The New Civilization of Witches

Chapter 86: The Witches' Choice

Leaf had no idea how long she could still last.

His return to the camp in the Unpassable Mountains from the wild took nearly half a month.

To avoid detection by demonic beasts,

he carefully hid inside the thick and sturdy tree trunk to ensure that there was no activity of the surrounding demonic beasts before running to the next place to hide.

Despite his worries about the slow marching speed, he had no other choice.

Once he was detected by a demonic beast, he would not be able to survive alone.

More than a dozen sisters had fallen under the attack of the Devil, and the sisters who survived were not good at fighting.

During the time when Ironhand leaped into the crowd and began his slaughter, they had spread out in all directions,

but in the end, there were only a few who were still alive and were able to return to the camp.

Thinking of all the deaths, the pain in Leaves' heart did not stop.

The act of always having to hide herself during the escape consumed a lot of magic power, so she was only able to cover ten miles each day.

In particular, he always had to save enough power to survive the night.

Since all the rations he had in his hands were eaten away, he also had to look for wild fruits to satisfy his constant hunger.

Moreover, the hot spell within his Mage Cooperation Association emblem had also run out of power, too,

so he could only use the bark to wrap himself tightly.

Whenever he thought of the deaths of the young witches, who were not even allowed to become adults and who he had promised to protect, he could not stop his tears from falling.

And as if all this was not enough, one night, when he was wrapped up in his tree trunk he was constantly being attacked by a devil bite –

after constant mental and physical attacks, he had completely forgotten about this.

Suddenly, he felt his chest being torn apart, and the pain quickly spread throughout his body.

The pain attacked him so suddenly that he almost instantly lost his consciousness.

He could only fight back when he bit his tongue feeling the blood flowing in his mouth.

Under constant torment, Leaves thought of giving up a few times, but thought about the possibility that more than twenty sisters were running away,

with a serious wound that only he could heal, being waiting in the camp for his return gave him the strength to fight the bite.

Fortunately, he did not need to suffer for long under the devil's bite. When he finally came out of the suffering, he,

he discovered that the tree trunk that surrounded his body had an enormous gap.

Worse, it was soaked by his blood. So that the smell is not found by the demonic beasts, so,

she had to fight pain and fatigue and take off her clothes before fleeing to another tree.

At the same time, he grew some green leaves on the bare branch and sewed warm clothes from it.

Under his magic guidance, the branches became needles and the leaf veins became his threads. During her escape, she could not eat cooked food or drink warm water.

When he finally entered the Unpassable Mountain Range, he even added two additional layers of leaves to his clothes,

tightly wrapped both his hands and feet, but none of this was enough to fight the rapidly falling temperature and ankle-high snow, resulting in frostbite on his toes.

So in this way of stopping and dragging, with no feeling in his legs, he finally made it back to the camp.

By the time she saw the familiar figure of one of her sisters, Leaf fell to the ground, unconscious.

When she woke up two days later, due to the length of her legs being exposed to low temperatures, her injuries became so serious that even her own herbal medicine was unable to stop the spread of gangrene.

They had no other choice but to take the last road and cut off two of his right and left toes.

This sacrifice did not bother Leaf too much, as she was able to endure. Compared to the sister who never returned, she was extremely lucky.

However, when he saw that the arms of his surviving sister were all wrapped in white clothes, a great sadness spread uncontrollably from the bottom of his heart.

At the time of departure, there were only forty-two sisters, but now there were only six survivors.

When Leaves was finally able to calm down, he asked the others how their fate was.

As he already knew, during their fight with the demons,

the magicians with abilities that were unable to fight took the opportunity to escape to the camp in the Unpassable Mountains.

During their first night, they were attacked by a demon beast – group consisting of a boar species.

Everyone who was unable to resist had to flee once more.

The fact that they had already been attacked again by a group of demonic beasts was clearly a bad omen, but there was nothing they could do against it.

The next morning, after the new attack from the wolf-shaped demonic beast, only eight magicians were able to escape.

Fortunately, after they entered the Unpassable Mountain Range, the demonic beasts were unable to keep up with him.

When they finally reached the camp a few days ago, two sisters were attacked by a demonic bite.

but they had no will to resist and were unable to survive the devil's bite.

Since no war magician could return, everyone thought that they had died under the hands of the demons, so no one expected that the Leaf would return.

Finally, someone asked,

“So...what happened to our other sisters?

Scarlet, Windseeker, and furthermore our mentor Cara, do they survive like you?”

The leaves shook their heads and whispered,

"I'm the only survivor."

"Are you ..." Scroll calmly started talking, but since he could already guess the answer, he instead said,

"Then, rest well. Also ..."

He hesitated for a moment, "Leaving, there's one more thing."

"What?" tanya Leaf, exhausted.

“When you are in a coma, we brothers have spoken and come to the conclusion that if Cara does not return, we hope that you will take the position as our mentor.”

Suddenly asked this question, Leaf became distracted so she closed her eyes to think.

Well, yes, our Witch Cooperation Association has suffered a fatal blow, if we do not immediately choose a new leader, I fear we will soon fall apart.

But the purpose of our society is to seek the Holy Mountain and gain freedom and peace.

Now the search for the Holy Mountain has ended.

No, the "Holy Mountain" itself is a trick.

It did not exist in the Unpassable Mountains, nor in the wild lands. Why should our society exist?

Leaves' mind was completely muddled. Even so, she did not see them, but she could still feel her sister's eyes, waiting for her answer.

His older sisters needed someone to lead and guide them forward, someone who had yet to give up.

After a long silence, Leaves finally spoke,

“We... will go looking for Nightingale.”

Hearing his decision, the other sisters started shouting chaotically.

"What, why do we have to go look for him?"

"You mean we should also go to Border Town?"

"What if he lies to us?"

"Wendy was there too."

"He may have died long ago." After quite a lot of chaos, Scroll clapped her hands, let the others calm down, and then she asked Leaf, Leaf,

"What should we do if what Nightingale said is also a lie?"

"You can wait outside the city, far enough to be safe," Leaf replied as she opened her eyes,

"Let me figure out the situation first before determining if Nightingale is lying.

So, for now, I will take the position of Mentor, but if ...

if I die in the city, Scroll will take command and take the sisters to safety.

"But I ..." started Scrolling, but he was immediately interrupted by Leaf.

“I know your abilities are not suitable for fighting, and your abilities do not help much for the daily operation of the camp.

But now I understand that the power of ability is not important to the rank of leader. ”

Mentors should be guides, not the strongest, but unfortunately, it's too late for us now.

If the cautious and patient Wendy was our Mentor, wouldn't the result be very different?

“You and Wendy were the first to join the Witch Cooperation Association, so you are already an older sister.

You traverse the entire kingdom on your way from the east to reach the Unpassable Mountains, so you have a lot of experience.

You're careful, and you don't think you're better than anyone else.

So, there is no one more suited to be our mentor brothers than you. After which, Scroll was silent for a moment until she said,

“...What if what Nightingale said was true?”

"There is then no reason why our Witch Cooperation Association should exist anymore" Leaf slowly explained,

"in any case, it means that Border Town is our 'Holy Mountain!"

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