Chapter 1547: West Bay

The train, which only had half left, drove away. Su Xiao took out the map to determine the direction and waited for the carriage behind to catch up. Having nothing to do, he opened the mission list. The main mission "Origin of Black Fish Worm" had been completed, and he chose to obtain the reward.

【You obtained Soul Crystal (Large) x3.】

【You obtained Dark Crow World Reputation +2 points. Because the hunter killed Blood Resentment: Mira, you are already slightly famous among witches.】

Su Xiao put away the rewarded soul crystals directly. As for the reward of "Dark Crow World Reputation +2 points," this thing was very interesting.

After Su Xiao hunted Blood Resentment: Mira, because it was killed in a public place (train), this news would spread quickly, which meant letting more witches or lords know that there was a witch hunter named Kuku Lin Bai Ye, which could be said to have both advantages and disadvantages.

Just as Su Xiao was planning the next action route, Amu drove the carriage to catch up. The three Dokens were spraying white gas from their mouths, clearly exhausted.

Su Xiao had just finished hunting a fourth-stage witch and had consumed a lot of physical strength by slashing out a large number of blade lights, so he decided to rest in the wild for 2 to 3 hours, at least to let the Dokens pulling the carriage recover their strength.

3 hours later, the three Dokens were clearly much more energetic. Although these three Dokens were not fast at pulling the carriage, their endurance was extremely strong.

"Set off."

Su Xiao got on the carriage first, while Bubu Wang jumped to the front of the carriage. This was to enjoy the scenery along the way.

"Can't we rest for a while longer?"

Melodie stretched. Her physical strength was the weakest among the group. Several days of continuous rushing made her whole body feel like it was about to fall apart.

"Where to next? Or rather, which unlucky witch has been targeted by you again."

Following along the way, Melodie understood one thing, which was that once a witch was targeted by Su Xiao, she would definitely not have a good end.

"Go to West Bay."

"West... West Bay?"

Melodie stared at Su Xiao in astonishment. She knew where West Bay was, or rather, that was Melodie's old home.

"Are you very familiar with West Bay?"

On the slowly moving carriage, Su Xiao noticed Melodie's abnormality. He put down the map in his hand and looked at Melodie.

"Familiar, some."

Melodie was a bit vague. She leaned against the inside of the carriage, sitting on a bag of gold coins with her butt.

"Is that so? Then tell me about what you know about West Bay."

With a cigarette lit, the carriage was filled with blue smoke. Melodie pushed open the carriage window and took a deep breath.

"Before I was seventeen, I always lived in West Bay..."

Melodie looked at the scenery outside the carriage and smiled while speaking.

"I have no interest in your life story. Skip meaningless explanations and talk directly about the situation in West Bay."

"Eh~ okay."

Melodie's lips twitched. She had wanted to describe the misfortune of her childhood, such as her parents being slaves, becoming a handyman for a certain witch in her early childhood, and being in danger of losing her life at any time.

Clearly, selling misery was useless to Su Xiao. If Melodie dared to continue talking nonsense, Su Xiao would take mandatory measures.

"West Bay is surrounded by the sea on one side and mountains on three sides. It is located at the westernmost side of the area under the jurisdiction of the Holy Healing Church. It is almost isolated from the outside world, or rather, it is a nail inserted by witches on the border of the Holy Healing Church."

According to Melodie's description, Su Xiao understood the situation in West Bay better. First, West Bay is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Due to artificial construction, those three mountain ranges are almost impassable, and they are full of elemental and curse-type traps.

As for the sea behind, for the residents of West Bay, the sea is the main source of food. There are not only witches there. Witches do not think about labor, and most of them have perverse personalities, so they need civilians to live in West Bay. As for the source of civilians, it is very simple: buy slaves.

There is a rule among witches in West Bay: they cannot harm the local residents of West Bay. As for outsiders, they can do whatever they like.

Those slaves who were starving when they first arrived in West Bay had nine parts fear and one part longing for witches. After all, they had close contact with supernatural powers, so it was hard not to feel longing.

Over time, those slaves discovered that witches would not harm them, but would regularly collect food, minerals, daily necessities, etc., from them. Although the amount collected was not small, it was much more enlightened than slave owners.

A benign ecological balance started from this. After several generations, the descendants of those slaves were completely integrated into the witch's social system. They were willing to work for witches, and the women among them were even more proud of becoming witches.

80% of the witches wandering in the territory of the Holy Healing Church did not come from the Witch Country in the south, but from West Bay.

The Holy Healing Church was also troubled by this tumor that didn't know when it would grow. Unfortunately, the road was too far, and a large army siege was clearly impossible. Moreover, the terrain there didn't allow it. As for attacking from the sea, stop joking. On the vast Dark Crow Continent, more than 50% of the soldiers were landlubbers. Moreover, the Holy Healing Church's navigation technology was extremely backward. To tilt resources toward navigation for such a small witch gathering point was completely not worth it.

The Holy Healing Church's heart-trouble was the "Witch Country" in the south, not West Bay, this kind of gathering point. Moreover, West Bay was located on the border, and resources were limited. Even if witches could be cultivated here, it was not enough to threaten the Holy Healing Church. As for the death of some civilians, although cold-blooded, it was not worth the Holy Healing Church's great mobilization. They had to consider the survival of all humans.

West Bay sounded like a tumor, but in fact, life here was not good either. Witch hunters would occasionally pay attention to this place, give a daily greeting, and then withdraw.

"So, if you arrive in West Bay, all the humans you see are your enemies, including those civilians. They are like... livestock."

Melodie couldn't help but clench her fists.

"Before I left West Bay, I always thought witches were sacred and shouldn't be hostile to Black Witches. They just had somewhat extreme personalities..."

Speaking of this, Melodie smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Until I saw a wider world did I know that the witches in West Bay were actually raising humans in captivity and corroding their spirits, making them obedient. Can you imagine the feeling of being destined to be a slave from birth? What's even more terrifying is that the residents of West Bay are proud of this. They have forgotten to resist. In their hearts, Morisa is a living god..."

Just as Melodie finished speaking, she found Su Xiao staring at her.

"Morisa?"

"Right, Morisa. The ruler of West Bay is Morisa."

"She knows the location of the Land of Death."

"Of course she doesn't know. The Land of Death has nothing to do with Morisa, although they are somewhat similar..."

Melodie suddenly remembered something and hurriedly closed her mouth, her eyes showing fear. She had violated a taboo. Just at this time, a hand pressed on her face, and Steel Shadow energy wrapped her in it.

Almost instantly, Melodie felt severe pain filling her whole body. Because the pain was too intense, her whole body actually produced a numbing feeling.

"Ugh!!"

Melodie, whose mouth was covered, wailed loudly, tears flowing from her eyes. Because three energies collided in her body, her eyes went black and she fainted. It took a full ten minutes for Melodie to recover her sanity.

"I... wasn't killed by the old witch in the south?" ===== CHAPTER 1548 =====