Magical Journey: The Other Shore Blooms on the Other Shore

Chapter 205 The Magical City of Pierpont, Part 6

Since meeting the Snow Guard who called himself Angela, the already taciturn Qin has become even more silent.

If the other party shows malice, it's easier to accept. But when the other party approaches with an indifferent attitude and leaves indifferently, it's very annoying.

The other party's unpredictable attitude is the poison that brings despair.

"Did she say anything to you?" Qin asked after a long pause.

"Huh? You mean Angela?" It took Elena a long time to realize who Qin was referring to.

“She said Beatrice is still alive,” Elena said.

But Qin did not react at all.

"Hey, can't you hear me?" Elena asked, puzzled.

Did you just say anything?

Hiss—so even he himself can't say this so-called unspeakable truth? What kind of magic could do such a thing? It's simply unbelievable.

I've never heard of this kind of magic before. While it's perfectly normal not to have heard of many incredible spells, that doesn't contradict my surprise.

Could the fact that Beatrice is still alive have any impact on anything?

No, I should be more suspicious about how a human could have lived for so long. The members of the Magic Integration Association are almost all humans. There might be some unofficial members who are of other races, but the president is definitely human.

Hmm—what if she decides to stop being human? It's not entirely impossible.

Qin's hometown is also called Beatrice, and there is ample reason to believe that the establishment of that kingdom is inseparable from the seventy-eighth president of the Magic Integration Association.

So the reason why others can't hear what I'm saying is definitely due to the influence of that mysterious guy.

The Witch of Fate...

The title of "witch" can reflect the characteristics of a witch to some extent.

But not always—just like Elaina's own title, the Gray Witch, which merely reflects her hair color (author's note: this also reflects that the character is somewhere between black and white). Similarly, Fran's title, the Star Witch, is simply because Fran likes stars.

Saya's reason for being called the Charcoal Witch is even more absurd; it's to make it more fitting for her title of witch, while her sister Mina's reason for being called the Coal Witch is to make it more fitting for her sister's title.

But the title "Witch of Fate" clearly implies something, suggesting that her magic is definitely related to fate.

But it shouldn't be powerful enough to affect a person's fate thousands of years later; that would be too overpowered. However, we can't completely rule out that possibility.

After all, magic is inherently overpowered.

"I can't hear some of what they're saying, can I?" Qin said thoughtfully.

"How much do you know about that unsettling guy?" Elena disliked Angela; she was gloomy and her smiling face resembled a venomous snake ready to strike at any moment.

"The actual person in charge in my hometown." That's all Qin knows. As someone who spends most of his time in the lab, how could he possibly have access to other information? At most, he'd only overhear some things from researchers.

He had suspected before that this person was following him, but now that he was truly certain, it was a different story. Before today, there was always a vague sense of "what if it wasn't me?", but now, that last bit of hope had been shattered completely.

She said she wanted to take me back...

Although I had prepared myself mentally, hearing the answer still made my heart finally sink.

"Shouldn't the real person in charge of your hometown be... Beatrice?" Elena asked, puzzled.

Your hometown is called this, and since she is still alive, she should be the one in charge.

"Were you talking?"

Huh? Even mentioning Beatrice isn't allowed? Then why is she recognized? Is it because the truth—that she's the real power behind the scenes—can't be revealed?

At that moment, Elena seemed to see the witch with the monocle smiling at her, muttering, "Do you believe in fate?"

I don't believe in nonsense.

No, I have to find out everything about this witch.

Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory. The more you know, the better you can respond.

In the following days, Elena stayed at the library of the Magic Integration Association—a place that was not supposed to be open to outsiders, since it contained many secret methods of using magic, and the spread of such technology would always diminish the magical powerhouse's heritage.

However, given Elena's status as a witch, the association made an exception. She only needed to pay a considerable amount of gold coins to study there. No written materials were allowed to be taken out, not even copies made by herself. If discovered, she would be invited to the magical dungeon specially made by Pierpont for tea and moon-gazing.

Records about Beatrice are very scarce. As Emily said, the writing on the document has become blurred, but perhaps due to Elena's uniqueness, whenever she carefully examines the meaning of those blurred words, she can still make them clear for a few seconds.

It's exhausting. Staring at these things every day is making my eyes go blind. The main problem is that I have to do everything myself.

Moreover, it's not very efficient.

As a result, even after several days, Elena could only comprehend a small portion of the records about the legendary witch Beatrice.

She was an educator of unparalleled talent, possessing not only extraordinary magical abilities but also a keen eye for talent. Every disciple she took on later became virtually invincible, capable of taking on anyone and fighting anyone, with the outcome being a stalemate where neither could defeat the other.

Rumor has it that when she takes on a disciple, she distributes one of the tarot cards she invented herself to represent the disciple's identity.

Her first disciple was Angela, who had been expelled from her homeland. After years of studying and traveling with Beatrice, she returned home and launched a revolution that overthrew the previous monarchical rule of Deomeya, the Garden Queen. She became world-renowned for her puppetry skills. Legend has it that the tarot card she received was "The Fool."

After that, the Rain Witch Lilith, the Death Witch Ekaterina, the Wealth Witch Anchorage... all sorts of dazzling legendary witches were her disciples.

Among them is a witch known as the Traveling Witch, who is also Beatrice's disciple. Didn't she mention her in the story...?

But Elena didn't really care about these things, because she had already heard about them to some extent.

What she cared about most was where Beatrice went and what happened to her.

But no matter how much Elena searched and consulted the materials, she could not find the answer she was looking for. That period of history seemed to have vanished into thin air; the only information available was about Beatrice's early life.

Indeed, if it were so easy to know, everyone would probably already know that there was a powerful and awe-inspiring kingdom in the far north. The fact that no one knows about it now is precisely proof that this period of history has been erased by some unknown magic.

And this kind of magic is clearly closely related to fate.