Before being imprisoned in this cold and dark dungeon, Elle hadn't eaten anything for three days, and with the last use of fire magic just now to shatter the city walls and use up the last of her strength, she couldn't even lift her eyelids at this time, so she could only be locked to the ground by thick chains, silently waiting for the predictable tragic end in pain.

She had seen it many times, the tragedy of her companions before they died, and now, at last, it was her turn.

It was a conceivable future in which tall knights would strip her naked, pierce her skin with sharp knives and bleed all over her body, then she would be tied to a cross and put on a high platform with firewood under her feet, and when the clergy of the Church hypocritically pronounced judgment on her, fanatical people would shout to burn her, and finally the knights would light the firewood at her feet and burn her alive.

But she was the witch of fire, and the flames couldn't burn her, but it didn't matter, the people of the church had already prepared dozens of tortures, and if she was tortured by any of them, her death would be so terrible that burning at the stake was a good treatment.

In short, the church will not let witches die comfortably.

Onlookers would be delighted to hear her screams, and even cheer happily.

She understands that those who are enslaved by the Empire will transfer all their contradictions to the women they call "witches", as if the witches have done something unforgivable and heinous to them.

But in fact, witches don't stay in inhabited places at all, at most they only wander in the border area, except for some witches who are very well disguised and can live like ordinary people, most of the rest of the witches are homeless and wandering.

As the number of wandering witches increased, the witches spontaneously organized some groups to help each other, such as Elle, who came from an organization called the "Flame Magic Regiment", as the name suggests, this is a group of witches who are good at using fire.

It's just that she is the only one left in this group now, and she is the last "spark" of this group, but now, this spark is about to be extinguished.

Knowing that her life would soon end, Elle suddenly felt a sense of relief, she had had had enough of all these years of fear, she didn't want to hide in the gutter anymore, she didn't want to pick up other people's leftovers, she didn't want to be spurned again.

She also wants to exist as bright as the flame in her own hands, and create her own value with her own hands.

It's a pity that the world has denied the meaning of their existence from the beginning.

Elle asked herself, she had never harmed anyone in her life except for a few robbers with bad intentions and a few rampaging beasts, but the Church didn't care about that, they didn't allow any power that could threaten their rule, and the witch with strange powers was naturally the biggest threat.

Since her talent for controlling flames was discovered at the age of ten, Elle's parents did not hesitate to hand her over to the church, and the result of the trial was naturally capital punishment.

In the last moments of being burned to death, she broke free from the restraints and escaped and lived a wandering life in hiding, during which she also felt ashamed and remorse for possessing demonic powers, but during this ten years of wandering, she saw too many witches being brutally killed, including even six or seven years old girls.

By now, she is already a staunch anti-churchist, the power of witches belongs to themselves, not to some devil, if six or seven year old girls are all demons, then what is the person who condemned her to be burned?

In the cold cell, Elle silently waited for the judgment to come.

In the city lord's mansion, Rafa was also worried.

The maids lit the candles on the dining table, illuminating the delicate food on the table in the dimly lit room.

"What should I do if I want to save her, Siphus?" he said, raising his favorite venison to his lips and lowering it, towards Siphus standing in the shadows.

"I advise you not to do this. Sievers said very seriously.

"Do you really think witches are evil?" Rafa asked again.

"Uh... At least that's what the church says. ”

Rafa stood up suddenly, "Don't talk about the church! I'm asking you!"

"I—" Seapheus knew of course that the sobbing girl would never be the devil, but he couldn't say anything wrong about the church.

Seeing that Syphus stammered, Rafa yelled at him, "You all know everything, but why don't you say it?"

"Your Highness... It's useless just that we understand, the point is that there are more people who don't understand than who understand, and if we say 'witches are not evil' against the church, I'm afraid we will be attacked by the Empire!"

"I don't care, I'm going to save her. Rafa waved his sleeves and walked to the window.

Sieverus wanted to speak and stopped, "This ......"

"Stand down. ”

As the room fell silent, an indifferent voice came through the door.

"Yes. ”

When the servants saw Felicille enter, they all bowed their heads and silently withdrew, and Sieverus speculated that Felicille must have come to lecture Rafa and make him give up the idea of saving the witch.

"You're not here to persuade me not to save that witch, are you? Rafa said without looking back.

"Now I have no relationship with the Hyperion family, my name is Felihill, and I no longer have the surname Hyperion. Felihill stood beside him and looked out the window with him.

"Is that so? Why ......?" he glanced at Felihill in some surprise, it was the first time he had heard of it.

"You don't have to know why, you'll know in the future. ”

Rafa knew that she had many secrets, so she didn't ask any more questions, "Then what are you doing with me today?"

"Contrary to the question you just asked. She turned a corner in her rare speech.

