episode_0278
by fnovelpiaIt had been about a week since Lizzie, who had taken the test without knowing that the witch trial was part of a numerical play, sat side by side with Lara at the altar.
Unlike the tumultuous first day, where there was a lot of noise for various reasons, there was no one around the altar now making a fuss about seeing Lizzie and Lara naked. Instead, as time passed, the sight of the two women sitting on the altar became a rather mundane scene.
“Lily, it seems like something is approaching from the lake. Can you snipe it with magic?”
“Yes, of course. At this point, it’s a piece of cake.”
-Zap!
-Thud!
“Your skills are improving, Lily. In the past, didn’t you have to use triple casting to hit something like that?”
“That’s ancient history. It’s been over a year since I entered the academy, so this is expected.”
While chatting casually with the altar behind them, they would switch to defense mode when something approached, with Nana and Edan handling the defense.
Usually, I would handle monsters approaching from the air or water, while Edan would handle enemies on the ground. Of course, when defending the altar with someone other than Edan, the roles would change slightly.
Lara and Lizzie’s nudity was no longer anything more or less than a background of the forest to us.
“It felt a bit risque at first, but now it just seems fascinating the more I look at it.”
When viewed in the game, it was an event that seemed a bit risque, but now it was just intriguing.
Well, since “Luminor Academy” didn’t show a month-long process in real-time, if this scene had been made into a video that couldn’t be skipped in a past life, it would probably have been more boring than risque.
“It seems like Lizzie no longer feels embarrassed.”
As the forest’s vitality passed through her body, it was gradually turning Lizzie into a witch, and at the same time, the knowledge of witchcraft was beginning to enter her mind.
What was being absorbed into this “Witch’s Forest” was not just the vitality of the forest. It was the knowledge of hundreds or thousands of witches who had closed their eyes in this forest, and their owners were passing on their knowledge to their successors. Even the life force that they hadn’t consumed in their past lives.
Thanks to this, they didn’t feel hunger or fatigue and instead focused on accumulating knowledge. To put it metaphorically, it was like hundreds or thousands of professors entering and leaving their minds for a month, cramming their heads with specialized knowledge until they understood it.
Things like leaves or insects were being blocked by the round barrier created by the elders, so the two of them could focus on their training without any problems.
“After doing it once, their level will skyrocket. They might even become hidden characters in this world.”
As mentioned before, the biggest problem with “Witch Lara” in “Luminor Academy” was not being the “heroine” of the game.
In “Luminor Academy,” the term “heroine” simply meant a “female character that could be put into a party.”
And as mentioned before, Lara was just someone who couldn’t be put into a party, only engaging in one-night stands despite her excellent performance as an alchemist.
But if Lizzie awakened as a witch here and was able to join the hero party, it might open up new ways to attack the demon king.
“It might actually be a good combination. With an alchemist, they could also play a support role in battle, so they could easily fill the void left by Rilis.”
At least that annoying guy can be used as persuasion material if he tries to force me into a party. Maybe adding a little appeal that it’s possible to replace Liris with Rijiro.
In two weeks, that guy will also slowly arrive at the Witch’s Forest, so if I endure until then, I can finally finish this long summer vacation event.
“If he dares to say he won’t accept the power of the saint again, I’ll have to force-feed it to him, even if it’s against his will.”
It was fine to accommodate him a few times as the original protagonist, but now my patience was wearing thin.
I’ve been hanging out with that guy just because he’s a trend follower, but if he starts thinking he can control me like an NPC in the game… then I’ll really turn everything upside down.
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“Liris has reached level 21!”
“Liris has reached level 22!”
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The level-up event in the Witch’s Forest smoothly turned into my experience points.
It wasn’t a hunting expedition inside the forest looking for monsters, but rather a patrol duty, so there weren’t many battles, but since the monsters in the Witch’s Forest were of a certain level, I could gain a considerable amount of experience points with few battles.
Leveling up roughly every ten days. In fact, now that I was leveling up so quickly, it didn’t feel that exciting.
In the past, reaching level 1 or 2 was a matter of life and death for me, but now I didn’t feel that urgent need to level up quickly. I still had extra skill points left because there was no urgent need to spend them.
In terms of the story, I was growing slightly faster than the original Liris. Even objectively looking at the ability stats, they were much higher.
