How to become a sea witch

It was completely unexpected for Bernice to meet living beings who knew her in the small town of Kimberley.

At that time, she had just received her reward from Ouwood Manor, and while resting the weight of the bag of gold coins in her hand, she was thinking about how long she would stay here.

In fact, from the perspective of demons' survival, these currencies and so-called treasures circulating in human society are really useless, but Bernice likes these shiny things very much.

They're beautiful,? Delicate,? Priceless and timeless, each with a quality she doesn't have.So Bernice likes to collect them.

Moreover, the small town of Kimberly is close to the capital, and it belongs to the jurisdiction of the Holy See. If you don't want to get into more trouble, you'd better keep a low profile.

Therefore, after Bernice can basically control her desire to hunt, she has always followed the human way of life, pretending to be a wandering wizard who sells spells.

At the beginning, the people who came to her to buy spells were commoners who couldn’t afford to hire an orthodox magician, and the spells they wanted to buy were also very simple—I hope the little pets can get better soon, and I hope the cherry tree at home can have a good life. Harvest and so on.

Until yesterday evening, a middle-aged man who claimed to be the steward of the Erwood Manor came to find Bernice, hoping that she could cure the only daughter of their manor owner, Miss Felicia.

Originally, Bernice was not willing to accept this business. After all, treatment involves potions, and potions involve the need for various raw materials.And as a sea witch, the potion ingredients she is best at using all come from the ocean, and she doesn't know anything about land.

But the butler was very insistent,? And gave a very attractive price.

Bernice struggled hard for a while, and finally agreed that he could go and see the situation of Miss Felicia first, and then discuss the deal if she could do it.

Unlike what she had imagined at the beginning, Miss Felicia's symptoms were not caused by common diseases,? Instead, she was entangled by a mourning demon and kept going crazy.

It didn't take much for Bernice to deal with the funeral demon, and she was paid very handsomely for it.

She counted the number of gold coins in her pocket several times, and felt that the door to a new world was suddenly opened, and the future was full of wealth.

After saying goodbye to Felicia and her family, Bernice quickly returned to town, still thinking carefully about how to develop this loose order business into a low-key and long-term lifelong career.

Unexpectedly, the escaped mourning demon soon came to seek revenge on her, and brought his other three companions with him.

Seeing the four uninvited guests blocking the intersection in front of her, Bernice felt for the first time that Ursula was wise in cutting the weeds.

Maybe it's because they feel that in this four-on-one situation, the side with the most numbers is already a sure thing.As soon as the mourning demon saw Bernice, it immediately pointed at her and said viciously, "That's her! You meddlesome guy, you insist on messing with me!"

Bernice quickly put the bag containing the gold coins into her backpack, and explained in a calm manner: "How can you say that you are nosy when you are paid for the work. If you are willing to pay a high price, I can also immediately Turn around and go back to help you catch that Miss Felicia again."

The mourning devil was shocked by her shamelessness for a second, and then continued: "Today we are here to teach you not to meddle in your own business, who wants to talk to you about money!"

"Then it's fine if you want to talk about your relationship with me, but you have to pay extra." She shrugged her shoulders with a serious face.

The impatient reporting demon was about to pounce on Bernice and bite her neck off with his fangs, but the brown-haired youth suddenly stopped him with his hand.

He tilted his head and looked at the black-haired girl in front of him again, seemingly not sure: "Are you Bernice, the Bernice next to the sea witch?"

"You know me?" Bernice frowned and looked at him warily.

"It's really you? I'm Chris!" The young man was surprised for a moment, and immediately laughed, explaining in a few words how she saved him, who was still a young dragon, from the demon hunter five years ago.

Bernice was at a loss when she heard it, and finally remembered that there was indeed such a thing, but the situation at that time was not what the other party understood.

For example, back then Ursula only found the leader of the Demon Hunt because he wanted to collect debts. After all, he was able to get this position because he made a deal with Ursula at the stake of his life.And the reason why the other people in the same group were also killed was purely because Ursula had a penchant for venting anger.

As for his so-called "saving" him...

Bernice suddenly realized: "You are a flame dragon, right? When you were young, you were golden, and when you curled up, you looked like a big golden egg."

Chris nodded with a smile, stretched out his hand and scratched his hair, as if a little embarrassed: "Yes, the color of our flame dragon's scales when we were young is different from that of adults. Do you remember?"

How could I not remember it.At that time, Bernice rushed over excitedly and picked up the big golden egg, thinking that she had picked up gold.As a result, before hugging her a few times, the golden egg turned into a dragon biting her sleeve and refusing to let go, insisting on pulling her along with its paws. The feeling of disappointment can still be recalled to this day.

Of course, it was she who begged Ursula to let him go and not turn him into a flame dragon in the end, but that might just be a momentary sympathy.

"So it was you." Bernice nodded, indicating that she had remembered.The mourning demon at the side looked at them distortedly, and asked as if unwilling to give up: "You two really know each other?"

