vol. 1 chapter 83 - Chapter 83 [The Witch and the Lich of Galdelegan]
Chapter 83 [The Witch and the Lich of Galdelegan]
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"Welcome again~"
On the busiest commercial street in the center of Galdelegen County, Angelica walked out of the cake shop humming a happy tune.
Recently, there was a rumor in Galdelegen Commercial Street that there was a foreign magician girl who spent money very lavishly in the commercial street, and the person in the rumor was the real witch lady.
Angelica never treats herself badly. Since there is so much gold in the space, she naturally wants to enjoy it to the fullest.
"I've been here for almost half a month... The food and massage in Galdelegen are really good. It would be nice to live here for a long time. But I always feel like I forgot something..."
Angelica sat on a public bench on the street, chewing Black Forest cherry cake, a dessert that was a specialty of the County of Galdelegen, and its taste far exceeded the taste of pastries in the Middle Ages. Angelica preferred desserts to spicy food. The witch's physique prevented Angelica from gaining weight, and she did not have to worry about the sequelae of excessive sugar intake, so she could enjoy the food without worrying about it.
"What on earth did you forget..."
Angelica was thinking hard, staring at the bustling crowd on the street in a daze, until she saw a group of adventurers talking and laughing, and then she suddenly realized.
"Ah, by the way, I came to Galdelegen to meet an old friend of mine. I accidentally overdo it."
Once in a city with good business development, Angelica could not help but go shopping. Money flowed through Angelica's fingers like running water. Although Angelica had obtained a large sum of gold before, judging from her unthrifty spending speed, she would definitely not be able to sustain it until she found the next descendant of the brave hero.
Unfortunately, the witch's bad habits are far more than that. She has another bad habit: as long as there is a balance in her pocket, she will have no motivation to make money, or she will simply not make money, which will continue until she falls into a fiscal deficit again. Angelica has always had this bad habit before she traveled through time, for example, she always piles up things to do at the last minute and rushes to finish them, and she has not been able to correct it in her thousands of years.
"Take a quick look at how much savings I have left...huh?"
Angelica checked the remaining gold in the overloaded space. When she turned over one of the gold pieces, she suddenly found a piece of paper under the gold piece.
The note read:
Sister Angelica, please spend sparingly.
By Abigail.
"This child... when did she put it in..."
However, Abigail's earnest persuasion was of little use, and Angelica could never change her habit of spending money. But at least, looking at the gold mountain that was visibly decreasing, Angelica felt that it was necessary to save more funds.
"I just happened to be going to visit my old friend, so I'd better go to the Adventurer's Guild."
The Adventurer's Guild of the Earldom of Galdelegen is significantly different from other Adventurer's Guilds. Its luxury is comparable to that of a luxury convenience store. Not only does it have receptionists for commissioned tasks, but it also has weapon shops, armor shops, herbal shops, etc.
Angelica walked straight to the reception desk, and the receptionist greeted her with a professional and friendly smile.
"Hello, Miss Magician, are you looking for a commission or a companion for an adventure?"
"Accept the commission."
"Okay, if it's a commission that I can complete alone, I recommend it..."
"I have a commission. Speaking of which, there should be a commission for liches here, right?"
Lich, a kind of black magician who sacrifices souls, is also the easiest realm of immortality for magicians to reach. Any race can be transformed into a lich after death. All they need to do is prepare a ritual before death, and they can abandon their body and become another life form in the form of bones.
However, the lich ritual is a forbidden technique because the spirit of the lich will be endlessly eroded, gradually losing itself and becoming a dangerous magical creature that does all kinds of evil.
"Indeed... Are you going to accept the commission to subjugate the lich alone?"
The receptionist was shocked. Liches are magical creatures. As they have fallen into the path of evil, the magic they use may even mutate. They are very tricky magical creatures. Therefore, it usually takes a team of adventurers with more than ten people, or a professional mercenary group, to defeat a lich with full confidence.
"Not only will I accept commissions to subjugate liches, but I will also accept the most dangerous ones."
"Please, please wait a moment."
The Adventurer's Association has a rating system for commissions. In order to protect the lives of adventurers, they will evaluate the commissions in advance and will not assign overly dangerous commissions to adventurers who are not capable of fulfilling the requirements.
Among them, the lich of Galdelegen has been a problem that has troubled them for decades. About a few decades ago, the people of Galdelegen discovered that there was a lich in the deep mountains and old forests not far from the town, so the Adventurer's Association issued a commission to recruit brave men to defeat the lich in the mountains and forests.
However, the lich's black magic seemed to be extremely powerful, and the adventurer teams that took on the commission all suffered major failures without exception. The Adventurer's Association did not hesitate to increase the stakes and hired a well-known mercenary group to fight.
But the Lich was so powerful that it defeated the mercenary group. Feeling ashamed, the mercenary group formed an alliance with the adventurer team and launched a massive attack, but they still returned in failure.
Logically speaking, such a strange phenomenon should have caused a sensation and prompted the church to dispatch the Paladins, but in the process of fighting the lich, people discovered an abnormal phenomenon.
The lich didn't kill anyone.
Some were injured, some were mentally shaken... but miraculously, no one died.
The dejected mercenaries admitted that if the lich was going to kill them, no one would be able to come back alive. To be honest, they didn't even get to see the lich in person before they were defeated by the magic flying everywhere.
Since there were no clear deaths, and the lich had never shown any ill will towards the town, over time, the commission to defeat the lich was abandoned. Over the past few decades, there have been adventurers who have tried to defeat the lich, but none of them have achieved any results, and naturally, no deaths have occurred during this period.
The head of the Adventurer's Association hurried to the hall with a magic item. When he heard that someone insisted on going alone to defeat the lich that had troubled Galdelegen for decades, he thought it was the chief magician of the court of some kingdom who came to visit, but he didn't expect it to be a young girl.
"I am the head of the Galdelegen Adventurer's Guild... Do you want to take on the commission to defeat the lich in the deep forest alone?"
"That's right, bring the magic crystal ball over here, I guess you are going to test my magic power.