Witch Troupe and the Undead

It is a very good material for the inner garment of an adventurer. As for Alessina, she followed Leon's advice and used the material and design style of the inner garment of the Church's Battle Priestess, but she needed to make some modifications.

For example, the beastmen are taller than human women, and the tailbone area needs to be reserved for the tail opening. After discussion among several tailors, a swallowtail-like structure was chosen, which exposes the tail and a small section of the lower back.

At Alessina's request, a leather corset was added to the waist to secure small tools and provide some protection. The lower garments were similar to those of the Church's Battle Priestess, except that three leather straps were added to the right leg to secure a dagger and crossbow.

Leon wore standard church knight's lining: a shirt and trousers made of high-quality linen, with durable leather padding added to the joints. These areas were prone to rubbing against the edges of the metal armor, and without reinforcement, they would be worn through in just a couple of days—especially a newly recast suit of armor, where burrs and sharp edges were quite normal.

The only one that gave the tailors the biggest headache was Leslie. Not only was her design unique, but she also needed to use waterproof materials, otherwise she would be completely exposed when she went into the pond to replenish her water.

As for Lulua, she was the simplest one here. She didn't even need to redesign her clothes. She could just find a few outfits that noble boys wore for martial arts training in the ready-made clothes. Anyway, her figure wasn't much different from a boy's, so she could just make some adjustments.

After the clothes are ordered, it takes about two or three days to finish. This is only because, although it is called a tailor shop, it is actually a medium-sized garment workshop with a considerable number of apprentices and tailors, which allows it to be done so quickly.

Next, it's about reforging the fragments of the luminous armor and dealing with Leon's discarded armor.

The basement of the witch hut.

The fire elemental was curled up inside the furnace when the witch walked in and kicked the furnace shell, waking the fire elemental. Before it could get angry, a large chunk of soul essence and dragon vein carbon was thrown in, and immediately silver-blue flames ignited in the furnace core. The fire elemental even let out a sharp scream.

The "luminous fragments," broken into more than a dozen pieces, were thrown directly into the Soul Flame. Lulua clasped her hands together, guiding the power of the goddess into the furnace. Using the Soul Flame, the most compatible flame, she dyed it with a layer of purple, eventually transforming it into a phantom-like blue-purple flame.

The flames, like countless dewdrops, clustered into spheres and floated inside the furnace, constantly coalescing and dispersing, looking more like thousands of bubbles. The gray sword fragments melted and evaporated little by little, eventually leaving only a tiny bit of liquid, less than the size of a fist. This was the core part that had carried divine power.

It is impossible to reforge it into a new artifact unless Livia ascends to godhood. However, with these core essences that once carried powerful divine power and retained a considerable amount of divine power remnants, plus other metals, forging one or two legendary weapons is not a problem at all.

Afterwards, if they could get the blessing of the solitary old god, they would get two legendary consecrated weapons, or more commonly, quasi-divine artifacts, but Roach and his companions didn't have high hopes for that.

Judging from Lulua's communication with the goddess, the lonely old god seems to be driven crazy by the overwhelming workload—on average, he curses the moon goddess once every three sentences, complains about the holy lord once every five sentences, and at least once out of every three prayers, he scoffs at the earth goddess behind her back.

Clearly, during her absence from her post, more than one chief god used her divine kingdom as a dumping ground. Now it is filled with sinful souls, various difficult-to-handle sealed objects, and the evil spirits and fragments of the souls of those evil gods that need to be dealt with are filling "every container".

Okay, this last one was originally her responsibility. The Holy Lord only cares about killing, and the cleanup and purification after the killing is her job. At most, it can only be described as filling up her workload, to the point that she is expected to work overtime for at least several hundred years to come.

"She might have run into some problems returning to the realm of gods. Should we take some more humanity with her?"

“Yes, all of them!” Livia said as she dealt with the ever-growing spheres of mixed metal inside the furnace.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't bring back humanity?"

"Hmm, maybe it's fake." Perhaps the gods themselves have a certain humanity, but the negative aspects of humanity have been removed, or rather, the human aspects that do not conform to divinity have been removed. For example, the Calamity of the Earth is the part of the Earth Goddess's humanity that conflicts with her divinity, such as stability, steadfastness, and equality, while the parts that conform to divinity probably still remain in her.

Perhaps the humanity that Night God removed back then also contained parts that conflicted with his divinity. Perhaps in the future, we will encounter the divine evil of Night God. After all, for gods, such things are something they cannot deal with themselves, and they will not even be destroyed unless the god perishes.

The only thing that can be done is to seal it. As for the method and means of sealing it, no one knows. It is also unknown how the Eternal Night King obtained the location of the Earth Calamity's seal and managed to release it.

After several hours of smelting, the little witch brought over a recliner. Because of the heat from the furnace, she was only wearing a thin nightgown, her delicate legs crossed on the chair, her hands supporting her cheeks as she stared in the direction of the furnace.

