Witch Monastery

On the other side, Hawthorne turned his head sharply, followed Celine's light and looked in the direction where she was scolding, and then he also found the curled up black shadow: the guy was covered with a piece of cloth that was almost the same color as the surrounding rocks, which deceived his perception at the beginning.

There are actually people here!

His spirit, which had just relaxed, tensed up again. He took a quick step forward, pulled off the disguise on the guy, revealing his true form.

Then he raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised at what he saw.

It turned out to be a dark elf girl with dark skin, long snow-white hair and a pair of gem-like red eyes.

Her figure is normal for an elf, she is probably less than 1.5 meters tall, and her breasts are

It's a smooth road.

She looked young, with a delicate oval face that still showed childishness. At the moment, she was curled up on the ground, her red eyes filled with tears, and her expression was full of fear.

Hawthorne walked over, stretched out his hand, grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and lifted her up, saying pretentiously: "It turned out to be an evil dark elf! As a righteous person, I will never allow such an evil creature to continue to do evil in this world. Accept the punishment of justice!"

He pretended to threaten her, and then he saw the little girl blink her big eyes, and then she stood there motionless like a kitten with its neck grabbed, with an expression of obedience written all over her face.

Obviously, she couldn't understand what Hawthorne was saying.

Kassa hurried forward and carefully translated Hawthorne's words into Elvish, and repeated them to the dark elf.

Suddenly, he saw the little girl's expression become extremely frightened. She began to kick her short legs and mumble a lot of things.

Hawthorne didn't understand a word he heard. He turned his head and looked at Kasa: "Translate, what does this mean?"

Kasa patiently explained: "She said she was still young and had never done anything bad. This time she was just out hunting monsters and was caught by these orcs. Please have mercy on her and let her live..."

As she said this, a look of sympathy could not help but emerge in her eyes: "Father Hawthorne, I don't think what she said is a lie. Are you going to execute such a child too?"

Hawthorne said in the common language: "How is that possible? I just wanted to scare her so that she wouldn't lie and tell the truth. Tsk, I didn't expect that she wouldn't understand. My plan failed."

He shook his head slightly, secretly lamenting that the other party was uneducated and couldn't even understand the common language: "Forget it, you ask for her information, and then tell her that if she can honestly turn over a new leaf and behave well, it's not impossible to let her go free."

Kassadin then translated the words to the dark elf, and Hawthorne put her on the ground. After all, this girl is not a real kitten, and it is easy to pick her up with one hand. After all, she weighs several dozen kilograms, and it is tiring to carry her in your hands.

After the two elves chattered for a long time, Kasa finally summarized the information of the dark elf: "Father, she said her name is Hannie Harlan, and she is from the Harlan family in Menzoberranzan. There are eight people in her family. The oldest is her grandmother, but she is retired now. Her mother is currently in charge of the family..."

Huo Sang raised his hand quickly: "Stop! I didn't ask you to check her household registration book. Why are you asking so much details? Ask something important!"

Kasha suddenly realized: "Oh, I know, okay!"

She then lowered her head and talked to the dark elf girl for a long time, then reported to Hawthorne, "She said that her family is mainly engaged in the purple worm business. Specifically, they steal eggs from the purple worm nests and then extract products such as egg white and purple worm venom."

"This time they heard that a huge earthquake had occurred on the surface of the earth and that many huge tunnels had been drilled out. They suspected that the purple worms were responsible and that there was a purple worm nest here, so they came here to hunt and try to make a fortune."

Hawthorne nodded. It was not difficult to understand the meaning. Purple worms are giant monsters with purple solid scales on their bodies. They can easily shuttle through rocks. Usually, when they shuttle, they will also cause small-scale earthquakes and landslides.

This sounds somewhat similar to the burrowing worm, but in fact the two are completely different creatures: the burrowing worm is essentially a creature created by a loophole in the rules of the material world, and each individual can actually be regarded as a fragment or clone of the Old One Shude Meir.

Their body surface has a temperature of thousands of degrees like magma, they are afraid of water, their heads are covered with octopus-like tentacles, they feed on all kinds of gems, and can use mental magic to control other creatures to serve them.

