Chapter 2: The Witch's Feast
"You only need to sign a contract with me to become a demon fallen, get a ticket to participate in the witch's feast, and directly get a promotion and a salary increase to marry Bai Fumei, and reach the peak of your life......
All you need to do is follow my prompts, and it doesn't cost you a penny. ”
Why is this tone so similar to the scam calls you usually receive......
Charlotte was suspicious, and then the magic guide in front of her popped up a message:
"The Sophia Kingdom Anti-Fraud Center reminds you that you are now at risk of being tricked into signing a contract by a witch."
"In recent years, there has been a high incidence of similar pig killing scams, and there have been 99,999 victims ...... so far."
The message came to an abrupt halt halfway through, and there was a noise of snowflakes on the screen, apparently the witch had interfered with the signal with her strength.
The witch's feast mentioned in the witch's mouth, Charlotte had heard of before.
It is a ranked game organized and run by the Witch Council, which takes place regularly on the night of a blood moon.
The demon degenerate, who has signed a contract with the witch, leads a team of witches carefully cultivated under his command to compete and conquer each other.
Wealth, status, notoriety, divine power, eternal life......
As long as the participants can achieve a higher ranking, these worldly greeds can be fulfilled by the Witch Council with the divine power left by Goddess Myra in the world, and countless villains and heroes are eager to follow.
Because of the serious threat to the order of the world by the witch ranking, the Herthis Pope State, where the Holy See of Thea is located, united with the Sophia Kingdom and other countries on the continent, has organized the army of the Chosen One many times to launch a crusade against the Witch Council.
However, the Witch Council is like a hundred-legged worm, dead but not stiff, and the holding of the witch's feast has never been affected.
And many of the "Crown Witches" at the top of the witch ranking are terrifying existences that can kill the Chosen below Sequence 3 in the crusade.
Charlotte was born in Yerba Grass and was educated as a priest since she was a child, and witches are untouchable and taboo beings.
And I really think he hasn't seen the magical girl anime.,There's no good guy who bewitches the contract.。
Seeing Charlotte's delay in answering, the witch in the cocoon explained:
"Not all witches kill innocents indiscriminately, and many rumors about us in the world are rumors, fake news made up by priests.
In addition, after signing a contract with a witch to become a demon fallen, you can regain your ability to fight. However, it is not just the sequence upgrade route of the ordinary Chosen One. ”
Charlotte asked, "How different is it from the practice of ordinary Chosen People?" ”
"It's just a little bit ......"
"What does it cost to sign a contract?"
"Ahem, that's not important."
"Why did you find me?"
"It must be a special fate......
He sneered: "Miss, I think you should ask another master......
Charlotte wanted to kick the other person's thoughts out of her mind, but the other party squeezed in again.
"Okay, in fact, I said at the beginning, sir, you are a very rare demon demon holy body, and you have a very high synchronization rate and adaptability with the witch, this kind of physique is simply born for the profession of demon fallen, suck~
It's still a while before I'm out of my cocoon, so please think about it. ”
The witch's voice disappeared, and Charlotte calmed down and thought for a moment.
According to his understanding, in this other world, there are two ways to change fate, one is reincarnation, and the other is the aether test.
So his current situation, not to mention that he has been a family for many years, can also be regarded as a cow and horse for life.
Even if he wants to be a farmer in peace in the future, will the nobles who ride on the heads of the poor people let him go?
Even a small mounted police captain can easily get 30 copper coins from him......
Being able to obtain the ability to practice the sequence is undoubtedly a huge temptation, and the witch is really a demagogic existence......
"Lift your spirits to me, we don't know how many cocoons we will have to deal with before the next witch feast."
Captain Daniel's scolding came from outside the window again.
It's not the first time that the Mounted Police have been on a mission to deal with the witch's cocoon, but the sharp-minded Charlotte still senses that the situation today is different.
In addition to the six temporary guards and carriage drivers who are responsible for carrying the cocoon, there is only Daniel as a member of the Mounted Police Regiment in today's mission, is his combat power a little less?
However, Daniel is a squad leader level figure after all, and maybe he is confident enough in his own strength.
"How's it going in the carriage?" Daniel continued.
From just now, he was faintly aware of an abnormal flow of magic in the carriage.
However, no one in the car responded, and everyone didn't want to be the first to be fined.
Daniel's forehead throbbed.
"That Muggle named Charlotte, I'll allow you to look me in the eye for a short time and answer my questions."
Charlotte lifted the curtains and looked as usual:
"All is fine, sir."
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he observed his surroundings out of the corner of his eye, and found that the carriage had entered the Leiden Forest in the north of town.
Daniel took out the magic guide again, and snapped it a few times.
Soon, the other guards in the carriage received the news that they had been fined 30 copper coins, and the fine was given for not obeying orders.
"I'm going to the altar soon, so be smart."
