Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 113

The Feather Witch (2)’

s breath was pure white. The night air was cool.

No, in fact, it was a scorching desert night that was far short of cool.

The coldness released by the desert sand is enough to make even the ice caps go away.

Icicles were frozen in each tent at the campsite, as if all the light and heat during the day were a lie.

Let’s go. Let’s go.

Even while walking on the sand, Sienna didn’t seem particularly cold.

The dark-colored fur clothes she liked to wear had a valuable warming magic built into them. There were several similar orders placed on Boots.

White skin slightly flushed with warmth magic. Your hair is moist, as if you didn’t know when you washed it.

For some reason, there seemed to be a faint scent. It was the scent of tea.

“We talked about it last time.”

How long did you walk? Sienna broke the silence that had lasted for a while and spoke.

“what?”

“I hate being in debt.”

“It did. “I remember.”

Was it before going down into the labyrinth? It was the day when an arrogant son of an imperial noble raised an argument.

That day, Sienna hit the knight with a volley of crossbows, and thanks to that, no one from the crow’s nest challenged Dallen.

Let’s go.

The sand crunches under my feet. Sienna opened her mouth.

“But we lost again. “And this time, it will cost me my life.”

It was a sentence mixed with a faint sigh. Dallen scratched his nose.

There were two reasons why he came down here.

One is the deal with bourbon. The other is the survival of Sienna, the Witch of Feathers and the best intelligence dealer.

Sienna, the person involved, was told a slightly different story.

Like being asked to be a guide by the Tsar’s Special Forces and in the process learning that she had gone down first as a guide for the advance team.

Dallen suddenly raised his head. The night sky of a pitch-black labyrinth. Countless stars were twinkling.

The star of the labyrinth. Pieces of light in a fantasy world. Beings that will one day be shattered before the end or shattered by his hands.

What came out of his random thoughts was a slightly different answer than his usual answer.

“What debt is there between friends?”

Sienna’s steps stopped. It was a while. Her boots once again created deep, narrow footprints on the sandy desert.

For a while, only the wide throbbing and narrow, fast beats lingered.

After another moment of silence, Sienna finally spit out the words she had been murmuring.

“Friend…”

“Weren’t you a friend?”

“That’s right, friend. that’s right.”

“Thank you. “I thought you were just getting excited just because you’re close to an insider.”

“…Could you please stop using those weird words? “That’s not even a northern language.”

Sienna slightly raised her eyebrows.

“Because of you, I studied Northern Chinese all over again. Do you know how betrayed I felt when I found out that he was a fake Northerner?”

“When did I ever say I came over the Frost Highlands?”

Dallen laughed mischievously. The angle between Sienna’s eyebrows became a little sharper.

“You are not from the North.”

“No.”

“I don’t know where my family is, where I was born, and what kind of life I lived.”

“okay. “You never know.”

Sienna frowned and glared. For some reason, Dallen found that expression so funny that he couldn’t lower his mouth.

The Labyrinth City’s best intelligence dealer, who had been staring at him for a while, roughly ruffled his long black hair and muttered.

“Did I come from some future place?”

“Maybe so.”

“What are you doing?”

She hit me on the arm. Since he was wearing a light shirt, it was quite a harsh touch.

For a moment, light laughter filled the space between the two. It was later that Siena got to the point.

“Actually, I’m a witch.”

“I know.”

“…what?”

Dallen shrugged.

“Actually, I come from the future.”

“…What is he saying now. Anyway, I didn’t live in the Bronze District when I was young. “My home was in the Geumgang Palace.”

Diamond Palace.

Those words were mixed with many emotions.

A bit of love, hate, resentment and longing.

The Diamond Palace was the innermost area of Falcion, a labyrinth city surrounded by seven walls, excluding the twenty-six halls.

It is the only area protected by two walls and the heart of the labyrinth city itself.

It is the highest palace in Falcion and a sacred place where the twenty-six transcendental people and their families reside.

Considering the political and military status of the Labyrinth City, it was no exaggeration to say that it was the most important base in the central part of the continent.

What a series of difficult times it must have been for Sienna, who was born and raised in such a place, to become the owner of a small bar in the back alley of the Bronze District.

