Can the reincarnated fairy princess be loved?

The oblique passage leading to the underground, without the slightest change in the environment, makes people lose the concept of time. The whole underground is tortuous and intricate, not only the downward part, but also the upward slope, which makes people lose their sense of direction.

What I want to say is that on the way, Fiya met some young witches wearing white magic robes. Compared with the trainee witches behind Friede, these witches seemed lacking in vitality and extremely obedient. They would stop immediately after seeing themselves and Friede. They lowered their feet and bowed their heads to salute, and they would resume what they were doing until they left. They were more like servants than apprentice witches.

According to Latania's explanation, this is an apprentice witch who follows the conservative witch, because the apprentice witch needs to be recommended by two to three official witches first, and the apprentice witch has to learn magic from the official witch Knowledge, under this mechanism, the official witch can almost do whatever she wants to the apprentice witch, and the apprentice witch has no possibility of resistance, so the apprentice witch is just like a servant, being called around by the official witch.Over time, the trainee witches are cultivated to be slavish, becoming no different from slaves, not knowing what they are.

It's worth mentioning that, after these apprentice witches become official witches, they tend to become like their predecessors, with a withdrawn personality and order the apprentice witches at will. Fried is extremely disgusted by this.

"Is this the place where Friede and you refine magic potions?"

Fia pointed to the room on the right side of the passage. Because the door was open, Fia could see the whole picture of the room the size of a basketball court.A dozen or so witches were busy inside, and there was a steaming cauldron in the middle of the room, and a faint smell of medicine was wafting out from the room.

In the past, Fiya wouldn't pay much attention to it, but recently she learned alchemy, so she couldn't help paying attention.

Friede shook her head lightly and said with a wry smile.

"No. Our residence is in another part of Bern City. After all, we are also members of the Reform Party. We have just returned from the outside for less than a month, and we live directly in the Witch Hall. Disputes will inevitably arise. These witches are conservative witches. .”

"Is it."

Echoing casually, Fiya looked at a trainee witch who was inserting a mithril rod into the container. Fiya, who had experience, knew that this was mixing magic liquid. She couldn't help but think of the "failure" last night, because "History Lime read the good introduction to alchemy, which only wrote "insert the metal rod into the vessel to feel the change of magic power", and did not say why she could feel the change of magic power by doing so, so that she could not feel the change of magic power in the solution. In the end, I had to use "Exploring Wind" to observe the ratio of magic power to water in the container with the naked eye.

It happens that a senior is here, so let's ask by the way.

"Does Fried know why the mithril rod is inserted into the container?"

"Uh, Miss Fia, are you talking about the process of preparing the magic liquid? If so, it's because the magic power transmission efficiency of the Mithril Rod is higher than that of ordinary metals."

Although Fried showed a momentary surprise, she still answered honestly.

However, this did not satisfy Fia at all.

I want to ask why I can feel the magic power change when I insert the metal rod into the container, not why I use the Mithril rod instead of other metal rods.

Fia considered her words and asked again.

"I want to say, why can I know the ratio of magic power to water in the container through the mithril rod. Actually, I tried alchemy recently, but the step mentioned in the book made me puzzled."

"Eh?"

The surprise in Friede's eyes was even worse, but she did not show the expression that Fia imagined, as if she was looking at a fool, but a look of trying to find something from Fia's eyes, and her eyes were full of disbelief.

"If you didn't have a serious expression on your face, I would have wondered if you were making fun of me... As long as you let the magic power flow on the mithril stick like using a magic tool, you can feel the magic power in the magic liquid... At the beginning of magic In order to feel the magic power in the air, scholars will first start with holding a mithril rod, this is a process that any magic beginner must go through, haven't you learned it?"

I really haven't studied it.

Fia wanted to answer honestly, but circumstances did not allow her to do so.

She had no choice but to look away in embarrassment without losing her grace.

"I forgot."

"... There is no other way. Elves have a long lifespan. Although Miss Fia looks only fourteen or fifteen years old, she should actually have spent seven or eighty years. It's been so long that I can't remember clearly. It's normal, I took it for granted."

