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As she spoke, Sophia turned around with a smile on her face. At the same time, the sound of several footsteps appeared at the door, accompanied by the sound of talking.

"It seems to be confirmed. Her confession has been almost completely consistent fourteen times in a row. It's difficult to falsify it."

"So, she probably wasn't involved in the attack?"

"That's what I think, but she seems to be planning to take Lady Faris's friend away... I don't know whether to call her courageous or foolish."

"It's better to say less about this kind of thing..."

"Lady Faris, this is the fourteenth time. Do you want to continue?"

Grace stared blankly at the door. The blonde nun stood there holding a silver staff, looking at her calmly. Other people's voices could be heard outside the door. Grace could not quite understand what they were saying, but the moment she saw Elsa, she felt all the hairs on her body stand up.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the cell seemed to freeze.

"Aunt Sophia, your acting is really good."

Elsa said with a smile, Sophia still stood there but with her back to Grace.

"Elsa, you're praising me too much..."

Grace was stunned again.

What? Aunt Sophia...?

Elsa? ——Elsa Faris's Elsa? Grace showed a look of surprise and enlightenment. So, those rumors about Elsa Faris were actually true?

It was too late to look back and regret now - although Grace still didn't believe that anyone could do such a terrible thing as flattening a mountain, in her opinion, the strength of the nun in front of her was far beyond the most powerful warrior she had seen in Helansis Butana.

So... does the Queen really intend to fight against such an empire? No, the nun's words cannot be considered as imperial, but is there any difference?

"You... No, you! Stay away from Sophia!"

Grace made a sound from her throat, speaking through gritted teeth—she didn't even know where she got the courage from.

"Grace, you're being so rude...Elsa is helping you."

Grace snorted coldly, "Help me? I didn't ask her for help!"

"I asked her to do that," Sophia said.

Grace was speechless for a moment.

Sophia then turned around, the smile on her face replaced by a faint apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry, Grace. This is just to get you to tell the truth... I had to resort to some necessary means."

"Necessary...means?"

Grace gradually had a bad feeling.

"What have you done to me!?"

"You did what you did to those 'unlucky guys'." Aisha said, her eyes fell on Grace, and Grace immediately felt a mountain of pressure. She unconsciously shrank back, and the chains made a sound.

She twisted her lips: "You mean... hypnosis?"

Elsa answered her with her actions, and the silver staff emitted a faint light.

"Hypnosis lifted..."

Then, all at once, Grace remembered.

——Fourteen times. Ever since Sophia entered the cell, everything had been repeated fourteen times, each time with different people, different scenes, and the same questions.

However, after each session, Elsa would use the silver wand to hypnotize her, and she would forget everything, fall asleep again, wake up again, and enter the next cycle.

Grace was stunned, staring at Elsa blankly as if overwhelmed by too many memories that suddenly flooded into her head.

So, this unreasonably powerful guy is actually a terrifying mental magician?

Otherwise, with Grace's mental strength, is there really someone in this world who can hypnotize her? No, perhaps there are, but they are definitely very, very rare, and even fewer can achieve an almost complete brainwashing effect.

——Because this type of mental magic has extremely high requirements for the mental strength of the caster. If the mental strength is not much higher than that of the person being cast, the effect of the magic will certainly be greatly reduced, and may even backfire.

But Elsa had completely wiped out her consciousness thirteen times in a row? And as a witch who had practiced Abyssal Magic mind control, she had no power to resist at all?

What a terrifying mental strength.

Grace swallowed subconsciously when she thought of this - in other words, a mental magician of this level could theoretically rewrite her memory directly. Of course, that was not easy, because permanent hypnosis such as memory modification and short-term hypnosis such as mind control and suggestion were completely two different concepts, and the operating methods were also very different.

But... it's still scary.

Grace even wondered if something had been done to her.

"Well, now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, you are free."

Elsa said, Sophia smiled gratefully, then came to Grace, squatted down, and removed the shackles from Grace's hands.

Grace was still a little dazed.

"Of course, even if you're not the necromancer, you're a user of Abyssal magic. I'm going to escort you to the church. I advise you not to try anything tricky."

After saying that, he took Grace out.

Grace was confused the whole time.

Then she was transferred to the church and began to undergo the ritual of dispelling the abyss - here she was still locked in a room, but here she met Vivian, who did not recognize her. She had to perform the ritual of dispelling the abyss every day, and occasionally met with Sophia and chatted, but she had never seen Elsa once, because it was said that Elsa left the city and went to the north.

Grace didn't know why, but she felt very strange, but she couldn't tell what was strange.

Until one day she woke up from her dream, only to find herself in a dark and damp cell, with Elsa and Sophia still standing in front of her, the silver staff in Elsa's hand emitting a faint light.

"you're awake?"

Elsa smiled at her.

"How does the fifteenth hypnosis session feel?"

Grace's eyes widened.

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226. Get along well (3K)

The Silver Staff was a staff that Elsa bought from the guild.

The staff was unremarkable, but the more useful part was the hypnosis magic engraved on it. This was not the first time Elsa had used it. She had tried it out on the bandit Sambu a while ago and found that it actually had many uses - anyway, it was quite different from the mental magic that Elsa knew.

The mental magic that Elsa knew was something that could only be done by magicians with extremely high mental strength and superb attainments in mental magic. If one wanted to hypnotize or tamper with a person's consciousness, the first thing to do was that the caster must crush the person in terms of mental strength and control, and master advanced mental manipulation techniques.

So when Elsa first proposed to use hypnosis magic to hypnotize Grace, Sophia raised objections.

