584 – 7. Jealousy is my strength (84)
The Archwitch was chasing a shadow.
The puppets, disappearing and reappearing among the lush bushes, had familiar outlines. Even if it’s not possible, it’s the shape of a strong relationship that I’ve known for hundreds of years.
How could I forget?
At one time, it was a family that shared blood. It only took a few years for the family’s respect and expectations to fall apart.
Until the world realizes the archwitch’s talent.
The barrier distorts time and space. As the Archwitch passed through the distorted space, the scattered light reproduced a longing voice.
It is a scene that even the Archwitch remembers.
When I was young, someone was embracing my immature and blunt self. The silver-haired woman stroked her archwitch’s head in silence.
Even so, the archwitch didn’t respond much. She only sucked on the lollipop in her mouth.
Kind advice shakes the calm scenery.
“You skipped studying today too. Don’t you like your magic master that much?”
The girl doesn’t answer. As if her woman was cute even in her sullen appearance, she lightly pinched the girl’s cheek.
“Is it too easy?”
“…… Any.”
“You have to do it anyway.”
With her calm tone, the woman again rebuked her girl.
“Because that’s noble. Sometimes it seems futile, but there are things that must be done.”
Her warm hand lands like a bird on the girl’s shoulder. The girl was still avoiding her gaze.
She probably wasn’t particularly offended.
“You will become the pillar of our family. You are a genius… Should I protect this sister by her side even later?”
Yeah, I should have.
The Archwitch’s hands began to make complex hand signs. A pure white magic circle unfolded around her hand, which drew several symbols in succession.
‘I’m fed up with this kind of dream now.’
A brief explosion, like a dream, came from afar. Another memory awaited before the Great Witch, who had escaped through the cracks in her glass-shattered space.
The girl on the podium was cheered by everyone. It was a sight I was all too familiar with.
A genius is such a being.
Receive all admiration and attention in one body. Just for the reason that he was born that way, he tramples on the perpetrator’s efforts as if nothing is wrong and stands at the top.
For some reason though.
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The girl was not very happy. She probably thought it was because her heart was haunted by her sister, who had left for an unlit corner.
Not too long ago, all these tributes belonged to her sister.
Now I was standing in the crowd, not on the stage, receiving a soulless celebration. When she heard the news of the birth of Dongryang in her family, the woman smiled softly as always.
“She was a gifted child from childhood. The wizard who was invited to teach that child suffered so much… Fufu, I’m still happy. Even while I was doing research, I had a pillar to protect my family.”
Until then, there was warmth in the woman’s voice.
The warmth that the girl really liked.
But she was a young girl, and as much as she lived by her natural talent, she was ignorant of humans. There were enough circumstances for the girl to make the wrong decision.
Eavesdropping on her sister’s conversation, the girl made up her mind.
He promised to make her sister’s wish come true.
Then, wouldn’t it be possible to stroke her hair like before?
The Archwitch’s hands make a sign again.
A mocking voice echoed from somewhere.
“We got along really well, brother. They were sisters that everyone envied…….”
“Shut up.”
With a cynical short answer, another explosion erupted.
The Archwitch’s body now sinks to the ground. Her clothes fluttering in the wind made a shrill noise.
With the hat firmly pressed on, a silent landing.
I saw an empty wilderness before I knew it. Dozens of mirrors standing there were emitting colorful light, coloring the retina in various colors to make it dizzy.
Memories burrow into my brain again.
“I was less than 20 years old, and I was told I had already solved two puzzles.”
“The ‘vessel of soul’ and the ‘multi-element coexistence formula’… It won’t be long before our long-cherished wish comes true.”
The whispers were no longer unfamiliar. The only thing that puzzled the girl was her lady’s precarious smile.
It wasn’t the sweet smile she always had.
As if it would collapse at any moment, the face resembling a plate of thin ice was reflecting a slightly soggy emotion from the gap.
The whispering sound becomes harsher. Like a torrent, sweeping away the scenery in my memory.
“By the way, weren’t these two difficult issues the subject the next family head was researching? The problem I’ve been thinking about for the rest of my life has been solved in just a few years…….”
“My younger brother may be aiming for the position of the next head of household. What, wouldn’t it be a blessing for the family? The able man has everything… That is the rule of the South.”
“Then that child will have everything taken away.”
It was like a child throwing a stone at a frog.
Among those who talked like that, none of them were malicious. It was because there was not much interest in the other person to the extent of having such a heart.
Yes, this interest also belonged to her sister in the past.
That day everything started to change.
As the archwitch gritted her teeth, she concentrated her magical energy into her hands again. The flames roared with her crackling, bouncing and bouncing charges.
‘Multi-element simultaneous magic’.
It was a vision that allowed a single human to handle more than two elements. Hundreds of years ago, it was thought to be a difficult problem that would never be solved in the magical world, but it was also solved by a genius girl.
The great witch had a fishy laugh at the sight of her past.
“How many times have you ruminated on even this kind of memory? If I don’t do that, I’m afraid my vengeance will dull it?”
“Don’t get me wrong.”
The light sound of stepping on the soil.
A silver-haired woman with an alluring appearance stepped out from behind one of the dozens of mirrors. It was the object that illuminated the burns of her past in front of the great witch just before her.
‘Vampire’, Mine, who dominated the world, had a blunt face.
