The Release That Witch
Chapters 86's

Leaf had no idea how long she could still last. His return to the camp in the Unpassable Mountains from the wild took nearly half a month. To avoid detection by demonic beasts, he carefully hid inside the thick and sturdy tree trunk to ensure that there was no activity of the surrounding demonic beasts before running to the next place to hide. Although he was worried about the slow pace of the march, he had no other choice. Once he was detected by a demonic beast, he would not be able to survive alone.

More than a dozen sisters had fallen under the attack of the Devil, and the sisters who survived were not good at fighting. By the time Ironhand jumped into the crowd and began his slaughter, they had dispersed in all directions, but in the end, there were only a few who were still alive and able to return to the camp. Thinking of all the deaths, the pain in Leaves' heart did not stop.

The act of always having to hide himself during the escape consumed a huge amount of magic power, so he was only able to cover a distance of ten miles every day. In particular, he always had to store enough manpower to survive the night. Since all the rations he had had been eaten, he also had to look for wild fruits to satisfy his constant hunger. Moreover, the hot spell within his Mage Cooperation Association emblem had also been exhausted, so he could only use the bark to wrap himself tightly. Whenever he thought about the deaths of the young witches, who were not even allowed to become adults and who he promised to protect, he could not stop his tears from falling.

And as if all this was not enough, one night, when she was wrapped in her tree trunk, she was constantly being attacked by demonic bites - after constant mental and physical attacks, she said, he completely forgot about this. Suddenly, he felt his chest tear, and the pain quickly spread throughout his body. The pain attacked him so suddenly that he almost instantly lost his consciousness. He could only fight back when he bit his tongue feeling the blood flowing in his mouth. Under constant torture, Leaves thought of giving up a few times, but thought about the possibility that more than twenty sisters were fleeing, with serious injuries that only he could heal, had died, waiting in the camp for his return he gives him the strength to fight the bite.

Fortunately, he did not have to suffer for a long time under the devil's bite. When he finally came out of agony, he discovered that the tree trunk surrounding his body had an enormous gap. Worse, it was wet with his blood. So in order for the smell not to be discovered by the demonic beast, he had to fight the pain and fatigue and take off his clothes before fleeing to another tree. At the same time, he grew some green leaves on an empty branch and sewed warm clothes from it. Under his magic guidance, the branch became a needle and the leaf vein became its thread.

During her escape, she could not eat cooked food or drink warm water. When he finally entered the Impenetrable Mountain Range, he even added two additional layers of leaves to his clothes, wrapping both his hands and feet tightly, he even added two layers of additional leaves to his clothes, but none of this was enough to counter the rapidly falling temperatures and ankle-high snow, resulting in frostbite on his toes. So in this way of stopping and protracted, with no feeling in his legs, he finally made it back to the camp.

By the time he saw the familiar figure of one of his sisters, Leaf fell to the ground, unconscious.

When he woke up two days later, due to his legs being exposed to low temperatures for too long, his injuries became so serious that even the herbal remedies themselves were unable to stop the spread of gangrene. They had no other choice but to take the last option and cut off two toes from both his right and left foot.

This sacrifice did not bother Leaves too much, as he was able to survive. Compared to the sisters who never returned, she was extremely lucky. However, when he saw that the arms of his surviving sister were all wrapped in white clothes, an overwhelming sadness spread uncontrollably from the bottom of his heart.

At the time of departure, there were already forty-two sisters, but now there were only six survivors.

When Leaves was finally able to calm down, he asked the others how their fate was.

As he already knew, during their fight with the demons, the magicians with abilities that were unable to fight took the opportunity to escape to the camp in the Unpassable Mountains. On their first night, they are attacked by demonic beasts - a group consisting of a species of wild boar. Everyone who could not fight had to flee once more. The fact that they had already been attacked again by a group of demonic beasts was clearly a bad omen, but there was nothing they could do against it. The next morning, after the new attack from the wolf-shaped demonic beast, only eight magicians were able to escape. Fortunately, after they entered the Unpassable Mountain Range, the demonic beasts were unable to keep up with him.

When they finally reached the camp a few days ago, two sisters were attacked by a demonic bite. Perhaps it was because the traumatic experiences of the past few days were too great and the prospects of the future were too dark, but they had no desire to fight and were unable to survive the demonic bite. Since no war magician could return, everyone thought they had died under the hands of the demons, so no one expected Leaves to return.

Finally, someone asked, "So ...what happened to our other sisters? Scarlet, Windseeker, and furthermore our mentor Cara, do they survive like you?"

Leaf shook her head and whispered, "I'm the only survivor."

"Are you ..." Scroll slowly began to speak, but since she could already guess the answer, she instead said, "Then you can have a good rest. Also ..." He hesitated for a moment, "Go, there is one more thing . ”

"What?" ask Leaves, exhausted.

Suddenly being asked this question, Leaves became distracted so he closed his eyes to think. Well, yes, our Witch Cooperation Association has suffered such a fatal blow, if we do not immediately choose a new leader, I fear we will soon fall apart. But the purpose of our society is to seek the Holy Mountain and gain freedom and peace. Now the search for the Holy Mountain has ended. No, the "Holy Mountain" itself is a trick. It does not exist in the Unpassable Mountains, or in the wild. Why should our society continue to exist?

Leaves' mind was completely muddled. Even so, she did not see them, but she could still feel her sister's eyes, waiting for her answer. His sisters needed someone to lead and guide them forward, someone who had never given up.

After a long silence, Leaves finally spoke, "We .. will be looking for Nightingale."

Hearing his decision, the other sisters started shouting chaotically.

"What, why should we look for him?"

"You mean we should also go to Border Town?"

"What if he lies to us?"

"Wendy was there too."

"He may have been dead a long time."

As there was enough chaos, Scroll clapped, let the others shut up, then she asked Leaves, "What should we do if what Nightingale said is also a trick?”

"You can wait outside the city, far enough to be safe," Leaves replied as he opened his eyes, "Let me find out the situation first before determining if Nightingale had lied. So, for the time being, I will take up the position of Mentor, but if ... if I die in the city, Scroll will take command and lead the sisters to safety. "

"But I ..." started Scroll, but she was immediately interrupted by Leaves.

"I know your abilities aren't suitable for fighting, and your abilities aren't of much help to the camp's daily operations. But now I understand that the power of ability is not important to the rank of leader." Mentors should be guides, not the strongest, but unfortunately it's too late for us now. If the cautious and patient Wendy was our Mentor, wouldn't the result be very different? "You and Wendy were the first to join the Witch Cooperation Association, so you are already an elder sister. You crossed the entire kingdom on your way from the east to reach the Impenetrable Mountains, so you have a lot of experience.be careful, and you don't think you're better than anyone else.So, there is no one better suited to be a mentor to us sisters than you.

After which, Scroll was silent for a while until she said, "... What if what Nightingale said was true?”

"Then there is no reason why our Witch Cooperation Association should exist anymore," Leaves slowly explained, "after all, it means that Border Town is our 'Sacred Mountain!"