Volume 3 Chapter 163

Volume 3 + Chapter 163: The Witch’s Trap

Xia Yi sensed the witch’s aura, so she chose to track it all the way and arrived at this forest outside the outskirts of Laurel City.

The witch’s aura stayed here and didn’t point anywhere else.

“Come out, stop hiding!!”

Xia Yi shouted loudly, calling out to the witch.

“You’re obviously nearby, so why don’t you dare to show yourself?”

Just as she finished speaking, the witch’s voice sounded in her ears.

“Xia Yi, you really do like me, huh? You even chased me all the way here?”

“You!!”

Xia Yi quickly turned around, and sure enough, she saw her.

Her appearance was the same as before, her looks carrying an eerie sense of beauty, her eyes sinister, and her long dark-purple hair gave her a strange, mysterious aura, making it impossible to fathom her inner thoughts.

Compared to the last time they met, Xia Yi felt this witch had become even more ominous.

It seemed the aura of calamity on her body had become even more intense.

“What’s wrong, Xia Yi, looking at me like that, do you think I’ve changed?”

The witch, Saphia, smiled happily and placed her hand on her own soft bosom.

“I, like you, have finally received the blessing of calamity!”

“Blessing of calamity?”

Xia Yi couldn’t understand what that meant.

“The master I serve—Lord Samael—has finally been willing to cast his gaze upon me and grant me his blessing. It’s simply like I’ve gained a second new life!”

The witch’s face showed a mad smile, her expression devout, tears overflowing from her eyes.

“This feeling… it’s simply too wonderful. I will definitely repay Lord Samael, offering death as tribute, so that my master will further acknowledge me.”

“So that means… this time, the one who sent mutated beasts to attack Laurel City was your conspiracy, right?” Xia Yi questioned coldly.

“That’s right!”

The witch admitted it without hesitation.

“Guess what my true goal is?”

“What is it?”

“It is actually—”

The witch leaned close to Xia Yi’s ear and whispered softly:

“Want to know? Then become like me, willingly accept calamity, and when that time comes, I will tell you everything about this grand plan.”

Xia Yi pushed the witch away in disgust. “That’s impossible!”

“Still as stubborn as before, Xia Yi? Do you have to personally witness the greatness of calamity before you’re willing to submit?” The witch sighed.

Now, Xia Yi was certain.

The culprit was the witch right in front of her.

Obviously, the legendary beast of calamity didn’t personally take action. This calamity’s birth was initiated by Saphia’s voluntary petition to the furious beast Samael. She was the one orchestrating it.

Knowing this piece of information was extremely important intelligence.

If the legendary beast had truly taken the field, that would mean absolute despair—almost impossible to resist.

Since it was the witch pulling the strings, then eliminating this source would be enough.

After confirming this thought in her heart, the little princess immediately used Chant Restriction.

Although her Silver Dragon royal bloodline was suppressed now, some not-so-powerful spells could still be cast without the chanting phase.

Ice Spike!

Ice-elemental magic condensed in the air into an ice spear, stabbing toward the witch.

This was the near-cheating ability of Chant Restriction—almost no startup, no gestures, no preparation, casting the spell instantly, catching people off guard with no time to react.

Swish!

The ice spear struck the witch with perfect precision.

At such close range, even if she reacted, it would have been too late.

The witch’s expression was one of shock, then… she smiled.

The ice spear had pierced through her body?

“Xia Yi, you really are terrifying. How can you cast instantaneous magic without any sign?” Saphia seemed slightly surprised.

Xia Yi was very confused as to why her attack missed, and then the witch’s figure began to waver like mist.

This is…

A decoy!!

“This is a fake body I created to deceive you. The real me isn’t here. This place was specially prepared to lure you and set a trap.” The witch explained.

“You… don’t tell me!?”

“This calamity is far more terrifying than you imagine. By now, the disaster beasts should have already broken through the city gates and are marching toward Laurel City. The calamity beasts will surely trample everything in Laurel City and slaughter every living soul, and this is only the beginning. It won’t be long before death completely engulfs this land.”

Saphia was in a very good mood.

“When everything ends, you’ll get to watch your friends die one by one. You will truly feel how small and powerless humans are before the truly great will!”

Thump, thump, thump!

Several massive creatures emerged from the shadows of the forest. All of them were calamity beasts, completely beyond the level of the mutated beasts Xia Yi saw at the city gates.

“Xia Yi, just stay here obediently. As long as you don’t move around recklessly, you won’t get hurt!”

After saying this, the witch’s figure also dispersed like mist.

Looks like this guy truly intended to trap Xia Yi here with this method.

“I must hurry back!” Xia Yi was worried about the situation in the city.

From a human perspective, these few calamity beasts were absolutely impossible to defeat.

However…

This little loli was an exception.

The holy sword seal on Xia Yi’s hand released a bright light as she called out to her companion.

“Holy Sword! Gram!”

…

…

At the Laurel City gate.

Everyone watched the beast legion charging toward Laurel City.

Dealing with just one calamity beast was already this hard, not to mention this many.

Everyone present didn’t even dare to carefully count how many calamity beasts there were in total.

“All of you, listen to my command, gather over here!!”

Biden shouted loudly.

His voice seemed to awaken everyone.

“Now, everyone who can still move, bring all the injured here to me! Next, I’m going to use teleportation magic to send everyone back to Laurel City—we’ll return to Laurel Tree Academy!”

Biden gripped his staff tightly, eyes firm.

“This isn’t over yet. Don’t give up. This is not a dead end! Sword Saint, don’t let the calamity beasts interrupt my spell. There’s only one chance!”

“Understood.” The Sword Saint nodded.

Biden took out a magic scroll and a rare magic stone, began chanting an incantation, and infused magic power to activate the scroll. A magic circle appeared on the ground.

This was spatial teleportation magic!

Spatial magic was an extremely advanced form of magic. Even for a human archmage like Biden, he couldn’t claim mastery—he was only barely scratching the surface.

Spatial magic was extremely unstable, very easily disrupted, and completely uncontrollable afterward. Using it in battle was like being a sitting duck.

If the teleportation was interrupted by a calamity beast, they might not be sent to Laurel Tree City at all but instead right into the middle of the calamity beasts.

The calamity beasts sensed Biden casting spatial magic and lunged toward him.

“Not a chance!!”

The Sword Saint raised his holy sword—Balmung—and slashed, blocking the calamity beast.

But at the instant his holy sword touched the beast’s claws, the holy sword seal on his hand began flickering at a steady rhythm, resonating.

The Sword Saint’s pupils trembled violently.

Balmung also began vibrating, letting out a buzzing sound, extremely restless.

Aside from himself, another Holy Sword wielder had appeared.