Witch Redemption

Since Senior No. 47 had mentioned that it was best to prepare an extra set of knives for use in the wild, Li Lan went to the weapon shop and bought three knives after accumulating some savings.

In reality, it was just a dagger, a boning knife, and a saw.

“First, apply medicine to this knife,” Li Lan said, taking out a sharp, gleaming silver boning knife and pouring a recovery potion onto the blade. Immediately, the silver blade began to emit a thin layer of green light. “Second, remove the necrotic flesh.”

The precise and rapid movements made Li Lan forget who she really was.

Little did they know, Lana and Lolina were already dumbfounded. They felt that Li Lan had suddenly lost his mind, remaining silent with a dazed look in his eyes. At first, when they saw him take out a knife, they thought he was going to do something bad, but his subsequent actions seemed to be like performing a completely incomprehensible surgery.

"The necrotic flesh has been successfully removed. The third step is to reconnect the spine and restore it to the minimum required quality of the medicine."

The crystal-clear green liquid, the moment it dripped onto the white bone, had a chain reaction. The shocking broken bones rapidly reconnected and fused together at a speed visible to the naked eye, making a crackling sound, and were completely healed in less than five seconds.

“Done, you can apply the medicine now.” Li Lan took out a normal-quality recovery potion and applied it to the large wound. Then she began to treat the wound on the heart. “Treating the heart is particularly troublesome. Since the necrotic tissue cannot be removed, we need to use life elements to forcibly remove it. There is a 50% chance that this will fail.”

With a slight press of his blood-stained left hand on the grimoire, the grimoire flipped to the "Life Creator" sub-profession page as he thought of it.

The secondary profession skill "Element Extraction" belongs to the Life Creator class, and it can be used not only on living monsters but also on a wide variety of plants. Based on this, Li Lan has collected a large amount of life elements over this period of time.

When the "Life Element" was extracted, the grimoire glowed with a pure white light, and then six emerald green crystal drops appeared out of thin air and dripped onto the wound in the heart area.

The next second, Della's body convulsed violently as if she had been struck by a terrifying electric shock. The dark-colored wound writhed wildly, slowly turning into black liquid and draining out.

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He didn't know how long he had been lost in thought. It was as if Li Lan had been having an extremely long dream. In the dream, he was like a conscientious surgeon, constantly treating the wounds on the two witches.

Only when the wounds of the two witches healed, their hearts resumed beating, and their lost breathing began to return to normal, did he finally breathe a sigh of relief and emerge from this ethereal state.

Immediately, I felt completely drained, and an indescribable sense of fatigue spread throughout my body.

"So tired, so hungry..."

When she came to her senses, Li Lan slowly got up, her steps unsteady as if she were anemic.

"I never imagined that first aid skills would actually be so useful."

Moreover, it was completely different from what Li Lan had expected. It turned out that the tools required for this skill were also very diverse, including "life elements" and all kinds of medicines that only pharmacists could make. Even this inconspicuous knife was used.

"Could it be that my profession as a pastor is fake? My profession should be a doctor!"

Li Lan was filled with doubt about life. He shook his head, but suddenly noticed that Lana and Lolina were looking at him strangely.

It was a look of disbelief, as if someone had discovered a new continent. The intense gaze was full of curiosity, disbelief, and even so dazzling that it made Li Lan feel a little guilty.

"W-what's wrong?" he asked somewhat uneasily.

"You saved them both?" Lolina asked excitedly.

"Well...maybe, actually I don't know." Li Lan looked down at the two witches, whose breathing was even and who seemed to be fast asleep, but she wasn't really sure herself.

"That's amazing! You're really a priest? Shouldn't priests heal them?"

Li Lan was taken aback. He also wanted to heal others, but he didn't have the skill set. He smiled wryly and said, "What I did just now might have actually been healing, but the way I did it was a bit violent."

In all his years, he'd played countless games, but he'd never seen a healing method like this before.

“I don’t think you’re like a priest, you’re more like a doctor,” Lana said seriously. She and Lorina had felt something was wrong as soon as Li Lan took out the knife, but they really didn’t expect Li Lan to go straight to “operate” and then do something that caused a lot of black blood to come out of the wounds on their hearts.

“I think this is reality, not a game. Without all the so-called data, professions might undergo many changes,” Li Lan joked. “Priests are originally there to save lives, and so are doctors. Maybe there really is some connection between them.”

"Haha, that's true. In the past, wet nurses and wet nurses were loved by everyone, but now it's better to keep your distance."