That may be why each word was mixed with hesitation and stuttering, completely different from when reciting the contents of the request.

“My mother was kicked out of the Diamond Palace and I was hidden in the most remote corner of the city. A lower street in the southern district of the Bronze District. “It’s a harsh place for a seven-year-old child to live.”

Sienna continued her story slowly.

“The reason I am now in the labyrinth is because of the wrong choices I made back then.”

A story from decades ago when she was still a seven-year-old child.

***

The lineage of witches is passed down from mother to only daughter. Of course, Sienna’s mother was also a feather witch.

And at that time, the Feather Witches had been living in the Diamond Palace for generations.

The witch’s bloodline continues from the beginning of witches. The power of those descendants was so great that even the Diamond Palace coveted it.

Therefore, the Feather Witch, who was friendly to humans, has had a deep cooperative relationship with the Diamond Palace for hundreds of years.

Although they were not officially included in the twenty-six families, the Feather Witches had a voice and wealth comparable to those of the twenty-six families.

The peaceful coexistence began to crack when Sienna had just turned seven.

“Three nights of witch hunt. Have you heard of it?”

“Roughly.”

Dallen nodded.

Three nights of witch hunting. That was an incident that caused an uproar throughout the labyrinth city about twenty years ago.

An incident in which the entire city chased down and punished a witch who had driven one of the families of Geumgang Palace to the brink of extinction.

Even though twenty years had passed, there were few city residents who did not know about this incident.

And there were even fewer people who knew that this incident was actually one of the biggest mistakes of the Diamond Palace, caused by the evil god’s scheme.

“Actually, I was so young that I don’t remember it clearly. “The only thing I remember is the changes in people’s perspectives from that day on and the letters I don’t know who sent them piling up on my doorstep.”

The contents of the letters varied. Polite criticism or sharp threats or violent words.

No matter how clever he was, those words and sentences were unfamiliar to a child of only seven years old.

Of course, as time passed and Sienna became an adult, she could tell. At that time, the content of the letter was full of political pressure to discredit her mother.

“Soon, political pressure gave way to more practical persecution. The false accusation made by my mother was that serious. And people didn’t even want to give my mother time to explain.”

Her political enemies, who had always been jealous of the witch’s power, began to harass the mother and daughter in a dangerous line.

The front door was covered with dirt, and a poisonous toad was delivered to the mailbox.

Anonymously hired thugs destroyed the exterior of houses dozens of times.

Although Siena’s mother had the financial resources and military power to use whatever she could, Siena’s mother did not do anything rashly.

“For that, the false accusation against my mother was too fatal and exquisite.”

If you move hastily, there is a high possibility that you will end up doing something wrong.

As expected, the violence inherent in a witch’s blood cannot be faked, and she is in a situation where she will have to bear alone the mistakes made by countless witches.

Dallen stroked his chin. he asked.

“I don’t think the Diamond Palace is such an irrational place. “Couldn’t you have protested in front of the twenty-six halls?”

“that’s right. If only I had enough time, I could have cleared my name in the end. “My mother also endured all the humiliation with that thought in mind.”

There was no one directly threatening her life, and even if there was an assassination attempt, there was no way she could not protect herself with the power of the witch.

But her political opponents struck an unexpected weakness.

The disgusting nature of a witch that must never be touched.

“That was me.”

The kidnappers may not have thought much of it.

They might have thought it was similar to pouring waste in front of a house or putting a poisonous monster in the mailbox.

Maybe they really wanted to kidnap him for a while and then send him back gracefully so that it wouldn’t cause much trouble.

But to a witch, being an only daughter means more than just being her only child.

Sienna’s mother eventually rolled her eyes when she touched the only blood relative who could continue the relationship.

That night, not only the kidnappers but also more than half of the family members who instigated them lost their lives.

In fact, one of the twenty-six families faced a situation that was no different from extinction.

“The Geumgang Palace was turned upside down. “My mother ran away with me, and the guardians of the Diamond Palace chased us all the way to the Bronze Zone.”

The pursuit was persistent. In the end, Sienna’s mother made a decision.

In order to protect his only daughter, he became a bait and decided to run out of the city.

