Witch Redemption

I waited for two minutes, and those two minutes felt like hours.

"The lucky ones have extremely long lifespans" finally replied in the QQ group.

"I don't know. My room door is locked from the inside, so I can't get out. The windows are locked too, and it's quiet outside."

"My other two phones are showing no signal. I don't know what the carrier is doing. They suddenly cut off my network."

"Damn it, I heard someone knocking on my door. I wonder which guy has the guts to do this."

"Let me see who it is."

Just as Li Lan saw those few words on the screen, there was a series of knocks on his door.

No, that's the sound of banging on the door!

Some bastard started pounding on his door with his fists, the chaotic sounds echoing inside.

Could it be... a ghost?

Li Lan gasped in fright, and in her haste, she pulled a folding knife from the drawer under her computer desk and gripped it tightly in her hand.

It was at this very moment.

"Bam—"

Another loud noise, and a fist-sized hole suddenly appeared in the middle of the wooden door!

Before Li Lan could even see what was behind the hole, the fluorescent lights in the room inexplicably went out.

The entire room was plunged into complete darkness, and at the same time, something sticky suddenly appeared beside him and touched his body.

My hands, feet, neck, and forehead all felt strange sensations.

"My God! What the hell is that?! Help!"

Startled to the point of almost losing control of her bladder, Li Lan didn't even have time to resist before she completely lost consciousness...

Being a seal comes at a price!

You'll either be beaten to death or dragged to the floor by unknown tentacles...

Chapter 2 The Bizarre Time Travel Situation

"Great God, please answer the prayers of your people and save this world!"

In the darkness, a completely incomprehensible, tongue-twisting language echoed in Li Lan's mind, followed by a series of bizarre and fantastical dreams.

Li Lan seemed to see all her memories from childhood to adulthood, as if she were looking at them on a fast track, and then suddenly fell into an abyss of utter darkness.

At the edge of the dark abyss, in his hazy consciousness, he seemed to see the back of a woman in pure white, "You are..."

Instinctively, I reached out, but suddenly, everything in my blurred vision vanished in a flash, turning into an overwhelming burst of pure white light that dispelled the darkness and engulfed everything.

Immediately, my mind cleared up, and my body regained consciousness.

"It's a bit chilly..."

Feeling the inexplicable chill around her, Li Lan suddenly opened her eyes. Her vision was initially blurry, but she could vaguely make out that there seemed to be a dark fence opposite her, and behind the fence was the outline of a human figure.

"..."

Memories slowly surfaced in my mind, "Where am I? In a hospital?"

No, no, no, a hospital should have a pure white ceiling and nurses who are like angels.

"I think I shipped it out..."

As her heavy body regained strength with her gradually clearing vision, Li Lan suddenly remembered the strange events that had occurred before she lost consciousness.

Am I being haunted by paranormal events? Or have I been kidnapped by criminals? Am I currently being held captive?

He was lying in a narrow space, with three black walls behind him and on his left and right, each engraved with strange patterns, and more than a dozen thick railings directly opposite him, completely sealing him inside.

It's like being in prison.

"Uh..." He scrambled to his feet in a panic, a nameless fear making him want to scream for help, but for some reason, he couldn't utter a single word of the Mandarin and local dialect that were brewing in his mind.

It was as if some strange, inexplicable force was suppressing his actions.

After a long silence, he could only stare blankly ahead: outside the iron cage was an old woman with a serious face that made him feel somewhat afraid. The old woman had gray hair, and the wrinkles on her face were piled up like the bark of an old tree, making her look ferocious. Her clear green eyes were staring at him intently, as if she wanted to devour him.

Of course, what Li Lan found even more unbelievable was that the clothes worn by this somewhat terrifying old woman were completely beyond his common sense. They looked a bit like medieval maid's clothes, mainly black and white, but the elegantly patterned ribbon around her waist and the silver hair ornament on her head seemed to have a strange religious meaning.

"Am I still dreaming?" Li Lan murmured to herself.

After noticing that he had regained consciousness, the old woman's lips moved slightly, "..."

What did she say?

Li Lan listened to the woman speaking a strange language, which seemed to be from the same language family as the language he had heard in his dreams. It sounded a bit like Russian, with a trilled "r" sound and a few syllables like "rua".

Immediately afterwards, a dull pain shot through his brain, as if some strange thoughts or knowledge had been forcibly injected and merged with his consciousness.

A few seconds later, he miraculously understood what the old woman was saying.

"The witch summoning ritual was successful. Only two were summoned today. It seems that the competition among other countries is particularly fierce. We are still far from the number required by the church."

"Unfortunately, the next ceremony will have to be held tomorrow."

The old woman muttered to herself for a moment, then turned around and called out, "Witch No. 47, it's time to come and pick up your two juniors!"

Another series of crisp footsteps came from outside, and a few seconds later, a pleasant metallic clanging sound came from next door to Li Lan, as if someone had been pulled out.

"Wha...what's going on..."

Before Li Lan could even think about what was happening, a young woman wearing a gray-white bodysuit with half her face hidden in a black cloak hood burst into view. Beside her was a naked woman holding a large black book, covering her chest.

The naked woman had long, golden, waist-length hair in elegant waves, with forked black "antlers" on her head, and deep blue eyes with vertical pupils resembling those of a beast.

Such a stunningly beautiful woman, yet all that could be seen on her gorgeous face was utter bewilderment.

Li Lan was also dumbfounded.

In all his life, this was the first time he had ever seen such a beautiful woman so openly presented before him, trying to arouse the desires deep within him, and this woman didn't even seem human.

