When Hessiana started to shout and swear, Hao Ren knew that his conjecture was right. The humans did not catch her. It was Hessiana who allowed the humans to take her. He realized that he should not have come for her in the first place. What the impish kid did must have had something to do with Vivian.
However, before Hao Ren could stop the witches, they had sprung into action. The witches had summoned a swarm of locusts to frighten the crowd and blocked the square, using the rotten land to disperse the people around the stake. They then headed to the stake and attacked the guards—everything went according to plan. The Letta runes around the square magnified the chaos. Various preplanned spells broke out at the same time. Soldiers wearing talismans in and around the square were quickly overpowered before they could even react.
Hao Ren now knew that they had officially screwed up Hessiana's plan. But the witch's rescue plan had to go on—he needed to meet Hessiana.
