I Am The Only Witch Hunter-Chapter 377: Nightmare Whispers

That day, Southpara fell. It fell without much resistance. Not because they didn't put up a fight. But because it didn't matter.

The forces of Nivalis swept Southpara like a storm. Their forces weren't anything impressive. But their lord was one of a kind.

They saw him breathe fire. They saw him move faster than the wind. They saw him break a boulder with his bare hand.

These were feats that a witch couldn't do. Only a Spirit Swordsman.

Words quickly spread in the Royal Court of Eldoria about the true identity of Siderius. Some said he was a spy from Everia. Some said he had a connection with Glacirium. Many theories but none were true.

Siderius didn't care about those rumors. What he only cared about was to complete his Tengura. He had a dragon skin as the first level. Now he needed another mutation as the second level.

Siderius already had a target in mind. It was a coven in Southpara. Their name was Nightmare Whisper.

Unlike Dark Ice, Nightmare Whisper heard about the fall of Southpara and immediately prepared to leave the place. They weren't that delusional to think that they could take on a young kingdom that was able to remove the Tree of Woe.

But Siderius didn't give them that chance. After the fight at the border, he rode directly to the coven.

Their coven was a castle built within a muddy swamp. The swamp exuded a natural poison that would make people hallucinate when going in. Siderius already had a solution for that with his iron mask. It was a gas filtration mask and was more than capable of dealing with that poison.

"We need to move now! That madman hates all witches! If he's here, he will kill us all!"

"Move out of the way!"

"Run for your life!"

The scene inside the coven was chaos reincarnation. People rushed back and forth, stepping on each other to get out. They had all heard about the true nightmare with the hair of white.

The witches rushed to the gate, only to see a man in black with the hair of white standing there with his red horse.

"That is... the White Witch Hunter."

The headmaster pushed all the witches away and stepped forward. The headmaster was an old woman.

This made Siderius widened his eyes in surprise, "You... You have given up on your magic."

"That's right, young man." The headmaster said, "I have given up on my magic long ago. But as my responsibility with this kingdom and my wisdom was useful, I am the headmaster of Nightmare Whispers."

"I heard that there is a skinwalker in this place."

"You heard correctly, young man. There is a skinwalker in our dungeon."

"Good. I will collect it once I've killed you all."

Siderius unsheathed his sword.

"Wait!" The headmaster raised her hand, "Please spare these younglings. They did nothing wrong."

"The only good witch is a dead witch. Beside. Do you think there is a way out after what you did to us? You farm us like cattle and treat us like ration? And now you claim that you are innocent? Such a hypocrite." Siderius smiled.

"What do you need us to do to spare us?" The headmaster said.

"Hmmm. Since you asked that. If all of you agree to let me remove your Mana Core permanently, you shall be spared."

Chatters erupted in the crowd of witches. They couldn't believe it. Some were ready to give up their magic. Some raged with anger and bloodlust.

"Shut up!" The headmaster shouted and the room went quiet again.

"Are you speaking the truth?" The headmaster said. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Of course, I am. I don't lie."

The witches in Nightmare Whispers surrendered. Not because of an army, but because of a man standing in front of the gate. No witches left that day.

Siderius' force came right after and all the witches were captured. Each was handcuffed in a specialized shackle with a magic dampening alchemical seal. They would be put in prison until the Alchemists neutered the magic out of them. It may take years for it to be completed. But the witches had no other choice.

Because the other option was death.

Siderius walked down to the dungeon of the Nightmare Whispers. The dungeon of the Nightmare Whispers had no light and was a world of darkness.

Siderius needed no light as his eyes were the best kind of dark vision. There he saw it, the skinwalker.

This wasn't the same skinwalker that went out of the hell of darkness Profunda. This was a creature belonging to the Kingdom of Nature.

Skinwalker was a rare type of spirit that could take on the appearance of any human. It feasted on human skins, ironically, to keep itself alive, and its skin could transform into people that it had killed.

In front of Siderius was a naked woman with pale skin. Her skin illuminated in the night and her hair was silky smooth. The woman looked up at him with a pair of glistened eyes and trembled lips.

She looked weak and fragile. She didn't look like a creature that ate people.

But Siderius' eyes could see through everything. He could see the truth hidden beneath that pretty layer.

Siderius slowly stepped forward. The woman murmured weakly.

"Are you here to help me?"

Siderius nodded. He reached out his hands.

The woman jumped at him and bit Siderius' wrist. Her teeth were crushed because of the peer pressure while Siderius' skin was untouched.

Blood filled the skinwalker's mouth as it stumbled backwards.

"How?!" It shrieked.

Its body contorted and transformed. In front of Siderius was no longer a pretty woman, instead, it was a horrified creature with four eyes and long elongated body that was similar to a centipede.

That was the true appearance of this skinwalker.

"It takes more than teeth to penetrate my dragon skin, monster."

Siderius unsheathed his sword and swiped it over the giant centipede. The skinwalker was killed in a blink of an eye.

The skin that it used before was dangling on its back. It fell down alongside its real body.

Skinwalker had a separate suit of skin that it could wrap around itself at any time. This skin could transform based on the creature's will.

This was what Siderius wanted from coming here. The skin of a skinwalker that would allow him to transform freely into anyone.