"Karon, you left the fortress without permission. If the Great Witch knows that you have left your post while you are on guard, and therefore let something go wrong with the fortress, do you take this responsibility?" The woman known as Jialun impatiently brushed the hair around her ear and looked up at the space above where the candle flame could not be reached. She took a deep breath and exhaled vigorously, as if inspired, and the candlesticks around Karen began to light up one by one, and the dark hall became brightly lit in a matter of seconds.

And in the bright light, a thin figure shrank up. Judging from her position, she is the one who questioned Jia Lun in the dark before. "Don't forget who is the two of us who is the manager of this fortress. It's better for me to be honest and keep my mouth shut. Otherwise," Garren said, removing the snake whip wrapped around his leg, and the heads of the three sea snakes immediately rose high and made a menacing voice at the black shadow.

The thin man stopped talking, and silently retreated beyond the candle flame. Seeing this, Jia Lun nodded in satisfaction, withdrew his weapon, and searched the hall for what he wanted to take. She quickly found them by the cold stone fireplace, they looked like some kind of long-handled iron seals, but the patterns on the bottom were incomplete, and the witch grabbed all four seals on the shelf, and turned and walked out of the hall. And as Karen walked away, the candles in the hall immediately dimmed, as if some monster that was terribly afraid of fire and light had impatiently extinguished them.

Outside the fortress, the mountain monster has returned to its original position. The poor child dragged by the witch still fell in the same place. Aside from a very inconspicuous puddle of water on the ground, there was nothing to prove that the two had interacted during the time that Karen had been in and out. And even if the proud witch strode out, she didn't pay much attention to the slightest inconspicuous mark on the ground. Karen demonstratively shook what she was holding at the mountain monster, then stitched it together according to the pattern at the bottom.

The four seals combine to form a mermaid figure that bears a resemblance to the bow of the Damned Lady. The witch approached the child on the ground and kicked the child over with her foot, causing him to turn his back up. "Be honored, as of today, you are the property of the Lost Heart Witches. Karen said, mercilessly pressing the seal on the child's back. "Wooh!" a puff of black smoke rose from the bottom of the seal, accompanied by a slight electric light, and even though he was on the verge of death, the child let out a silent wail in a sharp pain beyond common sense. But the gatekeeper who witnessed all this did not react, and still looked at everything that happened in front of him with cold eyes.

The black smoke cleared, and the rags that covered the child's back ended their mission once and for all, revealing the ugly scar on the emaciated back. After this cruel act, the witch happily pulled up the noose that was tied around the child's neck, and said to the mountain monster, "Now, I can take him in." ”

The heavily armored giant man bowed down and made a gesture of letting go amid the clash of armor. Garren lifted her chin triumphantly and dragged her booty into the fortress. The sunlight was obscured by the large dark clouds on the horizon, and the sea breeze began to gradually have a restless atmosphere, and the mountain monster rarely raised its head and looked in the direction of the seaside. Tsunami, coming. And what effect did the tsunami have on the boy just now? Although the janitor didn't know exactly what the witches were collecting the patients for, it was certainly not to cure them.

What would it be like inside the witch's fortress? It didn't matter to the child who woke up again, because he knew very well what he had come to the fortress for, just a sick chicken who had sold his body to the witch for a good meal. But curiosity was also in human nature, and at least in the outskirts of Heartless Bay, he had never seen such neatly made of stone bricks, which shimmered faintly in the candlelight, reminiscent of a moonlit beach. "It's like casting a star into stone. It was the best description he could think of.

At the same time, he also discovered another thing, and that was that the hunger and sickness that had been bothering him seemed to be suppressed by the light reflected by these strange rocks, and they still existed, but they were not as unacceptable as usual. "This stone chamber can relieve pain, but this relief is only a deception, those who should starve to death will still starve, and those who are gnawed by illness will still be devoured. At the end of the day, it's just a room full of deception. A weak female voice rang out from behind the candlelight. The child saw that a woman appeared there at some point. To be sure, she wasn't ugly, her nose and eyes were comfortable, but her dead body withered and weak felt uncomfortable, and it was difficult to appreciate her appearance.

So the boy was frightened, and he retreated in the opposite direction, and soon stuck to the stone wall. A cold, hard touch came from behind him, adding to his panic. The witch behind the candle looked at him calmly, with a slight pity in her eyes, but this pity was not for people, but for the way she looked at the little animals that were about to be slaughtered. And even such mercy did not last long in the witch's eyes, her gaze quickly became as cold as the gatekeeper, and she slowly spoke, "You said you want to have a full meal? So, if you don't hate me cooking food, come with me. ”

With that, the woman gently pushed open the door to the stone chamber, revealing the corridor behind it made of pitch-black masonry. "Have you healed my wounds?" said the child, plucking up his courage, before the witch walked out of the stone chamber, raising his right hand with a few strips of white cloth tied around it. It's just that the cloth strip bandaging technique is very rusty at first glance, but it is just barely trying to prevent the wound from worsening further. Not only the arms, but also the wounds that were dragged all the way back to the fortress by Jia Lun, the child's body was already covered with scars, and now those wounds have traces of being treated, except for the brand on the back, which is still faintly painful.

"You are already the property of the Witch Order, and life or death is not something you can decide on your own until the members of the Witch Order need you to die. So come on, come with me to the kitchen to settle your pay, and then what Karen wants to do to you is none of my business. ”

"Me, can I know your name? ”

The witch paused for a few seconds, as if hesitating whether to tell or which of her own names to tell the child, but at last she spoke, "Call me if you wish, Hela." ”