"Therefore, Miss Xia Ye, I might as well tell you what we are going to do next:
“If you want to resist, we will first deprive you of your ability to resist, and then restrict your ability to move to prevent you from escaping or having other accidents;
"Next, I will use the ability granted by the contract named "Malbas" and the contract name "Eye of True" to explore the magic situation in your body, as well as the conditions you have signed with other people and yourself in the past three years. All deeds passed to confirm whether you are indeed bankrupt.
"If you are not bankrupt, then please rest assured that we will never pose any threat to your life. We will only use some necessary means to remove the 120 moles of magic power from your body and return it to Miss Lilian.
"But if you are bankrupt, I'm sorry, you will enter the bankruptcy liquidation process. First, we will remove all the magic power from your body - of course you will die in the process; then, we will remove the cup and the witch from your body. Contract, count the properties you left behind, sell them all, and exchange them for magic power; finally, after giving priority to returning 120 magic power to Miss Lillian, we will notify other creditors of the remaining balance in accordance with the requirements of the relevant provisions of the "Obligation Law" , allocate them - of course, we can also charge a small handling fee during the allocation process."
"The above are all the things I am obliged to tell you, Miss Xia Ye."
After the black-haired witch finished speaking, she raised the metal staff in her hand and placed it across her chest in a posture ready for battle; the companions on both sides of her also followed suit and made exactly the same movements.
Xia Ye remembered that the short staff they held was originally a broom more than one meter long, but after deformation, it was only one foot long. Now it seems that in addition to riding, it seems to be used as a weapon?
"What is that? A staff?" she asked
"I have already answered your last question." The black-haired witch said coldly.
"Okay, okay." Xia Ye shook the triangular hood up and down, "Give me some time to think about it, just a few minutes."
The other party acquiesced.
Sure enough... Xia Ye thought silently.
Debts do not need to be recovered. Insolvency means bankruptcy. After bankruptcy, assets need to be frozen, inventoried, and disposed of, and then repaid to creditors to the maximum extent possible.
——These practices are not unfamiliar to Xia Ye. In the world before the time travel, everyone did the same thing. Even Xia Ye was engaged in related work.
But the problem is: in this world, currency is magic, and magic is necessary for the witch to survive.
In the original world, even if a person was penniless, his heart would not stop beating immediately; but here, if a witch is drained of her magic power, she will die immediately.
It can be said that the sentence "people will die without money" has been reflected in the most perfect and literal sense in this world.
And that's not even the cruelest thing.
From Xia Ye's point of view, what surprised her most was that "bankruptcy" was equivalent to death.
In the original world, if a company or a person became insolvent, it would go bankrupt. After bankruptcy, someone would inventory and dispose of the remaining assets to repay creditors.
But in the final analysis, this is the disposal of external belongings and will not involve the bankrupt himself.
In this world, money is magic, and the value of all commodities is also magic. If a witch is "bankrupt", or insolvent, it means that she no longer has a positive amount of magic power legally, that is, legally already dead.
Xia Ye knew very well that in a sophisticated society, if a person is legally judged to be dead, then she is not far from true death.
No wonder the way Lilian looked at her suddenly seemed like she was looking at a dead person.
The post-bankruptcy disposition is obviously a process that physically kills the bankrupt. .
Just as the black-haired witch told her, the magic power in the bankrupt's body will be forcibly removed, and even the cup and contract will be taken out of the body. After doing this, the bankrupt will obviously have only death.
Very good, this is very hardcore. It seems that this is not a witch world where the weak protects the soft.
Thinking of this, Xia Ye felt a little inexplicably excited.
Of course she would not let the other party plunder her delicate and beautiful body. Moreover, if the other party saw her empty cup, they would just arrest her as a monster and then dissect and study her.
Therefore, she was going to test another of her guesses. If her guess was correct, the solution to the problem at hand might be surprisingly simple.
——First, you need to overdraw the magic power of 2,400 moles.
Xia Ye focused her attention on the "cup" between her chest and abdomen. From the empty cup, she extracted a large piece of magic power out of thin air, controlled it to flow through her fingertips, and injected it into the crystal that sealed the "rift" contract.
At the same time, she chanted in a low voice in witch script:
"QdS-"
The black rune in the crystal suddenly disappeared, and at the same time, an identical rune appeared in the middle of Xia Ye's back, level with the shoulder blades.
The shape of the rune is asymmetrical. On the right side, a complex curve outlines a mirrored "C" shape, and on the left side, there is an S-shaped curve with a pointed end, like a succubus' tail.
This was the first time she signed a witch contract after traveling to this world. A strong burning sensation appeared, as if a soldering iron was pressed on her skin, causing her slender back to tremble like an electric shock. If it hadn't been for Xia Ye tried her best to hold back, maybe she had screamed.
Immediately afterwards, something seemed to emerge from the deep below, using the runes as an entrance, and penetrated into Xia Ye's body. She couldn't help but lowered her "head" and glanced. However, except for the floor and her own white skin, Silk feet, she saw nothing.
This feeling ended quickly, the burning sensation quickly subsided, and the presence that penetrated the body also disappeared. Instead, Xia Ye discovered that she had learned a magic and knew information about it.
She already has access to Rift. According to the terms in the contract, it can be used twice within every 30 performance days.
The black-haired witch was the first to notice the clue.
"Do it!"
She gave a low shout and rushed towards Xia Ye decisively, while reciting the witch script.
Her two companions were only delayed for a moment, and then they also uttered the syllables of witch script.
But Xia Ye had already completed the signing of the contract. She spoke almost at the same time as her opponent, reciting the witch characters required to cast "rift".
"Lv-■-sL-■-smdS, QdS-"
The moment the last syllable was uttered, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, a crack more than three meters long opened silently above the heads of the four people. The crack was dark and lightless, as if it was just an empty void, but Xia Ye felt inexplicably, There seems to be something entrenched in it, radiating its terrifying and weird aura through the cracks to the world.
