Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

The magician girl is a rare magician who has reached the eternal realm. Dragons can identify individuals from the flow of magic power, so they can naturally see that the magic power she contains is extraordinary. However, eternal life means drawing a clear line between herself and ordinary people. When other humans turn into dry bones, she still maintains her youthful vigor.

The same is true for the human male in front of him.

Wrinkles have appeared on his hands, which have been weathered by the years, and there are visible gray hair and beard. Compared to when he fought the dragon, it is obvious that he does not have much time left.

"That child has magical attainments that neither I nor my companions can match, but she is still a naive child in her mindset... She will continue to be naive in the future. She will definitely cry her heart out when she comes to see you again. I just think it's a bit too cruel for her to let her cry facing the grave."

At least she needs a warm shoulder.

This is how the man expressed his demands.

"You will be the only one who can do it by then, so——"

The man raised his head and stared at the giant dragon high above. He was a great adventurer whose name would be engraved in human history. Therefore, people would always describe his eyes as being like those of the most experienced hunter, making any prey tremble with fear.

Only this moment is different, just like my aging father.

"I'll leave Anjie to you. Please take good care of her."

……

The next day, early in the morning of the Griff Valley, Angelica and the others set off again.

"Huh? You're leaving after just one day. I haven't had time to improve my relationship with my mother-in-law..."

"We have no intention of sharing the joy with you. Besides, we have not recognized you yet."

"Why, why..."

Outside the Griff Valley, Coppelia's eyes were filled with tears. She had never been one to like to put herself in a difficult position, but Tiamat was special. Coppelia wanted to have a good relationship with Tiamat no matter what. However, Tiamat seemed to dislike Coppelia.

"I always feel that... you will bully Yakin."

"would not!"

Angelica burst out laughing and pretended to scold Coppelia who was hit hard.

"Why not? You're not gentle to me at all."

"That's all because Anjie was crying so hard that it was hard to refuse her... Besides, wasn't Anjie enjoying it herself?"

"Huh? When did I ever enjoy it?"

"Obviously there is."

"It's just your illusion."

"I'm a girl too, I can tell whether Anjie is enjoying it or resisting it..."

Tiamat walked past the bickering Angelica and Coppelia and came to Anna. Although he still didn't quite understand what a maid did, Tiamat felt that Anna was more reliable than Coppelia.

"Humanoid, don't let Palin down."

"You will definitely live up to your destiny."

Anna's answer satisfied Tiamat.

Before officially setting off, Angelica had one more thing to tell Tiamat.

"By the way, I want to talk about... the ring."

"Didn't you take it off?"

"I mean, I'd be happy if you could be there on the day we exchange the rings."

Angelica waited for Tiamat's answer with an expectant look.

Tiamat seemed to suddenly understand Coppelia's thoughts. Seeing Angelica's cautious expression, she suddenly had the urge to reject her and see her panic.

However, Tiamat was always happier to see Angelica smile than her depressed look.

"Since this is Carbin's intention, how can we refuse it?"

The witch smiled like a flower, and then her screams echoed throughout the Griff Valley.

"It's Angelica! Call her right for once!"

【Witch TIPS】

The natural lifespan of dragons is still unknown. So far, no dragon has been found to have died of old age, and all dragon corpses were killed in battle.

268 [Witch and the Road to Godhood]

The day after leaving the Griff Valley, Angelica and her group arrived at the Sanker Forest. Similar to the Griff Valley, the Sanker Forest was a completely uninhabited natural landscape.

Compared to the Griff Valley, the magic density of the Sankor Forest has reached the standard suitable for living, but even in the era when Tiamat had not yet taken over the elves' nest, the elves did not turn the Sankor Forest into their town.

The reason is simple. Elves have no custom of pioneering. They only transform the wilderness and will not choose to destroy naturally formed forests. In addition, elves basically do not form large families like humans and orcs. An elf couple usually only gives birth to one or two children. Therefore, the area on the island of Albion is always sufficient.

Maintaining its most primitive appearance, the Sanker Forest will not only be targeted by magicians, but will also attract another most primitive creature on the island of Albion -

"Ah...I've encountered an annoying creature again."

While Coppelia was searching for the base of the Golden Dawn, Angelica keenly noticed something.

"You mean... unicorn?"

Speaking of creatures that live in the Sanker Forest, Anna checked a little and soon realized that Angelica was talking about creatures that were unique to Albion Island: unicorns.

It looks like a white horse, with a white body, like an angel descending from heaven to earth, with a spiral horn on its forehead, and a beautiful and pure appearance. It was the first time Anna saw a unicorn with her own eyes, and she was inevitably attracted by its holiness. However, if the owner was hostile to the unicorn, Anna would put away her admiration.

