Ch.152The Great Witch, Aurelia. (4)

Phuwaaaaah!

Tentacles shot up from the swamp, blocking Olivia’s path.

The tentacles were fast. They suddenly appeared and blocked her way right where Olivia’s blink was ending.

Olivia wasn’t flustered.

‘Is it tracking my mana?’

This swamp was Aurelia’s domain. Unless she erased the entire swamp, there was no way to prevent being tracked.

‘In that case.’

Olivia created hundreds of mana clusters modeled after her own form.

They were far inferior to the doppelgangers created by the Master of Dark. What Olivia created were merely dummies without any physical force.

But when such dummies reached hundreds in number, the story changed.

These weren’t created to be used for attacks anyway.

Olivia calculated the coordinates of each dummy one by one, then shot them to random positions.

It was an impossible feat even for a Grandmaster, but her overwhelming computational power made it possible.

[Using skill, ‘Blink’.]

[Using skill, ‘Blink’-]

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Swoooosh!

Hundreds of tentacles shot up from the swamp floor simultaneously.

But the tentacles weren’t as quick to respond as before.

They stuttered as if experiencing buffering. They couldn’t determine which was the real Olivia.

‘Yes. Of course that would happen.’

The dummies Olivia created didn’t stop after just one blink. As soon as the tentacles rose, they moved to different locations.

Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh-swoosh!

The sight of hundreds of dummies, including Olivia, cutting through space hundreds of times in an instant was enough to cause an optical illusion.

And Aurelia was “watching” this scene through the cottage window.

“……”

Her eyes, which had glowed purple, were now colorless. Her pupils, dead and gray, emitted an ominous aura reminiscent of a blind person.

She couldn’t remember how many times this had happened.

Aurelia couldn’t distinguish between dreams and reality. Ever since she was a newborn, when she left her mother’s womb, cut the umbilical cord, and glimpsed souls.

She had an ability. A very special ability that even her parents didn’t know about.

The inheritance of memories from past lives.

Aurelia had used her ability and couldn’t regain her senses due to the vast amount of information invading her mind.

Anyone would lose their mind before such a wave of information. The memories of tens, hundreds, thousands of distant lives.

And in those memories, without fail, she always became the Great Witch.

– Heu, hua, huaaaa!

It felt like her brain was about to burst. She knew things she shouldn’t know, and realized secrets of the world she didn’t want to know.

In fact, her previous iterations had shown such signs too. But this time, the aftermath was particularly severe.

She simply couldn’t gather her thoughts.

She couldn’t tell if what she was seeing now was reality, the past, or perhaps the future.

“Don’t come!”

Aurelia stretched out her hand. Simultaneously, a giant’s fingers curled and grasped the ground.

Drrrrrrr……!

The ground burst open in sync with Aurelia’s gesture. Olivia’s dummies, unable to withstand such powerful force, all burst at once.

“I said… don’t come!”

Aurelia raised her other hand toward the sky. A giant’s hand appeared in midair and struck down. The ground caught between both hands disintegrated into powder. Truly overwhelming destructive power.

But the person responsible wasn’t happy at all.

No, she couldn’t even glance in that direction.

Because her head felt like it was about to split.

“Keuup, keuuuk…!”

Blinded, she couldn’t see anything. The ghosts of the past continuously gnawed at her mind, and she, already devastated, had no strength to resist.

Moreover, today was a full moon.

With power overflowing to the point of omnipotence, her past selves who were the “Great Witch” began to rampage.

– How many times has it been now?

– I stopped counting after eight hundred.

– My head hurts!

– Is there a virile man around?

– Kill, kill them!

– The intruder will kill you! Kill them before they kill you!

Hundreds of voices echoed in her head. Aurelia clutched her head and collapsed to the floor. There was only one way to ease the pain.

“Keuaaaaaaak!”

Just follow what her past selves told her to do.

Groaaaaaaaa……!

Zodiac’s upper body lunged forward. A giant crawling on the ground, having lost its lower body. A terrible pressure emanating from its entire body.

Olivia didn’t like the current situation.

The trees covering the swamp began to rot and crumble. Souls began to be eroded by madness, and Zodiac was crawling forward, dripping flesh and bodily fluids.

Sorcery is never this filthy.

Even if strange, it’s not repulsive.

