Chapter 488: Beyond Visual Range Curse

"Then what does Clan Leader plan to do by researching these two things? Don't tell me you researched them just for fun. I don't think words like that can deceive me."

Diana's question didn't surprise Lan Qingyou at all.

"How much do you know about the Demon Hunters?"

Sitting on the sofa, Lan Qingyou asked Diana.

"Demon Hunters?"

This term instantly pulled Diana, who was originally still excited about the appearance of the Magic Book, back to reality.

"You encountered them on this trip outside?"

"Yeah, but I didn't encounter Demon Hunters, but accidentally met Adele half a month ago and learned about it."

Lan Qingyou nodded.

Diana sighed and put down the notebook in her hand.

Then she sat down on the sofa opposite Lan Qingyou.

"This group of people is not only being searched for by our Witches, but other races that have some strength have also dispatched manpower. Some have even offered bounties."

"But this group of people is elusive, and their specific base location hasn't been found so far."

"They can be considered the hardest group of people to catch on the continent right now."

While pouring tea for herself, Diana gave Lan Qingyou a brief report on what she knew about the Demon Hunters.

So it wasn't just the Witches looking for these people.

Come to think of it, it made sense.

After all, this group killed everything but humans. Provoking public outrage was a matter of course.

It was just unexpected that it had developed to this point so quickly.

Although it was expected before, it came much earlier than imagined.

But this was probably also due to the Forsaken War, right.

"So that's how it is. Adele's investigation is about the same. But she was lucky and found a place where people who might have traded with the Demon Hunters lived, and exterminated them. That's where I met her."

"Trading, huh. Then maybe some clues can be found."

Hearing that there was a breakthrough on Adele's side, Diana was also very excited.

Although the Demon Hunter group hadn't caused too much harm to the Witch Clan since their 'debut', they were a hidden danger after all.

So being able to find clues earlier was naturally the best.

Of course, another reason was naturally the bounty.

Having a bounty meant there was attention.

Although this bit of bounty was nothing to the entire Witch Clan, it was at least a manifestation of the Witch Clan actively participating in 'world events'.

Diana's considerations for doing this mainly had two points.

One was naturally to show the Witch Clan's attitude in this Demon Hunter incident.

And the other was to let others see that, although they had gone through an eight-month-long 'Forsaken War' and nearly a hundred thousand Witches had died.

The Witch Clan was still here and hadn't been defeated by anyone.

"There are indeed clues, and they are huge."

"What is it!"

Hearing there were actual clues, Diana pricked up her ears.

"The reason why the stats of the Demon Hunters are so high is because they all used the Demon Eyes of our Witches."

!!!

Hearing the words 'Demon Eyes', Diana's pupils rapidly contracted.

"In other words..."

"A portion of the Demon Eyes from the Witches who died in the previous war were gouged out and installed on other people's bodies, eventually forming this Demon Hunter group."

Bang!

Hearing this, Diana couldn't help but smash her fist onto the coffee table, directly pounding cracks into this solid wood coffee table.

If she had used a little more strength, the coffee table might have directly shattered.

The fact that Diana, who was always known for her intellect, had such a huge reaction was enough to show how infuriating this matter was.

Especially since she herself was a member of the Witches, this sense of substitution was even stronger.

"That group of guys, they must be made to pay the price. And the relics of the dead Witches must also all be retrieved."

Diana said through gritted teeth.

Originally, she thought she had 'defended' very well.

Although the death of a quarter of the Witches was truly heartbreaking, most died at the beginning of the war, and she truly lacked the power to change that.

Therefore, she originally still had a bit of pride.

But who could have thought that someone would actually do this kind of thing in the chaos of the early stages?

Humiliation.

A humiliation dozens of times stronger than when she mistakenly thought Lan Qingyou had returned undiscovered surged into her heart.

It made this Witch who prided herself on being intellectual tremble uncontrollably.

"We definitely have to take them back, but if we just simply take them back like this, wouldn't that be very boring?"

Lan Qingyou didn't go to comfort her handpicked Governor who was currently feeling remorseful.

But followed up on her words.

After all, at times like this, all comfort would seem pale.

So rather than speaking those pale words, it was better to bring out something practical that would give people more motivation.

Sure enough.

After hearing these teasing and cold words from Lan Qingyou, the intellectual Witch raised her head.

"You mean..."

"This."

Lan Qingyou smiled and tapped the Magic Book on the table.

"Curse!"

It was almost instantaneous that Diana realized what Lan Qingyou wanted to do.

"Right."

Lan Qingyou smiled, then took out a 10ml potion bottle.

It was just that there was no liquid inside this bottle; instead, it was filled with blue speckles of something.

Diana didn't know what it was, but it indeed looked very pretty.

"This is..."

"An unknown mana residue I gathered from the air on my way here."

Lan Qingyou said as she opened the Book of Curses to a page with a Magic Array drawn on it, and then poured the mana residue from the bottle onto the Magic Array.

"...What is this for?"

Seeing this for the first time, Diana maintained her curiosity.

"Of course it's a curse, Beyond Visual Range Curse. Doesn't it sound very cool? I named it myself."

Lan Qingyou spoke boastful words with a proud face.

But the movements of her hands never stopped.

After activating the Magic Array with her own mana, Lan Qingyou picked up the open Magic Book with one hand.

"With my mana as a guide, I engrave the patterns of the eternal night!"

"Void, shadow, whispers."

"My resentment turns into lightning, cleaving the illusion of hypocrisy, crushing the crown of injustice!"

"Your soul shall sink into the infernal abyss, wailing in the blazing flames, freezing in the solid ice. Every breath shall be etched with bone-deep pain, every inch of skin branded with the scars of the curse!"

"In my name, I declare the end——"

"Your existence will ultimately be forgotten by time, becoming a fading echo annihilated in the dust!"

This is...!!!

When Lan Qingyou began chanting the incantation, Diana suddenly remembered that weren't these words written on the page next to the Magic Array?

So that was an incantation?

She had thought they were just chuunibyou vocabulary like a supporting character's.

Oh right, the title of this incantation seemed to be [Curse of Agony].