Mystery: Mr. Witch and Ms. Hunter

Chapter 351 Going deeper
While Venata and Audrey were discussing future business strategies, Sophie and Azik were discussing their own matters in the room downstairs.

This was originally a large private room in a bar, but was later converted by Azik into a classroom for literacy training for former gang members. There were blackboards and chalk on the walls, and it looked quite realistic.

Because of the potion in Sophie's body, she could not attend the church school. Vinata was busy managing the company during this period, so she handed her over to Azik's care and took classes with those former gang members.

After Audrey arrived at Indor Port, she immediately held a ceremony for Sophie to strip away her beautiful inner emotions.

Just as Sun and others predicted, after the beautiful emotions were stripped away, the cold-blooded characteristics in Sophie's body were initially digested in just three days, and now she has become a "serial killer" of Sequence 7.

"It seems that the extraordinary characteristics have had a significant impact on this child."

While Azik was packing up the teaching aids, he spoke to Cecilia in Sophie's body with a hint of blame in his tone.

During this period, he has been responsible for educating Sophie. Sophie's mental changes reminded him of the time when he was called the "Archon of Death", so he was a little dissatisfied with Cecilia.

"It wasn't me who left the Beyonder Characteristics in her body."

Sophie blinked, and her eyes turned a bright blood red, a sign that Cecilia's personality was emerging.

"Besides, with the existence of extraordinary characteristics and the potion system, they are already much luckier than my father's time."

Cecilia, who automatically switched, spread her hands and said, "You should feel lucky that it was me who parasitized her instead of Mata Farley or the little son of the Creator."

Azik frowned, knowing that Cecilia was telling the truth, but still feeling a little short of breath.

"Let's not talk about this for now. If it really doesn't work, wait until you help me get the 'Death Notice', and I will rebuild my body and get out. Then you can help this little girl transfer to the 'Prisoner' path. For humans, this sequence is enough."

Cecilia suggested that she didn't care about these things at first, but now Azik was the one in charge, so she could only follow his wishes.

After all, the "devil" acting of a Demon Path Sequence 4 can also make people lost, as can be seen from the fact that Agaritu has been causing trouble on the sea for so many years in order to advance to Sequence .

Cecilia tried to tactfully tell Azik that if you don't want this little girl to lose too much of her humanity, you can just find another way, but before that, could you please arrange my affairs first?
Azik naturally saw Cecilia's intention. He thought for a while without commenting, and then said to Cecilia: "I said that if there is a chance, I will help you pay attention to these. Do you have any feelings on your side?"

After all, the "Death Notice" was a tool that Cecilia had made before to escape from the control of the Mother Tree of Desire. There should be some subtle connection between the two.

"Although it's vague, I'm sure that this opportunity will come soon."

Cecilia said confidently, "During this period of time, I have been actively sensing the Death Call. If it hadn't relied on Agaritu's will to resist me, I could have called it over myself."

“But now, even if the Death Announcer doesn’t want to, Agaritu can’t help it anymore.” Cecilia explained, “As long as he can devour me, he will truly have the status to command the Death Announcer to a certain extent, and can control the Death Announcer instead of being controlled by it.”

Even with only a weak connection between the two, the Death Teller finds it difficult to resist the orders of Cecilia, its creator, and must rely on Agaritu, its symbiote. However, this also allows Agaritu to learn a lot of information that he didn't know before, including Cecilia's current condition.

To Agaritu, who had been promoted to Sequence 4 "Devil", this was a great opportunity. As long as he succeeded, he would no longer be controlled by the Death Sentence, so it was worth a try.

"Okay." Azik simply agreed, picked up the textbook and walked out of the classroom. Sophie's eyes gradually turned dark red, and Cecilia fell asleep again.

……

East Balam, Aleth.

This is the logistics base of the southern continent's rebels, a port city located at the mouth of the Orinoco Sea.

