Su Deng glanced at her sideways. "You're human, aren't you?"
Bella nodded. "Yes."
"You don't despise witches?"
"I...I've seen witches, and I don't think witches are as evil as humans say...on the contrary, they are very kind..."
Bella stole a glance at Su Deng, tightened her grip on the cat, afraid that Su Deng would see through her and abandon her there, but she still mustered up the courage to tell the truth.
"Actually... I'm an orphan. I was raised by a witch..."
When she was three years old, her family had an accident, and she was thrown into the Demon Forest, where a gentle and powerful witch saved her.
"She saved me, raised me, and told me stories of witches..."
At that time, her dream was to become a witch.
But the witch said she didn't have the talent of a witch...
"The Witch Castle is opening its gates recently, accepting and recruiting witches. If I miss this opportunity, I might never be able to go again..."
The Witch Castle opens its doors once every three years to accept witches who have escaped from the clutches of demons, as well as those who wish to become witches.
However, they only accept girls aged ten to fifteen, regardless of whether they are human or not. As long as they can cross this forest and reach the Witch's Castle before the gate closes, they can enter.
She's twelve and a half years old this year, and she won't be able to wait for the next time.
Bella declared with unwavering determination, "I will definitely become a witch!"
Su Deng didn't seem to care much when she said she wasn't telling the truth, but instead asked, "Do you know the relationships between the races of angels, demons, humans, and witches?"
Bella said, "The devil thinks that witches are slaves for their amusement, but they have betrayed them and are the witches' natural enemies. As for humans, as I just told you, angels are also divided into white angels and black angels. They also think that witches are evil and are always shouting to destroy witches."
If that's the case, then wouldn't all human angels and demons be enemies of witches?
Su Deng frowned. How could they possibly fight a three-clan attack on one clan?
"Meow!"
The cat in Bella's arms suddenly meowed, its eyes widened, its fur stood on end, and it stared straight ahead.
"What's wrong, Black Bean?" Bella quickly comforted it.
But Black Bean stared intently at the misty, dark forest ahead, its claws tugging at her clothes, barking and barking incessantly.
Bella tried to understand its words, "Are you trying to tell us there's danger ahead?"
Black Bean meowed and jumped from her arms to the ground, biting her trouser leg and pulling her backward to prevent them from advancing.
“Sister…” Bella called to Su Deng, “Black Bean may have sensed danger…”
Su Deng glanced down at the cat, something flashing in her eyes, then looked at Bella, "You can go back if you're scared."
"I..." The eerie atmosphere and the cawing of crows made Bella shiver, but she still hugged Black Bean to her chest, puffed out her cheeks, and said, "I'm not afraid!"
She bent down to comfort and soothe the black cat, "Black Bean, don't be afraid! We'll definitely make it into the Witch's Castle!"
Su Deng chuckled softly, gripping the torch tightly in one hand and carrying the sword in the other, as she continued walking along the path.
"quack--"
The cawing of crows was continuous, like undulating music.
It was just awful music.
It's also quite creepy.
“Sister… they say the cawing of crows is an ominous sign… there are so many crows here…” Bella followed closely behind Su Deng, not daring to fall behind, feeling uneasy from the crows’ cawing.
This place is indeed terrifying, just as the witch granny said.
Luckily, she met this older sister; otherwise, she would have been terrified.
“Gah!”
After another crow's cry, even more mournful than the others, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings, two red lights suddenly flashed in the thin mist ahead and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Bella jumped in fright and ran behind Su Deng to hide, her hair standing on end. "Sister, did you see that...?"
Su Deng turned her head to look at her, "You said you want to be a witch, do you have any magic?"
Bella: "...No."
Su Deng: "..."
Bella: "But as long as I get in and pass the test, I can learn!"
She spoke with great lack of confidence.
The witch granny taught her a lot since she was a child, but she didn't learn any of it. The witch granny said that she didn't have the talent to become a witch, but she didn't believe it. She was determined to become a witch!
She was confident that she would succeed once she got to the Witch's Castle!
Su Deng licked the tip of her teeth. "Then you'd better stick close to me."
After walking a while longer, stone statues began to appear on the path in the forest.
Some resemble animals, some resemble humans, some are lying down, and some are standing.
You can even see the fear on the human-shaped sculpture's face, and it's in a fleeing posture, not like it was abandoned there.
Bella asked nervously, "Could these stone statues be real people?"
Su Deng tapped the sword.
She didn't use much force, but the stone statue's arm broke easily when she touched it, shattering into powder the moment it hit the ground.
“Sister…sister…”
Just then, Bella looked around, suddenly grabbed Su Deng's clothes, her whole body trembling violently, her face filled with fear.
Su Deng suddenly looked up and saw countless red lights emerging from the forest shrouded in light mist, densely packed together.
The crows stopped cawing, and only the cat in Bella's arms meowed softly.
Under Bella's frightened gaze, Su Deng calmly walked to a tree, raised a torch, and tried to see the source of the red light above.
But these red lights actually moved like beams of light, scanning each other as they crossed over.
"Gah—"
A startled crow took flight, and the moment it was swept by the red light, it froze instantly, turning into a stone statue, before falling to the ground from the air.
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