Purple worms are real creatures in the material world. Although they are monsters, they are essentially independent individual creatures.

Their bodies are covered with solid purple scales that can be processed into a variety of high-quality materials; they have bloody mouths on their heads that are even more exaggerated than those of giant hippopotamuses. They feed on flesh and blood and can swallow a whole horse with one mouth.

But the most coveted thing about them is the venom they secrete. The venom of purple worms should be considered the most powerful toxin in the material world, far more powerful than the venom of a wyvern.

However, the purple worms almost only live in the dark area underground, so only the dark elves have benefited from this and become famous for their poisoned weapons.

Hanny's family seems to be in this business, which means that although her family is small, they should not be poor. No matter how you calculate it, they must be a well-off family.

Hawthorne pondered this information in his mind, and then he heard Kasa continue to explain: "As a result, they crossed the Dark Lake by boat, and not long after arriving here, they were ambushed by the orcs. She was separated from her mother and was captured by the orcs."

That’s all. After saying that, Kasa stood there, waiting for Hawthorne to decide what to do with the little girl.

Hawthorne thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "Do you know this place and how to get there?"

As he spoke, he called out to Willow behind him to fetch the map and handed it to the little girl. The latter leaned over with a confused expression, and only after Kasa finished translating did her eyes light up: "I know! We will stop the ship near there, and then

That’s why we were attacked by this group of orcs.”

"I still remember the way. Are you going there? I can take you there!"

Kasha's face lit up, and she translated the words verbatim to Hawthorne. After hearing this, the latter felt relieved, nodded slightly, and said, "That's good, it's on the way. If everything goes well, I will send you back to your family."

On the other side, after listening to Kasa's translation, the little girl nodded hurriedly: "Got it, I will be obedient!"

Then, her stomach suddenly made a gurgling sound. Hawthorne lowered his head and looked at her belly. Then the girl covered her stomach with an embarrassed expression: "Thank you, but can you give me something to eat? I'm almost starving, and those orcs won't give me anything to eat!"

Upon hearing this, Kasha's face changed, and she subconsciously covered her dimensional bag. Then she looked up at Hawthorne and said pitifully, "Father, she is hungry. Can you think of a way to get her something to eat?"

Huo Sang looked at her with a smile: "Don't you have a lot of snacks in your dimensional bag? Why don't you take some out and share them with her?"

Kasa's expression looked even more pitiful: "Father..."

Although this girl is kind-hearted, it would be difficult for her to share her snacks.

Hawthorne smiled and stopped bullying her. He reached out and opened his dimensional bag, took out a hot dog and handed it to Hannie.

The little girl opened her mouth and began to eat voraciously without any grace or elegance. Soon she choked accidentally, her face turned purple, and she couldn't breathe.

Chapter 564 Shapiro's Regret

Kasa hurriedly patted her back and handed her her water bag. The little girl gulped down several mouthfuls, flushing the food in her esophagus, and then showed a tired expression: "Ah, thank you!"

Hawthorne lowered his head and stared at the little girl, always feeling that this little girl was a little unreliable.

Well... never mind. She's an elf after all. As long as we keep an eye on her, nothing big will go wrong.

Thinking this way, he did not show any disgust. He told Kasa to take good care of the little sister, then turned around and tinkered with his tent.

In the back, Heidi and Celine had also been observing what was happening here, but they never took the initiative to speak from beginning to end.

Now, after seeing Hawthorne had dealt with the matter over there, Heidi took the initiative to come over, leaned over to his ear, and whispered: "Master, do you really want to leave such a dark elf in our own camp?"

Hawthorne turned his head when he heard that, and looked at Hanni who was standing with Kasa, and frowned slightly.

"It's okay, it's not a big problem." He said, "The difference in strength is there. With Kai'Sa's ability, it's not difficult to control her."

"Don't think about it, let's take a rest too."

As he said this, he completely handed Hanny over to Kasa to take care of, then he set up his own tent, started a fire, made some simple dinner and distributed it to the refugees. After hastily finishing their meal, he took out the endless water bottle and took turns to go take a bath in the distance.

