So I became a witch

In 1621 in the Gregorian calendar, Ye Qianmo was 17 years old.In the same year, Qing Yun, Adi Linte and others also joined Team 103.Qing Yun and Ye Qianmo met, and because of their similar age and experience, they became friends.

In 1622 of the Gregorian calendar, Ye Qianmo.Elvis used his power to quietly arrange Qingyun into the investigation mission.In order to find Qing Yun who was missing during the mission, Ye Qianmo broke into the restricted area of ​​life and found Qing Yun.And all of this was expected by Elvis. In order to save Ye Qianmo and the others, Yin Xingchen took the initiative to break into the trap of the virtual beast and was arrested, but he was not actually killed. The experimental product of the "Tower", partly fused with the "Fourth Son", has been in a deep sleep state.Returning to the base, Qing Yun fearfully pushed Yin Xingchen's death on Ye Qianmo's head. Ye Qianmo, who was deeply shocked, took the initiative to participate in Elvis' experiment in order to gain strength.

In 1623 in the Gregorian calendar, Ye Qianmo was 19 years old.During this year, Ye Qianmo was forced to inject the power of a large number of virtual beasts, relying on the physique of the container to obtain the power of a witch, but her own emotions and memories also began to become weak.

In 1626 in the Gregorian calendar, Ye Qianmo was 22 years old.Because of Ye Qianmo's activity, the range of virtual beasts' activities has been greatly reduced, and the demon hunters decided to start the final battle.However, they miscalculated the power of the fourth son, and the situation fell into crisis for a while.In the end, Ye Qianmo, together with Star Crown, dragged the "Fourth Son" into the gap of time and space by relying on the way of burning himself out.Ever since this war that caused heavy losses to demon hunters finally came to an end, countless demon hunters died in this war, the forces of demon hunters were reshuffled, and their influence on reality was greatly weakened. The full control of the party began to gradually move towards the background.In order to clean up the corrosive power left by the four witches, the work of the demon hunters is still unfinished, and has continued to this day.

In 1998 in the Gregorian calendar, during a mission of extermination, Qingyun accidentally broke into a virtual domain, where he found the captain who should have died long ago, and learned part of what happened that year from the captain.In order to make up for her lost memory, Qing Yun resigned from her job as a demon hunter and became a dormitory supervisor at Lytias Academy. At the same time, she searched for the traces left by Ye Qianmo all over the world in an attempt to prove her existence again. .

The above is the main timeline content of this volume.Who are the Four Witches?What is her purpose?Why invade the main world?Why does she seem to have a lot of obsession with Ye Qianmo?Is the mysterious girl who fell into the mountain village of Ling World hundreds of years ago really Ye Qianmo?Who is the man in black robe who suddenly appeared?Everything will be fully revealed in the next volume.If there are still unsolved parts of this volume, please leave a comment, and I will try my best to answer without involving spoilers.

Prologue

"Hey, have you heard?"

"What's wrong?" Katerina responded impatiently.The power armor that had just experienced a big battle was covered with pitch-black blood. If it was not disposed of in time, once those inexplicable substances penetrated into the interior of the machine, it would be necessary to consider replacing the outfit.She didn't want the new equipment she had just put on after saving the money for a long time to be scrapped in vain.

"Qianyu College has started to recruit students again. This is the first time since the Second Cataclysm. And in order to deal with these damn monsters, it seems that the admissions standards have been greatly lowered. Even us 'old people' who are almost 20 years old only need to You can enroll if you meet the standards, don’t you plan to try your luck? If you can be admitted there, you can become a full-fledged officer of the federal army after graduation, which is much better than us who have been holding our heads up and eating mercenaries. ’” Austin chattered.He has a very flirtatious blond hair and looks like a playboy, in fact, his personality is indeed like this, thanks to this guy, every time they find a new stronghold, the rest is less than a few days , had to leave in order to escape the pursuit of those married men.If it wasn't for his strength, Katerina would never have chosen this man to be her partner.

"To put it nicely, you actually just want to harm those young ladies from rich families, right?" Katerina said angrily.

Regarding her cynicism, Austin just shrugged his shoulders, as if he had long been used to it: "Don't say that, I'm thinking about our future. Even if I can't become a driver without adaptability, if I can at least be used by a noble family It would be great for the young lady and the young master to be their servants."