The cyan-gold liquid was cooling drop by drop in the mold, gradually changing from cyan to golden-red and finally to a dark black color. On the other side, the activated forging hammer and anvil were forging a long alloy bar. Three identical metal bars were already placed next to them.

"Ha~" Livia yawned. Finally, the witch raised her hand, and four metal bars sandwiched the cooled, dark metal bar in the middle. It was then stuffed into the furnace again. Due to the exhaustion of divine power, the flames inside the furnace had now returned to the color of silver-blue soul fire, reheating the metal bar. This time, however, it was not red-hot, but a strange, translucent blue.

Roach was so startled by the color that he took two steps back. It looked like the color of some kind of powerful radioactive mineral. Fortunately, in this world, it was just a characteristic of being forged with the fire of the soul. Countless fine stripes flowed across the metal surface, like ever-changing clouds. With each forging, it was gradually stretched to more than two meters long, and then symmetrically cut in the middle, thus completing the forging of two sword blanks.

“Hmm, we’ll do the rest tomorrow.” Livia inserted the sword blank into the bucket next to her, which contained the quenching liquid prepared by Roach. Since the witch couldn’t leave, he was the one who did these chores. The detailed forging process for tomorrow was not the witch’s responsibility; that was Leon and Lulua’s job. It wasn’t physical labor, but rather it required the infusion of divine power to forge the shape.

　 As for the witch's enchantment, after the consecration forging is completed, she will need to spend the next day or two finding suitable enchantment effects from the advanced magic books given by the Sage Council.

Two days later, two brand-new longswords were placed on the dining table on the first floor of the cabin. Lulua lay on the table, her ahoge (cowlick) hanging limply. If she weren't a saint, she really wouldn't have been able to withstand this drain. As for Leon, he also looked exhausted. He was even worse off than Lulua, which resulted in the two swords having different consecration qualities.

The sword Lulua was in charge of was clearly of better quality. Its silver-blue blade was covered with beautiful patterns, and silver-gray lines radiated outwards from the spine of the sword, like countless filaments on a silver-blue feather.

The one Leon was in charge of was much more chaotic, and compared to feathers, it looked more like countless flames, with a bluish-gold color. However, compared to Lulua's sword blank, which was without any impurities, this one had a large number of large and small golden specks. It looked beautiful, but this also meant that the divine power had not been fully integrated into it.

"Hmm! I've thought it through~" Livia closed the book, having already decided on the enchantment content. The next step was to prepare the enchantment materials. She couldn't start for the time being because the enchantment effect she had chosen was difficult to achieve with natural materials and required two or even more alchemical transformations.

As a result, Roach and his group had to stay there for another week or so until the witch finished preparing all the materials. This also caused Roach and his group to lose all the bounty they had just received, and even some of the high-level materials and gems given to them by the Sage Council.

"I'm thinking of finding a new crisis to save the day so I can cover my expenses..."

"No! Don't move anything, and the world will be at peace!" Leon was shocked. Master Roach had already had this effect by simply going with the flow. If he were to take the initiative, who knows how many countries and cities would suffer.

Calling him the Sage of Destruction might be a bit of an exaggeration, but calling him the "Messenger of Calamity" is perfectly accurate in Leon's opinion. By the way, the title "Messenger of Calamity" was given to him by Vilandera.

These were the words of the elven elder. He said this subconsciously after hearing about Master Roach's great achievements, and later joked, "If Roach continues like this, the Council of Sages will probably have to treat him as a natural disaster to prevent."

"Stop making noise!" Livia looked at the group of people who had started to make a fuss, her little face puffed up with displeasure. Now was the time for her to concentrate, as she only had two, or rather two, materials for enchanting.

All the previous materials were transformed through multiple alchemy processes into the two materials in my hand: one is a feather wrapped in illusory flames, and the other is a strangely shaped crystal with constantly twisting bubbles around it.

The two high-level spell enchantment effects in "The Cataclysm" include a fire element called "Death Flame," made from alchemically crafted "Phoenix Feathers." This reverses the polarity of "Rebirth Flame," which is originally a healing type, much like how the reversal of fire elemental spells results in an ice effect (frost belongs to fire magic), transforming it into Death Flame that destroys and absorbs life force.

The reason for not choosing a weapon with speed and stealth that would be more suitable for the Night God's blessing is that if it were enhanced in this way, the weapon would be too powerful and Alessina would not be able to control it.

Weapons and equipment are not necessarily better the stronger they are. Overly powerful performance requires extraordinary abilities from the user. If the reaction speed is not fast enough, you will kill yourself. If your agility and perception are not high enough, you will get stuck in something when you jump through the shadows.

The distorted part is "time dilation," an enchantment of otherworldly magic. Originally a control spell, it causes the area to fall into time dilation, slowing down movement. In essence, it summons an otherworldly projection with a different time flow to cover the target area.

Livia improved the details of this spell, making the effect only apply to the holder, while the effect remains the same, except that the flow of time has changed from slower to faster. At the same time, she can use the same method of interdimensional projection to replace a section of the spatial structure, thus passing through any obstacle like Mario's Shadow Shift.