After dealing with all this, he settled down in his tent and prepared to rest.

Everyone else was getting ready to go to bed, and Adele was planning to go back to her tent, but at this moment, Willow called out to her, "Adele!"

She turned her head to look at her mother, and saw that her face was still calm: "Are you still not feeling well? Come, sleep with mom?"

Adele stared at her mother's expression in a daze, unable to tell her joy, anger, sorrow or happiness. Thinking that she had been in a calm and sincere druid's ethereal state of mind throughout the whole process, she became more and more painfully aware that everything she saw and heard that night was from her mother's most sincere heart.

But then she thought that just half an hour ago, Hawthorne had walked towards the mountain people captured by the orcs, covered in light. Adele couldn't help but wonder, when the demons were roaming the mountains, was her mother as desperate as these captives?

And was Hawthorne's action at that time also a ray of light that saved her from despair and fear?

When she put herself in that situation, she had to admit that even she would probably fall into the warmth of being saved.

She seemed to have no one to blame.

At this moment, facing Willow's calm gaze, Adele lowered her head slightly, not daring to look her in the eye. She sniffed her nose, took a deep breath, and suddenly felt relieved.

"No, Mom." She smiled. "I feel fine. I'll sleep alone tonight."

……

Nangang District, the monastery headquarters, in the dungeon under the bathroom.

Shapiro was alone in a cell, sitting cross-legged on the grass with his eyes closed.

His expression looked calm, as if he had adapted to this life without freedom, but his heart was far from being as calm as he appeared to be.

He was considering a very difficult decision: should he surrender and beg for mercy from Hawthorne, asking him to let him go so that he could leave this damn underground prison?

Normally speaking, given his personality, he shouldn't have such thoughts.

Normally, he should never yield, never give up, even if he was pressed into a stinky ditch, he would grit his teeth and bear it.

Wait and wait for a turnaround, and then when the opportunity arises, take action suddenly to reverse the situation.

But this time, he suddenly found that all his ideas for a comeback seemed to be unworkable.

At the beginning, he wanted to wait for the effect of the poison that Cuibisi had given him to wear off, and after his physical and magical powers were fully restored, he would start planning to break out of prison, escape from here, and regain his freedom.

But later, he soon discovered that this approach was simply not feasible: no one knew what material Hawthorne's underground prison was made of, but in short, it was able to isolate the flow of all magic power!

This discovery shocked Shapiro immensely, he had never imagined that this place would be like this, an environment that was completely isolated from the flow of magic power: because before, he had never really stepped into the realm of the anti-magic field, so even though he knew of the existence of this situation, he had never thought about it in this regard!

Therefore, the situation has become very awkward for him: because he cannot absorb any magic power, his exhausted strength cannot be restored, so now, his strength is almost no different from that of an ordinary person.

At most, his body is stronger, but other than that, he has no other advantages.

This discovery discouraged Shapiro a little. The first plan failed before it even started.

However, this did not defeat him. After all, at the beginning, he was still an unarmed mortal in the island prison, and he escaped by relying on his own wisdom and hard work.

At worst, I can just dig a passage myself!

He then looked for flaws in the dungeon, hoping to find a weak point and then dig through to the sewer or somewhere else to find a chance to escape.

But he soon discovered that this plan would not work: his current situation was very different from the prison he was in back then. First of all, there was no one in this dungeon except him, only himself and the people who came to bring him food every day.

Hawthorne seemed to have no regard for his mental health at all. He just made him sit in the cell every day and didn't give him any time to go out for exercise or do anything else.

He could only move within such a small space and had almost no chance to explore other places.

As for the small room he was in, he had searched it countless times, and the answer was that there was no weak point that could be exploited. Even the sewer was too narrow to allow a man of his size to get out.

Even if he started digging from now on, it would still take a long time. His sister was still missing, and he couldn't afford to waste time!

So he thought of a third method: he took the initiative to hint to the nun who came to deliver food that he had priceless information in his hands, and then tried to force Hawthorne to show up in person and talk to him by means of a hunger strike.

After starving himself for three days and three nights, he found that his plan had failed again: Hawthorne was not in the monastery at all, and he didn't know where he had gone.

