The witch thought I am a Demon God
Chapter 624 - 344: The Hero’s Identity, The Sword of the Hero!_2

Chapter 624: Chapter 344: The Hero’s Identity, The Sword of the Hero!_2

The next moment, Ivita stretched out his Hand of Mana toward where her voice was coming from and directly grabbed her up. "Alright."

"Let’s go."

...

Atop Thunder Fang Cliff, Ivita’s army won a sweeping victory, collecting dozens of sets of knights’ horses and armor—items of considerable value.

Moreover, they captured thirty-one knight attendants and two formal knights as prisoners.

This military achievement was quite astonishing.

Of Earl Yisen Hanjian’s subordinates -- the cavalry troops of the Silver Hand Knight Group -- two Great Knights had arrived. Among them, Knight Wolly had already been killed by the joint efforts of Ivita and Wilson, while the other Great Knight was besieged by the Dead Cow Wizard, the Leech Mermaid, and the Blue Illusion Witch.

The Dead Cow Wizard’s bull-headed skeleton warriors, whose combat strength was far superior to that of ordinary skeletons, were as tough as formal knights. Combined with the illusions aid of the Blue Illison Witch, and the healing assistance from the Leech Mermaid – along with his curse spell, they successfully killed a Great Knight in an underhanded manner.

With his body restored, Wilson said to the Dead Cow Wizard and Blue Illusion Witch: "Lord Ivita and the others are still in the castle; we have to hold out here, not letting anyone in, no matter who they are."

"Given the current circumstances, many people want us to leave this castle, but they should not be able to bring out any stronger forces for the time being. That being said, I fear that assassins may bypass us using shadow camouflaging abilities to infiltrate the castle..."

The Blue Illusion Witch said: "I can set up multiple illusion traps around the castle."

The Dead Cow Wizard replied, "I can ask Chino Kennedy to arrange patrols around the castle... "

...

In the vanished territory, Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch encountered eight batches of Carrion Monsters, all of which Ivita dealt with using Thunder Magic.

At the same time, he also gathered a large amount of ritual energy.

After approximately two hours, a blurry colossal object appeared in front of Ivita’s Eye of the Demon. It was a giant fountain, and the Eye of the Demon perceived a bundle of profoundly pleasant emotions—happiness, joy, pleasure, optimism...

Ivita didn’t know if he was imagining it, but he felt that when his Eye of the Demon saw this fountain, it twitched, as if it found the sight unbearable.

In front of the fountain, there were eight Carrion Monsters. The moment they saw Ivita, they wanted to rush over to devour him.

Of course, before they could approach, they were obliterated one by one by the Spheres of Destruction Magic surrounding Ivita.

Upon this, the Frog Princess spoke again-

"You’ve finally reached your destination. This is the Spring of Power, one of the six divine springs on Cross Island. Due to the despicable Marco Anson’s activities, the locations of the six springs have become distorted, thus the Spring of Power is now located here. The Spring of Power could originally bestow might upon the warriors, but now it has run dry and can’t do that anymore."

"But it can still confer light upon one of you."

Upon hearing this, the Hearthstone Witch displayed a terrified expression. Could it be that... the Frog Princess intended to bestow... light... onto whom utilizing the Spring of Power?

The next moment, the Hearthstone Witch was infuriated. She felt discriminated against.

She heard — "Very well. Now that you have obtained light, you may observe this world properly. Take a good look at this territory that has imprisoned the pirates, myself and my father for sixty years. You are the first one to receive light here, because ever since then, we have all lost our vision."

"Mr. Ivita, please search for the third spring in this territory – the Spring of Wisdom. It will help the witch beside you regain her sight. But it’s situated within the pirates’ territory, out of my control. Once both of you have obtained the light, I will lead you to the Lizard King and the Ice Witch, revealing the loathsome truth from sixty years ago."

Ivita, possessing the Eye of the Demon–a magical organ even the fourth-ranked Hearthstone Witch didn’t have–noticed, when the Frog Princess uttered her last sentence, that the Eye of the Demon detected intense negative emotions.

