Chapter 316

And failed to break the snow demon's ice wall.

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"Tsk. If...if it was me a few months ago, she wouldn't have made it this far."

Sitting in front of the pastor's service desk of the Adventurer's Association, Leah bared her arm and complained.

Although she also needed to be healed, her injuries were almost negligible compared to her teammates who "invited" her to lie on the bed with the ice on their bodies not melted.

"This...this little girl, please don't move. Frostbite requires continuous treatment..."

"Who are you talking about? I'm probably...probably older than your grandmother."

Leah's tone was a little excited in the first half of the sentence, and she softened a little in the second half.

"That...is...is it Teacher Leah?"

At the frostbite rescue station of the Adventurer's Association, Hunter, who was also injured, saw what he had guessed long ago...the witch lady who was his teacher at Entak College.

Although she now seemed much "softer" than when she was their class teacher just now, and was no longer the professor with strange whereabouts.

At school at that time, he was Will's younger brother. Naturally... Leah is Will's mentor, and he has noticed the unusual relationship between her and Will.

But...

Leah is obviously not in Will's adventure team now, and Will is not around either - he seems to have disappeared from this world since some time. Even the royal family never mentioned his existence after announcing the postponement of the wedding.

And...

She had two rings on her right ring finger, which was a bit weird.

"I thought... I thought Teacher Leah had formed a team with Brother Will, and now it should be..."

Whoosh.

Leah picked up the staff and pointed it at Hunter's head.

The flame was already flickering at the tip of her staff.

Her blood-red eyes were filled with anger, sadness, and resentment.

This expression was even more terrifying than the madness of suppressing the snow demon with firepower before, and the look in her eyes seemed to want to eat him.

"Now I should... I should live a happy life with you."

Hunter's eyes and body were not enough to react to Leah's murderous staff, so he finished the second half of the sentence.

"... Sorry. You shouldn't say that name."

Liya didn't say much, and glanced at the pastor who was healing her. Now the pastor was also scared.

But it was her glare that made the pastor intensify the treatment in her hands and dare not neglect it.

"No, it's okay, so Will... he should have some purpose, so he let you stay in the cradle, after all, he..."

"He's dead."

Hunter seemed to understand where the terror in Leah came from.

She is now... very, very persistent, very, very obsessed, and very, very regretful.

So, no one can stop her.

"I will definitely defeat the Snow Woman of the Ice Abyss of Doom."

"I will definitely twist her head off."

"I will definitely complete... Mission 513."

...

"What kind of witch is the most terrifying?"

"The lamb said it was a witch who didn't eat enough, and its parents were spinning on her grill."

"The bird said it was a witch who didn't sleep well, and its sister became charcoal at her door."

"The fox said it was an angry witch, and its child fell into the eternal flames just because he stole her fruit."

"Only the prince of the fallen country said it was a witch whose lover died."

"Because she is always hungry, always sleeps poorly, and is always angry."

"More importantly, no one can control her anymore - not even the king can do it if he is alive."

"After all, no one can be crazier than a witch."

...

The bard finished singing a song with a hop and skip. In this town where there are real "witches", singing such a ghost nursery rhyme seems to be a bit of a waste of life.

But...

Adventurers nowadays are in a hurry. Even if he is riding on the current hottest popularity, few adventurers passing by will listen to the whole story, let alone throw a few cents into his hat.

Except...

Ping-pong.

His only listener, who hides himself completely under a black hood and wears a black mask, is even more weird than this story.

He didn't even squat, raised his hand, and coins fell from his fingertips into the plate.

"Okay, okay, thank you, my distinguished guest. Do you want another song?"

"No. I just want to tell you..."

His voice didn't sound loud, but the dress that covered his entire appearance and the tattered and dirty adventure clothes really didn't look like a freshly graduated student.

It made his identity a little difficult to guess.

"A witch whose lover died isn't that scary."

The poet seemed to hear from behind his mask

"Rather, what we can see is quite cute in many ways."

"That won't do!"

The bard has always been persistent in writing horror nursery rhymes.

"The most important thing about this rhyme is the horror brought by the witch's love, the combination of love and madness... Do you understand? You definitely don't understand..."

The bard raised his head, only to find that the man disappeared after speaking. He didn't even notice how he left.

as well as……

The coins he gave.

