Witch, Fireball and Steam Evil God

Chapter 7: The Land of Destruction and Rebirth

From Teacher Valerie.

There was a gas lamp on the desk in the bedroom. Ivy sealed the envelope with a heavy face. The kestrel on the windowsill nodded at her, picked up the envelope with its beak, spread its wings, turned around and blended into the night.

During these two years, she sent no less than twenty letters to the society, but never received a satisfactory reply.

This time, the great nobles in the imperial capital unsurprisingly rejected her application to station troops in Ximu Town once again. Those pampered people always thought they had more important things to do and ignored the threats she mentioned in the letter.

In the letter tonight, her teacher proposed to transfer her back to the imperial capital to work, saying that her mother was old and she shouldn't always make the family worry.

Ivy clenched her fists.

Those people simply did not realize the crisis the empire was facing.

The sudden appearance of the werewolf in the woods, the estimated cursed creature of level three or above, and last night's blood moon, all signs indicate that the evil god's followers have already set their sights on this border town.

Her eyes once again fell on the yellowed newspaper on the table.

"The Witch's End - The Evil God's followers are vulnerable to the Empire!"

This impressive title showed the pride of the writer. The reporter from the Hippogryph Daily was at the execution platform at the time and witnessed the entire process of the witch's execution. He also wrote down the witch's life story in the newspaper - she was once one of the most outstanding elemental shapers in the empire, but she was bewitched by the evil god and fell into depravity.

The black and white images in the newspaper kept changing, repeating the execution scenes that Ivy had seen countless times. A woman with a black cloth bag covering her head was tied to a wooden stake. The executioner poured oil on her body and set her on fire with a torch. The flames almost instantly engulfed the woman. When the flames went out, only a charred corpse was left on the stake.

Ivy frowned, and the Vatican never let anyone see the witch's face from beginning to end. The official explanation was that the witch had a pair of evil eyes that could bewitch people, but at the same time it gave people another space for imagination.

For example, in the battle that destroyed most of the imperial capital, the Vatican failed to capture the Winter Witch alive and could only find a scapegoat.

However, the reporter of "Hippogryph Daily" believed the propaganda of the Holy See. After the execution, the newspaper sang praises of the great achievements of the Holy See. Until now, the nobles in the imperial capital believe that the Winter Witch is dead.

But there are also rumors that the seriously injured witch escaped from the encirclement of the Holy See and the Knights Templar, and fled to a border town, leaving the border of the empire.

Ivy held her forehead tiredly. She sorted out all the rumors and integrated them together, and deduced the most likely escape route of the Winter Witch. This was also the reason why she left the imperial capital and insisted on coming to Ximu Town.

Ximu Town is the last stop of the Winter Witch. In the eyes of the evil god's believers, this town has a very special meaning. They give the town the name of "the land of destruction and rebirth" and firmly believe that when the Winter Witch makes a comeback, she will bring destruction to this corrupt empire.

This happened two years ago.

All the recent signs outside of Ximu Town have shown that the witch has shown signs of rebirth. Ivy has also sent her organized route and manuscript back to the academy, but...

The nobles in the imperial capital, however, believed that she was a delusional clown. They still firmly believed that the Winter Witch had been burned to death in an execution two years ago.

After all, in a place like the imperial capital, a graduate of the Enlightenment Academy who was only at the second level had no say at all. Even her father wrote to warn her not to send any more inexplicable letters, as that would only bring shame to the family.

Ivy sighed and put the documents on the desk into the drawer.

Only time will tell.

So she once again ignored her teacher's advice and would rather die with the truth.

Ivy took off her windbreaker and hung it on the hanger, then wrapped herself in the quilt and lay in bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep. In addition to the matter of the evil god's followers, there was another thing that bothered her heart.

Ivy always felt that she had forgotten something, but when she thought about it carefully, she couldn't find any clue. For a seeker of truth, this was tantamount to torment.

This was a very restless sleep, and she was overwhelmed by endless nightmares.

She dreamed that she was on a street in a small town, and everything she could see was covered in ice and snow. Familiar residents of the town were facing her. They were still running away, and their panicked expressions were forever frozen in time. She also dreamed that a person covered in a cloak was looking down at her from a high place on a bell tower, wearing a strange mask with a scarlet pupil underneath.

When the sky outside the window turned pale, Ivy woke up from her nightmare.

She threw back the quilt and sat on the bed. Her body was already soaked with sweat, and the golden hair on her head was split apart due to panic. She finally remembered the thing she had forgotten last night.

broken!

Forgot to bring food to Ethan!
That guy...could he have been eaten by a hungry wolf chicken?
On the other side, Ethan, who went to bed early and got up early, was also struck by a bolt from the blue the moment he walked out of the cabin.

When Miss Chloe saw him leave, she immediately stood up happily from the mattress and said good morning to him, thus revealing the object she was pressing under her body.

A dead body with its eyes open was lying on the ground, stretching its right hand forward as hard as it could, leaving a long bloody trail on the ground.

Ethan stared at the body for more than ten seconds, then he calmly retreated into the house and closed the door.

He might not be awake yet.

Ethan calmed himself down, patted his cheeks to keep himself awake, prepared himself, and pushed the door open again.

"Good morning, Miss Chloe."

"Cuckoo!"

Miss Chloe, full of energy, responded.

She sat back on the mattress. This time the body was no longer visible. All that was left was a piece of her right hand sticking out from under her body and the blood-stained mattress.
of blood stains.

"Go dig a hole, Miss Chloe."

"Goo?"

After receiving the order, Miss Chloe immediately trotted to the open space in front of the cabin and started digging the ground with her claws. Ethan picked up the shovel in the cabin and followed closely behind.

While digging the pit, he heard Miss Chloe's explanation.

She picked up the body from the road. She heard a cry for help late at night and went to check on the situation. When she arrived, the man was lying on the ground twitching with blood coming out of all his orifices. She saw that the man had completely lost consciousness and was afraid that he would catch a cold, so she dragged the man back to the cabin, placed him on the mattress, and used the feathers on her abdomen to keep him warm, just like the principle of incubating eggs.

What a kind little hen!

Ethan wanted to praise Miss Chloe's kindness, but if this scene was seen by others, I'm afraid it would lead to another version of the story.

For example, he and a wolf and chicken attacked an innocent passerby in the wild, brutally killed him, robbed his property and buried his body.

"Ethan, I brought you milk and flour—"

A voice that made Ethan's scalp tingle came from behind him, and as expected, it stopped abruptly when the voice came closer.

He turned around stiffly. Ivy was standing on the slope carrying bread and milk. Her eyes and the golden hair on her head were scanning him vigilantly.

"Listen to my explanation."

He had to explain the situation to Ivy as concisely as possible, "This person died of natural causes."

(End of this chapter)