The witch thought I am a Demon God
Chapter 445 - 269: Higher Witch’s Independent Body Consciousness_1

Chapter 445: Chapter 269: Higher Witch’s Independent Body Consciousness_1

Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch, along with the rest spent a night on the island to recuperate. Through the Red Blood Potion that cost at least fifty gold coins per bottle, the injuries of the Ranger and the Old Knight were greatly healed, liberating them from life-threatening danger.

Although their injuries were healed by the potion, the spiritual exhaustion from the battle had still not been restored. Hence, the combat power of the two could not be fully exerted in the following few months.

The fourth-generation Vampire Wilson surprisingly grew a new heart in his chest on his own. As soon as his head and body were joined back together, he recovered as before.

However, he had consumed too much high-quality blood stored within his body and urgently needed to suck the blood of one or two professionals at this moment.

But in this vast sea, on an isolated island, with a population of only a few thousand people, the professionals he could suck blood from were only his people...

So, Wilson had to restrain his blood addiction and bear with it by sheer willpower.

The next day, when they returned to the ship docked behind the mountains of Volcano Island, Captain Sam, the two warriors, a hunter, and the sailors who had stayed behind were surprisingly informed that Ivita and the others had actually taken over this small island and made it their own territory.

Captain Sam was mystified.

Two days ago, there was an earthquake and a volcanic eruption. He was a bit worried that Ivita and the others might not be able to come back alive.

Ivita only told him before that they were coming to this island to search for something, but after two days, this island actually became Ivita’s.

Wilson told them about their battle experiences. Vampire Davina and the three first-class professionals who had stayed behind expressed their relief that they had been assigned to watch the ship.

If they had been involved in the battle, they felt there would have been a very slim chance of survival.

Then Ivita led them to the native tribes on the island.

Because of the Hearthstone Witch, the tribal people’s tribe hardly suffered any damage, with only 103 people dead and the buildings well preserved.

So Ivita temporarily let their group of over twenty people stay here.

The natives were hospitable, they brought out the best things their tribe had every day, dried deer meat, fresh rabbit meat, and some potatoes, tomatoes, and other crops found in the island’s forests, to entertain Ivita’s team of professionals.

Although there were no seasonings, but with good ingredients, a slight roast would bring out a mouthwatering delicacy.

They stayed on the island for another seven days.

In the meantime, Ivita met with the red-skinned tribal elders many times and, using Wilson to communicate with them, advised the natives to reform their tribal system. The remaining seven tribes on the island were disbanded and reorganized into new village units.

Ivita divided the natives of the island into seven villages.

In this way, they could quickly help them shed the tribal system and transition into a political system and organizational structure that could keep pace with the outside civilized world.

Ivita, alongside Wilson and the Hearthstone Witch, began to introduce the common language of the Magic Black Forest to the natives, changing their language.

However, Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch did still spend some time learning some of the natives’ languages, so they could conduct simple conversations with the natives alone.

It cannot be argued that the ruler does not learn the subjects’ language.

At the same time, Ivita, the Hearthstone Witch, and Wilson discussed and designed a new value system for these tribes.

First, the tribe’s current loyalty to Ivita came mostly from the primitive natives’ assumption that he was a god.

This was absolutely unstable.

As Ivita easily leveraged the natives’ faith in Black Granny, it could be seen that those ensnared with benefits could also easily be ensnared by others with them.

Therefore, Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch had to first introduce the concept of family to the people of the tribe, dissolve the collective ownership of the tribe, then introduce the concept of private ownership and the penalties for love, loyalty, kindness, betrayal. They also introduced the concept of threat that the betrayers would be abandoned by the sea and the island.

Additionally, they introduced concepts of equality, respect, self-respect and other beautiful emotional values, along with the concept of a monarch and guardians.

They had to bring the natives of this island into the civilized world in the shortest time, at least to make them understand the concept of autocratic monarchy, and establish absolute rule here.

Ivita then carved these principles with the Hand of Mana on a mural in a cave on the island’s mountain range.

As he laid down his final stroke, the entire cave was filled with his inscriptions within seven days.

Everywhere was densely covered in text and wall paintings.

The elder of the red-skinned tribe led his people to kneel and pray in front of the murals that Ivita had carved into the cave walls.

Ivita spoke to them in their simple native language, "The content of these cave paintings is knowledge, and knowledge holds infinite power."

"Starting today, you must enter this cave every morning and evening to study the paintings I’ve left. Understand?!"

The tribespeople immediately began to worship the murals, even treating them as divine revelations.

One of them even placed a leg of lamb beneath the paintings as a form of sacrificial offering.

Ivita sighed at their behavior, but he knew he couldn’t change their ways in such a short time, so he let them be.

At least this would ensure they would value these paintings.

Ivita noticed a little red-skinned girl kneeling by his feet, worshipping non-stop. He reached out and touched the girl’s hair. The moment the girl lifted her head, she was surrounded by the tribespeople.

The tribespeople touched the girl’s hair as if it was a sacred object.

Ivita heard them say—

’This hair has been touched by a deity, it must have been blessed. If we touch this hair, we will also have good fortune.’

’Let me touch it too... I also want to touch...’

Seeing the crowd scrambling to touch an ordinary red-skinned native girl’s hair, Ivita could only hold his forehead in disbelief. He had merely touched her casually.

The task ahead was a monumental one indeed.

The Hearthstone Witch and Wilson approached Ivita.

The Hearthstone Witch said to Ivita, "Your Highness, civilizing these people won’t happen overnight. It will require someone to stay here for a long time to educate them. However, based on my calculations, there are only slightly more than six thousand original natives on this island."

"It would be a waste of your time to stay here just for them."

Ivita looked at the Hearthstone Witch with confusion. "So, what are you suggesting? You did mention before that I should take in a few students. Among these people are there any potential witches? After all, this island once gave birth to a fourth-level witch."

The Hearthstone Witch shook her head. "I’ve checked out the situation on your behalf."

"There is no one here fit to be a witch."

"Possibly, the high-level witch took all the related bloodlines with her when she left."

"What I mean is, I could leave behind one of my ribs to educate them on your behalf."

Ivita looked at her with a strange expression.

Could it really be done?

Ivita asked, "How would your rib educate them?"

The Hearthstone Witch said with a laugh, "High-level witches have a non-rule based transformation spell that combines with law magic. I can detach a part of my body and use solidification magic on it. This way, my rib will have a part of my wisdom, effectively becoming my doppelgänger."

"The ability to detach one’s limbs, even one’s head, without dying is the ability of the Great Witch. However, the ability to have each detached limb possess independent consciousness is exclusive to high-level witches."

"In this way, I can act on your behalf, ruling and educating these people."

Upon hearing this, Ivita fell deep into thought.