Chapter 149: The Miraculous Potions

"Haha, you are so tiny, what harm could your name cause me?", she asked.

'Aren't you smaller than me?', Shin had a weird expression on his face.

The witch thought of what Shin said to be some random joke.

Of course, she couldn't see his real powers and since his aura was hidden by him, the only thing that she could see was his small height.

Although to her, he seemed a bit large after all she was smaller than him, it was still too little when compared to others.

So there was absolutely no way that Shin's such a small form would scare anyone – this was clear from the start.

His aura could do the work that his body couldn't, unfortunately, he hid that too so that he wouldn't get noticed by others.

That was why he couldn't expect someone to believe what he was saying right off the bat.

"Also, are you some sort of ruler or what?"- the witch added.

"Haha, only that would make sense…"

"But how can such a small creature like you rule anything?", she continued her laughter.

Whatever she said was right, and Shin didn't feel bad or upset about anything that she said, except one thing – 'Small Creature.'

It kind of pissed him off and he was getting frustrated by hearing that.

Probably that was because a smaller being than him was criticizing him.

In any case, he nodded his head and said, "Yes, I am a ruler."

To this, she ended up laughing even more loudly as if she was hearing some sort of great joke.

"…"

Terran was confused as to why she was laughing. Also, he was confused by the thought that he wasn't getting angry.

By now, Terran would have snapped and would have tried to at least advise Shin or stop others from doing something so foolish as disrespecting Shin or taking him lightly.

But at the moment, he seemed to be dazing.

It was as if, his mind had gone blank while he was thinking tons of things altogether.

'Why does that laughter feel so familiar?', was what Terran questioned himself.

Shin wanted to ask her about the potion and leave right away, but he never got the chance, at least not for now since she kept on taunting him by laughing in a weird manner.

'I have never heard such weird laughter…'

'Why is this getting on my edge though?'

Yes, he wasn't someone who would simply get angry over someone laughing, so what was unique about that which was making him get agitated?

Even he couldn't understand, not until the system notified him.

'Ding'

[ You have been affected by Boost-R Potion ]

[ You will get agitated and be easily enraged on hearing laughter or taunts ]

'Boost R potion?'

Shin was surprised to see that he was affected by a potion.

'When the heck did I even…', and just when he was thinking about that, he realized that the witch in front of him was called the witch of potions specifically.

'Is it her doing?', Shin asked himself however he was completely sure that it was definitely her.

He tried to calm his mind by letting all the useless thoughts escape. He then turned back to see if Alira and Terran were fine and yes, they weren't affected by any potion or anything else.

'I can't believe that even the system took quite some time to discover that I was affected by a potion.'

Shin then looked at the witch and said, "It ain't funny you know."

"Eh?", the witch suddenly stopped laughing after hearing that.

"Why would you use your potion on me when we were just chatting?"

When Shin asked this, the witch suddenly became nervous.

'How did he detect my potions?'

Her eyes were now shaking vigorously. She looked here and there while trying to calm herself.

However, no matter what she did, Shin's words struck her like some arrow.

Probably she was way too confident on her potions or believed them completely.

"I'm sorry…"

"I just…"

'He is no ordinary being…'

'He could detect my potion, he must really be a ruler of some big place.', she said to herself.

Was her potion that amazing that she herself ended up getting shocked.

"Tell me, why would you use the rage potion on me?"

Since the name of the potion was Boost-R, Shin thought that the potion boosted rage. 

Entering the rage mode is quite harmful and beneficial during some times. 

However, getting angry unintentionally when the matter didn't even have any significance was totally bad since that could end up destroying many things after all anger is not the solution for anything.

Whatever, she apologized for that.

But the actual question was – why did she use that in the first place?

And when did she exactly use it?

All these questions were answered one by one when the matter finally settled down and all four of them gathered and formed a circle and started discussing and questioning.

"Tell me, why did you use the potion?", Shin asked.

"I-"

"I wanted to see if you really were a good being or if you were just acting to be good…", was what she said.

"Huh?", Shin was surprised to hear that.

"What do you mean?"

"I have been watching you all for the past one hour, and I could see that she, Alira, was extremely attached to you…"

"I knew not if you were really a good being…"

"That's why I…"

"…"

*gulp*

'She had been watching us for the past one whole hour?'

'Are you kidding me?'

Shin was awed. He failed to actually notice her for the past one hour!

But the system definitely notified him to stay at the same place, was that because it knew that she was here?

Then why didn't it tell Shin about her?

"…"

Shin didn't know if these were the questions that he had to ponder about, those weren't something that he would be thinking about right now, yes definitely not now.

"How were you able to hide yourself from us?", Shin asked.

"Stealth Potion…"

"With their help, I was able to hide my presence…"

She replied politely as if she was guilty.

Well, heck, she portrayed herself to be an old lady so Shin scolding her seemed a bit weird, way too weird.

Whatever, after just seeing that someone could detect the usage of her potions, her entire confidence and pride broke in no time!

'A celestial…'

'No…'

'Even stronger…'

'Only someone stronger than a Celestial can detect my potions…'

'Just, who the heck is he?', she continued to ask herself while sitting in the same position.

"Hmm, then tell me, how do you use your potions?", Shin asked.

Well, she was essentially telling her secrets to him, but she thought that there was nothing much to hide.

"Alright…", she nodded her head and thought about telling it to him.

"I have this spatial storage in which I can store the potions that I make."

When she said that, a while colored magic circle appeared right above her.

"I can drop potions from these…"

"I can throw bottles of potions or I can throw potions directly…", was what she said.

"I see…", Shin nodded his head.

"I put the rage potion that affects only the white wolf species earlier in the surrounding and due to its smell, you were affected.", she confessed.

Shin finally understood that due to inhaling those stuff, he was affected by it.

'So that's how she used those potions…', Shin was intrigued by them.

'Interesting…', he grinned.

That was because now he wanted her to join his group, that way he would get another strong hand.

Not only was he thinking about the kingdom which he was going to make in the near future, he was also thinking about having more comrades.

The more the people, the higher the chances to find Aella – that's what he believed in because of which he wanted her to join as well.

And after seeing her talents in the potion making, he didn't want to let her go.

But before that, the actual business was to be discussed – the reason for which Shin had come here.

However, before he could say that, she ended up asking, "May I know, why such a great beast has come to such a small place?"

Her attitude had taken a total turn after the small incident. It was almost laughable, but oh well, she wasn't to blame.

"Actually I…"

Shin thought about the elder Mo, for whom he had to give the potion – The Reverse Potion – after getting it from the witch.

"Actually, I want the reverse potion.", was what he said.

"Re-reverse potion?", the witch seemed surprised when she heard about it.

"Yes.", Shin nodded his head.

"That-"

Just as she was going to say something, a sudden 'flop' sound was heard and she was covered with a white cloud all of a sudden which seemed no different than smoke.

A second later, her form changed yet again.

"What the-"

Shin was surprised yet again to see this happening.

"…"

To be continued…