Frightened Finnesa

Seeing the house successfully stored in the system, Su Ran finally couldn’t help but complain, “Why did I spend money, but I still can’t store the house with one click?”

Originally, Su Ran thought the house storage function would be a direct one-click retrieval. It was only after buying it that she realized she had been tricked.

[Please select one of the following commands as the storage command.]

[1. House, come!]

[2. Store!]

The further down the list, the more ridiculous the commands given by the system became. To avoid looking too strange, Su Ran chose a relatively normal command that wouldn’t attract too many odd looks from others.

This seemed to be another instance of the system messing with her after she had exploited its mission loophole.

Su Ran reasonably suspected that this was the system abusing its authority, but she had no proof.

However, Su Ran couldn’t be bothered with it now. After tidying up everything at the scene, she took the three witches and left from the skies of Noda Forest, flying towards the eastern border of the Theocracy. Once there, they would figure out a way to get to Tukulu.

As they were preparing to leave, Su Ran suddenly felt a sense of being watched.

After obtaining the power of a Sequence Six, Su Ran’s perception of her surroundings had become exceptionally keen. It was difficult for any magic essence fluctuation to escape her spiritual senses.

Regardless of the other party’s intentions, since they were observing her from the dark, Su Ran had no need to be polite.

[Detected that someone is monitoring you through magic. Do you wish to intercept?]

This was one good thing about the system. No matter how it abused its authority, it was never vague on matters concerning her own safety.

‘Just now, I used spatial transfer to teleport away all the attacking knights. Before teleporting them, I actually noticed the system’s warning. This means that the knights surrounding the cabin now are just pawns for the other party to probe with.’

Without a second thought, Su Ran directly pressed “yes” on whether to intercept.

[Magic Essence Bullet One: Destroys the scrying magic upon use. Price: 198 yuan.]

‘A starting price of 198? Normal magic essence bullets usually start at 99 yuan. It’s rare to see one that costs nearly two hundred.’

Su Ran frowned slightly and continued to scroll down.

[Magic Essence Bullet Two: Destroys the scrying magic and locks onto the opponent’s position upon use. Price: 298 yuan.]

‘Destruction with a lock-on.’ Su Ran glanced at it and skipped past, as it was only the mid-tier option.

[Magic Essence Bullet Three: Destroys the scrying magic, tracks the opponent’s position, and causes a certain amount of damage to the opponent upon use. Price: 498 yuan.]

‘This is the one!’

Even though this bullet cost nearly five hundred yuan, Su Ran still decided to use it.

She didn’t have that much time to stay here and play games with a coward who only dared to peek from the dark.

Since that was the case, a combination of destruction, positioning, and attack—three functions in one—was naturally the most convenient option.

‘Just a moment ago, I said a hundred yuan was a drop in the bucket. Now, five hundred yuan is starting to sting a little.’

After selecting the third magic essence bullet, a pale gold warhead appeared in Su Ran’s hand, just big enough to be grasped in one palm.

With a click, the bullet was loaded. She turned and fired the magic essence bullet into the space behind her.

The fired bullet created ripples in mid-air as it shot towards the location of the magic fluctuation.

Hearing a cracking sound in the distance, Su Ran knew the magic essence bullet had shattered the opponent’s scrying, and they could no longer monitor her.

“Alright, let’s go!”

The blunderbuss in her hand dissipated into nothingness. Su Ran took the three witches, who were still waiting, and flew away into the sky under the watchful eyes of the knights below.

A few hundred meters from the forest cabin, Finnesa was injecting magic essence into a mirror.

It was thanks to this Scrying Mirror that he had the opportunity to learn of the appearance of a Sequence Six witch near Laita City.

At this moment, Finnesa looked at the three little witches flying in the sky and became excited.

“Witches really have a lot of good things. They even have flying magic. Judging from the shape of the wings, it’s a type I’ve never seen before.”

Flying magic was something that even in the Church, only a few people with enough contribution points would exchange for.

Now, as long as he captured this witch, he would have the chance to get a copy of the flying magic for free. Even if he couldn’t use it himself, he could give it to the Church in exchange for other useful things.

‘I can’t let the witch escape.’

Finnesa rose and strode into the sky.

His casual gait in mid-air revealed that he, too, was a Sequence Six. His strength was another reason why ‘Philly’ had been unwilling to confront Finnesa head-on.

According to Finnesa’s original plan, he had wanted to use the knights he brought to exhaust the witch’s spirit and her magic essence.

By then, even if the exhausted witch had her witch abilities left, she wouldn’t be able to make a single wave in front of him, a Sequence Six at his peak.

But now, there was a small problem with the plan.

‘I can’t let the witch in my grasp escape like this.’

Just as Finnesa was preparing to put away the Scrying Mirror, the entire surface of the mirror showed static like a lost signal and emitted a crackling sound.

Even Finnesa had never seen this situation before; he had never encountered it.

With a snap, the surface of the Scrying Mirror was suddenly covered in a spiderweb of cracks radiating from the center.

“Impossible! Even I can’t leave a single mark on the Scrying Mirror. The mirror is about to break?”

However, just as Finnesa was about to move forward to check on his mirror, an accident occurred.

A nearly transparent bullet emerged from the Scrying Mirror, aimed straight at Finnesa’s glabella, intending to take his life.

However, Finnesa’s reaction was quick. He paid the price of one eye to dodge the attack.

The appearance of this bullet had already caused Finnesa to break out in a cold sweat.

The moment the bullet appeared, he already knew who was responsible for this.

He wasn’t surprised that the other party could detect his scrying. What surprised him was that the witch could use the mere trace of his scrying to send a bullet climbing up the pole to his face.

For the first time, the greed in Finnesa’s heart was overcome by fear.

“I’d better not provoke this witch for now. I’ll just gather the faith in Laita City and then leave.”

Finnesa no longer dreamed of capturing the witch. Su Ran’s single shot had completely sobered him up.

Just as Finnesa was about to use magic to heal his injured eye, he froze on the spot.

The healing magic had no effect on his blinded eye.