Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 393 Nightmare
It was late at night in the southern continent, Port Behrens.

Adele glanced at the candle beside the bed and found that there was only one section left.

Although there were replacement candles for ceremonies in the room, Adele had no intention of taking them out. Instead, she straightened her nautical notes and prepared to write the last paragraph of her diary before the candles went out.

Although Adele has already been transferred from the "Snow Wind", she still brought down the voyage diary she wrote so that she can sort out what happened during this period in the future.

Sometimes, only by looking through the diary during this period can I know that I have experienced so many things...

Adele looked at the dense records in the voyage diary and couldn't help sighing. Since she left Port Indo at the beginning of this year, in just two months, she followed the members of the Witch Sect to the old days underground. The ruins, by accident, traveled to the world before the Extraordinary, and then directly broke through the stratum of the seabed and flew out of the sea, arriving at the southern continent.

Originally thought that things would become irreversible after a showdown with Tracy, but under the operation of the Tarot Club, Tracy and Adele turned into the official privateer captains of the kingdom, and they were involved in knowledge and wisdom together. The Church of the God of God left behind in the Southern Continent, and together they witnessed the birth of the Disaster Witch of the Source Quality School, until now they began to plan the decisive battle against the Rose School of thought.

Adele turned the diary to the latest page, and there was a thin piece of paper with the seal of the "Sword of Judgment" on it, impressively appointing Adele as the Baron of the Indo District of the Kingdom of Loen letter of appointment.

The Kingdom of Loen is unwilling to initiate conflicts at this time, but it doesn't mean that they want to turn a blind eye to the huge benefits brought by Port of Indor.

Since Feysac temporarily backed down and gave up the control of Indo Port, Venata is actually in control of Indo Port.But Venata is a Feysac, so the title of baron fell to Adele.

In principle, what Ruen did did not infringe on the interests of Fusac - the territory that Fusac himself gave up, the shipping company led by Venata temporarily took over all affairs, and what Ruen did only It's just adding a baronship to Adele, another speaker of the shipping company.

Even this baronial title is in compliance with the rules. After all, most of the treasures seized by Adele flowed into Loen's treasury, and it was regarded as paying for a baronial title, even a baronial title was a bit low.

Originally, the Kingdom of Loen could not govern Adele's territory in principle, but now it's different. Adele has become the baron of the kingdom, and in name she serves the new King of Loen, George IV. Naturally, the king has The right to impose aid on his own nobles.

In this way, if all goes well, Indo Port will become a bridgehead for Ruen to stay in Fesac. The establishment of sea control will give this isolated overseas enclave a different value. For the company, this is a great thing. All members have a formal establishment and can receive salaries from the country, instead of Adele being responsible for her own profits and losses out of her own pocket.

After going through these things, Adele's identity also changed from "the witch from Backlund" to "the director of the Queen's Island Shipping Company, the honorary director of White Pharmaceuticals, the lieutenant of the Royal Navy of the Ruen Storm Sea, the captain of the privateer, In other words, if she goes to Backlund's social scene now, she will become a socialite second only to Miss Audrey, and she can even rely on the favoritism of Loen's social field for women to gain and Now the king's brother, the chance for the two princes to talk.

But now, this baron's commission has no other purpose for the time being, it is just a blank check, and it will not be officially effective until after the war is over, when it is awarded by a prince or the founder of the country, William Augustus.

Fortunately, I will be able to return to Port of Indor soon. Before that, I'd better find someone to cash out some of the benefits...

Adele looked at the commission again, and then carefully put it in the diary and kept it.At this time, the candle beside the bed could not hold on anymore, and went out with a "flutter", leaving only the bright red moonlight in the room.

Tonight is another blood moon...

Adele narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling a little weird.

In this world, the change of the moon is regular or irregular. Normally, its moon phase changes according to the alignment, but there will always be a few times a year, when it will suddenly become round and red like blood. Similar situations There is no logic, sometimes it happens only once a year, sometimes it happens four or five times a year.

Neither astronomers nor occultists can explain this phenomenon, and they can't sum up the rules at all. They can only temporarily ignore this problem and regard it as one of the difficulties, and jokingly say that maybe it's just that the goddess is in a bad mood.

Of course, based on the information obtained from the Tarot Society, Adele knew that the authority of the moon had been traded by the goddess to the Mother Earth as a bargaining chip for attacking the God of War, but the current moon phase is still weird, which shows that the God of Justice does not seem to know Affects the moon phase.

Among the evil gods, Adele happens to know one who controls the power of the moon; and the followers of the Rose School of Thought on the opposite side are also good at using the power of the red moon.

The blood moon will bring about the rise and explosion of negative emotions, and will strengthen the power of the underworld and the spiritual world. The members of the Rose School of Indulgence will become stronger, crazier, and even completely lose their minds.

However, Adele is not very worried about the situation here, because the Extraordinary from the Church of the Mother Earth and the Church of the Evernight are also good at fighting under conditions full of moonlight, even if the Rose School of Thought came to sneak attack, they would not be able to please them.

With a little peace of mind, Adele pulled off the night veil and put it on her head, then changed into pajamas, and lay down on the simple iron frame bed.

In order to fight against the dream from the city of disaster, Adele has been wearing the "Night Veil" while sleeping, relying on its effect to keep herself in a dreamless sleep brought by extraordinary effects all night.

It was the same tonight, the effect of the night veil was indeed excellent in promoting sleep, and Adele quickly fell asleep.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Adele opened her eyes and found herself in that burning city again. The difference was that the sky here was darker this time. If the previous color was flowing blood , is now a coagulated blood clot.