Since the main road from here to the Paz River Valley on the East Balam front had to pass through the rainforest, the rebels' supplies were basically transported to the front line by sea using the galleons extorted from Intis and Feysac.

"It is very similar to the geographical location of Indo Port during the war."

Adele sighed as she stood on a hill in the distance, overlooking the entire city, with Tracy standing beside her.

Both of them were wearing brown and yellow tropical training uniforms and carrying backpacks containing food and tents on their backs. They really looked like military doctors of the Southern Continent Corps.

More than a hundred nautical miles away from Indo Port, the Yukikaze docked, dropped off Adele and Tracy, then turned around and attacked any ships that might appear on the road.

"Wait until you find the lion-headed snake-body beast, then we'll come here to cause them some trouble."

Tracy said, hoping for chaos, "There are many pyramids left by the remnants of the God of Death nearby, and lion-headed snake-bodied beasts often appear there."

Adele hummed noncommittally and looked out at the city in the distance.

Due to its important geographical location, Alese has been turned into a huge military fortress by the East Balam people. The seven-meter-high walls and the fortress artillery distributed in layers declare to everyone that this is an absolute military restricted area.

In this city, there should be one demigod, or at most two...

Adele was thinking in her mind. Although the Rose School had incorporated some of the escaped members of the Life School, it was after all fighting against the two major Orthodox Churches on its own, so it was inevitable that it was short of manpower.

Because this path has the existence of Sequence 2 "Divine Evil" Sua, as well as the "Temperance Faction" leader mentioned by Emlyn before, Sequence 2 "Ancient Evil" Renette Tinicole, and "Cursed King" Baranca, who is also a Sequence "Ancient Evil", under the restrictions of the Law of Conservation of Beyonder Characteristics, there are actually not many saints in the Rose School.

Jax, Zatwin, and "Silent One" Mahmuds, these are almost all the saints that the Rose School can dispatch in this path. Even if there are hidden saints, the number will not exceed this number. Moreover, because there are no clear records and witnesses, there is bound to be a lack of anchor points, making it difficult to reach Sequence 3.

If, if one of him and Tracy were promoted to Sequence 4, maybe they could really cause some trouble in this city...

Even though they were only Sequence 5 and Sequence 6 now, it was more than enough for them to cause some trouble to the defenders in the city. After all, with Tracy's plague ability, it was perfect for attacking the opponent's back line silently.

When the news comes that the "Snow Wind" has sunk the baggage ship along the coast, the garrison of Aleser will certainly be in chaos, and it will not be difficult to sneak in. By then, I can sneak in with Tracy and spread the plague. This mission will be basically completed, which is enough to save Emlyn's position.

Besides, unlike Alesser and Indo, Alesser had long been converted into a military fortress by the Rose School. It was almost entirely filled with combat and logistics personnel, and almost all civilians had been relocated. Even if the plague was really released, Adele would not have any psychological burden.

——The non-lethal plague will not take their lives, but will instead involve more people in withdrawing from the battle sequence with them. At that time, it can basically be announced that the Eastern Front has achieved a phased victory.

"let's go."

Adele pulled out the tactical knife from her waist, cut through the vines that blocked the way, and walked down the mountain with Tracy.

It's easy to feel irritated walking in the rainforest.

The hot and humid air, the vines that hinder one's steps, the hard-to-detect mosquitoes and leeches... Although the witch's physique can avoid the invasion of mosquitoes, the constant and repetitive work of clearing roads is also a torture for the human mind.

I didn’t expect that I would have to go deep into the rainforest again within two months after I had just experienced a rainforest adventure in the underground Bimini Island…

Adele muttered to herself as she walked around two large trees that were strangely entangled in front of her.

The trunks of two thick and tall trees are entangled together. The bark is obviously scaly, densely connected piece by piece, and it seems that they will wriggle at any time, entangled like two real snakes.

"This is an important landmark and we are not far from our destination."

