Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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“Wuwuwuwu——————!”

The man struggled even more fiercely.

"Is it really necessary for you to torture him like this? One is one thing, but you have to do it to every single one of them." Tobacco frowned and curled her lip in disdain. "How come I never knew you had such a twisted sense of humor?"

thump.

Lin Hai threw the living person into the pit and began shoveling dirt into it.

"Really?" she asked, turning her head to the side.

"You seem to have changed a lot."

"Is it that obvious?"

"At the very beginning... you hardly ever spoke."

"I don't like to talk nonsense anymore."

“It’s different, completely different.” Tobacco shook its head, watching Lin Hai slowly toss soil into the pit, burying the person piece by piece. “The you of the past, no matter how gloomy and eccentric you were, would never…”

"You don't know how either?"

Lin Hai ignored the wails of the people in the pit and patted the small mound of earth that had been filled in with a shovel.

I watched the tobacco all night.

Finally, I couldn't hold back anymore and it all came out.

"—You wouldn't do something as idiotic as burying people one by one and then just letting their heads peek out, would you?! Do you think we're building sandcastles on the beach? Can't you have a little sense of urgency?! We're being hunted! Hunted! These assassins won't give up until they achieve their goal! You haven't killed a single one, and you've planted them in the ground. Are you planning to come over every day to water them or something?!!!!!"

"Haha..." Lin Hai scratched his head helplessly, "Who told me I couldn't bring myself to kill anyone?"

Yes.

Lin Hai not only displayed strength that left Tobacco speechless, but also, without anyone dying, deprived all the pursuing assassins of their mobility, throwing them one by one into the pits he had dug, leaving only their heads outside to breathe, ensuring that these assassins would not suffocate.

Heads lined up neatly along the roadside, like rows of radishes.

Not only that.

Lin Hai also took a wooden board from the carriage, wrote "There are people here, be careful not to step on it" on it, and put it in front of them.

"That way you won't get run over. Someone will definitely come to rescue you after a while." Lin Hai clapped his hands, bent down and tapped one of the people on the head, as if listening to a watermelon.

"Yes, it's a good head," Lin Hai said with satisfaction.

That's just... the height of perverse humor.

On the way back, Tobacco sat in the passenger seat of the carriage, so as to get as far away from Lin Hai as possible, that he was almost falling off.

"Be careful, don't fall."

"Leave me alone!"

It's better to fall than to be next to this freak.

The words had barely left his mouth when the wheel rolled over a stone, causing it to bounce. The tobacco's fragile balance was shattered by the sudden jolt.

"Why--!"

Just as she was about to fall off the bus, a hand grabbed Tobacco's wrist and pulled her back.

"Sigh, I told you to be careful not to fall."

"..."

Why are you so far away from me?

"Are you really Lin Hai?" Tobacco squinted, carefully hiding to the side, watching her warily.

"no......"

"You're definitely not her! The Lin Hai I know isn't that ruthless or has such a twisted sense of humor."

"...who else could I be?"

"..."

awkward.

“We didn’t know each other before we came here, so how do you know what kind of person I am?” Lin Hai glanced at her, then turned back to look at the road. “I’ve always been like this.”

"Then your strength... your level." Tobacco swallowed hard. "You're only level three, how could you be so powerful?"

In her eyes, Lin Hai's level was still the same as when he left the starting point.

When exactly did she become like this? Was it after they left the place of origin?

"Twelve, full. I usually cover it up with special offerings." Lin Hai waved his hand casually, as if a thin film had been torn off his body. "Just think of it as me meeting a master who imparted his skills to me."

In Tobacco's eyes, Lin Hai's data panel instantly transformed into a max-level, luxurious panel.

Her pupils shrank to their smallest size after seeing the exaggerated panel. In Tobacco's eyes, Lin Hai was no longer the cowardly little nun he once was.

"How could it be possible...you..."

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"Heimdallr star vedBifrost, vennligst apne dora for meg."

The iridescent light followed the patterns on the door panel and gradually filled the entire rainbow bridge door.

Lin Hai held a book in his hand and recited a spell at the core of the Rainbow Bridge gate.

The book in Lin Hai's hand had an exquisite skull on its cover.

"How could you possibly have a fragment of the Holy Grail?"

A few days later, at the time agreed upon with Xiangzi.

Tobacco's worldview had been completely shattered and rebuilt by Lin Hai in the past few days. So how could she not be surprised when Lin Hai took out the Holy Grail fragment and used a standard incantation to open the Rainbow Bridge?!

Not only is she terrifyingly powerful, but how could she possibly possess fragments of the Holy Grail?!

"Stolen," Lin Hai replied calmly.

"...Stolen?"

Tobacco's pupils contracted.

She suddenly remembered that the fragment the empire had lost was presented in the form of a book—the Book of Eternal Sleep, which had transformed the entire world of sloth into a realm of the dead.

boom----!

The Rainbow Bridge gate burst open, and a scorching shockwave surged out from within, instantly igniting everything it touched.

The Lost Tale: The Lost Child - Chapter 383 The High Walls of the Holy City

Xiangzi had been plagued by bad luck lately, and nothing good had happened to her. It was only after she climbed to Sky City that she understood what a "terrible day" really meant.

