Chapter 267: Witches' Doll Gathering
Long before he and the Witch of Sloth were sucked into the beam of light, he had his contracted beast Kobe take out the anchor sunglasses from his bag in advance and lock onto Schnaian's location information.

It was not sure whether it could go to the crack in the sky with Shi Naian and enter the base camp of the Witch Church, so it had to resort to this last resort - using the anchor sunglasses to record and track Shi Naian's location in advance.

In this way, even if it couldn't follow her, it would be able to use the sunglasses to know where Schnaian was going within the next ten minutes to ensure her personal safety.

If he really followed the teleportation, he would have to maintain his spiritual form from beginning to end. But if he wanted to take out the anchor sunglasses, he would need to materialize, and that would put him at risk of being discovered by other witches. For a witch, having a contracted beast around her was very rare, even weird and illogical. It was like a cat raising a mouse as a pet and bringing the pet mouse to a party with other cats.

By then, we can't let the Witch of Sloth eat her contracted beast alive in front of all the witches just to prove her innocence and fit her own personality, right?
Therefore, Ke Mingye must ensure that Kobe's existence will not be exposed to the witch, otherwise Shenian's trump card will most likely be invalidated.

"It's already here. Are the intelligence-gathering methods of these witches so exaggerated..."

Seeing that Kobe's perspective had temporarily gone dark, Ke Mingye turned his attention back to himself, slightly stretched his stiff shoulders, and raised the back of his hand to wipe away the fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

He thought to himself, "I thought we would have to wait until Shi Naian's reputation became more well-known before the people from the Witch Church would target her. I didn't expect it to be so much faster than I thought. It seems that they have some means of detecting the location of witches, otherwise they would not have been able to find Shi Naian so early."

He thought about it again. Apart from the Dice Freak, none of Ke Mingye's other identities, whether it was Blue Owl, Kobe, or Little Red Riding Hood, had a suitable reason to tell the people of the Alliance the location of those witches - only the "Dice Freak" was suitable, because in the eyes of others, the background setting of the monster was a completely unreasonable idealist character who knew almost everything.

So when he found out where the Witch Church's headquarters was located in the world, Ke Mingye would naturally release the Trickery Doll as soon as possible and let it go to inform the three giants of the Alliance in the form of a Dice Monster.

Then, with the Dice Monster's notice as the fuse, a war that will be recorded in the history of magical girls will begin.

But... he didn't know whether everything would go as smoothly as he thought, and whether Shi Naian could escape from the Witch Church unscathed.

According to Ke Mingye's idea, he would wait until Shi Naian's strength was raised several levels, and she had as much self-protection or escape ability as possible before she would start to show off - this would also allow Shi Naian to have a place among those witches, so as to avoid the same treatment as Shi Naian received when she was a magical girl in the Alliance, where she was just a nobody who was ignored and unable to obtain some truly critical information.

But the scene happening before his eyes was obviously beyond his expectations.

At this moment, inside the Tower of Babel pattern, in an unknown hall.

"Is this the base of the witch...church?"

The Witch of Sloth stood up and turned to look around the dark gold-toned hall. The walls were carved with dense symbols and murals could be seen on all sides. The content of the murals overlapped with the story of the towering tower recorded in the Bible - the "Tower of Babylon".

The Bible says that the construction plan of the ancient Babylonian Tower was abandoned halfway because it angered God. God made the workers who built the tower unable to speak the same language, so they had to separate, and from then on people around the world began to speak different languages.

The mural says that on the top of the cloud above the Tower of Babylon stands a bird's nest-like building, which is the habitat of the witches. The construction plan of the tower angered one of the witches, code-named "Division and Jealousy". She released her magic power to cover the desert, affecting the emotions of the workers, making them furious and uneasy, killing each other day and night. The ending was as recorded in the Bible. They went their separate ways and no longer had any contact with each other, and the construction plan of the Tower of Babel came to a halt.

"Kobe, what does the mural mean?"

"I'm illiterate. Trivia: all contracted beasts are illiterate."

"I'm a junior high school student, and it's not taught in the textbooks."

"Then let's not watch it anymore. Let's take a look at that witch. I think I saw her when I was browsing Weibo on your phone. She is the witch Black Rose."

