The Witch's Taste

Chapter 188 Xia Zili's Hesitation
Ever since he was inexplicably targeted by the Lord of the Great Deep Sea, Chen Ziang has now exchanged a total of nine powers.

There are [dream walk] and [dying breath] to assist in the detection, which are used to probe the thinking of the living and the memory of the dead respectively; there is also the passive ability of [malicious capture] to prevent people from being attacked suddenly.

More are attack methods. A simple summary is: three kinds of tentacles, two drowners, and one sickle.

These powers can be said to be various, but each has its own unique application, so there are not too many.

After upgrading, I got [Embrace of the Drowning], and the spark dropped back to around 200 points, feeling like "everything is gone overnight".

You have to start earning tinder again.

Mandala magic sword kills monsters to absorb fire; if it is a monster from a hostile camp, the camp will issue additional rewards; the lair in the drowned man's lair offers a reward, and there is also a corresponding head fee.

But these are small money, where to find so many weird and living people to kill?Time-consuming and labor-intensive.

On the contrary, war missions are the most cost-effective.

"Hmm." Chen Ziang asked in a deep voice, "I want to ask, are there any war missions at this stage?"

"Yes." Probably knowing that she was speaking too slowly, Hanna asked succinctly, "Have you heard of 'Crystal of Wisdom'?"

"No." Chen Ziang was a little dazed.

"The Crystal of Wisdom is a god in the mist camp." Hanna's voice was as soft as the water plants floating around, with the muffled sound unique to the living dead, "His form is a hard and smooth huge crystal cluster .”

"He can project thoughts through any metal, spread spiritual pollution like an electric current, transform the bottom race individuals who touch these metals into believers, and even reshape their physical form, turning them into metal Mineral life."

"Do you understand? No matter how fragile and bad the flesh is, it is much better than a piece of cold metal. Although the latter is crowned with the life of 'eternal life', its essence is the heresy of abandoning the body."

"Kill the witch of the crystal of wisdom, my lord will give you 2200 points of merit."

Witch... Chen Ziang was startled, and quickly asked:

"Who is that witch?"

"Mizuhara Saori." Hanna replied, "This is her human name. You should have had... well, spiritual contact with her recently."

"As the witch of the Crystal of Wisdom, she likely possesses similar powers, such as transmitting and controlling the minds of others through metal, or turning everything into sharp and heavy crystal clusters."

"Be careful, this might be trickier than any witch you've ever dealt with."

"Yeah." Chen Ziang sighed, and his mind began to think wildly.

The witch is at the price of suffering, in exchange for the existence of terrifying power from the gods, so her strength is directly proportional to the degree of pain.

The more painful, the stronger.

He had already seen Mie Nishikawa's deep-seated hatred and Seiko Takano's numbness.But in the bathroom on the first floor of the Dijing Building, when he touched the metal faucet, the voice of Mizuhara Saori that appeared in his mind was a completely different feeling.

Calm and composed, even when he was talking about "parents died of poisoning" and "killed his younger brother with his own hands", although he paused for a while, his voice did not choke or tremble.

Didn't she feel pain?Certainly not, otherwise she wouldn't be a witch.

In other words, Mizuhara Saori was forcibly suppressing the pain in her heart, to the point where she could not hear the sound fluctuations at all, because she knew that it would be useless to vent her emotions wantonly-she didn't want to take revenge on anyone, but just wanted to save the whole world. unemployed miners.

But the more the pain cannot be vented, the more it will gnaw at her heart from the inside. While gaining her more powerful power, it will also twist her mind to an even more abnormal level.

This kind of repression...may make Mizuhara Saori a witch who is more difficult to deal with than Nishikawa Mie and Takano Seiko.

Let's see if we can communicate.If the problem could be resolved peacefully, Chen Ziang would not have to put the other party to death just to forcefully earn the 2200 merit points.

Before leaving Drowning Hailin, Hanna also cast a spell on Chen Ziang's shadow cloak, so that as long as she sinks into the water and meditates on "Drowning Hailin" at the same time, she can be teleported to this place.

After bidding farewell to the priest of the living dead, Chen Ziang quickly returned to the present world. First, his head burst out of the water, then his upper body, and finally he crawled out of the bathtub filled with cold water.

It felt good to breathe the air again...much better than being naked in the water and being watched by a bunch of the living dead.

Ok?
He suddenly turned around, and saw the wide-eyed Xia Zili standing in front of the sink, maintaining a posture of about to take off his shirt.

Next to it is the women's change of clothes, which seem to be new items that have not been worn.She was not at home when she went out just now, she presumably went shopping for clothes.

Chen Ziang: ……………

Xia Zili: ……………

"That." The blond half-elf with a flushed face covered his eyes and turned around, stammering to explain, "I saw that there was no one in the bathroom, and there was still water in the bathtub, so I thought you put it for me. bath water, so I was ready to take a shower... I locked the door from the back, I really locked the door!"

"It's okay." Chen Ziang quickly picked up the towel on the shelf, wrapped it around his waist, "I just...well, something happened, in the bathtub...it's not your fault, I went out first."

He felt that the description was getting darker and darker, so he didn't make any more excuses, and quickly unlocked the door and fled.

Thinking about it carefully, Xia Zili was really not to blame for this matter. He came in and saw that no one was there, and even locked the bathroom door behind him. Who would have thought that a man would suddenly emerge from the bathtub?
But if it's my fault, it's not necessarily... I can only blame Drowning Hailin's call for coming too suddenly, it's all the fault of the living dead!
Hannah, you are so mean!

In the bathroom, Xia Zili locked the door again, and then took off her clothes with a rustle.

There was still a shy blush on her face, but her expression had obviously calmed down.

Cough, it's just...it's just my husband's body!In those post-marriage memories, I've seen a lot!
(This is a lie, she has never seen it)

The phantom of the mother sat on the chair next to her, and she didn't try to expose her stubbornness, but said quietly:

"Haven't you made up your mind yet?"

Xia Zili was silent for a long time, and said:

"Let me think again, mother."

She took off all her clothes, then stretched out her jade-like feet to test the water temperature in the bathtub.

Then slowly soaked in.

As the memory was gradually unlocked, she also vaguely realized why she had such hostility towards Tsukimiya Suzuna.

In fact, for most of the memory, the two have been very good girlfriends.

The pure and kind Xia Zili has always regarded this sweet-looking island girl as her husband's colleague and junior at work, and has never felt any fear or guard against her...the two even often go shopping together.

She would complain about her husband's embarrassing things in life, and Tsukimiya Suzuna would also share with her what Chen Ziang encountered at work, such as going to work overtime or going to an izakaya.

After all, her husband is engaged in a high-risk industry. If there is an extra source of information around her, she will feel more at ease at home after all.

It wasn't until Tsukimiya Suzuna personally admitted that she had betrayed her that the two of them had officially turned from a friend who talked about everything to an indifferent relationship with a complete break.

Xia Zili in the bathtub silently buried her face below the water surface.

Now she and Chen Ziang are not husband and wife, not even a couple, so she still can't convince herself to obey her mother's words and directly solve the root cause of Yuegong Suzuna's problem.

but……

If the husband is going to be snatched away by her...

She silently buried her head in the bath water until she was out of breath.

(End of this chapter)