, but two armies!

Underestimating them and provoking them recklessly will come at a price if pushed too far!

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"It's almost time. The direction of the capital is... I remember it's... um, head this way."

Lana stared at the map in her natal magic book for a while, then began to determine the true direction to move forward.

"Lana, what did Miss Shub and the others say?"

Standing side by side atop a tall tree in the primeval monster forest, the crimson-haired witch, Della, asked with some anxiety.

"They said that if the Chaos Creator can foresee the future, so can they. Today, Karen and the others' peace talks will definitely not go smoothly. The Empire might even trip them up. So they want us to find an opportunity to go and support them. We need to make the Empire have a general understanding of the Dark Kingdom's strength, otherwise it won't be easy to end this."

Weak nations have no diplomacy. Besides, is the Dark Kingdom's envoy truly sincere in wanting to negotiate peace?

Even if the Dark Kingdom were willing to negotiate peace, the Empire wouldn't consider accepting it, would it? If the Empire doesn't realize just how much of a threat the Dark Kingdom poses, not only will peace negotiations fail today, but the Karen Elf and Lorina Euphemia they sent will also have to die in the Empire's hands.

"Why didn't we tell Karen about these things from the beginning, so they could prepare?" Della was clearly indignant.

"I don't know. Miss Shub and the others just said that heavenly secrets cannot be revealed, that everything is only accidental and not inevitable, and that pursuing inevitability too much often leads to problems. Speaking of which, the Creator is really a strange creature. I don't know what they are thinking. Perhaps only Karen, that kind old woman, can understand them."

“Perhaps even Karen herself can’t understand it,” Della shook her head.

As the two were talking, a pleasant voice came from below once again, "Lady Lana, Lady Della, the area has been cleared."

"You've worked hard! White Antelope, Snow Antelope, we're coming right away!" Lana called out. "Come on, Della, it's time to set off and bring our two little princesses back."

Within minutes, one hundred and twenty pure white holy dragons soared over the outer borders of the empire, creating wave after wave of trembling storms in the air.

"It's been a long time. I remember the last time I came to the Empire was about ten years ago."

Returning to this familiar place, my heart was filled not only with sighs but also with hatred and anger.

However, the witches of today are no longer like they were ten years ago, blinded by hatred. Even Della, who harbors deeper grudges, can choose to endure for the sake of the Dark Kingdom.

Witches can endure ten years of hatred, so they are not afraid of another ten or twenty years.

“Yes,” Della’s cold face grew even colder as she recalled countless past events. She didn’t want to stay in this godforsaken place for even a second longer. “If only we could pick up Karen and Lorina as soon as possible.”

“Haha, indeed,” Lana crouched slightly on the back of the sacred dragon, then called out to the two twin witches who were clinging to the dragon’s back with their eyes closed due to their fear of heights, “White Antelope and Snow Antelope, you better hold on tight! It’s Mount Akina time now!”

"What is the Akina Mountain time?" Not only were the twins a little confused, but Della, who was not from Earth, was also a little confused.

"That's right, my mantis shrimps are about to go racing! Giddy up!"

The colossal dragon, hurtling at breakneck speed, charged straight in from tens of thousands of meters above the ground, officially advancing into the territory of the British Empire.

Little did they know, those who came today were not mere dregs, but one hundred and twenty dragons with true god-level strength, as well as four trump card witches from the Dark Kingdom.

From the very beginning, this imperial trip was not a peace negotiation, but a threat!

Chapter 19 Threatening First is the Right Thing

Caught completely off guard, truly caught off guard.

No one expected that in just one second, the once high and mighty Undying Ellis would become a human stump, now dragged on the ground like a dead dog.

"this......"

Lurking in the buildings surrounding the Imperial Inquisition are thirty-eight living gods from the Celestial Realm, the most powerful beings in the Empire at present.

This sudden and astonishing scene left them completely speechless, all remaining silent as they awaited the decision of the leading female deity.

But then, the female deity standing behind the window was dressed in a pure white imperial military uniform, her lower face covered by a thick white cloth, while her upper face had a pair of peculiar blue eyes. Those eyes had no pupils, but rather numerous circular red lines, like ripples spreading outwards.

As the current god of the empire temporarily responsible for monitoring the two runaway witches, the scene around the two witches was always reflected in the depths of her eyes.

It could be said that this female deity of the mortal realm had witnessed everything, from the two witches' sudden attack on the old woman, the Undying Iris, to their current outburst at the edge of the Imperial Inquisition, the execution ground. However, she did not immediately order all the surrounding deities of the mortal realm to take action. Instead, after confirming the approximate strength of the two witches, she fell into deep thought for a long time.

"Twilight, shall we make our move now?"

The male god who asked the question appeared to be around fifty years old, with blond hair and blue eyes, and his rugged face showed some anxiety and anger.

"Wait, wait a moment."

"But if this continues, Iris..."

"No, those two witches won't kill her easily, otherwise they wouldn't have spared Iris's life just now."

The female deity named "Twilight" is clearly the oldest among all the deities here, and also the most composed at present.

It was precisely because she realized that these two rogue witches didn't seem to want a complete falling out and intended to leave her some room for maneuver that she wasn't in such a hurry at this moment. Because from the moment these two witches spared the old woman's life, it meant that they had already yielded to the old woman's provocation.

"Twilight, perhaps we should seize this opportunity, even at the cost of Elise..."

