Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 207 Please Submit Your Testimony

That night.

Most of the magicians in the Mage Tower returned to their own laboratories and no longer went out.

The death of the scholar made the people in the Mage Tower panic. When they thought that the murderer might still be in the Mage Tower, an atmosphere of terror quietly spread among the crowd.

If the murderer could kill the scholar while meditating, he could easily kill every one of them.

Not long ago, Ethan received a series of sad and bad news.

Several residents of the imperial capital broke into the mansion on the other side. They were like puppets controlled by strings, with unknown magical powers emerging from their bodies. After being repelled by Amboris, these "puppets" fell into a coma.

The doctor's diagnosis was that their bodies were still functioning normally, but they had lost consciousness and it was impossible to predict when they would wake up.

This is a unique advantage for the priests of the Church of Life. They speculated that these residents of the imperial capital had been forcibly infused with magic power. For this purpose, the other side invited an expert in this field, Ivy's father, Mr. Collins-Margaret. After passing on the family knowledge to Ivy, he has recently been reading books on ancient technology.

Mr. Collins believes that this method of infusion is somewhat similar to the trance ritual studied by Julius, and coma can also correspond to the state of suspended animation in which the body loses consciousness after being occupied by the body.

This proves that those who attacked the Imperial citizens are closely related to Turzan and the God-Servants.

What is even more sad is that Mr. Palansi has left them forever.

This noble Knight of the Round Table made a phone call to the other side at the end of his life and said the name "Kardra".

Bi'an and Miss Chloe finally found Palansi's body on the outskirts of the imperial capital. The surroundings were in a mess, and it seemed that there had been a fierce battle. The strange thing was that there were no wounds on Palansi's body. When Bi'an still held out a glimmer of hope and sent Palansi's body to the hospital, the doctors gave different diagnoses.

Unlike the previous imperial citizens who were infused with magic power, this body no longer had any vital signs.

This made Bi'an depressed.

She finally met the senior whom she respected when practicing swordsmanship in her childhood, but this senior was murdered right under her nose.

"Old Sen, I want to ask you a favor."

The increasingly faint voice of Bi'an came from the other end of the phone. She was in the hospital now and had been busy all night.

Ethan also heard the sound of wind, which seemed to be on the top floor of the hospital.

"You said."

"No matter who the murderer is, you must find him."

"I will."

The call ended, and Ethan was holding a magic lamp with a magical flame burning inside. This was also found in the scholar's laboratory, where there were many magic props with interesting functions.

He also had mixed feelings, silently repeating the name "Kardra".

This name belongs to the God of Trickery. This is the message that Palansi conveyed to them with his last breath. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as the last ripple. It must contain extremely important information.

Could it be that the instigator of all this is the God of Trickery himself?
As a person who was used to going to bed early and getting up early, Ethan suffered from insomnia tonight. Not only was he not sleepy at all, but he was also in a state of extreme excitement. He guessed that this was probably due to the bottle of unknown potion.

The blue-haired girl was a little clingy. She was very petite, and after they went out, she held Ethan's arm and followed him all the way.

Obviously, his mind was also in an abnormal state.

Not long ago, Ethan saw the electric element with a slicked-back hair walking down the spiral staircase, leaving behind some crackling sounds.

He wandered aimlessly in the Mage Tower, and the conversation between him and Bi'an not long ago emerged in his mind. Bi'an mentioned an important piece of information - those imperial citizens were carrying a bottle of black potion in their hands when they broke into the mansion, and they seemed to want to force it into her mouth.

With Eliom present, they certainly didn't succeed, and she herself was a newly promoted saint at the peak of her powers, so how could she be so easily fed a potion of unknown origin?

However, what Bi'an didn't know was that in the wizard tower on the other side, Ethan had already drunk two large bottles of magic potions of "unknown origin".

But so far, no strange threads have appeared on his body, nor has he been controlled. The only symptom is that he is extremely mentally excited. He even can't sit still and has to come out for a few walks.

He felt that he now looked like a middle-aged or elderly person taking his children out for a stroll, but the wind element was introverted and only liked to follow him. It did not like to deal with other elements and the mages in the wizard tower.

Ethan tried to connect the currently known clues. The first person to drink the potion was the scholar. She mentioned in the manuscript that when she tried to understand the rules of the God of Trickster, she heard His echo, but the wind element believed that she was deceived by someone who called himself Khadra.

"Khadra" implanted an idea in her - the God of Trickery was an expert in deception, and their way of promotion was different from that of the academic school that emphasized rules. She needed to use a huge lie to deceive everyone, and this was a test that the God of Trickery left for all believers.

