Chapter 831 – #173_diagnosis(4)
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One.
Siwoo got out of the forest and got behind the wheel again.
I didn’t want to make her worry for nothing, so I set it aside as nothing special.
In the first place, stopping by the Spirit Witch’s mansion was a ‘health checkup’ in case you didn’t know, and the original purpose was to find a prophecy agency.
“Siw.”
“Yeah.”
Amelia, who was sitting in the back seat of hers, poked her head out of her way.
“Are you really all right?”
Amelia doesn’t seem interested in those around her, but becomes sensitive when Siwoo is involved.
She seems to have sensed something.
“Yes, really.”
“I know.”
It’s better to tell a lie than to worry about it, even if it stings your conscience.
But it wasn’t a serious problem right away.
When I said leave it alone, it blocked the room for deterioration.
Rather, the numbness in her left arm allowed her to get an early check-up and pay attention.
She lived without thinking, and then was almost taken over by her unconscious mind.
In that sense, Amelia saved Siu once again.
“Hmm…”
She even declared that she wasn’t going to get more lovers anyway, and was actually going to do that.
Even now, it has the military power equivalent to the top 1% of the witch society, and there is room for further development.
However, there are still many concerns.
Succession problem using Siu from Lucy Yesod to Diana Yesod.
Similarly, the succession problem of Odile and Odette, whose mother-in-law still has a lukewarm response.
Another strange problem with Amelia is that magic amplification and brand duplication do not occur.
Just looking at this already gives me a lot to think about.
According to the limit predicted by Gretel, the number of copies of the stigma that can be copied in the future is only one.
It doesn’t matter which one you choose.
Since she has already been enchanted by her little mother-in-law, will Odile Odette not be copied even if she becomes a formal witch?
Why doesn’t Amelia amplify and copy?
In order to find answers to these questions, it seemed that Gretel’s cooperation was inevitable.
“By the way, Master, is this the right way?”
“Yes.”
Upon hearing Siwoo’s circumstances, Master always had a gloomy expression.
First of all, I’m trying not to show off as much as I decided to keep it a secret from other lovers, but it doesn’t seem to be easy.
In fact, if Siu-do heard that Master was in a conditional, time-limited state, his heart would collapse.
“The prophecy agency, but how exactly should I go?”
I asked to lighten the mood.
It’s been 3 hours since we moved by jeep.
I’ve heard that one of the ‘corridors’ connected to the Prophecy Agency is in this national park, but I have no idea where it is.
Everywhere I looked, I could only see desolate landscapes and bare mountains covered with snow.
“We’re almost there, arrival.”
As soon as you cross the ridge, which is as bony as frozen bones, you can see the landscape surrounded by mountains.
A basin with a large lake.
Among them, about 50 log cabins formed a sparse village.
“A village where numerology witches who study prophecy gather. It’s Notaricon.”
2.
The group parked the jeep in a suitable place and walked into the village.
In fact, the scale is so small that it is embarrassing to even call it a village.
Even a fairly large log cabin is at the level of a cabin to be called a mansion.
The roads that stretched out here and there were no different from those of animals that were naturally formed by frequent stepping on them.
Even if they are all different, witches lead a luxurious life.
Even though this village was inhabited by monks, it was unbelievably simple and quiet.
Looking around, I can’t see a single hem of the witch’s hat.
I can feel the presence, but even though guests come from outside, I don’t even open the window and I’m stuck in the house.
The novelty of the appearance is also a novelty, but other questions have also arisen.
It’s a question about safety.
Even the spirit witches who lived a little far away prepared their own defenses against uninvited guests.
But in Notaricon, I don’t see anything like that.
If witches like this had come in droves, they would have felt quite a presence, but instead of showing their faces, they were confined to the inside.
It was Dorothy who saw Siwoo puzzled and explained.
“This is a neutral zone. No outcasts, no exploits, no Gehenna witches are forbidden to fight.”
“Is that it?”
Exiles aside, would the public abide by those rules?
Among them, there are outlaws who even kill apprentice witches, which are taboo in the witch society.
“Without these guys, sometimes useful prophecies fall, but I can’t decipher them.”
“It would be great not to receive the prophecy about the apprentice witch. The Witch of Apocalypse does not give prophecies to witches who have harmed the Order of Numerology.”
Master added.
In other words, this village is a useful village for outcasts and exploits, but at the same time it is protected with a huge penalty.
No matter how meritorious it is, it means that someday it will have to be inherited, and if the prophecy does not come down, it will have to stagnate forever.
“This way.”
Except for Eloah, who had already been ordained an apprentice witch, everyone was on their first trip.
Naturally, Master took the lead.
