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Chapter 744: The Ring Of Promise [Part 2]
Chapter 744: The Ring Of Promise [Part 2]
After a few minutes of silence, the Lady of the Lake confirmed Ethan's statement.
"You're right," Lilian said sadly. "Yes. This rain is indeed my doing."
"Will this rain stop anytime soon?" Ethan asked.
"I don't know," Lilian replied. "But right now, I feel like there's a hole inside of my heart that won't close no matter what I do. The only way I can relieve the pain in my heart is by singing.
"If I don't sing, I feel like I'm going to go crazy and lose myself completely. If that happens..."
Lilian sighed and closed her eyes, not wanting to continue what she was going to say earlier.
"Can you tell me what the problem is?" Ethan asked. "Maybe I can help you."
"You can't help me," Lilian answered in a heartbeat.
"Are you sure?" Ethan inquired. "I am a wizard. I can use magic."
Lilian's sad expression was making him feel sad as well.
He at least wanted to know what was causing her pain. As long as he knew of the cause, then he could find a way to deal with it right away.
"The Witch of the East took something very important from me," Lilian answered after a minute of silence.
"What did she take from you?" Ethan asked. "I'll take it back right away."
The Lady of the Lake sighed a second time before walking towards the teenage boy once
more.
When she was only a step away from him, she reached out to hold Ethan's hand.
"This was what she took from me," Lilian said as she held Ethan's hand and looked at his wedding ring.
"The Ring of Promise. A ring that would give anyone dominion over me. The only reason why I am not under her control is because she doesn't know my True Name."
"Don't worry. I promise you the ring will be returned to you without fail," Ethan said firmly.
"Don't start promises you can't keep," Lilian replied before reluctantly letting go of Ethan's hand. "The Witch will not return the things that she has managed to get her hands on. Not in the past, not now, not in the future. Those who try to steal her treasures will only die a gruesome death."
After saying those words, Lilian turned around and walked away, slowly submerging herself back into the lake.
"I overheard the guards talking when I went shopping this morning. They said that the Witch might have ambushed our Towns Mayor on his way back to Fortis Town. Of course, no one knows if this is true or not.
"However, I have this nagging feeling that things might only get worse. I just hope that we are just overthinking things, and our Mayor's business trip has merely suffered a minor mishap, making him unable to return right away.
"The Witch is also a well-known magical artifact collector and an artist. She sells paintings to noble families. There are times when she will ask some townspeople to pose for her paintings. "But after getting their image painted by her, everyone who returned from her cottage seemed to have changed into a different person. Because of this, no one wants to become her model anymore."
Ethan's frown deepened because the more he heard about the Witch of the East, the more he felt that she was a formidable character.
After Chloe finished telling him everything she knew about the Witch of the East, Ethan thanked her and promised that he would not tell anyone what he had heard from her.
When the young lady finally left, Ethan sighed and laid down on the bed.
He needed to organize his thoughts so that he could plan properly on how to deal with this
matter.
'First, I'll try to infiltrate her cottage and see if I can find the ring without confronting her directly,' Ethan thought. 'Fighting her will be the last resort. I guess I should find a place to practice what kind of spells I can use for combat.'
Ethan was unable to summon his Tridents.
He was also unable to call forth Dainsleif.
He didn't know if his Domains would activate inside the painting or not.
But, he needed to get a better picture of what kind of spells he could and couldn't use. A single mistake during a duel could prove fatal for him, so he planned to better understand the spells that the world wouldn't restrict.
While the young man was thinking about this, a certain Witch who lived inside a cottage in the woods calmly sipped her tea as she looked at the crystal ball in front of her. Displayed inside it was a handsome young man with long blue hair and eyes that made her
smile.
"I didn't know that such a good model had appeared in this dreary town," the beautiful witch smiled sweetly. "I better add him to my collection."
The many paintings that hung on the cottage walls all trembled as if dreading that another innocent soul would fall prey into the witch's hands.
Ethan, who was unaware that he was being spied on with a crystal ball, closed his eyes to rest.
He was feeling drained and very exhausted, which made him wonder if he'd caught a cold. However, he tossed this thought aside, thinking that it was an impossible thing to happen. But just as he was starting to fall asleep, he once again remembered Lilian's words.
"If you remain in these lands long enough, you will also lose things that are important to you.
Just like how I lost what is precious to me."
Ethan felt that those words sounded like a prophecy.
Unfortunately, those thoughts soon disappeared from his head as he slid to sleep's embrace, not knowing that the Witch of the East already had her eyes on him.