Make excuses for yourself.

I always feel that Friede is the kind of person who is easy to deceive, and there is always a sense of maturity. Fia can't help feeling that if it is a manga, Friede will definitely play the role of a wife in an adult manga.

Wait, that idea is too rude.

Fei Ya blamed herself a lot.

After that, Fiya saw workshops for forging weapons and places for training combat skills one after another. She even saw a few witches who had just finished bathing with only a towel around their bodies, which meant that there were baths in the Witch Hall.

When these witches see Fia, they will always be slightly startled, planning to come up to question, but when they see Friede and Levatin on Fia's waist, they will show all the expressions they are thinking about, and some of them They gave Fia a good-natured look, but more people dismissed them. They didn't want to see Friede and Fia. To this, Friede responded with ignorance, and the grumpy Latania snorted back. .

As everyone went deeper into the Witch Hall, the passage became wider and the air became fresher. There were more magic lamps and decorations on the walls on both sides, and the number of people encountering witches became more and more frequent. Along the way, Fiya met nine The strength of these witches is basically at the fourth level, and the stronger ones are at the fifth level. As for the apprentice witches, there are as many as 24, and their strengths vary from the first level to the second level. wait.

According to Friede's explanation, they are just some witches, not all the registered people in the Witch Hall. Currently, there are about twenty to thirty official witches active in the Witch Hall, and the apprentice witches should have three digits.

Continue to move forward, and when they came to a spacious hall, Fried, who was silent all the way, finally stopped in his tracks.

"The main hall is ahead, and the witch ceremony will be held soon. Elaine and the conservative witches should be making preparations inside. Miss Fia, please stay vigilant. If possible, I still hope that Elaine can join us , and work under you together."

Chapter 33 The Witch of the Stars

After passing through the open hall that seemed to hold some kind of ceremony, Fia, who came to the magnificent double doors, took a deep breath. Although Elaine's strength could not be much stronger than Friede's, the other party had the manager of the Witch Hall after all. As a person of identity, in Fiya's impression, the witch is always linked to the mysterious power, giving people a feeling of unknown, which makes people uneasy.

After preparing the possible situation and corresponding rhetoric in her mind, Fia exchanged a glance with Fried who was leading the way, and pushed the door open - Latania, Milu and the trainee witch were left in the open hall.

This is a fairly spacious room with a ceiling four or five meters high, and the surrounding walls are densely covered with polished marble. The most conspicuous thing in the center of the room is the long conference chair that can seat more than 20 people at the same time. On the wall facing the door, there is a huge painting with weird textures. It is made of high-quality silk and woven with mithril threads. From the perspective of Fiya, an outsider, it looks a bit like The large diamond-shaped crystal has six-petal wings, which is probably the same as the tribal totem, which is the symbol of the Witch Hall.

The situation was different from what Fried said, there was only one person in the room, and that girl—if a cloud of black mist could be called a girl—was sitting at the top of the conference table, and the table was filled with sheets of paper. A scroll filled with mysterious writing.

Hearing someone entering the door, Hei Mist paused, and then, an uncomfortable feeling rose from the bottom of Fia's heart. Although Hei Mist had no eyes, Fia could clearly feel that the other party was looking at her. Sweeping over the skin inch by inch, without leaving any impolite glances.

If it wasn't for knowing that the black mist itself was a woman, Fiya would have frowned at this moment.

As if sensing something, Friede took a step and blocked the gap between the black mist and Fia, forcing the confrontation to pause. She looked at the black mist and opened her mouth tentatively.

"Eileen."

The black mist sitting on the chair trembled, responding to Fried's call.

"...Fried, you are finally willing to see me."

female voice.

Feedback from "Exploring Wind" shows that the magic power of the black mist is less than the seventh level, and its color is only a little darker than Friede's. Fia is a little relaxed. An enemy of this level is not as good as Moon Dragon.She began to observe the black mist named Elaine. What Elaine lost in the witch ritual was the "body". The black mist she saw now was Elaine's only soul - the soul is actually something that can be seen with the naked eye , and obviously can't touch any objects, but can still make sounds and communicate with people, magic is really amazing.

