A Magical Tale: The Peerless Summoner

Chapter 163: Facing the witch (1)

A few minutes later, the carriage got there.

Then Helena and her friends got down from it and marched into the valley on Helena's lead.

Helena at the moment was using the map projected to her mind to find the way to the part in the valley where they would find the witch's shrine.

Actually, it was a cave in one of the mountains in this valley that she was searching for.

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Many minutes later, forty minutes to be precise, they eventually arrived before the mountain where they would find the cave.

At the moment, they were looking at a large cave that was at the foot of that particular mountain.

The cave that they were all looking at was really dark. And it was intensely dark that it gave the feeling that if one entered there with a long piece of wood that had fire burning brightly around it, they still possibly won't see a thing.

Helena then said to the girls "Let's go in."

They all nodded their heads and then went in with her.

As soon as they entered, they began to hear faint terrified cries, horrified screeches of pain and agony, then booming evil gaggles of pleasure.

"Well, we are there already." Helena said to the girls who nodded their heads.

"But senior Helena, we can't see a thing in here. What if a strange, flesh-eating creature that has mastered the art of blending with the ink-like blackness of this place suddenly comes out from where it dwells in and leaps at any of us to attack us?" Deborah asked.

"Yea. I thought that too. I will surely do something about it." Helena answered.

She then brought her fist in front of her and uttered a short basic spell.

Once she did so, a bright white flame suddenly manifested around her fist and began to burn brilliantly around it.

Immediately this happened, the jet-dark blackness that permeated where they were at the moment sharply disappeared without a trace.

She could have used a piece of wood instead of her fist to produce the flame that will illuminate this extremely dark place. But she couldn't find anything like that to do so. Therefore, she was left with no choice than to use her fist and bring fire upon it to brighten up this intensely dark region of the cave.

Then tracing the loud, bloodcurdling cries of seemingly humans, they finally arrived there. But this was only after going through numerous wide and narrow interconnected routes that will lead them to the cave that the witch's shrine should be found in.

And, before Helena would eventually get there, she ceased the brilliant white flame burning around her fist so as not to alert the witch that would be in that place where the cutting of humans into bits could possibly be going on.

So, since she had caused the strange, thick darkness of this place to return, they couldn't see again.

But Helena tried to solve that issue by casting a Lucid Night Vision-type spell on her eyes.

Once she did this, the darkness in this place mysteriously disappeared before her very eyes. Although the darkness was still there in this place and didn't reduce in intensity nor strength, it was however absent in her naked eyes, causing her to vividly see what were around her.

"Girls, don't worry yourself about something coming out from somewhere and attacking you, I can clearly see everything around us like it's day. So, I will definitely alert us in time if anything like that comes out." Helena said while her girls nodded their heads.

Not long, they arrived at the entrance of the cave where the witch's shrine could be located.

Then carefully looking into the place to see what was going on before suddenly charging in to attack the witch, they could see numerous terrified kids in large wooden cages scattered all over the place.

Then the many cages which the small crowds of kids could be found in, had magical spells casted on them.

This was actually put there to prevent any of the sharp-witted or smart, bold and courageous kids from possibly leaving the wooden cages that they were imprisoned in and running off in random directions, thereby disturbing her process to cut them apart and enjoyably consume both their flesh and delicate organs.

Helena could surprisingly sense the kind of spell weaved upon those cages from where she was. She could detect a restriction-type arcane power radiating from those cages. So, that was how she was able to understand what form or type of spell was placed on those cages that were used to incarcerate the kids.

Now, what she had to really do was to break the spells and free those cages. Also, before actually doing that, she had to recognize the spellcasting level of the witch.

She was doing all these so as not to make her destroy the kids out of rage that her place had been invaded.

Then after looking around to see if the witch had no evil follower or disciple and then saw none. She prepared to show herself to the witch before abruptly casting a spell that will quickly destroy the Constraint-type magical spells casted on the numerous large cages in this place.

"Girls, I am planning to show myself to the witch to cause her tremendous shock. Then when I successfully do so and then weave a Spellbreaker-type spell, you guys should immediately appear to produce magical protective screens and shields to deflect every magical attack that she would unleash towards the little kids out of frenzy. And no one should try to engage her in a spellcasting battle. Leave it to me. Your job should be to protect the little kids within your grasps. Am I loud enough and clear?" Helena said and then asked.

"Loud and clear enough." Lydia said.

"Alright then. I will move out now. Then you girls should get ready." Helena said.

Immediately after she said that, she directly entered into the cave that was lit up with several candles from the wide entrance.

Once she appeared in the cave, the witch who was raucously laughing in pleasure at the terror and fear coming from the kids, furrowed her brows in surprise when she sensed that someone had entered into her cave and was strangely looking at her from behind.

She then dropped one of the kids who was a little girl in her hand and then stood to her feet to see who was that who had boldly walked into her place.

But when she saw Helena, she became dumbfounded.

She couldn't believe what she was seeing.

Did this girl actually come to her place after walking through all those intensely dark and scary tunnels?

Was she lost?

She couldn't help but begin to ask these questions within herself.

Still gazing at Helena, she asked as she began to cautiously look around "Girl, what do you want? How did you arrive here? Were you sent here?"

Helena only smiled.

Then without giving an actual response to the questions that the witch asked her, Helena unexpectedly casted a spell that immediately manifested as dozens of illusory halberds which suddenly shot at great speeds towards the cages in this place without Helena's guide or control.

That was the uniqueness of spellbreaker-type spells. They could move on their own without the caster's guide to break, destroy or ravage every form of enchantments that could be found in a particular area.

Once the illusionary halberds appeared before every of the cages that had magical spells attached to them, they turned into a ray of light that struck the enchanted, large wooden cages.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Then all of a sudden, sounds like glasses shattering into hundreds of fragments began to ring out. But there were no glass around.

Immediately after this sound rang out, Lydia and the rest quickly understood what Helena had done. Then without needing to be told what to do again, they rushed out from where they were towards the cages that Helena had used an enchantment-collapsing spell on.

Then once they got there, they quickly unleashed different defensive spells to protect the many kids in the cages from the witch's frenzied reprisal attacks. However, it was Lydia and Lucretia that casted advanced, protective magical spells to shield some of the cages containing the kids from the raging magical attacks of the witch. While Lauren and Deborah who only had bloodline powers, quickly moved on to protect the kids in the cages by causing their massive and astonishingly long wings to expand out from their backs and then wrap solidly around the cages that they chose to protect.

Immediately all these was done which actually didn't take up to a minute, the witch who wasn't expecting all these to happen, looked at Helena with coldness in her eyes and said with towering anger in her voice, "What about you, what cage have you chosen to protect? Go do so immediately before my killing wrath will come upon you."

Helena only smiled.

She then said "My friends have already done that. As for me, I am here to kill you. Now, get ready to be wiped off from the surface of this world for your totally evil, cannibalistic ways."