Rise of the Dark Witch

Roja walked out of the dark alley holding on to the wall.

Every step he took would involve the injuries on his body, causing bursts of pain.

Under the suppression of the rules of the moon phase world, without the protection of the power of the domain, a person as strong as Roja would not be able to hold on for a few minutes before his body would completely collapse.

Roja has domain power, but it is not enough to protect the whole body.

So he gave up 99% of his body, and the remaining parts of his body were transformed into small roots protected by the power of the domain to parasitize on his current body.

Losing most of his body, he needed to create domain power at all times to resist the suppression of the rules of the moon phase world. Roja's strength was unprecedentedly weak.

His current strength is inferior to even the weakest first-class apprentice.

But despite this, with the powerful healing ability of his forest magic and his understanding of the human body, it only takes a few minutes to heal his injuries.

But he won't do that.

Someone must have seen him being dragged into an alley and beaten by three gangsters.

While he lay in the alley for several hours, many people saw his miserable figure.

Is it reasonable for him to have no injuries at all?

Although the probability of being discovered is very low, Roja will never reveal any flaws.

He walked slowly and staggeringly, with a look of pain on his face every step he took.

Leave the dark alley.

Walking on the bright streets illuminated by street lights.

"What should I do next?"

Roya looked around.

On the road, various vehicles drove in an orderly manner, and the sound of horns spread extremely far at night.

In the restaurant, people eating late-night snacks sat at one table after another. The fragrant aroma of food spread out and lingered on Roja's nostrils, arousing his body's instinct of hunger.

In the milk tea shop, a group of fashionably dressed little girls gathered together and chatted about love. Occasionally, they caught a glimpse of the beggar-like Luo Ya through the glass, showing an expression of disgust.

Although there are many differences between this world and Roya's previous life, there are many similarities.

"Maybe I could just relax?"

"Can we go to the bar and have a long chat with the wild young lady?"

"Or maybe go to the game arcade and ravage those elementary school students who think they are invincible on the game console?"

"How about trying all the delicacies and becoming an expert in food appreciation?"

All kinds of thoughts flashed through Roja's mind.

"You can try it when you have time."

"Now..."

Roya dug into his pockets.

His pockets were empty, not even a penny.

"No matter what world you are in, money is indispensable!"

"Let's make money first."

With Roja's ability, it is very easy to make money.

Although he has not specifically learned stealing techniques, if he does it, no one will be able to detect it.

"Isn't it too depraved for a dignified official wizard and a dignified Holy Emperor of the Saint Luo Empire to steal ordinary people's money?"

Roja thought for a while.

"Going to the casino?"

Although under the suppression of the rules of the moon phase world, it is difficult for Roja to even release his mental power, the rules of the moon phase world cannot affect the proof of dual souls.

With the certificate of two souls, the casino is his cash machine.

"If you go to a casino... it would be bad if you make too much money and get caught."

"It doesn't matter in the future. It's still in its infancy and its strength is still too weak."

"...it's better to keep a low profile."

After much thought, Roja finally decided to return to this body's old profession - a scavenger.

Ordinary scavengers either dig through trash cans or go to garbage dumps to find valuable items.

Roya didn't need to do that.

Proof of two souls!

"Is there a gold ring that fell off?"

Luo Ya walked a few hundred meters, picked up a wooden stick and picked out a gold ring from the smelly ditch.

"There are thousands of dollars hidden in that piece of clothing?"

Roya picked up an old men's coat with dozens of banknotes sewn deep inside the coat.

"Private money?"

Luo Ya accepted all the money without ceremony.

"Is this a wallet?"

Luo Ya got dozens more dollars.

Within a few hours of starting his scavenging trip, Roja had already picked up nearly 10,000 yuan in cash, as well as rings, gems, jewelry... and other items worth more than 100,000 yuan in total.

"Scavenging is such a joy."

"I'm kind of enjoying it."

With money, Roya successfully filled his stomach and set out on his way home.

His residence is located on a street called Hu Shu Street.

A remote place far from the city center.

We came to the depths of Hu Shu Street, a place known as a slum apartment.