Especially with the ‘maximum magic power’ and ‘luck’ stats inflated from the start, they were smoothly increasing along with the level.
The original Liris, who couldn’t even use offensive magic and had to rely on mana blasts, was no more. I had long been reborn as an all-around character.
Meanwhile, Rijiro, surprisingly, continued the witch’s trial diligently for almost three weeks.
Unlike Lara, who had known and prepared for the contents of the test from a young age, Rijiro had only started learning three weeks ago, but was showing an unbelievable progress.
Actually, considering the mistakes already made, it would be unreasonable to stop here. It would be a huge loss to give up after showing everything to others.
If it was Rijiro, leading the top of Augustus, there was a high possibility that he wouldn’t give up even after coming this far. Even thinking about the cost of obsession, he would definitely see it through to the end.
By the way, I made sure not to disclose the details of Rijiro’s witch trial to others, as it would be too harsh to end up not being able to get married after showing my body to foreign men.
“Although, it seems like men aren’t interested in Lara or Rijiro’s naked bodies.”
Edan had already seen my naked body in bed a few weeks ago, so he didn’t show any interest in Lara or Rijiro. Sometimes he would turn his head to kill monsters, but you could often see the two on the altar being treated like scenery.
And Prince Antonio was currently deeply in love with Agnes.
Agnes fell in love with her, and as a result, she might have come to love Agnes’s physique as well, so it was unlikely that the bodies of the two on the altar would catch her eye.
…In fact, in many ways, this side of her tastes was more dangerous, but since it wasn’t my business, I decided not to worry about it.
And upon reaching Karam, she was probably feeling more warmth than any lewd emotions, just thinking about the safe completion of the witch’s trial.
So, from the day the witch’s trial began, quite a long time had passed, leaving about a week until its end.
“I, I finally found you…. Haaa….”
“The terrain was complex, so I got lost for quite a while. If I had followed the path straight, it wouldn’t have taken this long.”
“When you go back, make sure to follow the path quietly, Selena. Don’t ever say things like ‘Elves never get lost in the forest’ again.”
“……Okay.”
The latecomers to help with Lala’s witch trial. The Hero Party of Gyeotmyeojosyegeot had arrived.
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Including the hero guy, there were a total of four members in the Hero Party who had followed all the way to the witch’s forest.
Hero Gyeotmyeojosyegeot.
Saint Serista.
Archer Selena.
Princess Seraphine.
It seemed that only the three people who could definitely be called heroines at the present moment had come along. Characters who were in an ambiguous position, whether they would become heroines or not, were excluded.
“Well, it’s an event that wasn’t originally in the original work, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”
I don’t know what combination they used to handle things in the northeastern Great Plain, but they must have gone through their own share of hardships over there as well.
Dealing with the nobles and indigenous people’s fights, as well as small-scale battles and skirmishes, required some recovery time.
Serista, Seraphine, and Selena, despite being tired due to their affection and competition for the hero, could be seen as having come this far.
“Se, Serah, sister…? What brings you here…?”
“You came because of the regular trading ship with the witches, Antonio. And also because the hero needs to help Lala’s witch trial.”
“As far as I know, you went to the northeastern Great Plain….”
“Yeah. There was a lot going on there. By the way, Antonio, why are you here?”
“He, he just followed along. I told him not to stick around.”
“Haa, Antonio. Do you want to be buried in my sister’s heart too…? And don’t approach women like that….”
“Ser, Serah, sister….”
“…Princess, wouldn’t it be better to talk about that over there?”
As soon as Seraphine arrived, she dragged Antonio, who had become a rag doll, and moved a little further away from Colt.
In addition, Agnes, a member of the same Hero Party, exchanged brief greetings with the other two heroines, and Gyeotmyeojosyegeot approached subtly.
“Is the event going well? How’s Edan?”
“The witch’s trial is now in its fourth week, with about a week left, and Edan is currently defending the altar with Karam.”
“…Karam? Are you talking about that Karam from the Auguste family?”
“Are there other Karams in the Luminore Academy?”
“Well, I know that, but why is he here helping with Lala’s witch trial?”
Gyeotmyeojosyegeot was puzzled by the event that had taken place in an unknown place, and it seemed that showing the situation firsthand would be faster in explaining the situation than talking about it here.
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