As the situation worsened, Hyunkeshuni prepared to flee far from her hermitage.
This kind of hermitage, she could just make a new one.
Although it’s a pity to leave behind what she’s gathered so far, how can it compare to her life?
Hyunkeshuni prepared to flee far. Let’s just pack a few belongings and leave.
The cowardly witch steps out of her house as she always has. Let’s run far away from the scary place.
But this time, it was too late.
It’s too late to say the karma she’s built up until now has returned, but still, what she’s done tightens around her neck.
Dakota thoroughly prepared to not let her escape.
Double, triple.
Not preparing to avoid mistakes, but so that even if there are mistakes, they can somehow be fixed.
So that even if Hyunkeshuni escapes, if she’s alive, there’s no time to close her eyes.
If she goes to the forest, surround the forest, if she goes to the city, check every person so there’s no place for her to be.
Originally when such an encirclement is laid, not only the person running away gets tired, but those surrounding also get tired.
Then eventually gaps appear.
But this time it wasn’t like that.
Because everyone participating in the witch hunt was smiling.
The reasons are various.
There were Outer God Religion priests burning with a sense of mission to catch the real Hyunkeshuni.
There were people who simply enjoyed the witch hunt festival.
There were people happy because many people came and things sold well.
There were people happy because the Outer God Religion saintess came from very far away.
There was only one type of person not smiling.
People who had lost someone to Hyunkeshuni.
People who survived by chance, like Dakota.
Dakota deliberately chose people who had grudges against Hyunkeshuni. Because she thought that way they would work properly when she asked.
And her thoughts were right.
Dakota coordinates people at the very top, and people below take on jobs little by little. The will of these superiors was united, and those below enjoyed it.
Then what happens?
The Outer God Religion believers tightened Hyunkeshuni’s noose little by little.
Until the smile on Hyunkeshuni’s lips covered her whole face.
It took exactly three months.
When Hyunkeshuni first learned that the Outer God Religion was chasing her, she immediately racked her brains.
Originally, Hyunkeshuni is very smart.
After learning witchcraft from a witch long ago, she developed it independently.
If you’re one of the few witches who survived to the present age, you’d know without being told.
Of course, it was none other than Hyunkeshuni who created the prejudice that witches are bad people.
So many witches died.
Once prejudice is formed, it takes tremendous effort to undo it. But before undoing it, most witches were killed for various reasons.
To that extent, while Hyunkeshuni survived for a long time because she’s a coward, that’s not all.
Among the reasons a woman who kills people’s lives as if twisting simple toys could survive, there’s also skill.
But even that skill isn’t enough to overcome enemies if there are many.
So when people swarmed, she always ran away smiling.
She ran away trembling in fear of death.
Originally, if she could kill many at once, given Hyunkeshuni’s personality, she wouldn’t have run away like that. She would have played with them and mocked them.
Anyway, Hyunkeshuni, who doesn’t have the skill to defeat many people, decided to go west as soon as she confirmed that the Outer God Religion was chasing her.
The Adu Jungle in the north.
The Skard Rocky Desert in the south.
Based on these, there are many cultural differences between east and west.
Just as the Holy Spirit Religion was once the religion of most of the east, but couldn’t spread west beyond these two regions.
So Hyunkeshuni, thinking the Outer God Religion would do the same, decided to flee west.
It was spring when Hyunkeshuni left her hermitage and started running away.
She passed through newly thawed waterways, sometimes disguised as animals, sometimes hid in mud. Because these forests were like her home ground, she could survive for 3 months.
But she made a wrong choice due to fear of being chased.
For Hyunkeshuni, who thoroughly knew the vegetation of the Adu Jungle, the jungle was a place to obtain food and a strategic point to obtain materials for using magic called witchcraft.
But as people tightened her noose, she had no choice but to leave further.
Far, to places where her knowledge gradually doesn’t apply.
She instinctively chose places that were easy to break through and fled there. Although it became east instead of west as she went, she didn’t have to go strictly west.
Anyway, it was her victory if she could survive.
But that was a trap.
Even without abilities, blessed people were superior to ordinary people in all aspects.
It means their minds also improve when blessed.
Originally, an old person who never received education in their lifetime can learn completely different system magic just by receiving memories after being blessed.
Such people gathered and prepared to kill one person.
Like saying it’s polite to pay money when several Seoul National University graduates put their heads together to make a game to steal gamers’ wallets.
Although Hyunkeshuni wasn’t foolish, rather she was a smart person.
She couldn’t overcome numbers.
Witch hunt festivals are held wherever you go in the city.
Actually, people living in the city don’t think they’re catching and killing Hyunkeshuni. Just, they’re holding that festival again that they held not long ago? That level.
But from Hyunkeshuni’s perspective, it looks like the whole city is trying to catch Hyunkeshuni.
