Story For The Blasphemy: Ice Witch

(Part 2.) The start of an ordeal

The destination wasn't that long , it was just that both Sogita and Kaiel had wandered around previously; not to mention they were kinda lost due to a single person leading the way.

Sogita, the boy leading the way, whom looses his sense of direction everytime he stops using his powers is similar to a guide who lost his sight after staying outdoors for a long period of time.

Alas, the one in the lead should be Kaiel who has the knowledge of a supercomputer.

She just wanted to find an opening where Sogita rarely let his guard down. Especially in a dark woods where only barely anyone are able to hear him moan in pleasure(scream in terror).

Upon entering the village, they were met with a small wooden fence that was coated with the drizzles of the snow. It was hardly visible due to the lack of light and it almost completely blend with the environment.

As they passed the entrance of the fence, both of them felt a familiar sensation of something intangible coursing through them.

It was a barrier, a magical barrier one.
Although weak, it was enough to shroud the entire village from low level mystical creatures. The barrier was even strong enough to ward of unwanted entities, such as a lingering curse from the dead.

The corner stone would likely be in the middle of the village were its diameter was a 100km wide protection.

It was small compared to those environmental domes which those metropolitan cities have as means of keeping large class of monsters.
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The village was simple as it can be. The log houses were scattered asymetrically and the roofs were accumilating snow that made the shape of an irregular triangle.

The outer part of the houses lack distinction from one another; all of which looked pretty much the same for Sogita. No matter how many times he try to compair one house from the one close to it, all of them looked exactly the same.

All of the log houses only have one floor and there was only one entrance via door leading to the house; no back doors were found.

What lacks in this village the is concret; establisgments and obvious signs of modernization such as electrical poles.

This is a post-apocalyptic era where magic exists, so it wasn't odd for a single house to use magical means of generating electricty and even have internet connection in them. To say the least, anyone could even make a machine with perpetual motion to generate unlimited energy.

The downside to that: even if magic exists, they still need to follow the same laws that the universe has given them, e.g. the law of conservation of energy.

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It was dark, the only source were the lights coming from the houses were luminous enough for the drizzling snow to be visible.

"We're here." said the old man spreading his arms as to welcome. Repeating the same gestutes to someone who had already seen the village seems redundant, but still, welcoming is somewhat lighthearted in contrast to who they are.

"Hmm... I don't remember this." said Sogita as he scaled the area with his eyes until he was fixed on a small crowd of people. If I mean people, I also mean the non-humans that were mixed in with the crowed.

Sogita was the second among them who have noticed the group, Kaiel was first. The only reason he didn't mention it first is how she predicted something bothersome will happen, for her at least.

Then the old man finally caught on.

"Oh no." the old man muttered to himself barely even trying to hide it himself. With a short worried glance at his grand kids, he then proceeded to where to crowd gathered and before he could reach them, he told the kids to head home without him, for them to stay there and wait for him.