novelonline Chapter 4103 The Witch Who Was Waiting
Chapter 4103 The Witch Who Was Waiting
Chapter 4103 The Witch Who Was Waiting
"Sir, is the enemy this time still the House of False Men?"
Helen asked curiously, while Grace examined the black tower before them. But Shad shook his head, briefly explained the situation, and then gave the Red Butterfly girls their first task:
"Before the illusionary lock of the false man unfolds in the material world, go and check how long it will take for the Radiant Messenger to arrive."
"Are we going to find a thirteenth-tier Great Witch? No problem!"
So the girls left hand in hand, and Shad then said to Winnie:
“I’ll go into the Maze first. Winnie, you and Ellie stay outside for now. Once Vanessa or Sylvie arrive, have Ellie bring them to me. Don’t let Grace and Helen go into the Maze; they stay outside as backup.”
As long as the Red Butterfly girls are there, even if the fake man tries to play tricks, at least Shad can escape from the maze.
"Shad! Let's go together!"
Ellie clearly wanted to go with Shad, but Winnie touched her cheek, stopping Ellie, and then nodded gently to Shad:
"Then please be careful, I'll be waiting for you to come back."
The blood-red city reflected in the crimson sky became clearer and clearer. There was no smell of blood in the blood rain, but when Wei Ge stood at the main entrance of the city hall and saw the entire city dyed blood red by the blood rain, she wondered if she had run into some strange place.
The old buildings in Arcadia's upper city are mostly made of white stone, a material that is more easily stained with blood.
The woman dressed in leather attire who appeared in the city hall has been arrested. Viggo, who is finally allowed to return home, is not happy at all. She is eager to know what happened this time.
The blood rain originated from the illusory city suspended in the clouds. Although no harmful components have been detected in the blood rain so far, the church's ring mages, who have just lifted the curfew at the city hall, still do not recommend that the people here go back in the rain now.
However, Vige couldn't wait there. Fortunately, Fenxiang Residence wasn't far from the city hall. After borrowing a carriage, she returned home with her personal maid.
Miss Rowling had already led her people to Greyrock Pass to support Shad, while Miss MacDonald remained at the manor. Upon her teacher's return, the tall girl immediately informed the Great Witch of the current situation:
“Mr. Watson has been gone for half an hour, teacher. The carriage to Gray Rock Pass is ready.”
As she spoke, she handed the small bottle of blood wine to Wei Ge, who drank all the blood wine in the bottle in one gulp. Her complexion visibly returned to its rosy hue.
“Fake Man. Let’s go, let’s meet up with Laura first. This is really big news.”
She was about to leave again without even changing her clothes, but just before leaving, she remembered something else:
"Has Galina's grandniece arrived?"
"not yet."
"We can't worry about her now. Arrange for someone to wait for her at the house and tell her not to leave once she arrives. Let's set off now; hopefully, we can still make it in time."
The carriage then drove through the rain of blood, heading towards Gray Rock Pass under the crimson sky. Although Vige was drinking blood wine, not fresh blood from Shad, it was enough for her to use clever illusions to conceal the speeding carriage.
She didn't interact much with her students along the way, only anxiously watching the blood-red sky outside the car window. Although the "pseudo-human" had nothing to do with Wei Ge, she could inexplicably sense that the phantom of the blood-red city in the sky was gradually becoming more solid.
“I remember they mentioned in the council that the House of the Pseudo-Humans could release a maze of a scale comparable to the ‘Gap Between Life and Death’.”
Viggo suddenly said that Miss McDonald was currently using alchemical tools to determine the location of Miss Rowling and the others who had set off earlier, but the strong interference from the whispering element had severely reduced the accuracy of the alchemical tools.
Upon hearing her teacher's words, she nodded subconsciously, then realized what her teacher was worried about:
Will Mr. Watson barge in?
"He only got a 10-ring score, how is that possible?"
But as soon as she said it, Vige realized she had underestimated him. Xia De's actual abilities were nothing like those of a tenth-ring player. Knowing Xia De as she did, Vige knew he would dare to venture into such a dangerous place if necessary.
"Make the carriage go faster."
As the carriage approached the outer city, a dull thud seemed to come from the ends of the earth, followed by a tremor that caused the young ladies in the speeding carriage to bounce around.
Even Miss McDonald, confined to Central, could feel the suffocatingly powerful whispering energy suddenly erupting in the distance. Vig looked out the window again; the crimson city suspended upside down in the blood-red clouds had vanished, but this didn't mean the relic had withdrawn its power.
"The illusions of the false men have descended upon the material world! Speed things up! Although he may have that twelve-ring maid by his side, the maid is still no match for the witch."
