dark witches rise

Chapter 182 The Friendship between the Dryad and the Human Race
Three days later, the pharmacists gathered together again.

Among the hundreds of pharmacists, some stood expressionless, some looked anxious, and some bit their lips in despair.

The dryad Glock standing at the front looked at the people below with a smile on his face.

"Susie...White...Aaron..."

"Finn... Megan... Wilbur..."

As the dryad Glock read the names one by one, everyone whose name was read breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they didn't want to help the tree refine medicines, and they didn't want to be imprisoned and used as refining tools to live, but it was much better than being tortured by the tree and living in pain that was worse than death for the rest of their lives.

After the dryad Glock finished reading the six names of No.20, the moment it stopped, all the faces of the rest of them turned extremely pale.

That means they all failed!
And once they fail, what greets them is the terrifying tree punishment!

Thinking of the tragic situation of those who were tortured by the tree, and thinking that they will become one of them, their faces became bloodless.

"Impossible! I have refined an intermediate potion? How could I be unqualified?"

"Please give me another chance. My talent is not inferior to those pharmacists in the inner courtyard. I am only inferior to them because of my poor family and lack of good resources and teachers. I will definitely be able to surpass those so-called geniuses in the future." of!"

"What tree punishment? I will not accept that horrible criminal law!"

"It's better to die than tree punishment!"

A few unqualified people showed a determined look and slammed their heads against the wall.

But when their heads were about to touch the wall, they stopped suddenly.

It is definitely not that they are afraid of death.

What is death compared with the punishment of the tree?

It's the symbiotic vines on their bodies that control their bodies and prevent them from dying.

People parasitized by symbiotic vines cannot even die without the permission of the dryad.

Dryad Glock looked at the losers coldly, and then his eyes fell on Roja and other people who passed the examination.

"Congratulations to everyone who successfully passed the assessment and became a member of our medicine cage."

"As I said before, in our medicine cage, apart from not being able to move freely, your life is definitely much better than you imagined."

"Now, I will give you the first benefit, that is..."

Dryad Glock's eyes fell on those losers, "You can choose one of the losers as your assistant."

"what?"

"Really?"

Dryad Glock's words made everyone present, whether they were failed or qualified, look surprised.

Those losers originally thought that they were hopeless and would spend the rest of their lives in the horror of tree punishment. Didn't they think there was another chance?
As long as you become an assistant, you can get rid of the threat of tree punishment.

But there are only more than 20 qualified pharmacists, and there are nearly a hundred losers!
There are more monks and less meat. Among the more than 100 losers, only 20 people can stay as assistants in the end.

"Me! Me! Choose me!"

"Wei Bo, do you still remember? We are classmates studying under the same teacher."

"White, I actually like you very much. I rejected you only because I was worried about affecting your pharmacy. My heart is also very painful. I can only fall asleep by chanting your name every night."

"Susie, it's so nice, I thought we were going to separate."

The whole room suddenly became a mess.

It's good to have feelings, hug each other and cry happily.

It seemed that they had a good relationship before, but in fact they were just brothers on the surface.

There were those who didn't want to accept the tree punishment and begged bitterly.

Among the many pharmacists, two of them stand out.

One of them, Tina Cyril!
Who would have thought that this inner court genius, this eldest lady from Duke Cyril's family, this elegant and beautiful Kaolin Flower who was the dream lover of countless men, would become a member of the failure group?
Many qualified pharmacists were drooling looking at Tina's beautiful face.

They were not even worthy of talking to Tina before, but now they might have a chance to get Tina, a stunning beauty?
Can be Tina's master?
Can you do whatever you want with Tina?

But when they saw a handsome man walking towards Tina, they suppressed their desires and retreated.

The person approaching Tina was none other than one of the five talented pharmacists in the inner court, and Aaron from the Earl of Kailan family who fought against Tina in the Young Lions Court!

Under everyone's attention, Aaron walked towards Tina step by step with a playful smile on his face.

When he came to Tina, Aaron laughed obscenely while looking at various parts of Tina's body with obscene eyes.

