Otaku Witch-Chapter 554 - 430. Various Accidents

Dorothy suddenly shuddered in her sleep and her body trembled, finally, she opened her eyes, and an unfamiliar ceiling came into her view.

"Tsk, this familiar feeling, I almost thought I had traveled through time again."

The homebody witch complained in her heart.

However, her expression swiftly changed, and then she abruptly sat up.

"Damn, where's my Magic Power? And why does this body feel so weak?"

An unprecedented feeling of weakness enveloped Dorothy, and she panicked as she discovered that she only had about 100 Mana left in her body. As for her Talents and specialties, they were completely gone, making her as weak as a mortal at that moment.

Yet before she could fully panic, a stream of information emerged directly into her mind.

This was the rulebook for Witch's Night.

"Well, it looks like I've truly become a mortal."

After giving the instructions a quick scan, Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief, yet her expression turned bizarre.

"Ah, damn it, I've turned into a beta tester."

According to the rulebook, this Witch's Night could be considered like a beta testing phase for an upcoming massive multiplayer online game.

However, since there were too many registrations, a total of five hundred million, the game company decided to release the slots in batches to ensure the best gameplay experience for players.

Like an initial test with 1000 slots, a second test with 100,000, a third test with 1,000,000, and finally, the beta test would open up all the slots.

As for how these slots are allocated, it would depend on the students' qualifications—the higher the qualifications, the earlier they obtain their slots.

And now, this was the first test phase, and Dorothy didn't understand how such a weak chicken as herself had become one of the first testers.

[Current Timeline: The eve before the Divine King's awakening.]

[Main Quest: Survive until the establishment of Holy City Pandora.]

[Quest Tip One: Try to engage with the supernatural to become a Transcendent, which can greatly increase your survival chances in the upcoming chaotic world, but it will also increase the risk of being hunted down by the Church.]

[Quest Tip Two: Try to make contact with the Divine King, which will greatly assist you in the game to come, but will also significantly increase the difficulty of survival.]

These were the quest objectives for these first test players.

"Well, starting right on the night of Divine King's awakening, now I am truly witnessing history."

Dorothy felt this in her heart.

Once she figured out what was happening, she wasn't too panicked because the goal was merely surviving, and how difficult could that be?

Jokingly, she's incredibly good at scrounging.

However, it is quite clear that being in the game earlier than others provided an initial advantage, and if you only thought about scrounging, though there wouldn't be anything wrong with it, it would also waste this first-tester advantage.

The homebody witch briefly recalled history.

The Divine King was merely a villager from a remote area before her awakening, accused of being a witch by a Church prodigy simply because she was overly beautiful.

Oh, the term 'witch' back then simply meant what we now understand as 'witch'; at that time, the followers of the Lord of Glory were encroaching upon the world, and there were those who sought to resist the oppression of the Church.

Thus, the Church, having taken control of the narrative, launched a witch-hunting campaign to eliminate dissenters and consolidate their rule.

The world was still a typical medieval backdrop at that time, men in power, and women of low status.

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The Church could not directly target those powerful men, so they turned to the female relatives of those nobles, slapping the witchcraft label on them right away.

As the Church's power grew, this originally somewhat orderly witch hunting campaign gradually became crazed and began indiscriminate killings.

They didn't care about gender anymore; if the Church deemed you a witch, then you were a witch, even if you could prove you were a man, it might still be declared that you used magic to transform.

In any case, whether you were or weren't, they would burn you with Holy Fire first.

Burned to death? Then it's confirmed, the evil witch has been purified by the Holy Fire.

Survived the burning? That too confirmed it; indeed you were a witch.

In short, it was an age filled with ignorance and evil.

The Divine King, who was falsely accused of being a witch, was supposed to be just one of many such tragedies, but in her desperation, she resonated with the Mother of the World, making a pact with her, from which the first primeval witch was born.

The unfolding story was a classic epic saga from there, as the Divine King, under the relentless pursuit of the Church, began her exile, gathered strength while fleeing, and ultimately, with her allies, established the Holy City, later known as the Witch Queen City Pandora.

Clearly, the first-tester's scenario was a replica of this piece of history.

So it seems that if Dorothy merely wanted to complete the main quest, the difficulty wouldn't be too high, if she just kept scrounging...

This mortal body was indeed a bit rough, maybe because she had just woken up; her body felt a bit dehydrated. Dorothy, feeling thirsty after a long time, looked around the unfamiliar room and noticed a cup and a kettle placed on a cabinet by the window.

She got up, walked over, poured herself a glass of water, and as she was about to down it in one gulp, she saw her reflection in the water.