Chapter 1171 – #279_Declaration of War
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One.
Verdant Witch. Verda Tiamat.
She rarely shows up at most events, and after the order of Kether was firmly established, she was her former witch who lived quietly shopping and enjoying herself, but her witches who happened to run into her Verda immediately recognized her. She used to run away, shaking her cheeks.
Nor was it because Verda’s frequent foreign activities made her face known, like that of the Duke of Tiphareth.
It’s not because of her dark blue hair and green eyes that instantly remind her of her own nickname.
About half a century isn’t that long ago, so it’s not because she has an awkward fashion sense that she insists that outdated clothes that she doesn’t even know where she got them from are the latest fashion.
She is a great witch with a youthful appearance who has not yet reached the end of her adolescence. This is because, except for the administrator of the prophetic agency, she is the only verdant witch.
There is an unusual story behind this unusual youthful appearance.
When Verda was an apprentice witch, she first killed her teacher and completed her succession on her own.
At that time, quite shocking things happened on a daily basis, but you can tell just by looking at how this anecdote is still talked about.
Verda said she was a very dangerous witch.
In fact, it still is.
A barren field where even a decent crop would die suddenly if farmed.
About 500 humans were walking in a line.
“Help me… Mom…”
“Where am I… “Please let me go home!”
“Witch, witch… Witch, we are dead. She’ll eat us alive…”
“Our Father in heaven…”
Compared to the despair and despair they evoke, it is a state in which the five and ten are very well aligned.
The bodies of the sacrifices went out of control and, following Verda’s orders, stood at appropriate intervals on the field.
Between them walked Verda, who was leaning, and Orcelia, who showed off her elegant grace like a lady.
Judging from their expressions, it seems like both of them are processing the despair coming from all around them as white noise.
“Berda, aren’t those shoes too high? “Why don’t you wear something more comfortable?”
“It’s a bit high. But it’s okay because it’s pretty. I like red shoes. “More than anything, it suits you well, right?”
“…”
No matter how Verda dresses up like a mature woman, she has an appearance that will inevitably remain as the Lolita of an unspecified number of Humberts.
The effort to forcefully dress it up as an adult is one of Verda’s long-standing eccentricities.
Verda took out a handful of dirt from her pocket and walked around, scattering it on the feet of the humans lined up with her.
The two people look exactly like a mother and daughter taking a walk while sowing seeds in the garden.
“I actually don’t know.”
“What?”
“As Orselia knows, I like humans. It is true that I had to hold my breath because of the taste of Keter, but the human culture I observed while wandering was very beautiful. “Fashion too.”
“Because what we’re trying to do is not kill all humans.”
“Is it? No, this is what concerns me. Wouldn’t humans who are subordinate to witches cease to be the humans we used to know? I think the world I like is different from before. “It makes me so sad to think that the world we rule might never have the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe again.”
Although she says so, Verda does not look very sad.
Like Orselia, an enlarged and worn-out ego is one of the characteristics of those who have lived for too long.
“Then why did Verda accept the position of commander of the West Corps?”
“I’m more surprised that Blanche joined the gravedigger than I am.”
“She is a witch, so there is nothing strange about her. “The current Gehenna movement is very lukewarm.”
“But she’s always been a bitch about Keter.”
Verda took the conversation back to a sidetrack for a moment.
“Anyway, the reason I agreed to create a witch empire is because I love humans. “It will only be a break if at least one pro-human witch like me joins the Witch Empire.”
“…”
“I believe that humans and witches can get along better than now. As long as there is proper control. “I hope it goes well.”
Orselia did not particularly agree with Verda’s opinion.
Anyway, it is impossible for us to understand each other and say goodbye to each other.
Even if the purpose is different, if the process is the same, there is no reason to do so.
“Okay, that’s it. “This is also hard labor.”
“Can’t I do it telekinetically?”
“No. “Because it’s a ritual.”
Eventually, Verda placed dirt on the feet of each prisoner, then put his hands together and closed his eyes.
“It will be blue.”
Dark green particles float by her side.
If you look at it in itself, it looks sacred, like a priest praying to the goddess of abundance.
However, the result is quite grotesque.
“Gaaaaa! Body! Body!”
“Aaaaah!”
“Help me! “Please save me!!!”
Change began with the feet of humans.
Bones and blood vessels that break through the skin dig into the ground like roots.
It soon became a literal root, and soon humans began to transform into a tree.
The scream was short.
