Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 1014 Sharing is the key
Angel was surprised that he managed to easily eliminate the "Black Witch" Clarisse in the narrow mirror world without utilizing the status of the "City of Disaster", without revealing the complete form of the mythical creature, and even without using convenient talismans.

But when she thought about the fact that this was a Sequence 2 angel versus a Sequence 3 saint, or a civil war between the "witches" of the same path who had great suppressive power over the lower ones, she felt relieved.

"But I always feel that she didn't resist with all her might. Did she find out that I couldn't stop her from using the 'Man in the Mirror' to resurrect, and she promised not to kill Sylvia, so she just gave up?"

Using the newly learned Chinese "idioms" to describe Clarisse's state of mind at the time, Angel left the mirror world and returned to the bedroom. He was surprised to find that although Clarisse had restrained herself to avoid the battle from spreading to reality and attracting the attention of the official Beyonders, the power of "petrification" still leaked out through the mirror, turning the walls, floors and many pieces of furniture into stone. It was as if he had stepped into a primitive cave.

The primitive man was staring at himself blankly, moving his lips and squeezing out a few words:
"Where's my mother?"

"She died. She lost the battle between 'petrification' and the curse. Her body turned into stone and was blown into five or eight pieces. She fell into the depths of the mirror world and disappeared."

Angel replied calmly.

She wasn't joking, but she really didn't have time to see clearly that Clarisse's body broke into several pieces. They quickly faded and disappeared, leaving only a few crystal fragments, just like the mirror substitutes that "witches" usually use.

But Angel was sure that the other party did not have time to use a substitute.

Is this what a normal "immortal" witch looks like when she dies? Then she will be resurrected in the mirror person she hides somewhere else... From this point of view, my "mirror person" will not become a new me after my death, but will always retain its own consciousness, which seems even more weird...

She thought about it, and seeing that Sylvia was still looking at her blankly, she chuckled and added:

"Clarisse is an 'ageless' witch. She won't die so easily. Maybe after I leave, she'll sneak out again."

"I know she has the 'Man in the Mirror' as her real stand-in, but she rarely uses it, saying that there are great hidden dangers..."

The black-haired, gray-eyed witch of pain, who looked somewhat like Clarisse, murmured, but her expression was somewhat relaxed. She glanced at the petrified furniture and decorations around her and looked at Angel again:
"So, what are you going to do with me?"

"Since I promised not to kill you, I will do it... But you have to leave a lock of hair or a tube of blood. This is a measure to prevent members from mutiny. You should understand, right?"

Angel said with a smile, stretching out his right hand with his palm facing upwards, his meaning was very clear.

These familiar words made Sylvia's expression change again and again, but in the end she compromised like her mother, lowered her eyes, used the ice blade to cut off a lock of black hair, and handed it to Angel's palm.

With the help of this medium, even a "Despair" witch who has just entered Sequence 4 can easily harm or even kill her through curses. Now that she has become an angel, Angel can even penetrate various anti-divination and substitute methods and curse her blood relative, the "Black Witch" Clarisse.

"Very good, this way I don't need to bend down to take it from your body," Angel nodded and threw the strand of black hair into the mirror space. "Also, recite my honorable name once so that I can find you at any time."

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Watching the figure of the "Queen of the Five Seas" fade and disappear, and waiting for a moment, Sylvia breathed a sigh of relief when she found that she had no intention of coming back. She felt weak in her limbs and her body was shaky.

She looked around the bedroom, which had been warm and peaceful ten minutes ago but was now a mess, and felt a little sad.

Without bothering to clean up the mess, she went to the window, closed the curtains, found the only relatively intact mirror, and whispered the five-part honorific name of her mother, the "Black Witch", but received no response.

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After walking around in the mirror world, Angel did not find any trace of the "Black Witch" Clarisse. The witch seemed to have hidden her own mirror figure in other secret places to avoid being killed along with her substitute.