In reality, normal people don't think about seeing doctors all the time, right?

After complaining, Lana asked, "So what do we do next? Take these two and get out of here?"

"Yes, and I think it will take them a while to recover."

Since Li Lan was the primary surgeon, she had some understanding of the condition of the two individuals.

Just as he was about to say more about the two people, faint footsteps suddenly came from the end of the corridor.

Chapter 58 The Wolf Skul

Not long ago, Skul had already noticed the movements of Li Lan and the other two.

After all, he was an abyssal monster of the "Icefield Wolf" race, with extraordinary senses of smell, hearing, and sight, and his mind was also quite sharp.

"That damned pseudo-demon god's purpose in infiltrating here is very clear: she wants to seize the magic core of the god's descendant. These pseudo-demon gods all have close ties with the ancient gods. Once she obtains this magic core, she will definitely restore the ancient power."

"My lord had warned me many times before that I must be careful to guard against this guy no matter what, but I didn't expect that I would still be careless in the end. This godforsaken place is the temple of the Goddess of Dawn, which can have a restraining effect on the races of the end, so that I can only exert less than 10% of my strength here, otherwise I wouldn't have been suppressed."

"Forget about such bad luck for now. The biggest problem now is what she will do next. First, she might kill all the witches in the sealed area, which would provoke the empire to set up a divine seal in the temple and allow the descendants of the gods to appear. Then she would kill the descendants of the gods sealed in one fell swoop."

"Our lord once said that human wisdom is limitless. They have found the true way to weaken the Archangel Angel, a descendant of the gods. If nothing unexpected happens, the Empire's operation this year was brought forward precisely because the time has come. Otherwise, the pseudo-demon god, who has been lying in wait for so long, would never have made such a blatant move and led me into this trap. Damn it!"

"If she really obtains the magic core of the god's descendant, then the second thing she will do is probably to break the seals of the other seventy-two pillar gods and gather their power to reopen the passage to the outer world. Once that moment comes, I don't care what will happen to this world, but the Lord will be in real danger."

"No! I must stop all of this! The best course of action right now is to protect the safety of these few surviving witches and find a way to escape this temple. As long as these witches are not all dead, she probably won't be able to awaken this sealed descendant of the god, and naturally, she won't be able to make a move. Only by escaping this temple can I regain my true strength and notify my lord and my seniors to take action."

Despite his numerous injuries, this werewolf creature, dressed only in tattered shorts and gray military boots, walked with remarkable speed and precision, his mind racing with countless thoughts.

At this moment, the stench of blood in the air gradually intensified, and Skul knew that they were not far from the witches.

Turning the corner of the last long corridor, in the dim light that seemed to come from nowhere, he could clearly see three witches who had opened their spellbooks and were gripping their greatswords in a state of alert.

Although their expressions, hidden beneath their black hoods, were not clearly visible, their intense hostility was palpable.

Skul didn't care. These witches were nothing but ants to him. If they were outside, he would have torn them to shreds long ago if they dared to act like this. But things were different here. If they died here, things would get complicated.

So his gaze passed over the three insignificant witches and began to linger on the two witches lying on the ground.

Sure enough, it's rumored that the empire instigates witches who enter this place to kill each other every year. It seems to be true. Otherwise, if he hadn't arrived in time, he probably wouldn't have witnessed this foolish scene.

"What are you doing?!"

The stern voice of the middle-aged man, filled with barely contained anger, instantly lowered the atmosphere of the gloomy corridor to freezing point.

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"Werewolf?"

When Li Lan finally saw the uninvited guest's face, she was immediately surprised.

This unexpected creature was indeed humanoid, standing on two legs, but its hands, feet, and entire body were covered in grayish-blue hair, with only the hair on its chest and the tattered shorts between its hips showing a yellowish-white color.

Furthermore, what catches the eye most is not the conspicuous tattered shorts, but the menacing dog head.

No, it should be wolf head. Whether it was the piercing, ruthless blood-red eyes, the arrogantly open serrated fangs, or the wrinkles on the cheeks furrowed with anger, all of them made Li Lan and the other two feel immense pressure.

"Wait, this guy isn't a werewolf!"

Lana's "Mind's Eye" skill has been active ever since she entered the Sunset Temple. From the moment she saw this guy, her inner warning was constantly reminding her that this guy was invincible.

It wasn't until he caught a glimpse of the abstract map of "Survey" on the magic book out of the corner of his eye that he suddenly realized who this guy was.

