Since the number of tasks given by the tree father is three, then the person who has to wait will definitely come on the third time:
"Before that, let me mend Miss McConaughey's key."
Shade put the lazy cat on his lap, and then rummaged through the bottle of resin given by the priest. After explaining its effect, the young witch carefully took out the broken pieces of the key, and then pieced them together.
Draw the shape of a key.
Ms. Bullock cast a spell, causing the fragments to fly into the resin while maintaining the shape of the key.
"It will take about five minutes for the repair to be completed."
Shade put the lid back on the glass bottle and asked Miss McConaughey to keep it. The young witch carefully held the bottle in her arms, apparently not intending to let go before Shade announced that the time had come.
"I want to ask you something."
Shade said to Ms. Bullock again, lowering her voice slightly after she nodded to prevent Mr. Nelson and Miss McConaughey from hearing:
"I want to ask you about an ancient evil object. That evil object is already a relic, and it is the highest level relic - desire. Have you heard of it? It is said that it is the incarnation of the purest desire."
After he finished speaking, he glanced towards the black water, but it was obvious that the gods were standing on the boat. Even if Shade asked, the mermaid could not appear here.
The thirteenth-level candidate great witch was quite surprised:
"I know a relic that is very similar to what you are talking about, but why would you want to mention it? That thing has never appeared in its true form from the beginning of this era to the present, and the few incidents related to it have also
It's just the residual influence of its power."
"You put it this way, I am basically sure that we are talking about a relic. So do you know its origin? Or its weakness? I only know now that that thing has some connection with the God of Love [Lock of Hearts]
, it is also related to the source of the witch’s power, the ancient god [Chaos Witch].”
Ms. Bullock frowned deeply and looked at the young girl guarding the glass jar and the man opposite the bonfire:
"If I were not in a place like this, I would not talk to you about this kind of topic. First of all, I need to make a statement: it is not a god, and when talking about it in the book, I will not directly call you the name you mentioned.
Instead, it's called 'Mermaid'.
You can think that when you know its existence and actively mention that name, it can sense that you are mentioning it, and can even know the characteristics of your soul. Many Fourth Age documents have recorded that sometimes
Just mentioning this name will immediately make you emotionally infected and drive you crazy."
The bonfire illuminated Shade's face with a slightly stunned expression, which was even more exaggerated than the power it showed in the Sixth Age:
"So is there any way to check and balance it in the book?"
"I didn't write it, I just said don't have anything to do with it. Even if you do meet it, don't look at it, don't listen to it, don't think about it, let alone try to talk. Wait until it thinks you are a boring and rigid person, it will
There is a chance that I will let you go."
So when Shade met it under the Aurora mansion in Coldwater Port, his approach was already wrong.
"Can't the demigod witch suppress it?"
Shade asked again, but this time Ms. Bullock could not answer. After all, she was not a demigod, nor was she an official great witch with a seat.
The five-minute waiting time was a bit boring, and after chatting with Ms. Bullock for a few words, Shade approached Mr. Nelson again:
"I bet your wife will come soon. I am in a hurry this time. After sending you back, I will take advantage of the remaining time to take a boat to see my lover. So, can you tell me now, your wife
Why on earth would you come to a place like this?"
Shade had asked before, but Mr. Nelson just wouldn't say anything. But after hearing what he said now, the middle-aged man with a slovenly beard was finally willing to speak:
"My wife is just an ordinary person like me, but she is a member of a witch organization and does some clerical and accounting work."
Shade nodded understandingly:
"Obviously the salary is cheaper for ordinary people, and there is no need for witches to do the work. So, what happened to her? It can't be that she cheated on the witch during marriage, and then she felt sorry for you and the other person, so she wanted to leave.
This world, right?”
"No, of course not, and witches don't like women who marry men."
Mr. Nelson immediately denied it and was not angry at Shade's conjecture because the matter was more serious:
"People like you who have great power probably don't know that ordinary girls actually imagine that they have become a witch with eternal youth and amazing power since childhood, my wife."
"I need to correct that."
Ms. Bullock from the side interjected:
"Witches do not stay young forever. Although witches are also very powerful, most girls can only stay at the low level. Maybe it seems good to ordinary people, but in fact, most witches are only engaged in helping higher-level people.
High-level witches work as odd jobs, assistants, or run errands. The only difference between those low-level girls and ordinary women is that they can rub fireballs."