"Think about me, Aaron, as the son of the Earl of Kailan, who is expected to become a potion master in the future, a genius who will inherit the title of Earl, but was caught by the dryads and brought to this ghostly place, and will spend the rest of his life as a medicine refining tool."

"Do you know how angry I am?"

"Do you know how sad I am?"

"I didn't expect such a happy thing to happen in this desperate and dark situation."

"Is that so, my Miss Tina?"

Aaron reached out and touched Tina's tender face.

"Hmph!" Tina snorted coldly and turned away from Aaron's hand.

Not only did Aaron not feel angry when he touched the empty space, but he laughed out loud.

Tina's resistance is what he likes. If Tina directly accepts her fate and accepts the established ending with ashamed heart, he will feel bored instead.

"Dear Miss Tina, you don't seem to understand the current situation?"

"As a member of the losing group, if you can't become an assistant to someone we present, then you will have to suffer the terrible tree punishment and live in pain for the rest of your life."

"Are you thinking that you can also be someone else's assistant besides me?"

As he spoke, Aaron looked around, and everyone who touched his line of sight immediately lowered their heads.

"If I don't choose you, I can guarantee that no one here will dare to choose you!" Aaron sneered.

No one at the scene rebutted.

Great people are privileged wherever they are.

When he was in the Young Lions Academy, Aaron was the pharmacist in the inner courtyard, and his father was the earl. Except for a few people, everyone else had to give him face.

got here.

In the medicine cage established by this dryad, although the differences in identity were smoothed out.

Whether it is a duke or an earl outside, here they are just the medicine refining tool of the tree spirit, and everything can be done on its own merits.

However, even regardless of his identity, Aaron's pharmacy level and talent are still the strongest among them!

The strong will always have some privileges, and I believe there is no exception in the dryad's medicine cage.

Tina is beautiful, but is it worth offending Aaron for a beauty?
You can still run outside, the land of the Six Kingdoms is so big, where can't you go?It's a big deal to go to other countries by sea.

But I can't run even if I want to run here!

Tina obviously knew this too, and if she offended Aaron, her life would definitely not be easy in the future.

Maybe Aaron would really leave her to be hanged in a fit of rage?
Even if Aaron really chooses her to be his assistant, if he doesn't please Aaron, he doesn't have to think about how he will torture her next.

Thinking of this, mist appeared in the eyes of the always strong Tina.

Thinking that a few days ago, she was still the granddaughter of the high-ranking duke, surrounded by a bunch of people to compliment her.

It's only been a few days now, but she has become the most trashy existence among their class of pharmacists. She needs to please those people she despises and hates in order to live.

Seeing Tina's complex expressions of sadness, pain, despair, etc., Aaron was very happy, and the haze in his heart caused by being caught by the tree spirit dissipated a lot.

He leaned his head towards Tina.

Facing Aaron who was approaching her, Tina showed an extremely disgusted and uncomfortable expression on her face. Her hands shook violently, obviously wanting to slap Aaron on the face, but she held back.

"Suck--"

Aaron leaned his face in front of Tina and took a deep breath, the girl's fragrance fascinated him.

"Suck--"

"Suck--"

Aaron kept sucking in breath around Tina, smiling intoxicatedly with his eyes closed.

Aaron's wretched and obscene appearance makes it impossible to imagine that he is the same person as the calm, heroic, polite and noble boy brother who was the dream lover of countless girls when he was in the Young Lions Academy.

Seeing Tina who couldn't bear it any longer, whose body was trembling and almost crying, Aaron said in Tina's ear in a voice that everyone could hear: "Hey, come, call me master."

Although Tina still didn't speak in the end, Aaron was already very satisfied, and now his mind was full of fantasies about how he should insult Tina in the future.

Glock the Dryad doesn't care about human farce.

"The next step is to officially start selecting assistants, starting with the best performers..."

Before the dryad Glock finished speaking, Aaron was already staring straight at Tina, almost drooling.

