dark witches rise

Chapter 182 The friendship between tree spirits and humans

After three days of separation, the pharmacists gathered together again.

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

The tree spirit Glock standing at the front looked at the people below with a smile.

"Suzy...White...Aaron..."

"Finn...Megan...Webber..."

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

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

After Dryad Glock finished reading the twenty-sixth name, the moment it stopped, the faces of everyone else turned pale.

This means they all failed!

And once they fail, they will be greeted by the terrifying tree torture!

When they thought of the plight of those who were tortured by trees, and when they thought that they would become one of them, their faces turned pale.

In other words, Roya only rested for eight hours during the three days?

Moreover, it requires 100% refining success before you have eight hours of rest time. If you fail once in the process, you won't even have any rest time.

Aaron stared at Roja with a twisted expression.

Even Aaron could only accept this fact with regret.

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

Seeing Aaron crying and urinating under the whip, Roja knew that this was the tree spirit Glock taking revenge on Aaron.

"Me! Me! Choose me!"

How painful will it be for those who have to live under the torture of trees twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and for the next tens or hundreds of years?

As a result, someone told him that he lost?

He knew that Roja had improved the primary potion Ox Blood Potion. Being able to improve the primary potion and being able to refine the high-grade potion were completely different things.

But there is one exception.

Aaron kept breathing in around Tina, closing his eyes and smiling intoxicatedly.

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

Before Dryad Glock had finished speaking, Aaron was already staring straight at Tina, and his saliva was almost drooling.

"What?"

The whole room suddenly became a mess.

Among the many pharmacists, two of them are particularly conspicuous.

The entire refining process for a bottle of advanced healing potion takes at least eight hours.

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

It would be in his interest for Tina to resist. If Tina simply accepted her fate and accepted the outcome with despair, he would find it boring.

In his spare time, Roja also had time to count the number of whips each person received.

Maybe Aaron would really leave her to be tortured by the tree in a fit of rage?

Even if Aaron really chooses her as his assistant, you don't need to think about how Aaron will torture her if she doesn't please Aaron.

"Next, according to the ranking based on contribution, the first place can be exempted from an additional fifty lashes, and the second place can be exempted from an additional forty lashes..."

Everyone was stunned by what Dryad Glock said.

But this time, under heavy pressure, he actually made a breakthrough. He felt that he had already half-stepped into the realm of senior pharmacist. He would only need to spend another month or two to slowly consolidate, and he would become a senior pharmacist.

Can become a real senior pharmacist.

Seeing Tina who could no longer bear it, her body was shaking and almost crying, Aaron said in Tina's ear in a voice that everyone could hear: "Hey, come on, call me master."

"As a member of the losing group, if you cannot become an assistant to one of us here, then you will have to endure the horrific tree torture and live in pain for the rest of your life."

Dryad Glock looked at the remaining people with a smile, "I personally respect you pharmacists very much, but human beings are our enemies after all. My people want to kill you. After my hard plea,

They will be willing to let go only if you do it.”

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

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

What is death compared to tree torture?

They seemed to have a good relationship in the past, but in fact they were just superficial brothers.

"The fifth place will be exempted from ten lashes."

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

"you dare!"

"Do you know how angry I am?"

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

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

Just the caning once every ten days was so painful.

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

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

They didn't even deserve to say a few words to Tina before, but now maybe they have a chance to get this stunning beauty Tina?

Can you become Tina's master?

Can you do whatever you want to Tina?

Vine after vine waved in the room, lashing towards the pharmacist except Roja.

Having feelings is inherently good, hugging each other and crying happily.

Not long after, everyone selected their assistants.

Five bottles of advanced healing potion, even if the success rate is 100%, will take forty hours to refine.

Roja discovered that when the whip turned into a vine whipped someone, it was particularly hard and fast. In the time it took for others to be whipped a hundred times, that person was whipped a full hundred and twenty times.

No matter whether he is a Duke or an Earl outside, here he is just a medicine refining tool for the dryad, and everything depends on his ability.

"I never thought that in this desperate and dark situation, something so happy could happen."

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

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

"White, I actually like you very much. I rejected you just because I was worried about affecting your pharmacy studies. I'm also very painful inside. I can't fall asleep without saying your name every night."

