Chapter 737: The Intruder

The meteor shower in the sky was still scattering, and, amidst the continuous gasps of the crowd, these meteors changed once again.

The points of starlight expanded and deformed while in motion, then transformed into all things, from flowers, birds, fish, and insects to birds and beasts, and then to the various major races like elves and merfolk.

Even more meteors exploded in the sky like fireworks, forming many natural landscapes such as mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas.

These should all be the appearances of rare natural wonders in various worlds, each with its own unique aesthetic beauty. If an ordinary person could witness the magnificence of one or two of them with their own eyes, they would already be lucky enough.

But now, the audience present stood still and witnessed that magnificent natural beauty with their own eyes.

They saw herds of centaurs running on the grassland, the leading heroic female centaur drawing her bow and shooting an arrow, pointing at the eagle in the sky.

They saw winged people spreading their wings and soaring above the sea of trees, the strong and white-winged leader diving rapidly, the spear in their hand thrown at the swimming fish in the lake.

They saw the solo dance of beautiful merfolk in the deep sea, their ethereal singing only able to be heard by the quiet ocean.

These various kinds of magnificence had already surpassed the general witch's cognition of sorcery. They had never known that sorcery was such a free thing, so this must be a magic trick.

A magic trick that surpassed sorcery.

People cheered in their hearts for such a wonderful performance and were moved by this miracle that transcended reality. This was also a rare venting and relaxation in this oppressive Night City. Watching this magic performance, they felt as if they could briefly forget the various dissatisfactions in real life and directly escape into this world of magic tricks, freely feeling the beauty of the world and life.

However, although these performances were wonderful, the magician Miss had already performed them many times before. Although everyone never tired of watching them, the magician Miss had just said that there would be even more exciting performances today.

Thinking of this, the audience became even more expectant. Everyone's eyes were attracted to the beautiful figure on the stage; they were thirsting for a new performance.

Or rather, new freedom.

And amidst this attention, He Moye on the stage did not intend to disappoint the audience. After a simple warm-up, this talented young Grand Witch raised the staff in her hand.

"Ladies, welcome to the world of freedom."

She shouted like this.

Thus, from the audience below, points of starlight also rose, and under the guidance of the magician Miss, these points of starlight gathered in the sky into a brilliant light, and through that light, one could vaguely see a dreamlike and beautiful new world within it.

"Damn, creating a world?"

This time, even Dorothy couldn't stay calm.

Even now, she still didn't have the confidence to create a world, even if Senior Fan Ni was willing to supply the mana, it wouldn't work.

This isn't a question of mana or not; it's simply that her ability isn't enough.

After all, although she looks omnipotent in all nine systems now, to be precise, it's only primary omnipotence. After all, the assessment she passed before was just the primary assessment for an ordinary witch to advance to the Grand Witch rank.

There are still the intermediate qualification exams for a Grand Witch to advance to Peak, and the advanced qualification exams for a Peak Witch to advance to Sage.

Especially that advanced qualification exam, that's not like the primary or intermediate exams where you choose one out of nine subjects; in the Sage trial, you are tested on all nine.

And individual creation of a world is a true miracle that only true Sages are qualified to attempt to enter.

From this, one can see that she is still far from it.

Yeah, so far, the subjects Dorothy is confident in passing for the intermediate exam are only the Battle Sorcery system, Alchemy system (Civil Engineering and Shipbuilding), Potion system (Cooking), Necromancy system (Netherworld Creator and current Yin Messenger), Spirit system (Bodhisattva State), and Transformation system (Dragon Transformation Art blessed by the Ye Meng Jia De clan talent), and Summoning system (Moon Rabbit and Hundred Ghosts).

Yeah, there are only seven systems, and the remaining two, Prophecy and Evocation, are a bit tricky.

Among them, Prophecy won't be mentioned; it's a difficult problem. She can only gamble through the Witch's coin game.

If an inspiration is a great success, then she who has witnessed the future is the most awesome fortune teller. And if the inspiration fails, then nothing happens, or she can just write blindly. After all, she can't hand in a blank paper.

The Evocation school is also helpless. After all, this school is the base camp of bombardment witches, and bombardment witches, well, those who know, know.

It just needs to be big enough, thick enough, and long-lasting enough.