Bernice just wanted to say that it doesn't count, but Chris has already answered calmly: "Yes, so don't worry about it, Rick. It's not difficult to find another prey anyway. But you have to be careful." , don’t recruit that group of demon hunters anymore, it’s very troublesome.”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a clear commotion outside the alley.Many civilians who had been walking on the street backed away one after another, followed by the sound of the Holy See cavalry rapidly approaching.The overly loud collision of iron armor and the sound of horseshoes intertwined, like a thunder coming from the end of the street.

Chris looked back at the crowd who were crowded at the entrance of the alley and looked curiously at the direction of the cavalry, and frowned: "It's not convenient to talk here, let's go somewhere else first."

Walking all the way from the alley to the outside of the town, Bernice basically understood the situation of these demons, and they were almost the same as herself.But compared to the fact that they are still very unfamiliar with everything here because they have just been here for a year, they are much more familiar with this continent.

Therefore, when Chris proposed to let Bernice join them, she agreed without hesitation for too long.

They stayed in Kimberly Town for nearly half a month, planning to wait until the official summer before going to other places.

Different from other demons in the company, Bernice always likes to stay alone in the house, she is so cautious as if even the sunlight outside was sent to watch her, and she often stares at an empty place in a daze.

Chris felt that she was a little too nervous. After all, this place is far away from the ocean, and the mermaids might not be able to find her. There is no need to make yourself so tense all the time.

He wanted to invite Bernice to go out together several times, but she refused every time, so Chris simply chose to pull her out instead of trying to persuade her.

Because he finally found out, there was no way he could have said anything more than this jellyfish.

After careful calculation, this is actually the first time Bernice has left the ocean in summer, and she would not have had the courage in the past.Without enough magic for self-preservation, those seemingly bright sun rays can quickly build up a substantial weight on the skin, causing mild or severe burns.

Although she doesn't have to worry about this problem anymore, it doesn't mean that she will be as keen on sunbathing as other land creatures.

"So where are you taking me?" Bernice couldn't help asking as she looked at the forest that was about to end.

"Soon."

As he said that, the young man who stepped out of the shade of the tree turned into a flame dragon prototype in the sunlight. The golden red scales shone like gemstone facets, and the slender dragon tail swayed and entrenched on the lush grass.

He approached Bernice and motioned her to sit on his back, but Bernice immediately shook her head and rejected: "I reject this kind of behavior from heaven with the dignity of a jellyfish, and I... eh?"

Before she finished speaking, Flame Dragon had already picked up her robe and threw her onto his back lightly and steadily, and then flapped his wings and flew up.

It wasn't because she was afraid of losing face, but because of the too violent hot/hot air flow that Bernice couldn't speak at all, let alone scream.She could only barely maintain the state of squinting, watching herself getting further and further away from the ground.

The flame dragon's speed was very fast, and in just a moment, they had already reached above the sea of ​​clouds.The overly thick light squeezed into the eyes, which made Bernice's eyeballs feel tingling.

The sky without the cover of the clouds is an extremely romantic dark blue, pure and clear without any impurities, and the endless clouds are blown by the wind to roll up layers of waves and waves around it.The sun poured down unreservedly, coating everything in sight with a delicate and bright light golden halo, and Bernice saw the entire Kimberly Town and mountains and forests crawling on the ground, and the land and rivers were gradually moving away. She goes away.

It felt as if everything was gone, only the freedom to float on the wind forever like this moment.

Bernice stretched out her hands to catch the rays, which were so brilliant that they were almost blazing hot, and when they passed through her fingers, her skin that was too fair seemed to glow, and the temperature flowed into the heart along with the blood.

"Thank you." This was the first sentence Bernice said to Chris after landing.

"Now I have another wish that will never be fulfilled. After all, sea witches cannot grow wings." She sat on the grass, looked up at the sky, and said regretfully.

Sitting next to her, Chris folded a piece of grass and bit it in his mouth. He looked at the side of the other person's face vaguely: "If you want, I can take you flying every time."

Bernice blinked and classified the other party's words as a joke, so she replied in a not-so-serious manner: "This idea sounds expensive. Do I need to pay a deposit? It's too expensive."

"No need." Chris laughed and asked again, "However, have you ever thought about where you would like to go if one day you don't have to run around like this anymore?"

"I haven't thought about it. I don't think I'll be able to live until then." Bernice said quite frankly, and at the same time looked back at the dense forest not far away.

The hot wind was blowing from a distance, brushing past her ankles, and the forest swayed into a large emerald sea of ​​light and shadow in the blink of an eye.The deeper places are covered by rich green, and the outline of anything can't be seen at all, and everything seems to be normal.

But the feeling of being watched faintly always bothered her, which made her a little uncontrollably nervous.

Across the sun-filled grassland and the shadow of the dense forest, Thiago, who had just rushed over from his coronation ceremony, was standing out of her sight, silently looking at the two sitting side by side, transparent every inch Ice grew from the fingertips, and gradually covered the tall fir tree under the palm.

