Chapter 1085 – #258_귀로(2) – DeepL
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1.
Gehenna is abuzz.
Sharon Evergreen was back, and she had great news.
“Hey, did you hear that?”
“I heard Baron Xinxiu did something big again?”
The first red-roofed salon.
The identity of this community of high-ranking witches could be summarized as patriotic.
They are proud to be citizens of Gehenna, but they are also very conservative and orthodox witches.
To them, the preemptive strike by the Lehar group of Hexenacht was an act of provocation that they would not resent.
So much so, in fact, that some have sought to retaliate in person, despite Duke Erelim’s urgings.
“A full-scale invasion, now that’s flirting.”
“They closed the gates?”
In the meantime, Baron Cynthius of Gehenna stepped up to the plate.
He walked right into the middle of the enemy and fed them big rice.
“This is no ordinary wall.”
“Honestly, I haven’t looked so good since the last Dandelion article, but this is …. baronial recognition!”
“I thought you were lying when you said you had 22 ranks, but is 22 ranks enough?”
“I know you’ve been doing some pretty crazy things, but this time you said that another witch helped you, so I’ll take it.”
“Oh, the…. Witch of the Acorn?”
The witches giggled at the news of good cider.
A smile tugged at the corners of my mouth, and my inner intimacy with Xin Xiu was building.
Sharon, who had just returned from closing the ‘door’, stood in front of Albireo.
“Ms. Sharon. You did a very risky job.”
“Hehe, it happened.”
Sharon may not be Count Zemernai’s handmaiden, but it’s true that she’s been assisting Xiu and her lovers in many ways.
Albireo, who was the first to hear the news from Sharon, looked a bit dazed.
When Dorothy dies and Xinxiu goes out with the lotus to save it, he feels his eyes glaze over.
Isn’t there a level to recklessness?
Sharon’s report of her son-in-law’s recklessness was unbelievable.
It was an unbelievable chain of events.
“It’s bad enough that he’s torn apart the Lehar group and the top of Solidus, and completely destroyed their relationship….”
Even with Leroux and Sharon’s help, it’s an unbelievable feat.
Moreover, according to Sharon, Xiu did most of the work alone.
I wonder if he’s the same horny son-in-law who made up for his lack of strength with his wits.
“Hehe, hehehe….”
“Miss Sharon…?”
Looking at the giggling Sharon, Albireo shook his head.
Even though he had returned with a victory, Xiu was still in a dangerous battlefield.
And yet, she laughed like that.
It didn’t feel like the kind of reaction he’d expect from someone so fragile.
Sharon rubbed her head and said shyly, “Actually, I have tinnitus.
“Actually, my tinnitus is kind of annoying.”
“…Oh, right.”
“The witches of Acorn seemed a little too out of place, to say the least….”
There are two types of titles in witch societies.
For example, if Amelia Marigold’s “Marigold” is her witch name, “Perfume Witch” is her tinnitus.
However, this name is not self-imposed.
It’s given to you by others, like an asterisk in a wuxia world.
Sharon’s real name was ‘Witch of the Five Elements’.
It’s a tinnitus with a nice ring to it.
However, after her epic laboratory defeat and being cast out of the world with a mountain of debt, Sharon’s name became the Acorn Witch.
It must have had some impact, because the acorns she caused to overgrow grew into a giant evergreen forest and wiped out an entire village.
It’s a bit like Paola Sochitl going from being the Witch of the Thousand to the Witch of Cowardice.
Of course, no one ever called her “Witch of the Acorns,” because that’s a name that’s meant to be laughed at, but….
“It’s been over a decade, don’t you think it’s a little too much for the Count?”
“…….”
Apparently that cute little name had become a complex of its own for Sharon.
“With such accomplishments, shouldn’t I have a proper name by now, like Witch of the Seals, or Witch of Heavenly Punishment, or Witch of the Five Elements, or something like that. Alas, whatever it is, I hope it’s not an acorn.”
Sharon balled her fists and snorted.
Okay, she got the gist of it, but Albireo still felt weird.
Even so, Sharon doesn’t seem too worried….
In fact, the plan is over, and Xinxiu is safe now?
Sensing the questioning stares, Sharon spoke first.
“I know he’ll come back safely.”
Albireo stood still and watched Sharon.
Despite his cheerful demeanor, he could see that she was about to bite her lip.
She must be anxious, but she can’t be relieved.
This is her way of cheering herself up.
Albireo looks at her and thinks, “Isn’t she a little immature?” and feels unnecessarily sorry for himself.
“You’re right, she is.”
Albireo, her former employer, pats Sharon on the back.
“Sis.”
Just then, the door burst open and Deneb, already white, walked in, even whiter.
“What’s going on?”
True to Sharon’s insistence, Siu had returned safely.
It had been less than two hours since Sharon had returned to Gehenna.
He had defeated Herja Valhirie, the leader of the Lehar group, and Lydia Magnus, the Witch of the Gold Coin.
2.
After defeating Lydia, Xiu returned to Gehenna, carrying an exhausted Lerue on his back.