After walking through the damp and muddy road littered with cigarette butts, glass shards, and excrement, and smelling the stench of various smells, Roja arrived at a five-story dilapidated house.

Looking at the house in front of him with many cracks in the walls, Roja came to his door.

Didn't come back for a day.

The lock was broken.

The door was forced open.

Walk into the room and take a look.

The crowded room that was originally filled with scraps that could be sold became much emptier, and even the wooden boards used to make beds on the floor were gone.

"Is there any mistake?"

"Even stealing from scavengers?"

"Even if you steal valuable things, you have to take away the wooden board you sleep on?"

Roja deeply felt the malice of this world.

Roja knew why this was the case.

Because he is a scavenger, the only scavenger in this slum apartment.

It’s not that people here look down on waste pickers, but waste pickers often take a bunch of rubbish home, put the rubbish in the room, and pile it up at the door, exuding an unpleasant stench and attracting all kinds of bugs, especially on rainy days. It even spread directly to the entire apartment.

Although the environment of this apartment is already poor, their family of scavengers can be called the strongest destroyers of air quality.

In the past, when Grandma Sally was still here, the neighbors would give her some face because she had lived here for decades.

Now there is only a fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old boy left alone, and people will not tolerate it any longer.

This time I broke his lock, broke his door, stole his things, and took his bed board, just to give him a reminder.

If he continues to pick up the trash and put it away, it won't be so easy next time.

But as a person who makes a living by scavenging, if you can’t make money by picking up garbage, how will you make a living?

"If you tell them this truth, will they listen?"

"Are they going to put up with the stench of garbage just so I can make a living?"

"...Actually, it's not that I can't understand them."

Roja looked at the environment of the room and couldn't help but frown.

Due to the accumulation of various collected garbage in this room all year round, the whole room is filled with a lingering stench.

Even the people living in the room seemed to be pickled by the stench.

Roja wanted to open the window to disperse the stench in the room. Unexpectedly, there was a stinking ditch outside the window. A bunch of flies and mosquitoes flew into the room through the open window. He decisively closed the window again.

If possible, he would like to use cement to seal this window forever.

"Although the room area is only a dozen square meters, there is no toilet, no kitchen, no faucet, and not even electricity..."

"But there are public toilets and public faucets here. It only costs a few hundred yuan a year. It's barely a place that can protect you from wind and rain."

"It's a little better than a beggar wandering the streets without a place to live."

Roja glanced at the room where various bugs were crawling on the ground, and at the dozen or so little beasts that he had trampled to death.

If there is no wooden board to sleep on, if you sleep directly on the ground...

"Go out and find a place to sleep."

Roya left the room and found a safe corner on the street to sleep for the night.

…

Early the next morning.

People in the slum apartment looked at Roya who was cleaning the room with sweat.

"Xiao Xiu, what are you doing?"

"What are these waste products? Do you plan to throw them away?"

"Why did you suddenly buy so much new furniture?"

Facing other people's inquiries, Roja came up with the words he had already prepared.

"Grandma left me some money."

"She told me to focus on my studies and work hard to get into a good university."

"I won't be a scavenger anymore. I will spend all my time and energy on studying."

Scavengers are not necessarily poor.

The grandmother in this body had saved quite a lot of money over the years and was richer than most of the residents of this apartment.

But she didn't use the money to improve her life. She still picked up garbage every day, collected scraps that could be sold, and had two meals of steamed buns and pickles a day. She saved all the money.

Then after he fell ill, he gave all the hundreds of thousands he had accumulated in his life to the original person so that he could study hard.

Then--

As a filial grandson, how could he hold hundreds of thousands of dollars and watch his grandmother who had worked so hard to raise him die of illness?

After learning from the doctor that as long as the treatment continues, there is a certain probability that the disease will be cured.

Ignoring my grandmother's objections, I spent all the money on medical treatment.

Then all the money was spent, and grandma lived for a few more days, but unfortunately she died of illness.

The money is gone, and so are the people.

does it worth?

Roya is not easy to rate.

Some people, faced with seriously injured relatives, decisively give up treatment even though they have money for treatment.

