The Mystery:The Witch and the Scourge

"who is it?"

Joyce drew out his dagger like a reflex and assumed a fighting stance, only to find that there was no one in the room except him.

"It seems that you have digested the 'Assassin' potion well."

The woman's voice sounded again, and Joyce frowned and asked:

"Emily?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar figure appeared on the bed, it was Emily.

Her clothes were thin, her shoulders were flat, and her breasts were half exposed. Moreover, she was not in good condition, her face was pale, her waist and left arm were tied with bandages, and she looked like she was seriously injured.

"Are you injured?" Joyce still frowned, but the meaning of his words was a little unclear, and he never put down the weapon in his hand.

Emily didn't care either, pointing to the wound and explaining:

"I went to verify the authenticity of the information. This is the price I paid."

"Did you go to Ianna's house?" Joyce put away the dagger and asked in confusion:

"But she's obviously not at home tonight, how could you get hurt?"

"How do you know Ianna is not at home?" Emily blurted out in surprise.

"I went to a dinner party, and Ianna also attended. We chatted for a while, and she also invited me to attend the dance next week, but for some unknown reason, she suddenly left the party midway..."

Joyce briefly described what happened, then suddenly reacted and asked:

"It's not because of you, is it?"

Emily stared at Joyce complicatedly for a while, then sighed and admitted: "That's right."

"Tonight, I sneaked into Ianna's house. Unexpectedly, I accidentally stepped into a well-designed trap. After I successfully escaped, I met her just as she was returning, so we had a fight."

"I was no match. I managed to escape with great difficulty, so I suffered serious injuries."

"Speaking of which, I would like to thank you for the medicine in your room, which helped me control the injury and prevent it from getting worse."

Joyce said casually:

"It's not worth anything. I just bought it from a party."

"What have you gained from your exploration?"

Before Emily could answer, there was a sudden knock on the door. It was the maid who came to inform her that the hot water was ready.

When he turned around, he found that Emily had become invisible again. Joyce twitched the corner of his mouth and turned around to leave the bedroom.

Joyce, who was supposed to be enjoying the bath, was swayed by Emily's appearance. It wasn't that he didn't want to see her. On the contrary, he was looking forward to this meeting because only in this way could he get the "Instigator" potion formula...

…

But her direct and blatant appearance in his bedroom really undermined Joyce's already low sense of security.

"Let someone call back the 'Provocateur' Hunter tomorrow. Although he is only Sequence Eight, the combat power of the Hunter Path Extraordinary is definitely worthy of trust. Anyway, his 'Assassin' potion has been basically digested and he will not come back again."

Sneaking out in the middle of the night to act."

To be honest, after seeing the injured Emily, the first thought in Joyce's mind was to kill her to obtain the extraordinary characteristics... However, he immediately became wary and quickly gave up this idea.

Not mentioning the high probability that he will be counterattacked, let's just say that when it comes to dealing with Ianna, the two of them have the same purpose and can cooperate.

In addition, Emily was not only physically injured tonight, she also seemed to be in a bad mental state. I wonder if it was her imagination... Joyce did not dare to delay any longer, quickly dried her body, put on a bathrobe and returned to the bedroom.

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The gas lamp in the bedroom lit up the whole room. Emily was covered with a quilt and leaning on the pillow while reading a book. When she saw Joyce coming in, she put down the book and said:

"You're back."

Why does it feel like a wife is waiting for her husband to come home?

Joyce scratched his head to get rid of this weird feeling, but after getting into bed and lying side by side with Emily on the bed, this feeling became more intense.

In order to break the embarrassment, he expressed concern: "Are you seriously injured?"

Emily commented with experience:

"It's okay. It will be fine in three to five days, and there won't even be any scars."

After all, she is a "witch", her recovery ability is pretty good... Joyce thought, and heard Emily not stop talking, but continued to ask:

"Your reaction after hearing my voice was very exaggerated, and you came back relatively late. Why?"

Anyone who hears a stranger's voice in their bedroom would be nervous... Joyce cursed, and then replied half-truthfully:

"On the way back after leaving the dinner, there was an assassination attempt. Fortunately, I took care of him."

"Do you know who sent him?" Emily asked.

"I don't know, but I will let people investigate." Joyce did not want to dwell on this topic and said instead:

"I found that Yianna's temperament is very similar to yours. Why is this?"

"Because we are extraordinary people with the same path." After saying this, Emily was silent for a long time, seeming to make up her mind:

"Remember what I said about Ianna belonging to an evil secret organization?"

Joyce nodded and listened as she continued to introduce:

"The name of that organization is the 'Witch Sect', and it controls the 'Witch' path. Both Ianna and I were members of the organization, but I took the initiative to break away from them."

"Why?" Joyce asked, feeling he would get the answer.

Emily's beautiful eyebrows became twisted with anger:

"Because members of the 'Witch Cult' discriminate against women."

Huh? What answer is this?

I didn’t expect that you still have the awareness of equality between men and women, so why should you be a “witch” and believe in the goddess of the night?

"I don't quite understand." Joyce said this very sincerely.

Emily patiently explained in detail:

"The 'Witch Cult' has a remarkable feature: all the top leaders in the organization are women. This is because the 'Witch' path can turn men into women."

"Change gender! How is that possible!" Joyce always kept in mind that in Emily's eyes, he was a rookie Beyonder, so his reaction was very exaggerated.

"It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes." Emily said with a complicated expression and some hatred.

Joyce noticed her expression, opened her eyes wide and asked:

"You wouldn't be the same..."

"No." Emily interrupted: "I have always been a woman, so the 'Witch Cult' did not accept my request for promotion. They would rather turn a man into a woman and enjoy it endlessly than give me

Potion recipe.”

Well, this is because "Original Witch Chick" is a man who was promoted to godhood, so the "witch" path is deliberately distorted...

It turns out you are a woman, okay okay, I always thought that I slept with a "witch" who was promoted from a man, and I feel at ease... Joyce thought this, her eyes still full of confusion:

"So you defected from the 'Witch Cult'..."

"Then why did you take the initiative to find trouble for Ianna? You shouldn't have run far away... Is it to get the next sequence of potion formulas?"

"That's one of the reasons." Emily affirmed:

"The more important reason..."

"Ianna was my husband."