This is the normal way to do it. My person in the mirror has been staying in the "City of Disaster" and is actually an outlier. But this also puts me in a state where I can hardly be killed completely. After all, other people in the mirror may be found out, and may be affected and killed by some kind of mystical pollution that can cross the connection between the main body and the substitute, but the "person in the mirror" hiding inside the "source" has no such weaknesses at all... Angel's mind became more and more inflated, and he always felt that even if the real god came, there would be no way to deal with her in this state. No, there are many solutions that I can think of, such as imprisoning but not killing me, or simply turning me into a "secret doll"... Well, the latter is not so sure. The extraordinary person who has been turned into a secret doll will retain his characteristics for the use of the "secret doll master", but the resurrection of the "immortal" witch can take away all the extraordinary characteristics in the body. These two obviously conflict. Who should take priority... Should I let Klein try to turn me into a secret doll?
A strange idea suddenly popped into her mind, which scared her.

This was just an advance rehearsal to guard against Zaratul, the Sequence 1 "Master of Secret Dolls"... She found an excuse for her fantasy, and then looked at the iron-black and blood-red passage network below the mirror world that only she could see. With a thought, she passed through them in an instant and landed in the abandoned city at the end of the world, the projection of the "City of Disaster".

On the street, which was dead silent except for a little light from the lava spewing from an active volcano in the distance, her "person in the mirror" was standing alone at the street corner, staring straight ahead with a dull gaze and a cold expression, as if her mind was blank.

I don’t look like this most of the time at the Tarot Club, do I? Others may not be able to see it, but Mr. Fool should be able to see it… Angel muttered, and landed in front of the person in the mirror whose appearance, figure, and even clothes were exactly the same as his own.

The latter came back to his senses, his eyes quickly regained their spirit, and he said with a smile:

"Welcome back."

I always feel that this should be said to welcome someone home, but in a sense, the mirror world, the "City of Disaster" is indeed the home of the person in the mirror... Angel also smiled back, opened his arms and hugged the person in the mirror who seemed very lonely just now, and asked in her surprised eyes:

"Now that we have all been promoted to Sequence 2, you should be able to leave this city and go to the real world without having to worry about contamination from the Outer Gods, right?"

Looking at the person in the mirror who tilted his head in confusion, Angel continued carefully:

"I mean, you can also go out for a walk, enjoy delicious food, and make friends... If there is a conflict between the person in the mirror and the real body, I can switch with you regularly and stay here for, uh, four hours a day?"

She didn't know if other "ageless" witches had similar troubles, but since her "person in the mirror" had an independent consciousness, would feel lonely, and would empty his mind and kill time like herself, she couldn't just leave it alone and enjoy all the time that belonged to the two of them.

Of course, four hours was the limit of her compromise.

Looking at Angel who had a somewhat conflicted expression, the person in the mirror burst out laughing. The person's movements and tone were consistent with his own, and the expression was even as charming as his own, which stunned Angel.

"I thought you had prepared a lot of serious topics, such as the whereabouts of the pollution of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' and the problems of the top leaders of the 'Witch Cult'... I didn't expect you to think about giving me four hours a day..."

The person in the mirror laughed so hard that tears came out.

This made Angel even more embarrassed. He felt that he had made a strange suggestion and wanted to get into the mirror world right away...

Oh, so this is the world in the mirror, then it’s okay.

After a moment, the person in the mirror stopped laughing and continued:

"You don't have to share your life and time with me. You have your mission, and I have mine... And it's not that I can't leave. In fact, not only can I know most of the information you know, but I can also leave the 'City of Disaster' at any time. For example, I did something important today."

As she spoke, she looked around, allowing Angel to follow her movements with his eyes, looking at the collapsed buildings on both sides of the street and the gray fog in the distance that isolated part of the city.

Hey, where is the evil spirit Sauron who was here last time?

Angel suddenly noticed that someone, or rather an evil spirit, who was supposed to stay here obediently was missing.

“Did you notice that?” The person in the mirror raised his lips again, revealing a smile that seemed to be asking for credit. “I sent Him out to solve the problem of the Soran family.”

(End of this chapter)