Chapter 1 Forest Witch

Facing Li Ang's question, the forest witch was momentarily speechless, her expression suggesting she wanted to find a hole and crawl into it.

Seeing her not answer, Li Ang gave an "hm?" The witch instantly felt the forest around her, which should have been peaceful and harmonious, show immense malice towards her.

Roots, branches, fallen leaves, vines, moss—every part of the forest seemed to grow pairs of eyes, silently staring at her with cold, gloomy gazes.

The air seemed to solidify, stifling and silent. She couldn't feel the forest's affinity, and the witchcraft she relied on was completely unusable.

This despair, as if abandoned and hated by the world...

This was suppression from a high-level transcendent being.

A sorcerer? A druid? Or an agent of a divine will matching his Eastern monk appearance?

The forest witch's mind raced. As Li Ang took a step forward, she felt inexplicably heavy all over, and her heart stopped beating as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer.

"If it's an adult born spellcaster who has been awakened for a long time, there are almost no ways to make them lose their special abilities without harming them,"

The forest witch said quickly, even at this moment not forgetting to use the neutral word "them" to avoid any suspicion of gender discrimination,

"But, if it is a born spellcaster who has just awakened, there are ways to prevent them from using their abilities."

Li Ang said in a cold tone, "Tell me about it."

The witch swallowed. "A spellcaster's power comes from the world itself, manifested through the combined effect of language, gestures, and intent.

"The first method is to make small cuts on the awakened spellcaster's spine, wrists, and ankles, implanting a special kind of parasite that prevents them from making gestures or concentrating, thereby sealing their ability to release witchcraft.

"However, this kind of parasite has been extinct for more than a decade and can no longer be found now."

The witch glanced imperceptibly at Li Ang's face, and after finding that he had no expression, she immediately added, "The second method is through long-term brainwashing,

"Making the born spellcaster subconsciously believe that they are an ordinary person, thereby sealing their ability.

"This method is safer, but it is necessary to find a mentalist who specializes in studying the human mind to handle it.

"It takes a long time and the effect is slow,

"And if the spellcaster is stimulated again, they are likely to break the seal and regain their power.

"I have several mentalist friends who have good relationships. They have been to many places before, using psychological diagnosis and potion correction to cure many naturally awakened people with mental illnesses—the poorer, more backward, and barbaric a place is, the greater the probability of becoming awakened."

This information should have been a secret tacitly concealed by transcendents.

But at this critical moment of life and death, the witch completely disregarded the onlookers and told everything truthfully, daring not to hide anything.

"The third method is to give them a special blended magic potion for a long time. The raw materials for this potion are rare and the process is complicated, so it is difficult to buy on the market..."

"You,"

Li Ang interrupted the witch and asked directly, "You should have brought this kind of magic potion with you, right?"

""

The witch's half-spoken words were stuck in her throat. Feeling the other party's cold, knife-like gaze, she nodded with difficulty. "I brought a little."

"Very good."

Li Ang nodded and had the witch slowly take out a tube of magic potion from her dirty, sloppy coat and place it on the ground.

This bottle of potion could be identified as a special item by the system,

And its effect was to reduce the spellcaster's magic affinity within seven days, making it impossible for the spellcaster to concentrate and cast spells.

This drug could only affect newly awakened natural transcendents at first, but if taken for a long time, it could even affect demigod-level spellcasters.

In addition, the notes on this potion also clearly stated that it could only affect spellcasters in this world who used this kind of spellcasting method.

For transcendents from other worlds, it was about the equivalent of an ordinary laxative.

Li Ang asked about the dosage of the magic potion, and poured it down Hans's and Gretel's throats through the roots,

Then he released the divine imprint, letting the two bear children fall from mid-air.

Bang—

The two bear children slammed their faces solidly on the giant treant's knees, rolled over, and lay beside the forest child girl who had been trash-talking before.

The girl was so frightened that her face was pale,

However, the two bear children, whether frightened by Li Ang or due to the side effects of the magic potion, had even paler faces. They clutched their stomachs and rolled back and forth, whimpering in pain.

"Help! Help! My stomach hurts so much..."

The bear children's cries of pain made Carpenter Hornberg anxious. He didn't care that his children had just been calling him a forest butcher, and rushed over.

Before him, the forest child girl, in order to show her kindness, had already knelt on the ground, anxiously or rather pretending to be anxious, comforting the bear children and rubbing their bellies.

"Your Excellency Witch, what's going on?"

The girl looked up and asked eagerly.

The witch seemed to have remembered something, her face changed, and she looked at the girl and said, "Quick, put them down, the side effect of the magic potion is—"

Puff puff puff crackling—

A roar like churning mud burst open with the bear children as the center,

The two bear children had diarrhea.

The horrified girl was still holding the bear children, her forest child uniform completely stained, emitting a terrifying, hot, and foul odor.

And the two bear children fainted on the spot, lying in the warm mosaic.

Everyone present tacitly took a few steps back, including Li Ang, and everyone stared at the girl kneeling in the middle of the mosaic with a look of admiration.

""

The girl was silent, her hands trembling slightly, and she said nothing.

"—Will make the spellcaster defecate significantly more often than usual, and the stool will be thin, with increased water content, resulting in diarrhea and even incontinence,"

The forest witch slowly finished the second half of her sentence. She glanced at the girl, covered in filth, and then at the silent Eastern monk.

She steeled herself and summoned a few branches from the forest (from a tree that could store a lot of water), suspended above the girl and the two bear children, and sprinkled water like a fountain, washing away the mosaic.

"You should rest for a while."

The witch sighed and summoned vines to strike the back of the dazed girl's neck, knocking her unconscious.

Then, the witch turned her head, looked at Li Ang, and said humbly in a soft voice, "Respected Monk, I am Dorothy Vine, a forest sorceress from the Wicawa Sisterhood. May I ask who you are?"