"What are you doing?"
It turned out to be the other Fiona. Everyone jumped, and Cordelia, in particular, panicked and immediately let go.
This caused the spirit in the middle of them to disappear.
Fiona's sharp gaze swept over everyone, making them all feel immense pressure.
"M-Mother, we weren't doing anything. Myrtle and I were just having the students perform a ritual."
Cordelia forced an excuse, but it was clear that Fiona didn't buy it.
Fiona looked at the young witches suspiciously, seemingly trying to find a weak point among them.
Madison, Emma, and Maria remained relatively calm, but Zoe and Carrie, due to their personalities, appeared very nervous, which gave Fiona an opening.
"You're lying! What exactly were you doing?!"
Seeing that they couldn't hide the truth anymore, Myrtle decided to go all in and directly questioned Fiona.
"I'm asking you a question: are you really Fiona Goode?!"
Myrtle could tell if someone was lying. If Fiona answered this question, she would know the truth.
Fiona naturally knew what answering this question meant, so she chose to evade it.
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
There were no idiots present, well, maybe there were. Zoe and Carrie were pretty clueless.
Everyone else had already guessed the truth from Fiona's evasion.
So, Myrtle gave Cordelia a look, and the two of them suddenly acted at the same time.
Two massive fireballs materialized in their hands and flew towards Fiona in the distance.
Fiona was furious. The two fireballs exploded in mid-air, and a wave of fire instantly raised the temperature in the room.
"How dare you attack the Supreme Witch!"
"Scatter! You guys run!"
Cordelia remembered the students around them. To prevent them from being caught in the crossfire, she and Myrtle had to stand in front of them.
Most of the young witches were quick-witted and scattered to find cover in time, but Carrie was a bit slow to react.
As a result, Carrie was also caught in the battle.
Fiona raised her hand, and Cordelia, Myrtle, and Carrie were lifted to the ceiling as if gravity had reversed, unable to move.
"You... dare... to attack the great Supreme Witch!"
Fiona spoke each word deliberately, showing her inner rage.
The powerful aura she released made even Madison and the others, who were hiding, start to feel scared.
"Madison, what do we do?"
Zoe was the most scared because her power was weak, she hadn't mastered any witchcraft, and her natural witch talent was terrible.
Madison gritted her teeth.
"We know this woman's secret. She'll never let us go! We have to band together and fight her!"
"But she's the Supreme Witch!"
Emma was also a bit panicked. She had been burned by the Supreme Witch before.
Maria surprisingly agreed with Madison.
"Madison's right. This woman will definitely not let us go. We have to risk it and attack together!"
As she spoke, Maria took the lead and created a spirit double, charging towards Fiona.
Fiona's senses were fully alert, and she reacted very quickly.
"You want to betray the Supreme Witch too!"
Just as she was about to attack, Fiona suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head, as if a nail had been hammered into her brain.
This was Emma using her power. She was still too young, and her witch talent could only disrupt Fiona slightly.
But thankfully, Madison also attacked at the same time. Her telekinesis was also very powerful, and combined with Emma's mental control, they successfully held Fiona in place for a solid second.
The outcome of a battle is often decided in that single second.
The final blow was delivered by Maria's spirit double. Her sister, Elaine, directly pierced Fiona's body and ripped out her heart.
Fiona fell to the ground lifelessly, and the three witches pinned to the ceiling also dropped down.
"Ouch!"
The three witches took a nasty fall, especially Myrtle. She was the same age as Fiona, over sixty, and couldn't handle that kind of rough treatment.
Her old bones almost broke.
Cordelia quickly helped Myrtle up and then looked at the fallen Fiona.
"Is she dead?"
After all, this woman's body looked like her own mother, so Cordelia couldn't help but feel a little sad.
But witches had all sorts of strange abilities, and she might even be able to revive, so they still needed to check Fiona's body.
At this moment, Myrtle suddenly convulsed, her eyes rolling back as if she were forcibly entering a trance.
