Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 676 Back to reality
"From the time Archbishop Anthony handed it to me, until a few minutes ago, there was no such rune on the mirror... Did it appear after coming inside the seal, to the outskirts of Trier in the Fourth Age?"

Gently stroking the smooth mirror surface with his hand, Angel frowned and fell into deep thought.

She was not narcissistic in thinking that the silver mirror had not found any problems in the hands of Archbishop Anthony, and that it would "open up" when it touched her.

But because seeing it, Angel remembered the human sacrifices he had seen in the cave next to Bansi Port and in the basement of the village on Isla Sorna. He thought of the two people who could take her to different places, and even A rune that causes time to be disrupted.

In this way, this rune is likely to have a similar effect. It can create a new spell that can induce the high-level power of the "witch" path, and it can also take me to a strange place, and these runes The characteristic is that only my blood can activate...

Angel's eyes lit up.

"No, it's not a 'strange place'. If you think about it carefully, there is a certain connection between them... The vision in Bansi Port is related to the worship of the 'God of Weather', and this should originate from the early Fifth Period, or even A certain hunter in the Fourth Age passed through the Angel, the legend of the Sequence 2 'Weather Warlock'. Through the sacrificial runes there, I was transported to the catacombs of Trier. When I returned, I discovered that there was a witch's path nearby. The high-ranking witch is probably also the 'Night Pillar' formed from the remains of the witch Crimsonne, the angel's 'catastrophe'.

"Could it be that the 'Witch' and 'Hunter' pathways, which can jump to each other during promotion, have a deeper connection, and the sacrificial runes and the 'Disaster' charm are just external manifestations of this connection?
"In addition, the effect of the 'Betrayal' spell found on Isla Sorna when it killed the 'King of the North' was to separate its head from the body. The head betrayed the body and killed the body. This is also the same as Port Bansi and Isla Sorna. They are exactly the same as the remains found in the giant village in the Land Abandoned by God. They were obviously corroded and damaged by the same force...

"Although no traces of witches and hunters have been found in those two places yet, there is no doubt that they are harm caused by the same high-level force, just like Bansi Port...

"These runes, these powers, all point to the same target, the same place?"

Then, invisible threads appeared out of thin air, binding the mirror. As a short sound of tightening threads sounded, the silver mirror was accelerated to a speed that was difficult to see clearly with the naked eye, as if it was fired from the muzzle of a cannon, and was thrown towards far away.

She did not choose the direction of the "disaster giant" that could completely destroy Silver Mirror, nor did she throw it towards the city that hid unknown dangers. Instead, she threw it along the road paved with light black stone bricks to the other side, so that if the attempt failed, she would There is still a chance to pick up the mirror.

At this point, Angel's reasoning could no longer proceed. Not only was there a lack of clues, but the level of power involved was also getting higher and higher, making her afraid to think about it in detail.

Even if the "original witch" Chick is hidden in that city, I wouldn't be surprised... No, even Chick is not attractive to "hunters"...

The latter has experienced the high temperature of the "Iron Knight" and has not been deformed or damaged. Angel believes that he has no special means to solve it, but apart from destruction, there is another solution.

She murmured, looking at the two silver mirrors in her hands.

"No wonder Servilia said that the pollution at 13 Market Avenue has special effects on 'witches' and 'hunters', and Syrio Sauron entered with me and his iron dolls because of the conflict with the silver mirror trap. In the Fourth Age of Trier, is it because we are both ‘witches’ and ‘hunters’ that triggered the special power in that building?”

Angel looked at the silver mirror in his hand, suddenly stretched out his hand and threw it into the air.

Of course, before that, she had to "dispose" of the silver mirror carried by Syrio Sauron.

This is not a reckless gamble, but a reasonable choice based on past experience.

This cannot be explained by "aggregation effect" alone. There must be a higher level of power within Trier in the Fourth Age, which can attract both "witches" and "hunters" at the same time, even those wandering outside the city. "Disaster Giants" are all Sequence 1 of the Hunter Path.

For this reason, Angel did not even plan to use "stroking three times" to activate the silver mirror, but planned to use blood to redraw the looming rune.

"Let's think about how to leave first."

Now that he saw runes similar to the "disaster" and "betrayal" charms, Angel immediately made up his mind to choose the silver mirror he brought from Backlund.

According to Sirio's failed escape experience, the "influence" distance between the two mirrors must be more than a few meters, but it cannot be hundreds or even thousands of meters, otherwise this unstable trap would not be used against Bonova. Gustav, the angel of the Church of Steam, if I throw one of the mirrors far away, there is a high probability that the other side will return to normal and take me away from this weird place...

As a ray of silver light streaked across the sky, the distance between the two mirrors quickly widened. Angel could feel that a small part of the power from Backlund had been restored inside the silver mirror left in his hand, and the complex bloodstain symbol on the mirror was It is also becoming more and more obvious.

That is distance.

Analyzing to herself, Angel once again looked at the city of Trier in the Fourth Age, which was constantly attracting her, and towards the palace that looked like it had been smashed by a giant's punch.

It seemed that there was no problem with her thinking... She breathed a sigh of relief, and without hesitation, she cut the skin of her fingertips with her finger, squeezed out the blood, and started tracing it on the surface of the silver mirror.