"I know."

The Sloth Witch Schnaian thought to herself, withdrew her gaze from the murals in the hall, and looked up at the only figure sitting near the round table.

Witch Black Rose...

She is an old friend of the magical girl Ashes.

Looking at this line of text on the system panel, the Witch of Sloth was quite confused.

She thought to herself, "How could a guy like Senior Huijin, who always keeps his word, have any dealings with a witch? Or is this witch hiding her identity from him like I am? Or... did Black Rose become a witch after she parted ways with Senior Huijin?"

Just as she was thinking about it, the witch Black Rose opened her mouth, breaking the silence that shrouded the hall.

"When you see your own kind, don't you express some feelings?" she said.

"Ha..." The Witch of Sloth was puzzled. "You are so rude. You didn't even say hello, and now you want me to give a speech. Do you want me to scold you?"

Kobe was sweating profusely and thought to himself, "Schneider, I told you not to show weakness, but I didn't ask you to act so arrogant."

Black Rose didn't take it seriously. She just raised her head and sneered softly.

"I haven't seen you before, and I'm curious about when you appeared... Basically, the appearance of every witch is accompanied by killing, madness, self-tearing, or one or two unforgettable memories. The birth of every witch here is accompanied by such memories." She said slowly.

No, sister, can I say that because I am a player, the system automatically gave me the identity of a witch? Originally, I just wanted to hang out with the magical girl... The Witch of Sloth tilted her head, glanced at the corner of the hall, and thought casually.

She sighed softly, and using the telepathy between the magical girl and the contracted beast, she asked Kobe in her heart: "What should I do, Kobe, how should I answer her?"

"In a place full of freaks like this, we must first show our strength so as not to be looked down upon. We can't give in, Schnaian, and directly ask her, 'Then what did you go through to become a witch?'" Kobe said.

"Kobe, are you really not planning to murder me?" The Witch of Sloth held her chin with one hand, lowered her head slightly, and asked helplessly in her heart.

"No, no, no, I'm serious. I'm really good at dealing with weirdos."

"All right……"

The Witch of Sloth took a breath, slowly raised her head, met Black Rose's gaze, and said bluntly: "Before you ask me... what about you, Miss Black Rose, what inspired you to become a witch?"

Black Rose thought about it, raised her hand to touch her chin, and said disapprovingly: "Me? Does it count if I watch my friend being slaughtered with my own eyes?" As she spoke, a line of thorns came out from the cuffs of her skirt, lifted up a broken gem on the table, and embedded it into the wand.

The Witch of Sloth tilted her head, lowered her eyes, raised her gloved fingertips and gently tapped her chin, as if she had suddenly realized something. She said in a flat and mocking tone, "So that's how it is. Your friend was tortured and killed, so... you turned around and tortured the magical girl. What a good quality."

"You know, since we are all witches, it is obvious that none of us is a good thing, so don't be hypocritical..." Black Rose said expressionlessly, "And if you don't understand your situation, then let me make it clear that I can detect the depth of your strength just from the magic power emanating from you."

As she spoke, she lowered her eyes slightly to look at the spreading thorns. "So I hope you understand that if I want to kill you, it only takes a moment. You won't even know what happened... your head will just fall to the ground with a 'thump' sound." She paused and teased softly, "If the sound is nice... then it's a good head."

As soon as she finished speaking, layers of thorns burst out from under her high heels and surrounded the Witch of Sloth in an instant.

Black Rose rested her elbow on the round table, raised her hand slightly to the side of her head, her jet-black hair flowing between her fingers, and her eyes were full of contempt.

"Kobe, you are really hurting me."

Seeing this, the Witch of Sloth secretly sighed and complained to Kobe in her heart, "People also know that I am a noob, why am I pretending? I see that the big guys don't hug their thighs, but I am still pretending."

Kobe said: "Oh my god, I told you not to show weakness, I didn't tell you to provoke others, I see you get confused every time you turn into a witch, can you blame me for that?"

"Stop talking nonsense. I've already kowtowed to her 10 times. Who else should I blame but you?"

The Witch of Sloth responded in her heart.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong. How about we just give in and kowtow to her?"

