Rise of the Dark Witch

"What is that?" Weiss said in horror as she looked at Harder, who had a tree growing above her head.

"It's just a little trick."

Roja stretched out his right hand like lightning and clamped one of the branches.

call--

A faint blue flame ignited at Roja's fingertips, and the fire spread along the branches.

In an instant, Hard's entire head was burning with blue flames.

"Uwaaaah——"

Hader held his head and rolled in pain on the ground, wailing miserably.

"You stay here to take care of Hade, and don't move around without hearing anything from me." After giving instructions, Roja jumped off the carriage and walked towards Shanta Town.

"Are those two wizards really evil wizards who took advantage of the plague to cause trouble?" Weiss suddenly shouted at Roja's back.

"of course."

Roja didn't hesitate at all, and without any pause in his steps, he walked straight into the black mist.

Walking in a dead town where you can't even hear footsteps.

The thick fog mixed with blood surged around Roya, turning into ferocious faces that roared silently at Roja.

"I know your pain, don't worry, you will be relieved soon."

When Roja approached the center of the town, a deafening sound suddenly sounded, and the whole town was shaking violently.

The surrounding black mist surged toward a certain place under an invisible force.

"Is it finally starting?"

After Roja stepped into the Hejian area and used the Two Soul Witness to observe, he already understood what happened here.

The entire Riverlands is the site of ritual sacrifices by mandolin wizards!

This life-sucking sacrificial ritual has been going on for decades, and all the dead people in the river area over the decades have become nutrients for the operation of the ritual.

When enough nutrients have been collected, it is finally time to bloom and bear fruit.

At the end of the ceremony, the mandolin wizard came again and wanted to sacrifice the entire river area.

“What has been gained by sacrificial rituals that lasted for decades and sacrificed millions of lives?”

Rumble——

Baskets of thick vines sprouted from the ground.

The vines were intertwined and entangled with each other, turning into a towering giant vine with a diameter of more than ten meters.

Gulu gulu gulu——

Huge and immeasurable magic power surged from the roots of the vine toward the top, turning into nutrients for a huge black-red bud.

The buds gradually become larger.

The vines gradually withered.

The moment the buds bloom, the entire vine wilts completely.

Crackling——

As the vines shattered, huge flower buds tens of meters in diameter fell from the sky.

As the buds fell, they suddenly burned.

While burning, the volume shrinks.

Just when the burning flower bud was about to hit the ground, a black shadow rushed towards the flower bud from a distance.

"Don't even think about it!"

Following the roar, a green light shot toward the flower bud faster than the black shadow.

"Do you want to destroy the Thousand Resentment Tumor Fruit?" The black shadow grabbed the green light with its hand.

Boom!

The sound of landslides and ground cracks suddenly sounded.

Strong winds surged in all directions, and the buildings in Shanta Town tilted and collapsed one after another, and the area was covered in dust for several kilometers.

At this time, a breeze blew up and blew away the dust around him.

After the dust disperses and the view is not affected.

Roja looked straight ahead.

Less than a hundred meters away from him, there was a deep pit with a diameter of twenty meters. In the center of the pit lay a black fruit the size of a head.

There are thousands of dark red blood bumps on the fruit's skin, which look like bumps on a human face.

"Thousand Resentment Tumor Fruit?"

The information that Roja exchanged at the Environmental Council contained the content of the Thousand Resentments Fruit.

If the information is correct and the Mandolin Wizard needs the Thousand Resentments Fruit, it means that the Mandolin Wizard...

Thinking of this, Luo Ya, who was still a little uneasy about going to Manhualin to meet the Mandolin Wizard, smiled slightly.

After moving his eyes away from the Thousand Resentments Fruit, Roja looked at the other two wizard apprentices present.

One person was naked from the waist up, his skin was charred, and he was covered in black translucent down. There was a three-meter-long cat tail growing from his buttocks behind him.

——Kukashi!

The other person's skin is as rough and tough as a tree root. People who don't understand might think he is a human-shaped tree root.

——Maven!

With just one glance, Roja felt their power.

Because both of them are third-class apprentices!

Kukashi and Maven were facing each other, and the murderous aura condensed into substance collided between them.