The nuns in the monastery believed in the goddess of life, who was merciful and loving, but they behaved so coldly and mercilessly. No matter how hungry Shapiro was, they were like a group of robots, delivering meals to him and leaving without caring whether he had a meal or not.

It was as if she wasn't really afraid that he would starve to death.

They wouldn't even look at him twice. Even if Shapiro called them and asked them something, their expressions and eyes were frighteningly calm, without any sympathy or pity, not even the slightest bit of ridicule or disgust, as if the person they were talking to was not a living person but a stone.

This attitude made Shapiro despair and greatly shook his hunger strike plan. And it must be said that the food sent to him by the monastery was indeed delicious. After starving himself for three days, he could not bear the smell of the food and broke his fast.

As a result, the hunger strike plan failed.

After all three plans failed, he was now in a state of desperation. However, his sister was still missing, Hawthorne was not in the monastery, the outside world was still turbulent, and all kinds of things were progressing rapidly, but he was imprisoned here, knowing nothing and being unable to do anything.

This flame of anxiety tortured his heart and made him want to get out urgently. His plan to get out by himself and by force had all failed, so he had to seriously consider whether to admit his mistakes to Hawthorne in exchange for a chance to be released.

Legendary heroes are generally able to bend and stretch, and will not waste their time or even ruin their lives because of momentary impulse.

In ancient times, there was a legendary general in the Sein Empire. In order to avoid a bloody conflict with a gangster, he even went so far as to crawl under the crotch of the opponent...

They can do this, so what's wrong with me giving in and admitting my mistakes? Face is the least valuable thing. Wasting time here for this is the stupidest thing!

He thought so in his heart, and gradually convinced himself, so he made up his mind that tonight, when the nun who delivered the meal came, no matter how humiliating the words she said were, he must make these nuns let him go!

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was evening.

In the middle of the cell, with his eyes closed, he was gathering his emotions and organizing what he was going to say.

Soon, a familiar voice was heard, and the door of the upper entrance of the dungeon was opened. A nun came down with a tray: "Shapiro, it's time for dinner."

The nun had black hair and black eyes. Her figure was not exaggeratedly sexy, but she had the temperament of a lady from a noble family. Shapiro remembered her name because he had asked her and knew that her name was "Die".

The nuns in the monastery took turns to bring him food, and he asked each one of them. But it didn't make any difference, because everyone was equally indifferent to him.

It’s coming, the most critical moment.

Taking a deep breath, Shapiro did not look at the food on the plates. He stepped forward and knelt down with his head down: "I know I was wrong, Sister! Please allow me to do something to atone for my sins!"

Chapter 565 Sudden Change

While learning from the prisoners in prison, Shapiro also learned some negotiation experience, or routines: in short, at such times, he never mentioned any requests such as "let him go", and all he said was his sincere repentance and his hope to put it into practice and go to atone for his sins.

Once you have met the other party's requirements, expressed your attitude clearly, and made the other party happy, then you can take the opportunity to make your own request, the probability that the other party will agree will be much greater.

This trick was very effective. Die stopped her steps and turned to look at him. Her expression was no longer calm or indifferent as usual. For the first time, she showed surprise: "You? Atonement?"

"Yes!" Seeing her expression, Shapiro immediately felt that there was hope, so he continued loudly, "After hearing the news from Father Hawthorne, I was worried about the safety of my sister and niece, so I disregarded the rules and tried to sneak into your monastery to look for them. I... This is absolutely a sin, and I hope I can do something to atone for it!"

Looking at his kneeling posture and listening to the trembling voice, Die's expression was a little helpless for a moment: "Get up, Father Hawthorne doesn't think you have committed a big sin. He locked you up here just because he thinks you are too dangerous and impulsive. Very troublesome."

"Don't worry, after Father Hawthorne rescues your sister, he will most likely release you."

After a pause, she added, “After all, you are Marlena’s brother. Just for your sister’s sake, he can’t always restrict your freedom.”

Hearing this, Shapiro suddenly became a little excited: "But Sister Sister, I also want to rescue my sister!"