dark witches rise

Chapter 151 Departure, Hejian Region (5K)

Winter to spring.

The cold winter recedes, and the warm spring breeze sweeps across the earth.

The ice and snow melted, and green leaves appeared on the branches.

early morning.

The raindrops were pattering down.

Roja and Weiss, who were all ready to go, got into the carriage and prepared to go to the Hejian area.

"You must listen to Master Roja on the way, and learn more about wizards from Master Roja when you have time..." Governor Craigie chattered while holding Weiss' hand.

"I know, I know, how many times have I said this." Weiss waved her hands impatiently.

"Master Roja, Weiss will be taken care of by you." Governor Craigie held Roja's hand, "When you come back next time, I'll probably be gone, so please take care of me at that time." grandson."

"I will."

Roja glanced at the terrified young man who shrank behind Governor Craigie, and nodded in response.

After bidding farewell to everyone, Roja sat on the carriage and waved the whip in his hand.

"drive!"

crunch, crunch, crunch—

The wheels rolled, driving two ruts on the muddy road towards the distance.

After the carriage left the city of Haine Port.

The eyes of Weiss, who had been sitting in the carriage with her head lowered and not speaking, suddenly brightened.

She put on a rainproof cloak and hat and came out of the carriage, sat beside Roja and looked around curiously.

Since becoming a student of the Mandolin wizard, Weiss is no longer as scared and restrained as before when facing Roja, a powerful and terrifying wizard apprentice.

It's better to say that not only is she not afraid of being unrestrained, but her attitude is a little too casual, which can almost be called contempt.

"How long will it take us to reach the river region?" Weiss asked curiously.

"The Hejian area is located in the southernmost part of the Shenglan Kingdom, bordering the Tallinn Empire, the country of forests. The plants in the Hejian area are lush, there are many rivers, miasma is everywhere, and various diseases are rampant..." Roja said slowly.

"I asked you how long it will take to arrive, why are you talking so much?" Weiss said impatiently.

"Weiss, as a wizard, strength is very important, but knowledge is equally important." Roja said in a deep voice.

"I'm about to become a student of the mandolin wizard, and it doesn't matter to me whether you learn or not." Weiss curled her lips, "Hmph, it's obviously because of my relationship that I got to the mandolin tower. Sir Ling Wizard’s line, you’re still playing with me, do you really think you’re a child of some big family? Without me, you’d never know each other for the rest of your life…”

"Half a month." Roja interrupted Weiss directly.

"Do you want to stay in the carriage for half a month? A long time."

Weiss sat next to Roja with her legs crossed, happily looking at the surrounding scenery, and asked Roja some questions from time to time.

For these questions, Roja used the shortest words to answer directly, without saying a word of nonsense.

Not long after the novelty wore off, Weiss yawned and felt bored.

Just as she was about to go back to the carriage to read a book to pass the time, she noticed a damaged carriage parked on the side of the road not far ahead.

A wounded man was holding a more seriously injured woman and waving at them.

"The axle of our car broke suddenly halfway, and our head hit a rock. Both my wife and I were injured. Please help us and take us to the nearest village..."

Seeing Roja who didn't stop preparing at all, the man suddenly knelt down and begged: "Please, my wife is really seriously injured, if she doesn't get timely treatment, she will really die, woo, woo Woooo..."

Looking at the sad crying man kneeling on the ground, and the seriously injured woman who was in a coma, her face was pale, and she seemed to be breathing more air than she was taking in.

Weiss had an unbearable expression on her face.

She pushed Roja lightly, "It's impossible to give them a ride, but aren't your medical skills very good? Help them heal."

"Oh."

Roja turned his head and glanced in the direction of the damaged carriage.

Snapped!Snapped! ——

Both the begging man and the seriously injured woman collapsed to the ground, brain dead and turned into vegetative states.

"What are you doing!" Weiss stared at Roja, "I asked you to heal them, not to kill them!"

