Another five years passed.

  The Vicious Eye of the Holle family had arrived in the capital on the third day after Adele’s birthday. With this, the people that would take the lead in this battle arrived. They didn’t stay long and left a few days after.

  Adele’s family had already contributed greatly, no one asked her of her sacrifice nor any deeper about the prophecy. These were things that were not only private, but also dangerous to know. They knew not to play with fate. Just knowing that the family contributed before anyone else, made other families contribute a bit too internally, such as resources for the war.

  The nobles might only need to send a high ranking fighter, but resource and lower soldiers had to be sent regularly, especially now.

  After these few things, Adele’s family became quiet again. She would see more people visiting her parents, some even had the intention of visiting her, but they were blocked by her parents and her grandfather. After all, even if they didn’t knew the cost, they could imagine it wasn’t low. Burdening a child with this so early is definitely wrong.

  Adele took this time to learn witchcraft and read the records regarding her situation. In all this time she finally learned proper time witchcraft and other things, such as simple pharmacy and rituals for various uses.

  Today, she was in her room, alone. It was still early, but all adults in her family had left. They were all busy with many things, especially now that the war progressed. She looked around, then calmed herself and closed her eyes.

  Slowly, a seal formed in front of her and the eyes cast spells one after another. This time, the crack opened larger and more power of time flowed out. Then, another crack opened, and stabilised somewhat above the ritual.

  Adele kept her eyes shut, purple energy flowed out as she said “By the pact of the Witches with the Demons of Hell, I summon thee, spirit of time and prophecy!”

  Her voice, in addition with a piece of her soul that carried her intention flew into the crack.

  …

  On the other side, many demons looked at the crack in the sky.

  The demons had pacts with witches, and summoning a spirit from hell wasn’t uncommon for time witches. Of course there were also pacts with other places, but for Aeon Witches, this was actually the best place. After all, Hell was one of the places where many souls and spirits with an extreme old age resided.

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  When the demons looked at the crack, they didn’t think much of it, until the soul and intention flew with it. The lower demons didn’t think there was any worry, but the higher demons felt fear.

  The fear came from their knowledge. When the soul crossed, they were able to feel the age. These low demons might think that this was just an old soul, but they knew in fact what it meant for a time witch to be so old.

  Aeon witches became stronger with age, and this one, over ten thousand years old, would be extremely powerful. Although they knew that the other side has weak spiritual power, they didn’t dare underestimate. They were old and knowledgeable and from their experience, as long as a witch crossed the thousand years threshold, there was no way for them to fully kill her.

  And what if this was a trap by the witch? Not all demons were cunning and treacherous, but all of them knew how that kind would always make you suffer when they suffer.

  Then they listened to the intentions of the witch. A time witch can summon a spirit that is at most ten times older than her, most witches would summon a spirit at a thousand years old, so the spirit would be around ten thousand years old.

  But in Adele’s case, the spirit could be over a hundred thousand years old! And her requirement was exactly this. Such an old spirit, but his strength had to be very weak. The demons could understand. A summon would consume resources of the witch, and time witches had to pay in time, the age of their soul, to be specific.

  They had to pay based on the strength of the spirit. Most of them wanted old souls with weak strength.

  The demons looked around. Only the old ones were fitting, but they were all too strong. They could only wait.

  It took a lot of time, until a dark purple string floated from below the ground of the hell. This meant that this thing came from a deeper position in hell!

  There were nine levels of hell, and this was the eight level of hell – Fraud! There was only a single level below, Treachery! It was extremely rare for anyone to summon a creature from there. In addition, they heard the witch say that it should be a spirit of time and prophecy. This meant that the witch likely prophesised the right time for her ritual.

  When the string approached the crack, the piece of soul inspected it and asked “What are you?” The soul was only able to see that this spirit in the form of a string was extremely old, older than she could see and that it had the energy of strong prophecy.

  The string looked at the soul and said “I am the spirit of the Threads of Wyrd.”

  When Adele’s soul heard this, it was extremely surprised “How come you are in hell, and even come from the ninth level of treachery?”

  The thread that was gliding softly in the wind moved around and seemed to become cold and stiff “They are weak! Weak traitors who only know how to weave and watch. I see your Origin, Aeon Witches and Frau Holle? Holle… I heard of this in the past years. A local prophecy goddess from your world?

  Hah! What a joke! Even a local goddess dares to look at destiny as she wishes, yet these three… they dare not even raise their hands, open their mouths or stand up!

  I am willing to become your spirit. Witches, right? You have always been extremely wilful. Calling yourself the agents of the spirit world, but in fact, don’t you all play what you want and are just good at changing the situation into your favour? How many gods you have killed, yet the spiritual world never punished you for being excessive. If only they had a bit of your independence!”