No.
What was going on?
Wasn't Bishop of the Fire God Cult only level thirty-something just now? How had she suddenly become a level-sixty Witch!?
A Witch—another Witch?
Were Witches really everywhere in Fall of the Gods!?
Big Watermelon and Melee God of Magic clearly remembered that, in the game's background lore for Fall of the Gods, Witches were described as powerful but scarce. In the new era after the Nine Gods, they had vanished without a trace. Only a few scattered ones remained, operating in secret, and most people would never encounter even one in their entire lives.
But what was going on now?
The game had only just entered beta testing, and they had not even left the beginner village, yet they had already run into two of them in a row?
The key point was that the two seemed to dislike each other, and had just fought a battle!
Wait!
Big Watermelon and Melee God of Magic suddenly felt a chill run from the soles of their feet to the tops of their heads.
Watching women fight had certainly been satisfying.
But...
What if they were watching two women—meaning, two Witches—fight?
That could get someone killed!
What they feared came to pass. After the floating apparition of Bella finished taunting Vivian, she deliberately—or perhaps casually—cast her gaze downward, sweeping over the two people and one wolf who had been watching from below.
Even while fighting Vivian, Bella had clearly sensed the gazes fixed on her.
Liao Zixuan felt nothing when Bella's eyes merely swept over him, but the two players' hearts began pounding wildly. In an instant, a bone-chilling sensation, like being watched by a starving wolf in the wilderness, spread throughout their bodies.
When lust takes the lead,
a knife hangs overhead!
At that moment, Big Watermelon and Melee God of Magic finally understood the painstaking warning their forebears had passed down.
We won't look around carelessly anymore!
"Hmph."
"Playing tricks." Vivian was deeply displeased by the way Bella spoke, because it sounded just like her.
Even though the girl sensed a dangerous aura coming from Bella, she still swung her scythe. Her whole body shot toward Bella's apparition like an arrow loosed from a bow.
And then...
There was no "then."
Vivian launched an attack with overwhelming momentum, but Bella remained floating in place without the slightest intention of dodging. There was even a "Come on, come on" smile on her bewitching face.
Just like that, the girl's scythe easily reached Bella, made contact, and then...
Passed straight through.
Unwilling to believe it, Vivian slashed several more times. She even attacked with her hands and feet herself, but after all that effort, Bella merely watched her quietly. The girl finally understood one fact.
Her attacks were ineffective against an enemy in a soul state.
"Give it up."
"Until you undergo a Transcendent breakthrough, you won't be able to hurt me. The difference between you and me right now is the difference between a mortal and a Transcendent."
Bella smiled sweetly at Vivian, whose expression was extremely unpleasant.
The worse Vivian's expression became, the more delighted Bella felt.
"How is it, Vivian? Now you understand the gap between us, don't you? Eugenia, who fought you just now, was merely a shell borrowed by one of my soul clones."
Although Bella had exaggerated somewhat earlier when she claimed to have over a hundred clones and that Eugenia was her weakest one,
it was not entirely untrue.
Using Eugenia's body was indeed a negative increase for Bella in terms of combat power alone. Her Elemental Affinity was not for fire at all—in fact, it was the exact opposite—and she was not particularly skilled at close combat either.
Yet even under those conditions, she had still managed to fight Vivian evenly. It was clear that the "gap" Bella spoke of was indeed a fact.
"Vivian, I'm giving you two choices now."
"Oh, I'm not referring only to you. I mean the other Vivian inside your body too."
After adding that clarification, Bella's soul-state apparition raised two fingers.
"Choice one: become my disciple and acknowledge me as your mentor."
"Choice two."
After seeing Vivian's disdainful expression after choice one was announced—a look that clearly said, "Who do you think you are?"—Bella sneered and continued:
"Choice two: refuse, get tied up, and be taken away by me. I'll train you until you willingly acknowledge me as your master."
As she spoke, Bella licked her lips, her invasive gaze roaming over Vivian from head to toe.
Very well. The eyes had confirmed it.
She was a pervert.
Seeing that Vivian had no intention of accepting her first choice—or rather, Bella had likely planned to execute the second choice from the beginning—
the floating apparition of Bella slowly raised the Wolf Head Scepter in her hand.
At the same time, the pair of wolf eyes on the dark cyan wolf-shaped mask resting beside the left side of her head began to glow with an eerie light.
"Shadow Wolf."
The instant those two words left Bella's mouth, the air beside her began twisting rapidly and turned into shadow. In the end, two shadow wolves, likewise in "apparition" form, condensed from within it.
"Go. Bring her back." Bella pointed the Wolf Head Scepter in her hand toward Vivian.
Whoosh!
The two Shadow Wolves charged forward. Vivian, meanwhile, furrowed her brows even more deeply. She first tried advancing instead of retreating, meeting them head-on with the black-flame great scythe in her hand.
But the result was as expected. The girl's attack had no effect on the two Shadow Wolves. It passed through their apparitions just as before, accomplishing nothing.
The Shadow Wolves were different. They lunged at Vivian and bit her. Though they had no physical bodies and their wolf forms were merely apparitions, blood and bite marks still appeared on the corresponding parts of Vivian's arms.
It was as if they could use their soul-state forms to interfere with reality, while Vivian in the real world was helpless against them.
If two Shadow Wolves were not enough to suppress the girl,
then—
"Go." Bella pointed the Wolf Head Scepter again, and another four Shadow Wolves emerged from the shadows and attacked Vivian.
This time, even the girl as powerful as Second Personality could not withstand them.
The main problem was that the enemy could attack her while she could not hit them. How was she supposed to fight like this?
The six Shadow Wolves never attacked Vivian's vital points, nor did they bite her very hard. After all, Bella only wanted to tie the little girl up and take her away.
Some bit her ankles, some bit her wrists, and some leaped onto her body, pinning her down and preventing her from struggling.
Thus, no matter how desperately Vivian resisted, the girl was still dragged bit by bit toward Bella.
Just as Second Personality's Vivian was frantic with anxiety yet powerless to do anything—
"Other me..."
"Other me, can you hear me?" Another voice rang out in the girl's mind.
"What do you want? You're so noisy!"
The voice of Vivian herself made Second Personality even more agitated. The reason she had been born was to protect Vivian, to protect the main personality. But now...
Second Personality clenched her teeth.
She... seemed to be too weak after all.
"Other me, um... I mean, do you want to... try letting Little Black help?" In the dark space, Vivian herself blinked.
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