Witch Redemption

At the critical moment, a black light formed an arc and cut through Li Lan with a sharp sound.

Before anyone could figure out what had happened, the black light flashed by, instantly passing by Della and slicing through the goblin's body, unleashing a horrifying shower of black and green blood.

"This is......"

Li Lan had a recollection of seeing a similar attack before, and he quickly recalled his encounter at the Sunset Temple.

The human servant of that pillar god Lerakin had used it before, except that the target of this black light attack was Li Lan and his group.

This slime must have learned something from "Hassan's Blade"!

Time was of the essence, and Li Lan didn't think too much. He rushed to Della's side, but the moment he touched her body, his heart suddenly sank.

Della's body had already become stiff and was ice-cold.

she is dead!

The shocking truth left Li Lan with mixed feelings.

He gritted his teeth and finally pulled the guy up, then turned around and ran away as fast as he could.

Because he had already seen that there were still a large number of goblins rushing forward below.

Moreover, this desolate world has started to feel a little strange at some point.

Chapter 93 Never Give Up

After sprinting for almost three minutes, Li Lan suddenly felt a strong sense of unease.

Looking up, the sky above the cliff had long since turned into a terrifying, deep black, with countless writhing shadows baring their fangs and claws within the darkness. Moreover, the entrance in the distance had vanished completely, swallowed by the darkness.

"This is not good! It's only around 5 p.m., what's going on?"

Without a second thought, the cautious Li Lan stopped in her tracks in this fairly spacious area. "Slime, see if you can stop them. And you guys, clean up all the corpses here immediately!"

If I'm not mistaken, it's probably getting dark in this godforsaken place by now.

Nighttime in the monster-infested area is a bloodless hell where anyone directly exposed to the writhing darkness is instantly devoured. Faced with this extraordinary emergency, Li Lan's first priority is to immediately set up a protective barrier.

Aside from the impending darkness, the biggest problem right now is the large number of pursuers, estimated to be around thirty, who are currently making a relentless charge and are getting closer and closer.

Li Lan had originally thought that he and his forty-five servants, who were probably not very capable of fighting, were no match for such a large number of people, so he planned to retreat first. However, the current situation left him with no choice.

"Blessings!" "Prayers!" "Protection!" "Courage!"

Without hesitation, Li Lan bestowed her four buffs upon the surrounding servants, leaving ten servants to assist in clearing the area. For the remaining thirty-five, Li Lan gave them a final order: to help the slime stall for as much time as possible.

In an instant, these servants, empowered by "courage," abandoned their previous trembling and fearful demeanor and became like wolves and tigers, charging into a final, desperate attack with extreme fervor...

Li Lan quickly retrieved the witch's ashes from the magic book and hurriedly scattered them across the wrecked ground to create a large protective zone.

After doing all this, he quickly dripped "the fiery blood of the phoenix" onto the ashes. The eerie crimson light spread wildly across the ashes, giving them a life force.

The next moment, the crimson light faded, turning into a thin layer of shimmering light that enveloped the area, unleashing a sky full of brilliance that transformed into a magnificent golden rain before quietly disappearing in peace and tranquility.

At the same moment, a terrifying darkness descended, engulfing everything in sight!

Caught off guard, Li Lan didn't even have time to bring back the slime and its "servants." She could only watch helplessly as they were engulfed in darkness during their battle, their fate unknown.

Just as he was feeling saddened by this, in an instant, the darkness in front of him surged, and a sharp blade rushed towards him.

Unfortunately, the blade still grazed Li Lan's side. In his somewhat surprised vision, he could see a head with blackish-green skin, along with a blackish-gray skeleton, falling into the protective barrier due to inertia.

With a few "cracks," the skeleton named "Nikola" suddenly fell apart. Its head, with its eyes wide open in death, stared intently at Li Lan. In its reddish-yellow beast eyes, he saw a strong killing intent, resentment, and will, but no fear.

It was seeing that kind of look in her eyes that made Li Lan even more shocked.

Are these so-called "goblins" truly mid-level intelligent monsters? Why are they also swallowed by the darkness of the monster-infested area? Why do they show no fear, no apprehension of death?

