Hero? Are You Worthy?
Chapter 569 - 408 The Disappearing Witch (2)

Chapter 569: Chapter 408 The Disappearing Witch (2)

Upon hearing Silf’s words, Rose Vesper immediately confirmed that Silf was the one who had betrayed their former Hero Team.

Both Asina and Catherine had also been trying to get in touch with her, and after making contact, they both had a lot to say.

However, only Silf... Only she attempted to find out her current location.

Even Catherine, the woman with the thick skin, knew not to ask about her current location. How could Silf not know?

She wanted to know where she was. What was she preparing to do?

Bring Qin Chu over to kill her off for good?

On the other side of the Message Magic, Silf seemed to always be trying to get Rose Vesper to speak. Although she talked about some of the current situations in the Imperial City, it would ultimately, inexplicably, shift to trying to get Rose Vesper to disclose her location.

It looked like Silf was extremely fed up with staying by Qin Chu’s side and was so eager to leave the Imperial City to live with her former teammates.

"By the way, did Catherine and Asina contact you?"

"Don’t trust them at all. These two women seem to have betrayed us, betrayed Lord Jie Luo. It looks like they have told Qin Chu all of our plans."

Rose Vesper’s expression grew colder and colder.

Catherine and Asina just felt that something was off about Silf, but they didn’t dare to confirm that Silf had betrayed their former teammates. Catherine, that fool, even thought it was a good thing.

But in Silf’s mouth, Catherine and Asina had directly become traitors.

Comparing the two, Rose Vesper felt more and more that Catherine and Asina were trustworthy, and that stupid Elf probably didn’t realize that her words would have the opposite effect, right?

Could it be that Silf had not considered, if Catherine and Asina had truly betrayed and informed Qin Chu of all the plans, would this Elf still have a chance to contact her? Wouldn’t she have been caught or even killed by Qin Chu already?

After all, their plan was to take Qin Chu’s life.

Nevertheless, it seemed that although Silf had betrayed her, she hadn’t told Qin Chu all the plans of the former Hero Team. After all, Silf was also a part of those plans, and letting Qin Chu know too much would not be in Silf’s interest.

Otherwise, Catherine and Asina would have been controlled by Qin Chu already, or even killed, and would not have been able to make contact with her.

Of course, this situation might not last very long, and the predicament of Catherine and Asina was also very delicate.

Rose Vesper didn’t care about the life and death of these two women, but she was very interested in Jie Luo’s Soul Fragment in Asina.

Rose Vesper felt that she finally understood the whole truth.

The traitor in the former Hero Team was Silf.

For the time being, Asina and Catherine were trustworthy.

Rather, in Rose Vesper’s mind, the fact that Silf was the traitor was not at all surprising; it was the most likely occurrence. After all, Silf was initially betrayed by the sisters Aileen and Aili, and left in Luo Meng’s territory, being chased by a large number of demons. It was Qin Chu who suddenly appeared and rescued Silf.

The discontent Silf felt towards the Hero Team and her gratitude towards Qin Chu was only too normal.

Moreover, during her previous interactions with her, she could feel the differences between Silf, Asina, and Catherine. This proud Elf would occasionally show her dissatisfaction with her, sometimes even overtly ignoring her commands or talking back directly.

Perhaps at that time, Silf had already betrayed them.

This damned slut, shameless thing, dirty trash.

Listening to Silf’s voice in her ears, Rose Vesper didn’t even have the heart to listen carefully to what Silf was saying. She was just cursing continuously, completely forgetting that she had planned to eliminate Silf, Asina, and Catherine the day before Lord Jie Luo was to be resurrected. By then, she would be the only one left by Lord Jie Luo’s side...

Maybe she really needed to start taking action. Of course, Rose Vesper would not personally go to retrieve the items left by Asina; perhaps it would be quite perfect for the job to be done by Aili.

This woman who had already died was a very useful puppet.

...

Meanwhile, inside the palace, Silf stretched her body, her lovely and well-proportioned figure showing off tight curves.

So annoying.

Finally, her communication with Rose Vesper had ended.

Although Rose Vesper didn’t say a word the entire time, Silf still felt the urge to vomit.

"By the way, why in the end am I the mole, the bad guy, why is it all me, eh?" Silf suddenly thought of a question and asked out of the blue.

Are you only thinking of this now?

Asina was somewhat speechless about Silf’s slow response, and just smiled slightly, "Would you like to continue contact with Rose Vesper, playing the role of her good sister?"

