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Malrik pursued the witch all the way to the edge of the demonic abyss cliff in the Western Region.

His long spear pierced through the witch’s heart, but he was in turn caught as she opened her arms and tightly embraced him.

That night, the human general and the evil cult witch fell together into the bottomless abyss of the cliff, locked in an embrace.

Deep in the demonic abyss, Malrik successfully took revenge and killed the witch, but he was also left alone in endless darkness...

The game didn’t describe what Malrik experienced in the demonic abyss.

But when the demonic tide from a hundred years ago receded, several months later, a stunningly beautiful girl wrapped in black cloth appeared outside Western Province City, dragging her exhausted body back alone.

She was discovered to be a witch and was captured by the city garrison and thrown into the dungeon, but the girl insisted that she was the great General Malrik.

Later, the story spread throughout Western Province City, even alarming the old Dragon Emperor of the Great Dragon Dynasty.

Malrik was released from prison, summoned back to the dragon palace for an audience, and even awarded the honorary title of "Night Watch General."

But despite carrying the honors of a lifetime of military service, when Malrik returned to the village of her hometown on the outskirts of Western Province City, she still became a symbol of evil that the villagers fearfully avoided.

Children on the street were frightened to tears by her, no longer looking at her with admiration and calling her "Brother General"...

Those elderly women hurriedly took their children back indoors, and even when apologizing to Malrik, their voices trembled, their brows unable to hide the psychological shadow of the witch’s appearance and aura.

Malrik could not find a home in her hometown.

She returned to Western Province City, only to discover that the soldiers who had once fought alongside her had gradually grown estranged from Malrik after her transformation into a witch.

She thought that she had only changed gender and could still drink and chat freely with her former comrades.

But somehow...

Everyone looked at her with strange eyes.

She seemed unable to reintegrate into the military life of Western Province City.

Malrik recalled the illusory whispers she had heard in the demonic abyss—"Moxin, Mother Goddess bestows upon you the title of [Fallen]. From now on, you will replace the [Cursed] Witch’s position and become the symbol of [Fallen] for the Witch Tea Party."

Come to think of it... This was truly a mockery of fate.

Since the Cursed Witch died early, Yino didn’t know exactly what curse the [Cursed] Witch bore in the game, but he knew that the Cursed Witch definitely gave Malrik a curse that would make her regret for life before she died.

And the title of [Fallen] seemed to have foretold Malrik’s mission for the rest of her life from a hundred years ago.

It was truly lamentable.

Yino didn’t know what psychological journey Malrik experienced afterward.

But when the Fallen Witch first appeared before players a hundred years later, she had already transformed into this killing-addicted lunatic.

Over the years, she had killed countless righteous cultivators.

After becoming a witch, Moxin’s killing record had definitely surpassed the glorious military achievements that the Night Watch General had established for the Great Dragon Dynasty in her previous life.

So at this point, Yino, as a latecomer, naturally had no psychological burden in taking advantage of a Fallen Witch already covered in sins.

Precisely because he knew Moxin’s past and present lives, he repeatedly stimulated her by exploiting her most taboo weakness.

As a witch, she would envy the righteous life of the chosen one described by Yino.

And as the former Night Watch General, she would also be triggered by Yino’s mockery calling her a little trap witch.

Yino had already figured out her psychology.

Now, provoking Moxin into a third-stage rampage was exactly according to Yino’s plan—he needed absolute chaos to escape, because Liuli was still being hunted by Yuyan in the northwestern city.

And now, Moxin was both the most suitable leek to harvest for cultivation and the most appropriate person to provoke and create chaos.

Just like now.

Moxin, who had blackened into the third stage, coupled with the demonic abyss buff, would completely lose rationality, with her cultivation level surging as she became a monster consumed by hatred.

So, the moment Moxin went berserk, Yino immediately grabbed Jinyue and Nina and fled back to Western Province City.

He needed to escape back to Western Province City and let Yunmei block Moxin’s peak hatred and fury for him.

However... Yino also knew that with Yunmei’s current cultivation level, Western Province City’s protective barrier probably couldn’t truly withstand the third-stage Fallen Witch.

Therefore. The moment the demonic tide breached the city barrier—

"This is bad! At this rate, the barrier won’t hold!"

"Everyone, stop wasting time! Quickly return to the city! The next wave of the demonic tide is about to hit!!!"

At the front line of the barrier outside Western Province City, Yunmei maintained the barrier with both hands, struggling to hold on while shouting a warning to everyone.

As her voice fell, the many cultivators following the Holy Maiden received the retreat order and were immediately frightened into swarming back into the city.

At the side of the surging crowd, Yino leaned against the city wall, his gaze unhurriedly looking up.

He saw the Fallen Witch blocked outside the barrier, tirelessly swinging her scythe to vent her fury.

He saw that before Yunmei, the city’s defensive barrier, as vast as the sky, had already been cleaved into cracks by the witch’s scythe.

In the third volume of the game, the Fallen Witch was at most in the second stage.

And in the middle and later parts of the game, when Western Province City fell, it was precisely due to the Fallen Witch entering the third stage.

So, Yino knew that if the Fallen Witch entered the third stage, there was no way Yunmei alone could protect Western Province City’s barrier today.

However... Yino didn’t care about these things anymore.

He had already made full use of Nina’s power.