Mystery: Good Witch

Chapter 990 Labor reform?

Triss? I thought she went to meet the returning Edessak secretly, why is she coming back to see me?

Angel was a little curious, but he still took the initiative to respond to the other party and agreed to meet at her place later.

Surprisingly, this time Triss did not choose the poorest and most chaotic East District as her base, but stayed in a hotel in the North District, which was only one street away from Backlund's largest Saint Samuel Church, which made Angel a little worried about her mental state.

Could it be that he has finally settled his worries and is preparing to turn himself in?

With a snicker, Angel performed a divination as usual to confirm safety before connecting to the mirror world. He followed the passage in the mirror to look toward downtown Backlund, found Triss's room in a hotel on Alka Street in the northern district, activated the largest dressing mirror, and made his mirror double appear directly on the single sofa in the room.

For such a short distance, she doesn't even need to go there in person, she can just let a substitute do it for her.

This randomly fabricated stand can transmit the power of Sequence 4 and can replace the original body at any time, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

At least Triss didn't notice it. She just glanced at the activated mirror and subconsciously thought that it was Angel hiding behind the mirror and projecting his double into reality.

"I thought you were with your prince, so how come you are living in the North District, near the Church of Night?"

After Triss sat opposite "him", Angel was the first to ask.

"If I hadn't received your reply, I would have gone straight into the church to seek protection. Even if I was locked up in a dungeon, it would be safer than the current situation."

Triss answered, her face a little pale, she picked up the teacup and took a sip, using the heat to make her lips a little redder, then continued:
"After receiving the gift from the 'Original Witch', I have established an unbreakable connection with her, and the various abnormalities that appear on my body are becoming more and more frequent. I am worried that after falling asleep one day, I may never wake up, and this body will become her container."

So that's why I was worried about this problem. It seems that after Edessak's "resurrection", her self-destructive tendency is not so strong, just like Anne who learned that Bernadette is still alive... Angel smiled secretly and said in a relaxed tone:
"You don't need to worry about this. As a saint, you won't be able to withstand the divine descent for more than thirty seconds. After that, your soul and body will collapse and you will die completely. You said this yourself... And the divine descent is not that simple. There are either complicated rituals or specific seals to strengthen the connection. You have already used 'Yesterday Reappearance' and wasted the opportunity to wear the ring. The 'Original Witch' should not be able to completely erode and occupy your body. At most, it can cause some damage."

When Triss heard the word "sabotage", she showed a look of fear on her beautiful face and murmured:

"That's why I'd rather be locked up in the dungeon at Samuel's Church."

"There's no dungeon there, only the 'Chaness Gate'. You might even meet a prisoner vampire in there. No, we should call him a blood clan," Angel joked, not caring about Triss's fear at all. "Tell me how you got in touch with the 'Original Witch' first, and then I'll see if I can save your life."

Triss's words, which were not a promise at all, calmed her down. She took a long breath, put down her teacup, and said slowly in a tactful tone:

"You should all know how I came to Backlund from Tingen and was eventually arranged to become Edessak's mistress. I'll start from the time after the great smog... After being released, I originally tried to leave Backlund and head to Pritz Harbor to avoid the limelight. But not long after I left the Red Rose Manor, I met a black-haired lady with strange movements and an indifferent expression. She easily took my sapphire ring and then disappeared. She was probably an angel..."

That should be the "Mother of Heaven" when the goddess descended, and then She gave the ring to me... Angel compared the events with his memory and nodded for the other party to continue.

"...After that, I thought it was unsafe to continue to Pritz Harbor, so I created some false clues and returned to the city. I lived in the chaotic East District. On the one hand, this could mislead the officials who were chasing me. On the other hand, Backlund would definitely crack down on the cult after the smog, and I could avoid the Witch Sect by staying here.

