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Chapter 845 - 443 Epirus Witch Republic

Chapter 845: Chapter 443 Epirus Witch Republic

When Ivita informed the Epirus Witch Republic that he was about to visit, the witches’ council of the Republic agreed to his visit.

To save time, Ivita chose to return to Lombardy Duchy from Ambros and then take a ship from there to the Epirus Republic.

Previously, Ivita had recalled the third-generation Vampire Wilson from the Black Sea, having him remain in Ambros with the King of the Ancient Tomb and the Sect Hierarch of the Sun God Sect, along with Queen Jinx, Rayli, and Black Wolf, a group of key subordinates, sufficiently guarding Ambros.

Meanwhile, Ivita, along with the Hearthstone Witch, took two three-masted ships to the only Witch Republic in the world—the Epirus Republic, where the ancient witches, facing persecution from The Church, had chosen to turn themselves into statues and hide underground.

Because Ivita used magic to accelerate the ships, they arrived at the coast of the Witch Republic in just half a day.

The Witch Republic is a city-state, but its extensive coastline and the remnants of some facilities offshore let people know that this poor city-state was once a maritime trading power.

The Hearthstone Witch explained to Ivita that like the Pisa Republic, which had also been destroyed with its navy, this nation had once been a maritime trading power.

At that time, the Belisarius Business Republic was not much more powerful than they were and was still in competition with them.

However, later, the predecessors of the Belisarius Business Republic, who were firmer in their convictions and more continuous in their policies, won several decades of low to moderate intensity naval battles against the Pisa Republic and the Witch Republic.

Moreover, the Belisarius Business Republic did not allow these two nations to build ships other than commercial vessels, establishing an oppressive truce that restricted them from building any large ships.

The witches were extremely shortsighted and did not care about the lives of the people under their rule; hence, after their defeat in the naval battles, they never had any plans regarding the sea again.

Thus, when Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch’s two ships, clearly designed as main combat vessels, docked, they immediately caught the attention of the citizens of the Republic.

Ivita stood on deck, surveying the citizens of the Epirus City-State Republic, noting that although they were not as well-dressed or nourished as the Ambros people, they were slightly better off than ordinary peasants under feudal systems, though not by much.

Most of them looked very thin, their eyes filled with curiosity and fear as they gazed at the two large ships.

But the crowd quickly parted in terror.

Because a group of hundreds of knights, dressed in bright white armor and riding tall horses—each horse also bedecked in battle armor—appeared among them, emerging from the crowd.

These elite knights, each of whom was at least a formal Knight, included Great Knights and one Superior Knight.

But the leaders were not knights but six witches in red robes, riding tall horses.

Each of these witches wore a red hood, their faces hidden under their hoods, seldom allowing their own citizens to see them.

They were the hidden rulers, indifferent to appearing before people.

They manipulated the city-state’s council and secretly got rid of anyone who might affect the rule of the witches, hence there was always an aura of coldness and insensitivity about them.

Ivita recalled dealing with the Iron Mountain Knight, who had deep connections with this city-state, and felt a headache; the Iron Mountain Knight had once been the protector knight of the entire nation but was assassinated by the witches and became a slave of the Valji family.

Ivita noticed that these six red-robed witches were using a memory-blurring magic on the ordinary citizens to blur their memories.

The six red-robed witches looked towards the ship, "Lord Ivita, and the guests who came with Lord Ivita, the Witch Council has already received your letter in advance and warmly welcomes you to our country."

"Any wizard or witch ruling the world is a model that Lords should aspire to. Mortal Lords are supremely arrogant and should never become rulers."

Ivita understood clearly that because he was a wizard, the Witch Council wanted to befriend him.

Indeed, it was rare for a wizard to become a Lord, let alone a monarch of three nations.

This made them the best natural allies for the Epirus City-State Republic, which was also governed by witches, perhaps even seen by them as comrades in realizing the ideal of wizards and witches ruling the world.

When Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch descended from the deck, Ivita scrutinized these red-robed witches and saw that they were all high-level witches.

Such a small nation hides many secrets.

Ivita found it puzzling that this small country could not possibly have enough resources to support so many high-level witches, and given the number of high-level witches it had, how the country had been defeated by Belisarius only proved how little the witches cared about the sea.

If they had been even slightly conscientious, things wouldn’t have come to such a pass.

The six red-robed witches also observed Ivita and the Hearthstone Witch, even secretly testing them with Light Soul since rumors are one thing, but meeting face to face is quite another.

Wizards possess intelligence far beyond ordinary people, so it is normal for their reputation often not to match their strength.