ALL NOVEL Chapter 23 The Old Witch
In a simple room in Ice City, Anna Luofang inserted her fingers into her messy hair and rubbed her scalp vigorously, trying to soothe her numb head from overuse. A hair, which made her feel even worse.
"If this continues, my hair will fall out, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I'm just a princess, why do I have to do these things!!"
"Because your brother ran away." In the shadows in the corner, a thin black figure folded his arms and answered slowly.
"Damn Luthor, he was supposed to do these things, he was number one!" Anna became even more frantic, her number one shit brother ran away quietly, throwing all these things at her.
It's no good to deal with it. One day when my brother comes back, the position of the city lord will still be his. If she doesn't handle it well, she will be the one to take the blame. It is simply harming herself and benefiting others, which makes her psychologically unbalanced.
"You don't need to deal with it." The shadow in the corner said.
Anna shook her head, with a serious expression on her face: "No, that nasty demon is still hiding and raiding our poorly guarded planting area. If we don't find him, we will fall into a serious food shortage next year. .”
The black shadow was silent for a while, and sighed helplessly: "It is indeed too vicious. Our planting areas are too scattered, and some are connected by caves, extending in all directions. As long as a demon sneaks in quietly and sets fire to the fields everywhere, our food harvest will be wiped out. And We have no other way but to scatter soldiers to every grain-producing area to surround him in vain."
"It doesn't matter, I will definitely catch them. When I catch them, I will tie him up and throw him to the Lich City, so that those Liches will tear him apart, including his soul." Anna said viciously.
"You may have misunderstood the liches. They have stopped tearing their souls, but it doesn't matter. How did you catch the demons with the information on the table?" Black Shadow asked puzzled.
Anna's mouth curled into a confident smile: "Every incident will reveal a lot of information. For example, incidents 1 to 3 happened consecutively, but incidents 3 to 4 were separated by a gap. Three days, but the distance between the two places is only one day, where did he go during the two days in between?"
Soi Ying thought for a while, then said hesitantly, "Tired?"
"Yes, that's right. Centering on the planting area of these two incidents, within two days' distance, are there any places where you can rest? The lava demon who set the fire is probably the lava demon. He likes magma the most." Anna opened a map , Spread it on the table.
The black figure couldn't help but came out from the shadows in the corner, revealing a wrinkled face and a thin figure. The bare face and arms were covered with rune-like tattoos.
If someone who knew this kind of tattoo was present, they would definitely exclaim - Holy Light Lich! Moreover, it is a Lich that has been purified by the church, and those tattoos are the traces of the purification magic pattern on the skin.
In the human world, undead creatures are listed as heresies by the church, and they will be purified if they are caught. The church believes that the ordinary method is not to kill liches. Only by purifying can their bodies and souls be eliminated. Souls can turn into undead and escape.
Wrap the Holy Shroud and burn with flames until body and soul are reduced to ashes.
This is actually reasonable, because some liches can't be killed by ordinary methods, because they can refine phylactery.
Refining one's heart into a phylactery, putting it in a special container, hiding it in a safe place, and replacing the heart with the fire of the soul, so that even if one is killed, one can be reborn through the phylactery.
For this kind of lich, the church also invented a corresponding method, first wrapped it with a holy shroud, and then burned it with flames, burning the body and soul together, so that the lich who was reborn with the help of the phylactery would lose everything. Memories, and there will be imprints on the body that cannot be erased by rebirth.
Sombra is a lich who was purified and reborn, but she has lost her memory before her rebirth. She doesn't remember who she is or how she died. She only sees one word on the badge engraved on the phylactery—— —Lan, so she is called Lan now.
Lan came to the table to have a look, and quickly found a name on the map: "Here, Melting River."
"Yes, it's in the lava river. Only here has magma nearby. It's the devil's favorite environment." Anna said.
Lan nodded: "It makes sense, but this is all speculation, and you have no evidence to prove that your speculation is true."
Anna smiled and took out a piece of paper, and handed it to Lan: "I have sent someone to investigate, and the road leading to the molten river did find demon footprints, and demons really passed by during that time.