All of this was a silent massacre, and the goblins, as hunters, did not make a sound from beginning to end. There were no cathartic roars, nor any mournful cries of resentment before death. They had only one purpose: to kill any invaders who dared to cross this land.

Whether these invaders are monsters or witches.

After a brief moment of surprise, the darkness ahead began to surge again. Just as Li Lan defensively raised the Libra Cross Greatsword, a figure in azure blue suddenly burst into the protective barrier and stood somewhat listlessly to one side.

Apart from it, all was silent in the darkness, and it seemed that the servants would never return.

Li Lan lightly touched the magic book and flipped to the page related to "Creator of Life". Sure enough, the "Servants" column was missing thirty-five entries, which made his heart tremble.

Regardless of the circumstances, these strange humanoid monsters were all created by him personally. No matter how terrifying they looked, they were ultimately his subordinates, and it was impossible for him to have no feelings for them at all.

"Thank you all for your hard work. I may need your help to protect me for a while longer."

Upon hearing Li Lan's apologetic words, the slime immediately bowed and said, "It is my honor!"

The slime's actions and tone were quickly imitated by the other remaining humanoid monsters, who all seemed to be vying to curry favor with it.

Li Lan shook his head with a wry smile. He was growing to like these simple-minded but eccentric guys who didn't know how to hide their true selves more and more. However, he didn't say anything more at the moment because he knew there was something more important that he needed to do immediately.

..................

Li Lan gently laid the stiff Della flat on the ground and quickly straightened her limbs. A pang of sadness welled up in his heart. Before this, he had been praying that the person who had entered this place was not one of his accomplices, but unfortunately, things did not go as planned.

He looked with a pang of sadness at the numerous wounds all over Della's body that had stopped bleeding, as well as the extremely fatal, bowl-sized hole in her lower abdomen. He pondered for a few seconds, and finally gritted his teeth.

"There must be another way!"

As a pastor dedicated to saving lives, how could Li Lan possibly give up until the very last moment?

From the moment he decided to enter this underground area, he would not let his accomplice die here. He had to rescue her no matter what, by any means necessary!

"If it were common sense on Earth, a body stiffening would mean the person had been dead for a long time. But this is another world, so maybe it's not like that." Speculating is pointless; only action will reveal the truth.

Li Lan raised her hand and checked the mouth and nose, but there was no breath. The pulse in the neck had stopped completely. She pressed on the chest and found that the stiff body had also stopped beating.

By any measure, this is already a sign of complete death.

"Desperate measures!" Li Lan grabbed the magic book beside her and muttered a phrase, as if hypnotizing herself.

"first aid!"

His mind went blank with a buzz, he forgot everything around him, and all his attention was focused on Della's body. Countless strange pieces of information began to flood his brain.

"This witch's race has mutated into the Fallen Feathered Clan, possessing the Berserker class among the dual professions, thus having the ability of 'Battle Continuation,' and a special effect of 'Resentment Lingering' for one hour after her complete death. During this time, to save her, you must use life elements to rekindle her life force, but it depends on how strong her will to live is; the stronger the will to live, the higher the success rate. This is a one-time opportunity; if it fails, it cannot be used a second time."

"Fallen Feathered Clan? Dual Classes?"

Surprised, Li Lan didn't have time to think about what this racial information meant. Saving lives was the priority. He suppressed his unease, pressed on his natal magic book, quickly flipped to the "Life Creator" sub-profession page, and extracted all the "Life Elements" without reservation.

As the spellbook glowed with a pure white light, a large amount of emerald green crystalline liquid quickly floated above Della and plunged into the wounds on her body, causing her entire body to convulse violently as if she had been electrocuted.

Unfortunately, this situation lasted for nearly ten minutes without any sign of improvement.

Li Lan's mood began to sink. He had an extremely ominous premonition that Della might really die this time.

"hateful!"

He quickly realized that this guy probably hadn't gotten over the trauma since what happened in Dawn City, although he didn't know what kind of thoughts had sustained Della so much that she hadn't taken her own life.