"After seeing my wanted poster and Edsak's 'suicide' in the newspaper, I wanted to set a fire in anger and create chaos in the East District to tell others that these were all fake... But my remaining rationality stopped me, because those who hid behind the scenes didn't care about the lives of more than 100,000 people, so how could they be bothered by my little trick?
“So, I took the initiative to contact the ‘Original Witch’ for the first time… Perhaps it was because of the connection with the sapphire ring, or perhaps it was because I had been marked by this god a long time ago. As soon as I finished reciting her name, I heard her words and received her ‘gift’… Information about potions, knowledge of mysticism, and the principles of various rituals were instilled into my mind, and with it came more and more frequent physical changes… As my sequence improved and my ‘gifts’ increased, I was gradually getting closer to the ‘Original’…”

At this point, Triss raised her head, letting Angel see her twitching, hideous expression. "You know what? When I was promoted to the Witch of Pain, I only collected the main materials, and didn't prepare any auxiliary materials, let alone any rituals. I took the incompletely prepared potion as if swallowing the materials raw, and I was promoted without any obstacles... And in the next stage, the ritual that required a plague affecting 30,000 people was something I had no ability to complete, but the potion dissolved in my mouth, and I easily gained divinity and became a demigod... It wasn't so smooth for me to drink the Instigator potion!
"Is He cultivating followers? He is just creating new containers! He needs my body and the potions in my body, but my thoughts and spirit are useless...

"Last night, I dreamed of that extremely dark city without any light. I dreamed of my past self. He roared at me, but I couldn't hear anything... After waking up, the furniture beside me was destroyed again, and I was lying in a cocoon made of long hair..."

Her voice gradually became lower.

Isn't the promotion ceremony of the Witch of Despair a demigod who dies in despair? Why did the "Original Witch" teach Triss the wrong ceremony... Her dream sounded like the depths of the mirror world and the "man in the mirror". If I hadn't been demoted from a witch to an assassin and then promoted again, my "man in the mirror" should also be a man... Angel pondered and asked after a moment:
"Since you were willing to sacrifice yourself to the evil god for Edessak and to avenge George III, why are you afraid of this change now?"

"How can it be the same?" Triss sneered and replied, "Now that Edessak is alive, and I die easily, wouldn't it be... a waste of time? Of course, if I were caught by the Church of Evernight or the Church of Storms, my fate would probably not be good, but there would always be a glimmer of hope. But if I become the vessel of the 'Original Witch', only death would await me."

It seems that she has a change of heart due to the prince's resurrection, but...

"The Punishers of the Church of Storms will probably judge the witch on the spot after they catch her. The Church of Evernight is better, but there are many Sealed Artifacts with unknown negative effects waiting for you, a guinea pig, to verify one by one. The probability of you surviving is not very high... Don't forget that you are responsible for so many lives. Even if you indirectly instigated the tragedy on the Clover and did not take action, the ritual you held afterwards to kill the survivors killed many people!"

Angel said with a serious expression and a sneer, but he was troubled inside.

In the process of stopping George III's ceremony, Triss did help a lot. She contributed to getting the way to contact Mr. "Door", obtaining the means to open the mausoleum, attracting attention in "Relic No. 1", and casting the key "betrayal" spell.

But on the other hand, when she was an instigator and witch, she directly or indirectly caused the deaths of many innocent people. Regardless of whether it was according to Loen's laws or the church's conventions, she should at least be imprisoned or have to make meritorious contributions until she paid for her sins...

Thinking of this, Angel's eyes lit up, but his expression became even more severe:
"In short, you can either choose to be imprisoned in Chanis Gate and face a dark future, or be arrested by the military and sentenced to death... But I have a place where you can't escape and never do anything bad again, but you can also make some contributions within your ability until you completely repent and express guilt for your past actions..."

In her "instigation" to reach the angel level, Terri chose the latter option without hesitation, but her face was full of doubts, and she didn't know where she was going.

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Passing through the "mirror world", across the raging storm and the boundless ocean, Angel and Triss appeared above an isolated island.

Looking at the floating island in front of him, which was shaped like an inverted cone and had an entire city on top, the latter's expression became more and more doubtful.

"A city floating in the air? Isn't this something created by gods that only exist in mythology? Are you, are you planning to lock me up here?"

She murmured, almost forgetting to address Angel as a respectful title.

"Yes, this city is called 'Dream City', and it is also the true body of the secret treasure 'Ghost Empire' at sea... Your mission here is to abide by the law and not break any of it. In addition, you must spread my beliefs."

With his back to the floating island, Angel opened his arms as if introducing himself.

PS: There was a time bug in the previous chapter, so I fixed it.

(End of this chapter)