Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 281 Starry Sky Reflection
"In the last moments, it felt good to talk to someone who looked like me. I haven't had this feeling since I couldn't look in the mirror."

Qiao Qiao sighed, "But now, it's time for you to set off."

Adele nodded heavily, took the orange notebook from the other party, and returned her colleague's manual to Qiao Qiao. Then, she walked up the stairs and opened the aluminum alloy door.

As Adele opened the door, she was surprised to find that the contents of the notebook were becoming increasingly unfamiliar, and her ability to understand the language was gradually disappearing, as unexpectedly as it had appeared.

If this kind of text appeared before the destruction of the universe, how did Wendy figure out how to translate it?

This question suddenly appeared in Adele's mind, but she didn't care about it anymore. In the gate in front of her, she once again felt the secret connection with the spirit world. She knew that this meant that as long as she crossed this gate, she could return to her own world.

Like a suffocating person longing for air, Adele subconsciously stepped into the door. However, when she realized that she had not said goodbye to Qiao Qiao yet, the door had slowly closed behind her. She could only see Qiao Qiao shouting something to her through the closing door, but she could no longer understand.

Adele stared at the gate for a long while before she came to her senses, sighed softly, and focused her attention on the rooftop.

However, Adele only took a glance and was immediately shocked by the scene before her and was almost speechless.

Completely different from the shape of the hotel, the tower on top looks like a bowl-shaped dome inverted on the roof, incorporating nearly three-quarters of the roof's space into the dome.

Of course, this was only inferred based on Adele's previous observations, because from the inside of the dome, it was impossible to infer how large the scope of this space was, because it was basically boundless, and the space occupied inside and outside was completely different.

The ground here was like a bottomless pool of stagnant water. Every step Adele took would create a large circle of ripples that spread far away until they were out of sight. The bowl-shaped starry sky was upside down above the stagnant water, emitting a mysterious and vast light.

Whether it was the starry sky above or below her head, it was so far away from Adele that it became tiny specks of shining dust; and sometimes it seemed so close, so close that Adele became accustomed to them.

There was a crack in the dark starry sky that looked like it was cut by a knife or an axe. It was filled with a large piece of transparent substance between the three states of solid, liquid and gas. The wonderful aggregation effect made Adele realize that it was the true form of the "Fountain of Youth".

The powerful seal, which originally belonged to the angel level, was now quietly suspended in the boundless starry sky. The faint starlight from the real starry sky shone on the spring water, dyeing the transparent spring water with the color of the starry sky, and then separated into water balls, mist and ice crystals with mottled rust, and merged into the starry sky inside the tower.

Although those water-like substances were constantly peeled off from the extraordinary properties, the extraordinary properties were not damaged at all. Every time a water ball was separated, a new one would immediately fill in the missing part.

Even though there was no sign, Adele knew where she was.

observatory.

This place and the top floor of the hotel are sewn together by some law, spanning tens of thousands of years and tens of thousands of meters, forming some kind of wonderful connection.

"You seem surprised."

A male voice that Adele was familiar with sounded from right below the huge water ball, sounding particularly abrupt under the starry sky.

Adele quickly looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man in a black tuxedo and a violin bag of the same color. Adele had seen that face nearly a hundred times or even more in the East District.

"Britton? Why are you here?"

Adele showed a look of astonishment. She had thought about who might be waiting for her at the Fountain of Youth, Katharina, Gagran, Miss Justice, or Miss Hall, but she had never thought of Britton.

"He originally followed my children onto the ship. With your sequence at that time, you couldn't find him hiding."

Britton's tone suddenly changed to the third person, as if another person hidden inside his body was speaking.

"...this tone...are you Gagran?" Adele realized something and quickly confirmed.

"That's rude. According to the rules of the Witch Cult, you have to call her mother."

Gagran frowned in Britton's body. "But considering that I'm using this body now, these polite things are not necessary. However, if you call me the wrong name again when we meet next time, I may not be so easy to talk to."

"How did you do that... Do witches have similar abilities?"

Adele stared blankly at Gagran walking towards her, with a strange sense of delay between his movements. "Is Britton... still alive?"

"Of course, I'm just borrowing his body."

Gagran replied, "As for abilities, this is a benefit for witches of the Source School. When promoted to Sequence 5, witches who are promoted through rituals can specialize in a certain aspect of their abilities, and have different strengthening directions depending on the main materials they choose."

"Among the main ingredients of the Sequence 5 potion of the Source School, apart from the blood crystal of the Lion-Headed Serpent Beast, which is a fixed ingredient, the remaining main ingredient can be selected from the fangs of the Far North Snow Viper, the entire blood of an adult Indian Silkfish, the silk gland of the Spotted Bride, and the eye of the Black-Feathered Owl."

Gagran explained, "The fangs of the Far North Snow Viper strengthen the power of frost, the entire blood of an adult Indian Silk Fish strengthens black fire, the silk glands of the Astilbe strengthen silk thread, and the eyes of the Black Feathered Owl strengthen black magic and ritual magic."

"And I am a witch with enhanced silk glands. Later, in order to resist the erosion of the source essence, I took a second potion containing the eyes of a black-feathered owl. I gained two enhancements at the same time. This control is also achieved through silk threads."

"By means of strings?" Adele could not help but think of a puppet, but she did not see any strings on Britton.

"Yes, it is somewhat similar to the Puppet Master's Spiritual Thread, but the Puppet Master's ability is to manipulate the invisible Spiritual Thread that already exists, while my ability is to grow a physical thread directly in the spirit world near the target's body, directly connecting to the target's flesh and blood, and controlling the target by pulling the flesh."