The scholar believed it and got a cabinet of potions according to the echo mentioned by Khadra.

First of all, the scholar is a shrewd old lady, and may also be the best grand magician in the empire today. She will definitely see through the clumsy lies at a glance and thus doubt the true identity of "Kardra". After all, before returning to the Mage Tower, they had exchanged information about the fall of the upright gods.

This means that at least in the eyes of the scholars, the method provided to her by "Khadra" is real and effective.

Half-truths and half-false lies are more deceptive. What if... what "Khadra" said was actually the truth about the rules of promotion?
That did allow the scholar to cross the last threshold, but he was backstabbed at the most critical moment.

So, what is the real effect of this potion?
"…There, that's interesting."

The sound of the wind element caught Ethan's attention. She was still hiding behind Ethan's arm, her golden eyes looking at the closed stone door not far away.

This is where the forbidden magicians are imprisoned in the Mage Tower. After all, this is not a prison. The space of the confinement room is not large and it can only serve the purpose of temporary detention.

Silver Fox was being interrogated here. Ethan approached and heard voices coming from inside that seemed unrelated to the interrogation.

"Please, please, give me another bottle. I feel like there are a thousand ants crawling on my body. Give me another bottle and I promise I will never drink again!"

It sounded like the voice of Silver Fox. It seemed as if the great magician had completely abandoned his dignity and was begging desperately to someone inside.

Why does it sound like a "magic addict"?
"I can give it to you, but you know what to do."

"Thank you, thank you so much!"

Ethan heard a muffled sound, followed by a rhythmic "dong dong dong" sound. Only then did he realize that it seemed to be the sound made by the silver fox when it kowtowed to someone.

This made Ethan frown. This potion was really harmful. It turned a great magician into a ghost.

"…His will is not strong enough, unlike yours."

The wind element whispered.

Hearing the footsteps, Ethan immediately hid in the dark.

The person who came out of the interrogation room was the vice president. In his hand was a thick stack of information with incomprehensible symbols on it.

"It's so pitiful that his research results were stolen like this."

The wind element commented quietly.

It's so convenient to have such a literary girl following me.

It seemed that the vice president was not in a hurry to interrogate Silver Fox. After putting him in the confinement room, he tried to squeeze out the last value from Silver Fox. For the great magicians, the manuscripts were the crystallization of their life's work, but now they were handed over to others for a bottle of potion.

But the Silver Fox doesn't seem to think so.

When Ethan walked in, the potion bottle was empty. The Silver Fox's eyes were dazed, and he was lying on the floor of the confinement room with his back facing the sky, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

At this moment, Silver Fox seemed to feel unprecedented peace of mind.

There are even more threads on his body, so many that it would cause people to have claustrophobia.

There was an unprecedented piety in Silver Fox's eyes, and his brows were relaxed, as if he was listening to some pleasant music.

"Please take me away..."

He murmured to himself, "Yes, I am your most humble servant, I am willing to give you everything, even... my soul."

"Ugh, that's disgusting!"

The blue-haired girl tightened her grip on Ethan's arm, as if the Silver Fox was treating him as a pervert.

"How did you come?"

A small white ragdoll cat emerged from the shadows, looking up at Ethan, its mouth fur stained with bread crumbs.

Ethan pointed at the corner of the cat's mouth. The cat wiped it doubtfully, and when it saw the bread crumbs all over its paws, it immediately raised its tail excitedly. "No! I was just too bored when I was spying, so I went to the restaurant in the Mage Tower to get some bread!"

Ethan was sure that Teacher Cat was currently unable to sense the existence of the wind element, otherwise, given how protective she was of her food, she would have already kicked up.

He bent down and helped the cat clean the crumbs off its face. Feeling the force on the fur, the cat closed its eyes comfortably. At last, it habitually stuck out its tongue and licked Ethan's palm.

——This is just the cats’ way of expressing friendliness.

The wind element was stunned by Mao Mao's behavior. She widened her golden eyes and stared at Ethan's hand for a long time.

"She...she actually licked you!"

This is really, really offensive!

How could you do such a thing in front of an innocent girl?
Maomao noticed something unusual and asked, "Are you practicing wind magic?"

She always felt that there were a lot of wind elements gathered around Ethan, just like what Yuge had described before, and now Ethan was a man like the wind.

This discovery made her tilt her head in confusion, which is a subconscious action of cats when they are thinking.

