Miss Witch’s Devotion Has Gone… Twisted

”What’s inside this?”

Loren looked at Mirrorheart and asked.

”You’ll know if you open it, won’t you?”

Mirrorheart continued to encourage Loren. In that moment, Loren thought of many possibilities. After mentally preparing himself, Loren opened the gift box.

Loren had originally thought it might be some tool prepared by Mirrorheart, intended for him to use on himself. However, when he opened it, he was still taken aback for a moment.

Lilith was lying peacefully inside the gift box, ribbons wrapped around her body, tied into a beautiful bow.

”No, you...”

At this moment, Loren really wanted to scold Mirrorheart. The sun was out; if Lilith left the Uridia Kingdom, something bad could really happen.

”How dependent she is on you, you’ve seen it yourself. And haven’t you noticed? Lilith doesn’t remember anything, but she remembers everything about you clearly.

”What do you think her life will become if you leave?”She could have muddled through her entire life in a daze, but you pulled her out of the abyss. Now you want to send her back...”

”Alright, stop talking.”

What Mirrorheart said wasn’t wrong. Since Lilith was already here, he could only take care of her. He’d just need to be careful usually. Besides, Loren had already developed a more effective sunscreen, so it wasn’t too dangerous.

”Can you take me out first, Master Mentor...”

Lilith was locked in the narrow gift box, unable to move at all, and she was still wrapped in ribbons.

”Alright...”

Loren’s hands slid under Lilith’s knees and back, lifting her up. Lilith’s hands were also bound, so she couldn’t hug Loren back and could only lean against him.

Lilith’s cheek pressed tightly against Loren’s chest, a blissful expression on her face.

Loren could only temporarily place Lilith on the table first, to untie the ribbons on her body.

After Loren untied the ribbons on Lilith and placed her on a chair, Seraphina had finished preparing the meal.

Cecelia still refused to come down. In the end, Loren once again placed the food under the bed.

Having just returned home today, Loren wasn’t in the mood for anything else. After eating, he lay on his own bed to continue studying magic. This trip had filled in the last of his deficiencies.

Originally, Loren’s survivability was ridiculously strong, but his offensive methods were limited. If he encountered someone like Count Aisaco, whose sins weren’t too deep, the Sin-Burning Flames and Judgment couldn’t really play much of a role.

Simultaneously, Loren was also severely lacking in AoE (Area of Effect) methods. This time, the high-tier magic of the Night and Thunder Sequence had filled that gap for him.

Moreover, Loren had kept a trump card.

The Corrupt Blazing Sun would gradually burn out, but Loren hadn’t let it simply be destroyed. The corpses Loren had bought earlier came in handy. After he transformed them into undead, Loren also gave them an order: to maintain the burning of the Corrupt Blazing Sun.

He only needed to occasionally gather some corpses to feed to the Corrupt Blazing Sun. It wasn’t that easy to extinguish, and when minimized, it was very energy-efficient.

Besides, unlike when summoning the Corrupt Blazing Sun, simply maintaining it didn’t necessarily require dark creatures; any flesh and blood would do. Even if he couldn’t find corpses, he could completely go buy some meat to feed to the Corrupt Blazing Sun.

If the day ever came when he truly had to break with the Church, Loren wouldn’t mind unleashing the Corrupt Blazing Sun again.

”Cecelia, what is your Arcane Ability?”

Now that Cecelia had also joined Loren’s faction, Loren needed to understand her Arcane Ability so he could tailor her strengthening accordingly.

Loren wanted each of them to have sufficient self-preservation ability.

Back when listening to her concert, Loren had already made some guesses about Cecelia’s Arcane Ability. It was highly likely that her ability could influence other people’s minds. Used well, it could be very powerful.

”My Arcane Ability is Resonance Voice. It can force people who hear my voice to share the same thoughts as me.”

”Resonance Voice!”

Hearing these four words, Loren immediately sat up. He remembered this Arcane Ability.

This was precisely the Arcane Ability of one of the Seven Sins, the Pride Witch.

Loren remembered what the Pride Witch had done. She created a Witch Supremacist ideology, proclaiming that witches were the highest form of life, and other creatures were unworthy of existing in the same world as witches. It was fine for witches to kill them, but if any other race harbored malice towards witches, it was a grave crime.

Back then, the Pride Witch used her Arcane Ability to influence people across several countries. Tens of millions of people implemented Witch Supremacy at all costs. Compared to them, even the most fanatical Cultists of Evil Gods seemed normal.

It’s just that the Pride Witch never showed her face, and Loren never learned her name. She was the witch with the least information. So, it was only now that Loren realized Cecelia was the Pride Witch.

”It seems Cecelia’s potential is now much greater than it would have been without my interference...”

Loren sighed. Due to his influence, Cecelia had become a singer. Now, the number of people who could hear her voice would only be greater than originally, and she could control more people.

Moreover, this Arcane Ability wasn’t without direct combat potential either. Used skillfully, its effects could be terrifying.

With this, Loren had already gathered four of the Seven Sins witches, which suddenly made him feel a bit emotional.

”What’s wrong with my Arcane Ability?”

”Cecelia, come out quickly. I’ll teach you a method to make your Arcane Ability stronger.”

”What?”

Cecelia slowly crawled out from under the bed. She didn’t quite understand. Arcane Abilities were the most mysterious things in this world. How could Loren understand a witch’s own Arcane Ability better than the witch herself?

But since Loren said so, Cecelia felt he must be able to do it.

”Do you know about resonance destruction? Every object has its own natural frequency. When an external frequency matches that natural frequency, it causes destruction, enough to collapse a large bridge.

”Resonance Voice doesn’t just have the effect of changing others’ thoughts. The key is resonance.

”You can completely use your Arcane Ability to emit a sound that matches the natural frequency of something, causing damage to it. Moreover, the essence of magic is a song. You can completely use this effect to disrupt others’ magic!”

Loren blurted out everything he knew, not caring whether Cecelia understood or not. There was plenty of time for her to comprehend it.

In short, all of this was feasible. Loren had seen the Pride Witch use it.

”However, to achieve this, you first need to understand the essence of magic. For now, learn magic with me.”

”My head hurts a bit... I need you to give me some stimulation...”

Cecelia rubbed her temples and lay down on Loren’s lap, just like last time.

”...”

At this moment, Loren had a worse headache than she did. Not just Mirrorheart and Anna, but now even Laila and Cecelia had become like this.