While Lothar and Networm were still fumbling around their room, the true owner of the grand building was leisurely drinking the liquid poured into an expensive porcelain cup in his room. On her desk, a crow fell from a branch made of gold, and the bird was tilting its head at the two men kneeling on one knee under the steps in front of the table. They had been on their knees for a while, but it looked like the Great Witch had no intention of getting them to their feet. Maintaining one movement for a long time is a heavy burden on the human body, especially in the kneeling position, the shorter of the two witches, the one with long green hair, has a noticeable tremor in the calves, and she should not be able to hold on for long. The raven thought that if the witch angered her master by not being able to keep her knees, perhaps it could start dinner earlier today.

However, the crow's wish was soon frustrated. After the Great Witch had put the teacup back in her tray, she spoke, "Get up, you've been reflecting long enough. ”

The two kneeling slowly got up, partly because their leg muscles needed time to rejuvenate, and partly because they knew the Great Witch's style well. After a period of self-reflection, the leader of the witch group would ask the erring member to review. There is no room for evasion and ambiguity in this review, because any attempt to justify oneself in rhetoric will turn into a more severe and terrible punishment. But even if you confess all your mistakes, if the content of the review is not satisfactory to the Great Witch, it will make the evaluation of the punished person lower and affect the future in the future, not to mention that if you make some stupid statements in front of the Great Witch, it will not be a simple punishment that can be ended.

The two witches stood up, cold sweat dripping down their foreheads and falling into the blankets that lay on the floor of the room. The Great Witch glanced at the two of them, deciding not to give them any more time, and said, "Miss Karon, tell me about the situation first. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency the Great Witch. Karon's knuckles were white from the clenching of the knuckles, and she lowered her head, her face unusually pale. As the caretaker of the fortress in the city, Jia Lun knew that the mission he had accomplished this time was definitely not bad. Despite all the accidents, especially the attack from the Kraken, which caused the garrison of the fortress to flee by making a deal with the demons under the guidance of the Great Witch, the witches have always been pragmatists, and looking at the results alone, Karen must take the responsibility for the complete collapse of the fortress. She also knew this very well, compared to the loss of the witch group, the weapons and energy she lost were all worth mentioning.

"This mission was my fault. I failed to hold the fort, and I am willing to accept punishment for it. "It's quite rare to hear this unyielding witch admit her mistakes in such a low tone. Even in front of the Great Witch, Peg has the impression that Garren is always the one who is praised, so she can be assigned separately when she and Qili, who are between and even above her strength, are still working as the henchmen or thugs of the older witches. This shows the great witch's appreciation for Jialun, but this appreciation does not bring all the benefits, and no one will stand up to excuse you because of your age when you live up to the mission of the witch group.

"That's a good statement, but I still want you to say something I don't know. The Great Witch spoke slowly, as if she didn't care about Garron's answer. She stretched out her withered hand, picked up a dried fruit from a dish on the table, and brought it to the crow's head to feed her pet.

"Yes, Your Excellency. The main reason why I failed this mission was because I couldn't respond to unexpected situations in time. I didn't expect the fortress to be attacked from both inside and outside, so I couldn't activate the defense mechanism in the fortress when resisting the Kraken's attack, which led to such a failure. I should have drawn a magic array for early warning as soon as I entered the fortress, so that I could be more effective in repelling enemies when I was attacked for the first time, and I wouldn't be forced to abandon most of the space in the fortress, especially the upper control room. ”

"Oh, you're saying you've been attacked from inside the fortress?" the Great Witch seemed interested, she looked up at Garron down the steps, "Tell me what kind of attack can catch you off guard and lose control of the entire upper level of the fortress." I remember that it should have been the place where the whole fortress needed the most protection. ”

Garren bit her lip and was silent for a while, the words of the Great Witch revealed good news and bad news. The good news is that the Great Witch doesn't seem to know that the walls of the fortress contain some kind of monster that can turn slime into a substance, which can justify her defeat well enough. But the bad news is that I must not show the slightest intention to exonerate myself in the following answers. And if she maintains an objective description and causes the Great Witch to think that those toad monsters are actually within her own range, then God knows what she will think.

However, the silence could only be temporary, and when the Great Witch picked up the second dried fruit, Karen finally spoke, "Your Excellency, this is the situation at that time..."

Peg, like the Great Witch, didn't know what was going on in the fortress before the Damned Lady sank. So when Karen recounts that she and Hela were attacked by monsters in the control room, the Rapunzel also shows a surprised expression. In Peg's mind, there shouldn't have been such a large number of enemies in a fortress that had been erected for an unknown number of years. This completely contradicts the definition of that building by successive rulers of Heartless Bay. However, the monster that Jia Lun mentioned, she did see it in the fortress, so it seems that this may be the case.

"Can a toad-shaped monster come out of the wall?" said the Great Witch in a low voice, "interesting creation, and I'll compile a detailed report on this monster when you get back." As for now, as one of the few people in the entire witch group who have seen this kind of monster, I want to hear your speculation about the appearance of this monster. ”

Garren hesitated for a moment and replied, "I think those things must be in the fort itself. Judging from the fact that they can exist in the form of slime, it may be that the builders have sealed the slime of those monsters together in the brick cracks during the construction of that fortress, and only wait for a signal to activate them to attack the enemies in the fortress. And this signal, perhaps related to the attack of the Kraken, the appearance of the monster and the Kraken's attack on the fortress are both the first in the history of our known Heartless Bay, and there must be some kind of connection between them. ”

"Interesting guess, Miss Karon. However, now that the entire fortress has collapsed, it is impossible to investigate your thoughts before the waters reced, and this is only speculation. The old witch said, "I already know your report, so let's go down and rest." I don't have any questions for you now, but I still have a lot of questions, Miss Pegg. ”