Lan was silent for a while, and couldn't help sighing: "You are really amazing, you really caught him."
"That's it." Anna raised her eyebrows triumphantly, and said, "That's how I deduced that he is a lava demon, and thus judged that he needs lava to restore his strength. As long as you know his rest interval, and then pay attention to those places with lava , there is always a chance to block him."
"That should be done as soon as possible. If he sets off a few more fires, we will have a big shortage of food next year, and many people will starve to death." Lan said.
"Don't worry, I have already contacted the human world through the teleportation array. They have a good harvest of grain. As long as they can afford the price, they can use a large teleportation array to deliver dozens of tons of grain at once."
But Lan shook his head: "The cost is too high. It takes more than a dozen magic crystals just to open a large transfer station. We don't have a corresponding large teleportation array here. The world transfer station here has long been unable to open. Otherwise, a dozen magic crystals would be needed." It's enough, but one-way delivery requires hundreds of magic crystals, and we can't get so many magic crystals in exchange for all the valuable things in our dungeon.
Anna scratched her head frantically again, and said irritably: "What can I do?? Waiting to starve to death? The Lich City is also short of food. Some time ago they sent people to buy food, but I refused. If they have plenty of food, it would be great if they could support us."
Just when Anna was scratching her head irritably, the soldier came to report: "Report to Her Royal Highness, Lisa August of the Lich City, please see me."
"Lisa August? Who is it? Didn't Isik come here before? Why did you get a new one this time?" Anna murmured in confusion.
Lan's eyes flashed brightly: "This is not a newcomer, this is the real owner of the Lich City. This old witch hasn't shown her head for hundreds of years. I thought she was dead. Go and meet her. This old lich is not simple."
"The real owner of Lich City? Isn't the owner of the city His Excellency Feilin?" Anna's curiosity was aroused, and she hurriedly arranged her makeup and clothes, preparing to go to meet her.
"Filin is afraid of his wife, this is his wife."
When they came to the reception room, there was only a fair-skinned and plump young woman in a black gauze dress sitting there, not the 'old witch' Lan described.
Lan's attention did not fall on the young woman in the black gauze skirt, but looked towards the door of the reception room, and asked bluntly, "Where's your old hag named Augustus?"
The young woman in the black gauze dress turned her head, with a careless smile on the corner of her mouth, and said lazily, "Are you referring to me, the old witch named Augustus?"
Hearing this familiar voice, Lan turned her eyes to the face of the young woman in black gauze skirt in shock, her brows furrowed.
She and Lisa met in the state of a lich. The Lisa she knew was a shriveled, thin, ashes, and haggard lich like her. The plump and moist woman in front of her had a similar eyebrow. that old hag? Sounds like this too? How is this going?
The young woman in the black gauze dress slowly opened her mouth and said, "Lan, from now on, only you will be able to enjoy the title of old witch."
Lan's expression changed drastically, and he said angrily, "So it's really you! Augustus, you are so hateful, you actually invaded the body of a living person?! I'll kill you!"
"What?! No, no, no, you misunderstood, this is my body, hey, stop, ouch, don't slap me in the face, stop, you will turn my face off if you hit me again."
Seeing Lisa and Lan who were tumbling into a ball, Anna, who still wanted to go up to help, suddenly remembered and stopped.
The two thousand-year-old liches didn't use magic, but fought with bare hands like children. If it was a real fight, Anna would dare to eat this chair.
Sure enough, after fighting for a while, the two liches stopped with disheveled hair, but the shriveled and thin Lan with disheveled hair was extremely embarrassing, while the plump and moist Lisa had disheveled hair, but she had a different style.
Lan asked angrily and jealously, "How did you become like this? You really didn't invade the body of a living person?"
Powerful liches and undead have the ability to invade the body of a living person, but the living person will die, and the body will also lose its vitality. It can only maintain its vitality for two or three days before it begins to rot. If it wasn't for encroachment, Lan couldn't think of any way to make a lich so alive.
Lisa smiled slightly, and asked lightly: "If you have the opportunity to restore your body's vitality and become like me, what price are you willing to pay?"
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