"... Let me tell you in advance, that's the area of ​​Qianyu Group's influence. If you cause any trouble, don't blame me for standing by." Katerina threatened.To be honest, she was really moved by what Austin said. Although she is not as conceited as Austin, she is still somewhat confident in her appearance. If you are a follower, the treatment is indeed much more comfortable than if you have been acting in the wild like this.

"Of course, who do you think I am?" Austin patted his chest and assured, his movements were unreliable.

After all, it's been a year now.Katerina, who was sitting on the ruins cleaning the outer armor, was slightly lost in thought.

One year ago, in Adrian 2164, the second cataclysm broke out.Countless human beings died in a short moment, and countless cities collapsed and became the territory of disaster beasts.In today's world, except for the areas controlled by the four major forces of Qianyu, Huanglong, Dixiao, and the federal government, almost all other cities have become ruins, and only a handful of small cities still maintain their original functions. It is a temporary base for people with special occupations such as Linna and Austin to provide services.Although it is not as restrictive as a big city, but because there is no protection from a big force, these temporary strongholds are extremely easy to be captured by wandering beasts, which can be said to have advantages and disadvantages.

Originally, the reason why Katerina became a mercenary was to one day be able to collect enough money for a city residence permit and live a happy and stable life from then on. However, when she finally lived an ideal life, everything was turned away The outbreak of the Second Cataclysm destroyed it.Luckily, she escaped and survived. Facing the devastated city, she was at a loss and had no choice but to resume her old profession.The old teammates from the past have long been out of contact, and it is unknown whether they died or fled to other galaxies.By coincidence, Katerina rescued Austin who was hunted down because of cheating, and the two became companions in this way, helping each other in the ruins, barely surviving till now.

"However, are you sure you can still buy a boat ticket to Qianyuxing now? I remember that the appointment has already been made five years later."

"Don't worry, I know a girl who works as a foreman in the Interstellar Space Museum. As long as you ask her, two tickets are not a problem." Austin said with a thumbs up.

"Does the foreman have such great authority?" Katerina expressed her doubts.

"Probably not the foreman, but her husband is the captain of the spaceship."

"... You bastard, sooner or later you will go to hell."

"I am over-flattered."

"Forget it, let's talk about these things after we go back. Are you sure the target is near here?" Although she kept talking, Katerina's hands never stopped.After completing the maintenance of the equipment, she shook her limbs a few times to ensure smooth operation, and then put on the protective helmet again.

"Ah, this is the information that I spent a lot of effort in exchange for. There used to be a very famous dragon knight production factory in this city, but after the outbreak of the second cataclysm, the entire city was paralyzed. The factory has also entered a state of abandonment. Now this city has become the lair of the A-level disaster beast, the Osteodon dragon, so most people would never even think of approaching it. But according to my investigation, this kind of disaster beast will go out every other month Five days of hunting activities, and the day before yesterday happened to be the time when someone observed it going out. If you can take advantage of this opportunity to sneak into the abandoned Dragon Knight factory, get some important parts or design drawings and resell it , That's a huge sum of money, enough for us to leave this poor place several times." Austin said a little excitedly.

Naturally, Katerina had nothing to object to.Normally, it would be impossible to provoke an A-level disaster beast even if she was killed, but if it was for money, it would be another story.As Austin said, as long as it is something related to the dragon knight, even a little bit is enough to sell for a very high price, enough for her to take the risk of this trip.

"...Even so, we've been searching for a day and a night in this wretched place, and we haven't even seen a single factory. If we keep dragging on, we'll all be doomed when the plague beast returns to its lair. "

Katerina said in a deep voice, but Austin said calmly as if he had foreseen her words:

"Don't worry, this day's search has confirmed my conjecture. Since we haven't found any trace of the factory on the surface, where do you think the biggest possibility will be?"

"...underground?"

(The beginning of the new volume, because there are still various tasks to be done to draw up the outline, the update may be slow, please understand)

Prologue

"Bingo!" Austin snapped his fingers, "You and I both know the value of the Dragon Knight Factory. Since this is the case, in order to prevent the intrusion of criminals, it is naturally safer to build it underground."

"You mean we have to search again along the city sewer?" Katerina frowned.

"No, no, actually, we didn't do nothing that day. Through the inspection of the ruins, it is enough to restore more than 90.00% of the original appearance of the city, so we can get the approximate location of the factory The location—right under our feet now."