Having said that, the tall witch named Latania behind Friede lost her "female voice", and in Fia's understanding, the organ that causes the difference between male and female voices is the vocal cords. Female vocal cords are short and narrow, so the vocal cords The pitch of the voice is high and thin. If the structure of the "human" of the World Tree Continent is the same as that of the Human Alliance, could it be said that the Witch Ceremony just lengthened and widened Latania's vocal cords, So the expressed result is "losing the female voice"?

In that case, the side effects of the Witch Ritual would be too easy to deal with.

While Fia was thinking about such things, the conversation between Friede and Elaine was still going on.The black mist, which was similar in size to a human being, slowly floated up from the seat as if it had no weight, and finally came to Fried's side.Except for the appearance, Hei Mist behaved no differently from ordinary humans, and his voice was full of jokes.

"I thought you would keep avoiding it. I haven't seen you for more than ten years. You have grown a lot than before. Not only is your strength comparable to mine, but you have also developed so many witch companions. The power is almost the same as our group of witches in the headquarters. .”

"Haven't you changed a lot? When I left, you were like a lunatic."

"That's all in the past tense. People will always adapt to the environment and themselves slowly."

Hei Mist stretched out something like a hand and waved it lightly, his voice was full of helplessness, and then, Fia felt that Hei Mist cast his eyes on herself again.

"Is this the courage that made you come to see me? Tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to find me, the successor of the Hope Witch. Although you must have heard about me from Friede before coming here, but I Let me introduce myself, I am the manager here, Elaine the Witch of the Stars, I used to be friends with Friede, what is your name?"

We were friends before, but not now?

Fiya buried the playful question in her heart, and answered calmly.

"Fia."

"Fiya... a good name. Judging by your appearance, you are an elf nobleman, right? Even with my divination magic, I can't see your rank clearly. It is impossible for a commoner to have such a level of cognitive concealing props. , it seems that you and we are not from the same world."

It seems that it is rare to have someone who can talk, and Elaine gave Fia the impression of talking too much, and the former looked back at Friede.

"Sit down and talk about it. I have heard what you have done from other witches. I know why you came back, Friede. There is no point in hiding it."

It wasn't until Friede and Fia took their seats that Black Mist sat back on the seat. She seemed to have a lot of things on her mind, sighed long, and spoke earnestly.

"First of all, Friede, I'm just a manager elected by everyone, and I don't have much real power. It's a fantasy to expect me to persuade others. Your ideals run counter to the original purpose of the Witch Hall. Don't think things can be resolved peacefully. Maybe you will say 'the successor of the witch of hope is here, according to the last words of the witch of hope, she will bring the power of change and lead us on the right track, just trust her gone.'"

"But I want to say that the Witch of Hope has never said that she will choose a successor, and even if she will choose a successor, she can prove that she is the successor of the Witch of Hope with just a dagger? A witch who is unwilling to change I will definitely use this as an argument. In the final analysis, only those who are willing to believe in this kind of thing will believe it. Without enough merits, you cannot convince anyone. Everyone has long been used to being alone, and even joined in order to gain the power of revenge Hall of the Witch, now you want everyone to help the human beings who have betrayed you, isn't that trying to make things difficult for others?"

Maybe Friede and Elaine were older than I thought.

Before, Fiya thought that Friede was the same as her appearance, she should be 24 or 50 years old, but now from Elaine's tone of voice and posture, it can be heard that their ages are at least [-] to [-] years old. Looking youthful, either with a life-extending magic potion or something else.

In addition, Elaine's words also changed Fia's image of her. In Fried's description before, Fia thought that Elaine was a serious person who was not easy to talk to, but now it seems that she has a good impression of herself and her. Fried was not hostile, and Elaine was just a very ordinary woman.

