The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 10

Erlos thought that they would visit another village or a nearby town to continue investigating about the origins of the human girl, but Draven was already heading back towards the burned mountain.

“Sire, are we returning so soon? Don’t we need to get more information about that human girl? Shouldn’t we confirm if she is really the princess—”

“Does it matter?”

Erlos paused. Now that he thought about it, regardless of the human girl’s real identity, as far as everyone was concerned, she is dead. Digging up her part did sound like a useless waste of time.

Soon, they returned to the soot-covered mountain, and Draven walked towards the part of the mountain where he remembered he found that female.

Seeing his master deep in thought, Erlos found himself secretly amused. They were back to the same place where they teleported in, but instead of returning to the palace, his king was wandering in the area, seemingly looking around for something.

‘He said she doesn’t concern us then why are we back here? These days, Sire says one thing but does the exact opposite.’

Unaware of his servant’s thoughts, Draven walked around, trying to see if there was anything else he could find that’s related to that female creature he found..

It wasn’t that he blindly trusted the words of a stranger, but as someone who protects Agartha from humans, he would check the situation about the human kingdoms every once in a while. He forgot how many years ago it was that he heard rumors about that oracle’s prophecy, though he didn’t pay particular attention to it since it doesn’t concern him nor Agartha.

‘Looks like that creature is indeed the one from the rumors. It doesn’t make sense though. If she was declared cursed even before she was born and her father believed that, he would have killed her in her mother’s womb, or have killed her when she’s still a newborn.

‘Why wait now? Why did they leave her on this mountain and opt to kill her now when she’s—’ He realized he didn’t know how old this princess was.

‘Another thing that doesn’t matter.’

He brushed this thought aside and walked ahead.

‘If she lived here, then there must be a shelter or lodging around.’

A distance away from the spot where he found her collapsed body, his sharp eyes caught sight of several large boulders arranged characteristically, in a manner that normal humans would find natural. But his sharp eyes found a certain boulder covering what seemed to be a cave’s entrance. He imagined that if there were tall trees in that area, it would have probably been difficult to discover such a hidden cave. However, now that everything was burned, the existence of the cave was revealed.

Erlos caught up to his master and stood beside him, peering around to see what Draven discovered.

“Sire! That looks like a cave!” Erlos said. “Ohh, now it makes sense. So those humans know the ‘witch’ lives in this mountain, but don’t know exactly where, that’s why they decided to simply burn the mountain itself. What a bunch of lunatics.”

Draven didn’t affirm the elf’s guess and simply approached the cave, but he had also had similar thoughts.