"Yes, Anna, you know there is that legend about unicorns, right?"

"Only pure girls will be allowed to approach?"

"Well, because people believe that unicorn horns are excellent magical materials, and even unicorn blood is a panacea that can cure all diseases. Magicians all know that unicorn horns are rare magical materials, but the effect is obviously exaggerated. The horns of unicorns that die of normal causes are enough for magicians all over the world to use. After all, there is basically no place where they are needed... As for the latter, it is completely false. Unicorn blood has no effect at all, but the poaching caused by it has made unicorns rare, and even evolved into a habit for survival."

Angelica slowly approached the unicorn while recounting history. Historically, the elves refused to allow humans to freely enter the island because the unicorn poachers were all humans. As long as there was enough profit, humans would do anything. Orcs? They never steal, they rob openly.

"Poachers are all human males, so unicorns are extremely wary of human males and only maintain their kind nature towards the purest girls among humans. Over time, unicorns have become the sacred animals of girls. But in fact..."

The moment Angelica approached the unicorn, the unicorn seemed to sense something and quickly ran away.

"Owner!"

Angelica was also knocked over by the unicorn's self-protection and fell down in a slightly embarrassed manner. Anna's eyes suddenly turned cold. Although she was indeed amazed by the unicorn's beautiful body just now, if it hurt her owner, no matter how rare the creature was, in Anna's view it would be an unforgivable beast.

Just as Anna was about to attack, Angelica stopped her.

"That's not necessary. I'm not so fragile that I'll die if I fall. As expected, the legend is false, Anna."

Anna carefully cleaned the dust off Angelica's clothes while listening to Angelica's story.

"Only half of the legend about unicorns is true. That's the first half about the poaching of unicorns. But the later part about unicorns only allowing pure girls to get close to them in order to survive is a complete lie! It's a story made up by some irresponsible bard!"

Angelica was filled with righteous indignation. She was also a naive girl who believed in fairy tales. The most vicious thing about the unicorn story was that it mixed fact and fiction together. It was easy to be fooled. Although it had been a long time, Angelica still clearly remembered how she felt when she approached the unicorn for the first time with a girlish heart but was almost hoofed.

"Also, it is the nature of unicorns to allow virgins to approach them instead of pure girls. It is a rigid nature. How am I not pure?"

"Eh? Could it be that at this age, the master has already..."

"..."

There was danger in Angelica's calm smile.

Anna swallowed nervously, worried that her slip of the tongue would touch upon her master's sad past.

In fact, it is no wonder that Anna would have a misunderstanding. After all, Angelica used her memories to disguise herself as a young girl to approach the Unicorn, but was still ruthlessly rejected by the Unicorn. The only reason Anna could think of was that the period of Angelica's memories did not match the Unicorn's judgment, and she was a little too frightened for a while.

"How is that possible! Unicorns can tell whether someone is disguised or not. They are smarter than I thought. But my lovely maid seems to have all these strange thoughts in her head...?"

Angelica wasn't kidding. Although it sounded ridiculous, unicorns could indeed recognize the disguise of Sequence Five magic. Getting close enough to the point where one could be knocked over by the unicorn's sudden gallop like just now was already as close as one could get.

So, the next step is to consider how to punish the maid who offended her master.

“——Angie! We found the entrance!”

Coppelia excitedly waved to Angelica and Anna. After a difficult confirmation process, Coppelia finally found the contact point set up by the Golden Dawn in the north of Albion Island.

Unlike the contact point in Athlone which was clearly set up in the temple, the Golden Dawn's contact point in Sanker was disguised with a veil of illusion. Ordinary people... or even slightly immature magicians would mistake it for a monotonous forest and miss it. Only powerful magicians would realize that the scenery of a certain place has been disguised by magic, and the original appearance can only be seen after the veil is removed.

"It seems that Aleister is already waiting inside."

"Hmm... You're here so early? We are the ones who are late because we need help."

But it was also good this way, as this was a matter concerning Anna's most important magic core, and Angelica didn't think there was any benefit in delaying it any longer.

The witch snapped her fingers, and the camouflage magic of memory faded away. She and her clothes returned to their original appearance. Meeting each other in their original appearance was the most basic courtesy.

Whether or not Anna's magic core can be dealt with successfully depends on this direct confrontation with the leader of the Golden Dawn.

269 ​​Magicians and Ordinary People

The magic veil is like a calm water surface. After confirming the entrance, you can easily pass through it with a little magic protection. Strictly speaking, in order to maintain the disguise for a long time, the layout of the magic veil is slightly weak. However, thanks to the fact that the elf magicians will not choose to destroy the forest, such a sloppy magic workshop has been able to continue for hundreds of years.

