Chapter 34 - EPISODE 34 – FULL MOON (1) (1/2)
[If you can hear my voice, open your eyes. Wake up and look at me.]
Jude slowly opened his eyes at the faintly heard voice.
What he saw was a warm light and a cozy space.
His eyes then caught the face of a witch with long black hair and green eyes.
[You’re finally awake.]
In front of him was a white-faced beauty around thirty years old.
The witch wore a black dress decorated with black bird feathers, and a wide-brimmed cone hat on her head, which were the typical symbols of a witch.
“This place is…”
[This is the world of my consciousness. Your body was overwhelmed and has fallen into a deep sleep. So I woke you up here to share my story. Now, hold my hand and get up.]
In a daze, Jude stood up holding the witch’s hand. And on the other side, he could see Cordelia standing up while holding the witch’s hand as well.
“Cordelia?”
“Jude?”
[It’s so nice to see you two taking care of each other here too.]
The voice who spoke was not from the two witches standing in front of the two, but rather, from the rocking chair in front of the fireplace.
There was another witch sitting there.
[Now, both of you, come here. It’s warm in front of the fireplace.]
When the witch in front of the fireplace beckoned, the witches in front of Jude and Cordelia suddenly became haze and vanished.
Jude and Cordelia looked at each other spontaneously and exchanged glances, and then nodded.
‘Let’s go for now.’
The witch will not likely harm us.
As Jude and Cordelia stood in front of the fireplace, the witch also stood up from the rocking chair.
[First of all, I need to talk about my story. But I’ll ask you in advance, so please answer me. Do you know why I’m sealed here?]
She was asking if we knew the real reason why the witch was sealed.
In the eyes of the witch who was inwardly full of expectations, Jude hesitated and pretended to not know, while Cordelia nodded without thinking.
[I see… You know this again… You know…]
The witch became openly sullen, drooping her shoulders as she pouted a bit.
The real reason why the witch was sealed…
Despite being a lowly slave, the witch brought down numerous demons, and the existence of such a witch was enough to offend the five great monarchs of Hell.
Eventually, the witch clashed with Belial, known as the monarch of corruption, and one of the five great monarchs of hell. She suffered a crushing defeat at the overwhelming power of the great monarch.
But just before Belial’s flames completely extinguished the witch’s soul, another monarch stole the witch’s soul, and that was Asmodeus, the monarch of lust.
‘Asmodeus thought that the witch’s soul, who overthrew countless demons, could become a dagger to stab other great monarchs.’
Asmodeus sealed the witch’s soul deep in the forest of Trefalgar in order to hide the witch’s soul from the other monarchs until the day it would become useful, as well as to make the witch’s soul submissive to him.
‘That is why the great witch’s soul was sealed in the human world, and why there was only one demonic monster that protected the seal.’
If the witch’s seal was in hell, or even if it was in the human world and had a lot of guardians protecting the seal, it was highly likely that the other monarchs would notice it.
Having said that, when the witch made a sullen face, Cordelia hurriedly opened her mouth and said.
“Ah, no…about that…well, I don’t know! Please tell us more about it!”
[Really?]
“Yes, really.”
The witch was enchanted by Cordelia’s words and bright smile, and soon, a smile spread on the witch’s face too.
And Jude thought at that time.
‘You must have been lonely.’
It was understandable since she was trapped alone in the seal for hundreds of years.
[So…to begin…]
The witch began telling her story clearly and softly, and Cordelia’s eyes sparkled as she became a good listener.
After four hours or so…
[And that’s how it happened.]
The witch widely smiled with a satisfied face, while Cordelia and Jude nodded with exhausted faces.
It was briefly summarized in the game, but it was a really long story if you heard the full story directly.
[Ha, that was refreshing. Now then, let’s get to the main point.]
“What?!”
You’ve been talking for four hours and you’re only starting to get to the main point now?!
Cordelia was surprised and asked back, and the witch laughed and came close to her.
[I’ve finally finished telling you about the past. So let’s talk about the future.]
In fact, there was no such conversation in the original story.
The witch who had possessed Cordelia’s body and defeated the monster, immediately ascended afterwards.
[Cordelia, you’re a lovely child. You contained my soul for a moment, and I have seen the potential of your soul and body. The potential that you have the same power as mine.]
Unlike before, the witch who has spoken so far had a crafty smile, and then she kissed Cordelia’s forehead, eyes, cheeks, neck, chest, and the back of her hands in order.
“Wi-witch?”
[I left my mark on your soul. Remember my feelings when you use my power. Increase your own strength through that.]
The witch whispered in Cordelia’s ear, and after deeply swallowing, Cordelia recited the spell taught to her by the witch.
She changed in a moment.
However, it was a little different from the previous Witch Transformation made by the witch herself.
Cordelia’s hair was dyed black, but the tips were still red.
Instead of both eyes turning green, her usual blue eyes became more vivid.
[Go and increase your strength.]
Cordelia’s Witch Transformation.
It is a reinforced transformation spell with a time limit, and when in the witch state, all magical abilities are greatly increased.
As Cordelia nodded and looked at herself, the witch affectionately kissed her forehead one more time.
[Look carefully at the place where I was sealed. There should be a spell book that I wrote there.]
It was a spell book that contained all of the witch’s magic spells.
“Thank you very much, witch.”
As Cordelia bowed her head in greeting, the witch laughed and hugged Cordelia.
And Jude, who watched all these, cleared his throat.
“Ahem, ahem.”
A cough that meant ‘You don’t have anything for me?’
Unlike the original story, Jude had also met the witch, so shouldn’t he get something too?
Of course, this journey had already given Jude the skills of the Guardians of the Holy Cross, but wasn’t there a saying that stated that ‘the more, the better?’
At Jude’s appeal, the witch narrowed her eyes and said with a slight lick on her lips.
[Jude, you’re not compatible with me. Rather…you possess other possibilities.]
Jude turned at her unexpected words.
‘Another possibility?’
In the original story, after the treatment of his Gueumjulmaek, Jude became a powerful warrior with the help of his Cheonmujiche.