Then this is not sorcery.

‘…A witch.’

Olivia realized that Aurelia’s condition was more serious than she had thought. When she, who despises demons, uses her power as a witch, it’s only to kill demons.

‘Even if she couldn’t recognize me, she should have recognized that my power is mana.’

No matter how out of her mind she might be, after causing this much chaos, she should at least think about coming out of the cottage, but she’s not, which means…

“You’re in pain.”

Whoosh! Blue mana pushed back the dark red demonic energy. Small lights began to form around Olivia. A spell that refined lightning to its extreme, enhancing the properties of light.

Wooooong……!

The lights began to rotate around Olivia. The dots gradually formed lines, and at some point created a massive halo.

Pushing back.

Clearing away the contaminated mana.

Blood pooled in her mouth, tasting metallic. Olivia couldn’t spit it out. To produce an effect similar to holy magic, she couldn’t let her concentration waver even for a moment.

‘I can’t get closer.’

It felt like she had used blink hundreds of times, but she hadn’t gotten any closer to the cottage. It was as if the space itself had been inscribed with a formation.

[Grandmaster.]

Rockpa’s voice was heard.

[Can you break the spatial formation?]

Continuous explosion sounds were heard around Rockpa. It meant the Serial Murderer was fighting hard against the ghosts.

“Tell me how to destroy it.”

[May I borrow your sight for a moment?]

“I told you. Don’t ask about such things, just do it.”

Olivia said this while protecting her body with a thick ice cube. As soon as the ghosts approached the cube, they were pierced by the halo wandering around and vanished. The next moment, Olivia’s sight was transferred to Rockpa.

[Over there, do you see that tree? The one with three crows impaled on it.]

“I see it.”

[Destroy it. Lightning won’t work.]

Olivia didn’t question it.

She gathered mana and created a spear emanating bitter cold. Olivia accelerated the spear instantly by imbuing it with lightning, then blasted the tree.

A sound like thousands of crows wailing was heard.

Simultaneously, the form of the cottage distorted as if buffering, then disappeared. The medium maintaining the formation had been destroyed.

[I’ll leave it to you.]

Olivia’s sight returned.

Now, she could see the exact location of the cottage. Zodiac’s upper body was still crawling behind her, reaching out its hands, and ghosts were continuously pounding on the ice cube.

Nevertheless, she could see.

She could see Aurelia, screaming in pain and bleeding from her entire body.

Twitch.

Something deep in her chest boiled up again. Olivia bit her lip until it almost bled. Aurelia is not a target to be killed. She must not be killed.

Olivia somehow directed that anger and hatred toward herself.

Kwararararar!

The light halo rotated frantically. It no longer just protected Olivia’s surroundings but shot toward the cottage where Aurelia was.

Swish-swish-swish-swish!

It cut through tentacles. It shattered ghosts and pulverized Zodiac’s arms.

Moving forward.

Demonic power was pushed back by mana.

Kuuuung……!

The halo dissipated just before reaching the cottage. Olivia, unfazed, simply broke down the door.

“Ah, aaah……aaaaaaah…!”

Aurelia was shedding tears of blood. She reached out toward Olivia. Before demonic power could gather, Olivia had already pushed Aurelia down.

Kwang!

Aurelia, slammed to the floor, coughed up blood. Seeing her dead black pupils, Olivia let out a sigh.

“Damn it…!”

Olivia gritted her teeth. Sorcery was invading her body, tightly binding her legs. In the midst of pain that felt like her entire body was being torn apart, Olivia shouted.

“Snap out of it, you damn woman!”

Crack-crack-crack……!

The sorcery had now reached her waist. Olivia screamed, unable to endure the distant pain.

[My master always said. Only the Great Witch of the North can cure this curse.]

She didn’t know such a method. There was no way she could know.

She had a rough idea of why Aurelia had become like this. Because she had inherited too many memories.

But no matter how much she struggled in the “present,” she couldn’t cure Aurelia’s curse.

Because her decision to inherit memories happened in the past beyond the world line.

She couldn’t change the past that had already been inscribed-.

‘…The past?’

Olivia’s movements froze.

There is.

‘A method only I can do.’

Olivia reached out her hand toward Aurelia’s forehead.

“…This will sting.”

The inside of the cottage shone with a bright light.