However, judging from the current situation, she has probably long lost the will to live, and it is this zombie-like pessimism that has become the biggest obstacle to whether she can get out of the crisis of death.

"Why won't you wake up? You've tried so hard, and now you want to give up at this crucial moment? What kind of nonsense is that?"

Li Lan asked in frustration, "Even though I know all the secrets, even though I know that my future is very likely to be a dead end, I haven't given up. Why don't you have the courage to take responsibility for all of this?"

Li Lan had always known about the witch's fate and future, and he had always been under immense pressure.

Even though the world is full of malice, he still wants to live and save all his comrades. He will do anything for this, even if it means giving up his own life.

These were all things his predecessors had taught him.

In this indifferent world, it was those witch predecessors who illuminated his path with their lives and gave him a responsibility he could not let go of.

"If you lack courage, then I will give you courage!"

The frustration in her heart finally escalated into an uncontrollable rage, and Li Lan simply made a move, "Revelation!"

With the sound of "Kreik," the sledgehammer, which was so heavy it could barely be held, reappeared in Li Lan's hands and smashed down beside her.

"courage!"

As the magic book flashed with a faint light, Li Lan unhesitatingly bestowed "Courage" upon the "corpse" on the ground.

..................

Della had a very long nightmare in which she was in a vast, dark void where there was nothing but loneliness and fear that filled her consciousness.

That terrifying darkness was slowly eroding everything she had, leading her step by step toward true destruction.

At the end of that dream, a familiar voice broke the deathly silence, giving her the courage to step out of the darkness and bringing a glimmer of light to her empty, dark world...

Her blurry vision gradually cleared, and as a series of memories flooded her mind, the intense pain in her body almost made her faint again, a hundred times more painful than her period in her past memories.

Fortunately, she eventually managed to endure it.

At this moment, she saw a gloomy, dark sky, and if she glanced away, she could see a woman sitting cross-legged beside her.

The woman had long, silvery-white hair and typical elven features. Her beautiful face revealed conflicted emotions. Perhaps sensing her awakening, the familiar woman lowered her head, and obvious joy appeared in her pair of violet-colored beast eyes.

She opened her mouth, but found her throat very hoarse, and her eyes looked as if she had just been crying.

"You're really sober now, aren't you? You cried for a long time. I... I don't have much experience in comforting girls, I'm sorry," said Karen Elf, codenamed 001, who in her memory was a witch who was very good at changing her tune. She looked embarrassed at this moment.

"However, I do have some advice for you: don't put too much pressure on yourself. So-called hatred can give you countless motivations to move forward, but it can also easily make you numb."

The witch, codenamed 001, spoke some strange words, as if she were confiding something: "No matter what you do, the premise must be to live. Only by living can you have a future. Really, before this, I didn't know you would be so obsessed with becoming stronger."

"Don't have such pessimistic thoughts anymore. Since we are all teammates on the same team and are also transmigrators, why not rely on each other? No matter how indifferent this world is, please believe in Lana and believe in Lorina."

Hearing these nonsensical words, Della was inexplicably moved.

At this moment, she recalled everything that had happened before. After entering the urban area of ​​the Mo City Ruins, she was ambushed by black and green creatures that resembled goblins. Gradually, she lost her mind in the battle and eventually ended up fighting her way into the underground area.

She was supposed to die here, but she never imagined that the witch codename 001, Karen Elf, who had suffered so much hostility from them, would venture into the underground area alone, just to save her.

In that instant, countless emotions surged into her heart again, causing the fragile witch to break down once more.

Chapter 94 The Long Night

Five hours before Della, codenamed Witch 013, awoke...

Driven by her courage, Della's wounded body gradually merged with the elements of life, giving her new life.

Seeing this, Li Lan was overjoyed, but also instinctively took out her knife and recovery medicine due to the effects of the "first aid".

"The other wounds just need to be treated with healing ointment, but this area on the lower abdomen..."

Li Lan's gaze lingered on the hole, about the size of a bowl. The area around the hole had turned completely black, and numerous tentacle-like fleshy growths emitted a corrosive aura, resembling eerie downy hairs.