After leaving the outer city, Vigo and her group quickly met up with Miss Rowling and her group, who had set off earlier. The meeting point happened to be the path next to the abandoned farm that Shad had visited several times.
But it wasn't the alchemical tools used for communication that were working; in fact, almost all the ring sorcerers who had been drawn to the area by this event, including the witch's followers, had retreated to this region.
"Master, look!"
Vige jumped down from the carriage, the rain of blood above her head automatically parting to either side. The road ended in front of the carriage, and behind the high-ringed witch followers lay a sea of blood.
It seemed that the desolate area between Grayrock Pass and the outer city of Arcadia had been completely submerged by this sea of blood. Standing at the edge of the sea of blood and looking into it, blood mist swirled above it, and a giant flesh-and-blood city stood like an isolated island in the center of the sea of blood.
The colossal Thousand-Eyed Golem was battling a flesh giant formed from the flesh and blood of a false human. Even with Vigo's keen eyesight, she could barely make out two people standing on the left and right shoulders of the "Giant Warrior." One of them was Hermons, and the other was the Infant Mother, who had provoked Adele to issue a "kill order."
"The Blood Spirit School and the Holy Son Alliance. The illusion of the false man overlaps with the real world, and this illusion has no external boundaries."
She assessed the situation. Aside from Wei Ge and her group, many forces, including the Church, were observing the inner workings of the Maze from the outside, but no one wanted to enter and participate in the battle. Whichever of the three factions—the False Humans, the Blood Spirit School, or the Holy Son Alliance—was defeated, the onlookers would simply applaud.
"What about him?"
Viggo looked around in the increasingly fierce rain of blood, but couldn't see Shad anywhere. Miss Rowling whispered a reminder:
“Master, he’s there.”
She pointed to the depths of the sea of blood. Wei Ge squinted to look closely, and in the blood mist, there really was a small boat heading towards that flesh-and-blood city.
Xia De stood at the stern, steering the small boat. The sea of blood was not a physical entity, but a chaotic spatial zone formed by the fusion of the labyrinth and the material world, yet the small boat still sailed steadily within it.
"He did go in, but why was he all alone?"
"I'm a little flustered," Viggo said, then heard Miss McDonald standing behind her whispering and nervously greeting someone. Before Viggo could turn around, a hand landed on her shoulder; the thirteenth-tier Great Witch could touch her through her clothes.
"Of course, he's not alone; he's waiting for me. The Locked City of Flesh and Blood. Vige, we once said that the [House of the Pseudo-Humans] has the potential to become an unknowable-level relic, and that's why."
A beautiful, long, wavy brown hair appeared in Vige's peripheral vision, followed by the thirteenth-tier "Light" Great Witch, Sylvie Aurora, walking up to her side. Vige blinked, her mind completely blank, wondering why the other woman was there.
Then, she heard gasps from the girls under her command.
The beautiful little unicorn followed Sylvie into the group of girls. Ellie had appeared in the council before, but unfortunately Viggo didn't have the ability to distinguish the appearance of unicorns, so she couldn't recognize this unicorn immediately. She had also seen it once before.
Ellie seemed to have a good impression of Vige, tilting her head and rubbing against her skirt in a friendly gesture. Vige, whose mind was still a bit foggy, subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch her, but then remembered her special constitution and quickly withdrew her hand.
Only then did Wei Ge realize what was happening:
"Sevier, what are you doing here? Wait, who did you say was waiting for you?"
Sylvie flicked her hair and said with a smile:
"Don't be so surprised, there are still many surprises for you today. But now is not the time to talk about this. You wait here, I have to go help. Yes, he is waiting for me. Only a thirteenth-level witch can help him."
After she finished speaking, she didn't linger. She mounted Ellie and was carried by Ellie into the depths of the sea of blood. Even without the talent of being "chosen ones," the unicorns' ability to pierce through space was enough to ensure their smooth entry into the illusionary human's maze.
"So, it's her?"
Vigo stared in shock at the departing figure of Sylvie riding her unicorn, feeling that if that person really was Sylvie Aurora, it seemed much better than she had expected, and she was even somewhat happy.
Then she noticed that the crystalline ice maid had come to her side. Viggo wanted to ask more questions, to confirm that the person she had been searching for was indeed Sylvie Aurora.
But Winnie kept her eyes glued to the inside of the maze, and whispered a reminder:
"Look, the miracle of the perfect fusion of heart and heart, blood and flesh, is actually like this."
As the resounding bells rang out, the steam rising behind the departing Sylvie revealed her thirteen life rings and the golden staircase.