Rise of the Dark Witch

Gulu gulu...

Deep underground in Barney's Medical Center, there is a medicine pool filled with many rare monsters and rare medicinal materials.

On the surface of the boiling medicinal pool, a small figure lay.

It's Dora!

Dora was lying in the boiling pool, her skin looking horribly pale as if there was no blood.

Her hair, which was tied into chopstick-thick braids during the day, was now completely spread out, undulating like algae in the water.

All the tight clothes that I usually wear are gone.

Without even a trace of body...

It was not a coveted graceful body, but a rotten body with bones and internal organs visible.

Barney, the witch doctor with pale hair and beard, stood beside the medicine pool, with seven sealed ceramic jars placed beside him.

He opened the first jar and took out a three-legged toad.

"Quack, quack, quack..."

The three-legged toad croaked.

A thick, sickly green mist is released from the bulge on the toad's skin.

Witch doctor Barney threw the three-legged toad into the potion with an expressionless expression.

Next, Witch Doctor Barney opened the second ceramic jar.

A red translucent snake with five heads hovers inside the jar.

Witch doctor Barney used a knife to cut each of the five-headed snakes on their necks, and then threw them into the medicine pool.

I saw a five-headed snake bleeding and swimming in the boiling medicine pool.

Then Barney the Witch Doctor opened the third jar.

There is a head in the jar.

The head had rotted away, and maggots could be seen squirming in the rotting flesh.

But what makes people feel weird is that the two rotten eyes on the head are still moving, as if they are still alive.

The eyes that stared at Barney the witch doctor were filled with hatred.

Witch doctor Barney opened the seven jars one by one and threw all the contents into the medicine pool.

Half an hour passed.

The boiling medicine pool gradually returned to calm.

"That's it."

Following the order from Witch Doctor Barney, Dora in the medicine pool suddenly opened her eyes.

Those bloodshot eyes stared blankly at the ceiling.

Dora came out of the medicine pool and stood in front of Barney the witch doctor with open arms.

Through Dora's rotting body, you can see the beating heart inside, as well as the blood worms eating Dora's body one by one.

Whenever those bloodworms opened their mouths and bit off a piece of meat from Dora's body, Dora's ever-changing expression would be slightly distorted by pain.

Witch doctor Barney took out a small jar as big as a palm and used tweezers to carefully take out the bloodworms in Dora's body one by one.

There were a total of eighteen bloodworms, and it took Witch Doctor Barney more than two hours to take them all out.

Then, Witch Doctor Barney opened another small jar, which contained bloodworm larvae.

After putting the bloodworm cubs into Dora's body one by one.

"Huh..." Witch Doctor Barney wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It's done."

After Dora put on her clothes, she looked at Witch Doctor Barney quietly with a puzzled expression on her face.

Barney the Witch Doctor knew what his granddaughter was thinking.

"Are you wondering why I accepted Luo Ya as my student?"

"Um."

"I have a hunch that he will be a great help on your journey as a wizard...ahem!"

Witch doctor Barney suddenly covered his mouth and coughed violently, and dark red blood spilled from his fingers.

Faced with Dora's concern, Witch Doctor Barney waved his hand, "It's an old problem, don't worry."

Witch Doctor Barney squinted at the ceiling, and his deep pupils seemed to see something nostalgic through the ceiling.

"it's time."

…

at night.

The evening breeze blew into the room through the windows that were not closed tightly.

The curtains billowed and rustled in the evening breeze.

Roja, who was already asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes round and bright.

Roja felt as if he had slept for three days and three nights, and his energy was as good as ever.

"Didn't Witch Doctor Barney say that visualizing and meditating on ancient scrolls consumes a lot of mental energy?"

Just like exercising can be physically tiring, visualizing the scrolls can be mentally tiring.

The difference is that physical fatigue can be eliminated by applying ointments and eating and drinking potions.

And how to eliminate mental fatigue?

Everything that can relieve mental fatigue is an extremely precious and rare treasure.

It is impossible to have it in a remote place like Silla Town.

So I can only take a good rest and wait for my spirit to recover naturally.

It takes three days for mental recovery, so the next meditation practice can be done after three days.

Unexpectedly, Luo Ya only slept for a few hours, and his mental fatigue was completely gone.

And because his mental power had become stronger, he felt that his brain was very clear and he couldn't sleep at all.

Roja got up and came to the window.

The cool evening breeze blew the hair on his forehead.

"I can't sleep anyway, why don't I go to the study and read?"

Roja looked at the night scene outside the window.

The moon, obscured by thick clouds, gave off a dim light.

Under the dim moonlight, the shadows of flowers, plants and trees were looming on the ground.

Suddenly, Roja's eyes fell on a small training ground located in the backyard of Kaitri Castle.

That's where the guards of the Kateri family are trained.

Remembering that he hadn't wielded a sword for a long time, Roja's heart suddenly felt hot.

"How can studying be as enjoyable as playing swordsmanship?"

Roja put on loose black training clothes and quietly left the room and came to the training ground.

Next to the training ground are a row of weapon racks with various weapons, as well as stone piers for strength training.

Roja picked a long sword from the weapons shelf.

The moment he grasped the hilt of the sword, Roja felt as if he hadn't held a sword in decades, and a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar came to his heart.

Roja shook his hand, and a sword flower bloomed in mid-air.

"Ha ha--"

Roja laughed, held his sword and sprinted to the center of the training ground.

Splitting, picking, stabbing, slashing... the basic movements of swordsmanship were continuously performed by Roja, and each sword could make a clear sound of breaking through the air.

After warming up with basic swordsmanship, Roja carried the sword to the stone pier for strength training.

There is a row of stone piers placed in the training ground.

The stone piers are arranged in order from light to heavy.

One hundred kilograms, two hundred kilograms, three hundred kilograms... until the heaviest one thousand kilograms.

The amount of strength is an important factor in measuring a person's strength.

A knight's strength is closely related to his strength.

People who can lift a stone pier of one or two hundred kilograms can only be regarded as ordinary people with a little practice.

Only when the strength exceeds 200 kilograms can one be considered a swordsman, but not a knight yet.

Only those whose strength exceeds 500 kilograms can become a quasi-knight.

And only when you can lift a stone pier weighing 800 kilograms can you be considered a true knight.

As for high-level knights, they can lift stone piers weighing one thousand kilograms.

After Luo Ya put the sword aside, he stood in front of the 700 kilogram stone pier.

Due to his practice of swordsmanship since he was a child, Roja is much stronger than ordinary people.

But that was only before.

Because he was poisoned by the poisonous snake, he lay in the hospital bed for many days and struggled between life and death for a long time. His body was much thinner than before.

The training clothes that used to be close-fitting and could perfectly outline the contours of muscles are now as loose as pajamas.

Although his body size has become smaller, his strength has not changed at all. It is better to say that due to the awakening of his bloodline, his strength is stronger than before.