Even if you become a witch, you have to eat oranges

This is considered an unspoken tacit understanding.

Cotton left soon, and Elena tidied up and prepared to find the other two people.

Lini has been a little strange these past two days, always feeling like she is avoiding her, but if Elena comes to see her for anything, she will still appear quickly, but she doesn't dare to look directly at her.

"What's going on? Is it what I did before? I was really asleep at that time..."

When Elena found Lini, the petite girl turned her head away again, her neck a little red.

"No, it's not..."

"Do you want me to apologize to you? I won't do that again!"

"No, no! No, that's not what I meant!"

Lini was a little incoherent. She looked distressed. She glanced at Elena's lips and quickly looked away:

"What, what's wrong?"

"I have to go out on business."

Elena decided to ignore Lini's weirdness and quickly stated her intention.Lini listened carefully and gradually became less nervous.

"Okay! Wherever Elena goes, I will definitely follow her!"

Lini immediately packed up her things and stuffed a lot of magic potions and various alchemy props into the space items.

Arriving at Kalei's room, Elena knocked lightly on the door.

dong dong.

But no one came, only the sound of knocking echoed.Elena was a little confused. Kalei clearly didn't go out, and she wasn't seen anywhere else in the house.

"Kaleigh, are you there?"

Still no one answered, Elena whispered an apology and penetrated the room with her spiritual power.

Sure enough, there was no one inside, but the still warm water and the slightly deformed cushions showed that there were actually people inside not long ago.

Elena decided to wait for a while, during which Lini also packed up and came over, waiting together at the door.

coming!

With a premonition, Elena suddenly looked up and found that the door was opened, and a tall girl with fiery red hair came out, it was Ka Lei.

As she walked out of the room, she muttered:

"Why aren't you here..."

"Hey, where were you just now?" Lini's voice suddenly sounded, startling her.

When she looked up, she realized that Elena and Lini were at the door.

"Huh? Why are you all here?"

"Where have you been before? Tell me honestly!" Lini still asked reluctantly.

"Well, this is the secret that master gave me..." Ka Lei seemed a little embarrassed. She unconsciously twirled her fingers, feeling guilty when facing the questioning from her good friend.

"Don't be like this." Elena hugged Lini, shook her head and said:

"It's normal to have some secrets, and they were given to her by Master Ait... I won't tell you everything Master Alyssa told you."

"Yeah, yeah!" Ka Lei nodded quickly, somewhat relaxed.

Lini was too lazy to ask. She took the opportunity to huddle in Elena's arms, with a dazed expression on her face.

……

Just like that, the three of them started heading to the marked location.

Their outfits were changed again, and they all wore tight-fitting and tough clothes, with leather armor covering their joints. They looked energetic like young female mercenaries.

"It's best not to use magic power in the city. It's easy to be discovered by people from the Holy See, which will be troublesome."

Even Lini, who is the weakest among the three, has been baptized by the official witch's magic power and is not weaker than ordinary warriors.

"If anything happens, it's mainly me who takes care of it. Just protect yourselves."

Elena decided to take over the possible conflicts that would occur in the future. She had genuine energy and had reached the peak of a warrior.

As we walked along, the odor in the air gradually became stronger and more complex, and the surrounding environment became increasingly dirty and messy. Most of the pedestrians nearby were sallow and thin, and their eyes were cloudy.

The three of them walked into an alley and found that it was quite close to the place where they met the gangster when they first came to this city.

"Did you notice it if you stayed here for a while?" Ka Lei said in surprise.

"Anyway, let's find the agency first."

The three of them began to search for it, but it was not easy to find. They searched all the places that looked like it but could not find it.

Elena then boldly used her spiritual power.With the blessing of high spiritual power, it becomes sharp and easy to control.

After carefully exploring the surroundings, we finally found the target.

Elena stepped forward, moved a broken barrel in the corner, and stomped her leather boots twice at a certain location.

click -

The ground opened up, revealing a dark passage downwards.There is no magic fluctuation here, it seems to be purely a delicate mechanism running.

"Let's go!"

Elena walked at the front without hesitation, watching and observing the situation of this stronghold all the way.

After not walking very far, the space suddenly became wider.The three of them came to a hall, where the most eye-catching thing was a large pool in the center.

But it doesn't seem to be used for fish farming.It looks like there's something gooey inside.After careful identification, it was nothing else but human blood.

There seemed to be something more solid at the bottom of the pool, sinking into the black mud, revealing some pale color.

"Did those who lost their homes and disappeared during the cultists' activities die here?"

Ka Lei looked a little gloomy, and Lini was almost holding her breath.The two of them felt a little uncomfortable looking at this.

Volume 67, Third Coffin: [-]. Exploration and Priest

In comparison, Elena is indeed much 'stronger'. After all, the people buried in this place are not her acquaintances, so she doesn't have much feeling.

She tried to sense the usefulness of this place from the incomplete magic circle. After Lini recovered, she came over to explore and discuss with her.

Ka Lei stood aside in a daze.The price for her ability to quickly catch up with Elena is that, apart from knowledge of fire magic, she only knows some basic knowledge and does not understand alchemy at all.

"Separation, purification, nourishment... This is a place where human flesh and blood and soul power are stripped away and used to cultivate something, or a sacrificial pool."

Elena and Kalei looked at each other, and she had already guessed something.After all, I had seen it with my own eyes.