Mental magic has a lot of disadvantages. If the spell fails, it can easily cause backlash. If you are not careful, you will suffer mental trauma and it will take a long time to recover. Grace is a user of abyss magic and mental magic. Her mental power cannot be underestimated. The number of people in the entire empire who can surpass her in mental power can probably be counted on one hand, not to mention deep hypnosis.

Sophia said this.

She was worried that Elsa would fail in her spell and suffer backlash from her mental magic.

But the result was far beyond her expectations - even though Elsa only had 2 points of energy, she still hypnotized Grace easily.

It seems that having 2 points of spirit is already very impressive in this world?

Or is it that this "spirit" is not that "spirit"?

Elsa is more inclined to the latter, otherwise many things would be completely unreasonable - as for the "spirit" that Sophia mentioned, Elsa reasonably guessed that it should be regarded as a measurement method in this world, which can be linked to soul magic to some extent.

In this regard, Elsa might actually be even more powerful than Tricia. After all, both she and Tricia can ignore the mental attacks of the big-eyed tumorous polluter, but the polluters who attacked Elsa and Tricia had different fates.

Maybe? Perhaps there are differences between individuals, and Elsa couldn't be sure that she could compare with Tricia in terms of spirituality, so such a comparison was meaningless.

At this time, in a special prison designed to imprison witches, Grace looked at Elsa in a trance, then at Sophia.

For a moment she couldn't tell whether she was still in the illusion woven by hypnosis.

"If you consider Madam Sophia your friend, why do you want to take Vivian away?"

Elsa lowered her voice and questioned. Grace's eyes lost focus. She moved the corners of her mouth and glanced at Sophia, who stood aside, staring at her silently.

"Do you think a daughter who lost her mother will become happy because of this?"

Elsa wasn't waiting for an answer, it was just part of the "small talk" - Elsa never liked to convince others, it was boring and most of the time it would be fruitless.

Now that Grace had been captured and Elsa was watching, Vivian's safety wouldn't be a problem. In contrast, Elsa was more curious about the person behind Grace—Herlane Islina, the queen of the vassal state of Helansis Butana.

"That Helanie Islina, how did she know Vivian? Did you two know each other before?"

Elsa showed no courtesy or respect to the queen she had never met and who coveted her lover and her lover's mother. She called her by her name.

"Grace, can you give me an explanation?"

"I... was just following orders..."

"Heh, Aunt Sophia always tells me how independent and responsible you used to be, but to be honest, you give me the same feeling as those goblins in the forest."

Aisha said sarcastically, and Grace pursed her lips and said nothing.

"That's all for today. I have other things to do. I'll ask you about the rest later. Cherish the time you still have to rest, Witch of Ashes."

Elsa pronounced the last few syllables very clearly, and her cold eyes looked like a devil to Grace. Then Elsa turned around and tried to leave the damp and dark room.

"Am I 'awake'?"

Grace subconsciously asked, but Elsa just chuckled with her back to her.

"This isn't your concern, Witch of Ashes. Whether you're in a fantasy or not, your situation remains unchanged. As I said, I advise you not to try to be cunning. It's pointless."

Grace pursed her lips and stopped talking.

Yes, whether it was an illusion or not, what difference did it make to her now? If it was, so what? If it wasn't, so what?

Taking a step back, was the fifteen times Elsa mentioned really fifteen times?

"Aunt Sophia, let's go."

Elsa walked away without looking back, and Sophia hesitated for a few steps and turned around. Although she couldn't see, she still faced her former best friend and shook her head with a complicated expression.

"——Grace, I'll come over tomorrow."

After Sophia said this, she followed Elsa away.

Grace looked at Sophia's back in a trance, watching the iron door of the prison close again with a teeth-grinding sound, and the room was once again filled with extreme darkness.

This was the second time Grace had felt such a suffocating sense of powerlessness since becoming a witch and gaining great power.

The last time was when the Witch Society was destroyed.

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"If you hypnotize her too many times, her spirit will be the first to collapse—even if she is a witch."

Sofia said and Elsa just nodded.

She didn't know much about mental magic, but it was common sense. She also understood that forcibly concealing memories, tampering with cognition, and deep hypnosis were all magics that consumed a lot of mental power. They not only consumed Elsa's own mental power, but also the mental power of the person being cast.

Elsa actually didn't feel anything special. She could perform the magic spells hundreds or thousands of times without getting tired, but Grace was a little overwhelmed.

"Aunt Sophia, what do you think..."

"Or...Elsa, you should just call me Sophia..."

Sophia spoke first - although Elsa was Vivian's age and had a prominent status, it would be fine if she was called "Mrs. Trawins", but Elsa seemed to intend to call her aunt, which made Sophia a little embarrassed.

Elsa didn't seem to mind this and casually called out, "Well, Sophia—is this okay?"

"Well...okay..."

Sophia was embarrassed - in fact, it was still very strange. It was hard to say why it was strange, it was just very strange. After all, Elsa was Vivian's friend and Vivian's sweetheart.

However, Aisha didn't pay much attention and continued:

"Sophia, how much do you know about Queen Ithrina and her kingdom?"

"Helensis Butanna?... Sorry, I've never been there, and I don't know much about the Queen. I just know that Helensis Butanna is a kingdom ruled and governed by demihumans. It was formerly a northern autonomous region of the Empire, carved out as a reward for demihumans who made outstanding contributions during the Demon King War, and eventually grew to its current size."

"where is it?"

"East of the North, north of the mountains of the Empire's North Ridge."

Sophia said that although she was blind, her knowledge was not low at all.

Elsa shook her head.

"That's even stranger. I don't think Queen Islina would set her sights on the heart of the Western Province, which spans half the empire, for no apparent reason."