Just as Ivita, Black Wolf, and the Old Witch were stunned, the door was crashed open by a warhorse clad in full-body steel armor. A knight who was almost plump from his multilayered iron armor, rode on the warhorse, a Decapitation Sword in his left hand and a knight's spear in his right, furiously glaring at the three in the room.
"Hearthstone Witch, you will pay for the people you've killed."
"I've spent twenty years looking for you, today marks your end."
"You and your accomplices will all perish today!"
The Demon Hunter, Black Wolf, drew his broad sword, "It's a knight from the Church. This man must be the local lord."
"He could possibly be the lord of the Black Mountain Kingdom."
Ivita is the prince of the Alsace Kingdom, while the Black Mountain Kingdom was famed for its interior mountains.
Yet the Black Mountain Kingdom differed from the Alsace Kingdom, its true ruler was said to be the Archbishop of Black Mountain, the head of the most influential branches under the Church.
The Demon Hunter blocked the secondary weapon slash of the Wild Boar Knight with his broad sword, "Neither I, nor my lord have anything to do with this witch, if you want to kill her, go right ahead!"
The Wild Boar Knight burst into laughter, "Evil gathered together must be cut down in unison, to showcase my merits."
"Because of you, I may step further towards becoming a stronger holy knight."
"Thank you."
Ivita's heart sank.
I thought you were a righteous knight, but you want to lump us together, treating our corpses as accomplices of the witch to boost your merits.
How twisted!
Are all Church personnel so corrupt?
After several bouts with the Wild Boar Knight, the Demon Hunter, Black Wolf, was finally kicked over into a cabinet in the room by the knight.
Meanwhile, the Old Witch took advantage of the situation, chanting incantations and threw a jar of peas onto the floor.
The peas on the ground sprouted tiny shoots which then wildly grew into thick vines as thick as an adult's wrist.
These vines lashed towards the Wild Boar Knight like a whip.
The lashes left dents in the Wild Boar Knight's solid chest plate, and he was thrown off his horse.
The Old Witch cackled, "Each of these vine lashes can smash rocks."
"If you weren't a knight, a normal person would have already turned into minced meat."
Ivita looked at the Wild Boar Knight, who was breaking off one of the vines with his secondary weapon and nailing it to the wall.
It seems neither the witches, knights, nor demon hunters are ordinary people.
Their fights were extremely dangerous, even for a mere participant, like myself.
The Wild Boar Knight coldly looked at the Old Witch, whistling, and horse hooves echo outside the manor.
The Old Witch screamed, "No good, he's actually called over a Knight Regiment."
"I am no match for them"
"Each individual in these Knight Regiments has consumed a Seed of Life, has undergone organ sublimation, and possesses an Extraordinary Heart."
"I need to escape!"
The Old Witch turned around and crashed through the glass window, jumping off from the second floor to escape.
In the severely damaged room, only Ivita, the Demon Hunter Black Wolf, and the Wild Boar Knight remained.
With a gaze as cold as looking at the dead, the Wild Boar Knight looked at Ivita and Black Wolf, "Gentlemen, for my promotion, could you allow me to kill you under the witness of God?"
"Is it alright?"
"Thank you."
Thanks my foot!
Ivita rolled his eyes. As if I would be willing to be the stepping stone for a sinister knight like you.
"Black Wolf, let's escape together!" Ivita told the Demon Hunter he had hired.
Black Wolf rushed over, carrying him and leapt out through the window, jumping down from the second floor.
Behind them, the Wild Boar Knight's dark words echoed, "Just a useless noble and a filthy Demon Hunter, where can the two of you escape to!"
"Everyone below is mine."
"You can't escape."
Demon Hunter Black Wolf, holding Ivita, landed steadily on the ground.
Looking around, he saw that the manor was filled with ironclad knights riding war horses, each of them, their faces hidden behind helmets that left only their bloodthirsty, greedy eyes visible, wreaking havoc in the manor like ruthless ghosts.
The knights unflinchingly pocketed the silver and gold cups and plates from the manor.
The wooden fences and walls of the houses within the manor were destroyed by these extraordinary knights.
Ivita was speechless. He only had one manor at the start and barely woke up for long when it was ruthlessly destroyed by these knights.
"My Lord, what should we do now?" Black Wolf, the Demon Hunter, was also at a loss. "Which way should we run?"
Ivita spotted the Old Witch who had seized an ox cart from the manor preparing to charge out of the manor's gates.
"Black Wolf, let's go to that old witch's ox cart."
He shouted at the Old Witch, "That ox cart is my property, hey hey, stop!"
Originally just giving it a try, he did not expect that the Old Witch would turn around in fear upon hearing his words, and returned to their location while still driving the ox cart.
Demon Hunter Black Wolf, surprised, hopped onto the ox cart with Ivita.
Black Wolf wondered, why would these witches known for their lack of credibility, risk their lives to rescue us?
That being said, this witch was neither a subordinate loyal to Ivita nor an employee. She had no obligation to return.
Could it be just because she felt embarrassed about stealing a cart?
The old witch screamed in a sharp, piercing voice, "Your Majesty, I have absolutely no intention of violating your property."
