Oops, I became the witch's substitute

Fili was a little surprised when she read the contents of the scroll. It accurately described Kalan's current situation, mentioned the information of the Witch of Disaster, explained the weirdness of the abyss fragments and the current situation of the demons. Fili could feel the other party's sincerity and fighting spirit.

After reading the scroll, he began to look at the leading wizard. His first thought was to make sure he could kill the other party, and then he considered the issue of cooperation.

The earl is the earl, and the family is the family. Fili understands the relationship between the two sides and does not have much hostility towards the family soldiers. Their only variable is that when they trick the earl into coming to kill them in the future, they will most likely become enemies. But considering the current situation of Serena's army, the addition of these twenty professional mages is like timely help.

"What a surprise! You've come all the way from the Stral Empire." Fili handed the scroll to Yue Lan again. After reading it, Yue Lan gave it to other officers to circulate. The content of the scroll would help the officers better understand the current situation. As for Fili, she wanted to get more information about her family. After all, she had been back home once, but had never heard of any military movements.

I don't know what it means

The two countries were separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. Miriam was considered a remote rural kingdom, and Kalan was an even more desolate place. If Hecate had not been here, the family might not have even looked at Miriam. Now seeing a team of family mages, Fili's first reaction was like mold finding oil.

The leader answered seriously: "Our team was specially sent here after hearing about the achievements of Knight Serena. The main force of the reinforcements will go directly to the front line and accept the command of the brave Gaio Louis."

"Main force..." Fili murmured. The word "main force" meant that there were a lot of reinforcements coming from the family. What was going on?

Of course, the mage would not say much about the details. He just introduced that there were support from the north and the south. They were only auxiliary troops of the main reinforcements. Because they were slightly weak, they consciously stayed in the rear after entering Kalan. The purpose was to assist the local army in stabilizing the situation and ensuring logistical security. Of course, there was still a hint of arrogance in his words. In some ways, Kalan was indeed a place with many strong and reckless people, and it was indeed lacking in professional mages.

Most combat mages are breakthrough mages. The skill lists of these mages in adventure teams and around heroes may be all attack magic, with fewer skills like barrier protection and purification and dispersal.

The mages from the Morgana family are different. They are all well-rounded mages who have received education in the academy. Just staying in the legion can improve their safety levels by several levels.

Fili accepted the kindness and said, "Let them join. The legion is just short of mages. Having them serve as advisors can reduce the threat of the Abyss Fragments."

"No problem." Serena nodded and asked the wizard leader, "Do you have any requests?"

"No, just arrange a place for us, and we will handle the rest ourselves." The mage leader did not put forward any conditions, but he did not like to communicate with Serena either.

After getting permission, the team unloaded their bags and headed for the open space under the leadership of the soldiers. They used magic to build their own camp and also assigned some people to carve warning magic around the area.

"If you find fragments of the abyss, you can look for them first." Fili saw that these people were quite reliable, and found Evelint and the Water Priestess. The three of them observed this group of mages and thought there was nothing wrong.

Except for Fili, Evelynte and the Water Priestess did not have many prejudices against the Morgana family. Apart from thinking that they were a little arrogant and immature, they were all normal wizards.

"Selena, you and Yue Lan rest here. I'm going to defeat the Pied Piper." Fili picked up the map and dealt with the difficult monsters first. "Make arrangements for the direction to go next. We won't stay here for too long."

"Understood." Serena was looking forward to Dragon Airlines. She thought they would set off as soon as the supplies arrived.

……

Miriam's Black Cat Pavilion. Even though Fili left, there were still many witches coming to the inn to eat every day. There were also many witches from other places who temporarily chose to stay in the inn. The income was much better than before. Due to too many witches, the Amnesia Mushroom Challenge event was forced to terminate.

Nishinohana recruited some familiars to help, and the frequency of cheating in the kitchen increased. Because Fili and Felix were not there, Charlotte built a candy house in the backyard. After that, Irene occupied the piano seat in the hotel every day, and the witches lived a peaceful and prosperous life.

This kind of life lasted for a few days until the false clone Filin arrived.

"Seeing the witches have no sense of crisis, it really feels like Karan and Miriam are from two different worlds." Filin sighed in his heart. The false clone synchronized with the original consciousness and began to search for the piper. When they entered the forest, they encountered wild monsters and started fighting not long after they went far.

Filin was not famous in the witch circle. Nishinoka and Charlotte were busy in the kitchen, and no one paid attention to him when he went upstairs alone.

However, when he was walking through the corridor on the second floor and about to enter his room, he suddenly bumped into Carol.