"A monster! This guy is a monster!"

Lorina's "premonition of death" also came into play, and an unprecedented sense of crisis made her heart pound violently.

Although Li Lan did not possess any related perception skills, he only knew that the newcomer was extremely powerful. However, as someone who frequently studied magic books, he naturally noticed the incredibly bright red dot on the abstract map.

This thing is definitely a monster, and a talking monster at that!

"Calm down, this guy can talk, maybe we can communicate with him."

Li Lan reminded him, then cast the priest's exclusive skill "Courage" on himself. After bolstering his courage, he shouted without hesitation, "Who are you? If you're an enemy, don't blame us for being impolite!"

"Who I am is not important. Who ordered you to kill them?"

The werewolf-like monster slowly took a step, and a strong sense of hostility swept over them, causing Li Lan and the other two to change color slightly.

"Kill them? You're blind! I'm saving them!"

Li Lan gripped the greatsword tightly. If the other party really was a demon, then there seemed to be no point in speaking to it politely. It would be better to be willful and act as if she wasn't afraid of this guy at all.

"Huh? Save them?"

The werewolf monster stopped in its tracks, a strange look of astonishment appearing on its face.

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"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, it was all a misunderstanding! It was all a misunderstanding!"

The werewolf monster remained outside the range of Li Lan and the other two's guard, its large gray-blue tail swishing behind it. "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Skul, and as you can see, I am a monster. To be precise, I should be called an abyssal monster."

The werewolf monster's words made Li Lan and Lana both change color. The term "abyss monster" was not too unfamiliar to them. Back when they were with Senior Number 47, he had mentioned it cryptically several times.

Although they didn't know what kind of special monster mentioned in number 47 was, they were certain that it was something they absolutely couldn't afford to mess with, not even the older generation of witches like number 47 dared to provoke it.

Li Lan took a deep breath, suppressing her inner fear.

Since this creature might truly be an abyssal demon, it means that crushing them would be as easy as crushing an ant if it were to make a move. Based on this premise, Li Lan felt much more at ease; perhaps this creature genuinely meant no harm.

So Li Lan took the initiative to speak, "Mr. Skull, is there anything I can help you with?"

No one visits a temple without a reason. If a completely unfamiliar demon has taken the initiative to come to our door, it can't be as simple as just saying hello.

Skul hadn't expected that this witch, who seemed to be the weakest of the three, would be standing at the front. Apart from being fierce to him at the beginning, she now seemed to have a fearless attitude, which he found rather admirable.

“Not bad, not bad, you’ve got guts,” Skul said in his characteristic hoarse voice. “My purpose in coming to you is simple: you know the way out of this temple, right?”

"I know, but getting out won't be an easy thing."

Li Lan never expected this guy's first question to be like this. To be honest, the being they were about to face was the extremely terrifying Archangel Angel. Even if they joined forces with other witches, they didn't know if they could successfully overcome the challenge.

But if they could really win this guy over... Although in Li Lan's view, this uninvited guest was a monster of unknown origin, and even if they could communicate with him, he was still a great threat to them, they might be willing to take the risk if they could make use of him.

"How exactly do I leave?"

Skul asked impatiently.

Li Lan, somewhat like a middle-aged woman at a market, remained calm and unhurried. "Mr. Skull, you understand the term 'equivalent exchange,' right?"

Skul's eyebrows twitched slightly. It seemed that this strange witch was not only unafraid of him, but was even bargaining with him. If he encountered someone like this outside... Skul would naturally not be polite to such a person outside, but would directly and angrily tear her to pieces before slowly arguing with her.

Suppressing his anger, Skul displayed a benevolent demeanor, "Of course, as long as the answer satisfies me, I won't be stingy, whether it's money or anything else, I can get it."

Anyone can write a bad check; whether it's cashed is another matter entirely.

“My request is simple: I need information about the Sunset Temple, and I need you to protect us for a period of time, until we leave the temple. After that, we will be even.”

Skul hadn't expected Li Lan's request to be so simple. He scratched his furry wolf head, seemingly trying to figure out what Li Lan meant. After all, Li Lan's request overlapped with his purpose for coming, which meant he didn't need to worry about finding a reason to approach these witches.

"Deal! Now you lead the way, and we'll talk as we go! What do you want to know? If I know the answer, I can tell you; but if I don't, I can't help you with anything."

Skul agreed readily, stepping aside to make way for them.