"Fireball rubbing" should refer to those relatively simple basic secret spells.
"I have reached this point not only through hard work but also luck. Miss McConaughey over there can meet a high-level witch who is willing to impart knowledge to her as a teacher. This is a good thing that ordinary witches can't even dream of.
.
I admit that witches do have great advantages over ordinary people, but don't think that life becomes simpler after becoming a witch.
After awakening your talent and becoming a witch, you still have to find a way to enter the witch academy. This requires you to find books to study by yourself, or go to a big city to attend a witch preparatory school. You will be crowded together with other girls in a small closed room and watch steam power.
In front of the combination blackboard, a middle-aged frustrated witch who came from nowhere stood on the floating board and talked about various boring topics.
Then there is the matter of enrolling in Witch Academy. The average number of times they have passed the exam now has exceeded five times. Most of them can only go to the kind of school where the dean can barely reach the advanced level, and even if they pass the exam, they will be admitted to the open admissions graduate school.
, and it cannot be compared with top universities like Zarath Academy, which can only rely on connections, talent and luck for one-on-one admissions."
Ms. Bullock climbed up from the bottom step by step and is quite familiar with the ecology and society of witches.
Mr. Nelson nodded. Of course he did not dare to refute what the high-level witch said:
"My wife is the kind of girl who has dreamed of becoming a witch since she was a child, but unfortunately she has no talent, nor does she have the kind of luck in the story where she met a strange person in a toy store and then awakened to become a witch."
This story seems familiar, and the story of Hope Town took place in 1068 of the Fifth Era, a thousand years before 2025.
"She maintained her desire to become a witch, and it wasn't until she was 26 that she admitted that she probably had no talent, so she married me. In the kingdom we live in, a girl who doesn't marry until she is 26 is already an old girl.
But fortunately, she loves me very much, and I love her very much. But I know that she still has a childhood wish in her heart. Joining the witch organization and becoming an ordinary staff member is probably related to her childhood wish."
He looked dejectedly at the bonfire in front of him and sighed deeply:
"I thought that since she married me, she should understand that she never wanted to become a witch, but I don't know if she really never gave up, or if she looked at the witches around her and picked up her desire again.
In short, after she joined that witch organization, she often went to observe the witches casting spells, and sometimes even secretly brought home the materials used by the witches to cast spells."
Ms. Bullock didn't speak this time. She almost understood.
Shade sighed softly:
"I can almost guess what's going to happen next. Please continue, haven't you advised your wife? Her behavior is very dangerous."
"I tried to persuade her, but I couldn't persuade her at all on this matter. I was worried at first, but it went on like this for several years and nothing happened, so I stopped talking to her.
About a year before I entered this dock, she came home from get off work one day and happily told me that after being assessed and approved, she could now do more critical work in the organization."
"What job?"
"Look after the warehouse. No, don't be so surprised. Of course it is not the witches' magic material warehouse, nor is it a library. It is just an ordinary item warehouse. Their organization also carries out some business for ordinary people, so there are also some common supplies."
"Speaking of which, what is the organization she joins? Is it a large organization?"
Miss McConaughey was also holding the jar and asked. Mr. Nelson shook his head:
"It's not big. There are only five or six branches in the Western Continent where we live. I don't know about the witch, but it is said that it can only be considered a medium-sized one. The Prophet Association, yes, that's the name."
Miss McConaughey shook her head and said that she had never heard of the "Prophet Society". She had traveled around the material world with her teacher before, but she had not lived in the Western Continent for too long.
Ms. Bullock, who was born in the Western Continent, has some impressions of this organization:
"Is it that organization composed of diviners? I heard that they have existed for a long time and their fortune-telling skills are pretty good. However, they are not very famous because they have never produced a thirteenth-level great witch."
The outsiders who lived in the era when the Prophet Association had become the largest ring warlock organization under the Zhengshen Church by selling "Rhodes Cards" nodded in surprise:
"I know something about the Prophet Association."
Even because Shade's lover Luvia also works in the association, he actually has a better impression of Mr. Nelson:
"So your wife looks after the divination supplies?"
"Yes, just ordinary divination supplies. Compasses, divination cards, pendulum pendants, and Ouija boards. It is said that in order to make money, they sometimes sell some marginal extraordinary items to ordinary people. This is illegal."