Versatile Mage: Choose one of three Hexes at the start

Chapter 128 Mother's Embrace

On Pingdingshan Mountain.

By the time Su Chi and his group reached the mountaintop, it was already evening.

"There's even a forest of fiery trees growing on this mountaintop, it's so beautiful."

The fiery red leaves fluttering in the air, set against the backdrop of the setting sun, resembled a dynamic mural filled with romance, causing the women present to sigh with emotion.

"What's next? Should we just go straight through this forest?" Mo Fan, who seemed indifferent to the question, blurted out.

"I don't know either." Stepping on the flat ground covered with red leaves, Chen Ying shook her head and said.

Looking at the vast Fire Cloud Forest ahead, Su Chi frowned. If he remembered correctly, there seemed to be a three-headed evil python of the commander level in there.

Moreover, because the leaves of the Fire Cloud Tree like to absorb sunlight and heat, each Fire Cloud Tree will shed a batch of leaves approximately every week.

These fiery red leaves covered the entire mountaintop, but they also obstructed Su Chi and his companions' view and senses.

Especially when they stepped into the Fire Cloud Forest, the seamless landscape would greatly confuse their senses.

"Chi Zi, what's the next step?"

Mo Fan walked up to Su Chi at some point, put his hand on Su Chi's shoulder, and asked casually.

whisper!!

Just as Su Chi was about to speak, a clear shout came from not far away, followed by a huge wave of heat.

Everyone quickly looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw a bright red humanoid creature rapidly approaching their location.

The humanoid creature moved incredibly fast; in the blink of an eye, it had already floated down from the sky above the Fire Cloud Forest and arrived at a location not far from them.

Fortunately, the strange creature did not attack them directly, so everyone just watched it warily.

Of course, Su Chi is an exception.

"You must be the fire creature that saved my mother back then," Chen Ying suddenly asked, walking to the front of the group.

The flame-like figure before them was no different from a normal human in terms of height and build, and its posture was even closer to that of a graceful woman.

However, unlike fire mages who are enveloped in flames when casting spells, this fire person's entire body is made of flames, and even his face is burning with flames, with only the outline of a human barely visible.

whisper!!

Upon seeing Chen Ying, the fire-wielding man's previously calm expression changed.

Then, to the astonishment of Mo Fan and the others, the flame man hurriedly hugged Chen Ying tightly in his arms, and the leaping flames on his body did not harm Chen Ying in the slightest.

"What's going on??" Zhao Manyan originally thought that the fire-breathing man was trying to hurt his cousin.

But upon seeing this scene, his tense and furious mood instantly turned into confusion.

"That strange cry from the Flame Witch just now, if translated, means Ying'er."

At this moment, Su Chi spoke up, answering the questions that had been troubling everyone.

The moment Su Chi saw the Flame Witch, he had already possessed her.

After being possessed by Little Lightning, for some reason, he suddenly understood what the Flame Witch was saying.

"What!!"

Su Chi's words were like a bombshell, instantly shattering the minds of everyone present.

Even Chen Ying, who had been somewhat bewildered by the sudden embrace of the Flame Witch, was stunned.

Because, if she remembered correctly, she had only ever heard the name Ying'er from her mother.

However, after her mother's accident, she never heard those two words come out of her mouth again.

whisper!!

The Flame Witch then raised her head, which had been pressed against Chen Ying's face, and called out anxiously to Su Chi.

"That's right, I can understand what you're saying." Faced with the Flame Witch's question, Su Chi readily admitted it. *Ring!*

Having confirmed that the young man before her could truly understand her, the Flame Witch was now experiencing a surge of emotions.

Su Chi could even sense a mix of excitement and panic in its cries.

"Go ahead and say it, and I'll translate what you say," Su Chi nodded to the Flame Witch.

Ring ring ring!!

Then the Flame Witch began to tell her story, but her hands remained tightly wrapped around Chen Ying, as if afraid that she would disappear in the next second.

Su Chi also began real-time translation, but was interrupted by Zhao Manyan and Chen Ying after translating only the first sentence.

"She said her name was Jiang Feng and that she was Chen Ying's mother."

"What?! She's my aunt?!"

"mom!!"

At this moment, the Flame Witch also saw Zhao Manyan and greeted him.

whisper!!

“Old Zhao, this is for you. The original words were, ‘You must be Manyan, right? I didn’t expect you to be so old.’” Su Chi translated.

Zhao Manyan's eyes widened. He first glanced at Su Chi, then turned to the Flame Witch and asked, "Are you really my aunt?"

whisper!!

The Flame Witch nodded.

hiss~~
Although Zhao Manyan couldn't understand the Flame Witch's words, he felt from her softened expression that what the flame woman was saying seemed to be true.

"Impossible!! My mother is clearly at home, how could you possibly be my mother!!" Chen Ying, nestled in the Flame Witch's arms, retorted loudly. She would not allow this unknown creature to impersonate her mother, who was suffering in pain.

Ring ring ring!!

Upon hearing Chen Ying's words, the Flame Witch became anxious.

Her cries grew increasingly urgent, but since only Su Chi among those present could understand her, she quickly turned her gaze to Su Chi.

"Don't rush, speak slowly, I'll translate for her."

Su Chi first calmed down the Flame Witch's agitated emotions, and then said to Chen Ying and Zhao Manyan, "Don't speak yet, wait until she finishes speaking."

Chen Ying bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded. As for Zhao Manyan, he had no objection at all.

As everyone quieted down, the Flame Witch began to speak again.

"In order to save Chenying's father, she was engulfed by the heavenly tribulation fire. She was not supposed to survive, but at the critical moment, a flame person suddenly appeared and saved her."

"The fire-man fed her a Fire Calamity Fruit, which kept her alive, but the Fire Calamity Fruit could not completely save her. Therefore, she had to abandon her body and her soul attached itself to a new life, which is the life form we see now."

"After becoming such a being, in order to repay the kindness of the Flame Man, she agreed to his request, which was to stay and guard the Flame Calamity Fruit."

"Years ago, she saved a woman who had also been burned by the flames of the Heavenly Tribulation, and painstakingly managed to save the woman's life. Afterwards, because she was too worried about her daughter, Chenying, she asked the woman to go and check on her after she left."

To convince Chen Ying of her story, the Flame Witch Jiang Feng recounted many amusing anecdotes from Chen Ying's childhood, some of which were things the mother and daughter had agreed never to tell a third party.

By the time Su Chi finished translating all of the Flame Witch's words, Chen Ying's mind was completely blank.

No wonder, she said that her mother was different from the one she remembered after she came back. She originally thought that the disfigurement and injury caused a drastic change in her personality.

No wonder the fire-man's embrace felt so warm and familiar!

It reminded her of when she was very young, it was pouring rain outside, but she was sheltered in her mother's arms and not bothered by the rain at all. She still misses that warm and comforting embrace very much.

It turns out, familiarity isn't about being held in someone's arms, but about the person holding you right now—your beloved mother!

(End of this chapter)