Chapter 1521: Wicked and Vicious

Su Xiao quickly finished reading the world introduction and had a preliminary understanding of this world. It was now the Dark Crow Era Year 1433. The technology of this era was relatively backward. Due to the war, this world had invented the steam engine and initially mastered the use of electricity, but power generation was always a big problem, and only the powerful could use things like electric lights.

Steam engines and trains were basically the most advanced technology. As for weapons, they were all high-power shotgun types, commonly known as sprayers, using diamonds as bullets, filling as much gunpowder as possible to maximize power and lethality range. As for heavy weapons like tanks and artillery, they simply didn't exist, or rather, no one studied in this direction.

The reason for such peculiar weapon development was that in the eyes of the people in this world, their only enemies were witches, at least that was what those kingdoms and tribal forces believed.

The existence of witches had long been accepted by ordinary people. They were not rats crossing the street, shouted at by everyone. The witch's territory was called a 'human gathering place', while the areas ruled by humans were called kingdoms, empires, tribes, etc. Among them, tribes were the most backward, but in terms of fighting against witches, they were the strongest.

There were countless large and small kingdoms, tribes, and gathering places. No one could unify this continent again because the witches who appeared after Dark Crow were far less powerful than her, and they had a weakness, which was diamonds.

After a diamond was driven into their bodies, the witch's ability would be significantly reduced. Of course, tens of thousands of humans might not be a match for one witch; this was a lesson written in blood.

Witches could basically be divided into three categories: elemental, spell-casting, and prophetic.

Elemental witches had the strongest combat power. Most witches controlled a single element, but they were fundamentally different from mages. The bodies of elemental witches were not weak, and they didn't have spell circuits in their bodies. They drove elements in a more violent and direct way. In terms of power, the combat power of an elemental witch of the same level was several times that of a mage.

If mages saw the way witches cast spells, nine out of ten mages would be stunned and turn around to flee. This wasn't fear, but because no one wanted to fight a "madman" to the death.

Spell-casting witches were eerie. If they wanted to kill someone, they wouldn't go directly to that person, but would collect the target's hair, blood, etc., and use this as a medium to kill the target.

Prophetic witches were completely harmless—no, they should be very popular. Although they also had the ability to kill enemies, this type of witch was very Buddhist, and timid. The only thing that gave them a headache was that they had too many admirers, that was all.

It could be said that a witch's ability was determined by her personality. Extreme personalities were definitely elemental, sinister personalities were spell-casting, and the relatively kind ones were 100% prophetic.

Witches were transformed from ordinary women. As for how they were transformed, it was unknown. Witches would choose their own successors of power, or snatch them. The information circulating among the people was that no one wanted to become a witch; it was a very painful process.

After checking the information on witches, Su Xiao felt that this world was very interesting. The main combat power was witches. Of course, some "alien races" on the border of the continent also had not-so-weak combat power, and witches wouldn't easily provoke them.

The lives of civilians in various kingdoms were not very happy, but they could survive. However, all civilians feared black witches, that is, elemental and spell-casting witches, while prophetic ones were called white witches.

There was no hostility between black and white witches, and white witches were not qualified to be hostile to black witches. They also feared those black witches.

Black witches didn't like to interact with civilians. In their eyes, civilians were just mortals and living experimental materials, that was all.

Whether a witch was good or bad couldn't actually be judged by her identity as a black witch or a white witch; it depended on her style of conduct.

Su Xiao had just finished reading the relevant information about witches when the Reincarnation Paradise prompt appeared.

【The Hunter can choose one of the following main quests.】

【Main Quest: Witch Hunter (Difficulty Lv. 35).】

【Main Quest: Explorer (Difficulty Lv. 31).】

【Main Quest: Dark Crow (Difficulty Lv. 37).】

【Main Quest: Blade Awakening (Difficulty Lv. 40, extremely dangerous).】

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Because Su Xiao entered this world at his own expense, he had four main quests to choose from, which was simply VIP treatment. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, as a follower, also saw these prompts, which made Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang sigh. That little look seemed to say: "It's just different when you spend money."

The main quest was determined based on Su Xiao's personal situation. He had seen relevant prompts about this before. There was no need to consider the choice; it must be Blade Awakening.

【The Hunter has accepted the main quest: Blade Awakening.】

【Main Quest: Blade Awakening.】

Difficulty Level: Lv. 40 (Extremely dangerous)

Quest Introduction: Find the 'Blade Demon Energy Sealing Device' and complete Blade Awakening.

Quest Information: The specific intelligence of the Blade Demon Energy Sealing Device is only known to one witch. Witches call the 'Blade Demon Energy Sealing Device' the Land of Death.

Quest Deadline: 30 natural days.

Quest Reward: Soul-Severing Shadow Stone (Fragment) x1.

Quest Penalty: Forced execution.

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Activating the main quest had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that Su Xiao had a clue. Without a main quest, he would be completely in the dark and wouldn't know where to find the 'Blade Demon Sealing Device'.

Not only that, his original stay limit was only 10 days, but now it had been increased to 30 days, making him much more relaxed.

Moreover, the main quest had rewards. Because of the special nature of this main quest, it actually rewarded a Soul-Severing Shadow Stone (Fragment). One had to know that if Su Xiao collected five Soul-Severing Shadow Stone (Fragments), he could synthesize a complete Soul-Severing Shadow Stone, which was a power inheritance gem.

As for the disadvantage of activating the main quest, it was the forced execution penalty. Basically, all the main quests Su Xiao had seen had this kind of penalty.

After paying 5,000 Paradise Coins, a large amount of language knowledge flooded into Su Xiao's mind, and he quickly mastered the language of this world.

Looking at the notice on the wall again, he was shocked to find that this was not a wheat harvest statistic at all, but a wanted notice for a certain witch.

Shalin Sharpe, Black Witch.

Wanted Bounty: 107 gold coins (hard currency, extremely inconvenient for trading) or 6,250 Bei (some kind of common currency) or 8,000 Lu of wheat (1 Lu is approximately equal to 1.8 kilograms), dead or alive.

Charges: Multiple murders, abuse/abduction of young boys (8-10 years old), destruction of the marriage of the Princess of the Crony Kingdom (seducing her husband, whose whereabouts are still unknown, suspected dead), human experimentation, theft, prostitution (according to the prostitute involved, Shalin Sharpe was only willing to pay with coins she made herself).

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When Su Xiao saw the word 'prostitution', he almost laughed out loud. A witch engaging in prostitution was already bizarre enough, and she even gave an IOU afterward. What kind of personal coins? It was simply that the witch had no money on hand.

It was clear that the flesh trade in this world was not illegal. Judging from the wanted notice, it even seemed to be protected by the official authorities.

The funniest thing was not the charges committed by this witch, but the picture above. Su Xiao hadn't misread it before; it was indeed a piece of wheat, but after careful observation, he found that a back could be vaguely seen in the wheat. It was simply a soul artist.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang looked at the wanted notice on the wall, dumbfounded. After Su Xiao paid the Paradise Coins, it also mastered the text of this world.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was amused. It meant: "If this ghost wanted notice can reward the criminal, I'll rotate upside down and pee, the kind that pees in a circle." ===== CHAPTER 1522 =====