"It's better to die than to be punished with trees!"

Dryad Glock doesn't care about human farce.

Some do not want to accept the tree punishment and plead hard.

Aaron reached out and touched Tina's fair face.

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

"What?"

Got here.

Instead, the symbiotic vines on their bodies control their bodies and prevent them from dying.

The refining of each bottle of high-level potion consumes a lot of time and energy.

He moved his head towards Tina.

"I thought that Aaron, as the son of Earl Kelan, was expected to become a potion master in the future and inherit the title of earl, but he was caught by the tree spirit in this ghost place. He will live as a medicine refining tool for the rest of his life."

"Isn't it Aaron?"

But there are only about twenty qualified pharmacists, and there are nearly a hundred losers!

There are more monks than meat. Among the more than a hundred losers, only about 20 people were able to stay as assistants in the end.

Tina obviously knows this too. If she offends Aaron, her life will definitely not be easy in the future.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, Roja's eyes fell on Tina, "Let her be my assistant, Tina Cyril."

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

So no matter how reluctant he is, he has to admit that Roja has refined five bottles of advanced healing potions and his pharmacy skills are even better than Aaron's!

However, the tree spirit gave them only three days, a total of only forty-eight hours!

"I remember your name was Aaron?"

"suck--"

One of them, Tina Cyril!

Who would have thought that this genius of the inner court, this eldest lady from the Duke Cyril family, this elegant and beautiful flower of the high mountains who is the dream lover of countless men, would actually become a member of the failure group?

Many qualified pharmacists drooled at Tina's beautiful face.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!——

In this medicine cage built by the tree spirit, the differences in status are smoothed out.

However, even if his identity is put aside, Aaron's pharmacy level and talent are still the strongest among them!

"suck--"

I think a few days ago she was a high-ranking granddaughter of a duke, being surrounded by a bunch of people and complimenting her.

"You don't think there are only about twenty of you pharmacists in the medicine cage, right?"

It's definitely not that they are afraid of death.

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.

"Congratulations to all pharmacists for officially becoming a member of our medicine cage."

The person approaching Tina was none other than Aaron from the Earl of Kellan family, one of the five genius pharmacists in the inner courtyard, who had competed with Tina in the Young Lions Academy!

"Wait a minute!" Aaron shouted, "Am I not in second place? Am I exempt from the caning penalty?"

"You will not die, but the pain of your skin and flesh will be inevitable."

"real?"

Is this possible?

Even the most powerful senior pharmacist is unlikely to be able to refine five bottles of advanced healing potion in three days, right?

Everyone was stunned by what the tree spirit Glock said. They wanted to shout loudly that it was impossible, and loudly asked the other party if they had colluded.

His only pleasure in this dark and cruel cage?

"How can he be ranked above me?"

The room that originally seemed crowded with more than a hundred people standing suddenly became much emptier.

"As for now?"

Bang! Bang! Bang!——

"What kind of tree punishment? I won't accept that horrible punishment!"

"You are very talented and your pharmacy skills are quite good."

The remaining losers who no one wanted stood in despair, some cried loudly, some pleaded desperately, and some were scared to death.

"Then now..."

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

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

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

He believed that after making a breakthrough, his level of pharmacy would definitely stand out among the younger generation, and that Tina, who was equal to him before, would be outclassed by him.

The words of Dryad Glock made everyone present, whether they failed or passed, show expressions of surprise.

"Your name is Aaron, right? You are very powerful and very talented. There is a high probability that you can become a potion master in the future, but it is a pity..." Dryad Glock's fiery gaze fell on Roja, "He has three days.

Five bottles of advanced healing potion were refined there."

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

"Congratulations to all of you for successfully passing the assessment and becoming a member of our medicine cage."

Looking at the trembling people, Dryad Glock comforted them: "Don't worry, the whips used in our flogging are specially made. They will only cause pain and will not hurt anyone."

"Why don't I dare?" Roja smiled silently, "Master Aaron, this is not the outside. Your identity as the son of an earl cannot scare me. You were so arrogant towards Tina, the grandson of a duke, I thought you already understood.

This makes sense.”

"Please give me another chance. My talent is no less than those of the inner hospital pharmacists. I am only inferior to them because my family is poor and I don't have access to good resources and teachers. I will definitely be able to surpass those so-called geniuses in the future.

of!"