Wait, something's not human? Wait, something seems off about me too!

After realizing that she was also naked, Li Lan's mind went completely blank.

………………

Witch's Prison, Side Chamber.

Li Lan, dressed in the same gray-white bodysuit as arranged by number 47, had a livid face. She had been holding back her words for a long time but couldn't utter a single one, not understanding what was happening to her.

All he knew was that the body he now possessed was no longer that of a vigorous, middle-aged man, but rather a frail, female body—no, to be precise, this body was not human.

With its long, silvery-white hair, violet-colored animal eyes, and long, pointed ears, it seemed to resemble the "elf" of the past.

"Am I still dreaming? No, how can a dream feel so real? Oh God, what is happening?"

Feeling lost and unable to calm down, Li Lan could only keep trying to figure out what had happened.

Like Li Lan, the other blonde beauty also had a livid face, her head bowed as if deep in thought.

"Ahem!" At this moment, number 47, who was responsible for receiving them, coughed, his expression hidden under his hood showing a rather unusual look.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am a witch, number 47. That's my title. I know where you come from and how to get back. Please calm down first and let me explain the situation to you."

Around the old round table, the young woman smiled and spoke softly, making Li Lan and the other woman feel as if they were bathed in a spring breeze.

Their ashen faces began to soften.

"First of all, you and I are all witches summoned through forbidden rituals. In name, we are prisoners taken in by the gods before their fall, and now we are being sent back to the mortal world to atone for our sins. Well, let's put it in a way that's easier to understand: time travel..."

"What the hell?" Li Lan's heart skipped a beat. This was time travel? This kind of time travel was definitely not fun!

"Are you kidding me?"

Another blonde beauty asked, somewhat annoyed. Of course, the language Li Lan and the others spoke was the same as the old woman's—the common language of this world.

Although everyone has fantasized about time travel, not many people would actually accept the fact that time travel is possible.

As the saying goes, "Lord Ye loved dragons but was terrified of them," who could accept suddenly giving up everything in their original world?

No normal person would give up a blissful world of entertainment to travel to a godforsaken, dangerous place, right?

The young woman gave a bitter smile. "At first, I thought it was a joke, just like you. But unfortunately, I've been in this world for a year now."

Li Lan and the other blonde beauty remained silent for a few seconds after hearing this, their expressions shifting between anger and uncertainty. Finally, they managed to squeeze out only one word, "You say it."

"The world we've traveled to is actually somewhat similar to the world of a mobile game I've played. I'm sorry, but all information about that game, including most of the information from the original world, cannot be directly revealed in this world due to the influence of the suppression force, although I think you probably already know which game it is."

Legend of the Goddess!

Li Lan's heart skipped a beat, then he suddenly realized something was wrong. If this was this damn game, then he, as the protagonist, would definitely be a hero doing splits in mid-air, right? How come he's a witch now? And in the original Goddess Legend world, there's no concept of a witch at all.

"This world is probably a continuation of the game's worldview, which is ten thousand years after that game world. The five continents and three seas have not changed, but the distribution of countries has changed many times. We are currently in Kate City, the capital of the British Empire on the Eastern Dawn Continent. This witch prison, located in a secluded place, is specifically used to summon transmigrators. A batch is given out every year, and the summoning lasts for fifteen days."

"I see," the blonde woman replied somewhat absentmindedly, then asked impatiently, "So, how do we get back?"

"There are two ways to go back, one of which is death. Death can take any form, which means..."

"We can consider suicide?" Li Lan took a deep breath. This wasn't a dream. Suicide would be painful, wouldn't it? And this stranger's one-sided statement didn't seem to prove her point. What if they chose suicide but couldn't return to their original world?

"Proof, I need proof." The blonde beauty next to her also looked terrible, but unlike Li Lan, she seemed eager to go home.

"No, perhaps all I can say is that believing this explanation will make you feel better in the future." Number 47 subtly concealed his emotions, not letting his words reveal the slightest abnormality.

"..." The three fell silent again. It was clear that Li Lan and the blonde beauty were still finding it hard to believe these claims.

"Then, then," the blonde woman asked nervously, clinging to her last glimmer of hope, "what's the second method?"

Number 47 smiled gently. "The second method is to come with me to the border and save the world together. The way to save the world is very simple: just help this country withstand a hundred raging torrents of the Crimson Night."

"Saving the world? The Crimson Night Flood? What are those?"

Li Lan could barely understand the phrase "saving the world," but she had never heard of "Crimson Night Torrent" when she played Goddess Legend before.

"To put it simply, there are a large number of monsters on every continent in this world. These monsters only have the instinct to destroy. When the moon is full every month, these monsters go berserk. Together with the aliens formed from the resentment of most of the dead monsters, they attack the protective barriers of cities in various countries. The witch's task is to stop this terrible flood of monsters in the border areas."

"Of course, in addition to fighting against the raging monsters in the Crimson Night Torrent, witches also participate in the extermination of monsters in the surrounding areas on a regular basis. Strictly speaking, this will alleviate the danger of the Crimson Night Torrent to some extent."

Li Lan nodded upon hearing this. "Similar to a monster siege in an online game, right?"

“Yes, but this is the real world, not the game world. The actual situation is not as simple as a monster siege,” Serial Number 47 thought for a moment, without explaining too much. “The Crimson Night Torrent will begin in three days. You will understand then.”

"Will it be very difficult? The kind where you might die?" Li Lan had a bad feeling.