novelonline Chapter 2734 Waiting
Chapter 2734 Waiting
Chapter 2734 Waiting
Since the number of tasks given by the Tree Father is three, the person who is waiting will definitely come the third time:
"Until then, let me mend Miss McConaughey's keys."
Shade put the lazy cat on her lap, then dug out the bottle of resin given by the priest. After explaining its effect, the young witch carefully took out the broken pieces of the key, and then pieced them together into the shape of a key.
Ms. Bullock cast a spell, causing the fragments to fly into the resin while maintaining the shape of a key.
"It will take about five minutes to repair."
Shade replaced the lid on the glass bottle and told Miss McConaughey to keep it. The young witch held the bottle carefully in her arms, and it seemed that she did not intend to let go before Shade announced that the time was up.
"I want to ask you something."
Shade then spoke to Ms. Bullock, and after she nodded, he lowered his voice slightly so that Mr. Nelson and Ms. McConaughey wouldn't hear:
"I want to ask you about an ancient evil object. That evil object is already a relic, and it is a relic of the highest level - desire. Have you heard of it? It is said to be the embodiment of the purest desire."
After saying this, he glanced towards the black waters, but it was obvious that the god was standing on the boat, and even if Shad asked, the mermaid could not appear here.
The 13th-rank candidate witch was quite surprised:
"I know of a relic very similar to the one you described, but why would you want to mention it? That thing has never appeared in its true form since the beginning of this era. The few incidents involving it are merely the effects of its remaining power."
"Now that you put it like that, I'm almost certain that we're talking about a relic. Do you know its origin? Or its weakness? All I know now is that it has some connection with the god of love, the Red Heart Lock, and is also related to the source of witch power, the ancient god, the Chaos Witch."
Ms. Bullock frowned deeply and looked at the young girl guarding the glass jar and the man across the campfire:
"If it weren't for a place like this, I wouldn't be discussing this with you. First of all, I need to make one thing clear: it is not a god, and when it is mentioned in the book, it is not directly called the name you mentioned, but rather the 'mermaid'.
You can think that when you know its existence and take the initiative to mention that name, it can sense that you are mentioning it, and even know the characteristics of your soul. Many Fourth Age documents have recorded that sometimes just mentioning this name will immediately be infected by emotion and fall into madness. "
The bonfire illuminated Shade's face, which showed a slightly stunned expression. This was even more exaggerated than the power it had displayed in the Sixth Epoch:
“So is there a way to check and balance it in the book?”
"I didn't write it. I just said don't have any connection with it. Even if you really meet it, don't look at it, don't listen to it, don't think about it, and don't try to talk to it. When it thinks you are a boring and rigid person, it will probably let you go."
So when Shad encountered it in the basement of Aurora Mansion in Coldwater Harbor, he had already done something wrong.
"Even a demigod witch can't suppress it?"
Shade asked again, but this time Ms. Brock was unable to answer. After all, she was not a demigod, nor was she an official great witch with a seat.
The five-minute wait was a bit boring. After chatting with Ms. Bullock for a while, Shade moved closer to Mr. Nelson:
"I bet your wife will be here soon. I'm in a hurry this time. After sending you back, I have to take the boat to see my lover in the remaining time. So, can you tell me now why your wife came to this place?"
Xia De had asked before, but Mr. Nelson refused to answer. After hearing what he said, the middle-aged man with a scruffy beard finally spoke:
"My wife is just an ordinary person like me, but she is a member of a witch organization and does some clerical and accounting work."
Xia De nodded in understanding:
"Ordinary people obviously have a lower salary, and there's no need for witches to take on those jobs. So, what happened to her? It can't be that she cheated on you and the witch, and then she felt sorry for you and the other person, so she wanted to leave this world, right?"
"No, of course not. Besides, witches don't like women who marry men."
Mr. Nelson immediately denied it and was not angry at Shade's speculation because the matter was more serious:
"People like you who have great power probably don't know that ordinary girls actually imagine themselves becoming witches with eternal youth and amazing power since childhood. My wife..."
"I need to correct that."
Ms. Bullock on the side interjected:
"Witches are not eternally young. Although they are very powerful, most of them can only stay at the low level. Maybe this is good in the eyes of ordinary people, but in fact, most witches are only engaged in helping higher-level witches with odd jobs, assistants or errands. The difference between those low-level girls and ordinary women is that they can make fireballs."
