Chapter 1548: Fierce Indigenous Tribe

Melodie, covered in sweat, climbed up. Looking at her appearance, she was exhausted. Just now, Melodie's words had violated a taboo. She had encountered the same situation as Isa. An unknown energy poured into her body, intending to turn her into ashes.

Su Xiao used Steel Shadow energy to disperse that strange energy. He was waiting, waiting for that energy to strike Melodie a second time. If there really was someone manipulating this energy, then it would definitely attack Melodie again.

But after waiting for more than ten minutes, Melodie had no abnormality.

"Take off your clothes."

"Eh?" Melodie looked at Su Xiao

A minute later, Melodie was lying on the bed inside the carriage, her upper body bare, tears in her eyes. Su Xiao sat on her back, blue light flickering in his hand.

"Are you done yet? It hurts like hell."

Melodie's back was bare, her face showing signs of pain.

"Shut up."

The Qing Gang Ying energy at Su Xiao's fingertips formed a sharp cone. After an inspection, he discovered a circular mark on Melodie's back. The mark was gray and depicted an Ouroboros, with the scales clearly visible.

Melodie had been exposed in front of Su Xiao once before, but Su Xiao hadn't seen this mark then, and Melodie herself didn't know such a mark was on her back. From this, it can be inferred that this mark appeared only after Melodie violated a 'taboo'.

Su Xiao had seen this mark four times. The first time was on the self-touching witch named Isaiah; she had such a mark on the inside of her thigh, but it was black, not gray.

The second time was during the battle with Isa, when Isa manifested a Flame Demon avatar, which had the Ouroboros mark on its forehead.

The third time was on the fourth-stage witch Mira. In the few seconds before she ascended to the fifth stage, she intended to transform her avatar into a long spear, and a similar pattern was on the hilt, though it was too blurry.

The fourth time was on Melodie. This pattern was the clearest, allowing Su Xiao to determine it was an Ouroboros.

The Ouroboros, also known as the self-eater, the immortal, etc., is interpreted in alchemy as meaning infinity or an infinite cycle. Most self-circulating arrays are created with the Ouroboros as the source of inspiration.

"I can't take it, it's killing me!!"

Melodie shouted. Su Xiao struck her neck with a hand blade, then continued to peel away the Ouroboros pattern with Qing Gang Ying energy. Before long, Melodie was awakened by the pain again.

"Woo~ I really have the worst luck. I'll refund your money, let's just pretend we never met. You're a good person, so hurry up and get off my back. My butt is numb from you sitting on it. As a gentleman, how can you sit cross-legged on a lady's waist, especially when she's a kind White Witch..."

Melodie's thoughts were in disarray from the pain, and at this moment, Su Xiao successfully peeled off the Ouroboros pattern.

"Shut up."

"Okay."

Melodie shut up as expected. Su Xiao looked at the Ouroboros pattern slowly dissipating at his fingertips. If one or two witches had this thing, it might be a coincidence, but if it appeared on four witches, it could not be explained by coincidence.

The reason Melodie was in such a miserable state was that she had revealed a key piece of information to Su Xiao: the 'Mo' character Su Xiao was investigating was not Morisa of West Port; the 'Mo' character mentioned by the witch Isa had another meaning. Melodie nearly losing her life confirmed this.

In this way, Su Xiao's original plan remained unchanged. The identity of a Red-tier Witch Hunter was still important; only a Red-tier Hunter could access classified documents in the library of the Holy Healing Church headquarters.

West Port was far from the Central Plains region. Fortunately, Su Xiao's route for hunting witches was originally headed in this direction; the witches he hunted along the way were just on the way. As for those witches located in remote areas, Su Xiao had no time to bother with them.

Eastern part of the Dark Crow Continent, inside the primeval forest.

Several ghostly figures moved through the forest. Their skin was deathly pale, and a close observation would reveal this was due to being painted with some kind of white dye.

Rapid, ragged breathing came from ahead. It was a witch wearing a witch's hat and tattered clothes. Her right arm had been bitten off by some creature, and the stump was jagged.

After running quickly for about ten minutes, this fourth-stage elemental witch stopped, bent over, and gasped for air. Her lungs felt like they were about to explode. Recalling everything that had happened, the fourth-stage witch gave a bitter smile.

The seven of them had come here to find something. After some investigation, they learned that the item was within an indigenous tribe called 'Tooth Bone'.

Regarding these uncivilized natives, the witches held a disdainful attitude. In their view, although humans were weak, they were still sentient beings. While they wouldn't be soft-hearted when killing them, they would still grant them a certain degree of respect. As for these natives in the east, they despised them completely.

Yesterday at noon, the seven witches launched a surprise attack on the Tooth Bone tribe. At first, the natives suffered heavy casualties, but after a few minutes of fighting, the witches discovered that these natives were far stronger than they had imagined. Not to mention their combat proficiency, their physical fitness alone left the witches dumbfounded.

The Tooth Bone tribe was a large tribe with over a thousand people, most of whom were young and strong warriors. The Tooth Bone tribe had a tradition: once a person reached the age of 35, their soul had to go serve the Tooth Bone God, while their body was left for their descendants to consume, signifying that they were one with their descendants.

Clearly, these witches did not understand the Tooth Bone tribe. The Holy Healing Church had once dispatched a large army to crusade against this tribe because the tribe had crossed the border.

However, after marching into the east, the Holy Healing Church's army was thoroughly wiped out; twenty thousand soldiers and a hundred Witch Hunters died in the east, becoming rations for the Tooth Bone tribe.

Although they suffered heavy casualties, the Tooth Bone tribe didn't fare much better. They didn't care about ordinary soldiers, as they all became their rations, but the Witch Hunters taught them the strength of humans. The Tooth Bone tribe held warriors in high regard, so they buried those Witch Hunters.

Two years later, the Tooth Bone tribe's priest and the Pope of the Holy Healing Church signed a non-aggression pact: the Tooth Bone tribe would not enter the Central Plains region, and the Holy Healing Church would not crusade against the Tooth Bone tribe again.

It was such a fierce and crazy tribe that was attacked by 7 witches. Although they had 1 fourth-stage elemental witch + 3 third-stage curse witches + 3 third-stage elemental witches, only one person escaped that tribe, and she was chased to the point of doubting her own existence.

For external enemies, the Tooth Bone tribe had only one way of resolving things: fight to the death.

With a swish, a completely pale figure passed through the forest. He held a spear, the tip of which was a black, shiny spearhead. This thing was not metal, but polished from some kind of metal ore.

A wailing sound of wind came. The fourth-stage witch leaning against the tree felt her pupils shrink and instinctively bent over.

With a bang, a long arrow nailed into the tree trunk above her head. Most of the arrow was embedded in the trunk, and the exposed tail was still vibrating at high speed.