The small church was surrounded by people.

"Finally caught the witch!"

"Now I can sleep in peace."

"I have long felt that something is wrong with her, how can there be people who are always hiding at home."

"You don't know what to do, the last time I saw this woman in the cemetery, I knew that she wasn't a good thing!"

"Oh, poor Chryslyn has been smitten by this woman."

A little boy stood in front of the disturbing crowd with a frown. He wore a fat clerical gown, which was obvious to be smaller, but it still didn't take away the feeling of ill-fitting between it and the boy.

As it turned out, little Nero always found it difficult to move in this dress.

If it weren't for this garment, I might have been able to join the witch hunt!" ’

He had this idea when he had been rejected by the church's witch hunting agency.

He has a proud capital, and although this is only a church in a remote town in the Eastern Plains, he has a magical talent and a holy light affinity that no one of his peers in the Sanctuary has, which makes his magical path almost an easy one.

Of course, he didn't know that the Witch Hunting Agency itself stipulated that members must be at least eighteen years old—after the age of eighteen, they would almost pass the second stage of secondary school, and they would not do some stupid things on the spur of the moment.

This witch hunt is not a witch, but a witch, of course, ordinary people should not be able to tell the difference...... For them, it's just that neither of them is human anyway.

Witches don't refer to female magicians. Rather, it is similar to the existence of demonic warlocks, who pursue the power of evil.

They summon abyssal demons, raise evil creatures, refine cursed potions, like to use living people for all kinds of cruel human tests, and even take the initiative to have sex with demons as a way to gain power.

To put it simply, they just want to abandon the human body and become a monster.

If witches are acquired monsters, then witches are born monsters.

The formation of witches was very accidental. Some powerful creatures like to leave their seeds on maidens (usually virgins) in some way, such as the Nightmare Lord, who will do this in the dreams of maidens......

Then for some reason, catalyze, or if the girl reaches a certain age and is not broken, (so many places will have the rule of the first night), the seed has a certain chance of germinating...... The manifestation is that the girl is pregnant before marriage.

What the hell are those powerful creatures doing this? I still don't know what to do. However, what is certain is that the girl gave birth to a witch with special powers.

Of course, witches are not 100% harmful.

The current number one power, the Far Eastern general of one of the four generals of the Horngolat Empire. It's a dragon witch. She has the strength of an almost adult dragon. Although there is no magical talent. But she was able to resist most of the three-ring magic, and ordinary weapons did little harm to her, and she once created a miracle of killing hundreds of cavalry from the encirclement of an army of 170,000 with the strength of one person. Famous earthquake throughout the Eastern Plains.

Little Nero looked at the witch who had been crucified with a stake piercing her hands and blades and crucified, and was just an ordinary maiden no matter how she looked at it, and was extremely puzzled.

He was unhappy that the witch hunting agency refused to recruit him, so he secretly followed them to see how they hunted witches.

The results surprised him.

The girl lived in a dilapidated thatched hut, and even the door had only an irregular plank, which was pushed down by the hunters.

And the girl herself was pulled out by them without even the slightest resistance, and was baptized by the common people with stones and rotten eggs along the way, and finally crucified.

According to the protocol of witch hunting, after being crucified for a day and a night, at noon tomorrow, a basin of holy water (usually baptismal spring-grade holy water, but this church is very poor, so only baptism-type holy water is used) is poured from head to toe, and at the end of the day, she will be burned at the stake, along with the cross stained with her blood.

At night, Nero, as the adopted son of the church priest, came to the church with the permission of the gatekeeper after bribing him with food.

"Isn't the witch very powerful? Why would you be caught so easily? ”

He approached the witch and asked curiously.

The witch's long, withered, split hair hung down from the cross, obscuring her face, and half an eggshell hung from it.

It was only after a while, just when Nero thought she was dead, that she spoke softly in a hoarse voice.

"Because I'm human."

"Liar! I've seen the arrest warrants from the hunting authorities! You're not human, you're a Dead Swamp Witch who has inherited the curse power of the Lord of the Dead Swamp! Nero did not hesitate to expose the woman.

The Lord of the Dead Swamp is a dragon lizard, a dragon and a shadow creature, powerful and tyrannical, cruel and murderous, and his favorite thing to do is to drag humans and animals into the Dead Swamp and watch them drown helplessly.

According to incomplete statistics from the Mage Guild, the number of people who have died at the hands of the Lord of the Dead Swamp has exceeded the number of humans who have died at the hands of other wurm creatures combined.

From this, it can be seen that the pure white church learned about the appearance of the Dead Swamp Witch.

Therefore, even if the hunting agency does not take the initiative to harm the witch under normal circumstances, this time it will directly arrest and burn the other party at the stake.

As for the mood of the Lord of the Dead Swamp - whether or not it will recognize this human daughter, even if it wants to fight the White Church, you must at least crawl out of the swamp, right? At that time, it will not be it to settle accounts with the Pure White Church, but how the Pure White Church will encircle and suppress this monster who dares to leave its home field.