He didn’t forget to retrieve Ye Jiang Mistiltein.
A glorious improvement to rejoice in.
You think you’ll find a warm welcome from your lovers and cheers from the witches of Gehenna, but….
The reality was more like a gutter.
As soon as I said a simple greeting to the lovers who must have been waiting anxiously for Xiu.
“Kuhhhh…! Guhhhhhh!”
Xiu coughed up blood and stumbled out of the hospital room.
The chills and fever wouldn’t stop.
The terrible pain and seizures of his magical circuits never let up.
There’s no way he could have recovered from so many injuries and so many battles with a single distortion.
It’s not like he’s an expert in healing magic.
All Xiu had done was temporarily distort the 100 damage his spirit body had taken into 10 damage.
It’s a trick of the eye.
There is homeostasis in this world.
The distortion can’t last forever, as long as there is a property to reverse the distortion.
Therefore, the remaining 90 damage would seep into Xiu’s body over time.
A normal witch would have died five times over, but the good news is that Yevin and Gretel, two of the best medical witches in their fields, were on standby.
Real-time control over lethal damage.
With on-the-fly healing as damage was fed back to them, they managed to stabilize my spirit body.
After saying goodbye to his anxiously awaiting lovers, he had a moment alone with Gretel.
“Bringing a living corpse back to life, I’m impressed.”
“I’ll give you a round of applause.”
“Not that, give me the money. There will be repercussions. We’ll have to wait and see, but no more fighting for now.”
“I’d like that.”
Now that I’m feeling better, I have an immediate problem to solve.
It’s not checking Lydia’s “inheritance.
Nor is it dealing with my newly acquired Ye Jiang Mystiltein.
The lotus that absorbed Lydia is at full capacity.
Dorothy’s resurrection is the most urgent need.
“I’ve studied the materials you gave me, and I’ve studied the dreaded Ye Jiang Lotus.”
“What do you think?”
When it comes to the spirit body and soul, there’s no one like Gretel.
Yi Yun wasn’t called the Spirit Witch for nothing.
“The lotus is twisted… I guess you could say it’s ‘axis’ has been twisted from its original use by the original owner, and I don’t know how to describe it in a way that makes sense.”
I felt my heart sink.
“In short, the resuscitated Dorothy will not be the Dorothy you know. It will look the same, but it will be ‘different’. It will be different, twisted.”
The original owner is Ea Sadalmeliq.
The Master told me of her horrific slaughter and her fondling of the lotus flower to perfect the Field of Fianna, a spell of infinite reincarnation.
Was all that suffering, all those trials, all that hard work, all for naught?
“…What would have happened without me.”
“What?”
“You spoke against me and threatened me before. This is my revenge.”
“…….”
Just as my head was starting to spin, Gretel spoke in a cheerful voice, as if Xiu’s reaction was a pout.
“I can build the ‘archetype,’ but the lotus would be crushed if I used it as an archetype, and forcing it to correct its already warped axis would put a lot of strain on the artifact.”
“That means….”
“It can be revived, just like it was meant to be. Well, there will be some side effects to the resuscitation process.”
“And what are those side effects?”
“Well, that’s….”
3.
Dorothy, holding Xiu tightly in her arms, suddenly felt uncomfortable.
In her sleep, in her tiredness, in her lethargy, in her weakness, she didn’t recognize it.
Dorothy is a tall woman by nature.
But even if she didn’t wear heels, the gap between their gazes was a different height than usual.
“By the way. You look like you’ve gotten a little taller, darling.”
“Is that so? How big do you think I’ve gotten?”
Xiu smiles mischievously with a conspiratorial smile.
He looks like he’s hiding something.
“Let’s see~ What are you hiding? You haven’t gotten so big because you met a lovely cow after a long time, have you?”
Then Dorothy, who can’t stand to lose, decides to play a prank on him.
A glare and a sexy lick of the lips.
“Oh, no, you’ll get in trouble if you take it off!”
Siu grabs Dorothy’s shoulders as she struggles to pull off her pajamas.
The urgency bordering on desperation.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! What, what, are we having sex now?”
Dorothy stiffened, wondering if something had happened.
She soon realized the shocking truth.
“My, my, my boobs….”
For some reason, her shoulders felt too light.
She looked down and realized that the voluptuous mound that usually covered her entire foot was nowhere to be seen.
“No way, did you save me in exchange for my boobs…?”
“It’s not like that, come here.”
Xiu took Dorothy by the shoulders and led her toward the full-length mirror in front of the entryway shoe rack.
“To….”
Dorothy looked at herself in the mirror, her voice uncharacteristically stupid.
Small.
Not just small in the chest, but small in the hands, small in the feet.
She still has her gentle downcast eyes and tall stature for her age, but she looks like she was an apprentice witch.
In a word, a 15-year-old middle school girl.
No wonder Xiu was so desperate to stop Dorothy from taking off her clothes.
Dorothy slowly opened her eyes and asked.
“Darling, what the hell happened?”
“Oh, that’s for another time, let’s talk about it after you eat.”