Tracy explained, "Many extraordinary creatures were used in the construction of that pyramid. Their bodies were built into the foundation of the pyramid, which had a certain impact on the surrounding plants. These two snake-scale trees may have been growing for hundreds of years. Seeing them means that we are no more than two kilometers away from our destination in a straight line."

Adele nodded, finally being able to get rid of mechanical labor made her feel relaxed. As an assassin who yearned for adventure and challenge, she even felt that as long as she walked in the rain forest for a while, even the monsters would look more friendly, at least it would not be as boring as clearing the way.

Soon, the two came to a relatively open place again. The surrounding trees were withered, the weeds were dead, and countless corpses had half of their bodies sticking out of the soil. There were faint shadows flashing in the deep woods not far away.

It seems that some remnants of the extraordinary characteristics of the "Death God" path attracted the lion-headed snake-bodied beast, which is the main material of the "Witch" path?
Adele guessed secretly and thought this should be the correct answer.

"The lion-headed snake-bodied beast is not easy to deal with. It's best for the two of us to work together."

Tracy said to Adele, "My mother helped me hunt for the ingredients for my potion, but we have to find another way to get your ingredients.

As the name suggests, the lion-headed snake beast is an extraordinary creature with a lion's head and a snake's body. However, unlike the common monsters with multiple heads, its head is followed by the bodies of three snakes.

Its signature ability is the aura of disease that surrounds it at all times, and the witch's black magic abilities are also involved to a certain extent.

Not only is it able to use the slowing down and corrosive black magic that Adele often uses, it can also easily use more advanced instant death curses. Once you are injured in a battle with it, you will immediately be put in a very passive situation.

Extraordinary beings like witches and magicians who can use substitutes can certainly resist these curses to a certain extent, but they lack the means to kill with one blow.

It would be a different story if Tracy was a Sequence 5 Reaper from the Hunter Path, but now, the two could only hope that their first sneak attack would be successful.

"It would be best if we could kill it quickly, but don't expect too much. It's a creature that is born with the ability to use a stand."

Tracy said, "Besides, its blood is also one of the important products of the Pain Witch Ascension Ceremony. If we delay for too long, a large part of it may be lost."

Adele nodded nervously. Although she was a seasoned warrior, this was her first time hunting for the ingredients she needed for the potion.

The two exchanged positions, with Tracy walking in front to look for the trace of the lion-headed snake-bodied beast, and Adele following closely behind.

Tracy walked forward slowly and quietly, carefully observing the surrounding environment. From time to time, she would stop somewhere and study an unknown trace for a long time.

"You're starting to look like a real hunter."

Adele couldn't help but admire it. Tracy's actions showed that this was obviously not the first time she had done something like this.

"After all, I have been to many places with Elaine before, and her approach is really suitable for doing similar things."

Tracy didn't look up, and continued to observe the scratches left on the tree roots, her voice a little muffled.

Well, if you don't want to explain, you don't have to. There's no need to force a conversation and remind yourself of what happened before...

Adele didn't know what to say, so she could only follow Tracy in silence.

Finally, Tracy stood up and pointed to several marks on the ground and said, "It is basically confirmed that a lion-headed snake-bodied beast has appeared here recently. Those are the unique marks it left when it crawled."

"All we have to do now is hide here and wait for it to appear before launching a surprise attack."

Tracy dusted off her hands and said, "I don't know how long we'll have to wait this time, but we can set up the tent first."

Are you here to ambush and set up your tent on its territory?

Adele was skeptical, but she did it out of trust in Tracy.

Soon, the two men set up a triangular marching tent and placed the sleeping bags side by side inside.

Then Tracy rummaged through her backpack and pulled out a large cloak.

Adele had seen this cloak before. On Bimini Island, when Catalina was attacking the barrier with all her might, Tracy used this cloak that connected the subspace to wrap the two of them up.

Tracy swiftly entered the tent, opened the door, patted the empty space beside her, and motioned for Adele to sit in.

Then she lifted her cloak upwards, and the entire tent was covered by the cloak that fell down and hidden.

(End of this chapter)