Rise of the Dark Witch

Roya held the tea cup.

While sipping tea, he looked at the two messengers from the Demon Hunter organization.

He looked at Lu Lin first.

Lu Lin is tall and thin, and his body is as black as carbon with not a single pore visible.

When he noticed Roja's gaze, Lu Lin lowered his eyebrows and showed a compliment that he didn't dare to look at Roja.

Then, Roja's eyes fell on Siqi.

As a veteran second-level wizard who has lived for seven or eight hundred years, Siqi looks like a primary school student.

She has a delicate and lovely face, dark and healthy skin, and an innocent smile all year round.

If someone who didn't know the truth saw her on the road, they would definitely think that she was a cute primary school student who got lost somewhere.

Unlike Lu Lin who lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to look at him.

As soon as Siqi entered the hall, she looked at him with sparkling eyes.

It seemed as if as long as he waved, Siqi would immediately pounce on him and inspect his body without any scruples.

Roja knew the purpose of their visit.

When the Saint Luo Empire was first established, the demon hunter organization in the Devil's Palm sent envoys to express goodwill to him.

But at that time, although he had good potential, it was not enough for people to take him seriously.

Therefore, the Demon Hunter organization only extended goodwill to him and did not offer further cooperation to him.

It’s just that after he returned from the Magic Machine Academy and became a second-level wizard...

Wreaking havoc in the Endless Forest, defeating Wizard Andre, fighting against Wizard He, and becoming friends with Wizard Belexi, a mere second-level wizard can be on an equal footing with a third-level wizard.

Almost all the wizarding forces' evaluation of Roja has changed!

The Demon Hunter organization is naturally no exception.

At that time, their view of Roja was - "A genius with the potential for cooperation, they can give Roja a chance to cooperate."

Their current view of Roja is - "A second-level wizard with extremely strong strength, a partner who must be obtained even at a huge cost!"

Back then, Roja knew very little about the Devil's Palm.

But he is no longer what he used to be.

He knew what the continent of Devil's Palm was like, and what the Demon Hunter organization was looking for to cooperate with him.

But he didn't take the initiative to make it clear.

"Two envoys, I have been too busy these days, and I am really sorry for the delay in receiving you for so long." Roja picked up the teacup and punished himself with a cup, "I don't know that these two envoys from the Demon Hunter Organization, You came all the way from the Devil's Palm Continent to our Holy Luo Empire, what do you mean?"

Siqi and Lu Lin looked at each other.

In the end it was decided that Siqi would speak.

After Siqi cleared her throat, she said:

"Emperor Roja, you have reached the peak of the second level. You should consider advancing to the third level next, right?"

Luo Ya drank tea silently and did not reply.

Siqi continued:

"The three realms of level three, level four, and level five are known as the trilogy of ascending to the gods."

"Level 3, gain the spirit of the devil."

"Level 4, gain the physique of a demon."

"Level 5, achieve the realm of the devil."

"The spirit of the devil, the physique of the devil, and the realm of the devil, only when the three are combined can one become a true devil!"

“Level 2 to Level 3 is a qualitative change.”

"It's the transformation from a human to a demon!"

"No matter how strong a second-level wizard is, he can only be called a mortal."

"No matter how weak the third-level wizard is, he is still a false god."

"The third-level realm, as the starting point for stepping onto the ladder to ascend to the gods, has blocked countless second-level wizards, and countless second-level wizards failed at the last moment."

Saying that, Siqi suddenly stood up.

She supported the table with both hands, leaned forward, and looked directly at Roja.

"As the most famous genius in the Shenwa Witch Domain, Emperor Roya, your goal is definitely not to stop at the second level, right?"

"I wonder if you already have a plan to advance to level three?"

"If you haven't already, the nightmare world in our devil's palm might be a good choice."

"I hope Emperor Roya can think about it carefully."

After speaking, Siqi took a long breath and sat back in her seat.

Roja was drinking tea, looking indifferent and not knowing what he was thinking.

Under the nervous gazes of Siqi, Lu Lin, and Glory, Roja thought for a few minutes before speaking, "The nightmare world in the palm of the devil? I don't know much about it. Can you introduce it to me?"

Faced with this problem, Siqi immediately patted her chest and said there was no problem.