"Making fireballs" should refer to those relatively simple basic mystical spells.
"I got to this point not only through hard work but also through luck. Miss McConaughey over there was able to meet a high-level witch who was willing to impart knowledge to her as a teacher. This is something that ordinary witches would not even dare to dream of.
I admit that witches do have great advantages over ordinary people, but don't think that life becomes easy after becoming a witch.
After awakening her talent and becoming a witch, she still had to find a way to get into the Witch Academy, which required her to find books to study on her own, or go to a big city to attend a witch preparatory school. In a closed little room, she squeezed together with other girls, watching a middle-aged frustrated witch who came from nowhere standing on a floating board in front of a steam-powered blackboard, talking about various boring topics.
Then there is the application for the Witch Academy. The average number of times to pass the exam is now more than five times, and most of them can only go to schools where the dean can barely reach the high level. Even if they pass the open admissions graduate school, they can't compare with top schools like Zala Academy that can only recruit one-on-one students based on connections, talent and luck. "
Ms. Block climbed up step by step from the bottom and is quite familiar with the ecology and society of witches.
Mr. Nelson nodded. Of course, he didn't dare to refute the words of the high-level witch:
"My wife is the kind of girl who has dreamed of becoming a witch since she was a child, but unfortunately she doesn't have the talent, nor the luck in the story of meeting a strange person in a toy store and then awakening to become a witch."
This story seems familiar. The story of Hope Town takes place in the year 1068 of the Fifth Era, a thousand years before the year 2025.
"She kept her desire to become a witch until she was 26, when she admitted that she probably had no talent, so she married me. In the kingdom we live in, a girl who gets married at 26 is already an old maid.
But fortunately, she loves me very much, and I love her too. But I know that she still has her childhood wish in her heart, and joining the witch organization as an ordinary staff member is probably related to her childhood wish. "
He looked at the bonfire in front of him dejectedly and sighed deeply:
"I thought that since she married me, she should have understood that she would never become a witch again, but I don't know if she really never gave up, or if she picked up the wish again after seeing the witches around her.
Anyway, after she joined the witch organization, she often went to observe the witches casting spells, and sometimes even secretly took the materials used by the witches to cast spells back home. "
Ms. Bullock didn't say anything this time; she pretty much understood.
Xia De sighed softly:
"I can almost guess what's going to happen next. Please continue. Didn't you try to persuade your wife? Her behavior is very dangerous."
"I tried to persuade her, but I couldn't persuade her on this matter. I was also worried at first, but it went on like this for several years without any problems, so I stopped talking to her.
About a year before I joined the terminal, she came home from get off work one day and happily told me that she had been assessed and approved and could now do more critical work in the organization.
"What job?"
"Looking after the warehouse. No, don't be so surprised. Of course it's not the witches' spell material warehouse, nor is it a library. It's just an ordinary item warehouse. Their organization also conducts some business with ordinary people, so there are some ordinary supplies."
"By the way, what is that organization she's a member of? Is it a large organization?"
Miss McConaughey also asked while holding the jar. Mr. Nelson shook his head.
"Not big. There are only five or six branches in the western continent where we live. I don't know much about witches, but I heard that it can only be considered medium-sized. The Prophet's Association, yes, that's the name."
Miss McConaughey shook her head and said that she had never heard of the "Prophet Association". She had traveled around the material world with her teacher before and had not actually lived in the Western Continent for too long.
Ms. Block, who was born in the Western Continent, had some impression of this organization:
"Is it the organization formed by fortune tellers? I heard that they have existed for a long time, and their fortune telling skills are pretty good. But because they have never produced a thirteenth-level witch, they are not very famous."
The strangers who lived in the era when the Prophet Association had become the largest ring magic organization under the Orthodox Church by selling "Rod Cards" nodded in surprise:
"I know a little about the Prophet Association."
Even because Shad's lover Luvia also worked in the association, he actually had a better impression of Mr. Nelson:
"So your wife is in charge of the divination supplies?"
"Yes, just ordinary divination supplies. Compasses, divination cards, pendulums, Ouija boards. It is said that in order to make money, they sometimes sell some borderline extraordinary items to ordinary people, which is a violation of the rules."
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