
The Old Story of Nightingale had spent her entire childhood in Silver City, and it was the happiest period of her life.
However, these good times only lasted until the winter he turned fourteen. That winter, refugees started a riot in Silver City. Her parents went to distribute food but they never returned. Nightingale and her brother were sent, to the home of her father's brother, another branch of the Gilen family.
It is also the winter when Nightingale awakens due to her magical powers.
She carefully hides her abilities, but in the end she is still found by Mr. Gilen, who immediately separates Nightingale from her brother and uses her brother's life to threaten him into making his offer, so Nightingale had no choice. Mr. Gilen sent him to the thieves' union and had him undergo training. Then, he had her do some shady things, such as breaking into the homes of her enemies to steal trade contracts or other important things, and eavesdropping on town hall meetings. He even had to go to some potential competitor's house and put poison into their water tank.
The business of the Gilen family grows bigger and bigger, but Mr. Gilen towards Nightingale gradually turned worse and worse. Even if something went wrong, he would be kicked. Whenever he did nothing for her, he would close Nightingale in a room in their house whose door was replaced with iron bars. The part that made Nightingale the saddest and most confused was that she could not see her brother Hyde. She begins to suspect that Mr. Gilen has killed her brother.
Having grown fed up with her repeated requests, she ended up bringing her little brother along. However, when Hyde saw Nightingale, he looked extremely fed up and said that he never wanted to see her again because as a witch and a demon companion, he had to go to hell.
Hearing this, Nightingale's world collapsed, but the nightmare was not over yet. Mr. Gilen gives her the final blow - the fact that she becomes a witch is a secret, but she still tells Hyde, and even tells him that the further she gets away from the witch, the more, the better it becomes.
After Hyde bid farewell to Nightingale, Mr. Glenn grimly warned her that Hyde would inherit their father's title, but if she did not continue to obey his orders, she would make her brother die peacefully.
In this way, Nightingale fell deeper and deeper into grief and despair and turned into a puppet manipulated by the Gilen family. On the day of his maturity, he must complete tasks for the family and is on his way home when he meets Wendy. Or, rather, Wendy found him.
Wendy told Nightingale everything about the Witch Cooperation Association, and told her that there were many people who had experienced similar experiences as Nightingale had, but these sisters did not give up. Hearing this, Nightingale's shattered heart suddenly lit up with a spark of new life.
He did not need much time to change from confusion to determination. One week after her adult day, she had already overcome the torment, forcing her magic to undergo a major change. His mist no longer only hid his figure, but it also held the iron bars holding him back.
On the day he finally recovered from the agony on the day of his arrival, he entered his world of fog to enter Mr.'s bedroom. Gilen to take a knife and slit his throat. . Mr. Gilen sighed in a high tone, and then only the sound of blood bubbles could be heard. During the entire situation, Nightingale found that she was much calmer than expected.
Later, Wendy and Nightingale leave Gilen's household. As for her brother Hyde, she ignored him and did not want to see him again.
After this, he and Wendy began their journey towards the Witch Cooperation Association.
When Nightingale reached the end of the story, she waited for a moment, but when she felt Roland was still immersed in his past, she left the room to rest that night.
As for Roland, after such a long time, he finally calmed down and remembered that Nightingale once said that every witch had a long history of bitterness. If they could reach adulthood, they could even be considered lucky.
While Roland was crossing over, it was fortunate that he had become a prince.
After an overnight break, Wendy's color looks much better, and her previously injured arm appears completely healed. Although he was still weak, he sat down and bowed to pay his respects to the Prince.
"I already know about you, thank you for saving Nightingale's life." Roland took out a parchment from his pocket and went straight to the point, "There is no doubt that with Cara as their leader, it is impossible for you to return to the Witch Cooperation Association. So, it would be best for you to stay in Border Town and work for me. If you agree, you only need to put a signature on this contract. You will get the same salary as Anna, and every month you will get a gold royal. "
"Your Majesty ..." Nightingale blinked hesitantly.
Roland knew what he wanted to say. Anyway, this will change his life. Moreover, after Wendy saved her life in the mountains, Nightingale did not want Roland to force her to make a decision immediately. In Nightingale's view, as long as Wendy stayed in Border Town for some time, she would definitely come to their side.
"I would also love it if I wasn't forced to talk about this in a hurry, but some things get a little more dangerous with daily delays." Roland paused for a moment, but Wendy did not interrupt and quietly waited for him to continue, "I guess I might know the method of how a witch can survive her resurrection day without pain."
This speech caused a loud bang from the two magicians who asked with one voice, "What?"
"It's just my speculation and there's no real evidence." Roland calmed down, "But I think I know the reason why the witches in the camp suffer less pain compared to their lives in hiding. The only difference between the two situations was that, when they hid their identities as magicians, they did not use magic power, but during their lives inside the camp, she said, they must use their abilities to maintain daily operations. "
Wendy nodded, "You."
"And in Anna's case, she trained her abilities every day before adulthood, and she even fell into a coma for drawing too much of her magic power. When he finally came to his senses, he had overcome the hardest hurdle as a witch, and even without injury. "
“So, I think this might be the key to conquering the Devil Bite that attacked your body. I believe that witches are a kind of magic container, and during adolescence, witches always collect magic. The moment this magic exceeded the tolerance of the body level, it caused damage to the body of the witch itself, and the Devil Bite itself dated to the day of the witch's resurrection, the most powerful moment of the witch. "
"So if a witch could constantly release her magic, constantly keep her magic at a safe level, perhaps the torment that the witch had to go through during the day of resurrection would be greatly reduced, she said, or even disappear altogether." Roland paused for a moment to let them think, and then he said, "As the lord of Border Town, I can offer your witches a safe place to use their magic. No one will arrest, send you to court, or even bring your witch to death for using her. If my guess is correct, then no doubt, that Border Town will be the end of your long chase to the Sacred Mountain. "
A witch is taught from the beginning that her dangerous abilities are given by demons. After suffering to no end, the witch would feel that it was not her own strength but rather her power was a curse, starting a vicious cycle. The more the witch did not want to use her magic, the stronger her bite. Right after the crosswalk, Roland's attitude towards this power was completely opposite. After passing through the memories of the old 4th Prince and putting aside the existence of Gods, he only saw magic as a kind of energy, an energy controlled by their own will.
Old Wendy was silent, but then she asked, "When I signed the contract and agreed to work for you, then I wanted to know first ... what should I do for you?"
Over the past few centuries, due to their unique abilities, some witches were bought by a handful of ambitious people and secretly imprisoned, used as consumable tools. Although the Church will seek and punish such behavior, it is still difficult to prohibit it. Besides, they used to be cruel to witches. Once they lost their value, their fate could be described as a spectacle too terrible to bear.
Of course, Roland had also heard about these cases, but he liked the long-term importance and believed that this was a win-win situation for everyone. So, she smiled and replied, "The first thing you need to do is practice your abilities over and over again until you really understand them - like Anna."