"Vic Cyril, which assistant do you choose?" Dryad Glock's eyes fell on Roja.

"what?"

"Isn't it Aaron?"

"Vic who has improved the potion of oxblood? I know he is very talented in the beast school, but what the dryad needs is the potion of the herbal school!"

"Can surpass Aaron to become the number one? How is it possible?"

People murmured in shock.

The most shocking among them was Aaron.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, Roja's eyes fell on Tina, "I will choose her as my assistant, Tina Cyril."

"Really?"

Tina, who had lowered her head and accepted the cruel fate in despair, suddenly raised her head and looked at Roja happily after hearing Roja's words, she was so happy that she almost danced on the spot.

"you dare!"

Aaron yelled angrily, and stared straight at Roja, with a ferocious look of wanting to swallow Roja alive.

"Why don't I dare?" Roja smiled speechlessly, "Master Aaron, this is not outside, your status as the earl's son can't scare me, you were so arrogant to Tina, the grandson of the duke, I thought you already understood That makes sense."

Aaron stared at Roja with a distorted face.

Although he thought it was impossible, Roja's pharmacy was better than him, so he could barely accept it.

But Roja actually snatched his Tina?

His only pleasure in this dark and cruel cage?
"How could he rank above me?"

Because of being too angry and unbelievable, Aaron forgot his fear for a moment, and questioned the tree spirit Glock.

"In the past three days, I have refined one bottle of high-level potion and three bottles of mid-level potion!"

Aaron is not yet a senior pharmacist, and the success rate of refining high-level potions is not high every time, and it consumes a lot of energy.

In the past, every time he refined high-level potions, he needed to prepare them a few days in advance. After refining, he would be exhausted for a long time, and he needed to rest for several days to recover.

But this time under heavy pressure, he actually made a breakthrough. He felt that he had vaguely stepped into the realm of a senior pharmacist, and it only took a month or two to slowly consolidate, and he would be able to Can become a real senior pharmacist.

That's why he was able to refine one bottle of high-level potion and three bottles of mid-level potion in three days.

He believed that after making a breakthrough, his level of pharmacy was absolutely outstanding among the younger generation, and Tina, who was comparable to him before, was stabilized by him.

Then someone told him that he lost?
He knew that Roja improved the primary potion, the cow blood potion, but improving the primary potion and being able to refine high-level potions were completely different things.

"I don't believe he can beat me!" Aaron roared with a distorted expression.

Regarding Aaron's rudeness, it may be because of Aaron's relatively high level of pharmacy, but the dryad Glock was not angry.

"Your name is Aaron, right? You are very powerful and very talented. There is a high probability that you will be able to become a potion master in the future, but it is a pity..." Glock, the dryad, fixed his fiery gaze on Roja, "He has been working for three days. Five bottles of high-level healing potions were refined from here."

silence!

Everyone was stunned by what the dryad Glock said.

The refining of each bottle of advanced potion is very time-consuming and mentally consuming.

It takes at least eight hours to complete the entire refining process for a bottle of advanced healing potion.

Even if the success rate of five bottles of advanced wound healing potion is [-]%, it will take forty hours to refine.

However, the dryad gave them only three days, a total of 48 hours!

In other words, Roja only rested for eight hours during the three days?
And it needs to be [-]% successful in refining before there is an eight-hour rest period. If there is a failure in the middle, there is no rest time.

Is such a thing possible?
Even if it is the most powerful senior pharmacist, it is impossible to refine five bottles of advanced healing potion in three days, right?
Everyone was stunned by what the dryad Glock said. They really wanted to shout that it was impossible, and asked loudly whether the other party had colluded.

The question is why did the dryad collude with Roja?
Is there any benefit in partnering with Roja to cheat them?

So no matter how reluctant he was, he had to admit the fact that Roja had refined five bottles of advanced healing potions, and the level of pharmacy was even stronger than that of Aaron!

Everyone was silent.

Even Aaron can only accept this fact with hatred.

"Next, Aaron Kellan, choose your assistant..."

