The witch thought I am a Demon God-Chapter 33 - Difficult to Lead the Team they are all
Chapter 33 -33 Difficult to Lead the Team, they are all Actors! (Please follow) _1
Chapter 33 -33 Difficult to Lead the Team, they are all Actors! (Please follow) _1
Blantun gave Ivita ten gold pounds as a deposit, while also entrusting a ruby ring from his own hand to her.
This was a deposit.
The side of the ruby ring bore the emblem of the Moro family, a roaring wolf, which represented the duty borne by the Moro family for generations to guard the only major road leading into the viscount’s domain from the west.
In this era, the seal of a ring could represent its owner’s identity, and could even be used to write letters on the owner’s behalf.
Thus, offering this as a deposit was essentially a gesture of utmost sincerity.
In terms of Ivita’s previous life, this was equivalent to giving her his identity card.
This way, Ivita didn’t have to worry about him not paying afterwards.
Blantun led them off the road, “I will take you through the mountain path, to the forest where my sister disappeared.”
“We are easily discoverable here.”
“I don’t know why, but my father abhors me searching for my sister. Perhaps he thinks I’m going mad.”
Rayli worryingly said, “What about the carriage, horses and cattle?”
The old witch replied directly, “I will cast a human repulsion curse. This spell will make any approaching human unable to see our carriage and cattle.”
While speaking, she had the black wolf tie the carriage and cattle next to two trees.
She then found some rocks from the ground and took a few dry branches.
Using the dried branches, she drew symbols on the rocks and then arranged the rocks into a circle, encircling the carriage and cattle.
“This will do the job.”
Blantun looked somewhat fearfully at the old witch, “Is she… a witch?!”
“Do you have a problem with that?” The Hearthstone Grand Witch looked at him disdainfully.
“I…I don’t.” Blantun, his mind in disarray, didn’t expect one of the adventurers he’d hired to be a witch.
Was he maybe getting too much value for his money?
Was this a good thing, or perhaps not?
Ivita said, “Enough. You’d better lead us to the place where your sister went missing.”
Blantun responded, “Ri… Right!”
Blantun led them through the mountain road to a rare small patch of forest in the highlands. Within it was a darkness, eerie and dangerous at night.
The place was filled with wild beasts.
Fortunately, the beasts were not foolish enough to attack humans armed with iron.
That was wisdom bought with the blood of their ancestors.
Along the way, they conversed in whispers, learning that Blantun was a first-class attendant knight, with an extraordinary heart.
The problem was, according to him, he had only recently become an attendant knight and his combat power wasn’t strong.
Rayli informed him that he was a warrior who had used the secret medicine of warriors.
Whereas the black wolf indicated that he was a demon hunter who had passed four trials.
The old witch said, “I see. When you used the magic potion trap of the Griffin School in the inn, I knew you were not an ordinary demon hunter.”
“Heh heh, your highness, he is quite extraordinary.”
Ivita looked at the black wolf in confusion. “Passed four trials?”
“What level does passing four trials correspond to? How does it compare to the stages of knights and witches?”
The old witch respectfully explained to Ivita, “Your Highness, the first class of knights starts with attendant knights, followed by the second-tier full-fledged knights, and the third-tier great knights.”
“The fourth tier includes superior knights, with fifth-tier, sixth-tier and so on….”
“And a demon hunter who has passed one trial is equivalent to a first-tier professional.”
“Equivalent to the level of an attendant knight.”
“Passing two additional trials as a demon hunter is equivalent to the level of an official knight.”
“The black wolf has passed four trials, and as soon as he passes one more, his demon hunter level will be equivalent to that of a great knight.”
“So, his strength should be at the peak of an ordinary knight.”
Ivita didn’t realize that the demon hunter black wolf was so capable.
The old witch took the opportunity to backstab the demon hunter black wolf. “This guy has never given us his all, serving your highness while harboring ulterior motives.”
“Even contemplating betrayal.”
“He does not have my loyalty.”
Someone said this without a blush or pant.
In fact, she has always been looking for someone to take the fall, and then plan to distance herself from Ivita.
The Demon Hunter Black Wolf’s face darkened, and he immediately looked at Ivita, “Your Highness, don’t listen to her nonsense.”
“I was trapped by the military formation composed of seventeen knight attendants in the inn the other day. Even if I was a little Demon Hunter who had passed four trials, let alone a Demon Hunter who had passed seven trials, I still wouldn’t have been a match for them.”
“Those are tactics used by the Knight Regiment in war. Knights are the strongest profession on the frontlines; we independent Demon Hunters could never compete with them.”
Ivita frowned. “But Black Wolf, could a ruined prince really afford to hire you?”
“I…” said Black Wolf, “I swear by the God of All Things, I will never harm you.”
“If you died, I would go bankrupt.”
“The small amount of wealth you have now isn’t enough to compensate me for the many weapons I’ve lost trying to help you!”
When he first helped Ivita escape from the manor, he had to leave behind a large stack of spare weapons, only taking a few personal ones with him.
His losses were so massive that the Black Wolf spent his nights dreaming about how to make Ivita repay him.
Ivita suddenly moved from being expressionless to laughing. “You don’t have to go that far. I was just asking a few more questions.”
With that said, he seemed genuinely unconcerned.
In fact, Ivita was thinking that the Black Wolf was, after all, a mercenary.
He didn’t have the right to determine whose man he was.
He wasn’t in any position to manage that.
In any case, the Black Wolf was better than the Old Witch, who had tried to kill him before and seemed restless even now, insisting that he hurry to Ambros.
Who knows what kind of tricks she was up to.
Ah, such a problematic party.
After all that, only Rayli and Alysia could be counted as his own.
Everyone else had their own agendas.
By now, he understood the hardships of being a lord.
Unless it was someone he had known and trained since childhood, it was really hard to ensure their loyalty.
Bulleton, on the other hand, was listening with his ears perked. Something about a Demon Hunter who passed the fourth trial, a prince, and an assassination…
He was speechless.
Had he hired adventurers or a bunch of immortals from the Fairy Group?
By this time, his attitude towards Ivita had become a little more respectful.
No wonder the witch, the Demon Hunter, and the warrior all deferred to this teenager.
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He came from a noble background after all.
Bulleton was a bit afraid. He suddenly stopped in the forest. “Your … Your Highness, please forgive me for not knowing your identity earlier. We have reached the place where my sister disappeared. I’m deeply embarrassed to trouble you with such a matter. I was so impolite.”
The nobles of this age take hierarchy very seriously.
Even if he is a foreign prince, even if he seems to be in a bad situation, he is still a prince.
Ivita waved him off. “Right now, we are just adventurers.”
“Have we arrived? Let’s check this place first.”
Bulleton was deeply moved. The results of different people doing different things are different.
If a commoner helps a lord, the lord won’t express much gratitude.
But if a prince helps a lord, the lord will be extremely grateful.
In this era, Ivita doesn’t have the pressure of hiding his identity, because he is the rightful inheritor of the kingdom.
Even if the King of Alsace puts a bounty on him, he can only resort to the dishonorable and less glorious assassins of the Brotherhood.
There is no other reason except that Ivita is a royalty.
No noble dares to take on the bounty task to kill Ivita. In an era where nobility is highly valued, barely anyone would dare to do this outright.
On the contrary, if Ivita had enough money, he could try to put a bounty on the current King of Alsace.
He’s nothing but a usurper.
But he doesn’t have money, and the King of Alsace has an army, so basically no one will accept such a crazy bounty.
Ivita has no intention of revealing his identity ostentatiously, as it may attract some ambitious individuals with ulterior motives, which would be bad.
