Chapter 1524: Choosing a New Opponent

Chapter 1524: Chapter 1524: Choosing a New Opponent

Alongside Pei Jin in the battle were not only a Holy Knight and a Holy Mage, but also Annie, the Vice President of the Witch Public Assistance Association, who had just fought her. At that moment, Annie lay in Hecate’s arms, her entire body strangely swollen and coughing up blood continuously.

Faced with Hecate’s loud questioning, Pei Jin did not respond but instead walked into the crowd. Currently, they were still enemies, and she had no obligation to answer her questions.

Seeing Pei Jin remain silent made Hecate extremely angry, but unable to take action because she needed to check on her friend’s condition. At this time, Meilin willingly approached Annie, bent down to examine her body, and slightly frowned, saying: "There’s a trace of destiny’s aura! It’s a rarer power than time-based abilities." As he said this, Meilin looked at Pei Jin in the distance and asked: "Young lady, can you use destiny-based magic?"

"Sort of!" Pei Jin replied ambiguously, weighing the gold coins in her hand.

"Master Meilin, can you alleviate her current physical state? I’m attempting to transfer her injuries, but it’s not working. Each time the injury transfer is attempted, it instantly reverts to the current condition. She’s only left with one more chance to transfer the injuries; if it doesn’t work, she won’t hold on." Hecate looked at Meilin with a pleading gaze.

Meilin squatted down, carefully examining and searching over Annie’s body. A moment later, he found a gold coin at the hem of her clothes, sighing and saying: "Her current condition isn’t caused by destiny-based magic. It’s some unfamiliar force. The destiny-based magic only prevented her from performing injury transfer spells. I can try to remove the interference imposed by destiny on her, but I cannot guarantee if merely performing a destiny transfer and time reversal will be able to save her life."

At this point, Meilin turned to Pei Yan and asked: "Mr. Pei Yan, this is a peculiar toxin that causes such a violent rejection reaction between this witch’s blood and source energy. Since we’ve already made an agreement, I implore you to have this lady end the interference of strange powers in Witch Annie’s body. There’s no need for further casualties, is there? I can promise you that once the witch survives the crisis, I will immediately have her taken off the battlefield and she will no longer engage in confrontations with you."

Faced with Meilin’s plea, Pei Yan didn’t immediately reply, but instead retreated to his sister Pei Jin’s side, turning his head to ask quietly: "Sister, what kind of toxin did you inject into her?"

"It’s not quite a toxin. It’s just reenacting the rejection reaction I experienced during my advancement on her! However, she’s not related by blood, nor does she have the strong healing and resistance that I do. So the damage and pain she’s enduring is ten times mine." Pei Jin said with a smile and continued: "And during the battle just now, I used the roulette gambling ability, with the wager’s outcome being that the loser cannot use damage transfer-type spells for the next three days. And I won! So, do you want me to let her go? Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Let her go! There’s no need to escalate this battle further. Let me handle this matter with the other side." After considering for a moment, Pei Yan nodded in response.

"As you wish!" Pei Jin understood that once Pei Yan made a decision, it was difficult to change. So she left the words and stood up, heading towards the Council City camp. Although the other side was aware she was coming to relieve Annie’s condition, they could not entirely conceal their hostility until Meilin waved his hand, leading them to make way for her. Pei Jin directly squatted beside Annie and placed her hand on her forehead.

With the activation of Pei Jin’s ability, the swelling on Annie quickly subsided, her rapid breathing eased, and after thoroughly eliminating the rejection reaction in her body, Pei Jin got up and silently returned to her camp.

"Is this over?" Looking at Annie, whose condition had slightly improved but was still coughing blood, Hecate questioned Pei Jin’s departing silhouette.

"I’ve already removed the body rejection that could have taken her life. Do you want me to also heal the consequences of the harm my ability caused her? Do you take our investigation hall for a charity?" Pei Jin stood firmly back in her camp and responded coldly and dismissively to the questioning.

Hecate couldn’t rebut the mockery, as long as the strange rejection toxin was removed. Seeing this, she looked up at Meilin, who sighed, crouched down again, placed his hand on Annie once more, and lamented: "The destiny-based magic was one of the exclusive spells for witches. Is there no one left in the current Witch Public Assistance Association who knows it?"

Upon hearing this, Hecate’s complexion reddened, and she muttered: "Since the fall of the Three Witches of Destiny, the power of this spell was retrieved by the Supreme Lord, and for a long, long time wasn’t bestowed upon anyone until a few hundred years ago. I had the fortune to learn one of the banned curses of this branch but am not proficient in detailed control. The Supreme Lord intended to cultivate another Destiny Witch and granted her the new name of Destiny Witch, but..." Hecate didn’t continue and instead cast her gaze towards Pei Yan. The new Destiny Witch was Moira, who had her identity exposed by Pei Yan and eventually imprisoned and fallen, becoming the biggest joke among the realms.

"All right! I’ve lifted the destiny spell on her; she should now be able to use the injury transfer spell. Let her transfer the injuries away now." After listening to Hecate’s explanation, Meilin was filled with countless emotions but didn’t want to delve deeper into this matter. So after finishing what needed to be done, he patted Hecate’s shoulder and advised her.

"Master Meilin! Can we begin now?" Pei Yan glanced over Annie, who had been healed of her injuries using the injury transfer and looked back at Meilin, asking with eyes full of reluctance and anger, forced to leave the battlefield and return to Council City in compliance with their promise.

"Just wait a little longer! I’m selecting two people to join this battle group before we can proceed with the prearranged battle." Meilin said, beckoning to the Round Table Knights beside him with a smile: "Old friends! Didn’t expect to see you again, though it’s not exactly a joyful occasion, I still feel sincerely delighted for this scene."

Saying this, Master Meilin opened his arms, and those revived Round Table Knights all set aside their pride and mutual frictions, stepping forward with smiles to embrace this long-separated friend one by one.

"I need your assistance for the upcoming battle! I need two people to join our combat group!" After hugging each of them, Meilin directly stated his request.

"Two people? Are you sure you only need two people?" Gerald frowned and inquired.