"I owe you a cart, I will certainly repay you what I owe."
"Under the witness of the gods of hell and the demons of the abyss, I make you a promise of repayment!"
Upon hearing this, Ivita and the Demon Hunter Black Wolf noticed something odd about the old witch's unusual behavior.
It seemed that the old witch saw Ivita as some sort of entity, showing great respect and fear to him. So much so, that when Ivita claimed the cattle cart as his property, the old witch took his whimsical words seriously.
Anyway, at this moment, in the old witch's mind, Ivita seemed to pose a bigger threat than the Wild Boar Knights Group.
Otherwise, there would be no reason for the old witch to risk returning to take them onto the cart and run away again.
Because the cattle cart had circled back, it was chased by the knights of the Wild Boar Knights Group.
In a high-speed chase, the cattle cart was gradually surrounded by five war horses. Five knights raised their cold knight spears, ready to tear down the cart.
Ivita was somewhat worried. But at this moment, the witch suddenly stood up, raised her right hand. A jade-green ring on her right hand was emitting a cold and eerie glow.
"As the Hearthstone Grand Witch and the Guardian of the Hearthstone City, I command you..."
The flesh of the old witch's right hand withered at a rapid rate. Just uttering this sentence made her arm look twenty years older.
"I command you, you are unable to pursue any cart or carriage I drive,"
"You cannot see me or those around me, you cannot touch me or those around me, you cannot track me or those around me!"
"The evil law is protected by the Dark Queen!"
When she finished speaking, her entire right arm instantly aged and withered and then fell apart.
However, a green flame suddenly burst from her jade-green ring. The air around them became icy cold, and the light dimmed, as if covered by a thick cloud.
A woman's harrowing scream came from inside the emerald ring.
[The law is established!]
The ring fell onto the wooden floor of the cart.
Suddenly, a woman's hand, so dark it appeared black, appeared out of thin air beside the ring, grabbed it, and disappeared back into the depths of the carriage.
The persistent knights, at this moment, had their pupils unfocused, it was as if they couldn't see them and they allowed their horses to stop, then aimlessly searched around.
The old witch turned around and continued to steer the cart with her remaining left hand, muttering, "This is a loss, a total loss. This trip was completely unprofitable. I didn't get anything, and I lost twenty years of my life and my right hand."
"I also lost the ring that the Queen of Stars gave me. That ring increased my mana for at least ten years!"
"And, I have stirred up a huge trouble."
She sneakily glanced at Ivita.
You are that big trouble.
Ivita, oblivious to her intent, waved at her. The mysterious and magical spell just now was a real eye-opener for him.
Ivita even had the idea of learning magic from the old witch.
Ivita asked the old witch, "So, under your spell, those knights can't catch up, right?"
Before the old witch could answer, Black Wolf rebuked immediately, "The man is a Great Knight, higher than ordinary knights and the leader of the Wild Boar Knights Group. I've heard of his vengeful nature."
"The Seed of Life he took should be the 'Giant Flower Arashiyama', the Seed of Life from the Duke of Black Mountain. I've heard that knights who take this Seed of Life become stronger and their temperaments are affected, making them more violent."
"The road of the knight that the Wild Boar Knight has taken should be the family tradition 'Wild Boar Knight', the secret medicine he took should be the Wild Boar series."
"He is a Great Knight and possesses at least six extraordinary organs. Don't be fooled by our recent escape from him, that was just due to good luck, sooner or later he will be able to catch up with us."
The old witch, driving the cattle cart, chuckled sinisterly. "I didn't expect you modified magic species to have such insight."
"That's correct. The magic I casted just now was at best a potent illusion technique. It won't hold off them for long, if it did, I wouldn't have to keep fleeing."
"The Wild Boar Knight possesses the pig nose, an exceptional life structure element, he can sniff out anyone he wishes to track. He will catch up with us sooner or later, and since he's already seen you and smells your scent."
The old witch was thinking about the possibility of using the Subspace Demon God to eliminate the Wild Boar Knight Group.
She kept throwing glances at Ivita.
Out of the blue, Ivita said to the old witch, "I want to learn magic, can you teach me?"
Reacting instinctively, Black Wolf interjected, "Your Majesty, all magic comes with a price."
"Look at the pitiful state of this old witch now."
"Learning magic is not a good idea, and besides, learning magic costs a lot of money. When will you be able to pay back the money you owe me!"
The old witch was about to refuse. "This..."
Ivita stated, "You stated earlier that you would compensate me, for stealing my cart."
"Now is the time for you to fulfill your promise!"
The old witch suddenly remembered the effective pledge she had made earlier.
What a nuisance, just what is this demon up to?
The old witch was somewhat nervous, always feeling that teaching this demon posed a danger to her life.
But compelled by her previous commitment, she reluctantly said, "Your honorable Majesty, I agree to teach you magic. But remember I am a subordinate of the Dark Queen. Can you understand that?"
This was to emphasize once again that she has a higher authority.
Ivita looked towards the Demon Hunter, what did she mean by that?
The Demon Hunter, Black Wolf, shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he didn't know either.