Although this symbol was complicated, there were not many strokes. When Angel squeezed out the blood for the third time, most of it was completed. Only the last stroke was left to surround the entire symbol, forming a perfect circle like a wall surrounding a city. She took a deep breath. In one breath, he glanced at the city in the distance, at the "Disaster Giant" that was approaching slowly not far away, and finally at the "Eternal Sun" seal in the sky, and at the "Steam and Machinery" deep behind the gray-white stone pillars. "God" distorted space, his eyes returned to the surface of the silver mirror, and he drew the last stroke.

...In the darkness, Angel slowly opened his eyes.

Compared with the "Fourth Epoch Trier" which was dim just now but had a certain amount of light shining through the sky, at this time Angel could see nothing but the silver mirror on his hand, which had all the blood absorbed and returned to a smooth surface. Can't see clearly.

Where is my dark vision... She blinked subconsciously, and then realized that it was not that this extraordinary ability had lost its effect, but that all the objects around her were covered with a black shadow that absorbed light, making her mistakenly think that she was in an infinite place. In the dark.

With this understanding, Angel immediately adjusted her sight so that the whole world became clear before her eyes.

Only then did she realize that she was on a spacious street. The floor under her feet was flat and clean. The buildings on both sides were also dark. Even the glass windows did not reflect any light. The sky was endless darkness, without stars, moon, or anything else. Not to mention the sun that brings light and warmth, the surrounding temperature seems to have plunged into freezing point, and there are no sounds of wheels, horse hooves, conversations and walking on the streets.

This experience of being deprived of his senses made Angel frown and look carefully at the buildings on both sides of the street.

In the darkness, she quickly discovered some objects that were slightly moving, unlike the absolute silence of the buildings and streets.

They were people dressed in different ways, dressed up differently, and looked different.

Some of them stood by the window, looking out the window, chewing the food in their hands, some watering flowers and pruning branches at the door, some dressed formally and walked out of the house, but no one made a sound, whether they were eating, working or on the road. Any sound, even footsteps, was hidden behind the dark curtain.

Moreover, everyone's face was covered with more or less dried blood, and their eyes contained unspeakable malice and hatred. But the strange thing was that they were not staring at Angel, but at the surrounding glass. He opened the window and looked at the decorative mirror that appeared next to him, as if looking inside through the mirror, feeling angry at his own reflection.

No, not inside, but outside!

Angel felt a chill running down his spine and the skin all over his body was tight. He recalled in his mind the description of "The Man in the Mirror" Danio Brown, which replicated the real world of Trier, but was lonely and dark, hiding countless mirror people. world.

There, the "people in the mirror" can only move along specific trajectories and can only observe the outside world through the mirror. Therefore, they are always full of resentment towards their own bodies and want to replace them all the time and go to the warm and lively reality.

That rune actually brought me to Trier in the mirror world?

Angel looked at the silver mirror in his hand again, and found that after absorbing his own blood, the mirror surface became smooth again. After adjusting the angle, it reflected his somewhat cold face in the darkness.

If you get a few drops of blood, you will look a bit like the "person in the mirror"... She quickly moved the mirror away, stood on the street where a few silent "Trier residents in the mirror" occasionally passed by, and analyzed her current situation. situation.

After a brief thought, she was pleasantly surprised to find that she had left the seal of "Fourth Age Trier".

According to Danio, the inside of the seal corresponds to the second layer of the mirror world, which is also isolated by the seal, so that those in the mirror with divinity inside cannot leave.

The mirror world that replicates the real Trier, that is, the dark world that Angel lives in, is only the "first layer".

It is outside the seal!
Therefore, as long as I leave this mirror world, I can return to real Trier. This is not very difficult, especially since I am not a real "man in the mirror" and am not bound here... ...Angel slowly came to the glass facing the street, stretched out his hand and tapped the mirror, causing a ripple to appear on the already dark glass, becoming the entrance to another world.

After entering, she was not surprised to find that there were only a few illusory passages connected to each other in the "Mirror World", most of which led underground, and a few connected to several locations on the ground.

They should all correspond to the area of ​​Trier that can cause "Mirror Man" pollution... Angel did not consider the unfamiliar location, and did not want to return to the black building at 13 Market Avenue, which was probably the "Mirror Man" "The place where the angel Bonova Gustave was ambushed was now a purely self-inflicted trap.

After careful selection, she followed the mirror passage to Area 5 adjacent to the Candide Market area, also known as the Memorial Hall area, and appeared in a completely dark underground quarry.

In this same dark and lonely place, Angel took out the silver mirror that had brought her out of Trier in the Fourth Age, and found that water-like ripples appeared on its surface again.

It shows that this area is indeed special, and it is probably the entrance and exit between the special mirror world and reality... Her eyes flashed, and she did a quick divination. She was pleasantly surprised to find that the connection with the spirit world had become closer again, and she concluded that the guess was correct. conclusion.

After a while, Angel stepped out of the quarry's stairs leading to the ground. Under the slanting sun and surrounded by complicated noises, he breathed a sigh of relief.

She finally returned to the real world.

(End of this chapter)