"No! She's still alive! You're no match for her, run!"
Prophets with the Sight would occasionally be forced into a trance under certain circumstances. At this time, they could clearly see future events, but this state also took a huge toll on their bodies.
So, after saying those two sentences, Myrtle immediately collapsed to the ground, drained of strength, while the other witches hadn't even reacted yet.
They then saw Fiona's corpse, which was lying on the ground, suddenly twist and deform, indicating that she hadn't died from Maria ripping out her heart.
"How can this be?"
Maria wanted to control the spirit double to deliver a finishing blow, but Fiona's corpse suddenly burst into purple flames. These flames seemed to burn Elaine, forcing the spirit double to retreat.
Then, the witches saw a part of the flesh split off from Fiona's corpse.
Cordelia immediately thought of Myrtle's earlier prophecy, knowing that something terrible was about to emerge.
"You guys run! Get out of the school, contact the Witch Council, and tell them everything!"
Cordelia handed Myrtle over to Madison. Myrtle had completely lost her ability to fight. Instead of staying here, it was better to have Madison take her out.
At least Myrtle was a member of the Witch Council, and with her testimony, the Council would be more likely to believe them.
As for Cordelia herself, she was prepared to sacrifice herself, wanting to stop whatever was splitting off from Fiona's corpse on her own.
The young witches didn't hesitate and immediately tried to escape the witch school with Myrtle.
"Nobody's getting away!"
The flesh that had split off from Fiona's corpse finally transformed into a woman. This woman was tall and slender, about six feet tall, with curves in all the right places. Her figure was perfect, the kind of body every woman dreamed of.
Her aura was incredibly alluring. It was a good thing that everyone present was female, otherwise they would definitely have been captivated by this woman.
With a wave of her hand, the school doors slammed shut, and purple flames, the same flames that had almost burned Elaine earlier, erupted on the doors.
With another wave, purple flames rose up at all the exits and windows. The witches immediately looked wary; all escape routes were blocked.
"W-What do we do?"
Zoe, the weakest among them, was already panicking.
"We'll just have to kill her again!"
Maria was still relatively calm. After all, she had just successfully taken down Fiona, so her confidence was probably through the roof.
Cordelia quickly stopped the eager young witches.
"Don't be rash! Myrtle has already seen the future. You guys need to run now!"
"But... where do we go?"
All the exits were blocked by purple flames. Unless the young witches could break through this witchcraft, there was no way for them to leave.
"You can't escape. You might as well surrender to me!"
The beautiful woman looked at the young witches, her eyes filled with coldness. She was clearly very angry.
It was impossible for the beautiful woman not to be angry. After all, she had been lurking in the Witch Coven for hundreds of years, and now she was back to square one.
Unless the beautiful woman could immediately find a new Supreme Witch to possess, she would have to start over.
At this moment, Cordelia pulled out a vial of liquid that glowed with a blue light.
"Mother, I've always wanted to earn your approval, even though I knew it was impossible. My talent is just too weak, so I can only rely on external means to achieve this wish!"
As she spoke, Cordelia drank the potion in one gulp. Her body instantly burst into ghostly blue flames.
The ghostly blue flames didn't harm Cordelia's clothes, but her face aged visibly.
This was a magic potion that burned life force to enhance magical power!
The beautiful woman's expression changed. The magical power produced by this suicidal potion made her feel a bit wary.
Then, Cordelia roared loudly at the beautiful woman.
"Mother, do you see my determination?"
The ghostly blue flames formed a ghostly blue phoenix that flew towards the beautiful woman. The immense magical power distorted the surrounding air.
The beautiful woman didn't try to block the phoenix directly. Although she was strong enough to do so, why bother with such a difficult and thankless task?
So, the beautiful woman teleported to the side, and the ghostly blue phoenix continued its trajectory, crashing into the door and completely dissolving the purple flames and the door itself.
"Run!"
So, that was Cordelia's goal. She just wanted to use her life to open a path for the students to escape.
