Witch Hunter: Lord of Lust and Sin

Chapter 115: Land of Mystery [Part 8]

Morgana quickly rushed to the area where a chaos had started, although she didn’t know how anyone could break through her barriers without a sign-

"HELP!"

"NOOOO I DON’T WANNA DIE!!!"

The local mystical beings who were supposed to be working on the mystical city that was being planned were now rushing through the dirt roads and jumping from branch to branch to escape from a familiar army.

Though the mystical beings who she had just hired did not know them, Morgana was familiar with the army that was laying waste upon her land.

"ASGARDIANS!"

The familiar army-

Morgana was still sane enough to see through the true nature of the armored warriors.

A bunch of local mystics who were possessed by the Einherjar.

How a bunch of non-believers could be possessed by the spiritual warriors of the Aesir is something Morgana did not bother to think about. There were plenty of methods which even she could implement to do the same.

Moreover, she could easily deal with the spiritual warriors but doing so would waste time and energy.

Instead, her focus was immediately directed to the large group of women riding on pegasi.

"Vallkyries"

The legendary female warriors who were said to guide the souls of the dead to Valhalla.

In truth, they were nothing more than sluts who served the will of the rulers of the Aesir.

Yet during the fall of Asgard, they had mysteriously vanished, Merlin had promised the vikings and other soldiers their fair share of the valkyries after the war but not even a corpse was found.

Morgana believed that the Valkyries had escaped alongside the rest of the Aesir who were missing from the debris of Asgard.

Merlin did not bother with them as the records show that the missing were children and a few caretakers as well as the Valkyries.

The Einherjar system had been taken over and everything else was already in ruins.

At that time, Morgana chose to look over it as "unimportant".

Yet who would have thought that her choice to ignore them that day would give those miserable wenches a chance to come back?

Do they think they could just waltz into my land and cause chaos without any repercussions? Centuries have already passed and they’re still as barbaric as every-

Morgana didn’t hold back, with a wave of her hand, countless purple shadows in the shape of dogs escaped from a purple rift and flew towards the Valkyries.

"HOUNDS OF THE HUNT! CAREFUL!"

The leader of the Valkyries, a woman with bright blonde hair and clear azure eyes- something that every single one of the valkyries had exclaimed.

"Morgana, the Fae... so that’s how we lost"

One of the Valkyries muttered as she watched the hounds that had used to run alongside her charge towards her neck.

*STAB*

Shaking away her reminiscence, the valkyrie stabbed the hound shaped fae that she had once considered an ally.

The moment her silver spear pierced through the hound, the whimper and cry of death did not come.

Instead, the fae turned into a cloud of black mist that enveloped her body-

"Wha- AAAHHHHHHH!!!!"

Her companions watched as the valkyrie who was the first to take down a hound was enveloped by a black mist and consumed.

It was not an attack to kill but one to devour.

None of them had seen this before, the hounds they recalled were nothing more than Fae that were capable of tracking and killing enemies.

But these hounds-

"Surprised? The real nature of the black hounds are that of devourers, those summoned by Odin in the past were nothing more than lower spirits far from actual fae"

Morgana appeared in the midst of the Valkyries and-

"Relics from the past, ancient mystics- Aesir who should have long been extinct... Richard would surely love to test your durability and endurance..."

Without even giving them a chance, Morgana snapped her fingers and caused purple rifts to open up next to the surviving valkyries.

All the female warriors of legend were helplessly sucked into the purple rifts.

"Noooo! Not yet! If we fall now! The children...."

The leader of the Valkyries said something that sounded important but Morgana ignored her words.

She’ll deal with such matters later.

For now, her focus was on the woman responsible for the invasion.

As the last of the Valkyries vanished into the void, Morgana turned her attention to the einherjar that were still fighting.

The Valkyries were already sealed away, the fact that the Einherjar are still fighting means that the person in control of the system is-

Morgana turned her attention towards the platinum blonde woman who rode on a pegasus.

The woman was commanding the einherjar and had just finished killing one of the giants, a legendary deity and the personification of a mountain.

Fortunately, the giant was not the deity of a famous mountain but of a small hill.

The more important deities were being trained and used for specialized tasks.

That’s one hill that’s gonna become barren in a few months

The relationship between a nature deity, one who was the personification of a natural body.

