Chapter VIII: Compulsory Enforcement
"So, Miss Summer Night, I might as well tell you what we're going to do next:
"If you want to resist, we will first deprive you of your ability to resist, and then limit your ability to move in case you escape or something else happens;
"Next, I'm going to use the powers conferred by the contract called 'Malbus' and the true eye to probe the magic in you, as well as all the contracts you've made with other people and with yourself in the past three years, to see if you're truly bankrupt.
"If you are not bankrupt, then rest assured that we will not pose any threat to your life, and will only use some necessary means to remove the magic of 120 Moles from your body and return it to Miss Lilian.
"But if you're already bankrupt, sorry, you're going to go into liquidation, and first we're going to stole all the magic out of your body â and you'll die in the process; Then, we will take out the cup inside you and the witch contract on your body, count the belongings you have left behind, and sell them all for magic; Finally, after the priority is given to the return of Miss Lillian's 120 Mora, we will notify the other creditors of the remainder and distribute them as required by the relevant provisions of the Law of Obligations â of course, we will also be able to charge a small fee during the distribution process. â
"That's all I have to tell you, Miss Summer Night."
After speaking, the black-haired witch raised the metal staff in her hand, held it horizontally in front of her chest, and posed as she was ready to fight; The companions on either side of her followed suit.
Xia Ye remembered that the short staff they were holding was a broom more than a meter long at first, but after the transformation, it was only a foot long, and now it seems that in addition to riding, it seems that it is still used as a weapon?
"What's that? Staffs? She asked
"I've answered your last question." The black-haired witch said coldly.
"Okay, okay." Summer Night shook the triangular hood up and down, "Give me a little time to think about it, just a few minutes." â
The other party acquiesced.
And so it was...... Summer Night thought silently.
Insolvency means bankruptcy, and after bankruptcy, assets need to be frozen, counted, disposed of, and then repaid to creditors to the greatest extent.
- These practices are not new to Summer Night, in the world before the crossing, everyone did the same, and even Summer Night has engaged in related work.
But here's the problem: in this world, money is magic, and magic is necessary for witches to survive.
In that original world, even if a person was penniless, his heart would not stop beating immediately; But here, if a witch is stripped of her magical powers, she will die immediately.
It can be said that the phrase "people die without money" has been most perfectly and literally embodied in this world.
And that's not even the most brutal.
In Xia Ye's view, what surprised her the most was that "bankruptcy" was equivalent to death.
In the original world, if a company was insolvent, or if a person was insolvent, it would go bankrupt, and after bankruptcy, someone would count and dispose of the remaining assets to pay off the debts of creditors.
But in the final analysis, this is all about the disposal of things outside the body, and it will not involve the bankrupt himself.
In this world, money is magic, and the value measurement of all commodities is also magic, and if a witch is "bankrupt", or insolvent, it means that she no longer has a positive number of magic in law, that is, she is legally dead.
Summer Night is well aware that in a well-functioning society, if a person is legally condemned to death, then she is not far from true death.
No wonder the way Lillian looked at her at that time, it suddenly looked like she was looking at a dead person.
And the post-bankruptcy disposal is obviously a process that physiologically kills the bankrupt.
Just as the black-haired witch told her, the magic in the bankrupt body will be forcibly scavenged, and even the cups and contracts will be taken out of the body, and after doing these things, the bankrupt will obviously only have death.
It's good, it's hardcore, and it doesn't seem like it's a weak witch world.
Thinking of this, Xia Ye's heart was a little inexplicably excited.
Of course, she would not let the other party loot her delicate and beautiful body, and besides, if the other party saw her empty cup, he would only arrest her as a monster and dissect it.
Therefore, she is ready to test her other conjecture, and if she guesses correctly, the solution to the problem at hand may be surprisingly simple.
- First of all, you need to overdraw 2400 moars of mana.
Summer Night focused on the "cup" between her chest and abdomen, and from the empty cup, she pulled out a large piece of magic out of thin air, controlling it to flow through her fingertips and infuse the crystal that sealed the "Rift" contract.
At the same time, she whispered in witch script:
âQ-d-S-â
The black rune in the crystal suddenly vanished, and at the same time an identical rune appeared in the middle of the summer night's back, at the level of the shoulder blades.
The shape of the runes is asymmetrical, with a complex curve on the right outlining a mirror-flipped "C" shape, and on the left a S-shaped curve with a pointed end that resembles a succubus's tail.
This is the first time she has signed a witch contract since she crossed into this world, and a strong burning sensation appeared, as if a soldering iron was pressed against her skin, making her slender back tremble like an electric shock, if it wasn't for Xia Ye's desperate resistance, I'm afraid she would have screamed.
Immediately after, something seemed to emerge from the extreme depths below, using runes as an entrance, penetrating Xia Ye's body, and she couldn't help but look down at her "head", however, she saw nothing except the floor and her own white silk feet.
The sensation soon ended, the burning sensation quickly subsided, and the presence that had penetrated into the body faded away. Instead, Summer Night discovers that she has learned a magic and knows about it.
She can already use the "Rift". According to the terms of the contract, it can be used twice every 30 performance days.
The black-haired witch was the first to find the clue.
"Do it!"
She let out a low cry and rushed decisively towards the summer night, while reciting the witch's text in her mouth.
Her two companions were only a moment late, and then they also uttered the syllables of the witch's language.
But Summer Night had already signed the contract, and she spoke almost at the same time as her opponent, reciting the witch characters needed to cast Rift.
âL-v-â -s-L-â -s-m-d-SīŧQ-d-S-â
The moment the last syllable was uttered, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
Immediately after, a crack more than three meters long, above the heads of the four people, opened silently, the crack was pitch black, as if it was just an empty void, but the summer night inexplicably felt that there seemed to be something entrenched in it, which was radiating its terrifying and strange aura to the world through the rift.