Dorothy can satisfy the first two conditions, but with mana not yet at 100,000 Total Mana, she belongs to the type that rests after one shot.

Regarding this, the homebody Witch has already been shaking with anger more than once.

But fortunately, the Evocation school is not like the Prophecy school where there is no way to start and one can only rely on gambling. Regarding how to improve her endurance, the homebody Witch feels that as long as she thinks about it more, she should be able to think of a solution.

Just like now, looking at He Moye's so-called "magic trick" technique, she suddenly got inspiration.

That's right, although I am not durable enough, I can do multi-person... exercise. Ah, pfft, it's borrowing other people's power to use.

Who wouldn't want to become light?

Watching the points of starlight overflowing from the audience below, and then together forming the "magic trick" of the tiny new world in the sky, the homebody Witch suddenly realized.

However, she still feels there is a problem here.

After all, it was said that individual creation of a world is a high-end technique that only Sages can attempt, and He Moye is now just a Grand Witch.

And the audience below is even more ordinary. How could these two sides possibly really succeed in creating a world?

However, the beautiful and dreamlike world in the huge ball of light in the sky is so real...

"Ah, pfft, almost got led around. What I am seeing now is not real history; I am just watching a musical performance. Everything inside is just illusion special effects."

The homebody Witch, who almost went down a dead end, patted her forehead with her consciousness inside the Lie girl's body and came back to her senses.

Yeah, it can only be said that everything around here is too real, which made her a bit too deeply involved in the play.

Moreover, in fact, the best deception starts from the truth that everyone is familiar with.

Just like the magician Miss's performance before, it started from the Starlight Art that everyone knows.

That zero-ring cantrip is something everyone knows, but not everyone is that proficient in it, just at the state of having learned it but not fully mastered it.

And this just happened to give the liars enough room to perform.

It is this kind of half-full bottle that is the easiest to deceive.

It's just that this full bottle and half bottle are relative.

Compared to the vast majority of witches, Dorothy belongs to the "full bottle" boss category, but compared to Sages and the like, the Home Witch is that "half-bottle" one.

And sometimes, the more you know, the more you will discover your own ignorance. This is also quite dangerous. If you are led by someone, it is easy to go down a dead end.

That is the so-called deceiving oneself.

Dorothy was almost led around just now. She thought this He Moye had mastered some secret technique for quick creation of a world.

But now, thinking back, the Lie girl in the real history probably wasn't as powerful as in this stage illusion.

After all, this Lie Sage's most famous ability was that "Mirror Flower, Water Moon" illusion. Deceiving people, she is a professional.

"Tsk, the ladies are performing according to the script, and the script was written by Holmes herself. It seems that even bosses cannot escape the bad habit of self-promotion."

Dorothy complained in her heart.

And after understanding that this so-called new world is still just a deception, the homebody Witch looked at the audience below who had almost become fanatical believers of the Lie girl, and her mood suddenly became complicated.

Truly worthy of being a boss who can become a Sage in later generations, and a Sage of the Demon Witches at that; this method of using desire as bait to toy with people's hearts is not inferior to a real demon.

I can endure the darkness only because I have never seen the light.

These Demon Witches living in Night City, who have been exploited by the 13 Blood Clans for a long time, could have endured a little longer, but now it's good; after experiencing the illusion of this beautiful new world, their desires have been stimulated.

Demon Witches use demons as templates, so naturally, they cannot avoid being influenced by the desires of demons that represent original sin. Their personalities are mostly extreme and easy to go to extremes.

And this is also the reason why the Demon Witches of this era are excluded and feared by other witches. No one is willing to be too close to a bomb that might explode at any time.

Of course, perhaps some Demon Witches are actually quite mentally stable, but this is destined to be only a minority, and normal people will not do things like panning for gold in shit.

Therefore, the Demon Witches of this era have always been enduring the temptation of original sin, and they have to bear the exclusion of their compatriots, and even run to this Night City, the legendary gathering place of Demon Witches, and still have to endure the exploitation of the 13 Blood Clans.

Yeah, it's really a big word "miserable".

But pressure is like a spring; the more you endure, the greater the force when it rebounds.

Once the resentment that these Demon Witches have endured for so many years is released, it's not a joke.