Realizing this, the beautiful woman tried to teleport to the doorway again to block the others' escape route, but Cordelia once again unleashed ghostly blue phoenixes to protect them.
These phoenixes seemed to have the ability to distinguish friend from foe, not harming their own side but damaging the beautiful woman.
"You think that's going to let them get away?"
The beautiful woman felt extremely angry, but Cordelia was now throwing her life away, so she couldn't do anything to her for the time being. She could only wear her down until her life force was exhausted.
At this point, Cordelia's hair had turned completely white, and her face was covered in wrinkles, but she wore a relieved smile.
"They'll definitely be able to escape. Myrtle must have seen this scene, which is why she told them to run!"
"Hmph! Then I'll just catch them and burn them to death in front of your corpse!"
"You won't succeed!"
Cordelia didn't have much life force left, so she prepared to make a final gamble, even though the odds were slim.
A large number of ghostly blue flowers appeared on the floor of the foyer, each flower containing terrifying energy, completely surrounding the beautiful woman.
The beautiful woman's expression changed. If all the energy within these ghostly blue flowers were to explode, even she would suffer a significant blow.
So, the beautiful woman decisively tried to teleport out of the witch school, but just then, her ankle was bound by an iron chain.
"When did this happen?"
The beautiful woman looked up and saw that Cordelia's ankle was also bound by an iron chain.
Cordelia had secretly cast a spell at some point, linking the two of them together, so neither could move.
"Let's go to hell together!"
The ghostly blue flowers bloomed, and beams of energy shot through the ceiling and into the sky, lighting up most of the sky.
The commotion was so great that people probably dozens of miles away could see it.
The witch school instantly began to collapse. Thankfully, this was the school's foyer, and the students' sleeping quarters were in the back.
But with such a huge noise, the other students and teachers probably wouldn't be able to sleep either. After all, the witch school's foyer looked like it had been hit by a cannon.
Madison and the others, who had already escaped some distance away, also saw this spectacular scene. Their eyes all showed sadness.
Although Principal Cordelia usually didn't have much presence, and even Madison didn't really respect her, she still sacrificed herself to protect the students at the critical moment.
The more emotional Zoe and Carrie had even started wiping away tears.
"Principal Cordelia... do you think she and that woman took each other out?"
Maria still remained calm.
"I don't think it's that simple, otherwise Myrtle wouldn't have told us to run."
Myrtle was still unconscious. She had lost consciousness after her Sight was involuntarily activated.
"Let's go quickly. Don't let Principal Cordelia's sacrifice be in vain!"
Madison urged the others, and as the witches turned around, they saw the beautiful woman appear in front of them.
The beautiful woman was covered in dust and had some scrapes, looking quite disheveled overall, but her aura was still terrifying.
Clearly, Cordelia's final attack hadn't seriously injure the beautiful woman. She still possessed formidable fighting power.
Zoe began to despair.
"How could this happen?"
The other young witches' morale also plummeted.
Emma started to think that if her cousin Roy were here, everything would be alright.
"Wouldn't it have been better to just surrender? Why make things so ugly? This isn't dignified for anyone!"
Because of the commotion just now, the beautiful woman knew that she couldn't hide what had happened anymore. Now, she just wanted to kill all the witnesses.
At this moment, Carrie stepped forward.
"You guys go. I'll hold her off!"
Madison looked at Carrie in shock, not expecting this quiet girl who usually kept to herself to bravely step forward at this moment.
"Are you serious, Carrie?"
Carrie nodded solemnly.
"I've been an outcast since I was little. Even my own mother hated me. I never had any friends. But I found real friendship at the witch school. I don't want my friends to die!"
The other young witches fell silent.
The beautiful woman burst out laughing.
"Carrie, what do you think you can use to stop me? Your bloodline from hell? Then go ahead and try!"
Carrie closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, only determination remained.
"A boy once told me: your origin doesn't determine who you become. What truly determines who you become is what's in your heart!"
Carrie all grown up
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