Chapter 1539 - 5: Friends

Chapter 1539: Chapter 5: Friends

In Aiseya’s bedroom, the electric light flickered, and from her mouth, Su Xiao learned about a black witch named Isa.

The relationship between Isa and Aiseya is somewhat special. On the surface, they appear to be friends, commonly known as besties, but in reality, this is not the case. The black witch Isa often extorts Aiseya’s belongings, and the white witch Aiseya dares not speak out, resigned to her misfortune.

Aiseya didn’t sell Isa out before simply because she feared her, but after initial contact with Su Xiao, she found that Su Xiao was even more ruthless than her friend Isa, and the dangerous level of the two was not on the same tier.

Isa, although very powerful, is not quite sane. With Aiseya’s intelligence, she can sometimes even exploit Isa, while Su Xiao is different. His method of dealing with Aiseya is very straightforward; as long as Aiseya cooperates, he won’t harm her, but if not, he will have A Mu hammer her to death directly.

Compared to potential future retaliation, Aiseya feels that her current safety is more important, so this turncoat decisively sells out Isa.

"You are strong, aren’t you?"

Aiseya looked Su Xiao up and down, and that previously dumbfounded expression disappeared.

"..."

"You must kill Isa, I beg you. If I betray her, she’ll surely retaliate against me. She might even make me her dinner."

"Enough with the nonsense, just tell me the information about the black witch."

"Alright." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Aiseya began to introduce Isa’s basic situation. Isa lives in the city, but her residence is quite secluded. According to Aiseya, Isa is an elemental witch, and as for the power level among witches, such a thing doesn’t exist.

The abilities of witches are diverse, and during battles, they involve mutual restraint issues. Some famous witches, if they encounter completely countering abilities, can also fall, of course, this is assuming the difference in power isn’t too drastic.

Some witches with ’exclusive titles’ don’t fall within this category, like the title of Dark Raven; it’s both a name and the highest honor within the witches. Only the strongest witch can have the title ’Dark Raven.’

The way to judge whether an elemental witch is powerful is simple, just observe her ’avatar.’

"Avatar?"

Su Xiao looked at Aiseya with puzzled eyes.

"Yes, this is my avatar."

A purple gleam flashed in Aiseya’s eyes, and an invisible consciousness body appeared behind her.

"Becoming a witch is an extremely painful process, requiring one to first go insane."

"..."

Su Xiao became more puzzled.

"Hundreds of years ago, the ancient witches would drive themselves insane by torturing their bodies, drowning, whipping, sun exposure, and the most effective method was to personally kill their family. Doing so created another self within their body."

Aiseya touched her fair skin as she spoke, indicating that she didn’t use that crude method to transform into a witch.

"Once another self appears in the body, you can absorb the power within the ’Origin Stone.’ The power in the Origin Stone combines with the other self to create an avatar. Having an avatar becomes a witch, which is a process every witch must go through."

After listening to Aiseya’s explanation, Su Xiao understood the witch transformation process.

The first step in transforming into a witch is to torture oneself, resulting in a split personality, thus creating a dual personality. The rest becomes much simpler; use the secondary personality to absorb the energy within the ’Origin Stone,’ thereby killing the primary personality and forming the avatar.

Elemental witches use avatars to fight. They communicate elements through avatars, without the limitation of a physical body, making their elemental manipulation more crude and direct, requiring no chanting or pre-carved arrays like mages.

"How should I describe the appearance of other witches’ avatars to you..."

Aiseya pondered with a thoughtful look, but except for witches, others can’t see the existence of avatars.

"No need."

Su Xiao can certainly see the avatar of witches. The avatar behind Aiseya is quite interesting; it’s a blooming white jasmine flower.

"When are you planning to deal with Isa?"

Aiseya now wants Isa dead even more than Su Xiao; the long-term ’oppression’ has made her want this ’friend’ gone for quite a while.

"..."

Su Xiao didn’t speak; he just silently looked at Aiseya. He was gauging, gauging whether Aiseya was using him to eliminate her enemy.

"I must say, you aren’t as weak as you look."

Su Xiao showed a gentle smile. Seeing Su Xiao’s smile, Bubu Wang, besides him, covered his face with his paws. He bet fifty cents that this woman was doomed.

"What?"

Aiseya looked at Su Xiao with puzzled eyes.

"Calculating the time, your friend Isa may have already escaped from this city, after all, you helped him gain so much time."

"What are you talking about?"

Aiseya looked more confused.

"You provided food to bribe nearby kingdoms, and the witch named Isa was responsible for military deterrence, or rather, you were cooperating to raise the civilians in this city like livestock—they were all commodities. Previously, I felt strange that with the level of civilization here, every household actually had a door sign; now it seems those were slave identification plates."

Su Xiao looked at Aiseya with a smiling face. Before entering this castle, Bubu Wang discovered a large number of cages in the castle underground. The cages were empty, surrounded by human excrement and fresh blood.

The Human Assembly Area in Magdeburg is not the paradise Aiseya spoke of. The walls here are too tall, and there is not even a basic city guard team, which is very unusual.

This city is too simple, so simple that it only contains civilians and commanders. This ecological method is basically no different from merchants hoarding goods.

Moreover, Aiseya is a skilled actress; upon discovering Su Xiao’s strength, she immediately sent a message to her friend, having her friend retreat while she stayed to hold the line with her life.

"What is this?"

Aiseya still looked confused, seemingly not understanding at all what Su Xiao was talking about.

Since Aiseya revealed Isa’s information, she often asked Su Xiao when he would take action against Isa. This was to confirm one thing: how long she could stall Su Xiao.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao drew the Dragon Slash from his waist. Witches in this world are very difficult to deal with, and even the relatively weak Aiseya is a skilled actress.

"Ah, seems like I can’t keep stalling you. You’ll never find Isa, and you’ll never step into the Death Land. You’re strong, Isa is no match for you, but... you’ll never be able to hurt her."

As Aiseya spoke, she stood up and combed her waist-length hair with her hand.

"I forgot to tell you, I really don’t know where the Death Land is, so no matter how you interrogate, don’t expect to learn any information about the Death Land from me, you..."

With a swish, the blade cut through, and Aiseya obviously froze for a moment. She was already prepared with her follow-up words, but unfortunately, didn’t get to use them at all. Her true charm attribute of 90 points didn’t have the expected effect.

"Is that so? Then you are no longer needed."

Su Xiao flicked the blood off the knife, sheathed the long knife.

"It shouldn’t... be like this..."

With a thud, Aiseya fell to the ground. The only reason Su Xiao wasted so much time talking to her was to gain some witch information. Aiseya’s method of lying was familiar to Su Xiao: among ten truths, slipping in one falsehood. If Su Xiao guessed correctly, Aiseya only concealed the location of the black witch Isa and information about the Death Land.