Chapter 66

It took a while to get back to where the cave was, and Sophia led them back into the dark passage.
But now the passage was not so dark, the oil lamps on either side were lit, and the little candle flame was blown askew by the wind they brought in.
Stepping into the cave again, the details that were overlooked last time only gradually became apparent.
The cave was also illuminated, the ground had been cleaned of blood stains, but still could see a bit of dark red.
The air smelled of rust and corruption, and the stars and moon were carved out above her head, the moon was enclosed, no light could be emitted, and the wolves in the wilderness were wailing sadly.
Sophia then looked down at the traces under her feet, and suddenly felt that these traces were very much like a human face without expression, and the malice and hatred in her eyes alone sent chills down her spine.
Sophia's body froze, and then a pair of warm hands embraced her, warming her gradually chilling body back up.
"Oh my." The large witch let out a gasp, "That's what you're talking about? A life spell of this magnitude?"
Sophia collected her face and told Aaron to let go of herself, but her fingers quietly squeezed the corner of his shirt.
"I can be sure now that the words on that silk were a trap." The Great Witch explained with a gloomy expression, "If not for the perennial blood sacrifice, this life spell could never have existed for so long."
"And I have to trouble you." Sophia said solemnly, handing the silk cloth to her.
The elder witch held the cloth in her hand, held it high, and chanted a spell Sophia couldn't understand. The witch next to her told her that the elder witch was chanting a spell to lift the seal, just enough to break the spell on the cloth.
The lifting of the spell on the tattered cloth triggered the resonance of the spell of life in the cave, and the traces of the spell on the floor faintly glowed, one brighter than the other.
The Great Witch ignored the spell's reaction and handed the unsealed cloth to Sophia.
The unsealed strip of cloth was printed with dense small letters, tightly put together, like a letter that had been left for a hundred years, telling a story that had been forgotten for a hundred years.
"It was all my fault.
If my descendants are lucky enough to see what I left behind, please forgive me, an ancestor who caused you trouble.
I've heard a story told!
I was a prince of the royal family of the kingdom, and the battle between the witch clan and the wolf clan had become more and more fierce in the past few years, and both sides often started wars, and it was at this time that my MATE appeared in a way I could not imagine.
She was the first great witch of the witch clan, a kind and proud woman.
She didn't want to be my MATE, same as me.
It was I who got selfish and used the special connection between me and the Grand Witch to impress the Grand Witch, to make her like me, and to use her hand to recreate the Witch Clan.
I was so guilty of doing all this wrong that I couldn't even face her. The other nobles were also unhappy about my mate being a witch, and it just so happened that the daughter of one of the nobles in the clan made a pass at me, and I selfishly severed my ties with the Great Witch and forced myself to marry that noble's daughter.
The Great Witch had always treated me with sincerity and never blamed me even for my use of her, but it was me who messed everything up and made her hate me.
It was too late when I found out I was sincere, and I regretted it.
The Great Witch was consumed by anger and she refused to listen to my explanation, she hated me so much that she could throw away her life, I saw with my own eyes that she sacrificed her life to blind the moon at the cost of not entering reincarnation forever, obscuring the connection between the Wolf Clan and the Moon Goddess, and the mate relationship of the Wolf Clan gradually disappeared.
I would like to tell her that I want to be with you, but it is too late.
O descendants, if you can read this letter, please stop the war, the witch clan and the wolf clan should never have been enemies.
"This is so amazing." The great witch exclaimed.
Sophia looked at this letter left behind by the ancestors of the Wolf Clan with a complicated expression, not knowing what she was thinking.
"I didn't expect that the Witch Clan had such a past with the Wolf Clan." Aaron took over, "Our ancestors may have really done something wrong, but a hundred years have passed, and now the Wolf Clan and the Witch Clan are peaceful and friendly, and none of us want such a thing to happen again."
"You're right." The Grand Witch smiled gently, looking unaffected by the contents of the letter, "What happened to the first Grand Witch made me angry and saddened, and although I can understand it, I also feel that this is too radical."
"Your Majesty of the Wolf Clan, please rest assured that we will definitely try our best to help you break the curse left by the Primordial Grand Witch, and hope that one day the Wolf Clan and the Witch Clan can really unite without any stigma and there will be no more tragedies like the Primordial Grand Witch and the ancestors of the Wolf Clan."
"Two people who love each other shouldn't be stopped by any reason."
"Thank you." Aaron's expression eased a bit, nodded politely, and moved out of the way.
The older witch instructed the other witches to look around and crouched down in the very center of the spell trail to examine it herself.
Sophia was still fuming, clutching the cloth tightly.
Aaron couldn't resist pinching her face, and Sophia turned her head to look at him blankly and frowned.