The God of the Present World, Twilight, shook his head. "It's not that simple, Rickett. In fact, I never had a good feeling about Ellis's plan from the beginning. You saw the strength of those two witches. There's something fishy about their abilities, otherwise Ellis wouldn't have been able to lose."

In any case, long before the Immortal Iris initiated the relevant plan, she had considered many scenarios and made various arrangements. One thing she hadn't planned for wasn't that the two witches wouldn't directly attack the old woman, but rather that she had never anticipated the old woman's swift defeat.

"I understand, and I am prepared to bear any consequences."

"If it requires me to pay the price with my life, I will not hesitate. I have only one purpose, and that is to ask you, my esteemed gods, to take action!"

"The witch Karen Elf, this witch is no ordinary person. If we spare her life, she will pose an enormous threat to the empire in the future!"

The immortal Iris remembered every word spoken by the present-day goddess Twilight. She understood the loyalty of this imperial subject and also wanted to take this opportunity to eliminate the two witches. However, judging from the power these two witches had displayed, the empire would have to pay a heavy price to kill them.

It's important to understand that as the warden of the Witch Prison of the Imperial Witch Cult, the Undying Iris, when unleashed at full power, is comparable to a true god, and can even wield power at the domain level. Logically speaking, even if the old woman was weaker than these witches, she shouldn't have been defeated in a single exchange and then hacked to pieces.

Which of the gods of this world, who have lived for so many years, would be a fool?

The situation had changed, and they couldn't possibly be foolish enough to follow the Immortal Elixir's plan completely at this point. That's why they were all deep in thought, and none of them planned to take action immediately until they reached a consensus.

"Alas, Iris's original intention was to provoke these two witches, to make them take the initiative to attack the Empire. Ideally, she would use a sealing artifact that could kill beings of god level or above to eliminate one of them and defeat them one by one."

Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. Even a cornered dog will jump over a wall, and Ellis wasn't just pushing two dogs.

If these two were lackeys of the Dark Kingdom, then under the provocation of the Undying Ellis, the two witches would likely only have two choices: one is to prioritize the greater good of the Dark Kingdom, swallow their anger, and pretend they know nothing about the execution; the other is to directly show weakness to the Undying Ellis, reveal their identities as convicts, and plead for mercy.

However, the two witches did not do so, which just confirmed what the Undying Ellis had said earlier. These two witches may be different from the Abyss God Ann Gnath, and being sentimental may be their greatest characteristic.

The fact that they are characterized by their strengths rather than weaknesses suggests that they are very likely to go to extremes because of their emotions. This extreme behavior could not only ruin themselves, but also their opponents.

An ordinary person, in a moment of impulse, might immediately intervene in the Empire's execution and then be killed in accordance with the old woman's plan. But the current situation is that these two witches don't care about being enemies of the Empire at all. Doesn't the old woman want them to be enemies of the Empire? Then why not use a more radical method?

Destroying the old woman, killing her on the spot, is also a way to oppose the empire.

Fortunately, these two witches weren't fools, and they didn't go too far.

If they truly wanted to break off relations, they would have killed the Undying Irisg on the spot—that would have been a true act of enmity with the Empire. But instead, they chose a compromise: threats to demand a certain degree of compromise and concessions from the Empire.

Of course, given the empire's arrogance, if it were an ordinary witch, these living gods would have already rushed out and torn them to pieces.

The true strength displayed by these witches vaguely reached the level of true gods. Because they are gods, if these living gods of the empire were to make a move, today would probably not be as simple as the fall of the capital. There might even be a price to pay: the death of some living gods.

The present-day god Twilight recalled the time when they personally sent the avatar of the present-day god Mitchell Grove into the Abyss Rift, with the goal of hunting down the witches Karen Elf and Lana Sivir. However, the avatar of this god-like being was quickly killed.

If the murderer who killed Mitchell Groer's clone might be connected to this witch, Karen Elf...

It's absurd to think about it. How did these witches manage to cover in just ten years what these gods of the present world had taken thousands of years to achieve?

It's unbelievable, and I feel that the creator of this world is incredibly unfair.

"Well, according to the original plan, we needed to use the sealed artifact 'The Book of the Sacred Decapitator' to get rid of one of the witches first. But now it seems that as long as these two witches are too cautious, we can't count on this sealed artifact."

Thinking of this, Twilight, the God of the Present World, was somewhat puzzled. "Rickett, let those witches and heretics test the waters. We need to observe for a while longer."

Their killing intent had not yet dissipated. What they wanted to do now was to determine what kind of special abilities these two witches possessed, especially how those strange chains had restricted the movements of the Undying Iris, and what the strange drug that subsequently suppressed the Undying Iris's regeneration was.

However, none of the gods in this world could have predicted just how insane these two witches would become afterward.

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"The rogue witch, Karen Elf!"

The witch Crossanne, who was in charge, and General Lucas, the inquisitor of heresies, were both extremely shocked.

They never imagined that the once aloof, highly respected, and unassuming super-strong man, the Warden Iris the Immortal, would now be lying dead on the ground, as if his title of "immortal" was nothing but a lie.

"These two guys..." General Lucas's expression changed drastically, "Do you know what you're doing?"

Attacking high-ranking officials of the Empire is a serious crime! It's tantamount to making an enemy of the Empire!

"Of course I know, how could I not know?"

Now, Li Lan's tone was on the verge of exploding, "I don't need you to tell us what to do, you lackeys of the Empire! It's fine, you can continue!"