There was surprise and anger on the faces of each of the makeshift guards, what did they want if they couldn't look at him, they couldn't look at him, they couldn't look at him?
Only then did they realize that Daniel was determined to find a reason to scavenge the oil and water of their temporary workers.
But that anger was quickly suppressed.
Even if the other party is just a small mounted police captain, he is also the Chosen One of Sequence 9, and pinching them to death is no different from stepping on them.
In this world, it's good for ordinary Muggles to survive, where do they dare to ask for such a thing as justice?
A moment later, the carriage came to the foot of the hill where the altar was located. By this time, the sun had completely set, and a crescent moon was rising from the canopy in the distance.
In the moonlight, an altar made of white jade came into view.
The altar is usually dedicated to Thea, the goddess of the sun, the creator god of Diria, and directly north of the altar stands an intricately carved statue of the goddess.
A staircase leads directly from the foot of the hill to the top of the altar.
At Daniel's orders, the crowd began to move the witch's cocoon towards the altar.
"Lord Daniel, do you need me to go up too?" The coachman asked with a smile on his face.
The surrounding makeshift guards scoffed at the coachman's incrimination and cast contemptuous glances.
Daniel pushed the other party directly and roughly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Wait for me here." ”
The group followed Daniel up the stone steps to the top of the altar and placed the witch's cocoon on the six-pointed star circle in the center of the altar.
The witch's mind entered Charlotte's mind again.
"Woo woo, Mr. Charlotte...... How about it, signing a contract with you later is my last chance......"
"Since your magic is strong, you can't just break out of the cocoon and escape, why bother to sign a contract?"
"It seems that you don't know much about our business, if the witch breaks out of the cocoon and does not sign a contract with others in time, she will soon lose her strength and die, or become a "degenerate seed" who has lost herself. Before me, there were already many sisters ......"
As she spoke, the witch's tone gradually deepened, as if she remembered the unbearable past.
Charlotte had heard that knights around the world were cleaning up the cocoons of witches that had been discovered, and less than one in ten witches had survived, and it seemed that the witches were also very introverted.
Suddenly, Daniel raised his hand to drive the power of the ether, activating the circle of the Thea altar, and the mental connection between Charlotte and the witch was interrupted.
Pale blue light soon covered the entire circle.
Smack!
The witch's cocoon was completely shattered by the power of the circle.
A blazing red light burst out, and in the scattered fragments of the giant cocoon, the witch in the cocoon appeared in front of everyone.
The girl was about eighteen years old, and her long golden shawl hair shone faintly in the moonlight. In the middle of the top of the head, the slightly curved gray hair stands proudly and flutters in the wind.
She has a goose egg face as delicate as a porcelain doll, blown-tearable skin, and a small cherry mouth that is slightly open. In the red pupils of the water spirit, a deep and bottomless light was revealed.
The girl is petite, fair-skinned, wearing a black and red Gothic battle skirt, stepping on a pair of small leather shoes, white and slender legs, and wearing a pair of slightly transparent over-the-knee black stockings.
The most striking thing is the giant long-handled scythe behind her back, which is completely inconsistent with the proportions of her petite body, and is very visually tense.
After the witch appeared, in the face of so many gazes, her face showed a little shyness, and she began to timidly read the lines on the stage:
"Fool...... O foolish beings, I am Elijah Stair, the witch of judgment."
"Pardon you is under the moon, waiting for me to come to the Holy Seat."
At this time, the surrounding temporary guards were stunned, the image of the witch was completely different from the rumored hideous appearance.
"This ...... Is it really a witch? It's a human girl. ”
"And pretty cute......"
At this time, Charlotte was also in shock, because the girl in front of her was a little familiar......
On that night of sudden death overtime, he was working on the design of the new card pool female character.
And Ilya is his design work.
I still remember that he was discussing with the concept designer what kind of new character he should make, and neither of them had any ideas.
At this moment, the art guy who was discussing with him half-jokingly said:
"You just design your ideal paper man's wife."
Charlotte's mind immediately flashed through the images of many wives in anime and games.
Although as the saying goes, an otaku's wife changes every three months, the wives he likes still have a lot in common, so Charlotte distilled these commonalities and wrote the original design of Elijah......
Now seeing the paper man's wife who he designed with his own hands appear in front of him as a living person, this sense of shock is incomprehensible.
At this time, Daniel took the lead in attacking, and before the other party could finish reading the lines, he stretched out his arm and grabbed Elijah's neck, directly lifting her into the air like a rabbit.
"Hmm, cough cough cough ......"
Ilya pulled desperately with her small hands, trying to break the other party's clamp, but to no avail.
The corners of Daniel's mouth curled: "As expected, the strength of the cocoon-breaking witch who has not signed a contract is much lower than the normal level." ”
Charlotte's expression was awe-inspiring, and her nameless anger and endless courage came from the bottom of her heart.
"Let her go!"
He let out a deep sigh and rushed towards Daniel as fast as he could.