“This is a space that is no different from the inside of the ‘boundary’. Common sense and the laws of physics don’t work… The laws I can control are also extremely limited.”
“Then what are these memories?”
“Well, let’s call it the ‘intersection’ between you and me.”
The woman’s voice, which rolled her tongue as she took slow steps, resembled that of a bird.
In her childhood, her older sister whom the High Witch saw was also like this.
A dignified and benevolent nobleman.
She was a woman with a cool brain and a warm heart. She was like that, her older sister, why the hell did she fall so far?
Actually, even the Archwitch knew about it.
She knows that she is not free from that responsibility either.
Talent is a curse.
Because it took me so long to realize this, so I had to lose so much.
Of course, it was a past that could not be undone now.
“Just as the five elements circulate each other, people touch each other and create life. It shows the intersection of those ‘ties’.”
“I think we had good memories between us.”
“But it wasn’t those memories that made me who I am today. You know that too, don’t you?”
As the vampire puts his hands behind his back, a bonfire pops up in the air.
The bloody fireball looked ominous at first glance. In addition, even the blood puddle that gradually expands its area around the vampire.
At some point, dozens of mirrors had cracks.
The overflowing blood between them wets the ground. All these bloods will become the vampire’s faithful limbs.
It was an unfavorable condition for the Archwitch.
This was inside the vampire’s barrier, and the great witch couldn’t even take her body out. If the Great Witch summons her body, the vampire will also send her body out of the Great Forest’s barrier.
That would be the end.
The Southern Ten Kingdoms, who have not prepared for anything, will once again become a sea of fire, and if the unbridled monster decides to hide itself, the chase will become extremely difficult.
The Archwitch’s defeat was as expected.
Still, the great witch huuu her, catching her breath, and took out her smoking pipe with her remaining hand and asked. As the pure white smoke dispersed, drawing a cloud, the woman asked the strong bond.
“…… Did you know I was coming?”
“Of course, all of this was just the groundwork to attract you.”
The Archwitch chose her silence instead of answering. She just spit out the smoke from her cigarette, which she had inhaled deeply.
The vampire’s eyes were getting fiercer and fiercer.
“You are the only one who will recklessly pursue me, and the only one who can theoretically defeat me. I said, this place is a barrier made up of the five elements. If you want to kill me, you must know how to handle all five elements.”
“And am I the only one?”
“If even the legendary dragon doesn’t come back alive.”
The Great Witch smiled lightly and put away her smoke pipe.
It’s called ‘dragon’.
That was absolutely ridiculous. To put it in reverse, it must mean that the Archwitch’s propaganda is needed as much.
The Archwitch was the only person on the whole continent who could handle all five elements.
Of course, I wasn’t a vampire without knowing this.
“In other words, as long as I kill you, there is no one who can harm me. I will finally kill you and prove my existence.”
“An existence that can only be proven by others… It’s insignificant.”
“Then, how else can you prove it?”
The vampire gritted his teeth as he couldn’t hide his tearful expression at the end.
The color of the emotions flowing in his eyes was dark. The color of hatred, intense enough to make her sensational, was burning like a blue ember.
It is a grudge that has been harbored for hundreds of years.
That’s not going to be easy.
The archwitch let out a deep sigh and began wrapping her magic all over her body.
“You, you… You took everything from me! Only you can prove me After I knock you down, trample you, and kill you! Only then can I get ‘me’ back!”
“Again, what difference does killing me make?”
While doing so, the Archwitch pointed her index finger somewhere.
It was still a mirror with few cracks. Among the fragmented fragments of the place, there were parts that still reflected memories of the past.
A strong and kind woman.
Hundreds of years ago, she said there was a human the High Witch called her ‘her sister’ and followed.
“Your image, which was already so radiant, is no longer there! Look closely again, how lost you are now! Only a child whining mad with envy remains!”
“…… Shut up.”
“My dignified and generous sister is already dead!”
It was rare that he could not hide his excitement.
After raising her voice like that, the great witch put her hand on her forehead as if she was dizzy. Whoops, whoops. She took a few breaths before the Archwitch’s eyelids opened again.
With eyes full of deep fatigue and sorrow.
Facing that gaze, the silver-haired woman gritted her teeth. Her open hostility was aimed at the Archwitch like her blade.
Conversation?
I didn’t need it anymore. If it was a problem that could be solved that much, it would have been solved hundreds of years ago.
The Archwitch looked up at the sky in silence.
The world where everything except the wilderness was erased was unmatched in silence. A completely empty field without the sound of birds, the cautious steps of animals, or the sound of the wind.
Isn’t this an appropriate place for two beings who have lived for hundreds of years to be buried?
The woman chanted with a smile that did not know whether it was ridicule or accusation.
“You were waiting for me? What I wished for… Now, let’s finish.”
That’s the end of a short peace.
It all started with the vampire’s advance.
With a snap, hundreds of awls rose from the pool of blood. One by one, the anticipation and hardness were unusual.
If thousands of troops were here, they would not have dared to oppose them.
However, the vampire’s opponents were not thousands of weak humans.
There are only three masters on the continent.
The one who saw the end of magic, and the godmother of the ten southern kingdoms.
The great archwitch silently clutched the orb of her lightning and the fire that swirled within her fist.
Then an explosion shook the earth and sky.
This was just the beginning of the transfers that will take place from now on. It was because the air began to crack around that blast.