Kobe was trembling. To be honest, he was really worried that Black Rose would kill Schnaian so easily. Then who would he turn to for his 365-day round-the-clock magic power supply and abstract double agent needs?

The two were secretly communicating telepathically when suddenly a voice came from the corner of the round table: "Black Rose, don't use this tone to entertain our new friend."

The Witch of Sloth raised her eyes and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw the "person" who was speaking was sitting on a chair on the north side of the round table. It was a doll-like puppet.

It wore a long pointed hat and a dark wizard's suit. Its long iron-gray hair fell on its shoulders, lifeless as a withered leaf.

Like the other dolls, it had a black button sewn into its eye socket. At this moment, the button's eyes were staring straight at the Witch of Sloth.

The Witch of Sloth was slightly stunned and stared at the doll for a few more seconds, then the system panel slowly emerged.

[The puppet witch is a toy puppet created based on the appearance of the "Witch Lost Leaf". 】

"The Witch's Lost Leaf..."

Looking at the same system panel, Kobe thought: "Damn it, I can't even see the superhuman panel. Do they usually communicate through puppets? Damn it, I wanted to estimate their strength based on the system panel, but now it seems hopeless."

It changed its mind and thought: "Anyway, let's first find out where this damn place is, and then notify Xiziyue and the others to raid this place."

Then, Ke Mingye quickly switched back to his own body, opened his eyes on the bed, and took out a pair of anchor sunglasses from his bag.

Put it on your face and press the button on the sunglasses.

[You have locked on to the target player - "Stay-Up Bobby". You have 4 minutes left to check the target's location. ]

As the system prompt sounded, a map appeared on the sunglasses. Ke Mingye's eyes moved, searching for the target photoelectric point on the map, and then his eyes widened slightly.

"The location is not shown on the map of Anchor Sunglasses...why?"

Ke Mingye stood there in a daze, then slowly raised his head and looked at the bookshelf in front of him. His sight passed through the gaps between the books and stopped above a hole in the wall. He suddenly thought of something: "Could it be that... that hall is just like the 'cave theory' of anti-dogs, and is actually a space independent of the world?"

As the puppet based on the appearance of the witch Lost Leaf finished speaking, different voices began to sound throughout the hall.

The Witch of Sloth kept moving her eyes, and saw that the person sitting on the west side of the round table opened his mouth stiffly like a puppet in a theater.

The doll is wearing a set of plush pajamas, wavy blue hair, and a round-top nightcap on its head.

[The puppet witch is a toy puppet created based on the appearance of the "Crown Dream Witch". 】

The Crown Dream Witch said slowly: "Our newcomers are so cute, but I'm so sleepy. Can we finish the meeting quickly? I should take a rest, otherwise people will want to slaughter you beasts one by one..."

Immediately afterwards, the puppet on the chair on the east side of the round table began to speak.

The doll wears a green military cap and a torn, bloodstained Prussian uniform, the lower part of which is a skirt. Its hair is a gradient of yellow and red like a maple leaf.

[The puppet witch is a toy puppet created based on the appearance of the "War Witch". 】

The War Witch said with interest: "Her ability seems to be quite special. I just took a look and she was using her tentacles to absorb the magic power of the magical girl. Is this the first time in history that a witch with this ability has appeared?"

As soon as the voice fell, the puppet sitting on the south side of the round table turned its head with a "click", and the "white button eyes" sewn in the eye sockets looked at the Sloth Witch, and then spoke in an emotionless voice:

“It’s very special.”

Hearing this, the Witch of Sloth slightly turned her head and looked up.

The puppet who spoke last had white hair, a sickly red face, and was wrapped in birch bark-like cloth. The white cloth was so dense that it looked like layers of scales piled up on the skin.

[A toy doll created by the Doll Witch based on the appearance of "self". 】

The puppet witch said slowly: "I originally thought that Magical Girl Ashes should be the magical girl closest to our requirements, but I didn't expect a witch of unknown origin to appear at this time, and... her qualifications also meet our requirements."

She paused, "Six highly qualified witches... just as it says in the Witch Book. In this way, the conditions for launching the Witch Night have been gathered."

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