Chapter 1535: Guess What I Did

"You want me... to help you hunt black witches?"

Melodie stared at Su Xiao in astonishment. She was clearly doubting her life, and from that incredulous gaze, one could discern another meaning: "Big brother, what did you see in me? I'll change it immediately; I don't want to die yet."

Of course, Melodie dared not say these words aloud. From the moment she was ransomed by Su Xiao until now, she knew clearly that Su Xiao was no good person; he belonged to the type who would spill blood three feet away at the slightest disagreement.

"That's right, your abilities are very suitable for hunting witches."

While Melodie was drunk and fast asleep, Su Xiao had already used the Apostle's Eye to detect her data.

The data was as follows:

Name: Melodie

Category: White Witch/Human

Health: 100%

Mana: 2900 points

Strength: 26

Agility: 30

Stamina: 72 (Real Attribute)

Intelligence: 90 (Real Attribute)

Charm: 77

Skill 1, Mental-Body Link (Passive, Lv. 50): Due to the witch's special constitution, for every 1 point of Intelligence attribute increased, 1 point of Stamina attribute will be increased. Both Intelligence and Stamina are Real Attributes.

Skill 2, White Witch (Passive, Lv. 42): Health +500 points, Mana +2000 points, Charm +15 points, immune to partial mental control.

Skill 3, Incarnation: Natural Language (Special Ability: First Stage, Lv. 31): Melodie can communicate with viviparous wild animals and command them without violating their nature.

Skill 4, Incarnation: Beast Walk (Special Ability: Second Stage, Lv. 40): Melodie can transform her incarnation into any form of wild animal and conceal the incarnation's unique aura, significantly reducing the possibility of the incarnation being exposed.

Skill 5, Incarnation: Thousand Faces (Special Ability: Third Stage, Lv. 10): Melodie can manifest her incarnation and let it attach to her body surface, thereby arbitrarily changing her appearance, temperament, etc.

Melodie's incarnation has three types of abilities, or rather, these are the three stages of a witch. There are six stages of witches in total. Although the witch system does not have clear strength levels, they have growth stages. The higher the growth stage, the more perfectly the witch controls her incarnation.

Of course, this does not mean strength; it specifically depends on the incarnation's abilities. Precisely because of this, there are no strength levels among witches; that would only lead to misleading effects.

A first-stage witch has just awakened and can only initially use her incarnation. For example, Melodie's "Incarnation: Natural Language" ability is a first-stage witch ability. A first-stage witch cannot yet freely manipulate her incarnation and can only use the incarnation's passive abilities.

A second-stage witch can initially manipulate her incarnation; they can deform the incarnation, emit energy, etc.

The third stage is the most important stage for a witch, which is to manifest the incarnation and make it tangible. Melodie and Isa both belong to third-stage witches. Of course, their combat power is completely incomparable.

The fourth stage is fusion, the fusion of the incarnation and the witch. Su Xiao has not yet seen a witch at this stage. Heaven knows what kind of monster will appear after a witch fuses with her incarnation.

Fifth-stage witches start to be different; they fuse the incarnation completely into their own bodies. Elemental witches like to manifest the incarnation into some kind of object. If they fuse completely with the incarnation, when absorbing elements, they will definitely be the first to die.

There is only one sixth-stage witch, and that is Dark Crow. Short-lived and powerful, her specific abilities are unknown.

Awakening, manipulation, manifestation, fusion, complete fusion—this is the growth path of all witches. Most witches are stuck at the second stage. Although third-stage witches are not many, they are not too rare. Fourth-stage witches are very rare and can generally only be seen in the south.

As for fifth-stage witches, this type of witch does not easily show herself. According to known intelligence, there are very few fifth-stage witches on the Dark Crow Continent. One of them, a fifth-stage White Witch, was slaughtered 300 years ago by a third-stage elemental Black Witch.

Clearly, that fifth-stage White Witch's combat power was not very good. It's like a scientist fighting a warrior; no matter how authoritative the scientist is, when it comes to brute force, the warrior is clearly stronger.

Precisely because of this incident, the witch strength level system collapsed. A fifth-stage White Witch was slaughtered by a third-stage Black Witch; this kind of comparison based on rank is completely misleading.

Melodie is a third-stage witch. She has three types of abilities: communicating with small animals, turning her clone into small animals, and changing her appearance and temperament.

Given Melodie's combat power, let alone a third-stage elemental witch of the same rank, even if she were to fight a first-stage elemental witch, she could only turn and run. Personality determines combat power; those not suited for combat are not suited for combat even if they awaken as witches.

The reason Su Xiao proposed that Melodie hunt witches with him is, first, because Melodie's combat power is low and easy to control, and second, because she is a witch herself, her understanding of other witches must far exceed that of others.

"Impossible. Didn't you see at the city gate earlier? I was truly surrendering at the time; those soldiers could indeed kill me..."

Before Melodie finished speaking, Su Xiao stood up and pinched her face with one hand.

"Ni gan ma (What are you doing)."

Melodie looked at Su Xiao in confusion. Su Xiao was checking whether she was using her transformation ability. After an inspection, he found that Melodie had not used it.

Su Xiao finally understood why Melodie dared to impersonate a big shot. As long as she passed the inspection at the city gate and successfully entered the city, she could use her transformation ability to turn into that big shot's appearance and start swindling.

As for why she didn't use it before entering the city, the reason was simple: if she dared to do that, she might have been shot down before even entering. With Melodie using her incarnation, those soldiers at the city gate wouldn't talk nonsense with her at all; they would shoot directly.

"Guess what I did during the 8 hours and 16 minutes you were asleep."

"Eh?"

"You wouldn't want to know. Wait here. If you dare to take one step out of the inn, Amu will snap your neck in the first instance."

Su Xiao stood up, stretched his muscles, and walked out of the room. He had to go to the Holy Healing Church.

"Wait, what did you do while I was asleep?"

Melodie's breathing was a bit rapid. Reminded by Su Xiao, she had already noticed the "abnormality" in her body.

"Just helped you place a few bombs."

"Bom... bombs, inside here?"

Melodie pointed to her abdomen. Su Xiao didn't answer her question and stepped out of the room.

Did Su Xiao place bombs in Melodie's chest cavity? Of course... he didn't. With a witch's perception of her own body, if he placed alchemy bombs inside them, they would definitely perceive it.

Su Xiao simply didn't place any; this was the safest method. As long as Melodie couldn't find the bombs in her body for a day, she wouldn't dare to escape without permission. What was unsolvable was that there were no bombs in Melodie's body at all, so she would never find them, unless she found someone to slice her body up.

Inside Holy Healing City, the setting sun shrouded the entire massive city. The streets were filled with warm tones, appearing quiet and peaceful. Wisps of smoke rose from the chimneys of every household, and most civilians had finished their busy day.

Walking on the street, Su Xiao headed straight for the city center, where the headquarters of the Holy Healing Church was located. ===== CHAPTER 1536 =====