But this time, most of the buildings in the city collapsed in the raging disaster, leaving only the twisted concrete houses surrounded by vines and the blue-black old castle in the center of the city under the burning beech trees.

Why am I back in this dream again?

At this moment, Adele was really a little scared.

The real fear does not come from high-sequence powerhouses, nor from terrifying alienated people, nor from weird ritual magic or sealed items, but that it walks slowly towards you with square steps, and you have nothing to do with it. Know there is no way out!
Emperor Roselle once said that the oldest and strongest emotion of human beings is fear, and the oldest fear is the fear of the unknown, but now, the performance of the city of disasters directly destroys everyone's judgment on it, just like the attached Bone gangrene climbed up Adele's back.

Adele stood on a tall tower and looked down, and the town covered by thick ash appeared in front of her eyes at dusk. The old weathervane, minaret, roof beams, chimneys, piers, small bridges, and cemetery were all in one glance. .

If you observe from the ground, the street seems to be going straight forward; but when you stand on the commanding height and look down, you will find that the layout of the whole street is actually like a path on the top of a mountain, steep, narrow, and with small curves, forming an endless road. maze.

A blinding, time-battered cathedral stood on a tree trunk in the center of the labyrinth, where the trunk had last split open, wrapped in black branches.

On the other side, those houses of unknown age also constitute another endless maze, like a castle built by children with building blocks, with different angles and heights, sometimes dense and sometimes sparse.

The gables and sloping roofs of the houses were grayed out by ashes, and the old paint and the traces left by the flames condensed on the walls, leaving ancient spells one after another.

Driven by some mysterious force, Adele eagerly crossed the back street, entered the circular square, stepped on the ashes that fell on the only unpaved stone road in the center of the city, and headed for the depths of the city.

Along the way, she saw a beautiful dragon falling from the sky, its pearly white scales pierced by a blade of frozen malice, falling from the sky, raising a cloud of ashes.

Another dragon of the same type roared in the air, as if mocking the faller's overreach.

…Miss Audrey lost to Hermes, how could I have such a dream? !
Adele was a little flustered. For the first time, she was afraid of the scene that appeared in this dream.

When an ending you don't want to accept appears in a dream, even if you know it's just a dream, you still doubt whether this ending is really possible, and Adele is now caught in this kind of doubt middle.

At the same time, countless scenes between fantasy and reality appeared around her. Adele saw the black sails covering the sky coming from the sea level, enveloping the whole city, and the building of the shipping company turned into Sea of ​​fire;

She saw Venata and Sophie gradually exhausted in the face of countless enemies, and the flash of flames finally drowned in the crowd, like the last spark before the firewood burned out;
She also saw a huge, black and sticky arm protruding from the sky, causing the forest to fall and the mountain to tremble, and shot the body of William Augustus into the formation of the Loen army. Looking directly at the angel, a terrifying mutation occurred...

These are the endings that Adele fears, worries, and tries to avoid from the bottom of her heart. At this moment, she is gradually appearing beside her, absorbing her fear, and gradually becoming solid, no different from the real scene.

Just when Adele was about to be driven crazy by the weird atmosphere, the church bell rang suddenly.

The moment the bell rang, all the phantoms stopped moving; until the bell struck eleven, all creatures, real or imaginary, walked towards the ancient church under the beech tree.

Among the illusory figures, there is Miss "Audrey" whose eyes have been dug into two blood holes, Sophie and Venata who are covered in fire, and there are strange protrusions on their bodies, with a skull head , three-dimensional eyes or mutant soldiers with pointed tongues.

They marched in a silent file along the fishnet-like roads of this impossibly ancient city, one by one the curtained windows were darkened, and from each door came strange creatures. The presence.

The virtual images of Adele's fear only accounted for a small part of the team, and the main force of the team was the hooded monsters who came out from the rooms on both sides. They surrounded Adele in the middle, holding She moves forward.

Their soft arms squeezed Adele's chest and abdomen, and Adele felt that the softness of these arms was abnormal.Until she saw the faces of the people coming, the faces covered by the hooded people were all her own without exception, as if they were carved out of a mold.The difference is, except for Adele, everyone here is dead.

Soon, Adele and the others walked down a rough and ominous stone step.The narrow spiral steps were damp and had a strange smell, and the monotonous walls were covered with dripping stones and peeling mortar, and the steps continued deep under the zelkova.

They seemed to have been hewn straight out of the rock, and to Adele's horror, there were so many people walking without the sound of footsteps or echo.

After what seemed to be an endless descent, she found dark and mysterious passages or holes in the unknown depths of the darkness, which looked like branching lanes.Soon these passages became numerous, as if they were unclean catacombs full of unknown threats, and an indescribable ancient atmosphere came from the passages.

Finally, Adele saw the pale light flickering strangely, heard the sound of running water that never sees the sun and the faint, mocking whine of the venue.

This is the underground of the ancient castle. Thick tree roots made of bronze come down from the ceiling, red and pure black flames spit out around, viscous water flows in invisible places, and those people form a circle around the flames. formed a semicircle, enclosing Adele and the ancient flame in the middle.

This seems to be some kind of ancient ritual, and Adele doesn't even need to deliberately guess what its function is: because she quickly saw the existence summoned by this ritual, it was a ball of non-stop rotation. Formed matter, like a strange, silent and unknown viscous river.

That is the form that was not understood by people in the past, and it is the form in which the disaster is manifested by the support of the dead carrier!
Adele leaped towards the greasy, bubbling subterranean river before her frantic screams could attract all the beings lurking in the darkness, and her consciousness gradually faded, and the dream ended abruptly up.

(End of this chapter)