The Devil's Cursed Witch novel Chapter 60

“Regardless of the reason, I have a feeling that in tomorrow’s council meeting, he will probably agree to send her to the human villages. The farther, the better,” Cornelia commented.

“I am thinking the same,” Leeora confessed. “That child is still traumatized. If Sire decides to send her among another bunch of strangers, she will probably be warier than she already is. I don’t know what will happen to her. The thing is, once she’s sent to the outskirts, I will probably have no chance of meeting her ever again.”

Though the villages on the outskirts of the kingdom were technically part of Agartha, the races didn’t treat them as such. Neither the leaders nor the ordinary residents dared venture into the human territory, mostly because they were people who had experienced how cruel humans were before. The centuries-worth of hatred accumulated between their races was hard to resolve.

Though Leeora acted kindly in front of Ember, it was only because she considers her a pitiful child. She would rather avoid human beings if she could. If Ember was to be sent to the human villages, Leeora would never see her again because she would never come to the territory of humans.

She felt like her heart was sinking with worry. It was not even long, just barely more than a week since she knew this human, but she felt attached to her like a mother.

“I hope the humans will at least treat her well,” Cornelia comforted her.

Leeora sighed helplessly. “Still, even if Ember angered him…”

“I am sure he must have his reasons,” Cornelia agreed, “but this is not the way to handle things. That poor girl…”

Leeora let out a bitter smile. “Perhaps many of us have forgotten but the King…if we are to think about it, he’s been considerably more civilized after living in peace for the past few decades. What he did could be said to be ‘moderate’, and he did well controlling his anger. The younger generation born after the war probably could not imagine how the King was like before, especially against humans.”

The High Elder of the Wood Elves had known Draven even before Agartha was founded, and she had witnessed his countless feats that earned him the name of the ‘Devil’. In fact, Leeora was one of his earliest acquaintances, and among those living in Agartha, probably the one who knew him best.

On the contrary, Cornelia Grimm was a young witch only a few centuries old, and she had only started being the leader of the witches after the Monarch left Agartha. Thus, she’s listening intently as Leeora reminisced about the past.

Leeora continued, “I know he has done wrong but what can you expect from a man who lived for thousands of years without knowing where he had come from, the one who had kept on searching for his identity and the reason for his immortal life but he never found any answer and the one whose hands were always covered in blood in order to protect others.

Those who were by his side for centuries… people who he had shared stories with…comrades who trusted him… _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}