"Emperor Roya, have you ever heard of hell?"

"Hell is also called purgatory, or the devil's realm, and sometimes it's also called the underworld."

"Hell is the habitat of demons. It is said that there are six hundred and sixty-six levels."

"The ruler of each level of hell is called the Lord of Hell, and the essence of each level of hell is formed from the mind world of the Lord of Hell."

"That is to say, the weakest hell monarch has the strength of the fifth level true god."

"It's just that there are too many powerful people in hell and the competition is too fierce. If you want to become the king of hell, you may not even be able to reach the sixth level."

"So the fifth-level hell monarch only exists in legends."

"The Lords of Hell are generally sixth- or seventh-level demons, and the four great Dukes of Hell are even eighth-level demons."

"But except for the eighth-level demon gods in the eternal realm, those who are stronger than the sixth and seventh levels will inevitably die."

"It may be killed by hostile demons, it may be hunted by wizards, it may reach the end of its lifespan and die of old age."

"The dead monarchs of hell will naturally be removed from the six hundred and sixty-sixth level of hell in their mental world."

"But even though the demon who was the pioneer died, the world of the mind will not collapse for a while."

"If it is maintained well, the mental world can even continue to exist for tens of thousands of years after the death of the pioneer."

Saying that, Siqi smiled slightly.

"I believe that Emperor Roja, you have all heard of the rumor that there is a passage to hell on the continent of Devil's Palm, right?"

"This rumor is half true and half false."

"Really, we do have a passage to hell."

"The lie is that the demon king in the hell we are leading to has long since died, leaving only an empty shell in the whole world."

"Do you know what kind of existence the dead demon monarch was?"

"It's a sixth-level demon belonging to the nightmare clan!"

"It's a spiritual demon!"

"In the nightmare world created by this sixth-level dream demon, there are many props that can increase spiritual power."

"Among them are treasures that can allow a second-level wizard to sublimate his spiritual power and gain spiritual consciousness to enter the third-level realm!"

Listening to Siqi's introduction, Roja's interest in the nightmare world greatly increased.

Although he knew a lot of information about Devil's Palm and the Nightmare Realm, he heard all this information from others. How could the accuracy and detail of the information compare to Siqi, a second-level powerhouse from Devil's Palm?

So he asked a lot of questions about the nightmare world.

For example, would the Nightmare Realm be a dangerous world created by a sixth-level dream demon?

For example, how could a being as powerful as the Nightmare Realm be controlled by a group of demon hunters that didn't even have third-level wizards?

For example, what are the spiritual products in the nightmare world? Is it difficult to obtain treasures that can help second-level wizards advance to the third level?

Roya asked questions one after another, and Siqi answered them one by one.

"Emperor Roja, what do you think our demon hunter organization is like?"

"A group of weaklings who don't want to be wizards and make a living by hunting monsters?"

"you are wrong!"

"The word 'demon hunting' in the witcher organization refers to hunting demons!"

"The Witchers are an organization that specializes in hunting demons!"

"The Demon Hunter organization in Devil's Palm is just a small branch of the entire Demon Hunter organization."

"When the Nightmare Realm was first discovered, the powerful demons in it were killed by the strong men in our demon hunter organization, and all the valuable things in it were looted."

"Even the remains of the dead sixth-level dream demon have been moved away."

"In today's nightmare world, the strongest demons are only level two."

"But don't underestimate this level two."

"They all have pure demon blood, and their strength is definitely the top existence in the same realm."

"If it were at its full strength, every second-level demon pulled out of it would be comparable to you, Emperor Roja."

"However, due to environmental damage, lack of inheritance, etc., the strength of those demons is incomplete and cannot reach the theoretical state at all."

"But this cannot be taken lightly."

"Due to the suppression of rules in the nightmare world, the strength of wizards entering the nightmare world will be greatly weakened."

"A wizard without a domain who enters the nightmare world will die directly under the suppression of the rules."

"As for the issue of quotas in the Nightmare Realm..."

"After the death of the Demon Lord, the nightmare world gradually collapsed."

"When wizards like us enter the nightmare world, we will be suppressed by the rules of the nightmare world, and our strength will be greatly weakened."