"Under your feet?"

"That's right, the place under our feet turned out to be the entrance of a city subway station, but this subway station has never been opened to the public. Why do you think it is?"

"A special channel that only a very small number of people can use."

"Exactly, so I suspect that the entrance to the Dragon Knight manufacturing plant is right under our feet."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Katerina took out a thing that looked like a grenade, pulled the safety catch and threw it at her feet, then quickly ran to the ruins on the other side and hid.Austin's reaction was a beat slower, but he followed immediately.Just as the two hid behind the ruins, the grenade exploded.

"It seems that I haven't bought fakes this time." Facing the ground that was blasted with a big hole, Katerina showed a satisfied smile.

"Please at least say it in advance next time. If I hadn't been replaced by someone else, I'm afraid I've already begun to suspect that you plan to cheat." Austin complained.Although he has partnered with Katerina for almost a year, the character of the other party who thinks of doing things immediately still makes him a little overwhelmed.

"Stop talking nonsense, follow up quickly." Katerina waved her hand and jumped into the pothole first.

The moment she landed, Katerina turned on the lighting function of the power armor.Austin's guess was not wrong. She did jump into a place that looked like a subway station. Most of the space was completely submerged by falling rocks, and the electronic equipment in other non-flooded spaces had completely stopped working. The chairs were scattered here and there, and there were some unknown residues that seemed to be part of the human body. They kept telling her about the tragedy that happened in the city when the second catastrophe broke out that year.

Austin took a slow step and fell into the pothole. After seeing the scene in front of him, he exclaimed "Wow": "The damage here is really clean enough."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and help clean up."

So the two began to clean up the falling rocks.With the power of the power armor, even ordinary people can easily carry the huge boulder. After a while, the two of them cleared a path that was big enough to accommodate them in this small space.

After putting the bones found during the cleaning process in one place, Katerina beckoned: "Come here."

"Did you find anything?" Austin approached.

"This is where the subway runs, right?" Katerina pointed to the entrance of the tunnel ahead.

"It looks like this, and I haven't found the entrance to another passage, it's probably a one-way street."

"Then move forward." Katerina made a decisive decision.

The tunnel was very deep, and the end could not be seen at a glance. Because of the falling rocks everywhere, a straight line was elongated several times abruptly.The two had to fumble around while avoiding these falling rocks.After walking like this for more than ten minutes, they finally encountered their first obstacle.

"It looks like a landslide." Katerina said in a low voice.

The area in front of the two was completely blocked by rocks, only the rear of the subway car was exposed, and it seemed that it was buried by a landslide in an instant while it was running.After thinking for a while, Katerina silently took out a square bomb that looked like a C4 from the armor's external backpack.

"Hey, what do you want to do? The building structure here is unstable. If one fails, even we will be buried here." Austin suddenly became nervous, staring at Katerina's hand The bomb, constantly hesitating between the two options of running away or taking the bomb.

"I didn't intend to use it to blow up these tunnels, but it shouldn't be a problem to just blow up the end of the subway." Katerina said with a shrug.

Austin froze for a moment: "You mean..."

"Blow up the tail of the subway, and then pass through the inside of the subway. If we are lucky, we may have escaped from the landslide area when we reach the head." Katerina explained with a gesture.

Austin scratched his head, and finally nodded hesitantly: "Then be careful, don't turn up the power too much."

"Don't worry, let me think about how the parameters are entered... forget it." After Katerina entered a few numbers impatiently, she threw the time bomb out, sticking impartially. At the rear of the train, what followed was a loud noise that shook the entire tunnel.

"...Look, I'll just say it's okay." Katerina patted the falling dust on her body as if nothing had happened, and said while looking at the subway ahead whose entire tail was blown up with a flower.

"Though I'd love to explain to you the specific meaning of the word 'nothing'... But there's no time! Damn, get ready, those guys are coming!"

Even without saying it, Katerina immediately understood what Austin meant.She decisively took out the beam pistol at her waist, and activated the safety lock and combat assist functions.On the scanning interface of the helmet, it was shown that a large number of unknown thermal bodies were rapidly approaching the two of them.