Shadows accumulated in his eyes, and the turbulence was like a dark blue sea that was about to usher in a storm.

He heard Chris say in a restrained eagerness, "You're going to be fine, we all are. So... have you thought about living with other beings in the future?"

"Maybe." If the fish she raised for rations were living things, they were too many.

Thiago froze for a moment, and almost wanted to ask the phrase "Really?" with Chris.

Immediately afterwards, Chris hesitated and asked again: "What about me?"

"You?" Bernice didn't respond, and she didn't eat dragons.

"Is it okay?" He looked at the girl in front of him, the light in his eyes carried a kind of hope that Bernice couldn't understand.

It might be anger, or it might be panic and anxiety.It was difficult for Thiago to tell exactly what emotion was surging in his heart the moment he heard Chris say that sentence to Bernice.

It was too complicated, it seemed that any simple words could not describe or define it, and in the end it could only turn into a heavy heartbeat, beating in his chest one by one.

But the only thing that is certain is that Thiago doesn't want Bernice to agree to him.If possible, he even wanted the flame dragon to disappear directly from her side.

He watched Bernice's movements closely, and saw that she was thinking for a few seconds with an obviously blank expression, and seemed to want to speak, but laughed for no reason: "Okay, of course."

If he is willing to act as a tool dragon for catching fish and help her, that would be a good choice.

As soon as the words fell, a snowflake that was so light that it was almost transparent fell in front of Bernice's eyes.

Immediately after the second piece, the third piece quickly occupied the eyes.

The snow, like a broken dream, splashed down from the clear summer sky, so pale that it made one's heart palpitate.

Bernice caught those crystal clear snowflakes in the sun inconceivably, raised her head and muttered to herself: "It's summer now."

Why is there so much snow?

Chris was obviously also stunned by this scene, looking at the heavy snow fluttering everywhere, at a loss: "How could this be?"

After a while, Bernice threw away the snow in her hand, quickly turned her head to look into the forest, and stretched out her hand to push the other party: "We have to get out of here, let's go now."

"it is good."

They soon returned to the town and found that it was snowing even here.Humans ran out to watch this spectacle on the street. Their pious beliefs made them firmly believe that this must be an instruction from the gods. They clasped their hands together and lowered their heads to pray to the sudden heavy snow in midsummer.

Many elderly people even knelt on the ground, chanting the names of the God of Light and the God of Sea in a low voice, praying that this weird heavy snow would stop as soon as possible.

Thiago stood at the place where Bernice disappeared just now, looking indifferently at the grass field that was so empty that only the snow was piled up, as if he was stubbornly looking at a illusion that did not exist but was still beautiful.

He thought of the old days when Bernice was with him like this, talking to him, smiling at him, and making sure that no matter how long it took, they would be on this good terms.He can pretend to be a gentle, indifferent and clean god in front of all living beings.But in front of her, he is always himself, without any scruples or pretense.

But in the end, those were all lies to him.

Of course, he could understand that those lies and deceit were the ones that Bernice was forced to do.Even when he thought of the last moment, she still let him go even though she said such hurtful words and hit him, Tiago still stubbornly believed that she actually had feelings for him.

No matter what the truth of the past was, she didn't need to explain any superfluous reasons, as long as she nodded and admitted that those injuries were not from her heart, it was enough for him.

As long as she nods.

but,

How could she sit next to others, talking and laughing, and even promised that the flame dragon would always be with him.

Obviously these words were said to him before, why can I promise another person when I turn around?Is she just so casual about promises?So what has become of what he has been clinging to?

The snowflakes were pouring down more and more densely, covering everything in the world into a cold whiteness, and the temperature was so low that it seemed to go from midsummer to severe winter in an instant.

He recalled what the God of Light, Augsig, had said to him before, why believers should pray to the gods, and why the mermaids would shape the Sea God in their hearts with standards that he didn't understand at all.

"They always think that the gods should be so high and have no desires. But if this is the case, why does God listen to the prayers of believers? Everything in the world is with God and lasts forever. What significance does the rise and fall of living beings have to God?

If it is because of the so-called benevolent nature and love for all beings, why is God required to be ruthless to demons? "

"Obviously according to their understanding of gods, people, flowers, insects, fish, demons and spirits, shouldn't they all be equal in the eyes of gods?"

"So, believers' expectations of God are just projections of their own desires. What they believe in is not God itself, but their eternal pursuit of desires. God, or what we are, is right It doesn't matter to any living beings, as long as it allows them to realize their desires/desires is enough."

"From the moment they were born babies until the moment they died, everything they did was about two things—'grab it,' and 'it's mine.'"

Without any warning, the heavy snow all over the sky suddenly solidified in mid-air, scattering the sunlight into a large rainbow-colored haze and covering the top of the head.

Thiago finally understood that since what he saw was the same as other creatures in the world, he was no longer different from them in essence.

When he woke up as Thiago, an independent living body, he only thought of two things:

Take her here.

That's his.

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