Fia looked at Fried across the table. She came this time to confirm whether it was necessary to help Fried, so even if Fried gave up here, she would not feel sorry. In the final analysis, this is For other people's affairs, I am just a foreign aid invited by Friede, at most I have an inexplicable identity of "guided person".

Friede didn't back down because of Elaine's words, on the contrary, she stared at the superior Elaine aggressively.

"Don't you think it's unfair for all the witches to be stigmatized for this small group of people? No one likes to be excluded by nature, and we also want to stand in the sun, because the atrocities of this group of people have killed everyone. Witches hide and hide like mice. This situation should have changed long ago. Haven’t you thought about leaving the Witch Palace and living on the ground, Elaine? Build your own family, have a lover and children, and experience what a woman should experience s things."

"In these years, Latania and I have traveled around the continent. As long as we don't reveal our identity as witches, no matter humans or orcs, they are willing to accept us and invite us to live in the village to avoid being harassed by wild beasts in the wild. They even They will thank us with money and food for killing the unsightly monsters along the way. However, once we reveal our identity as a witch, those people will alienate us even if they don’t immediately turn against us, and regard us as a plague. Good intentions are for the purpose of mutilating them later."

"It shouldn't be like this. It's because the witches in the past were irresponsible and allowed those witches to act recklessly, which led to today's evil results, making the world treat us witches and dark descendants as the same thing. I don't want such a thing to happen. Continue, I want everything to end in my generation, the Witch Hall must make changes, Elaine!"

At the end, Friede's voice was so loud that the table shook slightly, she stared at the black mist with burning eyes, her determination was already written on her face.

She must have experienced many times of "betrayal" by people, so she was able to show this unambiguous expression. Although Fia could not understand Friede's feelings, she had some empathy. Germany, she will not return to the Witch Hall at all, but will set up a brand new organization to completely cut off her identity as a witch.

It's a pity that Elaine was not swayed by Friede's words. The outline of the black mist floated gently as before, like a distorted shadow under the dim light projected from the ceiling.

Elaine said calmly.

"Since you want to get rid of the identity of a witch so much, you should stop calling yourself a witch and go to a place where no one knows. No one will restrain you, and no witch will trouble you. Everyone does their own things and interacts with each other." Do not interfere."

"But the core of the witch's heart is in your hands!"

"No one would have the idea of ​​getting the core. There is only one core. If it is destroyed, everyone will die. It will not happen that only you, Friede, disappear, but the others are still alive. Everyone has lived in peace like this for a few days. Thousands of years, and it will be the same in the future.”

Elaine's voice paused, and there was more personal emotion in her tone.

"And Friede doesn't think it's unfair to those witches who don't want to change. Not everyone wants to stand in the sun. Most of the people who live here have experienced being betrayed by their relatives and friends, and they have already become familiar with life outside. No hope, no, it's not an exaggeration to say that you hate outsiders, that's why you gave up everything and became a witch. Now you're forcing them to reconnect with those who abandoned and betrayed them, and you're just imposing your own ideas on other people."

"As you can see, I don't have a body. Latania should have told you that even now, when I'm talking to you, I'm suffering from hunger. As long as I smell a little food, I can't If I maintain my sanity, I will not be able to return to the surface to live, let alone have a family."

Elaine's words stunned Friede. She knew that what Elaine said was the truth, so she was speechless for a moment. Not to mention that the witches gathered here were all injured in the world and had no place to stay. First of all, What Elaine said about herself was an irrefutable fact. It was impossible for her to return to a normal life without a physical body. For her, the life of a normal person was like a mirror image.

There was a little loneliness in the words, Elaine continued.

"I can assure that no one has the idea of ​​playing the core of the witch's core. Everyone lives in peace as before. Even if you, Friede, go outside to establish a new organization, I will not say anything. Everyone in the witch's hall It is free, and the reason why everyone gathers here is to lick and lick each other's wounds and comfort each other after being injured. Asking everyone to change is to destroy everyone's last shelter."

Friede was completely at a disadvantage.