If she had a little more leisure, if she could ask someone, she could have known that the situation wasn’t actually that dangerous.
But until now, she always judged and moved alone. And the pursuit that continued for 3 months greatly wore down her mind.
Everyone looks like an enemy.
Looking here and there, they’re all denouncing Hyunkeshuni.
What would people say if they saw a girl holding a hideous skull staff then?
There’s a witch here!
Hyunkeshuni reflexively cuts their throat and kills them, and that changes into a sign revealing Hyunkeshuni’s location.
And once she kills, it’s over.
Immediately the city searches for the real witch, combing through the city as if catching mice.
The trap worked properly.
Hyunkeshuni runs away with a smile all over her face.
She acts just like her alias, the Witch of Joy, laughing giddily.
In reality, she’s scared and frightened, a trauma she’s almost forgotten from very long ago manifesting.
But it’s too late to blame that as the cause after committing so many sins until now.
And the time comes to pay for sins.
There are many people who aren’t like that, but Hyunkeshuni wasn’t one of them.
In the end, people who resent her came before Hyunkeshuni.
Spears, swords, bows, staffs. They attacked her wielding various weapons.
No matter how old a witch Hyunkeshuni is, she can’t fend off all attacks when so many people attack.
Eventually her left arm is cut off by a sword from the forearm, and her right hand holding the staff is crushed to the forearm by a hammer.
Both legs are full of lacerations, and iron spikes connected to chains are embedded in her left knee, right thigh, right lower abdomen above the pelvis, and left shoulder.
It’s not an attack on a person.
They attacked as if hunting a huge beast.
And the final moment came.
At the moment a man full of hope to avenge his enemy was about to stab a knife into her neck.
Dakota stopped it.
“Stop!”
The blade narrowly stabbed into the sandy ground next to her neck.
Hyunkeshuni raised her head with a face full of laughter.
There was a beautiful woman with bright blue skin. She knows from hearing several times while running away.
She is Dakota, the saintess of the Outer God Religion.
Subtly observing, she sees her stopping and making the people who attacked her back off. A real smile spread in her smile stained with fear.
She saw a way to survive.
“Hehe, Saintess? I’m a worthless witch. Please, please have mercy. I didn’t do anything bad.”
So she begged. To survive somehow, Hyunkeshuni opened her mouth while enduring the pain all over her body.
“I was just, scared. Suddenly, saying I’m a witch, trying to kill me, just, because I was scared, like this.”
She defended herself saying she wasn’t bad.
Dakota approached Hyunkeshuni, whose whole body was covered in chains and pinned to the ground, and crouched down by her head. And looking straight at Hyunkeshuni’s face, she asked.
“Hyunkeshuni. Do you remember the day the Outer God died?”
“Yes! Yes! Of course! You mean the moment those filthy Holy Spirit Religion bastards blew away the Outer God? Of course I remember everything!”
It was one of the truly exhilarating moments for Hyunkeshuni.
Due to Yasle’s mistake, a monster that shouldn’t have come appeared in this world.
She didn’t know what the warmth the Outer God talked about was, but no matter how she looked, she couldn’t think people who had it taken would properly die.
Especially the ominous purple hair. It bothered her so she killed as much as possible. But ominous imaginings tend to become reality.
The Outer God came back to this world.
Hyunkeshuni surrendered out of fear of the Outer God. When she begged just to spare her life, it forced her to write down the method to summon it.
So she wrote.
But after spending a few days together, the Outer God was stupider than she thought. Rather, it was close to a kid with only strong power. When she tried twisting the magic written in the book and showing it, she didn’t understand at all.
She could deceive it.
So she twisted the summoning magic. She changed the spell so that if summoned, it would be sealed for about 10,000 years.
And things went well and the Outer God was banished from this world. At first she thought it had completely died, but as those polluted by the Outer God increased, she realized that wasn’t quite the case.
But still, the Outer God didn’t come back to this world. Even though the number of human sacrifices far exceeded that time, the Outer God didn’t come to this world.
Or, it couldn’t come to this world.
Hyunkeshuni felt wronged. No, how could they do this to me when I dealt with the Outer God?
But that’s that.
She cursed the Holy Spirit Religion hard to survive. Hoping they might spare her if she’s just a worthless witch.
She earnestly begged Dakota for mercy.
But then Dakota said something strange.
“Do you remember people dying in a house with a terrace overlooking the square at that time?”
“No! I don’t know at all! Yes! I don’t know anything like that! I’ve never killed people! Really! It was only because people suddenly rushed to kill me just now!”
Hyunkeshuni couldn’t see Dakota’s expression. Because the sun was behind Dakota, casting shadows on her face.
Dakota said this:
“Let’s take the Witch of Joy to the Outer God Religion headquarters.”
Hyunkeshuni mistakenly thought she had survived.