Rise of the Dark Witch

Duh duh duh.

A crisp knock on the door sounded.

"come in."

After getting Princess Fanny's promise, maid Siti opened the door.

The maid Siti pulled a small cart with pieces of toiletries on it.

Seeing Princess Fanny who had gotten off the bed, sat on her wheelchair and came to the window, her whole body exuding a warm light, Siti was stunned for a moment.

After reacting, Siti quickly walked over to check Princess Fanny's body, "Princess, you moved without authorization again. If you want to get up early, can't you just let us know? What if you fall to the ground and can't get up like the previous times? ?”

"No problem. I used to be a stone blacksmith, and I still have some strength." As she said that, Princess Fanny rolled up her sleeves, revealing her slender white arms.

"Princess……"

Siti looked at the stubborn Princess Fanny, and her voice suddenly choked up.

Back then, Princess Fanny was the most talented stone forger in the Star Tower. If she hadn't been paralyzed due to the accidental explosion two years ago, she might have become the most powerful stone forger in the Star Tower in a century.

"Siti, why are you crying all of a sudden?"

"No, it's okay, I just got sand in my eyes."

"Yeah?"

"Princess, didn't you say you were going to the garden today? I will help you wash up and get dressed."

After helping Princess Fannie wash up and change clothes, Siti was ready to pick up Princess Fannie and walk downstairs.

"Wait, take the pendant in the drawer." Fanny called to Siti.

"Almost forgot."

Siti, who carefully helped Princess Fanny put on the pendant, asked curiously: "Princess, who gave you this pendant? Is it so precious that you carry it with you every day?"

Siti is Princess Fanny's personal maid and her playmate since childhood.

Regarding Princess Fanny, I can’t guarantee 100%, but at least 90% of it is known to Siti.

This extremely cherished necklace of Princess Fanny suddenly appeared two years ago after Princess Fanny became paralyzed for some reason.

I don’t know who gave it to me, I don’t know where it came from, I just know that Princess Fanny is very rare with this necklace, and she must carry it with her wherever she goes.

"Could it be a gift from someone who admires you, princess?" Siti joked.

"Are you in love? If so, that would be great." Princess Fanny looked at the necklace in her hand with a complicated expression. She suddenly raised her head and asked Si, "Have you and Anjie made any progress recently?"

"W-What? I-I...I have nothing to do with that guy at all, I don't like him..." Siti stammered with a blushing face.

Princess Fanny looked at Siti with the gentle eyes of a child, "After taking care of me for so many years, it's time for you to get married, Siti."

"I will always accompany you, princess!" Siti said firmly.

Seeing that Princess Fanny was about to speak, Siti quickly changed the subject:

"Hey, we went out much later than usual today. Will the flowers and plants in the garden not be able to drink water in time and die of thirst?"

"Since it's late to go out, you have to speed up on the road."

Siti hugged Princess Fanny tightly, "The road may be a little bumpy, princess, please be careful."

Siti held Princess Fanny and walked down the stairs in a hurry.

After carefully placing the princess on the wheelchair that had been prepared downstairs, Siti pushed the wheelchair towards the garden.

On the way.

Princess Fanny frequently looked towards the palace hall, where a very important meeting was being held.

Princess Fanny clutched her chest. Ever since she heard the news a few days ago, she had felt inexplicably uneasy, as if something bad was about to happen.

Siti, who noticed the change in Princess Fanny's gaze direction and expression, also looked worried.

"I heard that a wizard walked out of the forbidden door a few days ago." Siti sighed, "I didn't expect that the legendary wizard actually existed, and we met him."

As soon as the topic of wizards was brought up, Siti's face suddenly became heavy.

Wizard is synonymous with ominousness and a symbol of evil.

Every appearance of the wizard is accompanied by death, war and chaos, and the entire Star Tower will fall into a purgatory-like world under the clutches of the wizard.

I originally thought that legends about wizards were just stories used by adults to scare children. Since she turned fifteen, Siti no longer believed in legends about wizards or brave men.

But I didn’t expect the wizard to actually show up!

So where are the brave men?

Who will be responsible for eradicating the evil and terrifying wizards and returning them to the world of purgatory where they should be?

"There will definitely be no problem! We have His Majesty Rand!" Siti clenched her fists to cheer herself up, "Back then, the late Emperor King Charlie's best friend, Holy Knight Sejie, was a wizard from the Wizarding Continent. King Charlie He has the same strength as the Sejie Holy Knight."