Every one... is a counterfeit coin!

Printed on them are the faces of witches in big hats!

Chapter 352 A familiar coin

Two days later.

In the battle conference room of the cage——

"So, even if you have the witch's flame, you can't break that thing at all!"

"Try again? After all, we didn't even give the witch any help, no support at all!"

"That's not because you are too good at it."

"Our food? It's obvious that you didn't even open your shield!"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing. If we change the method of fighting again..."

…

"It's so boring to be arguing just because of these things."

Leah didn't even sit at their conference table. She just set up a chair outside the conference table, closest to the fireplace, and then sat on the chair, clasping her hands, listening to their words with one ear and eyes. Then he looked at the notebook in his hand.

On the notebook is the "mission" that Will gave her.

[Mission 513: Magic that can break the high-level snow girl’s ice wall. (Note: Maybe we should start with the ancient magic related to the Candle of Creation? But too many of these magics have been lost, and I don’t know if they can all be found)]

The future that Will wrote to her was not only about completing the "Candle of Creation", which was her lifelong pursuit... or even the lifelong pursuit of witch researchers of all flame-based magic.

There are also...

For some reason, he was particularly determined to defeat Yuki-onna.

Maybe in the future he saw, she and a certain "snow girl" who seemed to be particularly powerful were some kind of mortal enemies connected to each other, right? Only by defeating the monster of fate could she realize her long-cherished wish and survive the disaster successfully.

"The result... did not go well."

The sound of her current teammate - the tool she used to reach the Yuki-onna's level - became smaller and smaller in Leia's ears, and she was suddenly immersed in her own world.

She could feel the slight cold sting on her right arm, which was accidentally rubbed by the ice spear shot by the snow girl.

certainly……

What's more important is...

Even if she has walked out of the witch's lair, even if she has begun to face the most powerful enemy, even if she has ignited her fighting spirit, even if she has reached a critical moment when she will be injured...

"Still as lifeless..."

She opened her hand and gently lit a beam of fire, then slowly closed her hand and extinguished it. For her, this is the most common way to feel her own magic circuit - which means using a little low-level magic.

She also couldn't feel any extra "passion" inside the circuit. The only thing that could make her fluctuate a little was...

It's just the mission written on the note.

She would only feel a little motivated when she thought about breaking through that wall.

She raised her head and looked at the "S-level" team she was currently in.

Really, it is not as good as the "Qiming Star" of the year. There was no discipline, no organization, no coordination. It was obviously a team of seven or eight people, but after entering the dungeon, they didn't even have a planned position or formation.

Various adventurers who claim to be "S" or "A" level are only of this level on the surface, and their actual abilities are quite low.

What's even stranger is...

"Now that we have calculated it, the points we need to clear this dungeon are no longer cost-effective!"

"What's more, winter is over, right? Now in the dungeon with ice as its core, there are no winter clothing merchants willing to sponsor us."

"Don't mention it. As long as we can get from page one to page two of the leaderboard, it'll be worth it!"

…

Did she stay in the witch's lair for too long? I always feel that the current Adventurers Association is not only very "boring", but also filled with an inexplicable impetuous atmosphere.

At the summary meeting after a strategy failed, what everyone discussed was neither what they did wrong nor what could be improved based on the BOSS...

The discussion is about how to maximize benefits - not inside the dungeon, but outside the dungeon.

Even her, a "foreign aid" who usually accepted the commission, was unfortunately included in the price-performance ratio.

"well……"

Leah closed the book.

She couldn't bear it.

After walking outside from the witch's lair, leaving the group of at least relatively "pure" witches, and having to deal with adventurers, she discovered that she wasn't just inseparable from Will.

She still can't stand it...

All the trivial things "outside of the mission" written by Will...

Only by devoting every minute and every second to every task he gave her and feeling the little bit of magic circuit restarting could she feel a little more comfortable.

Once upon a time, she remembered that when she first came into contact with the bloody peppermint essential oil, her desire and addiction to that thing was similar to how she feels now.

As long as there is no injection of bloody peppermint essential oil, there will be a "emptiness" of missing something.

So is she now...

He is constantly eager to experience that feeling again, so he continues to complete the tasks that Will has given him even if there is no "purpose" or "pursuit".

"Wait, where are you going? Although you are a foreign aid, our battle plan is..."