Not long after everyone has chosen their assistants.

The rest of the unwanted losers stood in despair, some crying, some pleading desperately, some scared the shit out of them.

But no matter what they do, Dryad Glock will show no mercy to these losers.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh! ——

One by one vines protruded from the surrounding walls. Amidst the creepy screams, a pharmacist was tied up and dragged away, and then he was dragged down to execute the tree punishment.

The number of people in the room decreased by more than half.

There were more than 100 people standing there, and the crowded room suddenly became much emptier.

Dryad Glock looked at the rest of the people with a smile, "I personally respect you pharmacists very much, but human beings are the enemies of our dryads after all. My clansmen want to kill you all. They are willing to let go."

"You will not die, but the pain of flesh and blood is inevitable."

"Here, you need to receive a hundred lashes every ten days. Only by becoming a potion master can you be completely pardoned."

"Before becoming a potion master, every time you refine a bottle of intermediate potion, you can save one whip; every time you refine a bottle of high-level potion, you can save ten whips; and through refining potions, you can save up to fifty whips."

"Next, according to the contribution ranking, No.1 can be exempted from an additional 2 lashes, and No. [-] can be exempted from an additional [-] lashes..."

"No.5 can save an additional ten whips."

Looking at the trembling people, the dryad Glock comforted: "Don't worry, the whips we use for whipping are specially made, they will only cause pain and not hurt people."

"Then now..."

Dryad Glock waved back, "Except for No.1 Vik himself, everyone else received a hundred lashes each!"

"Wait!" Aaron yelled, "Aren't I No.2? Can't I be exempted from whipping?"

"I may not be clear enough to make you misunderstand. The ranking I am talking about is not the ranking among you people, but the ranking of all the pharmacists in our entire medicine cage!"

"Don't you think that there are only more than 20 pharmacists in the medicine cage?"

"I remember your name was Aaron?"

"You are very talented, and your level of pharmacy is pretty good."

"But in our medicine cage, even if seven potion masters are eliminated, among the remaining pharmacists, your level will not be able to enter the top [-]."

"If you don't want to suffer whipping, work hard in the next few days."

"As for now?"

Dryad Glock waved his hand, "Whip, start!"

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh! ——

The vines waved in the room, lashing towards the pharmacists except Roja.

Who can become a pharmacist, who is not from a rich family?Who hasn't been spoiled since childhood?When did you suffer this pain?

For a moment, the room was filled with the screams of ghosts and wolves.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped! ——

In his spare time, Roja still had time to count the number of whips that everyone was whipped.

Dryad Glock is still very trustworthy, saying that a hundred lashes is a hundred lashes, and one lash is not more and one lash is not less.

But there is one exception.

Roja found that when the whip made of vines beat someone, it was extra forceful and fast. When others were beaten with a hundred whips, that person was beaten with a full 120 whips.

Looking at Aaron, who was crying and screaming under the whip, obviously more embarrassed than the others, Roja knew that it was Glock, the dryad, who was taking revenge on Aaron.

Revenge for Aaron's rudeness just now.

After the whipping, everyone except Roja lay on the ground.

Although the body was not injured at all, the severe pain had already made them extremely exhausted mentally, and they didn't even want to move a finger.

They couldn't help thinking—

It's just that the whipping every ten days is so painful.

How much pain will those people who will live under the torture of tree torture 24 hours a day, 360 days a year, and for the next tens or hundreds of years?

Just thinking about it, their bodies trembled with fear.

"Congratulations to all the pharmacists who have officially become a member of our medicine cage."

"Next, I hope you can refine the potion well and make good contributions to our dryads. As long as you do well, we will never treat you badly."

"And if you let us down, if you don't refine enough potions, or if you do something that hurts the friendship between our dryads and the human race..."

Dryad Glock shook his hand, and his tone became extremely cold, "We still have punishments more terrifying than tree punishment."

Dryad Glock's icy tone was blowing in everyone's heart like a gust of cold wind from the extreme north. Everyone trembled and nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.

(End of this chapter)