"At the same time, our existence will bring great pressure to the nightmare world and accelerate the collapse of the nightmare world."

"In order to prevent the nightmare world from collapsing early, the number of places to enter the nightmare world is limited each time..."

Siqi suddenly let out a long sigh.

"I think back then the door to the nightmare world was always open, and there was no limit to the number of people."

"You can go in and take risks whenever you want."

"Slowly, the opening time of the gate is getting shorter and shorter, and fewer and fewer people can enter each time."

"As of now, it can only be opened once every thirty years, and no more than ten second-level wizards can enter each time."

"In a few hundred years, the nightmare world will completely collapse."

Siki said a lot.

But there was only one thing that Roya really cared about.

"Every time the nightmare world opens, how many people finally come out alive and become third-level wizards?" Roja asked.

"This..." Siqi's eyebrows suddenly frowned, "Maybe it's because the nightmare world is about to collapse. The demons inside are acting more and more crazily, and the nightmare world is becoming more and more dangerous every time it opens."

"Since a hundred years ago, no wizard has successfully obtained the third-level spiritual substance from the nightmare world."

"The last time ten people went in, only three came out alive..."

Roja, who didn't have much interest in the Nightmare Realm to begin with, immediately lost interest when he heard this.

The things in the nightmare world have a fatal attraction for most second-level wizards, but that second-level wizard does not include Roja.

Because it is not difficult for him to advance to the third level.

He only needs to practice the "Planting Tree Ring" to the fifth thousand level, and then directly perform the third-level promotion ceremony, and he can successfully become a third-level wizard.

No need to resort to external objects at all!

In fact, he is holding a third-level promotion ceremony now, and the success rate will not be less than 50%.

If you spend some time refining level three and level four potions in exchange for promotion items, the success rate can approach the ninth level.

Whether it is cultivating the "Planting Tree Ring" to the fifth thousand level, or refining potions in exchange for promotion items, there is no risk for Roja.

Why risk it when there are safer roads to take?

He has never been an adventurous person.

He was willing to meet Siqi and listen to Siqi and the others talk about the nightmare world, just because he was interested in the nightmare world itself.

As for venturing into the nightmare world?

There hasn’t been a harvest in a hundred years. The last time ten people went in, only three came out alive...

Whoever likes to go to this kind of ghost place can go there.

He will not accompany you!

Because Roja did not hide his inner thoughts.

So even though Roja didn't refuse, Siqi Lulin and the two still clearly felt what Roja wanted to express.

The reason why Luo Ya didn't express his refusal clearly was because he was waiting for Siqi and others' bargaining chips.

Because he could see that the Demon Hunter organization had made sufficient preparations to invite him to cooperate this time, and they must have prepared chips that could make him excited.

As for whether this bargaining chip can really make his heart beat, we can only know after they take it out.

Luo Ya drank tea silently and motioned for Siqi to continue speaking.

If you have chips, take them out.

No?

Then you can get out!

Sensing Roja's attitude, Siqi's expression suddenly became extremely serious.

Because she knows that the next step is the key to success or failure!

"The nightmare world is about to collapse."

"Faced with the collapse of the nightmare world, the ones who are most anxious are not us, but the demons living in the nightmare world."

"Some of those demons are the descendants of the sixth-level dream demons, and some are creatures from the mind world. They all have a very close relationship with the demon king who created the nightmare world."

"Once the nightmare world collapses, they will be the ones to lose the most."

"In order to maintain the nightmare world, they gathered the power of all the demons in the nightmare world and held an extremely ancient demonic ritual without our knowledge."

"Use this ancient ritual to resurrect a 'demon monarch' who can maintain the nightmare world!"

"Of course, this 'Demon Lord' is fake."

“We call this new ‘Demon Lord’ the Nightmare Lord!”

"The Nightmare Lord is just a carrier of huge power."

"In a sense, he has power comparable to that of a demon god, but his combat effectiveness is far inferior."

"The existence of this Nightmare Lord is just like..."

"Just like the demon blood embryo."

"As long as the Nightmare Lord can be captured, using the Nightmare Lord's power will not only allow the second-level wizard to successfully enter the third-level realm, but also raise the cultivation level to the peak of the third-level realm in one fell swoop!"

