The Discovered Cabin in the Woods

Still in the room, Su Ran walked to the window, her gaze fixed on the spot where the magic essence fluctuation had appeared.

Gleaming silver armor and helmets with faceplates—a large group of knights in tin cans were advancing in lockstep towards the forest cabin.

Behind these knights, several priests in long robes, under the knights’ protection, were casting magic. The intense magic essence fluctuation was caused by their spells.

‘It’s the Church.’

The moment she saw the bright silver armor, Su Ran knew the identity of the attackers.

‘These guys are like lingering ghosts.’

Su Ran considered herself to have been lenient enough with the people of the Church. If not for the fact that they had stepped up to resist the beast tide, she would have sent them to hell along with the Blood Knight during their first encounter.

With a thought, the crystal blunderbuss appeared in Su Ran’s hand, and the top-up interface opened before her.

If the enemy took another step forward, she would not hesitate to fire with the power of a Sequence Six.

On a road far from Laita City and Noda Forest, a troop of knights was escorting an exquisite carriage.

Kold stood by the carriage, hesitating for a long time. He wanted to speak but ultimately held back.

Just as he was about to leave, Yuffie’s voice came from within the carriage, making him stop in his tracks.

“Kold, is there something you want to ask? Go ahead.”

“Your Highness the Holy Maiden, why did you obey the order transmitted by Finnesa to return to the Holy City?”

Since Yuffie had brought it up herself, Kold no longer suppressed the question in his heart and let it all out.

A few days ago, Bishop Finnesa had arrived in Laita City, bringing an order from the Curia, demanding that Yuffie drop everything and… a trip.

Yuffie had shown no objection to this, merely requesting to take the knights who had fought alongside her.

Finnesa had readily agreed to this request without a second thought. Even if Yuffie hadn’t suggested it, he would have made the same arrangement.

After all, it was impossible for Her Highness the Holy Maiden to return to the Holy City alone without any protection.

From Kold’s perspective as an observer, Finnesa’s arrival was a complete power grab, stealing Her Highness the Holy Maiden’s influence.

After all, Laita City had just experienced a beast tide and was in the rebuilding phase. It was a natural course of events for Her Highness the Holy Maiden to step forward and gather the faith of the city’s populace.

Why should Finnesa be allowed to reap the rewards?

“The Church asked me to go back, so I went back. There’s no special reason. As for bringing you all along, it was simply because I didn’t want you to throw your lives away for nothing.”

Just as Yuffie finished speaking, a deafening roar erupted from the direction of central Noda Forest.

“See? Being too aggressive doesn’t lead to a good end.”

After speaking, Yuffie, sitting inside the carriage, fell silent.

Finnesa had appeared with an order from the Curia, and the well-equipped knights he brought with him were clearly his own personal guard.

Therefore, Finnesa’s arrival was completely premeditated and prepared.

With the crisis in Laita City already resolved, what could possibly make him appear here with such fanfare, bringing his personal guard?

It was obvious that he had received news of a Sequence Six witch’s appearance here.

Thinking about the Church’s change in policy regarding the capture of witches, capturing a Sequence Six witch would definitely earn Finnesa commendations from the higher-ups.

Judging from the magic essence fluctuation just now, it was clear that Finnesa’s preparations to deal with the witch were inadequate.

‘Philly’ had already thought about how to make Finnesa pay for this little setback once she returned to the Holy City.

Even if the knights Finnesa brought were his personal guards, they were also members of the Church.

Losing so many knights, no matter how Finnesa explained it, he could not escape the consequences of being punished.

Su Ran put away the blunderbuss. The large crater in front of the forest cabin said it all. The knights who had originally surrounded the house had also vanished.

“What a pity. The special deal today was actually a random spatial transfer. If it had been any other magic essence bullet, I would have sent them to heaven long ago.”

Su Ran’s face was full of regret.

One must know that the money she currently had was the living expenses from Eve’s insurance.

After pulling the “Witch’s Meditation Technique,” she still had a little left, but just now, after using the spatial transfer, the remaining money was no longer enough for her to use a Sequence Six ability again.

“Her Highness the Witch Lord, what just happened?”

At that moment, Isa arrived by Su Ran’s side with Philly and Maimai.

They had all felt the huge tremor when the spatial transfer was used.

“The Church has found this place. To avoid trouble, we have to leave quickly. Have you mastered the flying magic?”

Isa and Maimai nodded simultaneously, indicating that they had learned it.

“Then there’s no time to lose. Pack up and get ready to go.”

While her Sequence Six power was still active, flying directly from Noda Forest to the eastern border city closest to Tukulu was the best choice.

Actually, when Philly and Maimai moved in, they hadn’t brought much with them.

…things, so naturally, there were no items to pack.

…indicated that she was done packing.

“Then let’s go.”

Seeing the small red dots on the map gradually begin to surround her, Su Ran knew that the knights who had been scattered by the teleportation were gradually converging on the forest cabin.

Although the strongest of these knights was only Sequence Five, in order to protect the little witches by her side from harm, Su Ran still did not want to confront the Church head-on.

The sky was the battlefield of Sequence Sixes. It was absolutely impossible for these knights alone to hold them back.

Her hand was tugged by Isa, who pointed at the now-empty house. “Your Highness, are we just leaving the house here?”

After they left, the defensive magic array could only block attacks from a Sequence Four. It would surely be broken soon by the returning knights.

For Su Ran, she hadn’t thought too much about it.

After all, this house was only worth a hundred yuan. If she really needed one, she could get another from the system.

But for Isa, it was completely different. The house held the traces of her life with Her Highness Su Ran.

She was unwilling to just leave the house here, to be broken into by the Church’s knights and then destroyed.

“System, can you store the house?”

Following Su Ran’s question, the system directly popped up a prompt.

[Do you wish to pay one hundred yuan to activate the one-click house storage function?]

This amount of money was a drop in the bucket for Su Ran. She immediately spent the hundred yuan to activate the one-click storage function.

With a series of sounds, the house that had been sitting on the ground continuously shrank, flying into Su Ran’s hand.