Witch Forest

## Overview

A place where witches live. Located in Leonine Dukedom, west Silk Line. It has been around for about 100 years. It contains two opposing villages.

After the events with the Devil Rune Chimera, the Witch Forest is tentatively disbanded, as all the residents signed a 50 year contract with Evan. They were to work as guards of Menaton Estate, escort troops of the Brotherhood Corporation wagons, and as explorers in Sherden Dungeon City, on a three-month-rotation basis. Ctheasil works as a researcher with Evan, mainly researching the Devil Runes, but also helping with the Elixir research.

They made a guild in the dungeon city called 'The Bloody Apple'.

## Ctheasil's Village

It was not somewhere you could just go. You would arrive only after disabling a barrier that only witches could detect and move in a specific way, and even then, you would need to get into the distorted road. Ctheasil claims this safety mechanism was designed to hide them from the Devil Rune creatures. This is later disproven when it is revealed that she was the one who created the Devil Rune creatures.

It consisted of seven witches, including the village chief Ctheasil, and 22 other men. Moreover, all witches were maintaining their younger appearance, but men varied from middle-aged to elderly. They were all people who were slated for exile from Melonia's village.

All the witches who followed Ctheasil were of the young ones. Those who followed Ctheasil did so because they don’t want to lose their loved ones during a stroke of the moment.

## Melonia's Village

Consisted of 20 witches and 30 servants(men). Melonia commented that the Witch Forest is too scarce to maintain a village, and strictly manages a system created to ensure that witches do not go extinct.

The witches don’t have separate companions. To live more efficiently, they would sometimes bring in and share outside seeds to give birth to stronger witches. And if it’s judged that they are not useful after receiving the seeds, they are managed for several years and exiled. If a witch gives birth to a man, after nurturing him until adulthood, and after several years together as a servant, they are also exiled. And no matter what, witches do not accept the seed of their own child. Meloin claims that the exiles are given enough wealth and strength for them to live in the outside world.

The servant system has been around since at least Melonia's great-grandmother's generation. Meloin believes that it would be too difficult for witches, with their low birthrates, to have children unless they are managed this way.

## Trivia

* Every single witch that belonged to the Bloody Apple liked Evan very much, but there was a group of witches that were specifically devoted to Evan (for example, Selune). The other group also liked Evan, but were willing to search for other excellent men (usually the elders, including Melonia).
* Witches from the village aren't considered adults until 30 years old.
* If a witch reveals her Rune to a foreigner, it means she is ready to bind her destiny with them - be it killing them or marrying them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 208
2. ↑ Chapter 215
3. ↑ Chapter 219
4. ↑ Chapter 201
5. ↑ Chapter 202
6. ↑ Chapter 212
7. ↑ Chapter 223
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 244