"You're back? You..." Carol was about to say something, but suddenly swallowed her words and gave Filin a death stare.

Feilin got a headache when he saw Carol, but he had to pretend that he knew nothing and talked to her naturally: "Long time no see, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just like you. Don't mind it." Carol shook her head and then asked, "Are you tired? I have a batch of work that is urgent. Please give me a hand."

Feilin could probably guess what she was busy with, and immediately agreed: "Okay."

That's right, Carol was moving materials from the warehouse. She already knew something about what happened on Karan's side and found that the situation was more serious than she had imagined. She planned to go to Karan to investigate monsters there after making this batch of mental protection accessories, and study those so-called abyss fragments to see if she could find a way to restrain them.

The normal way of dealing with disasters is to fight them with real weapons. The alchemist's way of dealing with disasters is to give ordinary people a way to fight against them.

Carol rummaged through boxes and piled the materials she found into Filin's arms: "Speaking of which, Filin is looking for the last ingredient for the mushroom formula at Kalan's place. Once the formula is complete, we will start testing your blood curse and try to break it as soon as possible so that you can be free. Do you have anything to say about this?"

Feilin thanked him earnestly: "Thank you very much."

Carol shook her head: "This is a life-saving favor, is that all?"

“I will pay,” Filin said.

Carol pretended to be unhappy: "Aren't you too inhumane to talk about money with an alchemist like me?"

Feilin asked tentatively: "I'll send you?"

Carol agreed at the speed of light: "Okay, it's settled. When you are free, you will be my little brother."

Feilin: “…”

Hastily!

Chapter 162 The Piper

Did Carol see something again? This clone doesn't have the power of charm.

Fili, who was searching for the flute player, was in a dilemma. The downside of having two bodies with synchronized consciousness was that if something unexpected happened on one side, the other side would feel a little confused. If Carol made the slightest movement, Fili would worry that she was exposed.

Of course, Carol still prioritized supporting Kalan and began to mass-produce amulet accessories. Filin followed to help, and the two got along peacefully. Now Fili focused on investigating the Pied Piper.

According to the information provided by Selena, Fili came to an uninhabited village. This place had been invaded by abyss fragments before, and the original residents had all gone to take refuge. Fili sprinkled crystalline powder everywhere and observed the outline of the village. Sure enough, she found some children. The children were bewitched by some force and lined up unconsciously, leaving the village and disappearing into the forest.

The magic in the forest was polluted, and Fili's detection magic was scattered in the forest, exploding into an arc of electricity and then disappeared.

Not far away, Evelint squatted on the ground, the flames on her fingertips flickering and unstable.

"It's fine in the village, but the smell in this forest is very strong. This area is naturally polluted." Evelint clapped her hands, "Undine, get up and purify it."

"I am such a slave." The water priestess took out her staff and waved it gently. Water mist floated up above the forest and formed raindrops that fell down, purifying the filth in the area. The three of them followed the previous clues.

As long as it wasn't a deliberately hidden creature, Fili and the others could follow it like a rope and find its source.

According to Serena's observation, the Pied Piper was not a dangerous being. It did not have great power and was killed twice by them. The traps it set were all pushed aside by Serena's team. Later, it simply gave up direct combat and concentrated on hiding, which entangled Serena's team.

After all, Serena has to protect ordinary people, and there are no taboos for creatures parasitized by the fragments of the abyss.

This is when the role of the association is reflected. People like the Pied Piper are mostly wanted. After a while, someone from the association will accept the commission, and lone wolf warriors or adventure teams will go to fight. However, there have been too many dangerous incidents in Kalan recently, and the association's bulletin board is full of tasks every day, and the association does not have enough staff.

To be practical, Kalan has many tasks, high difficulty and low rewards, so it is difficult to attract too many strong people.

After searching again, Evelint found two more bodies.

Evelint held up a flame in her hand, illuminating the corpse: "Fili, this way."

Fili sighed, "It's an adventurer."

The Water Maiden leaned over to clean the bodies. The water lifted their bags and found some identification items: "The platinum nameplate means he was an adventurer with a lot of experience. He died here. The body has traces of being bitten by rodents. It really fits the impression of the traditional story that he was a flute player."

In the adventure level, the platinum nameplate belongs to adventurers with a level five license, and above that is the top-level black gold nameplate, which is temporarily ranked at the top of adventurers. However, the adventurer level is not strongly correlated with specific strength, and the evaluation is more based on contribution rather than actual ability.

