The Warden of The Witches

Chapter 182 - Parenting Diary

The Nameless Witch wields the authority of "life"...

Suddenly, Aiden remembered from the records of the Inquisition Bureau that the Nameless Witch indeed possessed the miraculous ability to accelerate crop growth and had helped the famine-stricken villagers in the village.

This skill, in fact, could also be achieved with black magic and potions. However, firstly, the scale of black magic practiced by individuals is very limited, and the cost of potions is far higher than the output of crops, making it impossible to be widely applied in agriculture.

From this perspective, the Nameless Witch not only increased crop yields in the village with some modern knowledge but probably also utilized the power of divine word.

The power of the authority of "life" can keep people from falling ill, which is probably another positive aspect of adapting to authority.

There's a bit of envy—this was Aiden's first thought, after all, he himself died young due to illness in his previous life.

Aiden roughly recounted this matter to Abigail, and asked her to continue flipping through the pages.

The latter part of the diary still had entries written every ten days to half a month, mostly consisting of research findings and progress. It seemed that the owner of the diary was accustomed to jotting down anything worth recording, and she even experimented with hatching eggs using animals.

"I'm going to raise a daughter."

Living alone in this forest is becoming too dull; I feel like I'm forgetting how to speak.

From previous experiments, it seems that hatching eggs can rapidly clone organisms. Although only one individual can be hatched at a time, the cloned organisms grow five to ten times faster than ordinary ones, and their lifespan after reaching adulthood is similar to that of regular creatures.

I took some blood and put it in a cup, then soaked the hatching egg in it.

In the evening, I saw an embryo forming inside. I hope everything goes smoothly."

Seeing this, it confirms what Abigail mentioned. The Nameless Witch cloned herself using hatching eggs to leave descendants, and the rest of the diary entries are essentially the parenting diary of the diary's owner.

The diary's owner named the "daughter" born from the hatching egg Alice—indeed, a name that seems like something a Transmigrator would choose.

The cloned human born from the hatching egg seems to develop faster than normal people. Alice was born with baby teeth, able to eat regular food, and grew at a much faster rate than average. She started walking after just one month and began speaking after six months, which saved the diary's owner a lot of trouble in raising her.

The parenting diary is filled with everyday entries like "Alice smiled today," "Alice called me 'mom' today," and "She looks exactly like me, but in the end, this body is just someone else's body that i am reincarnated into." Some entries even have simple drawings, similar to a doodle diary.

The Nameless Witch, who had been studying black magic and divine word, gradually shifted her focus towards raising her child, even teaching her a bit of magic. It seemed she enjoyed it. However, she seemed to have not taught Alice anything about her original world or divine word, probably fearing that one day her seclusion in the Misty Forest would be discovered by the Reaper.

This kind of life continued for about two years. Alice had grown to look like a regular person around the age of ten. Most of the recorded events were quite trivial, and the quality of the diary's handwriting had stabilized for a while.

However, many entries in the diary depicted the diary's owner's daily forgetfulness, and it seemed to occur more frequently.

But one day, two years later, the quality of the diary suddenly took a sharp downturn.

This entry began with the date being corrected from "May 19" to "May 21."

The content of the diary was filled with crossed-out corrections, like a patched-up torn piece of clothing, making it somewhat difficult to read:

"Woke up feeling very bad, my mind is as confused as ▉▉ paste.

I Keep forgetting things, and yesterday I even burned ▉▉ pan."

At noon, when Alice asked me, I realized I hadn't even prepared lunch.

I wanted to jot down some things on paper, but ▉ as soon as I picked up the pen, I forgot what I wanted to write.

Even now.

▉ i can't even remember how to write the characters, it's driving me crazy.

But I don't seem to have a fever...

I'll take a day off first and see."

Aiden continued reading, finding that in the following days, the diary's owner had made records, but the number of mistakes and corrections had only increased.

"May 22nd.

I Had a ▉▉ bad dream, felt like someone was talking to me in the dream, and when I woke up, it seemed like I could still hear that person's voice.

But I just ▉▉ can't remember.

I Feel uneasy, like I've forgotten something very important."

"May 23rd.

Headache, i constantly feeling like I can hear someone whispering."

In the morning, I don't know how, but half an hour passed in a daze, as if a piece of my memory had been dug out.

Three whole days have passed, and there's been no improvement in my condition.

Even Alice is starting to worry about me, she's a bit scared."

"May 24th.

I Had another nightmare, felt like my head was somewhat clearer, and the ringing in my mind became clearer, it was ▉▉ Melindel's voice.

She kept laughing, mocking me, calling my name.

This isn't a hallucination, it's real!

I'm sure I'm still awake, she must have done something to me!

There's no one I can talk to among the witches I've corresponded with...

What should I do?"

The diary seems to end with this entry on May 24th, but below it, inexplicably, there's an additional line written in the common language of this world in large letters:

"I'm coming back, miss me? Darling."

This line appeared very abruptly, written in a font that was very different from the diary owner's handwriting. It was written in a large, slanted, and flowing style, almost like calligraphy, with a significant difference from the handwriting above.

Aiden immediately realized that this line was definitely written by someone other than the diary owner.

He relayed the contents to Abigail, who listened with only a slight pause before flipping over to the next page. It was apparent that she was intrigued by this page and curious about what was written afterward.

The next page had no date written on it. The recording content was scribbled more hastily than any previous page, with crooked and twisted letters resembling a bunch of sun-dried earthworms. However, each stroke was made with extreme force, and several places were soaked with spilled ink.

"I asked Alice if she had touched my things.

She said no.

But I know, she couldn't have gotten hold of my diary.

My diary has always been locked in a box!

And I recognize that handwriting!

It's Melindel's handwriting!!

The one who wrote that sentence was actually me!

Now I finally know what's happening to me, Melindel has always been with me!

She's always been with me!!

Fragments of her will are eroding my consciousness, she wants to turn me into her!!"

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