In winter, the periphery of Storm Fort is basically unpopulated, and it is even more unlikely that a group of ragged women will appear. So the identity of this group of people can basically be determined, they are witches from Mont Saint-Michel.

"Alert!" Cassel shouted, and the Storm Knight immediately spread out in all directions, encircling the group of witches in front of him in a half-moon shape. In the face of Storm Knight's sudden move, the faces of several witches in front of him were visibly nervous, and they began to lean together, led by an older witch, who looked at Duke with a wary and hostile gaze.

"My lord, beware, they are witches. ”

Cassel stood in front of Duke and reminded him that as the traditional knights of this world, their minds are the same as ordinary people, and they think that witches are evil and terrifying. And all the soldiers, including Allen, didn't know about Duke's relationship with the Dark Witch Society, and they didn't know that these witches were found by Duke on his own initiative.

After all, dark mages have no obvious signs, and they are no different from ordinary mages other than their beliefs. And the witch Hera is also wearing a modified black court dress, which is essentially different from these witches in black robes, and it is normal for them not to know.

Hearing Cassel's reminder, Duke just smiled and said, "They are just a group of ordinary girls, as a heroic knight, would you be afraid of this group of weak women?"

"Of course not, but they are evil witches!"

When the group of witches heard Cassel's words, their faces began to show panic, after the Great Witch Hera sent a message saying that Stormcastle could shelter them and would become their future home. But why is it that everything in front of them is completely different, and this group of territorial soldiers still sees them as a symbol of evil?

"We're witches, but we've never done anything evil!"

One of the leading witches replied firmly, and she opened her arms to hold the other little witches behind her, and looked at Duke with her head stubbornly raised with her chest held up.

Before Duke could reply, he heard Cassel warn: "Lord Lord, witches represent disaster and curse, their arrival will definitely bring disaster to Stormcastle, it is better to arrest them and give them to the Holy See for trial." ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to be handed over to the Holy See, all the witches couldn't help but be frightened on their faces, and even the weak body of the witch who was the leader trembled slightly. It seems that the hunt and trial of the Holy See have brought great fear to them.

"Cassel, do you think witches must be evil and bring disaster?"

"Yes, they curse viciously, they spread terrible plagues, and I heard that even if they help people to heal their diseases, they are absorbing the life force of others. My lord, Stormcastle must stay away from those who have betrayed the gods. ”

When Cassel said this, almost all the Storm Knights felt the same way, this was already an inherent image of ordinary people under hundreds of years of propaganda by the Holy See. Although it sounds so ignorant, it is not surprising that it is under the control of the Holy See in the Middle Ages.

"Sister Rose, didn't the Great Witch of Hera say that Stormcastle would accept us and make us our home?

A little witch couldn't help but cry in fright when she faced the tall knight, and she clung to the sleeve of the witch and cried out to her.

The witch named Rose did not know how to answer such a question, but she had received a message from Hera two days earlier, and she had led her little sister to dream of being able to get out of the cold snowy mountains and live the same peaceful life as before.

Unexpectedly, before they could reach the edge of Stormcastle to contact the Great Witch of Hera, they ran into the Lord of Stormcastle and his knights. And it is completely different from the image of the lord in the letter, his knights obviously discriminate and dislike witches like ordinary people, and want to hand them over to the Holy See for trial, is it true that the Great Witch of Hera was deceived by the lord?

"Leah, I won't let them hurt you, we're not evil devils!"

Rose gritted her teeth in reply, and then saw a strange white light suddenly appear from her, and Duke began to feel a strange distortion of the light in front of her.

Was it a witch's spell?'s face was full of surprise, he had only seen Gandalf's magic, and he had never known what a witch's spell looked like, because neither Hera nor Nicole had shown any magical abilities.

"Protect the lord!" Cassel shouted, then held up his knight's shield in front of Duke. At the same time, the other storm knights immediately drew their swords, ready to urge their horses to charge towards the witch.

This kind of mutation in front of him is completely out of Duke's control, and he was more of an understanding mentality before, wanting to see how far the real contact between ordinary people and witches in this world is. Therefore, there is no immediate attempt to stop the conflict between them, and there is no explanation for the witch's misunderstanding of herself.

As a result, he didn't expect that this witch called Rose would be so fierce and dare to use magic attacks in the face of so many threats from Storm Knights. And Cassel's hostility towards witches also exceeded his expectations, because in Duke's eyes, these are just a group of ordinary girls, and they have nothing to do with the so-called devil at all.

But Cassel and the others really put this group of witches in the position of demons and regarded them as enemies, so as soon as they saw that the witches showed signs of using magic, they immediately prepared to attack.

Naturally, Duke can't continue to escalate the situation, and if there are any casualties, there will be a gap between the Dark Witch Witch and the Storm Legion that will be difficult to bridge. Whether it is a witch or a knight, it will be the cornerstone of Stormcastle's future, and this kind of self-destruction of the Great Wall must not happen.

"Stop, Storm Knight stand by!"

Duke immediately shouted to stop him, preventing Storm Knight from charging, because once the horse sprinted, it was not so easy to stop.

Hearing Duke's order, the Storm Knights, who had been urging the war horses, instinctively grabbed the reins and stopped the war horses from sprinting forward. But Rose's magic would not stop because of Duke's stopping, and the distortion of light in front of him became more and more obvious, like a broken mirror, and Duke couldn't see Rose clearly.

The process was very fast, only a second or two at most, and the figure of Rose suddenly disappeared from the void in front of her. Just when Duke couldn't believe his eyes, he felt a metallic chill around his neck, and Rose didn't know when she was already sitting behind him, holding a small dagger to her neck.