I am a witch, I must suppress all enemies

The little girl stopped crying immediately, her eyes filled with fear. Fate said angrily, "Don't scare me!"

Claire curled her lips and went to clean up the zombies, leaving the two of them to continue comforting the little girl.

As expected, the crying of the little girl attracted many zombies, but they were all transformed villagers. Claire took care of them all without much effort.

"Hey, what's going on? I've eliminated all the ghouls in this place."

Claire rubbed her fists. It had been a long time since she had fought so many monsters. She almost got into trouble.

"Her name is Amy, and last week a ghoul suddenly appeared in the village and bit everyone. That's it."

Claire shrugged. "Well, I'm used to it. It would be strange if there weren't any such things."

But they still couldn't accept such a cruel scene.

"That's too much. Who created these corpses? I will never forgive them!" Nanoha said hatefully.

She didn't notice Fate's face turning very sad.

But no one would find it strange no matter what kind of emotions appear in this kind of scene.

"We can't carry this baggage with us. We don't know what will happen on the way to the Divine Realm," Claire said.

After hearing Claire's cold words, Nanoha said angrily, "How could you have such an idea? We can't just stand by and watch someone die."

"I meant to get her to safety."

"A safe place? Where in the world is there a safe place? You're just leaving her to her own devices."

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, both of you." Fate interrupted them.

"I'll take care of this child."

"Okay, okay, Miss Fate is a gentle person."

Claire shrugged.

Cold-blooded?

She said self-deprecatingly.

Speaking of which, she did find that her personality had changed a lot. When did this change begin?

Is it because you have reached a certain level through practice that you have changed?

People will always change.

Just like this world, it is nothing surprising if there is change, but it would be surprising if there is no change.

Come to think of it, when Hemer tried to destroy the world, he didn't feel anything.

I even had a fleeting thought: What he does has nothing to do with me...

I had planned to catch the mastermind behind this just for fun.

As a result, he was severely punished.

Haven’t I really found my own way?

After thinking about it, Claire didn't feel that she had done anything wrong, so she immediately put the matter behind her.

After searching around, they only found some gold coins and black bread.

"Claire, this is wrong!" Nanoha said to her in a teacher's tone.

"Hey, hey, hey, they're all dead anyway, so it's okay if I grab some things, right?"

Nanoha said seriously, "According to the trespassing regulations, if you find something, you must return it to the original owner. Even if the original owner dies, it should be inherited by the family!"

"What about the family that died?"

“Then leave it to the state.”

"Uh, Miss Nanoha, have you forgotten that this is not Cattleya?"

Nanoha's face flushed as she argued, "No matter where you are, the law is universal!"

Claire sighed, it was rare to find such a serious person these days.

However, someone like her who adheres to certain beliefs may not be suitable for learning real magic.

True magic must first deny one's own beliefs, otherwise there is no way to move the soul.

Dismiss your previous everyday beliefs.

This is actually a subjective idea of the self, but this subjectivity is reflected in the process of understanding the outside world.

Secular beliefs have occupied people's minds since the beginning of the world, but the world they created is not the only world.

Because things beyond people's ordinary understanding always appear suddenly, magic gives people a more open and free world.

In this world, God is not "God", at least not the supreme and omnipotent God in the hearts of believers.

But someone worthy of suspicion.

In a certain era, the Primordial God was regarded by magicians as the greatest villain in history because she destroyed the previous era and monopolized the beginning of history of the next era.

Claire naturally wouldn't tell Nanoha and the others these things.

They cannot understand the magician's spirit.

Claire would think of Nanoha's serious expression: Does a magician's freedom mean ignoring the suffering of others and allowing the entire world to become monsters?

"One day, I will save this world." Nanoha said seriously.

Well, she is more like a saint than Arya.

However, Arya's holy light is essentially just to purify her own soul. As for saving the world? What does it have to do with the Paladin?

Look, Argonne did nothing but being the emperor.

"Oh, you have such great ambitions. Young people won't repent unless they get hurt."

At this time, several people took advantage of the night and walked along the path. The detection magic allowed them to avoid most of the ordinary zombies.

"You are younger than me, right?" Nanoha used her staff to clear away the weeds that blocked her path.

"Although I am young, I only want one thing in my heart, and that is to become strong and gain freedom."

Nanoha smiled and said, "According to the story you told me when we first met, didn't your philosophy fail others?"

Claire was furious. "That's a realm crush. If he and I were at the same realm, the outcome would be uncertain."

Nanoha said, "Don't think I don't know anything about you magicians. I read the storybooks of your country when I was a child."

"Every book is eerily similar: fight monsters, level up, marry a princess, become the strongest, forever the strongest."

"The story of our country is the story of ordinary people. Even if they gain power for a while, they will eventually give up all their power and live the same life as other ordinary people because they choose to live an ordinary life."

"The thing that impressed me most was a book in our country. It was about an ordinary person who gained strange abilities and could easily kill an army of 100,000. But in the end, he was beaten up by a street thug."

Claire sarcastically said, "You guys can come up with such a frustrating plot? Aren't you afraid of getting razor blades from readers?"

Nanoha shook her head and said, "People in our country don't care much about strength. Even people at SSS level have to abide by worldly rules. So strength is not the only path to happiness."

"It's a pity that the predators won't let you go just because you have a noble character," Claire retorted.

"I've read your history. Your country is extremely, uh, involuted, right? You have relatively few resources per capita. If you don't fight for them, you'll be trampled underfoot."

"In other words, you magicians simply want to gain power. On the one hand, you want to be superior to others, and on the other hand, you want to be free from all suffering and transcend this cycle of reincarnation. So your freedom is nothing more than the latter. Am I correct?"