Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"This potion, it's the kind I took!"

Poro, in the guise of the Bishop, held a notebook he'd found on the desk in the secret chamber, comparing it to the medicines on the wooden shelves.

"What potion?"

"Your grandmother mentioned a mixed potion of Wild Instinct and Demon Corruption."

As Poro spoke, he picked up a vial with a faint glow and sniffed it near his nose.

"What about the other potions?"

Leike scanned the room, noticing the variety and quantity of potions on the wooden shelves around the room.

"I'm still identifying them. I think it's best to set aside the ones we recognize."

Poro glanced at the magic potion notes in his hand, placing the two identified vials to the side. "Some of them seem quite poisonous."

"So, besides mental magic, this Bishop was also an alchemist?"

Leike stopped looking at the potion bottles and began searching through the books in the room.

Although it was a secret chamber, its size was even larger than the Bishop's outer room. Besides the torture instruments that satisfied the Bishop's twisted tastes, it was more like a secret laboratory.

"Who would have thought? This demon was quite talented, doing bad things while also doing research?"

Poro picked up another test tube filled with a golden potion that seemed like flowing gold.

Poro narrowed his eyes and read the notes: "Golden Skin Concoction, effect: invulnerability to blades and spears..."

"Invulnerability to blades and spears?" Leike, who was on the side, was stunned for a moment.

"Yeah, it's a good thing we launched a surprise attack. If we had fought head-on and given this guy time to prepare, it wouldn't be certain who would win!"

Poro closed the first notebook and turned his attention to a book stained with some blood.

Opening it, it turned out to be an extremely bloody and detailed "Human Experiment Log."

"Tsk, were those corpses the porters carried here all killed like this?"

Poro shook his head and looked at Leike. "This 'Bishop' is more like a witch than your grandmother."

"Hey! Don't compare my grandmother to this kind of scum!"

Leike raised a book in her hand, pretending to throw it over. "Forest magic doesn't need to do such cruel things!"

"Okay, my bad."

Poro shrank his neck. "Did you find any books on mental magic or anything related to it in your books?"

"No, but... I found some things that might be related to the Witch Hunter."

"Witch Hunter?"

Poro's gaze sharpened. With the Bishop dead, this "Witch Hunter" was the most powerful enemy.

And this Witch Hunter's body was definitely a thousand times stronger than the Bishop!

Just thinking about the terrifying figure that emerged from the forest storm that day made Poro feel a little helpless.

"What is it? Is there any weakness of the Witch Hunter or anything?"

"No, it seems to be a... magic contract?"

Leike pulled out a scroll from a stack of books. All the writing on the scroll glowed with a faint red light in the darkness.

And at the bottom of the contract were written two names.

It was the real names of the Bishop and the Witch Hunter.

"Magic contract? What's that?"

Poro thought for a moment, then asked, "Can we use the magic contract to directly kill the Witch Hunter or something?"

"I'm afraid not. Magic contracts only take effect on the person who violates the contract."

Leike recalled for a moment, then said, "And even if you destroy this scroll, it won't have any effect. It's just a carrier and witness of magic."

"I see..."

Poro was a little disappointed.

But most of the time, the strong don't have any obvious weaknesses.

Even if that hunter had something like a weakness in his cultivation technique, he definitely wouldn't let others know.

After all, something like Achilles' heel is just wishful thinking in mythology.

"Then... what are the contents of their contract?"

Poro didn't lose heart. He saw that on the contract, besides the signatures of the two, there were also many dense words, which was obviously an extremely detailed contract.

It was impossible for villains like the Bishop and the Witch Hunter to have true friendship.

The only thing that could make them join forces was a strict and cold contract!

"This contract... should be about a permanent alliance agreement and a short-term contract."

Leike looked at the contract and slowly read it.

Although she didn't know magic, under the tutelage of the Forest Witch, she could still read this special contract text.

"The content of the long-term contract is relatively ordinary, a non-aggression agreement between the Bishop and the Witch Hunter, which is... no matter what the situation, they cannot have any thoughts or actions that would harm the other party to the contract."

"That's pretty standard."

"There's also a part where the Witch Hunter needs to protect the Bishop and collect magic potion materials for the Bishop. In addition, the Bishop can designate one person each week for the Witch Hunter to kill, but there are many restrictions on this person."

"Why are these all beneficial to the Bishop?"

Poro thought for a moment. "What about the other contract? What about the Witch Hunter's part?"

"The Bishop needs to provide the Witch Hunter with the potions he needs, including those for combat, and a special magic potion for a special need..."

"Special magic potion?"

Poro vaguely grasped a key point.

Providing combat potions and a free thug of the Witch Hunter's strength was not equal.

The most special bargaining chip should be this "special magic potion" written at the end of the contract.

"What magic potion?"

"Will Forging Compound, a magic potion that greatly enhances mental resistance, must be sufficient to resist the influence of a certain 'root-level' curse."

Hearing this, Poro pulled down the thickest book from the bookshelf on the side. The cover title was "The Principles of Magical Potions", and the cover was already yellowed.

Obviously, the Bishop's magical potion attainments probably all came from this.

"Will Forging Compound... found it."

Poro observed the side of the book, opened a position with a leaf bookmark stuck in it, and on it was the relevant magic potion's formula and effect.

"This is an advanced potion, the materials are extremely rare and difficult to collect, the main ingredient... Heart of the Forest?"

Poro was stunned when he saw this.

He found that in the Will Forging Compound's formula, all the other materials had been circled by the Bishop, and only the main ingredient, a potion called "Heart of the Forest", was left blank.

"Heart of the Forest?"

Leike's expression changed when she heard this, "That's a material that only Forest Witches and some other special forest spirits have!"

"So, is this why the Witch Hunter is going to kill your grandmother?"

Poro also thought of this. "But... what is the influence of the root-level curse? Is the Witch Hunter cursed?"

"It's not written in the contract, but it seems the Witch Hunter can confirm whether he will still be affected."

"If there is too little information, it may not be useful. The only thing we are stronger than the Witch Hunter now may be... intelligence, but what we have now is far from enough!"

Poro closed "The Principles of Magical Potions" in his hand. The Witch Hunter will probably be back soon.

In this situation, learning magical potions is obviously not a good choice.

After all... Poro and Leike don't have photographic memories, and magical potions is not something that immediately improves strength after learning it.

What's more, Poro's most hoped-for mental magic of the Bishop has no clues here.

"Poro, what should we do next?"

"More information, more helpers. With just the two of us, we know too little."

Poro put "The Principles of Magical Potions" back on the bookshelf and took down the Bishop's "Live Experiment Notes" from before and stuffed it into his arms.

"Where do we find that information and... helpers?"

"The dungeon, the Bishop's experimental subjects - that is, the dungeon where some people are being held."

Poro turned his gaze to the wall on the inside of the secret chamber, on which hung a string of keys, "Some kind people who have been tortured, and the Bishop's enemies.

Some people know more secrets, hopefully they... can still help us."