The name of the Pied Piper originated from a folk tale, but the Pied Piper in the story is not the real villain. In the traditional story, the Pied Piper was invited by the villagers to eliminate the rat infestation. Afterwards, the villagers refused to fulfill their promise, so they were retaliated by the Pied Piper. But over time, people forgot the cause of the story and remembered some stereotypes, which led to the combination of flute sound, illusion, and the abduction of children, and he was given the title of the Pied Piper.

The clues in this area were quickly investigated, and Fili and the other two went to other areas. In just half a day, they ran through all the places where Serena had encountered the Pied Piper before, became familiar with the Pied Piper's breath, and had a general understanding of the Pied Piper's power.

Fili did not find it difficult: "The opponent is a fragment of the abyss. He survives and becomes stronger by devouring souls unconsciously. Now that he cannot defeat Serena, he will definitely bypass the strong and attack the weak. He will also attack nearby villages, towns and cities. Evelint, Water Priestess, you go to the city in the back, and I will go to the town in the front."

"Leave it to us."

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"No problem. Send a signal as soon as you find the piper and take action without delay."

It is becoming increasingly difficult for people on the border of Kalan to survive. If they all flee to towns, there will be a food crisis. But if they don't flee, they will easily be attacked by monsters. There are no strong people in these places in the village. Once some dangerous creatures break in, the entire village will be destroyed.

Normally, humans are intelligent. If there are any scary monsters, the villagers will burst out with wisdom and strength. However, when they encounter cunning monsters, the villagers really have no power to resist these invisible and intangible monsters.

The next day, Fili arrived at the town in front of the corps. There were now many Karans and foreign mercenaries gathered here, making it a transit station for transporting supplies to the front line. The defense force was relatively strong, with soldiers on guard day and night.

Although the soldiers were dedicated to their duties, with so many people fleeing to the town, there were always omissions. Several children aged eight or nine took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and stumbled into the forest. Then they continued on their way to the river. If they were left alone, they would most likely fall into the river and drown.

These children finally stopped by the river, the aura of curse on their bodies wrapped in false power. When Fili found out, she intervened forcibly and coaxed the children in their dreams, making them wake up quickly, and then they ran back to the town crying and making a fuss.

Then Fili turned around and jumped over the river, moving forward slowly with her eyes closed. The faint sound of the flute lingered in her ears, gradually fading away with the mysterious magical fluctuations.

It is trying to escape. As expected before, the so-called flute player has been frightened and will instinctively run away when encountering a being stronger than it.

Fili once again hid in the deception and advanced secretly. After a chase, she got in front of the flute player.

In the forest, a weak and pale figure looked around, and suddenly a dagger fell in front of her, and she stopped nervously.

Fili summoned a false clone and walked up to the flute player: "Are you the flute player?"

The flute player was a woman who looked to be about 30 years old. As expected, she had changed her body again and didn’t know much about her own situation: “What flute player…”

"Another item." Fili looked at the woman. She exuded the scent of abyss fragments, but this scent came more from the recorder in her hand, just like the cursed ring she had stored away. "Are you dead?"

The woman's skin was pale with faint corpse spots. After all, she was reborn through negative energy. She was not even an undead creature and had no knowledge of the mysticism. She could only let her body rot.

"Nonsense...I didn't!" Of course, the woman did not admit her death.

"You don't remember your death? Or you don't want to admit it?" Fili thought for a moment, then shook her head. "You should remember, otherwise you wouldn't have taken revenge on that town, right? You were abducted from the town with a purpose, not randomly. Listen, I'm not here to attack you. I'm a witch. If you encounter any injustice, I will seek justice for you."

The woman gritted her teeth and made a hoarse voice: "...Can I trust you?"

Fili shrugged. "It seems that as a mother, you have encountered a tragic thing. Normally, we witches like to meddle in other people's business and fight for justice. Besides, Kalan is now shrouded in an unclean curse. There are too many lives like you that have been maliciously exploited. Letting you go will only cause more innocent people, mothers and children to be harmed."

After that, Fili emphasized: "I have said enough nice things. From now on, I will definitely attack you no matter what. Now I am just giving you a chance to leave a last word. You can choose."

Now that the true identity of the Pied Piper has been confirmed, it can no longer be allowed to escape. Compared to pure monsters, these cursed items are more troublesome. They are clearly using the resentment of those who died unjustly, and those who died unjustly have extremely strong subjective initiative. No wonder Selena is entangled.

"What's the difference between what you did and what those hypocrites did?" The woman swayed and slowly lowered her head, holding her face. "Do you know my story? I helped my relatives who were fleeing, but they harmed my family. Now I'm just letting the same tragedy happen to their family."

