Chapter 206: I’m Back…

Chapter 206: I’m Back…

Dan Marina, feeling the timing was about right and planning to leave, suddenly made a strange expression: “Huh? No way…”

Preparing to leave the water pool, Dan Marina looked in an inexplicable way toward a direction outside the pool. Some faint noises came from over there. If she wasn’t mistaken, they were from about three to five Humans. The feeling inside the water pool wasn’t pleasant. Even though it could hide all her presence, to the person herself, when she couldn’t even sense her own existence, it brought a feeling of hollow terror.

It was like being trapped in a completely silent room—the pressure would continuously build.

“So, I, who am called the Fate Witch, would encounter such a ridiculous situation too?” Stretching her arms out of the water, Dan Marina pressed herself against the edge of the pool. After the slight weird feeling in her heart vanished, her mindset returned to normal. Was what happened next going to be like in Legend novels?

Not likely!

No matter what, she was a Witch. A Witch like her, not one belonging to the good and orderly side—did she need a reason to kill a few people…?

She didn’t act immediately purely because she wanted to see just who had come to such a place… Oh? Bandits?

Looking at those men dressed in ragged clothes, bearing many bloodstains, fierce expressions, and holding broken weapons, Dan Marina slightly used her ability. She easily Traced the recent events they had encountered. Well, these men weren’t lucky but rather unlucky. They were doing fine until they robbed the wrong people, running into a merchant group that was pretending to be weak but was actually strong. They gained no benefits and instead had their entire hideout overturned.

The remaining few fled here in a panicked, disheveled state while being pursued. That was even more unlucky.

However, when these Bandits saw Dan Marina, they didn’t think themselves unlucky. The frustration of being chased frantically for dozens of miles already made them want to vent their anger, but how could there be a good outlet in such a desolate place?

Finding their accomplices good-looking? Possibly from doing too many bad deeds, each had a face full of rough flesh and small knife scars—how could they be good-looking? If at that moment they happened to see an Aberration of a water pool with a beautiful woman inside, her long hair spread across the water’s surface, her enchanting figure completely bare… These Bandits, whose emotions were wildly fluctuating from being hunted, felt the primitive force within their bodies uncontrollably erupt!!

“Back off, this woman is mine!!”

“Eh~? In such a hurry?” Dan Marina lightly tapped her forehead, instantly losing any playful thoughts. Though her nature was a bit whimsical, being seen by such men and fantasized about in their minds didn’t make her feel pleasant either… So.

“Drop dead.” With a light, airy sentence, a chilly breeze stirred around the water pool. These Bandits, whose minds were completely consumed by desire, froze in place, silently losing all signs of life. Their eyeballs even appeared shattered, as if a sharp little knife had been inserted and twisted inside.

The power of the Prophecy Art was itself an interference with the Threads of Fate. If this interference was strong enough, it could achieve additional effects.

Directly interfering with reality!

Situations like hers, where a single sentence could take a life, were quite common and ordinary. After all, these people were far too weak. And with her power, it would be strange if her words didn’t “say” them to death. Not just her—some other powerful beings could glare weaklings to death without even a word.

This method was very effective against those with insufficient strength, but its effect diminished against those whose power met the standard. To put it another way… their life limit was too high, not reaching the instant-death threshold, so it was useless.

“Alright, time to go~ Having delayed for so long, Little Dragon over there should be fine, right?” Dan Marina left the water pool. The water clinging to her body turned into mist and vanished into the air as soon as she was away from the pool. Putting on new clothes, she glanced at a scale-like object in her Personal Space. This thing was made from some blood she had gotten from Zheng Yichen. Its main effect was to show whether he was alive or not.

You could even call it a life signal receiver. This thing was still perfectly fine, meaning Zheng Yichen’s life signal had remained at a full range so far, without encountering any danger… Anyway, time to hurry back.

But along the way, Dan Marina found her journey back wasn’t going smoothly. It seemed the Prophecy Art cast on Zheng Yichen had fermented for too long and sensed that she might be preparing to directly dismantle it, so it began real counterattacks. Never having experienced much misfortune before, she encountered extra misfortune along this journey… or rather, all this misfortune was dragged out by the Undying Witch!

One troublemaking Undying Witch caused the Sanctuary Church and many forces she had offended in the past to all take action. It wasn’t that they wanted to cooperate with the Sanctuary Church’s moves, but they feared the resurfacing Undying Witch would come after them again. So after confirming traces of the Undying Witch’s activities, they all acted extra proactively.

Thus, when all the major forces were targeting Witches, Dan Marina’s activities became quite restricted. After all, with many people involved, the situation was big. Among those acting, some specifically wanted to deal with the Undying Witch, while many others wanted to take advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters!

These people were the most troublesome. Because of the timing, handling things slightly poorly would invite a huge wave of trouble. Plus, that Prophecy Art urging trouble made things even more bothersome. Even though the situation was somewhat out of control, Dan Marina had no regrets. She had freed herself from what would have bound her tightly for a long time in the future and obtained the result she wanted most. The follow-up matters afterward?

Take it slow. Anyway, she was satisfied.

Arriving at the now somewhat familiar Secluded Refuge a full half-month later than the originally planned return time, Dan Marina slightly pursed her lips. From a distance, she could sense an unfriendly atmosphere filling the place. Thinking about how long she had delayed this time, it was normal for Luolisi to be upset. But the fact that she could restrain herself from leaving here did surprise Dan Marina a bit.

“I’m back (