"It's an F-class vampire bat! Be careful not to be entangled by more than one of them at the same time! Otherwise, even power armor can't resist their sharp teeth!" Austin shouted.Countless black bats flew towards the two of them from the other end of the tunnel, each of them was several times larger than normal bats, and the exposed fangs reflected a penetrating black under the dim light.

Katerina pulled the trigger without hesitation.The white light beam instantly pierced through the black bat swarm, and the hit bats didn't even have time to scream, before they were turned into ashes under the action of high temperature.At the same time, Austin also took off the automatic rifle that he had been carrying behind his back. Every time the tongue of fire touched and spat out, a bat fell from the sky.

Countless rays of light and bullets staggered, and the two men in power armor and the swarm of black bats flying all over the sky fought a life-and-death fight in this small space.

Prologue

Although relying on the power of science and technology, the two once took the lead in suppressing firepower, but the number of bats is too large, and there is no end in sight.The two sides used a certain falling rock as the dividing line, forming a subtle dividing line of power.

While manipulating the weapon, Austin, who still did not forget to check the monitoring equipment, suddenly changed his face, and even his voice trembled: "Damn! Why is there such a level of disaster beast in this place!"

"What's the matter?" Katerina said impatiently.The energy of the beam pistol had bottomed out, and taking advantage of the moment when the bat swarm receded for some reason, she took out a spare "battery" from the package and replaced it.

"It's a C-level disaster beast, the blood-sucking king bat! The opponent is constantly approaching us! Damn it, I said why there are so many F-level disaster beasts here, it seems that there is such a big guy behind it!" Oss Ding gritted his teeth and said.

Katerina's complexion also changed slightly.With the strength of the two of them, the F-rank beasts can be dealt with easily, and the E-rank is still able to deal with it. It is very reluctant to reach the D-rank. As for the C-rank beasts, they are monsters that only dragon knights can deal with. The two who only rely on a suit of power armor are absolutely impossible to be their opponents.To this day, she still has the nightmare of being chased and killed by a C-level disaster beast in the desert half a year ago.

"... Is it too late to go back now?" Katerina asked.

"I'm afraid not. According to our speed, we will probably bump into each other at the entrance of the subway." Austin said bitterly.

"Then there is no way." Katerina took a deep breath and took out the last bomb she bought for this operation from her backpack.

"Don't you mean..." Austin was stunned, as if he had guessed what Katerina was thinking.

"Stop talking nonsense, I'll count one, two, three, and run to the carriage as far as I can. One..." She manipulated the control interface of the bomb with one hand, pulling all the values ​​to the maximum .

"two……"

The two looked at each other and stopped shooting at the same time.The group of bats that were still dodging just now seemed to be a little confused by their sudden action, and just stayed where they were.

"Three. Run!"

Katerina threw the bomb in her hand violently.Almost at the same time, the afterglow from the corner of her eyes also caught a glimpse of a being that was huge enough to fill the entire tunnel, carrying some kind of creepy chill, rushing towards the two of them at high speed.Before she had time to think about it, she turned the power propulsion device to the maximum.The bomb exploded almost as soon as the two of them threw themselves into the split car.

The consequences of the huge energy explosion in a small space are obvious. The huge wind and waves directly blown the two people who had not had time to find a hiding place in the future. The already extremely fragile geological structure could not withstand the explosion from the ground. Under such pressure, the entire tunnel collapsed completely, crushing all the bats that were lucky enough to escape the first explosion to the ground.

After an unknown amount of time, Katerina woke up from the tinnitus and slowly got up from the ground.The quality of the train was better than she had imagined, and it wasn't damaged much. The damage to the power armor on her body was barely acceptable, but the biggest problem wasn't here.

When she turned her head, the tunnel behind her was completely blocked, and now the two of them seemed to have no choice but to continue walking towards the unknown front.Katerina just shrugged her shoulders and wasn't overly upset. For her, who was abandoned by her parents since she was a child and became a mercenary at the age of ten in an orphanage, these sudden accidents are really normal But the situation.As long as she is alive, there is still hope.

She kicked Austin, who was still on the ground, hard.Austin, who was taken aback, stood up in a "carp upright" motion, and looked around nervously: "What's the matter?!"

"Quickly see if that big guy is catching up." Katerina said angrily.

Austin shook his head, and it took him a long time to realize the situation.I saw him turn on the detection equipment again, and after operating it for a long time, he said slowly: "...No large energy source was found nearby, it seems that he left after the tunnel collapsed. But in this way, even we are trapped It's underground here."