"I might as well continue to play the role of the mole then," Silf said with a shrug, answering very decisively.

"Speaking of which, can this really deceive Rose Vesper?" Catherine also felt somewhat uneasy.

"While master’s plan is not perfect, it very accurately pinpoints Rose Vesper’s Achilles’ heel. As long as these Soul Fragments remain in our hands, Rose Vesper has no other choice," Asina said with a smile.

"Of course, Rose Vesper certainly won’t show up in person for the first transaction. She might employ some means, such as hiring mercenaries, to collect the items I’ve left behind on her behalf."

"And once Rose Vesper gets her hands on Jie Luo’s two Soul Fragments, her trust in us will significantly increase. It won’t take many more times before this woman will show up before us on her own accord, and that will be the time of her demise."

"I believe that this time, master definitely won’t give Rose Vesper the chance to slip away again."

After a brief pause, Asina clapped her hands, "Alright everyone, let’s put the matter of Rose Vesper aside for the moment."

"It’s not something particularly important that deserves all our energy. Don’t forget that master has also arranged other tasks for us."

Based on Augustus’s notes, Qin Chu deduced the approximate location of the remaining two Soul Fragments of Jie Luo.

The task of finding these two Soul Fragments naturally fell upon the former members of the Hero Team, to be precise, Silf and Asina.

Catherine, as before, would continue to stay by Qin Chu’s side as his guard.

...

Meanwhile, Qin Chu was still in his bedroom studying Augustus’s notes.

Augustus could almost be said to have spent most of the time after turning thirty on how to combat the Gods—a matter which is not at all easy; even the old Pope was very clear that the hopes are slim.

But hatred has already taken root in Augustus’s soul.

It had become the force that sustained his progress, even his very survival.

He researched all sorts of possibilities:

Praying to the Holy Light Goddess, accusing the Evil God of his crimes;

Desperately enhancing his own strength, reaching a level where he could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Gods.

Seeking forces outside the world, in other words, the Hero, to fight against the Gods.

Absorbing the Strength of the Divine’s Right Leg, using the Evil God’s Blood to replace his own blood, thereby allowing himself to possess the characteristics of a God under certain conditions...

Indeed, Augustus’s notes recorded a massive right leg, like a mountain, and Qin Chu did not doubt at all that this right leg and the heart within his body belonged to a set.

Although absorbing the power of an Evil God was filled with unpredictable dangers, driven by the hatred in his heart, Augustus still made multiple attempts.

Excessive overdraw and the forceful elevation of his own strength rendered Augustus incomparably powerful, but his Life Force had nearly been exhausted, and his soul was also worn out.

In Augustus’s estimation, even without the conflict with Rose Vesper, he would not live for another decade.

His lifespan was significantly reduced compared to other masters of this caliber.

Beyond that, Augustus had even tried to make use of the Witch’s power.

Indeed, those Witches who had nearly all gone mad.

The Witches’ nearly infinite lifespan and formidable strength made Augustus very curious, and he even thought of capturing one to study closely.

However, that was not an easy task.

Even someone of Augustus’s strength found it difficult to do so.

He had encountered the Space Witch and, after a fierce battle, she directly tore space apart, disappearing without a trace, and Augustus had no way to keep the woman behind.

He met the Sloth Witch at sea, but she seemed too lazy to fight him and dived into the sea mist, never to come out again.

The Holy Light Goddess had once given proverbs: Witches.

Qin Chu felt that these might be key to unleashing the Holy Light Goddess and opposing the Void Seven Evil Gods.

But the Sloth Witch actually burrowed into the sea mist, which made Qin Chu somewhat irritable. To find traces of the Sloth Witch on the vast sea or in the fog-covered surface was by no means an easy task. God knows how long it would take, and he might never find her.

If the lack of the Sloth Witch’s Authority led to ultimate failure, wouldn’t that be too tragic?

Afterward, since Augustus became aware of the existence of the Divine’s Right Leg, he went to study the leg and temporarily stopped entangling with the Witches. But he still recorded in detail some regions where he knew Witches were likely active.

This was an important piece of intelligence which might prove useful in the future.

After reading through all of Augustus’s notes carefully, Qin Chu finally lifted his head, rubbed his somewhat haggard forehead, casually picked up a coat from the clothes-rack to drape over himself, and left the palace.

Before he could completely take control of the Holy Court, Qin Chu still had some matters to instruct Church Venerate Saint Monica of the Earth Mother Goddess Sect about.