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

Several unqualified people showed determination and banged their heads against the wall.

However, after they saw a handsome man walking towards Tina, they suppressed their desires and backed down.

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

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

One after another, vines stretched out from the surrounding walls. Amidst the blood-curdling screams, the pharmacists were tied up, dragged away, and pulled down for tree torture.

People whispered in shock.

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

As he spoke, Aaron looked around, and everyone who touched his gaze quickly lowered their heads.

Regarding Aaron's rudeness, maybe it was because Aaron's level of pharmacy was relatively high, but Dryad Glock was not angry at all.

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

Suddenly, the room was filled with screams of howling ghosts and howling wolves.

The question is why did the dryad collude with Roya?

Are there any benefits to working with Roya to deceive them?

The most shocking among them was Aaron.

silence!

"Vic has improved the ox blood potion? I know he is very talented in the beast style, but what the tree spirit needs is a potion from the herbal style!"

"I may not have made it clear enough and you may have misunderstood. The ranking I am talking about is not the ranking among you, but the ranking of all the pharmacists in our entire medicine cage!"

Although their bodies were not injured at all, the severe pain had made them so mentally exhausted that they did not even want to move a finger.

After the dryad Glock glanced at the losers with cold eyes, his eyes fell on Roja and other people who passed the examination.

Everyone was silent.

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

"If you don't want to be whipped, just work hard in the next few days."

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

Among those who can become pharmacists, which one is not from a rich family? Which one has not been pampered since childhood? When have you ever suffered this kind of pain?

"Can you surpass Aaron and become number one? How is it possible?"

Aaron, who felt empty, not only did not feel angry, but burst into laughter.

But you can’t even run away here!

Dryad Glock withdrew his wave and said, "Except for the first place winner, Vic himself, everyone else will receive a hundred lashes each!"

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

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

"I have refined one bottle of high-level potion and three bottles of intermediate potion in the past three days!"

In the past, every time he refined a high-level potion, he had to prepare it several days in advance. After refining it, he would feel weak and mentally exhausted for a long time, and he would need to rest for several days to recover.

Just thinking about it made their bodies tremble with fear.

Aaron shouted angrily and stared at Roja, as if he wanted to eat Roja alive.

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

"suck--"

"Before becoming a potion master, every time you refine a bottle of intermediate potion, you can avoid one lash penalty. Every time you refine a bottle of high-level potion, you can avoid 10 lashes. By refining potions, you can avoid 50 lashes at most."

"Do you know how sad I am?"

Dryad Glock is quite trustworthy, saying that a hundred lashes means a hundred lashes, no more than one lash, and no less than one lash.

But Roja actually stole his Tina?

To retaliate against Aaron for being rude just now.

It has only been a few days, but she has become the most rubbish existence among the pharmacists in their class. She needs to please those she originally despised and hated in order to live.

"Right, my Miss Tina?"

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

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!——

Strong people will have privileges no matter where they are.

"real?"

Most of the people in the room suddenly disappeared.

No one present spoke out to refute.

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

Those losers originally thought that they were hopeless and would have to live in the terror of tree torture for the rest of their lives. Did they not expect that there would be another chance?

As long as you become an assistant, you can escape the threat of tree torture.

They couldn't help but think——

Dryad Glock waved his hand, "The whipping begins!"

Thinking of this, Tina, who had always been strong, had mist in her eyes.

"As I said before, in our medicine cage, except that you cannot move freely, your life is definitely much more comfortable than you imagined."

"But in our medicine cage, even if we eliminate seven potion masters, among the remaining pharmacists, your level will not be among the top twenty."

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

Tina is beautiful, but is it worth offending Aaron for a beauty?

You can still run around outside. The land of the Six Kingdoms is so big, where can’t you go? At worst, you can go to other countries by sea.

"Next, I hope you can refine potions well and contribute well to us tree spirits. As long as you do your job well, we will never treat you badly."

"And if you disappoint us, fail to refine enough potions, or do something that hurts the friendship between us tree spirits and humans..."

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

The cold tone of Dryad Glock blew in everyone's heart like a cold wind from the far north. Everyone trembled and nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.

(End of chapter)