Looking at the book in Andy's hand, Baron Townsend's face turned ugly.

It was the one he had taken out of the long-dusted bedroom after receiving Norrington's letter the previous day, and Baron Townsend had wanted to keep the book, with that painful history, forever in that room.

However, learning that Margaret had learned witchcraft made him change his mind.

Margaret was a cursed child, and the person who cursed her was none other than Hertz Fawkes, Baron Towns's wife and Margaret's mother.

It all started 20 years ago.

Hertz was originally a beautiful, pure aristocratic girl, and in the imperial capital of the Flying Eagle Empire, there were many people who liked this beautiful and pure girl, including John Townsend.

The Townsend family was a large family, and John's mother was from the Roman Empire and was also a nobleman, the daughter of a cardinal archbishop of the Roman Empire.

Although everyone received a higher education from the aristocracy, with the additional teaching of his mother, Townsend was better than the other aristocratic lads from an early age.

Elegant, dignified, polite, and proficient in swordsmanship, John Townsend defeated Hertz's other suitors and became her husband.

However, the nightmare of all this has just begun.

The Fawkes family has been found to be having an affair with a wizard, and even several of the main figures of his family are wizards!

Twenty years ago, the exclusion of wizards in the Eagle Empire reached a terrifying level, and not only because there were once mad wizards who spread viruses in towns and manipulated the undead in an attempt to subvert the supremacy of the royal family.

All the more so because the great prophet Messside predicted the king's death.

In short, the Fox family was uprooted because of the wizarding incident.

John Townsend, who had a promising future, lost his promising future because his wife was from the Fox family, was stripped of his first-class title, and left the imperial capital to the remote port of Buno.

A misshapen port where pirates, merchants, and navies coexisted, foreshadowing the former misaligned relationship between John Townsend and Hertz Fox.

They are husband and wife, but Hertz Fox is a descendant of wizards, while John Townsend is descended from the cardinal archbishops of the Roman Empire.

Despite this, John Townsend still loved Hertz very much, and she was willing to leave the imperial capital and family for her, and she was willing to give up her title for her and become an ordinary baron.

It's just that when Margaret was born, everything changed.

Townsend discovers that the woman he had lived with for two years, this elegant and noble woman, turned out to be a witch.

Hertz has a dilapidated warehouse outside the manor, with an evil dark basement underneath it. She intended to be there, for her daughter Margaret to enlighten the spirit.

Hertz wants revenge, and her family is captured by the royal family, burned at the stake in the streets, and burned alive, so she hopes to raise a powerful wizard who can overthrow the rule of the Eagle royal family.

Overthrow the tyrannical ruler and leave a way for the wizard to live.

However, during the ritual, a strong wave of darkness awakened the sleeping Townsend, and Townsend found that his wife was missing, so he followed the dark force to the basement.

The truth of everything was brought to the table without concealment.

Hertz has been a witch since she was a child, and she was able to attract the love of so many people, and because of witchcraft, she chose John Townsend because of the strength of the Townsend family.

It's just a pity that after the Fox family was exposed, John Townsend was also affected.

If it were all that, Baron Townsend wouldn't have done anything, he knew from the beginning that Hertz Fox was a wizard because he loved this woman, and he wanted to be with her even if she was an evil witch.

Baron Townsend disrupts the ceremony, holding a frightened and weeping Margaret in his arms, and he convinces Hertz to forget who she is, to stay away from evil witchcraft, and to be an ordinary noble lady.

Hertz turned down Townsend.

The Fox family's witchcraft comes from an ancient human skin, which is the contents of a treasure chest that an old captain salvaged in the Central Sea, and the people of the Fox family got the treasure chest and also got the witchcraft.

The soul witchcraft of the Aztec civilization, a mysterious civilization from the Central Sea, but the Fawkes family did not get it completely, so there were certain side effects.

Second personality.

The cultivation of soul witchcraft requires borrowing a large number of human souls, evil souls, and pure souls...... The people chosen by the Fox family to study witchcraft produced a second personality after coming into contact with a large number of souls and conducting countless evil experiments.

Hertz also has a second personality, and when she witnesses all of her family struggling to burn to death in the flames, her second personality becomes the main personality.

However, because of Baron Townsend's comfort and care, Hertz's second personality was hidden again and never shown.

Until then—

In order to disrupt the ritual, Baron Townsend used the divine power inherited from his mother to defeat Hertz.

Only then did Hertz realize that John Townsend, who had been with him all along, was actually one of the Demon Hunters.

The Demon Hunter is a special squad of wizards hunted by the Flying Eagle Empire.

In fact, it was precisely because of Townsend's identity, and it was precisely because Baron Townsend concealed Hertz's identity that Hertz was not burned together.

However, Hertz didn't care, her only thought was that Townsend had deceived him, he was a witcher!

Her family, maybe Townsend took them and tied them to the gallows.

Hertz went mad, the second personality completely took over her body, and she turned into a crazy witch.

Hertz cursed Margaret, leaving her with a curse mark, and the second personality in the mark will constantly change Margaret, making her an evil witch who only wants revenge.

Hertz also cursed Townsend and gradually sealed his divine power, and Townsend had not recovered his strength for so many years because he was unwilling to face it.

It wasn't until Margaret was taken captive that Townsend sought help from the family and regained his strength, but for a year, he had not been able to find out about Zack.

Hertz Fox, on the other hand, did not escape, as she was captured by the agony Baron Townsend and handed over to the Empire.

Because in the past two years, Hertz has killed many innocent people for the sake of his soul.

In the end, Hertz was burned at the stake and burned alive in full view.

Her body and filthy soul were finally purified in the flames.

......

Baron Townsend stroked the cover of the book, looked at the portrait of Hertz, and smiled wistfully.