As a scholar studying witches, Ethan saw a witch from outside Lindong for the first time today.
Immortality became one of their symbols.
Palansi mentioned over the phone that the Nightmare was once an Imperial, born in a border city of the Empire. It was during the peak of the Empire's external wars, almost every city shrouded in the shadow of war, with batches of knights embarking on expeditions and injured ones returning from the front lines daily.
Hospitals were almost entirely occupied by injured soldiers, corpses piled in the streets, emitting a stench of decay, awaiting mass cremation.
The Nightmare Witch grew up in such an environment.
She once had a prosperous family, born into nobility, which allowed her access to a wealth of magical and extraordinary knowledge from a young age. This environment persisted until she was twelve, when her father, obeying the orders of Henry III, led the Knight Order to intercept the enemy's legion.
