Chapter 353
Chapter 353 Wanted Man
The distant horizon hadn’t been silent ever since those two adepts had left in that direction.
Clouds of flame painted the sky red. Explosions were unceasing. The commotion made it hard for the merchants to fall asleep. They stood around the campsite as the ground trembled around them and the warm heat waves washed over them. Nervousness was the only thing they felt.
If it hadn’t been for apprentice Naia’s repeated warnings not to leave the camp, there would probably have been people who ran away from fear.
The leader of the merchants had consulted Naia countless of times and gotten the same answer every time. He could only forcefully suppress the fear within the group and get them to stay in the camp.
Naia was the most excited one out of the people present. She stood at the edge of the camp and sensed the dense, active elementium fire particles in the air, her heart beating rapidly.
She was the only one with elementium talent in the camp. Only she could clearly feel the intensity of the elementium flux in the distance. Even a proper witch wouldn’t be able to cause such a commotion. Only veteran or elite adepts could strengthen their elementium spells to this level!
Thus, unlike the others in the camp, she looked into the distance not with fear, but with a zealous fervor.
A mental flux utterly different from those of humans reverberated in the forest. Even Hakkar, with all her knowledge, could barely understand some of the more familiar syllables.
However, the crystal had done the job. A severely lacking and unstable image appeared in the air.
In the image was a scarlet and onyx world of magma. A towering man of flame gripped a black panther in its hand. The giant breathed out a trace of translucent fire, which instantly blew the panther’s head to pieces.
Hakkar summoned a flash of black light and paused the image at that moment. The Spirit of the Earth also dissipated then.
“How is it? Are you able to recognize anything?” Witch Hakkar asked.
“Yes! It is enough!” A middle-aged witch nodded and said, “The black panther should be an adept known as Bill. He just arrived in the Northern Lands three days ago, after following the Dark Witches merchants here. A witch known as Amanda traveled with him. She has been confirmed as a candidate for the Witch of Fate.”
“Then the flame giant?” Hakkar stared at the mighty giant in the image.
“He should be a fire adept known as Greem. He came here with the same merchant group as Bill and Amanda. One of the favorite candidates, Alice, travels with him!”
“These damned outsiders! What do they take the Northern Lands for? How dare they do as they like in our lands! It seems it’s time for us to find the time to teach them a lesson,” Hakkar spat out curses and continued, “Have Naia confirm their faces.”
“Understood!”
The middle-aged witch cast a spell, and a three-dimensional projection of two adepts appeared before Naia. It was Greem and Alice.
“That’s them. They were the ones who visited the camp,” Naia nodded in confirmation.
“Very well. It’s good that we got some confirmation,” A wicked smile appeared on Hakkar’s wrinkled old face, “According to the instructions of the Witch Council, no outsiders are to intervene in the battles of the Witches of Fate. We can overlook Alice’s and Amanda’s actions. However, this Greem can’t be let off easy.”
“You mean… “
“List him as wanted! Immediately put out warrants for arrests once we get back to the city! Make sure to send the message to all the witch cities!” Hakkar’s sharp voice rang out across the night sky, “Let him taste a little pain! How dare he murder someone in the Northern Witches’ land!”
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Greem and Alice were already ten kilometers away when the witches sent out warrants for his arrest.
“What happened? Didn’t we agree not to expose the existence of the spider golem if possible? Why did you suddenly release it?” It appeared to be Greem’s thick and clear voice.
“You can’t blame me for that! You should know that Amanda purchased a sealing stone from god-knows-where and sealed the Infernal Tyrant. You can’t possibly expect me to expose the power of the spacestone, can you?” Alice defended herself resentfully.
“A sealing stone? Bastards! These guys have started to prepare measures against you! It seems it’s about time for us to prepare a couple more trump cards of our own!” Greem shook his head and sighed, “Remember, do not ever expose the existence of the spacestone, regardless of what happens. Otherwise, you will have no secrets left. With the personalities of those candidates, they will probably be able to find some specialized and targeted measure against you if you even use it once.”
“Then what if I’m truly in danger?”
“Hmph! No such thing will happen. I will protect you!”
“Then you didn’t manage to protect me this time properly!”
“An accident. It was only an accident! If it weren’t for that annoying Doris, I would already have crushed that black panther. The battle wouldn’t possibly have lasted that long!”
“Fine, I’ll believe you for now. Oh right, where are we going next?”
“The apprentice witch gave us pretty detailed and complete information. Witch cottages, Spring of Fortune, obelisks; all these places seem to be quite interesting!”
“Witch cottages. We must visit the witch cottages! I have a feeling that the witch cottage in the northeast will greatly benefit us. Let’s go there!”
“Sure, as you say. We will head there.”