Fili frowned slightly, as the resentment of the flute player deepened. The gray mist emanating from her enveloped the forest, forming a realm of disaster. Soon, rustling sounds were heard all around, and pairs of scarlet eyes appeared in the mist.

In the gray fog, the woman's voice turned into a scream of resentment: "I want their entire family to die."

"Okay, I understand." Fili nodded slightly, flames appeared at her fingertips, and with a light stroke, the gray fog around was dispersed, and the swarm of rats that pounced on them were thrown into the wall of fire. The black swarm of rats soon turned into a source of fire all over the mountain. If left alone, they would definitely burn down the mountain.

However, the fire released by Fili was very well behaved. It only killed the mice and did not burn the grass or trees. This saved the forest from disaster.

Fili's deceptive clone disappeared on the spot. After confirming that the flute player posed no threat, her real body flashed to the flute player's side, kicked her in the waist, then stepped on her, and used the thin thread to wrap around the flute in her hand and pull it into her hand.

As soon as she picked up the flute, Fili felt a roar of resentment from tens of millions of souls in her ears, which made Fili tilt her head. She felt that the fragments of the abyss were still trying to erode her spirit. Fili snorted coldly, and the flute was enveloped by a ball of fire again, gradually burning into ashes.

The suppressed woman beat Fili like crazy, but was blocked by a magic barrier.

"What's the difference between you and those murderers?"

"I didn't stop you from taking revenge."

Fili replied calmly, transforming the magic in her hand into necromancy, injecting it into the woman's body, repairing her broken and rotten corpse, making the stench go away, and soothing her soul.

"Time is limited, please lead the way."

"what?"

"What are you staring at?"

"Can you really help me get revenge?"

"Since we've met, I'll help you. If it's really as you said, this justice may be late, but it's better than absent. Let's go."

After all, Fili was also looking forward to the appearance of a deus ex machina to help her. Because she understood the pain of losing loved ones, she could empathize with them. Even though tragedy had happened to this woman, she would not advise her to be kind.

The poor woman's soul finally calmed down at this time, and after expressing her gratitude to Fili, the two quickly returned to the town and found the residents who killed her under the shroud of deception. Then Fili learned a typical story of a cuckoo occupying the magpie's nest.

The woman's relatives planned to kill her entire family simply to live in the town and get protection.

To deal with such ordinary people, Fili did not waste any words. In the evening, she covered the house with a false field, dragged the family into a false dream and tortured them slowly. Fili interrogated the dreams of adults and children separately, and the result made Fili a little depressed. The two children were also bad seeds. They were guided by their parents and tricked the woman's family out step by step with malicious intent.

So Fili let the woman hurt them as much as she wanted in her dream, killing and grudgeing at will, causing this family to reincarnate over and over again.

"It turns out to be a story of gratitude and resentment. If you experience this kind of negative emotion too much, it will affect your mood. Some characters turned evil because of similar reasons." Fili felt what happened in the dream. Not only did the woman's relatives not confess their crimes, but they blamed her for the crimes and resented the woman's family for providing less and less assistance when they were in the most difficult time.

The child of a relative's family living in such a family naturally did not receive any good education, and his personality is more like that of his parents. Moreover, he is eight or nine years old, and his world view is gradually taking shape. He is not a dragon girl as cute as Scathach, so Fili doesn't bother to care.

The dream cycle came back for the seventh time. Fili felt the seeds of deception from the perspective of a bystander. Absorbing emotions is also a way, but negative emotions are really uncomfortable.

Fili frowned as she saw the woman's soul torturing the relative. She felt that this cycle of reincarnation was not a solution. "So, what are your final plans?"

The woman made her request: "Witch-sama, can you kill them?"

"Well... I can just kill them, but I don't think this is perfect revenge." Fili rolled her hair and explained the reason. "If their family died suddenly, other residents would never know what happened. I plan to use illusion to guide them to surrender and accept punishment. Now Kalan treats such cases severely. The two adults will most likely be sentenced to death, and their children will be driven out of the house. Most residents who know the truth will not take them in. The two children will die if they wander around in Kalan now."

The woman thought for a moment and said, "No, the church will take them in. I don't want to let their family go."

Fili nodded: "Is that so? Then let them die. I will guide their spirits and they will return to their original village, which is already a ruin. What happens next will be decided by fate. Do you think this is okay?"

The woman nodded: "Thank you for your kindness..."

What happened next was just as Fili had said. The woman's relatives received the punishment they deserved. Seeing her enemy get his comeuppance, the woman's resentment dissipated, and Fili had another seed of deceit in her hand.

"It's a bit inefficient to strengthen the power of deception this way."

Chapter 163 Film returns to his old job, unofficial history may not be true enough