Seeing that the other three girls except for Hara had relaxed a lot, and had eliminated most of the fear of the rest of his life, he continued:

"What follows is not what I saw with my own eyes, but it is generally fine.

"The second prince was not originally the heir of the country, so he didn't deliberately learn military knowledge, nor did he specialize in spells, let alone learn swordsmanship with the knight chief.

"He has been wandering around the country, with only a few knights and a wizard, although he is not as gifted as his brother, but because he has been living among commoners, the second prince knows a simple fact better than the eldest prince.

"That is, all the people of the Perka Kingdom are flesh and blood, have their own direction to move forward, need to face the pressure of life, and have extremely real feelings for all the people around them, living people.

It is precisely because of this that His Royal Highness the Second Prince has become extremely benevolent and kind, because he knows that everyone is a precious life, and he must not look at them with a condescending attitude just because of his status.

"In this case, His Royal Highness the Second Prince met someone.

"When he was not very old, he once stepped into the borders of San Calelles and reached a small city.

"In a land ruled by the primordial fire, all the populaces are inhuman and infidels, and the first is a sub-race of humanity, the witches. ”

Fanny raised her hand and asked:

"Wait, witches are a race?"

The Nine of Spades nodded and said:

"Witches and wizards are not the same as wizards, and these two names are unique to these young girls and teenagers who show their magical powers.

"They have similar abilities to mages, but they are neither like they are learned by mages through systematic learning, nor are they like warlocks who have mastered them through bloodline and family inheritance, but one day, under the influence of some great power, they awakened a powerful spell-casting ability.

"The power of witches is more of an instinct to them than a world-changing technology, and while awakening to a witch does not distort their minds, it does alter their body structure to a certain extent, which is why many people consider witches to be a sub-race of humans.

"But this classification, just like saying that the continent of Oberia is different from other continents, in essence, we are all human beings with no reproductive isolation, not half-orcs or anything like that.

"Actually, I wonder if witches are really any different from other humans, or is the Primordial Fire justifying their own slaughter?

"However, it is not for nothing that witches are hostile to the primordial fire, although many witches are not evil in the beginning, but the magic they master is extremely ruthless, all kinds of vicious curses, and silent methods of killing.

"It's not the obvious power of fireball, it's the evil sorcery that makes people suddenly die in their own homes.

"When a person has mastered the ability to kill people without being punished, it is inevitable that the bottom line will be crossed.

"The first time is to kill people for self-preservation, the second time is to kill bad people who do evil, the third time is to kill people you hate, the fourth time you kill wealthy merchants, the fifth time you kill powerful nobles, and then you kill innocent commoners.

"Witches are not necessarily evil, but the magic they awaken is created for evil purposes.

At the same time, the power of witches is also extremely unstable because it is not learned and mastered, and it is easy to hurt the people around them. ”

"Although I do not agree with the Primordial Flame's extermination of witches, this does not mean that they did it for no reason, and in their opinion, the so-called 'trial' of witches is a necessary sacrifice for justice.

"And the first time the second prince came to the territory of the primordial fire, he witnessed a witch trial.

"The wicked witch was a fourteen-year-old girl, only one year younger than the second prince.

The second prince knew that he should not meddle in the affairs of the local people, but after seeing the girl's frightened expression and bloodshot eyes, he still stopped the local lord, claiming to be the heir to the title from elsewhere, and delayed the witch trial on the grounds that he was going to visit the lord of the city and hold a banquet at the same time.

At the same time, he sent an entourage of wizards and knight captains to investigate the whole story of the witch trial.

Soon his retinue reported to him what had happened.

"It turned out that this girl did nothing evil, just because there was a man in her town who died violently, and the man's wife suspected that she had seduced her husband and then killed her by witchcraft, so the people of the town tied her up and sent her to the city to be judged by the church.

"After investigation, the mage of the city lord found that the man died because of an infected disease, and there was no trace of magical power.

In the end, I found out that it was actually a woman who was jealous of the girl's beauty, and she definitely looked very dazzling when she passed by in front of her door every day, so she reported the girl in a fit of anger.

"And the guards of the town, driven by some evil and dirty thoughts, 'believed' the woman's words, arrested the beautiful girl without parents, and even whipped and tortured her in prison, leaving her with several bloody scars. ”

But in the process, the priest of the Primordial Flame also joined the investigation and found out that the girl was really a potential witch awakener, so instead of punishing the woman who lied about the situation, he gave her a large fortune as an incentive for other whistleblowers.

After learning the truth, the second prince was furious, but it was difficult for him to forcibly rescue the girl for the sake of a few followers, let alone ask for the release of a witch from the territory of the Primordial Fire.

The second prince himself has no talent for strategy, so he chose the stupidest method, first using himself as a bait to attract the attention of many people, and quietly let the girl go when the garrison strength was weakened and the guards were lax.

But it was precisely because of this that the second prince also fell into a desperate situation, although he hid the local lord for a short time and joined his retinue, but soon the original fire and the local garrison sensed that something was wrong and sent people to hunt down the second prince.

And it was also at this time that the second prince used his body to block an arrow for her in order to protect the girl, and seeing that his life-saving benefactor was seriously injured and his life was in danger, the girl finally awakened the power of the witch.

She directly teleported to a kilometer away with the second prince and his party, and the second prince's entourage also took this opportunity to get rid of the pursuers.

And the matter didn't end so quickly, and instead of parting ways with the girl after rescuing her, the second prince spent a full year trekking through mountains and rivers and taking her to the Forest of Wounds, the sanctuary for all the young witches.

And after that, for many years, the two had little contact.

"Until the second prince was twenty-three years old, when the undead king's soldiers came to the city, and the old king was bedridden due to illness......"