"And the current king of our Star Tower Country, His Majesty Rand, surpassed the late Emperor King Charles in strength when he was twenty-two years old. He is one of the strongest people in the history of our Star Tower Country."

"His Majesty Rand holds the Holy Sword of Nine Glory, which has been inherited from our Star Tower for thousands of years. Even if he is an enemy of the Holy Knight of Sejie, he can kill her."

"I don't believe that the wizard named Roja is still as powerful as the Holy Knight?"

"And in addition to His Majesty Rand, we also have Marshal Fran, General Mickey, General Maugham... and other strong men."

"There are still tens of thousands of elite soldiers..."

"Even a wizard is no match for us!"

Siti comforted Princess Fanny, "So princess, you don't have to worry."

Princess Fanny lowered her eyebrows and held the pendant tightly with her fingers. She didn't know if she listened to Siti's words.

"Why can't we find a way to destroy that forbidden door?" Seeing that Princess Fanny was absent-minded, Siti said the last sentence and never mentioned wizard-related topics again.

Soon, the two of them came to the garden.

Looking at the beautiful flowers and plants in the garden and smelling the fragrant fragrance, Siti's heart, which had become bored because of the wizard's affairs, suddenly felt much refreshed.

Even Princess Fanny, who had always had a sullen face, had a smile on her face.

Seeing Princess Fanny smiling, Siti's mood improved even more.

She looked up at the dark sky, "I heard that there is a vast starry sky and a dazzling sun on the earth. Plants grow lushly under the sun, and endless oceans of trees can be seen everywhere on the earth."

Siti said so, her eyes full of longing.

She closed her eyes, smelled the fragrance of flowers and herbs around her, and imagined herself in a sea of ​​flowers and herbs.

"We can't go to the earth, but we can try to turn our world into a green world." Princess Fanny smiled.

"Um!"

After Siti nodded vigorously, she started watering the flowers and pulling weeds with Princess Fanny.

Siti was humming songs and taking care of the flowers, plants and trees, feeling tired and happy at the same time.

suddenly.

Siti noticed that Princess Fanny's movements paused and her body became stiff.

Especially in the princess's eyes, tears of sadness actually flowed out.

She has never seen such sad Princess Fanny in her life!

Even when she was paralyzed due to the explosion of the tempering meteorite two years ago, she never saw Princess Fanny shed a single tear.

At that time, it was Princess Fanny who comforted her as she burst into tears.

Princess Fanny, who looks weak but is actually stronger than anyone else, suddenly sheds tears of sadness?

"Princess, what's wrong with you? Are you bitten by an insect?" Siti immediately panicked and looked around Princess Fanny for the insect.

"There are many people... I feel their pain... They are in purgatory..." Princess Fanny looked in the direction of the palace hall, tears flowing uncontrollably.

"Purgatory?"

Siti, who realized what Princess Fanny meant, suddenly turned her head towards the palace hall.

There, His Majesty Rand and his ministers were meeting with the evil wizard who came out of the forbidden door.

Princess Fanny would be so sad and say such words, doesn't that mean...

But how could Princess Fanny know what was happening in the hall?

So far apart, they can't see or hear at all?

"Take me there." Princess Fanny pulled Siti's sleeve and said.

"Princess..." Siti hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and refused: "Even if we go over, we can't change anything, right? We have to believe in His Majesty Rand, they will definitely win."

"Take me there!" Princess Fanny repeated the words in an accentuated tone.

"...Okay." Seeing Princess Fanny's insistence, Siti had no choice but to push her wheelchair towards the main hall where the meeting was held.

However, before they were halfway there, the ground suddenly shook violently as if there was an earthquake.

What followed was a scream that made people go numb.

Listening to these screams, which were like coming from the abyss of hell, Siti had goosebumps all over her body, and she froze in place and did not dare to move forward.

Under Princess Fanny's repeated urging, Siti finally mustered up the courage to move on.

The further they walked, the closer they got to the palace hall, the clearer the screams became.

After walking for more than ten minutes, they finally arrived at their destination.

Then, what they saw was a forest!

Strips of pitch-black plant roots sprouted from the ground, dangling in mid-air.

People they knew or didn't know were tied to the roots of the growing plants.

The soldiers who were supposed to be guarding the palace and fighting the wizards were pierced into their bodies by strange plant roots and became part of the plant.

Then their bodies were dismembered and torn apart.

But what is horrifying is that even though the body has been broken into dozens of pieces, it is still not dead and is still wailing in pain.

What's even more terrifying is that he is attracted by an invisible force.