She witnessed the upgrading of ice and electricity elements, but had these elements been so sticky to Ethan before?

In order to answer the doubts in her heart, she jumped onto Ethan's shoulder and put her nose to Ethan's neck and sniffed hard.

Something is wrong!
She stuck out her tongue and licked it again, and her eyes suddenly became sharp.

It’s confirmed, there is a weird smell!

Although it wasn't bad, it was a smell that didn't belong to Ethan.

The wind element blushed upon seeing this and covered his eyes with his hands in shame.

"Ethan."

"Ok?"

"Is the wind elemental spirit here?"

She remembered that Ethan mentioned that the image of the wind element during meditation was an introverted girl with shoulder-length black hair, and this was her intuition as the top elemental shaper.

Only when racing does this introverted girl show her true side.

"She helped me translate the Erudite manuscript."

Ethan said. Seeing his frankness, Maomao was no longer worried. She lowered her head and looked at the place where the wind elements gathered, and said, "You are not allowed to do what you did to Ethan just now."

“…I won’t do that!”

The blue-haired girl covered her eyes and blushed, her voice rising a few pitches.

The adult world is so terrible!
"She agreed."

Ethan acted as the translator and asked, "What's wrong with Silver Fox? Why does he look like he's having a magic addiction?"

"It seems that he has heard the voice of the God of Trickery. This is the effect of the potion... huh?"

Maomao suddenly realized something, "Did you drink the potion secretly as well?"

In addition to the taste of the air element, her taste buds also produced a faint taste of licorice.

This time it was the intuition of a top alchemist.

Licorice is one of the main ingredients in the potion.

"Drinked."

"you--!"

The cat was furious and raised its paw angrily, showing Ethan its soft pink pads. However, after hesitating for a few times, it finally decided not to hit him. "How can you drink a potion you haven't seen before?"

She felt that her temper had improved a lot recently. If she were a teacher in the academy before, she would have hit Ethan's palm hard with a ruler and punished him to copy "Do not drink potions you have never seen before" a hundred times.

That's what's so abominable about Ethan as a student.

I can't bear to beat him, but if I don't beat him, he will do something outrageous every once in a while.

"Is there anything unusual after drinking it?"

When she thought about it carefully, she felt that it was unlikely that Ethan would become as miserable as the Silver Fox. If these threads could really build a bridge for him to communicate with the God of Trickery, who knows who would be fooled.

Lao Ba and Lao An have fallen into the trap. Judging from the development of the situation in Ophira, the Demon King Xinkalo seems to be Ethan's next target.

It won't be long before they start referring to this old god who is well versed in conspiracy and intrigue as Lao Xin.

"My spirit becomes excited, and I can even see the appearance of elemental spirits in the Mage Tower."

"Well, what you are talking about is the precursor to schizophrenia."

猫猫叹气。

She had seen many crazy and mentally ill patients claiming that they could see things that others could not see. "It seems that this potion specializes the effect of meditation, allowing people to see or hear things that they could not hear otherwise."

"Do you think Silver Fox heard the voice of the God of Trickster?"

This is definitely an important discovery.

Ethan was observing Silver Fox outside the door. The great magician with a distracted look had completely fallen into the spiritual world and didn't care about anything happening outside.

He thought for a moment and asked, "Then, can I hear it too?"

Ethan felt that the God of Trickery was not very friendly. He had already drunk two large bottles of potion, but not even a thread appeared on his body.

The other party didn't seem to want to communicate with him.

"Theoretically yes."

"theory?"

"The principle of hearing the echo is related to the silk thread you mentioned. If you can't grow it on your body, just steal someone else's."

hiss!
Maomao felt that she might be the worst teacher in the world. She had just emphasized to students that they were not allowed to drink potions randomly, but then she turned around and encouraged the students who had drunk the potions to do bad things.

But in fact, she always felt that Ethan's eyes were a little unusual, and his insight into the trajectory of magic power was different from ordinary people. She only vaguely saw it after Ethan mentioned that there was a silk thread hanging above the silver fox's head.

Even for saints who are proficient in magic, these threads are difficult to detect.

"Robbed someone else's?"

Ethan's eyes lit up. Teacher Maomao always gave him a lot of inspiration.

Mr. Silver Fox's body was covered with so many silk threads that they were impossible to count with the naked eye. He believed that even if a few were missing, it would not have any impact.

Mr. Silver Fox doesn't need so much silk thread anyway.

At least that's what Ethan thought.

"Well, I'll go in and take a look. Can you guys keep watch for me?"

"Go ahead."

