The two of them warmed up for a moment, and Ash noticed a pile of jewel-like knick-knakgets in front of her, and asked curiously, "What are these?"

"Here," Tilly patted her side, "I'll show you something interesting." ”

Ash sat down cross-legged next to her, and saw her wearing a white silk glove on her hand, with a sparkling ruby embedded in the back of her hand.

"It's ...... Tracking the Magic Stone?"

Tilly didn't answer, but smiled and reached out into the clearing, and suddenly, a bolt of lightning leaped from her fingertips and struck the ground with a crackling sound, followed by a puff of green smoke rising from the ground, leaving a palm-sized scorched black patch where it was hit.

Ash couldn't believe his eyes for a moment, "You...... Got a new ability?"

Tilly Wimbledon is a transcendent being, her magic is acting on herself, and she is manifested in her superior intelligence, which cannot be unleashed like a normal witch. And the electric light just now means that she has a new ability - and a witch can't have two main abilities at the same time, which is common knowledge that the sisters understand.

Tilly took off her gloves and handed them to Ash, "It's not that I have a new ability, it's this stone." "It's that changes the way magic works, making it look very different." ”

Ash rubbed the gem in the center of the glove, shocked in her heart, knowing that Tilly wouldn't lie to her - which meant that non-combat witches would be able to fight, and the witch community would be much more resistant to external enemies. "How many of these stones are there?"

"There's only one," Tilly seemed to guess Ash's thoughts, "and it's not that easy to use." You can try to imagine the magic as something that actually exists, fill it with stone, and release it. ”

Ash pondered for a long time, but no lightning appeared.

"Understood?" she laughed, "we are still transcendent, and we can sense magic in our own right, which is even more difficult for other witches, and it takes exhaustive imagination and understanding. In fact, I've asked a lot of people to test, and only two or three out of a hundred people can quickly comprehend and release lightning. ”

"Are you laughing at me for being stupid?" said Ash, taking his gloves off.

"Almost," Tilly raised an eyebrow, "I just used- hmm-"

Ash kissed her, causing her to moan a little...... After parting, the latter let out a long sigh, "Well, it's not too stupid. ”

"What about the other stones?" Ash licked his lips in disgust, only in front of the Five Princesses would he completely relax, "Could it be that they all have different abilities?"

"It's a different kind of performance," Tilly corrected, a blush still on her cheeks, "it doesn't make a normal person have witch-like abilities, only magic can inspire it." She paused, "That raises a question for me." ”

"What's the doubt?"

"What the hell is magic. Tilly explained word by word, "For a long time, witches have had a wide variety of abilities, exhibiting a high degree of uncertainty and varying under the perception of the transcendent. But this strange stone completely unifies the magic power, and any witch can release the exact same ability through it, so I may have thought in the wrong direction before, magic itself may be an omnipotent power, and the witch has only one of the manifestations. ”

"What about the magic stones?" Ash asked.

"You can only release it, but you can't gather mana. It's unclear if they're man-made or natural," Tilly said regretfully, "Legend has it that they've been excavated from the ruins, and most of them are now in the ordinary, and that's all I can collect...... I've heard that there's an ancient ruin in the eastern forest of Seabreeze County, and I'd like to take a look inside for myself, and maybe I'll find out more about magic and historical faults. ”

She was talking about things she didn't understand again, and Ash thought helplessly, as long as she could live, who cared what the situation was like more than four hundred years ago, "It's better not to, Seabreeze County is probably one of the most dangerous places in Gray Castle now." ”

"Why?"

"Before I set sail from the Waters Harbor, I had heard the sailors talk about the fact that Garcia Wimbledon's Blacksail Fleet had been fully dispatched, and that its destination seemed to be Seabreeze, which was Tifeco's territory, and she probably wanted to take advantage of the flexibility and concealment of the sea to strike directly at his rear camp. "I won't have a chance to leave the port until martial law is lifted, and if their information is accurate, I'm afraid that Seabreeze County will be in a sea of fire." ”

"Are they still fighting each other," Tilly looked a little worried, "if this continues, the church will only take advantage of it, and if it can't be united, the Grey Keep will be swallowed up by the church like Eternal Winter." ”

This sentence made Ash stunned, and the five princesses quickly noticed her strangeness, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she blinked, "you just looked a little like Roland Wimbledon, and he said the same thing to me. ”

"Oh, you actually met him?" Tilly became interested, "By the way, you didn't tell me anything about this trip to the West, tell me about it!"

"I heard the news that the Mutual Aid Society had gone to Frontier Town, and I should have told you about it," Ash took the other man into his arms, "only to find out there that the so-called search for the Holy Mountain was actually a hoax set up by Roland, who took over the Mutual Aid and secretly recruited witches......" She briefly recounted what she saw and heard the following week, "and finally he told me that we must unite to withstand the Church's attack, and if we couldn't stay in the fjord, he always welcomed us to Frontiertown." ”

"Hmm......" Tilly pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "This is not Roland Wimbleton, he has been replaced. ”

"Huh?"

"You say there's a lot of witches around him, right? I guess there's a witch controlling him, or just changing into his form. Tilly said bluntly, "I grew up with Roland, and I know this all too well - compared to the other two brothers and the third sister, he is not good at concealment, and when he lies, he is full of loopholes, and it is impossible to disguise himself as another person. As for the kind of weapon that you mentioned that can fight against the Divine Punishment Army, it proves this even more...... A man can hide his character, but he can't fake his knowledge, and the court mentor has never taught these things, how does he know that?" Tilly said bluntly, "There is no one in this world who can be born to know, so he must not be my stupid and annoying brother." ”

"Yes...... Is that so?" said Ash, frowning.

"That being said, I need to get in touch with them," Tilly sighed, "Roland Wimbledon is my brother after all, and although he is not incurable, he is not inherently incorrigible, and he is the most harmless one compared to the others. Hopefully, the witches of the Aid Society haven't buried him in the ground. ”

"I don't think they're going to do that. Ash couldn't help but think of Wendy, "And I've left Maisie over there, and she'll bring us more news of the town by the end of the month." ”

"That's all there is to it, after all, our focus is not here," the Fifth Princesses rose from her arms, walked to the garden, and spread her arms, "Now that you're back, the cleaning plan can begin." I want to make sure that there is no trace of the Church on the fjords, and that eventually the fjord islands will be turned into a place for witches. ”

The sun shone down on Tilly from behind, like gilding her silhouette. Her long gray hair caressed her cheeks like light gold threads, and her expression was full of confidence, as if no difficulty could knock her down.

"I will serve you, my Queen. Ash smiled. (To be continued.) )