She squinted at Tanya: "Husband? Child?"
As a beastman in her early twenties, not long after coming of age, she had never been exposed to those things.
"Is it worth abandoning your knightly honor and begging for mercy for their sake?" the orc girl said.
Tanya nodded quickly: "If it were before we got married, I would never have! But now, for them, I'm willing to do anything."
"Then I'm even less likely to let you go. If I let you go back, your husband and children will continue to cause me trouble, right?"
The orc girl sneered.
The principle of "cutting the weeds and eliminating the roots" was taught to her by her old captain.
A beast's claw flashed past.
In an instant, blood spurted out!
Tanya, a level 20 paladin, couldn't even withstand a single attack.
After killing everyone, the girl stood still.
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, but a hint of pain flashed across her face.
Because of Tanya, she was reminded of her time as an adventurer, the captain of that adventure party.
A masked, taciturn eccentric.
He was once hailed as the man with the greatest potential to reach the top of the World Tree in the Southern Fire Empire.
"—Lulu, you've been kicked out of the team."
Three years later,
The words spoken by that captain, who was as cold as a magical machine, were still etched into the orc girl's heart like a knife.
Before she could take revenge on that ruthless captain, he mysteriously disappeared without a trace shortly after she was kicked out of the team.
Three years have passed since today.
Thinking back to her time in that adventure team, Lulu felt nothing but confusion.
And resentment towards that captain.
In the World Tree Secret Realm, even though she meticulously followed the other party's orders and stepped on traps without fail, the final result was still that she was ruthlessly kicked out of the team.
No matter how much she contributed to the team, it was all in vain; she was called a 'useless early-game character' by the other party. Clearly, the team members were living, breathing individuals, but in the captain's words, everyone seemed to have become mere data on paper.
Not only was the person strange, but the captain's name was also strange.
It is called 'Dai Lian* Zhao Wo* Yi Wu Qi Er Jiu Ling San Si Liu'.
Lulu began to pay attention to this strange person when he inexplicably stroked her head in the back of the house and told her his real name.
A real name that only she knows.
Captain 'Linda'.
Linda, the original captain of the adventure team.
They rescued her from the slave traders, trained her to be an adventurer, only to strip her of her equipment and kick her out of the party!
Captain Linda vanished from the face of the earth three years ago!
Lulu recently received news that the Snow Goose Adventure Team, which is quite famous in White Dove City, has an adventurer named Linda who serves as a healer.
Although she felt there was a high probability that the other party was not the old captain she was looking for, she still came.
Lulu had high expectations for this trip, as there was an important mission assigned by the higher-ups in White Dove City and someone who seemed to be the old team leader was present.
"You wouldn't believe it, would you? Three years have passed, and the good-for-nothing you kicked out has turned into this."
Lulu looked at the pair of blood-stained beast claws with a self-deprecating smile.
The witch's magic flowed through her veins, and with it came the powerful bondage of a contract.
This power, gained at a price, both shamed Lulu and made her want to conceal the fact that she had become a witch, so that she could appear before the other party with pride.
Even if it means becoming a witch and becoming a lackey of the demon realm.
The useless players he kicked out back then have become formidable figures.
"Could you be the 'Eye of Wisdom' of the Snow Goose Adventure Team?"
As Lulu gazed at the city of White Dove, which looked like a tiny black dot to the south, her frozen, lifeless heart seemed to begin to beat again.
...
South of the Scorching Canyon, on a barren grassland with sparse bushes, two adventurers are rushing toward White Dove City.
"Witch?"
As Linda ran, she heard Kaphni's explanation and stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"You're not mistaken? Witches aren't like cabbages in a field, you can't just see them whenever you want!"
Having been in the Secret Realm Continent for three years, Linda had only heard of the existence of witches from the drunken adventurers in the taverns.
Linda turned her head and looked behind her. The huge, scorching canyon stood like a giant on the plain. Even though they were trying to get away, they could still see the canyon.
It's as if the canyon itself is that witch.
“I would never be mistaken!” Kaphni was annoyed by Linda’s distrust. “I’m a god, for goodness’ sake. Can’t you show some trust in a god?”
"But you don't even know how to extract magic cores."
"Hehe, do you know how to study the dining etiquette of ants?"
Kaphni scoffed. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something even more disparaging about Linda, but suddenly, her expression changed drastically.
"Oops..."
"What's wrong?"
As Linda spoke, she also had a bad feeling.
Despite the blazing sun overhead, I felt a chill run through my entire body.
It was as if a large mass of icy mist was approaching from behind.
Kaphni was pale: "They're catching up... That witch has spotted us! She's getting closer and closer!"
"What?"
Linda frowned deeply, then turned her head and saw a small black dot on the plain about a kilometer away, shooting towards them like an arrow.
Dust billowed across the wilderness, like a rampaging mud dragon.
...
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