"Good guy, these two bad things are indeed talents for causing trouble. One is fanning the flames and giving fake guidance, the other is pushing the waves and blindly arching the fire. The crouching dragon and phoenix chick are gathered in this Night City. Why worry that it won't be chaotic?"

Dorothy exclaimed in her heart.

However, also as a professional in causing trouble, ah pfft, it's a professional in reform, she knows that if it's just this level of causing trouble, it's not enough.

Because living things always have servility.

When a person is exploited for a long time, they are actually domesticated, just like humans can tame horses or dogs.

These Demon Witches have been exploited by the 13 Blood Clans for so many years. Even if they haven't been completely tamed, they are already deeply servile.

Some slaves are clearly strong and healthy, but they dare not resist their weak or fat waste masters. This may be due to the restrictions of slave contracts.

But this situation also exists in the mortal world without slave contracts. This is servility at work.

If these Demon Witches cannot be made to overcome servility, then they will not really follow the intentions of the Demon King girl and the Lie girl to cause trouble.

As for how to overcome servility, this is actually quite simple.

Why can't a dog that bites people be kept?

That is naturally because after tasting human blood, the dog understands that the master who was once supreme and like a god can actually be injured.

And being injured also loses the godhead, demoting from a god to a human.

At the same time, the wolf nature of this dog will also be stimulated. It may change from a dog back to a wolf, or even a wolf that specifically feeds on humans.

This is obviously something humans cannot accept, so this kind of disaster must not be kept.

The same principle is also useful in this Night City.

No one dares to provoke the extremely powerful 13 Blood Clans, but as long as someone can cut off the godhead of the 13 Blood Clans and demote them from the masters of Night City to one of the Demon Witches, then this will be fun.

Dorothy used He Moye's eyes to look at the audience below. At this time, she felt that what she saw was not a group of witches at all, but dogs that were suppressing their instincts and starting to tuck their tails.

Just waiting for the first brave one among them to pounce on the prey and make the prey injured, then this group of "dogs" raised by the former Blood Clan witches will directly transform into werewolves that bite the necks of the Blood Clan.

The wolf pack is restless.

Only, who will be the brave alpha wolf?

Dorothy thought of this, and then immediately recalled the mysterious figure that flashed by when she entered the city.

Phantom Thief Jack.

In reality, she already knew who the first werewolf was. This is the legendary phantom thief who has been making a lot of noise recently.

It's a pity that Dorothy, who had already seen the plot in Senior Fan Ni's memory, knew that this "Trick and Lie" could not satisfy her curiosity about that phantom thief Miss.

The next part of this stage play will also enter the climax of the third chapter, which is the story of Phantom Thief Jack stealing the treasure of the 13 Blood Clans—the True Ancestor Diamond—in full view of everyone.

The phantom thief succeeded and threw the True Ancestor Diamond to the crowd. A dog-man witch, who was an orc witch at the time, luckily caught this diamond that hid the power of the Blood Clan True Ancestor, becoming the first werewolf Demon Witch in the true sense, and opened the story of the love-hate relationship between werewolves and vampires in Night City that has continued to this day.

Only, the audience cannot enter the perspective of the phantom thief.

Yeah, clearly the absolute protagonist of the third act, but the audience has no way to enter the mysterious protagonist's perspective and can only become the audience for the phantom thief Miss's next performance.

This is very pit-digging.

And this is also the reason why "Trick and Lie" has been mixed in reviews. After all, strictly speaking, the Demon King and the Lie Sage are just supporting roles in this play, and the real protagonist is that mysterious phantom thief Miss.

But what kind of figures are the Demon King and the Sage of Lies? What right does that Phantom Thief have to make these two bosses serve as her stepping stones?

This is outrageous.

Fortunately, the author of this script is He Moye herself. Otherwise, this plot would definitely be scolded to death by others.

Actually, Dorothy also wants to scold people now.

After all, she also wants to experience that phantom thief Miss in depth.

Come on, although this kind of phantom thief character is very unrealistic, it is really super cool, isn't it?

And just when the homebody Witch felt a bit regretful, she was suddenly stunned, because she saw a familiar figure in the crowd watching the magic performance below.

That was a witch dressed very similarly to the magician Miss, but wearing a mask on the upper half of her face.

Phantom Thief Jack?

Dorothy was stunned.

The homebody Witch is surprised.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 738 =====