However, since this coverage is a fixed section, it cannot be used to kill through armor. Furthermore, the inspiration and technical guidance for improving this spell came from Old Ma, the only member who knew how to use "Hell's Edge" and "Shadow Realm" for fast movement.

The drawback is the same as its own: it cannot carry heavy objects. Apart from special beings like Livia who can adapt to this environment, it cannot carry any living creatures other than itself. This means that Alessina must maintain a light armor state. However, the beast-human girl has no objection to this - the material cost of these two swords alone could buy the lives of her entire tribe, and there would probably be some left over.

Even though she was exhausted after being enchanted, the witch still insisted that Alessina give the two weapons a name.

"Let's call it... Azure Wagtail~" A legendary divine bird that ignores spatial distance and obstacles. "As for the other one, let's call it Azure Phoenix." Anyway, both are predominantly azure in color, only the patterns on them are different, and the Death Flame Enchantment itself uses artificially synthesized phoenix feathers as material.

According to Roach's understanding, there are no real phoenixes or immortal birds in this world. In alchemy, the phoenix or immortal bird refers to "eternal life" and "the fountain of youth," and is also a symbolic totem of ancient alchemy. The earliest emblem of alchemists was the phoenix emblem, representing their pursuit of eternity.

Therefore, the Phoenix Feather belongs to the highest creation of the Alchemy-Potions Department, just like the Philosopher's Stone, which is the highest creation of the Creation Department. However, unlike the Philosopher's Stone, which was not actually created, the Phoenix Feather was indeed conquered and can be created.

Its essence is a highly concentrated life essence, which exists stably in the form of alchemical transformations. A single phoenix feather is enough to revive anyone, and it is even said to be able to reverse life and death. As long as the soul is not broken, it can resurrect the dead—although the condition of an unbroken soul determines that if the death has lasted more than 30 minutes, even this thing is powerless.

As a healing tool, it can unleash a legion-level area regeneration spell, which is enough to heal the wounded of an infantry regiment (1000 men) without the heavy consumption of limb regeneration or internal organ regeneration. The actual number decreases depending on the number and severity of the wounded.

This material was actually cheaper for Livia than the "Otherworldly Crystal," because Livia had plenty of the most expensive Life Essence and Soul White Amber, and as for the source of Life Essence... Roach could only say, "Let's mourn for the fire elementals who sacrificed their lives for these two weapons for five seconds~"

The fire elemental, having been scorched by the soul fire, was beyond saving. So, we made use of it by extracting its life essence—after all, elemental creatures don't really die, so we just extracted all that was left and kicked it back into the elemental realm.

"Kicked back" is exactly what it sounds like. After Livia opened the gate to the elemental realm, she raised her little foot and kicked the ball of essence back. The elemental essence could have been used as a material, but the little witch wasn't that ruthless, so she kicked it back. As for when it could be reborn, that's hard to say—anyway, she casually grabbed a fire elemental from the elemental realm and stuffed it into the furnace.

After witnessing the miserable state of his "former colleague," the new fire elemental became much quieter and more reserved. In Livia's words, "Finally, no one is making noise in the basement anymore."

The previous fire elemental was a chatterbox, always cursing and swearing. He would only shut up when the witch came in; he would curse anyone else who entered. He was incredibly unruly. Now, this one is much more docile, as quiet as a chicken. As a result, the furnace brothers are no longer being kicked by the little witch. Well, that's something to be happy about.

This meant that Leon didn't have to fight a fire elemental to start the furnace to deal with his damaged armor. The new fire elemental quickly swallowed the armor and slowly melted it into metal, without even needing the witch to watch over it. It was more diligent and self-disciplined than the previous one.

"We'll talk about the armor later~" Livia waved her hand, indicating that she was tired and didn't want to work non-stop. Leon also said it didn't matter, since the scrap armor and the metal hadn't been melted down yet.

After spending more than a week in Silver Maple City, the Witch's Hut finally set off again. "See, I told you, I don't just run into bad luck wherever I go..." Roach said to Leon as they watched the city walls recede into the distance. The latter shrugged and looked towards the east side of Silver Maple City. "Speaking of which, is there smoke coming from over there?"

"Let me see!?" Vilandella, with the best eyesight, immediately spread her dragon wings and flew low to take a look. "Oh, there's a fire on the east side of the outer city. That's the totem of the Elemental King, right? It seems to be an area inhabited by alien races." Most of the people from the Northern City-State Alliance on the continent have very diverse beliefs, including one Elemental King, or rather, four, though the four are usually worshipped and prayed for together.

"It must have been set on purpose..." because Vilandella saw several men in black robes carrying torches hurriedly fleeing into the sewers.

"Look, what did I say?"

“It must be a coincidence!” Roach shouted, but no one paid him any attention.

The small house strode forward along the main road, leaving the increasingly raging fire and billowing smoke of Silver Maple City behind—today was another day of disaster, how truly... I mean, how truly tragic and lamentable!