The cat jumped to the ground gracefully, and with a "bang", the Winter Witch temporarily took on the role of guard. The Wind Element just nodded slightly, but she didn't seem to like fighting with others. After Ethan left, the blue-haired girl found a new backbone. She hid behind Winter, hugged her arms, and stuck out half of her head to watch the door.

Ethan came in front of the silver fox.

Teacher Mao Mao said that this potion specialized the effect of meditation, allowing the user to hear sounds that they could not otherwise hear, which was consistent with the symptoms of the scholar.

He closed his eyes and raised his hand to touch the silk thread hanging from the silver fox.

All of a sudden, he heard many voices.

At first the sound was very far away from him, but as he meditated deeper, it became closer and closer, until it stopped less than ten meters away from him.

"I have to convey a sad news to everyone. Mr. Palansi met with an accident in the empire. He encountered unprecedented enemies in the imperial capital. Although he fought to the last moment, he unfortunately died at the hands of the enemy."

Ethan opened his eyes and saw a circular seat with a dozen puppets of the same texture placed on it.

He quickly determined that this was a courtroom, and he was standing in the witness seat. The puppet, only a body length away from him, was making an impassioned speech, telling everyone about the misfortunes that Palansi had encountered in the imperial capital.

There was a flurry of discussion in the circular seats. To them, the news of Palansi's death was shocking news.

This is the second servant of the gods to die in recent times after Turzan’s death.

They all died in the Empire.

This also means that the trance ritual is no longer safe, and the Imperials have mastered the means to kill souls.

"Was it the Winter Witch who did this?"

Someone at the table asked.

Turzan died at the hands of the witch - those who had witnessed the rebellion witnessed the arrival of this scene and saw Turzan's skin and soul shattered along with the ice sculpture.

"No, not her, it's someone else."

The puppet presiding over the meeting said, "Ethan appeared in Ximu Town on the border of the empire two years ago. Before that, there was no news about this person. He was a student of the Winter Witch, but he surpassed his teacher in just two years."

"This is impossible!"

One of the puppets said.

Everyone present witnessed the corrupt war. Looking at the saints they knew, the Winter Witch was one of the most powerful. Turzan had always tried to win Winter over to join them, but was rejected repeatedly.

They absolutely did not believe that anyone could surpass the Winter Witch in just two years - especially in the field of elemental shaping magic.

Unlike those in the academy, they all knew the true value of Winter's theory.

Several epochs after the destruction of the Demonic Web, Winter single-handedly charted another path of advancement for elemental shapers.

"That's really impossible, unless..."

The puppet paused for a while, controlling the rhythm of the words, "Unless he has been hiding something from the beginning, everything about his past is a mystery, and he seems to have appeared out of thin air."

"…Followers of the old gods!"

one of the puppets blurted out.

Only those chosen by the old gods can do this.

"It is even possible that it is a projection of the old gods in this world."

The host puppet seemed very satisfied with the audience's reaction. He added fuel to the fire, "We all know what the 'Seventh Age' represents. The seal that blocks the old gods is no longer reliable. They may have found a way to infiltrate this world again."

The circular seats were silent.

There was no expression on the puppet's face, but Ethan could feel the solemnity of everyone.

These words activated the fear deep in their hearts.

"In order to support my judgment, I invited a witness."

The host puppet turned around and looked at him. "This is Mr. Silver Fox, a great magician certified by the Empire and the Mage Tower. He has personally witnessed Ethan's elemental magic, and also witnessed how Ethan killed the current scholar and controlled the entire Mage Tower by coercion... Mr. Silver Fox, you don't have to be afraid here. You can speak frankly about your experience in the Mage Tower. If what you say is true, the God Servant will lend you a hand."

For a moment, all eyes were on Ethan, waiting for his testimony.

Now Ethan understood everything.

Next, he will prove in front of these people that he is a projection of the old god who has committed heinous crimes and killed Palansi and the scholar one after another.

He seemed to have arrived at a bad time and had no time to prepare his speech.

He also did not listen to the echo of the God of Trickery and had no idea how to prove that he was a projection of the old gods.

What's worse is that when he pulled the silk thread just now, he seemed to have used a little too much force, causing Mr. Silver Fox's consciousness to drift away.

"Mr. Silver Fox?"

Seeing that he was slow to speak, the host puppet reminded him.

I have no choice but to bite the bullet.

Ethan gritted his teeth and coughed lightly, "Well, you know, Ethan is my brother, that guy is incredibly strong..."

(End of this chapter)