A Journey Of A Delusional Witch
Chapter 40: Preparation for the Incoming Conflict

My name is Slon Elepanthi.

I am a Bishop of the most beautiful and the most perfect kingdom ever, Narsist Kingdom.

Although I am from the church, but what I worship is not a false God as worshipped by the heretics out there but the supreme and beautiful King is peerless, Pulchritudo ol Narsist's.

He was the King who descended directly from the kahyangan.

Her beauty is immeasurable that any of the Gods and goddesses will envy when they see her shining form to the corners of the kingdom, no, the world!

It has been ten years since I was given the glory to serve the glorious King Pulchritudo. During that time I have shed every drop of blood and sweat for my beloved King and Kingdom.

Now, a task has been handed to me.

Our great king has given us the order to destroy the disgusting kingdom filled with despicable creatures who see it has fed me up.

He gallantly directed his strongest army to eradicate them from the front.

With his strength that could rival kahyangan, as well as with an army that could shake the earth with each of their steps, it was clear victory was inevitable.

But all of that has its limits!

Other than fighting against that despicable kingdom, the Sanguine Kingdom! We also have to deal with a kingdom filled with unknowing beasts, Ferox Kingdom!

Having to fight two kingdoms at once, our forces will obviously be overwhelmed. We will not lose! It's just that it's so troublesome!

The worst, Drakon Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Man who should have cooperated with our great kingdom even with sin they accepted the savages with open arms.

When a great war has broken out, it is clear that this foolish kingdom will help our enemies.

No matter how valiant and mighty our troops are, we will obviously not be able to take the attacks from the three great Kingdoms at once!

Therefore, in order to prevent the Drakon Kingdom from participating in the war, I was tasked with closing down their only access. Forest Barriere.

Since the entire most powerful army is heading towards the battlefield, leaving behind 100 knights who became my bodyguards in this grand mission this time around.

Obviously I am not thinking of shutting down their main access to exit the kingdom with just 100 knights.

Therefore, I will use the items that have been entrusted to me!

\ (Weakened) ★★★★★

«Mobs Control : Maximum»

A crown that was once worn by a Demon that invaded this world.

This was originally a cursed item, yet it had been purified by divine power. Even so, his true strength had been greatly weakened and could only be raised if a person with Demon blood wore it.

Whoever wears this crown will be given the power to rule the Mobs as they please.

This crown is a royal treasure that was obtained during the holy war several hundred years ago. Initially this crown had a very ugly and terrible form. Not only that, initially it was also a cursed item that ate the common sense of the user.

However, thanks to the efforts of the Saints (Saint) in the Narsist Kingdom, this crown finally transformed into the beautiful masterpiece it is today.

Although it now does not add any additional stats, but its ability to enslave brainless Mobs is incredible!

With this power I have gained, I have managed to enslave over 100,000 Mobs crawling in Narsist Kingdom. Coupled with the ones I got on the road and inside this forest, their number has grown to now have reached over 500,000!

Thanks to the hard work of the Mantra Readers (Caster) who are experts in manipulating illusions, I was able to bring those brainless Mobs from Narsist Kingdom to here and hide them

no one will know what awaits them.

Haha... With this, let alone close the border! I could even destroy an entire kingdom if I wanted to!

"If I succeed, Your Majesty will definitely praise me!!!"

Ahhe... I can't wait to see her face again!

"Report!"

A knight with the Narsist Kingdom's pride Armor came prostrating before me. Usually people who dare to interfere with my happy time will be subject to severe punishment.

However, after seeing his impeccable respectful posture. As well as considering what situation I am in right now, I'm sorry.

"What's up?!"

"A fortress has been created on the border"

"What did you say! The fortress!!!"

No way!

As I recall there is no such thing as a fort at this border! Moreover, he said that this fortress just appeared! Impossible!

However, after hearing further about this fortress, the unpleasant feeling grew even greater.

A fortress made of thorny walls, Golem troops standing guard in front of him, to the most shocking news to make me ride black!

"FOUND SIIIA WITCHAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!!"

You granny stinks of soil!

How could Sol Ciel be in Drakon Kingdom? This is Cardinal! The strongest and current leader of Sol Ciel!!!

Can't be trusted! It's unbelievable!

Why does he have to be here? Even with all the Mobs I have right now, I still don't believe myself to be able to hold it for long enough before he slaughters it all out.

Distinct from her childish appearance, the attached grandmother had more than enough strength to fight against a single small kingdom alone and without being injured in the slightest!

"Arghhh... It's unbelievable!"

Damn it, then I'll have to rearrange my strategy.

20 Days, I just have to hold it for 20 days and we can win!

If it still doesn't work, even if this means my death, I will resurrect the creature.

...

A few days have passed.

Standing on a sturdy fortress made from thorny plants, I still could not believe that this fortress was only made using a skill even though I had seen it with my own eyes.

Leaning both of my hands on the edge, I looked towards the dense sea of forest while imagining my opponent who was inside.

The words from Lavender that night still vividly recollected in my memory.

The opponent this time is not Wave. The Narsist Kingdom.