After spending over twenty days eating sand in the Angry World, I finally found a way to get to the Sky City, only to discover that someone else had already gotten there first.

Walking along the seemingly beautiful city streets, Xiangzi stared at the walls covered with posters of the Regent, feeling as if he had seen that middle-aged man's face somewhere before.

She put the matter aside at the time, but one day in the future, she suddenly realized that she had seen this face in Su Shi's photo album long ago, before Crychic disbanded.

But that’s all for another day.

Above Sky City, she witnessed the Empire's fanatical faith, no less than that of the religious madmen in Saint-Shuary. Those crazy soldiers who shouted "For the Empire" and rushed up with bombs, trying to self-destruct with Xiangzi, were not fundamentally different from the freaks in Saint-Shuary.

Furthermore, a significant portion of the people in this city will "become monsters for the sake of the empire."

On their way to the central control tower, she and Chu Hua encountered many bizarre monsters. These monsters looked like clockwork-driven Nutcracker Knights, wielding Gatling guns that shouldn't exist in this world, destroying everything in sight with storm-like tongues of fire.

Xiangzi had seen many identical clockwork monsters attacking him in the factories he passed by; the source of the production line, however, was a group of living, breathing people.

What a terrible world, so terrible it's disgusting.

Xiangzi thought.

The world that Su Shi wanted was definitely not like this.

However, we are far from reaching the bottom today.

The original plan was to find the Holy Grail fragment of the Wrathful World, which is Sky City itself—more precisely, the steam core that powers it.

The steam core was originally powered by "wishes," drawing power from the goddess. After the goddess disappeared, this power source was replaced with fragments of the Holy Grail to maintain the steam core's operation.

That was originally what the dwarves planned.

As a result, the Grail fragments responded to their wishes, personally transforming into the shape of a steam core, powering the sky city that was originally unable to take off.

The price was that the entire dwarf race became part of the city: pipes, gears, pistons, oil... The monster that operated the entire system, known as the "tinderbox," was the embodiment of all the dwarfs' consciousness.

The control room they broke into earlier was just a decoy. Sky City, as the strategic core of the Empire, is located deeper within the city and is protected by layers of fireboxes. Trying to seize it without any preparation is simply a pipe dream.

Therefore, she had no choice but to settle for second best and retreat from Sky City first.

As a result, the world beneath Sky City was an even greater hell.

“…Xiao Xiang, we’ve landed,” Chu Hua whispered in her ear.

Since there was no quick way to descend from the sky, Chu Hua brought the two of them down together, finally landing on a corner of the Holy City's high walls.

"Where is this?"

The landing location was not quite what Xiangzi had expected.

She thought it would be on the street.

“Both sides have anti-aircraft weapons. I was afraid of being hit, so I quickly found a place to land. This is on the city wall of the Holy City,” Chu Hua added.

"Well."

Xiangzi leaned over the city wall and looked down. After just one glance, she immediately pulled back and shook her head.

"Forget it, it's pointless."

The scene below the city wall was too tragic. The battlefield had almost become a river of blood, and even the rising steam carried a strong smell of blood. As soon as Xiangzi poked his head out, the smell of blood hit him.

"What should we do, Xiao Xiang?" Chu Hua asked. "Should we continue?"

Given the current situation, it's fair to say that their objective has failed.

“Keep going.” Xiangzi replied without hesitation, “I can’t go back empty-handed.”

Chu Hua wore an expression that showed no surprise whatsoever.

“Okay, whatever Xiao Xiang does, I’ll do,” she said.

But how exactly do you do it?

Chu Hua didn't ask aloud, but her eyes were already filled with a sense of unease. Xiangzi understood her gaze and turned to point to the very center of the holy city.

"Can you see that place?" Xiangzi asked.

"That cathedral?" Chu Hua looked in the direction Xiangzi was pointing, her mouth slightly agape. "What a magnificent building..."

The church in front of us is a full hundred meters tall, and its giant dome can be clearly seen from any corner of the city. Four striking spires stand at the four corners of the church, making it a magnificent behemoth from any angle.

Even the imperial palace of the empire is not as magnificent as it.

“That must be the core of the Holy City. Let’s go there.”

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As they walked down the high wall, Xiangzi and Chuhua encountered many enemies along the way.

Since the empire descended directly from the sky, the role of the city walls was minimized. There were not many enemies on the walls compared to those below, but there were still a considerable number.

The Empire landed using some kind of landing device, a large, box-like device that looked like the small hulls the Marines used to transport people to Shanghai, the only difference being that the Empire's device could fly.

Some of the login devices landed on the city wall and clashed with the defenders.

They were generally weak; neither the imperial soldiers nor the kingdom soldiers had any ability to resist Xiangzi and Chuhua.

If they don't attack first, Xiangzi probably won't bother to kill them.

The problem is... these people all seem abnormal. One or two of them are religious fanatics. When they see a third party appear, they might even temporarily stop and turn their attention to Xiangzi.

So along the way, Xiangzi's hands were stained with a lot of blood.

A gust of wind blew by, carrying away the strong smell of blood. Xiangzi frowned and came to the foot of the city wall.

The cathedral is situated on high ground, and all the roads leading to it in the holy city are uphill with steps.