Olivia's delicate body shuddered, snapping back to her senses.
She shouted to the strange woman, "Thank you for saving my life!"
She quickly transformed into a woad tree man, summoning the last of her magic power to activate "Woodland Teleport"!
Her figure flashed and swiftly vanished.
At the same time, Alan grabbed Sonia's hand and activated "Phantom Step"!
A silver mist enveloped the two of them.
Then, a giant foot, a tree root, descended from the sky, stomping down their hiding place!
Beneath the giant foot, the silver mist dissipated.
A hundred meters away, Alan, clutching Sonia's hand, ran furiously.
They ran two miles in one breath, finally losing the sound of heavy footsteps behind them.
Alan breathed a sigh of relief, stopped, and asked Sonia, "Why?"
"Because I can see you harbor some affection for the blue-haired girl and sympathize with her plight."
Sonia took out a handkerchief and stood on tiptoe to wipe his sweat.
"If I don't save her, you might be tempted to take action at the last moment."
"That would create a risk: the blue-haired girl is your classmate and is very familiar with you. She might discover your identity."
"Based on this, there are two possible risks."
"First, she'll wonder why you're here."
"Second, out of gratitude, she might fall in love with you."
"How could her falling in love with me be a risk?" Alan couldn't help but ask.
Sonia chuckled, her eyes bleak.
"For you, it's a good thing."
"For me, it's a risk."
"People trapped in love are prone to making foolish mistakes, and collaborating with fools will also put me in danger."
"To appease my partner, I have no choice but to resort to this last resort. I'll personally rescue her and nip this risk in the bud."
After listening to Sonia's reasons for rescuing Olivia, Allen was speechless for a long time, but he couldn't help but say something nonsense.
"Sonia, when you're not crazy, you're quite rational."
Sonia smiled and changed the subject: "We can't afford to offend the possessed Hubert. What should we do next?"
"I'm afraid only the Fungus Master can fight that monster... Forget him for now, let's go and fight a drowned dog!" Allen clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking.
"A drowned mandrake..." Sonia murmured. "You mean Hubert's student, the vicious woman who harmed the blue-haired girl?"
"That's right," Allen said calmly. "I won't be satisfied unless I kill Angela."
"She transformed into a demon mandrake and burrowed underground. How are you going to track her?"
"She'll eventually resurface." Allen smiled faintly. "As for how to track her... guess how I tracked Ethan?"
The demon mandrake is a poisonous plant.
The toxin it synthesizes is primarily scopolamine, a belladonna alkaloid.
Scopolamine is also known as mandrake.
Isn't that a coincidence?
Who in this world is more familiar with mandrake than Allen?
...
The sound of digging echoed through the silent mushroom forest.
A small mound rose from the flat ground.
Puff!
The mound of earth cracked open, revealing a pile of weeds.
A dirty little face appeared beneath the weeds.
Angela, grinning, looked around furtively.
After confirming that there was no unusual movement around, she emerged from the pit.
"Huh... I finally escaped!"
Angela breathed a sigh of relief, shifted her short legs, and ran forward.
After taking a few steps, she stopped in shock.
A tall, burly figure blocked her path.
Angela froze for a moment, then screamed without thinking!
"Ahhhhhhh—"
The shrill howl echoed through the forest.
Alan crossed his arms over his chest, his expression unwavering.
The scream of the demonic mandrake was a mental attack.
His spiritual attributes were far superior to Angela's.
Angela's screams were hardly enough to make him dizzy.
Besides, Allen had already plugged his ears with two mushrooms.
After screaming, Angela turned and ran.
Hound-like pace!
A shadow flashed, and Allen blocked her path once again.
"Damn it!"
Angela, desperate, pounced and grabbed Allen's legs.
Her mouth wide open, her fangs barred, she bit his calf frantically.
A high concentration of toxin, piercing through the fangs, attempted to inject itself into Allen's body.
However...
Her muscular calf gleamed with a metallic sheen.
Crack!
Angela's teeth, all broken.
The demon Mandra's teeth were merely a Level 1 enchanted weapon.
Angela bit down on them without knowing her own strength, and the result was, of course, Allen's "iron bones," shattering all her teeth.
The vicious little woman, seeing the situation was dire, turned and dove towards the mound.
She planned to repeat her old trick, burrowing back into the burrow and digging her way out.
Allen sneered and extended his left hand.
The poisonous sting in his palm softened!
With a swish!
The bone spur transformed into a soft whip, wrapping around Angela's neck and forcibly pulling her out of the burrow.
Like pulling up a carrot.
"Ah ... "Don't kill me!!!"
"I don't want to die... I don't want to die!!"
Under the oppression of extreme fear and despair, her spirit finally collapsed, and she was completely possessed!
After the possession, her power grew.
However, her foundation was too weak, and she ultimately failed to break through the bottleneck, remaining in the form of a demonic mandrake.
"Hmm?"
Alan raised his eyebrows, a look of joy on his face.
"Interesting... So this is actually possible?"
He smelled the aroma of... a special ingredient from the possessed Angela!
Alan smiled slightly as he held the madly twisting demonic mandrake.
He pressed his right hand's five fingers together like a knife, infusing them with "Bone-Breaking Explosion."
"Angela, the last good thing you'll do in your life is become possessed..."
Poof!
A sharp knife suddenly pierced Demon Mandra's chest!
The heart he pulled out was pitch black and ugly, like a tree tumor.
He casually stuffed it into his mouth, crunched it, and swallowed it!
"It tastes okay!"
Alan nodded in satisfaction and opened the system page to check the prompts.
"Consume special ingredient: Demon Mandra Heart!"
"Potential +1!"
"Agility +1!"
Current Attributes: Constitution 22, Agility 20, Spirit 28
Potential Reserve: 2 points
...
Angela's storage bag was heavy, filled with a large number of magic stones.
One third of them were wood magic stones.
Alan and Sonia split it in half, making another small fortune.
...
Not far from the woods.
A blue-haired girl, looking exhausted, was running.
Along the way, she suddenly heard a familiar scream!
Olivia stopped and turned to look toward the source of the scream.
She could tell that the shrill scream was clearly coming from Angela.
Could it be that Angela wasn't out of danger yet?
Olivia instinctively took two steps toward the source of the scream.
But then, remembering Angela's selfish face, she stopped again.
One can't step into the same river twice, nor should one fall into the same pit twice.
Olivia bit her lower lip hard, suppressing her irrational impulse.
Ignoring Angela's cries for help, she turned around and continued running.