Weiss's basic meditation method has already been introduced. Although she can't release her mental power to kill people, she can perceive the sharp spiritual power gushing from Roja's eyes.

Roja didn't speak, the holy sword Lionheart Roar on his waist suddenly buzzed, and traces of black oscillating power gushed out from the sword.

"You, what do you want to do? You must not be angry and want to attack me..." Weiss shrank back in fear, and moved her butt away from Roja.

crackling-

The black oscillating power shot out with a sudden acceleration.

"Wow-"

Weiss screamed, but the imaginary pain never came.

It turned out that the target of the oscillating force was not her, but the damaged carriage by the roadside.

The carriage was broken by the force of the vibration, and Weiss looked pale when she saw the fierce men hiding in the carriage holding sharp knives.

"He, he, they..."

Thinking that she wanted to go there to save someone just now, Weiss couldn't help but feel a sense of shame of being fooled.

"It's true that I'm not as knowledgeable as the Mandolin wizard. It may not be very useful for you to learn wizard knowledge from me, but will the Mandolin wizard carefully teach you life skills?"

"Will it teach you how to guard against others and how to read people's hearts?"

"If you don't want to encounter what happened just now, maybe I can help you."

Weiss lowered her head in frustration and didn't reply, but Roja already knew her answer.

……

slam-la-

The torrential rain poured down twice.

The gaps of the doors and windows of the rainwater poured into the compartment, and the entire compartment was wet, and the people inside were as wet as if they had just been fished out of the water.

"There is an abandoned house in front of us, we went to hide from the rain."

call-

The carriage stopped in front of a dilapidated house.

Roja took Weiss into the leaky house, and found that there were many people dressed as refugees warming the fire.

The moment Luo Yaweisi and the two entered, a pair of piercing eyes shot towards them.

Looking at Weisi's beautiful face and the luxurious clothes they were wearing, many of them clenched the sickle and hammer beside them.

Feeling the abnormal atmosphere, Weiss snorted coldly, and was about to kill those people with malicious intentions.

After more than half a month of travel, Weiss is no longer the arrogant noble lady she was at the beginning.

She has seen blood along the way, killed many robbers, and her character and strength have grown tremendously.

In fact, Weiss was originally a piece of jade with excellent talent. When Roya and Weiss first met five years ago, Roja liked Weiss very much and was optimistic about her.

The reason why he would degenerate into that incomprehensibly annoying look when they met again was entirely taught by Governor Craigie, a bad old man.

Now Weiss has changed significantly after half a month of Roja's guidance.

Feeling the tension in the house, seeing that Weiss was about to fight those people preemptively.

Roja took a step forward to stop Weiss, and he pretended to look around, "It's a bit dark around, be careful not to fall."

Roja raised his hand, and a pinch of warm flames of life emerged in his palm, illuminating the dim house and shining on the faces of everyone who was frightened and nervous.

Weiss looked at Roja puzzledly, opened and closed her mouth, and asked silently, "Why?"

Roja shook his head quietly, and said in a weak voice that only Weiss could hear: "Walking outside, don't rely too much on force, and try to kill as few people as possible."

"It was they who wanted to attack me."

"They're just fleeing farmers."

"Hmph, a peasant who will attack nobles?"

"Otherwise? Do you think peasants are born dogs of nobles? Will they lick nobles without bottom line at any time?"

Roja walked towards the biggest fire in the house.

Facing the nervous man who should be the team leader by the fire, he said, "Can we warm up together?"

"No, no problem."

"Seeing that everyone is really hungry... Weiss, bring us here and share some food with everyone."

After the tense atmosphere in the house disappeared.

"Master, we are going to the Hejian area. Do you know anything about the Hejian area?"

"We just escaped from the river area, you'd better not go."

"What happened?"

"A large-scale plague suddenly broke out three months ago. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the number of dead people continued to increase. The Earl of Hejian has ordered the entire Hejian area to be sealed off. Run out of blockade."

"Is the plague so serious?"

"Well, it's more than serious. I suspect that after this plague, the Hejian area will become a desolate dead place with no survivors."