"And the intensity of mental power is far higher than that of ordinary third-level wizards!"

Siqi looked directly into Roja's eyes and said word by word: "As long as you agree to cooperate this time, the Nightmare Lord can give it to you!"

Roja didn't expect that there was such a thing as a Nightmare Lord in the Nightmare World.

According to Siqi, the Nightmare Lord is equivalent to the Demon God's blood embryo?

Moreover, by using the Nightmare Lord to advance to the third level, you can break through the third level and at the same time, your cultivation level can be directly raised to the top of the third level, which can save thousands of years of hard work.

Not only that, but his mental power will be stronger than other level three wizards.

How many people can endure this temptation?

In Roja's original plan, after becoming a third-level wizard, it would take about five hundred to one thousand years to reach the third-level peak.

With the Nightmare Lord, this period of hundreds of years can be omitted.

As soon as he becomes a third-level wizard, he can immediately reach the fourth-level realm.

Maybe he can become a fourth-level wizard before he's five hundred?

Become a level five wizard before you are a thousand years old?

The temptation is too great!

Even a cautious person like Roja is willing to take risks!

However, although this Nightmare Lord is far less powerful than the real Demon God, it is conclusive that he possesses the power of the Demon God.

The strength of a guy with the power of a demon is absolutely beyond imagination.

Siqi compared the Nightmare Lord to the demon blood embryo...

Roja has seen the strength of the demon blood embryo before.

Under the siege of twelve third-level wizards, seven third-level wizards were forced to retreat, leaving the remaining five third-level wizards seriously injured.

If the Nightmare Lord had the strength of the Demon God's Blood Embryos...

If he goes in with this little strength, he will simply die!

We must ask carefully about how strong the Nightmare Lord is!

Facing Roja's question, Siqi was already prepared.

"Existences like the Nightmare Lord are not uncommon in the Demon Realm where the Demon Lord died."

"As an organization that specializes in hunting demons, our Demon Hunter organization has many relevant records."

"As for the strength of the Nightmare Lord, he is probably at the level of a low-level third-level wizard."

"As Emperor Roya who defeated Wizard Andre, you can defeat the Nightmare Lord one on one, not to mention you have teammates to help?"

"So you don't have to worry too much."

"If you are still worried, as long as you agree to cooperate, we can let you browse the top-secret information about the Nightmare Lord within our demon hunter organization."

"Even the arrangement methods of the ancient demonic rituals for creating the Nightmare Lord are treasured by us and can be consulted by you."

"If you find that we lied to you, you can terminate the contract at any time."

Facing Siqi's sincere words, Roja was already completely moved.

He has decided to cooperate with the Witcher Organization.

Explore the nightmare world together and hunt the nightmare master together.

However, the details of the cooperation will continue to be discussed.

For example——

"When will the next nightmare world be opened?" Roja asked.

"Just twenty years later!" Siqi, who knew that Roja was ready to agree to cooperate, immediately replied.

"Twenty years?"

Roja rubbed his chin and thought.

He will spend the next twenty years refining the third-level potion Ice Soul Dragon Crystal for Fernanda.

In other words, as soon as he refined the Ice Soul Dragon Crystal, he was about to venture into the nightmare world?

Time is too tight.

Moreover, Roja felt that with his current strength, going to the Nightmare Realm was a bit risky.

Roja does not plan to participate in the next trip to the nightmare world.

What about next time?

The nightmare world opens once every thirty years, so it’s fifty years later?

In fifty years, he could accumulate enough tree spirit holy liquid to practice the "Planting Tree Ring" and increase the number of layers of "Planting Tree Ring" to more than 5,000, greatly increasing his strength.

Just do it!

"I can work with you."

"real?"

"But the time when I enter the nightmare world is fifty years later."

"Next time? What if we complete the Nightmare Realm strategy next time and successfully capture the Nightmare Lord, then Emperor Roja, you..."

"Then I can only consider myself unlucky."

"……All right."

Siqi, who wanted to continue persuading her, saw that Luo Ya was determined and had no choice but to give up.

Then, Luo Ya and Siqi discussed many details of cooperation.

Early the next morning.

As soon as the negotiation is over.

Siqi and Lu Lin returned to the Devil's Palm and resumed their lives. (End of chapter)