Fei Ya couldn't help sighing in her heart, the emotion card is indeed easy to make people silent.

Let's help Fried a little bit, Elaine is avoiding the question on purpose, we can't just let Elaine lead the way, otherwise Fried will go back to the original point, and will definitely come to trouble himself afterwards.

Fia put her hands on the table, and pretended to be relaxed into the topic.

"It's okay to let Friede form a new organization, but there are two things that the Witch Hall shouldn't deal with?"

"Do you have anything you want to say, sir?"

Because Elaine is just a cloud of black mist, Fia couldn't discern Elaine's emotions from Elaine's eyes, she sighed quietly.

"Ha, I am not standing here as a 'guided person', to be honest, this dagger is something I got by accident, so I don't think I am a so-called guided person, appearing here, but Let's confirm what kind of organization the Witch Hall is."

"The results of it?"

Elaine's voice was full of playfulness and anticipation.

Probably thinking that she would praise them, Fia read such thoughts from Elaine's tone, the witches here are powerful, the facilities are complete, and their lives are quite affluent. Ordinary people will feel that they are in a noble mansion when they come here, no, Even the mansions of ordinary nobles are not so rich.

It's a pity that Elaine was very wrong, this place only made me feel depressed and unhappy.

Fia first sneered slightly with her nose, and then spread her hands.

"Very disappointed."

"Hey, how should I say it?"

"Dead, lifeless. The apprentice witch in your hand and the apprentice witch in Fried's hand are people from two worlds. Don't you feel ashamed to treat the apprentice witch as a slave? According to you, the witch is both Were injured in the outside world, and there was no place for them to stay, so we came here to lick each other's wounds out of desperation, but what are you doing now? Are you comforting them? I don't think that submissive look is theirs Looking eager, what they need is comfort, not being called around by others, the reason why there are eccentric bastards among the witches who take pleasure in killing is inseparable from the environment you created."

If Elaine had eyebrows and a mouth, she would have raised her eyebrows and curled her lips at this moment.

"This is a rule that has been formed for thousands of years. Besides, only official witches can be called witches. Apprentice witches are just young people who have not even passed the ceremony. It is impossible to pass the witch ceremony smoothly without training their minds under the training of their predecessors."

"Cultivating slavishness can also be said to be training the mind? There are many ways to train the mind. You just use the disgusting method of oppressing your companions. They have no place to stay. Why do you bully them? Words are meaningless, Fu Lide's trainee witch can explain a lot."

Facing Fei Ya's questioning, Elaine didn't say a word.

Fei Ya sneered coldly, she couldn't bear to bully the weak, so she showed no mercy to such Elaine.

"I only want to say two points. The first one is that even if Friede establishes a new organization, she must first obtain the core of the witch's heart, so that she can have fresh and powerful blood, establish an organization that is praised by people, and helps the poor. organization."

"The second is that even if you don't hand over the witch's core, the witch hall must get rid of those witches who have committed all kinds of evil. You have to avenge those who betrayed you, and no one will talk to you, but if you impose power on innocent people Ordinary people use them as experiments to satisfy their hobbies, then the situation where witches are cast aside and suppressed will never be changed—you better pray that those witches don’t fall into my hands.”

"Hmm... the person being guided has not yet reached the age of adulthood, but he has such a big tone. As expected of a noble lady, she is completely different from us commoner-born witches. But I want to advise you, the kind you said The witch already has some strength, even if she falls into the hands of the person being guided, the outcome is hard to say."

Elaine was mocking herself.

Speaking of which, when they first met, Elaine looked at herself and said that she and they were not from the same world. Now that I think about it, this meant that my status as a nobleman was incompatible with a witch who was born as a commoner and suffered a lot. It was impossible. He is the guided, and cannot stand with them.

Indeed, if I couldn't stand with them and stay with insects, I couldn't accomplish anything.

It's annoying.

I came here by myself to observe whether it is necessary to get rid of Elaine and the conservatives, but now, since Elaine intends to let the fallen witch go, the answer is ready to come.

Fia stood up and said with a smile.