Whether it was a land formation, a body of water or trees- when a mystical being is born due to belief, the source of the belief would reflect the state of the mystical being and vice versa.

In the Philippines, countless mystical beings had perished after the tree they inhabited was taken down turning them into vengeful spirits- ghosts and other kinds of monsters.

But in the case of a mystical being getting killed- the result would be the slow decline of their counterpart in the non-mystical world.

A tree whose mystical spirit had been killed would slowly wither unexpectedly, a lake that had its guardian deity slain would slowly dry up and a field whose spirit was slain would lose its fertility and dry up.

The giant that was killed had been the guardian of a small hill in the mountainous regions.

It was a hill that had many pine trees and was a rather famous spot for locals who still follow their traditions.

The death of their deity would lead to the pine forest wilting, the land being unstable and in a few years, the hill would likely turn into a barren hill or could even disappear due to land erosion.

Morgana could care less about that, even if the non-mystical researches start to blame mystical powers, they had no evidence and even if they did, the culprit was not Morgana but-

"So it was the ice witch huh? Are you here to take Richard away? He doesn’t hate used goods but I think you’re far worse than used goods-"

"SHUT UP WENCH!"

Before Morgana could even finish her words, the "Ice Witch" who was also known as Skadi had already stabbed the dangerous spear towards her.

Even with her current strength, a stab from Ragnarok would still cause some damage.

Of course Morgana knew of Ragnarok, she was one of the people who helped Merlin in the war after all.

She was also aware of the many schemes that Merlin was cooking up in the past.

Unfortunately, Merlin didn’t allow Morgana to even hold the weapons he had created.

Fortunately, Skadi was only using Ragnarok-

Should I use it? But how do I explain it to Richard if he appears...

Morgana thought of using a weapon that was comparable to Raganarok but held herself back.

She had already sent Cindy to Richard, so when he comes, dealing with Skadi would be easy.

The Goddess did cut off the tie that this slut put on Richard right?

Morgana recalled how Skadi had bound her soul to Merlin before she willingly left the world to return to him in a "Pure Body".

Yet, Skadi never expected that even Merlin would have done the exact same thing-

Not the tie, the reincarnation-

Though, unlike Skadi who was aiming to return to her beloved in a better state, Merlin did so to escape and for some other reason that even Morgana could not grasp.

If only that shadowy bitch didn’t take over Avalon I would have...

Recalling the woman who had wrestled away a lot of her power and authority and even went ahead and tried to kill Richard...

They are all mad

Morgana complained, while Richard having a few screws loose was still understandable given how his life had changed drastically in less than a year’s time, the women chasing after him had centuries to go through self reflections yet they were still the same-

"I WILL SAVE RICHARD FROM YOUR LECHEROUS HANDS WENCH!"

Her thoughts were cut off as the spear Raganarok was once again thrust towards her.

She’s not much of a spearman so that’s a good thing I guess

Skadi was an archer and mage, she was skilled with a bow and had a high level of mastery in magic, especially those related to ice and climate manipulation.

Fortunately, her skill in the spear was barely at the level of a novice.

Despite wielding the very weapon that was shot at Asgard and caused it to fall, Skadi was unable to make use of even 10% of its power.

Because of that, Morgana was able to easily dodge her attacks.

She had countless opportunities to attack Skadi but she held back.

That was because-

"DIE!"

"Gotcha!"

"Eh?"

Morgana stopped as she feigned fatigue and Skadi who was still high on emotions had taken that opportunity to attack.

Maybe it was because her assimilation to her body was not that high yet. But the battle instincts and experience that she had in her very first life was not reflected.

This allowed Morgana to drag Skadi into a trap.

Just as Ragnarok was about to pierce through Morgana, countless black chains bound the weapon locking it in place.

The pegasus that Skadi was riding on had also been dragged away into a rift and the sudden loss of her support caused Skadi to panic and in that moment.

Richard, who had rushed to the battlefield the moment Cindy arrived, was already behind Skadi.

Despite having magic that could easily clothe him, Richard who stood behind Skadi was only wearing pants.

His upper body was bare as he wrapped his arms around Skadi and crimson runes were drawn on both of their bodies.

"RIchard?"

"Miss me Andrea? No- should I call you Karen or Skadi?"