"Are there other underground passages leading to the factory?"

"Let me see... In addition to the subway station here, there seems to be an emergency passage leading directly to the ground, but it seems that it can only be activated from the inside. According to the guy who sold me the information, he I just escaped from that emergency passage, but I don’t know if the device inside can still be used after a year has passed.” Austin said with some uncertainty.

"Usable or not, this is our only lifeline. Let's go."

In this way, the two explored the interior of the train.The interior of this train is much bigger than expected. It is obviously just a private subway, but it has more than a dozen carriages, enough to accommodate hundreds of people at the same time.The two also searched for a lot of emergency food and energy in the crew compartment, which was preserved underground for a year and still looks very good.After a brief resupply, Katerina took the initiative to push the conductor's carriage.

This time, the scenery outside the glass window was no longer piled up falling rocks, which made the two of them heave a sigh of relief.After all, Katerina's risky move was the right bet, at least they didn't have to be trapped in this carriage and couldn't get out.

"Come here and give me a hand." Katerina clasped the gap in the car door with both hands, urging. Austin followed her example knowingly, and the two of them pushed hard in opposite directions together, and pulled the car door open abruptly.

"It seems that we are quite lucky. This train should have been crushed suddenly on the way. The landslide is just about the length of the train. If this guy is not strong enough, it will be in big trouble." Oss Ding sighed.

"I'll talk about these things later, where are we now?"

"Let me see... Well, the network signal is good. It seems that there must be a service base station nearby, and it is most likely the target of our trip." Austin said with certainty, "The area we are currently in should be In area C33, if you continue to the tunnel, you should be able to reach area D32... which is where the factory is likely to be."

"Understood, let's go." Katerina, the captain, gave the order.

Chapter 1 The Girl in the Cabin

"Speaking of which, I didn't see a single corpse on the train just now." Seeing that the destination was getting closer, Austin couldn't help chatting with some comfort.

"It should have escaped before the catastrophe, or it was unmanned from the beginning."

"The second cataclysm... How long will it last this time?"

"That kind of thing, let those big people worry about it. Little people like us, as long as we think about how to survive, that's all."

Katerina stopped suddenly, making Austin, who was following her distracted, accidentally bumped into her.

"Here, shouldn't it be the legendary dragon knight production factory?" Katerina said in a daze.

Austin, who was about to complain, opened his mouth involuntarily after seeing the scene in front of him.After walking out of the narrow tunnel, the space in front of him suddenly became brighter.He has visited the Dragon Knight factory a few times, but he has never seen such a large scale. It is not so much an underground factory as it is a small underground city.The space enough to accommodate several commercial buildings is divided by intricate derricks and trestles. On the assembly line that has long stopped running, the mechanical arm maintains its working posture, assembling the parts of each part, and transporting them to an unknown distance.There are also some areas separated by transparent glass, half-assembled huge robots relying on mechanical supports alone, waiting for the day of completion that will never come.

This time it's really going to be rich.This was the only thought in the minds of the two whose eyes had become "money" at this moment.

"Wait, at least look for a map first!" Austin, who was still calm for the time being, grabbed Katerina, who was about to do something special, "This place is so big, if we just hang out, I don't know if it will be worth it." How long will it take to go. It's better to find a map first, so that it will be convenient for us to find what we want."

Katerina thought for a while, and reluctantly agreed with Austin.The two headed separately to the welcome area, eventually finding what they were looking for in the entrance hall.

"Downloading the map, please wait... the download is complete." The auxiliary AI sent a mechanical notification sound of completion.

"I didn't expect it to be divided into so many areas... Where do you think we should go first?" Austin asked.

"Here." Katerina pointed somewhere without hesitation.

"Is it the monitoring and design department... Well, I think so too. If it is here, maybe there will be a lot of special dragon knight design drawings." Austin licked his lower lip and said a little excitedly.Although the parts for making the dragon knight are equally precious, considering the capacity that two people can carry, it is better to choose lighter parts.

Although it has been abandoned for more than a year, the factory's infrastructure is still quite well preserved, which also saves the two from having to dig out treasures from the ruins.

"This is the design department... The door seems to be locked quite tightly."

"Is the security system still running?" Katerina asked.