Both of them were wary of the other's strength, and neither dared to act rashly.

Realizing that no one was paying attention to him and treating himself as a non-threatening air, Roja blinked and took a step towards the Thousand Resentments Fruit.

Uh-huh!

Uh-huh!

Two extremely cold gazes shot toward Roja.

The strong murderous intention and majestic spiritual power contained in it can instantly make the knight paralyze to the ground like an earthworm.

"Hello you two, I am the new wizard Roya who came here following the instructions of the Mandolin Wizard. You two should be students of the Mandolin Wizard, right?"

Neither Kukashi nor Maven replied, but they were wary of each other while paying attention to Roja.

Roja's expression did not change at all after being left out.

He stared at the Thousand Resentments Fruit in the center of the pit, "I don't care what grudges you have, but this belongs to the Mandolin Wizard, right?"

"If you want to decide the outcome, or if you want to fight life or death, it doesn't matter to me. You are busy with your business, and I won't interfere with you, so you don't have to worry about me."

"I will take the Thousand Resentment Fruit back to the Mandolin Wizard first."

One step, two steps, three steps...

Roja ignored the ugly expressions on Kukasi and Maven's faces and their murderous gazes and walked towards the Thousand Resentments Fruit.

"Boy, don't act stupid for me here!" Kusika shouted, and several giant pythons condensed from the black breath of death attacked Roja.

Clang!

Roja held the Holy Sword Lion Heart and roared with all his strength. Hundreds of oscillating forces intertwined and turned into a black net to block the giant python formed by the condensed death energy.

Facing the attack of the third-class apprentice, Roja quickly retreated back, knowing that he could not stop it for long, and retreated several hundred meters before stopping.

He narrowed his eyes and stared at Kusika and Maven, "Do you want to betray the Mandolin Wizard?"

"You have wronged me." Maven quickly defended, "The only one who betrayed the teacher and wanted to seize the Thousand Resentments Fruit is the traitor Kukasi! I am taking action to stop him!"

"Hmph! That old immortal uses us students as tools and experimental subjects in order to prolong life. She has no feelings for us, and she still wants us to fight for her?"

Kusika had a frosty look on her face, "I originally thought that after the old immortal dies, I can get her inheritance... Now it's not a loss to get her Thousand Resentment Tumor Fruit."

"Listen to me? You actually said that to the teacher, is that fair?" Maven expressed his kindness to Roya while walking towards him, "Kusika's strength is no less than mine. In a normal fight, who will live and who will die?" It's possible, but I know his weakness, as long as you and I cooperate..."

Maven's voice became softer and softer. In order to hear clearly what Maven said, Roja moved towards Maven unconsciously.

Maven's eyes were wary of Kukashi, and he whispered in Roja's ear. His left arm hidden in his wide sleeves squirmed and turned into five dark green vines with sharp thorns.

"His weakness is..."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! ——

The five vines that Maven's left arm transformed into shot towards Roja who was very close at hand.

However, Roja, who was listening carefully and unpreparedly to Maven's words one second, turned sideways to avoid Maven's surprise attack the next moment.

It was as if Maven's sneak attack had been anticipated, and he even knew the attack method and attack location clearly.

But how is it possible?

Even if Roja had been wary of him, it was impossible for Roja, who had just passed the wizard trial, to dodge his sneak attack so perfectly at such a close distance?

A surprised expression appeared on Maven's face.

But Maven only panicked for a moment, "I was thinking of killing this little troublesome guy first, but I didn't expect that I still have some skills."

Maven and Kusika have studied under the same teacher for many years and have conducted countless missions together. They are both very familiar with each other.

Even though they turned against each other because of the Thousand Resentment Fruit, they both wished they could kill each other and take the Thousand Resentment Fruit for themselves.

However, when the unexpected third party Roja arrived, Kusika and Maven made the same decision in unison - to kill the third party Roja!

Without any communication, the two acted in a tacit understanding.

Unexpectedly, Roja saw through it, and the sneak attack failed.

However, Maven didn't care much about the failed sneak attack. "A new wizard who has just passed the wizard trial, now that I have been close to him, still wants to escape? Still wants to live?"

Since the sneak attack failed, then rely on strength to kill!