The layout of the magic workshop was extremely simple, but it was small but complete, with all the necessary facilities such as the alchemy table. Next to the alchemy table, a man dressed as a scholar with long flowing hair was fiddling with a flask. When he saw Angelica and the others coming, he smiled and ended his idle time.

"Should we call this our official first meeting? Honorable Beyonder, the Black Witch."

Aleister, the current leader of the magical secret society Golden Dawn.

Even though she had seen Aleister once before through magic, Angelica was still curious about his secrets when she actually met him.

This person...is he a man or a woman?

Aleister always had a feminine smile on his face, and he looked like the core figure of a common and mysterious villain organization.

"Let's get straight to the point. Aleister, since you invited me here, it at least means we have something worth talking about."

Angelica went straight to the point. The last words Aleister left for her were that there was no option for us to become enemies, and perhaps the two sides could find a way to cooperate.

"My purpose is very clear. I hope you can provide a solution to improve Anna's magic furnace core. But I don't know what you... and the entire Golden Dawn want."

Coppelia was once a member of the Golden Dawn, but she had left the Golden Dawn a long time ago, so it would be better to confirm it from Aleister in person.

Aleister smiled slightly. It was indeed a beautiful and moving smile. Angelica had no doubt that Aleister could charm both the boy and the girl.

"I want to ask the Black Witch a question. What do you think is the relationship between powerful magicians and ordinary people in this world?"

"what?"

"Or to put it another way, who is more important in promoting the entire history?"

"Well..."

Angelica had not expected Aleister to ask such a strange question.

"It's difficult to answer. Even a Beyonder who has experienced thousands of years cannot give a clear answer. It is precisely because of the long time that it is difficult to answer."

Aleister put his hands behind his back and paced around the magic studio.

"Hoes, cooking utensils, reins, thread ends... these are the wisdom of ordinary people, and they are miracles that magicians can never create. In this way, the cornerstone of history belongs to ordinary people who have no magical talent. But is it really so? As a Beyonder, you must have heard the story of the tyrant Caligula. The emperor with magical talent fell into the abyss on the road of pursuing magic and became a tyrant who used magic to wreak havoc on the entire empire."

The tyrant Caligula, the emperor of the country before the establishment of the Rhine Confederation, was, as Aleister said, an unfortunate emperor who pursued eternity but ended up being a madman. However, the truly unfortunate people were the ordinary people living in that era, for no other reason than that the tyrant Caligula was insane, but his magic talent was not diminished at all.

"I once had an idea. What would happen if we lived in a world without magic? Perhaps the history of the entire world would be completely different. If there were a tyrant in a world without magic, he would most likely die an untimely death. He would never have a good ending. A cup of poisoned wine, a carefully planned assassination, or a rebellion when public resentment reaches its peak could all kill the tyrant."

Aleister's speculation was completely correct... In fact, before she came to the world of swords and magic, she happened to live in a world without magic. In the history of that world, countless tyrants died in assassinations or caused boiling riots, and the entire kingdom was in turmoil under the riots.

However, the world of swords and magic is a different story. To put it coldly, the gap between magicians and ordinary people is even greater than the gap between humans and dogs.

"The tyrant Caligula was blessed by magic, and neither assassination nor riot could shake his rule. Today's operas are all denouncing the tyrant Caligula, and every opera makes him receive all the punishment he deserves, but history is not like that. Assassinations are exchanged for more brutal tyranny, and resistance is exchanged for more horrific slaughter... The tyrant Caligula reigned over the entire country, and even enjoyed his old age in peace in the end."

Naturally, not long after Caligula's death, his descendants were unable to maintain their rule, and Caligula's tomb was dug up by angry people, but one fact could not be changed in any case - when Caligula was alive, he was equivalent to a god in the kingdom, acting recklessly, and no one could restrain him.

"In fact, there are quite a few tyrants who enjoy their old age. Most of them are rulers of duchies and counties. Once a powerful magician appears, he will completely dominate his territory. He will arbitrarily control the will of a country and write the history of the entire country with tyranny. Ordinary people can do nothing about it."

“…Indeed.”

Angelica finally spoke again.

"But I think you've gone a bit too far. What exactly do you want to express?"

"I think that there is something wrong with the current laws governing the operation of this world."

"mistake?"

"No matter how tyrannical the tyrant Caligula was, he could not execute everyone, because he needed people to serve him, and he needed the useless trash he called them to support the foundation of his tower. I think this is very contradictory. Ordinary people know that magicians are evil, but they have no ability to overthrow magicians; magicians use absolute power to rule ordinary people, but they are dependent on ordinary people to some extent, because if all their subjects are killed by magicians, the king without subjects is at best an empty shell."

Aleister felt that the world today was in a state of extreme imbalance.