At first I thought that there was a Wave when the war was quite strange. After hearing that the Narsist Kingdom was the mastermind behind the Wave, my conjecture all along was finally proven.

Third event. The war!

I have fought long enough for this kingdom. No matter if it's a threat from Mobs or even a natural disaster, I won't be daunted by it.

However, this will be the first time for myself or any other member of my Party to go against a single kingdom.

I had indeed faced bandits before, and I had even finished off some of them with my own hands.

I know that technically it's just a game.

But this world feels real to me.

Real enough that I could barely tell which real world and which game world.

It caused a resistance inside me when I tried to finish off others even though they were just Locals (NPC).

Even so, if it is for the sake of protecting this kingdom as well as the people who are in it, I will not worry.

"Have you finished gathering your resolve?"

"Hm?.... Oh, Feline"

Feline, a college friend and a member of my party.

She was a girl with black hair and chose a mixed-blooded Beastman race with a cat type.

Flapping her cat's ears, she casually leaned beside me at a distance so close that our shoulders touched each other.

The look in his eyes when he looked at me seemed radiant to make me fascinated when he saw it.

"You know I already have Winzi, right?"

"And you know that in this world or even our world it allows a man to have more than one wife, right?"

It does. Both here and there, as long as you are able then you can edit two brides or even more.

Even so, I intend to be loyal only to Winzi.

I have long since realized his feelings for me. But I still don't know why he still has feelings for me despite knowing clearly who I've given my heart to.

Even I can feel that the feeling is getting deeper every day.

"Quite staggering... What do you think, about this fight?"

"I'm not kidding... But, well. Fighting Mobs in large numbers is not the first time for us"

"Not that, I mean about those people from the Narsist Kingdom"

"Ah... That's. They are currently at war with the Sanguine and Ferox Kingdom right? Then they should be busy dealing with them. But, a small part of their army is right in front of us and trying to close the border. That meant they did not want to face three kingdoms at once. Hence they wanted to make sure that the Drakon Kingdom would not enter the battlefield in any way

anything"

That makes sense.

I'm sure everyone would think so.

But that's not the answer I want.

"Mom..."

Feline's eyes looked straight at me. His gaze felt piercing straight towards my deepest soul. The fact that he's calling my real name and not my character's name, indicates that he's really serious.

"No matter if it was in the original world or just a game, war was war. Deaths are inevitable"

I can't deny it.

It's been a long time since war broke out in our home country. Although I was not born into the world at the time, but my grandparents who had tasted war in their youth never stopped telling their experiences at that time.

Each time they told a story, their eyes looked distant as if they were looking back at events that happened in the past.

They sometimes look sad, angry, even frightened.

From their stories alone, I could imagine how harsh and dangerous the war was.

"Therefore... All we can do as someone standing in the front row is to make sure that the other side will receive more casualties"

"Those hard words don't seem to match what you're saying"

"I'll take that as a compliment"

I kept quiet for a while before I finally asked the question I wanted to ask the most.

"Heh, I don't know if this is because of the race I chose or from the beginning I was like this. But, to me, taking someone else's life is no big deal. Even I feel it is the most natural thing in the

this world"

"That's it..."

Natural well, an unimaginable thing to say by someone who grew up in a safe and prosperous environment.

This reminds me again.

Somehow, this game is able to affect the psychological condition of the player. It has a lot to do with what race you choose.

I who choose as a Human generally do not experience any noticeable changes. Winzi and Feline have obvious symptoms.

The Winzi I know doesn't really like alcoholic beverages. Ever since he became a Dwarf, he always made sure that we had a supply of drinks at home. Even Winzi was able to spend a full barrel in one gulp.

The worst is Feline.

The more days his attitude gets wilder. Not that he became a delinquent, but more to the wild like an animal.

He started sleeping anywhere. Be it a sofa, floor, or even a tile house though. Feline also began to rarely touch water other than the water she drank. The food he ate was dominated by meat or seafood.

Even now, I could feel her tail wrapped around my ankles.

If I don't mishear, this is a common behavior of Beastmen that is only done to people they like.

I'm becoming less and less aware of what to do from now on.

After that we did not speak anymore. We just kept silent while looking at the dense forest that would later become a battlefield.

...

My name is Weise. That's certainly not my real name. That's the name of the character I played in the Freedom II game.

Freedom is a game full of nostalgia for me.

When I was in school I often skipped by pretending to be sick just for the sake of playing this game.

Now, when I was a lecturer at a top university, the second series of the game was released.

Needless to say, I obviously bought and played it.

Freedom II is a VR game. Playing your childhood game with your own body feels like a dream come true.

Like in the first game, here I return to play as a Magician (Mage).

At first I played solo until I was caught by my own students and from then on I continued to play with them.

Now it's... After a long road.

War is in front of the eyes.

In the previous game, war was an end-game event that took a full 5 years to complete.

Obviously this event was recorded in the world record book as the longest online game event ever in history.

I still remember the joy and sorrow that I and the other Players had to go through at that moment.

In the end, my side managed to win the war. Shortly after, Freedom ceased operations.

I was sad, imagining that this game would also end after this war was over was very burdensome to my heart.

However, deep inside me I felt that this war was not the process to the end. But something bigger is going to happen right after this war is over.

