Release that Witch - Chapter 1294

Chapter 1294






She slept in the sea when she got tired and resumed her trip after she woke up . When she was thirsty, she drank rain water and ate fish when hungry .

Joan did not know how long she had to live like this .

At first, she had been trying to track time . However, after she had missed one or two days, she gradually lost the track of time and finally gave up . She had no idea how long she had been swimming aimlessly in the ocean . Perhaps, it had been more than half a year now .

Joan almost burst into tears at this thought . In fact, she had cried numerous times, but her tears merged with the seawater and became a part of the ocean .

She was so tired .

So tired indeed .

Even when she was asleep, she could not totally relax on the surface of the water, otherwise ospreys and other animals would come to eat her . Even if they could not gulf her down, their pecks were sharp and painful . Also, she could be seen by Sea Ghosts and those ship-like monsters .

Joan had actually encountered them many times during the past few months .

Every time she had been scared to death .

Fortunately, she had always managed to shake them off, despite that sometimes she got additional wounds during the escape .

There were many cuts in her beautiful scales that His Majesty spoke highly of . The skin exposed in the air turned white . As she had been in the water for so long, some wounds started to decay . What was worse, some parastic worms had found her as their new host and nested in her wounds . It was excruciatingly painful to pull them off the body .





Now, her body, which had never been pretty, became even uglier .

She missed the soft bed in Neverwinter and Wendy's arms .

She also missed the peaceful life there .

Although there were a lot of fishes in the ocean, she had to eat them raw . She used to do that all the time, but now, she somehow could not get used to the fishy smell lingering between her lips .

She wanted to eat the barbeque chicken wings made by Lightning .

Then Joan again cried . She kept swimming as her tears trickled down .

How long did she have to swim before she returned where she came from?

She swam much faster than most fishes .

She was even faster than His Majesty's "Snow Wind" .

The time she spent in the water could allow her to have five round-trips from Neverwinter to the Shadow Islands . However, why could she still not see her destination?

His Majesty said that Earth was round . Could he have lied to her?

If His Majesty had indeed lied, she would swipe his face with her scales if she got such a chance in the future!





But she had to first get to Neverwinter . . .

Joan took a deep breath and encouraged herself . She reminded herself that she must not give up and must return to her friends!

Joan began to produce a series of "Ya" sounds over the sea .

A moment later, she heard her echoes, "Ya, ya . "

A little shocked, she traced the echoes . It was a gloomy day today . A thin veil of mist permeated the surface of the ocean, and she could only see things within a few kilometers, just like the Shadow Islands when water went down . Since there was nothing at the front, Joan swam in that direction for another half an hour or so and finally spied something black loom against the mist .

It looked like . . . a rock on the surface of the water .

Joan's face lit up .

She knew that many tiny little things on the ocean were actually huge . Like the rock floating in the water, it must be enormous as well . Since it reflected off sounds, it could be a giant mountain . If there was a mountain, there should be lands .

Was it a part of the Impassable Mountain Range?

Joan suddenly had a lot of strength . She picked up her speed and swam as fast as she could toward the black silhouette . Water splashed all over her .

As she got closer, she saw the black "rock" more clearly .





It was indeed a mountain, but at the foot of the mountain was not the port of the Western Region but a flat island . The rear of the island was connected to a vast land . Since the land was so far away, she could not see it clearly .

But anyway, this was a land, which was better than nothing .

Joan pulled herself together and stepped onto the beach .

It was not until then that she noticed that this island was probably even larger than the biggest Searing Flame Island at the Fjords . Except for that verdant mountain, it was as flat as a pancake .

In fact, the island was actually a meadow .

Unlike the deserted islands she knew, this island seemed to be protected from the erosion of wet sea breezes and harsh weather . Grass grew underneath her feet, and occasionally, there were a few flowers . Joan did not understand why a secluded island like this, which could be easily destroyed by a seaquake, could be so vibrant and full of life . As the island was surrounded by the mist, it gave her a feeling that she was on a fairyland .

Joan turned her flipper into legs and walked slowly toward the center of the island .

Gradually, she saw some stone tablets . At first, she paid no notice to them, but later on, she found these tablets, although different in size, were neatly laid out .

The closer she was to the center of the island, the more tablets she saw . In the end, the tablets formed various circles that became denser and denser, as though they were encircling something .

She somehow had seen a similar scene before . . .

Joan crouched down at one tablet and studied it carefully . There were patterns on it, but she was not sure whether they were arbitrary patterns or some unidentifiable and indecipherable messages . To Joan's surprise, these stones looked quite old, but they were not dusty at all as if someone was cleaning them on a regular basis .

Was someone living on this island?

After walking for another few minutes, Joan was suddenly frozen to the ground .

In front of her lay an immense pit, whose diameters might be several kilometers . The pit was not only fathomless, but its mouth was smooth as well . Apparently, the pit was not caused by the collapse of the ground . The tablets encircled the pit and formed rings of "ripples" .

Joan dimly thought of something . She stared up at the sky and saw the Bloody Moon peep through the hazy mist . For some reason, she felt that the Bloody Moon in the sky would fit perfectly in the pit on the ground . They looked almost identical . She even had a strange idea that the Bloody Moon would probably fill up the hole if it fell off .

"Hello . " Just then, a beautiful voice came from behind and startled her .

"Ya — " Joan screamed and stepped a few paces back before she slumped against a tablet .

The owner of the voice seemed to be frightened too, for she was silent for a while before she asked tentatively, "Well . . . are you alright?"

Joan then discovered that it was actually a very pretty young woman . She was wearing a white dress, two strands of black hair cascading to her chest . Her graceful act of demeanor really impressed Joan . The woman looked a little confused as well . For a moment, she was not sure whether she should come forward to comfort Joan or keep observing her .

"Ya, ya . "

Joan wanted to ask who she was, but she could only produce some inarticulate sounds . As she had not talked to anyone over the past half a year, she again lost her communication ability .

Incredibly, however, the woman understood Joan . A little sorrowful, she replied with a smile .

"Me? I'm just a guardian who's trapped in here . "

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