"Why are you pinching me?"
"I'm afraid your god is hooked."
Aaron pinched her nose again, which Sophia nonchalantly opened.
"What are you thinking about?" Aaron asked, "Thinking about what happened between the ancestors and the Great Witch?"
Sophia hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Aaron cupped her chin, made her look at himself, and said seriously, "Do you remember what I told you? Our love for each other is not because of the MATE relationship."
Sophia lost her smile: "I didn't care about that long ago."
"Then what are you thinking about?"
Sophia tilted her head, thought seriously for a moment, and said, "I was just thinking that maybe the MATE relationship represents not two people who must be together, but two people who are destined to love each other."
"The goddess is compassionate, she wants two people who are destined to love each other to stop going through a lot of difficulties in order to love each other, and she wants everyone to be happy."
"What do you think?" She smiled and looked at him.
Because two people are destined to love each other, that's why they can come together, they are the most special existence for each other, and their relationship is the special relationship.
The Mate relationship is the destined connection.
It is the compassion of the Goddess that allows all clans to love each other without high or low, without being swayed by money or power.
Everyone has the right to be happy and will surely be happy.
Just like them.
"So I'm your destiny, even if you don't admit it."
Sophia winked playfully, being wrapped around Aaron's waist and pressed close together.
"I've thought that since the first time I met you, so even if you don't admit it, it's useless."
Her own words bouncing back, Sophia couldn't help but fall on his chest and laugh, drawing the witches' eyes to her.
The elder witch looked at them kindly and interrupted them helplessly.
"You two, stop being affectionate for a moment, there's something I need to ask you."
Sophia hurriedly got out of Aaron's arms, blushed and quickly came to the Great Witch's side.
The big witch pointed to a not-so-clear mark on the ground and asked, "For such a big life spell, there should be a medium, does your wolf tribe have something passed down in this shape."
Sophia looked at the square imprint and something flashed through her mind, and as soon as she turned her head, she met Aaron's gaze.
Aaron took out the seal he had been keeping close to him and handed it to the older witch, who felt it for a moment and nodded affirmatively.
"That's the one."
She turned her head to look at Sophia and said in a warm voice, "Let's break the curse, the formation should not be small, you guys retreat to the entrance, don't get hurt by mistake."
Sophia nodded her head.
"You must be careful, don't be reluctant."
"Don't worry."
The Great Witch put the seal into the seal on the ground and gave Sophia a gentle push.
"Go."
Aaron and Sophia cautiously retreated into the passage and watched as the witches in the cave pulled out the staffs they carried with them and formed a circle with a gloomy expression, surrounding the Grand Witch in the middle and chanting loudly.
The spell traces flickered, as if repelling the foreign power, and because of too many years, suppressed by this power, can only try to resist.
The great witch quietly listened to the witches chanting, the cave sudden wind, raising the dust on the ground, the wind seems to have formed a wall of wind, the entire cave is wrapped within.
It was at this time that the great witch raised her staff.
Sophia was so nervous that her palms began to sweat, and Aaron's palms became damp as well.
"Don't worry." Aaron whispered soothingly.
He broke Sophia's tightly held fingers and pulled out a hand towel to wipe her sweat.
Sophia looked down at him and suddenly asked, "Do you think the First Great Witch would be a little bit happy if she knew that the ancestor was in love with her?"
Aaron's movements paused for a moment and slowly said, "I think so, after all, this is what she has been clinging to, and if the ancestor could have woken up a little earlier, she wouldn't have made herself regret for a hundred years."
"Then you will blame the ancestor? Blame the ancestor for making it difficult for the wolf clan for a hundred years."
"No."
Aaron remained calm.
"Because in a way, he is right, we can't go to deny the mistakes he made, yet we are not in a position to blame him."
"He did it for himself, yet he also did it for the wolves."
Inside the cave.
The Great Witch's robe was blown up, and the harsh wind was like a human roar, strong and feeble, roaring, repelling the intervening power.
Little by little, the power of the Great Witch seeped into the seal, and the shell of the seal broke, and a bright light shone into the carving overhead, illuminating the moon.
Sophia saw a name appear on the moon, the name of the Primordial Grand Witch.
This seal was the first gift from the ancestors of the Wolf Clan to the Primordial Grand Witch.
The light lit up the moon and the stars, and they converged and shone into the Goddess' totem on the wall, little by little ridding her of the cloud and revealing her as she was.
Standing outside, the cave Sophia and Aaron first felt the solidification of the connection between the two, Karida in the cave also froze for a moment, as if they felt something.
The wind gradually subsided, and the cloud of gloom on the goddess totem was all stripped away, and the seal turned into ashes for a moment, the big witch's body lurched, and was held up by Karida.