"No, I'm human......"

I don't know if it's because she hasn't touched the water all day, the girl's voice sounds as frizzy as her hair that lacks moisture.

"You're a monster! Monster! Monster! ”

Nero unleashes a ball of flare, blowing away the opponent's hair. It illuminated her cheeks, which should have been the delicate skin of the girl, but at this time it was densely covered with goosebump-inducing fine scales, and the two green eyes with a black background were even more chilling.

Then, there was a fork in the memory. Nero suddenly felt that he was no longer in front of him, the girl who had been sobbing all night because of his words, and finally screamed and died in the flames.

It's a different kind of existence.

A frightened smile appeared on her terrifying face.

"That's right...... I'm a monster. ”

As she spoke, the dry hair slammed around Nero's right hand like a snake.

Nero was startled and subconsciously touched his waist, but he didn't touch anything.

"But you're not qualified to say I'm not, are you? Because aren't you going to be a monster too? ”

With her words, Nero noticed a change in her body.

The hands began to become illusory, and the blonde hair faded all color. Became miserable and white. Wing-like tokens spread out at either side of his head. It looks like wing-shaped ears.

It was as if something had been pulled out of his body and rested on his head, and as the feeling intensified, he saw a ring appear above his head.

Spiritualization.

Is this the effect of using the Angel's Holy Grail?

Wrong. None of the white-clad bishops showed this trait. It's just going to be more magical. It's just a little better photophilicity......

"Don't continue to make excuses, in fact, you really want to abandon your human identity and gain power and power, right?" The girl grinned. Her white teeth had turned into jagged canines, and her tongue was like a thickened snake hyacinth, with a strange fork in the front.

"It's not...... I ......"

Nero really didn't know if he valued the identity of this human for a while, and he could only stutter there.

"Don't continue to let the memories of the past hold you back...... Hurry up and follow your heart's desires, abandon everything that is human, and ask for everything you want! ”

“……”

Nero was silent. The reason why he hesitated to make this choice was not only the influence of Frey, but also the scene he faced when he was a child.

"I'm a human ......" the witch in the memory cried dry, but she couldn't even wipe her face.

'I'm not a monster...... even in the face of death, she didn't want to be a monster in her heart, so that the power of the bloodline was not activated until the extreme.

Is human identity really that important compared to life?

Wouldn't it be better to accept the identity of the inhuman and continue to live than to die there?

So...... Don't be a human being, become a higher existence!

“…… No. ”

With Nero's gentle words, a surprised expression appeared on the smiling girl's face.

"If I abandon my most important things because of my strength and power, then next time I abandon my strength and power, I will definitely abandon other things." Nero looked at her calmly: "I am willing to be a human being, even if it is death, I will die as a human being, standing upright!" ”

——Cave at the bottom of the river——

Nero opened his eyes, and he could feel that because of his determination, the divine light had not only not left him, but had become more connected to him, so that he could see everything around him even though he was now trapped in a small, dark cocoon.

He could see that his right hand had been wrapped in layers of black matter, and he had even lost a little consciousness, and he was afraid that it had been absorbed—he felt his right hand being grabbed in the illusion just now, which should be the reason.

"Since you have been obsessed with the Holy Grail of my angels, I will give it to you!" With his left hand, he tore off a few black threads that were still very small, took out the thin-necked bottle containing holy water from his pocket, bit off the stopper with his teeth, and then used the front end as a needle to directly insert his right hand, which was wrapped in those black substances!

In the next moment, under the influence of the angel's holy grail, the black substance wrapped around his right hand suddenly expanded, but surprisingly it did not explode or be destroyed, but began to shrink, and finally replaced Nero's original right hand, becoming a new right hand with a purple-red color and a leathery texture. On the back of his hand, the magic of the silver 'Angel's Grail' still flows, giving people a sense of the mix of sacred and evil.

Then, as if guided by divine light, Nero closed his eyes and slammed his new right hand, only to see the black and silver magic intertwined, forming a huge pale blue palm phantom, and destroying the black callus with one claw.

The phantom shadow of the demon hand continued unabated, leaving four deep scars on the snake's tail in front of him, and the stinking black-purple plasma suddenly gushed out.

Even a huge coiled wise man was powerful enough for him.

"Whew! You've hurt me, maggots! ”

The pain caused it to tear off the calm mask it had just had, revealing its hideous true face.

The green mist flickered, and the four wounds quickly stopped bleeding, and then quickly recovered, if it weren't for the blood on the ground, I'm afraid no one would have seen that it had been injured.

"What the hell are you!" It watched Nero's glowing right hand roar.

"Cardinal of the Thirteenth Organ of the Pure White Church, Nero." Nero pulled out his short sword with his left backhand and raised his right hand at the same time: "It's a human!" (To be continued......)

PS: The second watch is over! Go to bed......