It seemed that being imprisoned here for sixty years had left the Frog Princess quite resentful.

At his side, the Hearthstone Witch asked Ivita: "Your Majesty, that princess is making me so angry. Now that you can see, can you tell me what the Vanished Territory looks like?!"

Ivita opened his eyes, finding that they were in a valley between continuous mountain ranges, meaning they were on a small flatland.

He looked behind at the footprints they had left on the path they had taken, then turned his head to see eight rotting and broken bodies in front of the fountain, which must have belonged to the carrion monsters.

The bodies of these carrion monsters didn’t differ much from humans, only that they were severely rotted, and some of their eyes had dropped on the ground. It was unsure whether they were affected by magic to become like this, or if this was their original appearance.

When Ivita looked up, he frowned because there was a giant hole in the center of the sky in the lost territory, as if someone had dug a hole in the sky.

There were thunder, lightning, and sudden gusts and showers in the sky hole.

After Ivita told the Hearthstone Witch what he had observed, she didn’t understand why a hole would appear in the sky either. The hole looked like a wound in the sky.

Ivita also realized that the hole in the sky seemed to have an extremely strong suction power, always sucking some things off the ground, such as stones and woods.

Ivita glanced at the Spring of Power in front of him. The water here deteriorated more than the Holy Spring outside. There was a thick layer of dust in the pool - it was obvious that it hadn’t sprung water for a long time.

A knight’s sword was still stuck in the withered spring’s pool.

A very faint voice said, "The terrible abyss in the sky above is the arch-criminal who took away our power sixty years ago and continued to drain the Cross Island’s law power during these sixty years."

Ivita looked around but did not find who was talking.

The Hearthstone Witch moved her foot, pointing to the ground under her feet, "It seems to be a small loach I just stepped on... Your Majesty, right near your feet..."

Ivita looked down and saw a male mermaid coated with mud near his feet. He was as big as a leech. If he didn’t take a closer look, he would miss him entirely.

When Ivita looked down, the leech-mermaid was so scared that he lowered his head and dared not make eye contact with Ivita. This was because Ivita’s body size was too big, too big compared to him.

Ivita said coldly, "You are... a carrion leech?"

The leech mermaid was almost enraged to death by Ivita. He protested, "How could you compare me with those lower beings? I am the guardian god of the Spring of Power. Just now, it was me who helped you recover the light. I was originally much larger than you are, and you were only a dwarf before my original stature. But after our power was taken away, we have been living in difficult conditions."

"If I weren’t this small, I would have been discovered by those pirates turned into carrion monsters and killed by them."

Ivita suddenly realized, so this thing turned out to be the guardian god of the Divine Spring.

How disrespectful.

Ivita said, "I apologize for the misunderstanding just now. It seems that this place has suffered from various assaults of power. Although it’s in the realm of mortals, it has been eroded and developed many unique characteristics. This place disappeared from the mortal world because it was subject to linked magic, right?"

"What is the hole in the sky?"

The Leech Mermaid crossed his arms. Although he was as small as a leech and could easily be crushed by Ivita accidentally, he still needed to display the majesty of a guardian god. "Humph, sixty years ago, they used the most traditional method to shatter the larger part of Cross Island’s Law."

"That method is violence."

"Using violence is always the simplest and most effective way to clear jurisdiction over a territory."

"But they also want to graft their laws on our laws, and the traces of that ceremony were left too obvious, so they hid this territory. Sure, they used linked magic, but it was actually linked to a person, and that person is the princess..."

"That hole in the sky is the most disgraceful evidence they left behind. As soon as that void disappears, our power will return."

"Since you’re here, I presume the princess asked you to pull the Sword of the Hero out of the fountain. The Sword of the Hero will bring you hero status, which isn’t common in the Magic Black Forest, it’s a very important status. I don’t know how many people dream of obtaining the hero status of Cross Island."

When Ivita heard this, he squinted his eyes. He had a dreadful guess that might not be so reliable.