The sacrifices had their skin reduced to a lumpy shell, and their arms and body turned into trees with branches spreading out into the sky.
A small forest suddenly appeared on the bare field where the weeds had withered and died.
If you hadn’t seen the forest formation process, it would be a peaceful forest, like a charming, quiet fairy tale.
Each tree was covered with fruits of unique shapes that did not exist in reality.
This is Verda’s ‘magic fruit’ that is strengthening the Qliphoth army.
The witches who were waiting at a distance used their powers to harvest various types of apples and placed them in boxes.
Orselia plucked one of her fruits from a heavy branch with an interested look in her eyes.
Unlike the fruit that exuded blackening, this is an artifact with a whitish blue liquid inside.
At first glance, it looks like it was just created, but the elaborate magnetic magic contained within it reminds us of what kind of miracle the 23rd Hierarchy has achieved.
“It’s amazing no matter how many times I see it. Oh, if you don’t have plans today, can I invite you to dinner?”
“Can you please stop talking to me? Because I am praying in remembrance. And I’d like to decline the invitation in advance. “Your meal is unpleasant.”
“Are you in a position to talk to others?”
Verda’s refusal after finishing her prayer of thanks for the humans who became sacrifices.
After scanning the leafy forest, Orcelia smiled bitterly and threw the fruit she had picked with her own hands into her box.
2.
After Duke Erelim’s betrayal became known, Gehenna was shaking in real time.
The aftermath of the shaking is more than the announcement of MIRACLE-Y’s experiment video,
Rather than announcing the truth about the world that immediately followed,
It was also bigger than the proclamation of Hexennacht’s Witch Empire that followed immediately afterwards.
One-third of the members of the Truth and Truth Academic Society escaped Gehenna.
Among them, there were some who chose to join because they believed in and followed Duke Erelim more than anyone else, while others chose to disappear altogether due to unbelievable circumstances.
So what happened to the remaining two-thirds?
I chose Fengmun as it was the Shaolin Temple’s best special move against the Demonic Cult’s invasion of Wulin.
As long as the mainland of Gehenna was not attacked, she cut off all communication with the outside world and declared that she would not interfere in any events.
“Ha, I’m so fucking frustrated.”
It was such a tantrum that even Siwoo, who rarely swears these days to maintain his dignity, had no choice but to say something.
But what can you do?
In fact, orthodox witches have been like that for a long time.
I can’t help but feel fortunate that the entire Jinri Jinmyeong Academic Society didn’t suddenly follow Erelim to Qliphoth.
Creaks could be heard from all over the academic alliance.
It hurts to say twice that morale is a very important factor in war.
This is especially true in this war.
The most important thing for a witch is magic.
The next step is to preserve and pass on that magic to future generations, that is, survival.
It is a noble’s pride, or cause, to place a witch who values her life like that on the battlefield.
In the case of the academic alliance, they were united for the cause of ‘I understand that humans are dangerous, but we cannot create a world where public figures run rampant.’
However, Duke Erelim’s betrayal was an act that raised doubts about the cause.
One of the three works, the founder who contributed to the history of Gehenna, ‘Hexennacht is right. It was like declaring, ‘You guys are wrong.’
Even though she hadn’t even fought properly yet, her morale immediately plummeted.
“Wouldn’t it be right to just lock the door like the Jinri Jinmyeong Academic Society? “Gehenna is a self-sufficient system if only the minimum supplies are supplied in this world.”
“That’s right! “Count Hesed has blocked the entire kernel, so if we stay hidden, there is no way for the outside world to interfere!”
“Why not sign a truce right now and divide the world into two halves with Hexennacht?”
“A truce with them? You can never do it. Have you forgotten who the public figures are?”
“More than anything, the power bill has already turned upside down. Should we accept the ceasefire agreement? “I would never do that.”
The good news is that witches are inherently stubborn and stubborn.
“But that doesn’t mean it’s not true.”
“Duke Erelim? No, you are no longer a duke, you are a traitor. “I will punish you for the pride of Gehenna.”
“Reconcile with the public? You can never do it. “My friend was also killed by Qliphoth.”
Despite this worsening situation, there are still many witches left on the Allied Forces of the Society.
That is, to a level where the outcome of the war cannot be completely predicted.
The high-ranking witches put their minds together, reorganized their respective organizations and planned strategies, and took steps for the great war step by step.
A week after that.
Hexennacht declared war on Gehenna.
It was the signal for a witch war on a scale unprecedented in history.