Some people, when their loved ones are sick, are willing to go bankrupt as long as there is a glimmer of hope for a cure.

Roja belongs to neither the former nor the latter.

When encountering a similar situation, he would try to get treatment, but he would leave at least 10,000 to 20,000 yuan in pocket and would never spend all his savings leaving him with no way out.

But he was the only one who knew that he had used up all the money and kept nothing.

So when he did what the scavenger grandma said, the people around him didn't doubt it.

"Clean the room? Let me help."

"What's wrong with just buying these pieces of furniture? I have some unwanted ones at home. I'll give them to you."

"I have a scrapped bed for you to use."

“Need to discard clothes?”

"Your walls are too dirty. I'm doing decoration work and I happen to be free these two days. How about I only charge you for the materials?"

People at the bottom can sometimes be very cunning and vicious, but sometimes they can be very kind and tolerant.

As a collection of contradictions, they may have been cursing Roja not long ago, cursing this scavenger who came back with a pile of garbage and polluted the environment of the apartment. Maybe there was someone who broke into his room to cause damage when Roja was not around. Their share.

But when I heard that Luo Ya was no longer planning to be a scavenger and was planning to clean up the house and study hard to get into a good university, he immediately became excited and extended a helping hand.

I feel like they are more active than Roja when it comes to cleaning the room.

With Roja's efforts and everyone's help, the room was completely new in just a few days.

The walls have been plastered again, and although all the furniture is second-hand, it is very complete. Daily necessities such as quilts, kettles, and toothbrushes have been replaced with new ones.

The stench that had permeated the room for decades and affected the entire apartment simply disappeared.

Roja, who had changed into white clothes, looked at himself in the mirror.

A skinny fair boy?

Who would have thought that the dirty scavenger who looked like a moving source of stench would be so handsome?

These days, the way people look at him, whether they know him or not, has changed.

People who had previously avoided him suddenly became friendly.

There were actually a few aunts who introduced him to their partners.

Roja stood in front of the mirror, gently stroking his handsome face, thinking about the talisman in his body and the gem necklace related to the mystery of his life experience.

"A down-and-out young man from a big family?"

"It's the same bloody plot as the TV series."

"I hope no one from the big family will come to my door and take me away by force, saying that I am the only heir of the family."

"I just want to live a quiet life and become stronger in a low-key manner."

Roya has not been idle at all during these few days.

Whenever he had time, he used the evidence of two souls to carefully analyze the body, and nourished the body with the help of the power of the original body.

Although his appearance and body shape have not changed at all compared to a few days ago, and his body is still so thin, as if a gust of wind can blow him over, in fact, his physique is no weaker than that of a healthy adult.

With the nourishment of the original body and the most suitable training method created with the help of the dual soul certificate, Luo Ya can train the strength of this body to the extreme in less than a month, and can punch a thousand kilograms of force with one punch.

But Roja knew that a punch that weighed a thousand pounds was just the ultimate limit for mortals.

There is extraordinary power in this world.

He must understand the world and discover the power hidden within his body.

as well as--

"What happened to the other trialists besides me?"

"Of the nine people participating in this trial, how many of them can kill the three hell dogs and get the key to the moon phase world?"

"The strength of each person who can successfully enter the moon phase world is probably unfathomable, right?"

"I always feel that the world is not that simple..."

"We must race against time to become stronger!"

Roya left the room and wandered down the street.

He seemed to be wandering aimlessly, but in fact he was actually using the evidence of his two souls to observe passers-by and analyze their physiques.

Although they all have hands and feet and look human, in fact, they are completely different from the "human beings" that Roja knows, and they are not the same species at all.

The previous cultivation methods will not work on people in this world, and it is impossible to obtain extraordinary power beyond the limits of the human body.

If you want to obtain extraordinary power, you can only use the cultivation methods of people in this world.

“Where to get it?”

"Create it yourself?"

"Even if I have the dual soul certificate to assist me, it's still a bit difficult."

When Roya was struggling, he looked at the woman who broke into his field of vision, his eyes were fixed!

A person with extraordinary power is actually right in front of you? (End of chapter)