So Siena was left in the southern district of the Bronze District where the security forces had given up on control due to the large number of outsiders.

As the saying goes, it is dark under the lamp, and the pursuers had no idea that she was hidden in the city.

“I wandered the streets aimlessly. Then one day, I heard a rumor that the three-day witch hunt was successful.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s all in the past. “What matters is that I somehow survived.”

Sienna lightly shook her head.

Before we knew it, the tent was getting closer. They had made a large circle around the campsite and returned close to the starting point.

“To survive, I had to hide my strength. As she got older, the witch’s power grew endlessly. “I thought I couldn’t do anything, so I went to a low-level warlock.”

Sienna laughed slightly. The raised corners of his mouth were almost mocking.

“I made a deal with the devil and no longer have to worry about my powers being discovered. But now I need that power again. “I’m actually on my way to get it back.”

“It’s a deal with the devil. “It won’t be easy to quit.”

“We have to make a deal somehow. “I’ll tell you more details next time.”

Let’s go.

In front of Dallon’s tent. Sienna quietly turned her back and retreated. She had a slightly complicated expression. Dallen scratched his chin and said.

“Sleep comfortably.”

Sienna nodded. Dallen, who was quietly watching this, shrugged his shoulders and walked into the tent.

In front of the tent door shaking slightly. After the light shining through the gap went out, the witch muttered quietly.

“good night. “Thank you for listening to my story.”

***

next day.

Following Executor Sasha’s declaration, the special task force departed for the third floor of the labyrinth.

In fact, marching through the scorching desert like this was half-crazy.

The reorganized special task force numbered about sixty people, and one-third of them were wounded from last night’s battle, both major and minor.

The wound itself was treated with a regeneration potion, but it still needs more time to recover.

Fortunately, Dallon was able to solve that problem. This was thanks to the selection of a bus dedicated to crossing the scorching desert just a few days ago.

Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

Gentle vibration against the skin. Even though all the bedrock and thick sand layers deep underground have been replaced, the ride quality is extremely comfortable.

“Isn’t it wonderful? Sandworm scales have the property of absorbing shock to the limit. It is one of the most ideal materials that craftsmen desire. “If only I could take a little from you….”

“You’ve already taken a lot. “Be greedy in moderation.”

“Oh no, that’s it. “I was wondering what it would be like to use it in a newly developed gunpowder additive…”

Dallon looked at the dwarf in silence. The dwarf’s only eye wandered here and there, and eventually he looked at the ground with a sullen look.

Sienna, who was watching the scene, laughed. She said.

“I never thought I would live to see a one-eyed master craftsman bowing down to a mercenary.”

“Isn’t life all about not knowing what’s ahead?”

“That’s life. “Where have you been?”

“We’re almost there.”

Dallon said that and concentrated on the sensation for a moment.

The guess was correct. This was because the crumbling soil outside the sandworm’s scales was becoming increasingly soggy.

Unlike most areas of the parched scorching desert, the area around the entrance to the third floor of the labyrinth is damp and full of moisture.

I could even hear the sound of underground water flowing at the end of my extended sensory zone, so it seemed like I had almost reached my destination.

Kugugugu…!

When you pull the control stick a little, the sandworm begins to soar toward the ground.

Not long after, the bright light of the scorching desert welcomed the group again.

The place where the sandworm dropped the group off was at the top of a high sand dune.

Dallen pulled out his spear from the sandworm’s back and came down. The group that got off first was looking down the sand dune.

“Huh, it’s been a while since I last saw you.”

Bjorn played with his beard. He was looking at a huge hole at the bottom of the sand dune.

Kwagwagwagwa….

It was a sinkhole gaping in the middle of the desert.

From deep in the hole, an upward air current containing an enormous amount of moisture rises, and when this air current meets the heat of the scorching desert, it turns into a haze.

A sight as if a gigantic monster was expelling its breath.

If there really was an entrance to hell according to folk legends, it would look something like this.

“You arrived without any trouble. “I’ll come down right away.”

Sasha said. Behind her, special forces agents were packing up their equipment.

That hole that looks like the entrance to hell is the entrance to the third floor of the labyrinth.

To get to the next floor, you had to go down there.