The surrounding insects and ants climbed over one after another, climbing on the tree roots and chewing on the broken human body.

Facing the hell-like scene, everyone who saw it turned pale and bloodless.

"Evil, devil! Devil ahhhh——"

"Wizard! Wizard—"

"Wow ah ah -"

The survivors screamed like crazy.

Through the fragmentary information contained in the screams of the survivors, Siti quickly understood what happened.

Tens of thousands of elite soldiers were wiped out!

And it's not just an ordinary death, but suffering hell-like torture!

How could Siti, who had been with Princess Fanny since childhood and had never even seen blood a few times, bear this kind of stimulation?

"vomit--"

Siti opened her mouth and couldn't help but vomit.

Although Princess Fanny's face was also very pale, her performance was not as bad as Siti's. She still had enough time to pat Siti's back to comfort her.

After vomiting all the breakfast food and retching for a long time, Siti finally recovered.

Seeing Princess Fannie's worried eyes and seeing Princess Fannie's nails digging into her palms that were bleeding because she clenched her fist too hard, Siti felt filled with guilt.

"Princess, I'm sorry, I, as your personal maid, I still let you take care of me, wuwu..." As she spoke, Siti began to sob softly.

At this time, several surviving soldiers walked over quickly.

"Your Highness, this place is too dangerous. Please leave here as soon as possible." The soldiers ignored Princess Fanny's request and forcibly took Princess Fanny and Siti away.

Princess Fanny, who was forcibly protected in the room, was always paying attention to matters related to the wizard.

Every day she sent someone to inquire about the news.

Later, when I heard that the evil wizard named Roja had summoned all the top stone forgers in the Star Tower to forge meteorites for him, the light in Princess Fanny's eyes became extremely firm.

"Take me to see Wizard Roja."

Faced with Fanny's request, everyone tried to dissuade her.

"That wizard has killed countless people and is a man-eating demon. He likes to attack beauties like you, Your Highness. You must not go!"

"Tens of thousands of elite soldiers were wiped out with one move, and more than half of the civil and military ministers were tortured to the point of death by his terrifying tree torture. That wizard is simply a demon with no humanity at all!"

"Your Highness, if you go to see that devil, you are simply sending yourself into the devil's claws!"

Faced with constant persuasion from others, Princess Fanny still persisted.

King Rand was finally alerted.

Since the wizarding rebellion that day, the wise and mighty King Rand has become dull-eyed and haggard, and his silky black hair has all turned gray in a few days, making him look thirty years older.

Faced with his daughter Princess Fanny's request to meet the wizard Roja, King Rand did not refuse as hastily as others.

He cleared out all his servants and had an in-depth one-on-one conversation with Princess Fanny.

When the door opened and King Rand came out, "Let Fanny go see Wizard Roya."

No one expected that Princess Fanny would convince King Rand!

Although the servants are still puzzled, they still don't want Princess Fanny to meet the murderous evil wizard Roya.

But King Rand gave the order, and Princess Fanny was so insistent, they could only do it.

But I didn’t expect that when Siti pushed the wheelchair to see Roja, Roja actually stayed in the forging room?

After all the invited stone masters left, only Roja remained in the forging room and ordered everyone not to disturb him, otherwise he would be killed without mercy.

Faced with this result, although Princess Fanny looked disappointed, everyone including Siti felt lucky.

"Ha, luckily the evil wizard is busy doing other things."

"Princess Fanny only made such an irrational decision in a moment of excitement. She will definitely not approach the wizard again when she calms down."

"We must take this opportunity to persuade Princess Fanny."

One day, two days, three days...

Time passed day by day, and Roja still did not come out of the forging room.

Princess Fanny still appeared in front of the forging room early every morning and did not leave until late at night. No matter how others persuaded her, she did not change her decision.

Finally, the fateful moment arrived.

I thought it would be a day of waiting in vain as usual, but the door of the forging room suddenly shook.

"Crunch——"

With a harsh sound, the door opened!

The figure in black robes walked out of the door, making everyone present tremble with fear.

When everyone's bodies should be stiff with fear, Princess Fanny turned the wheels of her wheelchair and approached Roja.

"your Highness……"

Siti panicked all of a sudden.

She wanted to go over and stop Princess Fanny, but Princess Fanny had already gone to the wizard named Roja.

If she ran over and forced Princess Fanny's wheelchair away now, she would only offend the wizard.

Powerless, she could only silently pray for Princess Fanny, "God, please protect Her Highness the Princess, and do not let Her Highness the Princess be killed by the evil wizard..."