Chapter 150: The Witch's Story - Part 1

"Are you kidding me right now?"

Shin was genuinely surprised by her new form which was totally different from the previous one – a better form to be said.

She now turned into a new hybrid – a mixture of a tiger and a wolf.

Yes, earlier there were many more mixtures and it was hard to call her something, but now it could be said that she looked more like a tiger with black stripes all over her body while having a young wolf-like face.

Her tail was like that of a tiger, having stripes of course. The body seemed to be similar to a white tiger too, maybe because of the stripes and nothing else.

Her height increased too and she was now a bit smaller than Terran all of a sudden.

"Just how many forms do you have anyway?" – Shin asked.

She changed all of a sudden so this was surprising indeed.

"Uh, I'm not sure…", she replied with a burst of hesitant laughter.

"…"

She actually meant that she wasn't sure how many more forms she was going to take.

Changing forms seemed way too unnatural, how could someone not have control on what they were going to become?

Of course, it was somewhat acceptable to Shin because he had the skill transformation with the help of which he could transform into whatever he wanted, as long as it was registered. But for Terran and Alira, it was something fascinating.

"I tried to make a potion to transform myself back to the human form, but unfortunately I failed…"

"Huh?", now her story seemed somewhat like that of Mo.

He wanted to know what exactly had happened to her, so he asked, "Well, would it be fine if you tell us everything?"

The real reason due to which Shin asked that was to know about the witch. Since he wanted her to join his team, then he had to know more about her.

Also, he wanted to see if the reverse potion was really safe or not.

And if it was really safe and effective, then why hadn't the witch used it yet?

Many questions, Shin had tons of things to ask and all of it could be answered after knowing everything about her.

"Well, it happened long ago…", she started saying.

[ 900 years ago ]

A young girl was wandering in the forest in a wagon or a cart along with her father The forest was recently named the great forest Thuren – around a hundred years ago.

"Father, why are we going into the forest?", the young girl asked.

The girl's brown hair was beautiful as it matched her fair skin and purple jewel-like eyes.

She was riding a horse driven carriage which was introduced just recently.

"Father?"

The many who was driving the carriage was her father who did not want to respond to her at the moment.

He was sweating profusely as her father tried his best to keep the horses on the right track.

All of a sudden, the carriage that was being driven forward by the horses, flipped towards one side after its wheel tricked a considerably big pebble.

"Kya!"

The girl shouted because of the sudden flip which led to her hitting the head.

It took her a minute or two to stand up and get out of the carriage.

She found that many things that were on the carriage were jumbled and were blocking her path to get out.

She was just twelve, after all, so she couldn't do much.

But thankfully, because of her small size, she could easily get out of the fallen carriage by spotting the little spaces and moving through them.

She successfully got out of the carriage only to find a large beast right in front of her.

"Th-", she lost her voice all of a sudden.

A giant bear was in front of her. It was half the size of the trees nearby however it was still gigantic.

Considering the fact that the girl was just twelve and was quite weak and tiny, seeing such a massive bear was something that she could have never imagined.

'Rooooaaarrrr'

The bear roared at the top of its voice and swung its gigantic hand.

A direct attack and the girl would have been as good as dead.

Fortunately, her father was fast enough to save her.

"Potion Boost-S!"

He said it loudly and was able to increase his speed by several times.

He dashed and saved his daughter from the beast. Well, even after doing that, he didn't stop and continued to run with all his might towards the inner parts of the forest.

After a while, he paused for a brief second and said, "Kaily, here you go…"

"Drink this."

He handed her a small bottle of potion. It was a transparent bottle so the color of the potion was clearly visible – colorless.

Yes, it looked somewhat like water so its color was 'colorless', to be precise, it didn't have one.

"Okay father…", she knew nothing about it and drank it just because her father gave it to him.

The man, who had yellow blonde hair and a handsome face once upon a time, was now filled with wrinkles and bruises.

He by no means was in a good shape, that was evident from all the bleeding that could be seen on his abdomen.

It was as if he was stabbed by a sword, the bleeding didn't stop and even with that, he kept running with all his might.

He knew that with his blood, he would attract tons of beasts. That was precisely why he asked his daughter to drink the last potion which he had – Stealth potion.

She opened the wooden cork-like cap and drank it only a bit when another beast suddenly appeared.

This time it was a large bee. Yes, a large yellowish-green bee appeared from the trees under which they were standing.

Even before she got the chance to drink it completely, her dad pulled her and started to run. The previous potion was still in effect perhaps.

She was somehow able to close the bottle before everything spilled.

"Fath-", she could hardly say anything because her dad kept running at the top speed and soon enough he stopped after the bee vanished from their sight.

"Huff huff…"

"No…"

"This way…"

"This way she will end up dying too…"

"Damn those humans…" – was what he said.

The girl was young, but she was knowledgeable.

Although she still failed to understand what had exactly happened, she understood the fact that her father hated humans after closely listening to his wordings.

He had been bleeding a lot so he decided to take some rest.

Of course, Kaily lent him the potion which she had succeeded in saving.

After drinking that, his presence got dimmed and thanks to that, no beast or monsters approached them with the intent to attack.

He ended up sleeping there for a few hours and when he opened his eyes, Kaily was missing.

"Kaily!?"

'Where is she?'

He panicked when he couldn't find Kaily.

It was like a nightmare, he turned his head here and there while trying his best to find Kaily, unfortunately, he couldn't find her.

'What do I do…?'

'Where might have she gone?'

'I have to-', and just when he was thinking about something, a few knights suddenly appeared behind him.

"Ah, so here you are!", they said with a smirk on their faces.

They were wearing silver armor which had monster repellants attached to them.

Yes, the armors weren't that modern and were just some pieces of silver or heavy iron-like substance attached, it was still durable.

The repellants couldn't keep big monsters out of their way, but they were pretty much good enough to prevent getting attacks by herds or flocks of smaller monsters.

Precisely thanks to that, they were able to follow the blood marks that were left behind the man and arrived at the place.

They unsheathed their swords and then pointed towards the man and said, "Your kingdom is already destroyed."

"Hand over the princess, we would put her abilities to good use!", the knights said with an arrogant voice.

"As if I will ever do that!", he shouted and rushed towards them.

Well, when he ran towards them, he knew that he was running towards his own death.

The knights showed no mercy and chopped him off immediately, without wasting even a single second, they started to walk back from where they had come.

The man's hand and legs had been chopped brutally. Even though his head was attached to his body, the cuts on his body were so much that all his body had already flown out.

"Be quiet…"

"Just be quiet…"

*sob sob*

An elf was holding Kaily's mouth tightly while standing behind a tree which was a few meters away from the place where the man was chopped off.

*gulp*

"Wait until they leave…", the elf was gritting her teeth while murmuring this.

*sob sob*

*faints*

"…"

To be continued…