Then Roja and the man talked a lot about the plague in the Hejian area.

After the rain subsides.

Regardless of the man's kind persuasion, Roja took Weiss and set off again.

After entering the river area.

The whole world suddenly became very quiet.

There was the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, and the rustling of the branches, but there was no sound from the living.

The whole world seemed to be the only two living people.

Since entering the Hejian region, Weiss has been shrouded in anxiety.

She asked Roja again and again, "I know your medical skills are great, but can you really handle this plague? I think it's better not to force yourself."

Roja didn't answer, he just looked at the clear river not far away.

Weiss looked in the direction Roja saw, and found that there were many smelly and rotten corpses floating on the crystal-clear river, and a bunch of fat and tender fish were swimming around the corpses.

"vomit--"

Weiss covered her mouth and retched with a pale face.

She didn't catch her breath until a few minutes passed.

She pulled Roja's sleeve, and said half begging and half ordering: "Let's leave here quickly, this is not something we can solve at all, in case even we are infected..."

"drive!"

Roja waved his whip and drove the carriage forward.

Knowing that Roja would never take her away, Weiss asked: "Where are we going? Is it the residence of the Earl of Hejian?"

"A place where people gather." From the moment he stepped into the river area, Roja already knew his destination this time.

The two drove the carriage for more than an hour.

Along the way, they saw countless corpses, deserted villages, and streets full of dead people.

However, they did not see a living person.

suddenly!

Weiss pointed to the front and cheered excitedly, "There! There are living people there!"

They are indeed living people, and there are many of them, hundreds of them.

There were men, women and children, all of them pale and haggard, weak and weak, and they were marching towards a certain destination ahead under the escort of soldiers.

Luo Yaweisi found the other party, and the other party also found them.

"Come on—"

A handsome man in armor with eyes as sharp as an eagle, led two guards on horseback and surrounded Roja and his carriage.

"I'm Harder Bumons. I don't know where you two are from? Although you may feel unhappy, please come with us. This is to prevent the further spread of the plague." The leading man Said.

Roja's body didn't move, but the holy sword Lionheart Roar at his waist vibrated violently, making an ear-splitting buzzing sound.

In the next instant, streaks of black oscillating power shot out from the blade and hit the surrounding trees.

boom!boom!boom! ——

Dozens of trees were instantly smashed into pieces by the force of the vibration, splashing in mid-air.

"This this……"

Harder and his party watched this scene dumbfounded, not realizing what happened for a while.

"I am a wizard sent by the kingdom to support." Roja said in a deep voice.

"Meet the wizard!"

"We didn't know your identity, Mr. Wizard, please forgive our rudeness!"

The three knelt down and kowtowed fiercely to Roja.

"Okay." Roja asked them to get up, "There should have been wizards who came a step earlier, take me to them."

"Yes!"

Hader rode ahead and led the way.

"Sorcerer Kukashi and Wizard Marvin have been here for a month, and they have been busy treating patients day and night." Speaking of the two wizards Kukashi and Marvin, Hader expressed admiration.

"Are you planning to go to the wizard's place with these patients?" Roja asked.

"Yes." Harder nodded and said, "In Shanta Town not far ahead, tens of thousands of people have been taken in there, and we are taking all the surviving people in the Hejian area back for treatment as ordered by the wizard. .”

As he said that, Hade sighed, "This plague is really too serious. It came quickly and caused a high death rate. If Lord Wizard hadn't appeared in time, the people in our Hejian region would really die."

Roja glanced at the hundreds of people who were escorted by soldiers to Shanta Town to receive wizard treatment.

"It's enough, we don't need them anymore," Roja said.

"What are you talking about?" Hader asked puzzled.

"Take them to find a place to settle down and rest." Roja ordered.

"Are they all infected with the disease? If they can't get timely treatment from the wizard, they will all die!" Hader shook his head and refused.

"I am a wizard!"

Roja glared at Harder, and under his invisible coercion, Harder's legs trembled in fear.

