VIP Chapter 372: The Moment of Meeting the Mother-in-law
“This… this is it!”
Will picked up the heart. The moment he touched it, the heart shattered like glass, leaving only a pendant in Will’s hand.
Kexicili.
Her name was indeed this, and this pendant was something mentioned in the original work as loot dropped if she died.
Theoretically, the pendant should have other effects—after all, it was left by the Emperor of the Seventyth Floor. But for him, the pendant’s effects were not important.
What was important was…
He had finally found the one “conforming to the original work” among countless Snow Women.
“This is… the third one. In Hollanda City, the appearance of The End of Ice Abyss was… about half a year ago.”
He took out a notebook from his pocket.
He wrote down the information about the Dungeon, “The End of Ice Abyss.”
Liya saw more of the contents of his notebook.
For some reason, he had meticulously written down the names of many “Emperors” and their corresponding “Dungeons” in the notebook, along with their appearance times.
Besides that, he had also written down a very strange “order” next to them. The “order” had many question marks, suggesting it was not complete.
He had also drawn a rough map of Entak in this notebook. Will’s geography was always the best in the class, and the maps he casually drew could basically reconstruct the city layout of Entak.
“Will. What… are you doing?”
Liya had seen one page of this notebook.
To be honest, with the previous experience of the Quest System, she had originally wanted to pick up the notebook and flip through more of its contents, in case she missed any of Will’s little secrets again.
But Will, who was asleep at the time, had pressed down on the other side of the notebook, preventing her from pulling it out and opening it. She had no choice but to give up.
“This… um… it’s a bit complicated to explain.”
Will scratched his head, hesitating about where to start.
But…
His hesitation, which only lasted three seconds, seemed to trigger Liya’s “riddler phobia”—
“Is… is it something even I can’t know now? You… you were so straightforward about being my lover just now.”
Will immediately recognized that Liya was throwing a tantrum!
The expression on her face gradually changed from a little flustered to a thick smile. She squinted her eyes and slowly raised the staff in her hand.
Will could feel that a part of his witch’s blood seemed to fluctuate with Liya’s anger.
Speaking of which…
Due to some of his own pursuits, he had not “whitewashed” Liya, who had already “blackened.” He had only suppressed her in his own more forceful way, teaching her a completely new way of interacting.
Or rather, letting her realize that she also had a backbone, so she could only adopt a way of interacting that suited his style.
Therefore…
Moments of fear, where her grip on his blood tightened like this, still existed.
“I… I’ll say it all—I confess everything.”
Will closed the notebook first, and Liya’s smile receded slightly.
“Let me think, I’ll start with what you already know—Liya, since you’ve peeked at the notes, you should know that one of the reasons I’m acting now… is to get revenge on Carver.”
“One of the… reasons?”
Liya repeated the words.
For her, Will rarely used expressions that lacked “sufficient purpose.” His persistence and obsession were always overly abundant.
“Yes. In short, after I died, I received help from an organization… or rather, a noble person. She gave me the locations of some resources I wanted, like the Snow Mint essential oil you saw.”
“Uh-huh, she?”
Liya still keenly grasped the keyword, and Will felt a tug at the artery in his neck.
“Um… it’s just a cooperative relationship. If I had to say, the moment I first saw her… I felt a physiological aversion, and even if I saw her again later, I would still avoid her as much as possible.”
Hearing this, Liya seemed to be somewhat reassured and put away her slight jealousy.
“So, you are repaying her for her help…”
“It can’t be said to be help. We exchanged benefits—I took a mission from her. Uh… it’s like a side quest outside of the main quest. She needs me to do something. This thing…”
Will’s words trailed off as he remembered something.
This matter was not something he thought of entirely on his own without any external forces, but rather…
The intuition of his own witch’s blood keenly sensed a powerful magic emanating from outside the Dungeon.
It was a magic from the “witch,” originating from the same bloodline.
He wasn’t the only one who sensed it.
Liya, standing opposite him, felt it too.
Such magic had a clear direction and range.
It was aimed directly at them, slicing a gorge between the two of them standing face to face.
“Will—”
Liya’s magical sensitivity was still much higher than Will’s. She seemed to realize that this magic was aimed at “separating them,” and the next moment…
She reached out, braving the danger, and directly crossed the straight line locked between them by some dividing magic.
“!? ”
Then, with the force of her head almost hitting Will’s chin, she fiercely pushed him backward while throwing herself into his arms.
Will staggered back a few steps. As he steadied her, holding her soft shoulders…
Boom—
He heard and saw a wall of fire suddenly erupt in the space where they had been standing.
The spreading flames seemed as if they would have engulfed them if they had remained standing there.
“Liya, are you… are you alright?”
“Cough, cough, it was… a little too early, of course I’m fine. But… such a wall of fire…”
Footsteps sounded from the other side of the wall of fire. The crisp sound of footsteps, wearing small leather shoes on the ground.
One step, two steps.
Through the smoky flames, a “figure” could be seen, and the shadow was very familiar.
Wearing a large witch’s hat, thanks to which her height did not appear too unimpressive.
Liya sensed that something was wrong and stood in front of Will, shielding him.
“The noble person you mentioned, her name is Li Wei’qi, right?”
The sound of a finger snap and the question came from behind the wall of fire. With this crisp finger snap, the fire wall spell instantly disappeared, as if the burning wall was collapsing in an instant.
Standing behind the wall of fire, the person now in front of them was undoubtedly holding a staff and wearing a witch’s hat. She was…
A witch.
A witch Liya was very familiar with—
“Mom… cough cough… Lis? How are you here? You… you agreed when I left… why are you looking for me?”
“Wait, is this… your… cough cough… Miss Lis, hello. Allow me to introduce myself, I… I am Will.”