For that, I must try my hardest to win this war.

The first step I took was to improve my own abilities. Not just in terms of level, but also knowledge.

Therefore, I must pay attention to this Witch who is before me!

Witch of the Ibis Forest, Lavender La Ciel.

Since the first game, Sol Ciel is the most powerful and most reliable Witch (Witch) special organization as an ally.

Countless times they assist Players in major events capable of influencing the history of the game.

Looking back at their members in action in front of me made me come back as excited as I was in my youth.

Currently Lavender was busy drawing some sort of extremely complicated magic circle on the ground using her Staff.

This is the most complicated magic circle I've ever seen. Even the magic circle I had created all this time was incomparable to what was before me right now.

"Sir Weise, it's time to eat"

"Oh, Winzi... Thank you"

Taking the sandwich brought by my protege, I put it in my mouth while continuing to pay attention to Lavender who was still drawing.

"What is he doing?"

"Make a magic circle. I don't know what ritual he wants to perform. But, from what I can read, I guess this has something to do with dominance?"

"Oh, sharp eyes"

Without me noticing, the Cardinal Witch had been standing beside me.

"domination? What does he want to dominate?"

"Did you forget? This boy had managed to take over the entire Ibis forest under his control. Only then do you understand what I mean, right?"

"Take over the forest... Don't tell!"

Damn it, he was about to take over the entire Barriere Forest!

It's unbelievable!

"It's the first time I've seen Mr. Weise make this kind of expression"

"It's only natural, all Magicians of any kind would definitely make the same expression after hearing what my grandson was about to do"

Not minding the talk of the two women who looked like little children behind her, Weise's eyes grew sharper and refused to take her eyes off the magic circle that was being made before her.

...

Calm yourself...

Concentration...

Focus your mind on drawing the complicated magic circle instead of playing this...

Consider it old bangka who is aware of watching is just a swaying grass. Well, withered grass is swaying.

The main reason why I am willing to bother like this is because of the unpleasant feeling I felt after seeing the thorny crown that was on the head of the man from Narsist Kingdom yesterday.

I don't know why, I feel like the crown is so dangerous.

At the same time, I feel like I have to get it at all costs.

Also, as someone who was very close to the forest, I could feel an extremely dangerous existence lurking deep within the forest.

Although I can't see it, but I can feel it very clearly.

The enemy this time was clearly not as simple as it seemed.

Therefore, I need an US card!

Although I am sure that grandma will definitely intervene in the face of such a dangerous existence, the fact that there are many enemies to be eliminated has not changed.

Although I have many different types of magic, but I do not have much magic that is effective against the crowd. Alias, I don't have much AOE magic (If I hit you guys!).

It's worse because the only magic I've developed lately is [Forest Magic].

Having no other choice, I had to create a new magic based on [Forest Magic] which had the AOE effect.

I finally came to a decision.

Let's take over the forest again!

If I can do it once, then I can definitely do it a second time.

Especially with the battle field this time in the forest. If I succeed, then victory will be assured.

It's just, there's one problem.

It took a lot of Mana and a long time to take over the entire forest.

The last time I succeeded was because of the abundant Mana reserves in the Ibis forest as well as the help from the catalyst. Unfortunately the Barriere forest is not the same as the Ibis forest and I am not carrying more precisely I cannot.

That way I need the help of another catalyst to be able to conquer this forest in a short time.

Hence... Concentrate!

Name: La Ciel Lavender

Race: Half-Demon, Female (36)

Occuption: Witch

SP: 39

Active Skill :

[Black Magic 20] [Darkness Magic 12] [Light Magic 20] [Luminous Magic 1] [Fire Magic 20]

[Flame Magic 3] [Water Magic 20] [Stream Magic 10] [Wind Magic 20] [Aero Magic 10]

[Soil Magic 20] [Stone Magic 20] [Wood Magic 30] [Forest Magic 10] [Ice Magic 5] [Metal Magic 1]

[Lightning Magic 1] [Space Magic 1] [Summoning Magic 20] [Slave Magic 5] [Alchemy 18]

[Appraisal 20] [Identify 1] [Psychokinesis 10] [Inscription 2]

Passive Skill :

[Staff 20] [Two-Handed Staff 10] [Meditation 4] [Mana Presence 20] [Mana Control 25]

[Magic Knowledge 20] [Magic Researcher 25] [Mana Sight 5] [Plant Knowledge 20]

[Plant Reception 20] [Body Strengthening 20] [Power Boost 1] [Mana Enchant 20]

[Greater Mana Enchant 5] [Mana Recovery 20] [Greater Mana Recovery 5] [Gathering 10]

[Footwork 15] [Farming 3] [Night Vision 13] [Intuition 15] [Dance 8] [Merciless 13]

[Death Stares 13] [Linguistic 20] [Ancient Linguistic 4] [Poison Resistance 10] [Sleep Resistance 12]

[Charm Resistance 5] [Mental Resistance 1]

Racial Skills :

[Evil Eyes :Fear 1] [Demonic Charm 1] [Magical Garment 5]

Title: Witch of Ibis Forest, Dungeon Master