"……Yes."

Despite his reluctance, Harder acted according to what Roja said.

"Everyone stop, find a place to stay and rest! Let's go tomorrow!"

Hade rode his horse around to convey the order, and then returned to Roja.

"Master Wizard, when can we move on?" Hader said cautiously.

"You really care about their lives." Roja looked at Harder and said with emotion.

"Of course, they are my people!" Hader replied without any hesitation.

"You are the Earl of Hejian?" Roja asked in surprise.

"Father died of illness two months ago, my mother was overwhelmed with grief and died with my father, the elder brother who was supposed to be the heir to the title also died, the second brother, the third brother and the others... Finally, I inherited the title of Earl of Hejian." Harder With a gloomy expression, he said in a low and sad voice.

"That's it." Roja waved his horsewhip and drove the carriage forward, "Everything will be over by tomorrow."

"Are you going to Shanta Town?"

"Ah."

"I can show you the way."

"it is good."

Under the leadership of the new Hejian Earl Harder, Roja and Weiss headed towards Shanta Town.

The closer they got to Shanta Town, the stronger the feeling of uneasiness in everyone's hearts.

Weiss tightly grasped Roja's sleeve, and kept gesturing to Roja with her eyes, but Roja ignored her.

Harder explained to himself: "There are tens of thousands of patients gathered in Shanta Town in front of them. They are tortured by illness every day, and hundreds of people die every day. Hundreds of kilometers can affect people's mood."

Roja sneered, "Are you sure?"

While Weiss and Hader were puzzled, Roja stretched out his right index finger and quickly tapped their heads hard.

"Ok!"

"what!"

The two groaned at the same time.

Harder didn't dare to blame Roja, who is a wizard, so he just looked at Roja with his head in doubt, waiting for Roja's explanation.

And Weiss, who thought she was about to become an official wizard and was more noble than Roja, didn't have so many worries.

"What are you doing?" She clenched her fists and stared at Roja, as if she would punch Roja if Roja's explanation didn't satisfy her.

Before Roja could explain, Weiss and Hader were stunned.

The two of them looked around in a daze, looking at the ominous black mist that suddenly appeared in the air, which made people tremble from the bottom of their hearts.

These black mist have been permeating around them, but they have not noticed the existence of the black mist before.

They looked up towards the place where the black mist was thickest.

It turned out to be Shanta Town!

As a patient shelter, the place where wizards treat people infected with the plague turned out to be the place where the ominous black mist is the thickest.

The black fog in the direction of Shanta Town was so thick that you couldn't reach your fingers. The blood-colored thick fog was surging and rolling, like a roaring ghost that devoured people.

"When you took people to Shanta Town before, did you see what it was like inside?" Roja asked.

Roja's voice was so calm, but when it entered Hader's ears, Hader felt that these voices seemed to be whispers from the abyss.

"me……"

"Except for Wizard Kusika and Wizard Marvin, I haven't seen any living people, and the sick people are all staying in the house..."

"All we can hear are the painful wailing and screaming of the patients..."

"There are too many patients gathered there, and it is easy to get sick after staying for a long time..."

"That place is so hopeless, we don't want to stay too long..."

Hader was shaking his head in pain, talking intermittently.

The more he talked, the harder his hand holding his head was, and the uglier his face became.

"Could it be that they are evil wizards who experimented on my people through the plague?"

"Lord Roja, are you the one sent by the Kingdom?"

"I, I, I... I have been sending people who trust me into the devil's lair with my own hands?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Hader suddenly screamed loudly.

There seemed to be a snake swimming under the scalp of his head, and a strip-shaped bulge emerged that was constantly moving rapidly.

squeak--

Something pierced Hader's scalp and exposed it to the air.

That's not a snake, it's a branch!

There are actually branches growing deep in Harder's head!

There were more and more branches that pierced Hader's scalp and exposed to the air, and Hader's mournful cry became more and more ear-piercing.

(End of this chapter)