None of These Witches are Ever Serious

Chapter 32

Lilian gazed at the downpour and quietly pulled out two umbrellas.

She opened one for herself and handed the other to Luo En.

You might think that as a maid, she should be holding an umbrella over Lord Luo En, right? Logically speaking, yes, that's true.

But given that Lilian still couldn't bring herself to accept Luo En, she felt it was perfectly reasonable to keep her distance like this.

Unless Luo En did something else truly impressive enough to change her mind, her attitude toward him wasn't going to improve.

And to be fair, as a White Dragon Who Detests Humans, she was already being remarkably civil to him—she figured he ought to be grateful for that.

Luo En quietly opened his umbrella and let out a sigh. "Miss Lilian, you really do have everything, don't you?"

He'd almost thought he was about to end up soaked to the bone.

"Being able to meet every need of my employer is the basic duty of a maid," Lilian replied in a perfectly matter-of-fact tone.

Luo En was tempted to ask her to call him "Master" just once, but he quickly came to his senses.

He wasn't ready to die at Lilian's hands before he even caught sight of his own territory.

"Miss Moruna's power caught me off guard," Lilian said, glancing toward Moruna with a wistful tone. "As expected from a witch whose mana is so overwhelming it drives her out of control."

Considering how Moruna had once turned into black slime from a mana rampage, this level of strength made perfect sense.

"She caused this rain?" Luo En was genuinely surprised.

He'd heard plenty about witches, but this was the first time he'd seen one in action like this.

"That's right." Lilian nodded, giving a firm affirmation. "There's a good reason she's called the Water Witch, after all."

"The torches are out! We can't see those people anymore!"

"They're still standing there! Go grab them!"

"Suspicious figures! Suspicious figures!"

"And two of them are holding umbrellas!"

But this sudden torrent of rain drowned out the guards' shouts with its roaring downpour.

And no one would ever guess that the fragile, doll-like Moruna was the one who'd summoned it.

Moruna, dressed in her thin clothes, wasn't getting wet at all.

The moment raindrops touched the air near her, they transformed into fish that swam in circles around her.

Seeing the guards in their sorry state, Moruna let out a smug hum. This was the power of a witch.

She wanted to turn back and ask Luo En if she'd been helpful, but with the guards advancing through the rain, she decided against it.

With an expressionless face, she controlled the fish formed from the rainwater nearby, then launched them at the guards like cannonballs.

The guards' steel armor was like paper in the face of these water cannons, pierced straight through.

Even hearing their howls in the rain didn't faze Moruna.

She'd endured far worse pain than this—there had even been a time when she wanted to die but couldn't.

How could the fate of these guards possibly touch her heart?

Anyone who posed a threat to Lord Luo En, she'd eliminate them all.

The blue in her eyes reflected an eerie glow, standing out sharply in the pouring rain.

"This umbrella isn't doing much good anymore." Luo En looked down at his damp clothes, utterly speechless.

In contrast, Lilian's maid outfit hadn't gotten a single drop on it.

In truth, even without the umbrella, she could have protected herself with her dragon breath.

"But if Miss Moruna keeps this up, she'll draw even more people," Lilian said calmly. "I think your biggest challenge right now is figuring out how to leave this country."

Even escaping the city wouldn't be enough—Luo En had to get out of the Vandall Holy Kingdom entirely.

"Miss Lilian, have you forgotten? This all started because of you," Luo En sighed.

If this maid had just crouched down, things wouldn't have escalated this far.

"Miss Lilian, are you really not considering flying us out of here?" Luo En asked for the second time.

"Mr. Luo En, please drop that idea," Lilian replied. "Both physiologically and psychologically, I..."

But Lilian fell silent mid-sentence, her gaze shifting to a certain high tower.

A dark golden spear shot straight out from the tower, whistling sharply through the air.

Even the roar of the rain couldn't drown out that piercing sound.

The spear was covered in stone and gold, but it looked dull and neglected, as if it had been abandoned and ignored for ages.

Lilian opened her mouth and let out a roar unique to dragons, slowing the spear's momentum.

At the same time, dragon scales covered her right hand, and her nails grew rough and hard.

Clang—Lilian glanced at the high tower and caught the spear barehanded, but white smoke rose from the friction on her palm.

She narrowed her eyes, and then the puddles on the ground rose up, condensing into countless spears that she hurled back at the tower.

Without checking the results, Lilian said helplessly, "It seems you're more important to them than I imagined."

That was the weight of a 5600-gold bounty—she'd learned that much.

"They must be dead set on killing you, the Enemy of Vandall," she added.

The people of the Vandall Holy Kingdom didn't know Luo En was an otherworlder; they just knew that claiming to be the Enemy of Vandall in their land was a crime among crimes.

Lilian quickly scanned her surroundings. If they kept this up, even more powerful foes would head their way.

"Miss Moruna, could you please make this rain even heavier?" Lilian called out to Moruna.

Moruna tilted her head, unsure why, but she complied anyway.

Summoning rain wasn't easy—Moruna had to squeeze every last drop of her mana to make it more intense.

Now, the rain falling from the sky stung the skin like needles, and even the scaffolds were being smashed through by the drops.

Lilian tossed aside her umbrella and, with a mighty roar, transformed into a giant dragon covered in white scales.

Between her white scales, faint blue patterns traced intricate lines, as if proclaiming her innate power.

Lilian scooped up Luo En and Moruna in her claws, then beat her wings and soared into the sky.

She couldn't let Luo En ride on her back, but carrying them like this was no problem at all.

Earlier, she'd said they couldn't leave by turning into a dragon—mainly because the transformation would draw too much attention. The city's Anti-Air Defense would zero in on her in an instant.

But with this torrential downpour providing cover, things were about to get a lot simpler.

......

......

Inside the High Tower, a burly knight gripped his spear, but he held back from hurling it for a long while.

"Why aren't you attacking that dragon?" the figure beside him demanded, displeasure clear in their voice. They were clad in priestly robes.

"The rain's coming down too hard. No way we'd hit it," the knight explained.

The man beneath the priestly robes scoffed. "So a little rain's enough to stop you?"

"That's a dragon you're talking about—not some stationary target just standing there," the knight replied, lowering his spear with a sigh.

If it had been anything else, the downpour wouldn't have fazed him in the slightest. But unfortunately, this was a formidable dragon.

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