The Return of the Mad Witch
The Unknown Place

 Valencia tried to shake the girls' bodies, they did not respond to any kind of call. Valencia was increasingly convinced that their spirit was not in their bodies but was absorbed by something that Valencia did not know. Then Valencia got up, he tried to sense whether there was another aura in this room or not. It turned out that he did not find any aura there.

“Are they dead? But their pulse is still felt. There's no way the dead still have a pulse.”

The knights began to be confused, they questioned how the girls' condition could be like this. They found things they never found in a lifetime, plus they did not have magic abilities so it was difficult for them to feel awkwardness in the bodies of the girls.

“They are not dead, they are alive but they are losing their spirits. In other words they're undead, so I'm asking you to now move them to a more luminous place. Take them to the first floor,” explained Valencia accompanied by the granting of orders.

They did not fully understand what Valencia meant, but they immediately carried out Valencia's orders. One by one the girls were moved to the first floor, they laid the bodies of the girls in the middle of the light-filled space. The total girls currently with them were thirty-two girls.

“What should we do next, Miss? If they don't die, we won't be able to bury them.”

“You don't need to do anything, you just need to take care of them and I'll look for their cause until like this.”

Valencia stepped out of the mansion, he made sure no eyes were watching him at this moment. Valencia stomped his feet once to the ground, he spread magic to every corner of the mansion. However, Valencia found no signs of an awkward existence and he did not find anything that might have caused the girls to be unconscious until now.

‘Abviously, there is no sign of the existence of their spirits and no sign of the existence of magic or all sorts that caused them to become undead.’

Valencia turned his body back into the mansion, he intended to meet the knights who still looked puzzled. They wonder about the special conditions that afflict underage girls.

“Is there something you found, Miss?” Luana approached Valencia and immediately asked about Valencia's discovery.

Valencia shook his head. “I found nothing, for now you just collect the property of Count Terano. Collect in one place, we will take it later to the capital,” Valencia said.

The knights immediately went to collect Count Terano's possessions, while Valencia remained near the girls' bodies. He reached out to the snack that was placed on the table not far from where he stood. Valencia is thinking about this problem while enjoying a snack, no matter how many times he thinks there is something wrong from here.

“Could this also be an act of black magic?” valencia was thinking hard.

Not long after, there was surprisingly a shadow that slowly wrapped Valencia's body. The knights who witnessed it immediately ran to bring Valencia running from the shadow. However, they were late to save Valencia and Valencia were late to realize it. A bunch of black shadows eventually devoured Valencia's body completely, the girl disappeared right in front of the knights.

“NONA VALENCIA!” The knights shouted for Valencia, but at that time Valencia was really no longer in front of their eyes.

“This is bad! Miss Valencia is missing. Quickly report this matter to the Commander! We won't be able to handle it if there's no interference from the Commander!”

One of the knights ran outside the mansion, Luana looked very shocked watching with her own eyes the disappearing Valencia. Luana's body decays to the floor, her legs withered unable to withstand the weight of her body. He began to worry about what would happen to Valencia, bad thoughts began to attack him one by one.

At the same time Reibert was talking to Sammy and Leano, they seemed to be talking about something very serious. Until the arrival of the knights who were assigned to report in the middle of their chat in a state of panic and gasping for breath.

“Commander, something bad happened to Miss Valencia,” said the knight.

“What happened? Quickly say!” reibert.

“Nona Valencia suddenly disappeared from before us all, she was swallowed by a bunch of black shadows until now we did not find her existence.”

“Hah? What?”

The three of them also panicked, the Valencia that disappeared brought shock to the hearts of Reibert, Sammy, and Leano.

“Then now form a search squad! Do not let this matter be heard into the ears of the Emperor and the Empress. He will be very angry when he hears Valencia disappearing from my sight,” exclaimed Reibert gave orders to all the knights.

***

After being swallowed by a black shadow, Valencia entered an invisible white portal. The shadow brought him into a place that he did not even recognize, there was only a hollow room that did not contain. Valencia circulated a glance, surrounding him was nothing more than an uninhabited room. There was no wind or sound, there was only silence left, this made him into a confusion of his own.

“There where am I? Where's the black shadow that brought me here?” valencian Gumam.

Valencia spontaneously turned around for a moment he sensed something was darting towards him. A spear covered in black smoke was heading towards him, Valencia brushed off the spear using magic.

“Who is the girl? Why can he use magic?”

“I don't know, we didn't manage to bring his spirit alone, his body came here as well when I tried to bring him here.”

Valencia could hear their words very clearly, a figure that had not been seen by the eye was talking about him.

“How dare you speak behind my back! Quickly show me your form before I chop your bodies up!” valencia shouted threatening them.

The room suddenly shook violently due to the pressure of Valencia magic that exploded out. Valencia was able to trace where the black shadow that attracted him to this place, he immediately formed a magic rope and forcibly pulled two black shadows from his hiding place.

“So you brought me here? Why are you taking me to a place like this?”

The black shadow was overcome with fear when they faced Valencia, for some reason they felt a very strong magic and they could not just overcome it.

“Our cup! We didn't mean to bring you here!” scream them together.

Valencia with a fierce look and filled with a sinister expression pointed his fists at the two shadows.

“Then why would I be here if you didn't mean to bring me here yourself?!”