"Because of this, the people I control will not die after I end the control, but they will feel a little pain during the operation."

Gagran sighed and said, "If he had risked his life, he could have gotten away. If he had gotten away from the boat and made a little noise, my sister would have probably noticed it and might have killed me. But he seems to have recognized you, so he's been very quiet."

Adele remained silent. If Katarina found out that Gagran was on the ship, then her crime would be confirmed. Regardless of whether Gagran could escape or not, she would definitely not be able to escape the reckoning of the Witch Cult.

Britton knew this, so even though he had the opportunity to take revenge on Gagran, he did nothing.

"You told me this, which means you are indeed a member of the Source Sect, right?"

Adele still couldn't continue the topic of Britten. After all, although she was moved by his behavior, she still couldn't accept this kind of feeling.

"Of course. I'm more surprised that Arrogant didn't tell you about this than that. She insisted that keeping it a secret from you was the best way to keep it a secret."

Gagran nodded. "Maybe she thought it would be better for her to control your advancement speed. Now it seems that she is doing a good job. You just took the Sequence 6 potion, right? Then you should have one and a half to two years to prepare for the advancement to Sequence 5."

"So, what exactly do you and her plan require me to do?" Adele paused and asked Gagran again.

"Her plan is just to get first-hand information about the original witch, so you just need to continue doing your work for the Spiritual Knowledge Society. You don't need to think too much, and she doesn't want you to think too much." Gagran sneered, "In a world where gods really exist, gods want to develop believers. What could be faster than organizing a real descent of gods to show miracles?"

"The descent of the 'Original Witch'? Just for specific information about Him?"

Adele's voice rose a little. Having experienced the Backlund Great Smog and the Fall of Angels, she was very sensitive to things like the descent of God. Moreover, this was the descent of the evil god, and the damage caused would probably be no less than that of the Fall of Angels.

"First of all, I have to correct one thing. You can't get just a little information from a divine descent." Geglan said seriously, "Don't tell me that you have the pendulum given by God, but you still don't know which paths your God corresponds to."

"God-given...?!"

Adele was shocked. She had always thought that it was Mr. World's thing, but it was passed on by Miss Audrey.

"You really don't know... Well, I can't blame that young lady for that. She probably doesn't know. If the Chosen One of Disaster wasn't particularly sensitive to the auras of other source materials, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought that something that was most likely worn by Him would be held in the hands of a Sequence 6."

Gaglan showed an embarrassed expression for a moment, but she quickly controlled herself.

"He is at the pinnacle of the three paths of 'Fortune Teller', 'Apprentice', and 'Thief'. If He is fortune-telling based on this divine descent, I'm afraid He can even figure out the exact location of the original Demon Goddess' Kingdom in the astral realm."

There was a rare sense of awe in Gagran's eyes. Even when she was talking about the Original Witch, there was no such feeling.

"Even if He is currently in a deep sleep and unable to personally take action, He must have given you enough information to accomplish this task, or a way to resolve the impact of God's descent..."

"In their eyes, our specialness is insignificant. Even the best person and the worst one are no different in their eyes. But their will is absolute. If they need us to fulfill their will, they will definitely grant us the corresponding abilities."

Gagran concluded.

"…Do you know what these words remind me of?"

Adele sighed, "Mother Earth... Lilith. Her projection said something similar to me in the Twilight Kingdom. 'They don't care about being special, they themselves are giving others specialness.'"

"Of course, now He and the Fool are on an equal footing to some extent. You'd better get used to this feeling."

Gagran said as a matter of course.

"Why do you know so much?" Adele suddenly felt something was wrong. "Based on what I just experienced, knowing so much about the true gods or even higher levels is not a good thing."

"You think I want to know?"

Gagran smiled bitterly and said, "How many believers do you think the City of Disaster has had in the Northern Continent since the Fourth Epoch?"

"...How much?" Adele was curious.

"You are the third one." Gagran sighed, "I am the second one."

"...It seems that your missionary work is very successful." Adele opened her mouth and finally said this sentence.

"Well, this matter is certainly not as simple for me as it is for you and Venata to learn provocation."

Gagran was a little embarrassed and said unnaturally, "After all, He only accepts male witches as believers of the disaster, which is a bit troublesome for me - I am not as willing to extend myself to others as the first believer of the disaster."

"So, who was the first believer in the disaster?"

Adele sensed the hidden meaning in the other person's words and quickly asked. "She... No, he sounds... terrible."

"You still don't use the personal pronoun." Gagran sighed, "You should use 'He'."

"'Him'?!" Adele took a breath, "You mean..."

"That's right, the original witch, Chike, is the first believer of disaster." Gagran said, "Why do you think the witch sect likes to let men join so much and even female members will be seriously affected? One's own hatred is not enough to make a true god persist in doing one thing for thousands of years."

"Wait, wait, what you said is a bit hard to understand. Why does the City of Disaster choose male witches as its believers, and why does the original witch also do this?"

Adele originally thought that she had gained enough information in the past world, but Gagran dropped another bombshell on her.

"Actually, there aren't just male witches."

Gagran explained, "The corresponding paths for the City of Disaster include feminine witches and masculine hunters, so female hunters are also an option. However, the hunters in Intis are official Beyonders, and they have more power, so it is more inconvenient for us to carry out operations."

Why can female hunters also...wait?
Adele suddenly had a guess, and her voice trembled a little.

"...Can I understand your words as that female Beyonders of the Hunter Path will also undergo gender transformation in the future like the Witch Path?"

Gagran nodded sympathetically.

(End of this chapter)