"It should be a sacrifice to the 'God of the Underworld' they believe in. There may have been a drop of the blood of the God of Hades here, which absorbed nutrients, activated it, and then returned it to the body."

Walking all the way inside, I saw many similar alchemy facilities, all of which basically smelled of blood.

The smell of blood in some sacrificial pools was frighteningly strong, and there was a trace of black mist lingering at the bottom, lingering for a long time.

Seeing this, Elena perked up.She had seen it in the trial area of ​​the secret realm, and it was much bigger than this.It continued to escape and turned into a sea of ​​black mist.

This is the gathering of painful and desperate emotions of human beings, or intelligent life, and is called the 'poison of faith' by the Dragon God.

But obviously, the black mist in the trial ground came from the skull of Hades, which may have been part of the power of Hades.

"Not only the flesh and soul, but also the despair and pain before death were used. There is really no waste at all..."

Elena hesitated for a moment, and regardless of the other two's dissuasion, she reached into the black mist.

Judging from the situation of the witch at the trial site, she is basically not affected by this black mist.

The cold feeling disappeared in a flash, as if he had fallen into a dark world.

Fire, black fire was everywhere, sweeping everything around.Everything in the village was burned, and the fields, houses, livestock... were turned into black ashes in the flames.

The owner of the vision looked around blankly in his dilapidated yard, as if he couldn't believe it.He suddenly woke up and rushed towards the burning house next to him.

Crack! The wooden wall was dancing with flames, like the devil's claws and sparks flying out. The intense high temperature made people tremble with fear.

He seemed to be shouting something outside, his voice urgent and desperate.He began to rush towards the house and kicked open the door.

Without caring about anything else, the owner of the vision knocked aside the burning wooden furniture on the road and broke into the innermost part.Look inside the room.

On the bed, there was a figure covered in flames, struggling painfully.He rushed over eagerly, trying to swat it out, but to no avail.

He rushed out again, left the house and found a hot basin by the door - Elena found that his arms were scorched black and covered with blisters.

The water tank outside the house was half full and white smoke was rising.He stretched out his hand, but was so hot that he pulled it back.

He ran non-stop towards the well at the entrance of the village.On the way, I saw a large number of fleeing villagers. Some of them ran out with their bodies on fire.

After getting a basin of water, he avoided the crowd and started running back.The surroundings were getting hotter and hotter, and he seemed not to care.

But the place that was once home has collapsed.The ruins are still burning with flames, and they are getting stronger and stronger.

wow——

The water poured onto the ground, bringing a little coolness in the surrounding heat, but soon turned into white mist.

He kicked the basin away, beat his head in pain, then turned around and left.

I kept running away all the way and saw many villagers running for their lives, many of them covered in blood and flesh, and even on fire.

He didn't dare to look further and bypassed many obstacles based on experience.In a daze, he had arrived outside the village.

He suddenly saw a figure not far away.He approached and found several people wearing black devil masks. They had black and gray gloves on their hands, pointing at the burning village.

Those people were like devils like masks. They looked at the fleeing villagers and the burned houses, laughing at something, as if they were watching some funny performance.

He stared at the group of people and realized something.He took out the scythe from his waist and rushed towards them.

The field of vision went dark.

Then he appeared in this stronghold and was imprisoned in a nearby cell. The owner of the vision was lying in the corner, surrounded by a group of scarred and haggard people.

The cell was opened and a man wearing black gloves walked in.A large area suddenly cleared in front of him, and no one dared to resist.

He pointed at the owner of his vision, and two gray gloves behind him understood, came over, lifted him up, and left the cell.

The person who was originally lying down suddenly resisted crazily, kicking and biting the two people.After a frantic struggle, he was finally hit by a punch and his vision was darkened.

Appearing in front of a blood-colored pool, there were many corpses floating in it, gradually decomposing in the strange blood-red light.

The owner of the vision was thrown into the pool.

……

"Ha ha……"

Breathing heavily, Elena suddenly came back to her senses and found that she was still in the same position as before, and the black mist that her fingertips touched had disappeared.

"Elena, are you okay?" Ka Lei came over to ask worriedly, and Lini on the side also said with concern:

"Just say you can't touch this kind of thing!"

"I'm fine..." Elena found that her voice was a little hoarse. She stood up and turned around to see an old cell nearby.

Not daring to confirm, she patted her head to calm herself down and said:

"I'm really fine, just keep looking forward."

It is true that it is not infected by the despair and pain in the black mist, but even if you just watch it normally, you can still feel the incomparable depression.

Going deeper, there are still many blood pools, and many altars and evil statues are also found.

This is a statue of a one-horned devil, which looks lifelike and can make people feel cold and evil.Elena was convinced that this was what the body of Hades looked like.

"These sacrificed flesh and blood are not only offered to the evil god, but may also be guided to other places."

The brown-haired girl checked repeatedly and made her own judgment.

She looked serious at this time, and regardless of the stains, she carefully inspected the sacrificial pool, following the lines of the formation and groping around.

Lini has already mastered alchemy. Although it cannot be reproduced, it is still possible to simply see the function.

"I went over there, and I don't know if something was transmitted there."

The three of them headed there and unexpectedly discovered another secret door, leading to the outside world.

They looked at each other, opened the secret door and walked outside.

This stronghold is already on the outermost edge of the slum area.After walking for a while, there is a place outside close to the outside of the city.