"You want to save that witch too?" Rafa was even more surprised, although he felt that Felihill didn't like the church very much, but he didn't expect to openly want to do anything against the church.

"Not bad. ”

"Why?"

"There's no why, I want her to live anyway"

"This—" He knew that Felihill was going to do something, but he couldn't ask now.

"You know, blatantly saving the witch could make us enemies of the Empire. Now it was Rafa's turn to ask the question.

"A break with the church is a matter of time, but not now. ”

"What's your plan?" Rafa stared into her eyes.

"Find a death row inmate to replace her. ”

"What if someone finds out?"

"Stupid question. Felihill gave him a look like an idiot, then turned to sit down at the table that hadn't moved, "I hope it's done before I'm done with dinner." ”

"Uh... yes, why should I let people find out?" Rafa suddenly realized, and shouted towards the door, "Aodai..."

"Bang Dang"

Outside the gloomy cell, a knight opened the iron door, and the heavy lock fell to the ground, awakening Elle.

"Have you arrived......

Although she had fantasized about this scene many times in her heart, her eyes were still red when this moment really came.

Elle lay on the ground, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw a tall and slender figure walking towards her, "Female knight... Looks like I could die a slightly more decently death. ”

When the knights loosened their thick chains, Audrey lifted the limp Elle like a chicken, put on a black robe, and led her through the neatly lined up knights.

When she got out of her cell, it was already dark outside, the cold wind was howling, and there was a bright light behind several houses, and it seemed that it was her execution ground.

It's just that it's still some distance from the firelight, and there's a swarthy road in between.

The female knight's steps were very fast, and she even broke away from the knights behind her, and after turning a corner first, Elle clearly saw a person in a black robe exactly like her in front of her.

Then she suddenly felt herself being thrown into the air, and just as she thought she was going to be thrown to death, another female knight caught her steadily, and then took her under her armpit, and ran towards the tall buildings in the night.

As she stepped barefoot on the soft, warm carpet, Elle wondered if she had taken the wrong script.

The knightess then led her through a number of fine corridors before sending her into a room filled with delicious food.

Here she met the most beautiful women she had ever seen in her life and the exquisite food she had never been able to reach.

The maids helped Elle, who was unsteady on her feet, to sit on the third table on the table, and then brought her a variety of tender juices and food.

"Here... Is it heaven......" Elle stared at the milky cake in her hand, something she had only dreamed about in her dreams, but now it was in front of her.

"What are you doing? Are you so hungry that you don't have the strength to pick up a knife and fork?"

It was also the first time that Rafa had seen a witch so closely, and he was very curious about Elle, and he couldn't stop looking at her.

Although Elle didn't understand what was going on, the hunger in her belly made her careless.

When she put a piece of venison in her mouth, tears flowed uncontrollably.

"It turns out that there are still such delicious things in the world. ”

Ai Lei cried while eating, in the past ten years, she has not eaten a good meal, all day long in fear of hiding, sometimes picking up a piece of black and hard black bread can be happy for a long time, and then a little older, after joining the flame magic group, although the black bread can not be eaten, but wild vegetables or something is eaten a lot;

Elle ate the meal for an hour, while Felihill and Rafa watched in silence for an hour.

"What's your name?" asked Rafa, glancing at the empty plate in front of her.

"My name is Elle, I'm full, it's not easy for you to kill me now. "Elle, who has regained her strength, is much more confident.

"Oh? Can you show me your magic?" he had seen before, but he wanted to get closer.

"Boom"

Elle raised her hand, and a huge fireball appeared over the dining table, and the temperature of the entire room suddenly rose, and then disappeared again as her palm closed.

"I don't know what you're trying to do, but I want to thank you for your kindness at this moment. Elle bowed slightly to Rafa and Felihill, "Farewell." ”

With that, she wanted to turn and leave.

"Hey... Don't go......" Rafa seemed to have just woken up from the shock of the fireball, and hurriedly shouted at Elle.

"My lord, what else is going on with you?" Elle secretly gathered flames in her palms.

"Ahem, I mean to say..... Are you interested... Stay?"

"What do you want to do?" said to herself, Muttering to herself, this man really didn't have a good heart to save her.

"Of course it's for me! I have a lot of plans that I need your abilities for!"

Seeing that Elle continued to frown, Felihill, who had been silent, stood up, "You go out first, I'll talk to her." ”

"Oh. Rafa, the tool man, immediately withdrew.

The conversation lasted only a short time, and when the door opened again, Elle followed the servants to her room with a smile on her face.

"How did you do that?" Rafa was confident that she would stay, but he couldn't make her stay so happily.

"I promised her that she would eat so well every day in the future, and she stayed. With a few words, Felihill headed towards her realm again, and when she reached the end, she turned her head and admonished, "I hope you can use her abilities well." ”

"I will. Rafa smiled at her.