When Siwoo, who was worried for no reason, held her hand, Master smiled and whispered, “It’s okay.”
It doesn’t sound like a lie.
I am very glad that you have found your own answer on this trip.
As we approached the shore of the lake, which occupied about half of the basin, we saw a large temple.
The temple, reminiscent of BC Rome, is half-submerged in a deep blue lake with sparkling glitter.
In this weather, it wouldn’t be strange if it was frozen, but only here the air is lukewarm.
Thanks to that, the traces of the years turned into green sphagnum moss and wrapped around the thick pillars of the temple like vines.
“This is the corridor. Go forward.”
“Alone?”
“I can’t go out alone.”
I nodded at Master’s explanation and dipped my feet into the lake.
-With a splash!
A body that is sucked under the surface in an instant.
I was a little perplexed.
It didn’t look very deep because the water was so clear and clean, but when I got inside, it was 30m deep.
“Five.”
However, there is no problem with breathing even after being completely submerged to the bottom of the head and submerged for a long time.
His body is a bit heavy, but he can talk to himself and hear it with his ears.
The harmony created by magic is always mysterious.
Siu, who was submerged beneath the surface, felt a piece of awe again.
When it reaches the bottom of the lake, another small stream of water, meandering like a neural network, is babbling like a stream.
The stream of water shining softly in gold and silver supplemented the lack of light in the deep water.
I took a step towards the dark entrance, chasing it that led to the center of the temple like a signpost.
“What?”
As if wandering through the landscape of a dreamy dream, a new landscape unfolded in front of me before I knew it.
A wide lake that cannot be followed with the naked eye.
A tower towering in the middle of it.
A sea of stars touching the horizon.
Thick fog.
It is the same as the prophecy organ we saw at the time of being captured by the witch of gold coins.
It was so similar that it made me feel bad.
“This is the Prophecy Agency…”
At that time, it seems that there was a Witch of the Apocalypse who was dancing in the middle of the lake…
Now I can’t see where I went on a business trip.
If he even gave you a ‘dream revelation’, wouldn’t that mean you were a special guest?
Even after waiting for a long time, there was no sign of him appearing, so I couldn’t help it.
“Can we go into the lake now?”
Beneath the rippling lake.
A strange group of lights spins a long thread and shows off the dance moves.
In Master’s words, this thread is an encrypted destiny.
It would be the prophecy itself that shows cause and effect and fate only to those who are allowed.
-With a splash
It was the moment when he squatted down and lightly immersed his hands.
Once again the clock has completely changed.
Somewhere familiar is the center of Ars Magna Town and the most beautiful building in Gehenna.
The ivory tower where the Duke of Keter resides.
There are witches around them.
It’s not the level of living and sleeping to get a word of Keter’s teachings.
A number of witches, who have become the ‘crowd’ of all the witches of Gehenna, are all looking at the ivory tower.
A commotion erupted from the overlapping sound of breathless conversation.
In that buzz, joy and despair, anticipation and tension create a dizzying sense of urgency.
They are all waiting
Awaiting the birth of a new king.
Soon after, the curtains surrounding the terrace of the Ivory Tower are lifted.
The one who took off the blindfold was none other than Shin Si-woo.
At the sight of him holding a red branch and looking down at the witch, they kneel down one by one as if waves are rising.
“You are the King of Witches.”
The witches, who had no place to be arrogant, lowered their heads, and the words they uttered quietly turned into slogans.
There is one reason why this prophecy is an eerie and creepy prophecy.
It was because of the certainty that Shin Si-woo, standing on that terrace, would not be himself.
There is no certainty when this will happen.
However, in the end, it means that even with the help of the witch of the soul, he cannot overcome his unconsciousness.
Just as I was about to lose my breath, the scenery changed again like a projector playing a tangled film.
Idyllic meadow with a gentle breeze.
In a picturesque landscape, there was Shin Si-woo holding a baby wrapped in a cloth.
Siwoo looks down at the little life wriggling, unable to open his eyes properly.
It is not the appearance of Shin Si-woo in the unconscious where all emotions have disappeared.
He had a smile on his lips as if he was lovable.
The ‘bowl’ had already been put down on the baby.
That means…
“Apprentice witch?”
I don’t know which is the front and which is the back.
The unkind prophecy that didn’t even tell us when it would happen ended there.
When I open my eyes, I see a witch approaching me in the near distance.
The appearance of a girl who is only about 10 years old.
She is the witch of the apocalypse who greeted Siwoo in a dream.
This is speculation anyway.
However, Siwoo had an intuition that she was a being who had lived since the system of ‘apprentice witch’ did not exist.
“I was waiting for you.”
The Witch of the Apocalypse said.
It was a voice that sounded like a laugh or a cry.
