[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu":3,"chapter-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-230":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm a Forest Warden—Why Am I Enslaving a Succubus?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2329274,4555,"Chapter 230: Bestiality Disease","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-230",230,"\u003Cp>\"Bestiality Disease?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De had heard of it before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A condition that causes grotesque, terrifying physical changes, excessive hair growth, and erratic, unpredictable behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calling it a disease isn’t quite right—even plague doctors can’t touch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s more like a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ethelon Kingdom handles bestiality disease patients with extreme passivity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re merely gathered and confined in places filled entirely with other bestiality disease patients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from occasional mage studies, there’s virtually no other intervention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, patients occasionally escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the learned elf Kali, she knew far more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two stood side by side against the sail’s edge, watching the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Elven texts record accounts of bestiality disease; some scholars suspect it dates back to the Third Era.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night wind blew, scattering the elf’s golden, silken hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to hold it back with one hand, lest she appear unseemly before Luo De.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De knew this was precisely the use for all the lady’s accessories he’d collected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled a silver hairpin with intricate patterns from his spell satchel and handed it to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali scowled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why do you have so many ladies’ items?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moment I saw it, I thought it matched your golden hair—I couldn’t resist buying it. It has a magic effect that nourishes hair quality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, a price tag dangled down from the silver hairpin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Luo De had deliberately left it there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You spent 127 Jin Along on a magic item that supposedly nourishes hair? That’s useless!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It suits you, doesn’t it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali scowled and said nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She pinned up her hair, twisting it into a loose knot at the back with the silver hairpin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, it gave her a wifely charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tally, beside them, grew slightly jealous and secretly lengthened her shortened hair again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master~~ my hair’s all messy too~~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I saw you use transformation magic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De smiled and handed Tally a delicate crystal hairpin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such Chinese-style ornaments were rare on the continent; only a fickle succubus could pull them off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, though she spent every day with him, Tally rarely showed interest in anything beyond Luo De and his essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De didn’t believe that was truly the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps he simply didn’t know her well enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmph.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali beside them let out a barely audible hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giving gifts to one girl, then turning right around and giving another—of course she’d roll her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I, Luo De, am no ordinary man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My affection is obvious, hahaha—I don’t hide it at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the other two present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The banshee Krist was trembling, clinging to Luo De’s thigh from her fear of heights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The female orc Amy, still recovering from severe injuries and suffering from carb intolerance, was asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even if she were awake, it wouldn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Small gifts, small surprises—these two, along with the zombie Selina and the ghoul Pan Ni, had no claim to them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back to bestiality disease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali: \"About two hundred years ago, goblins unearthed a Melu ruin from the Third Era beneath the earth. They accidentally touched the blood inside a golden chalice used for sacrifice, contracting the original bestiality disease.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But whether goblins were inherently beastmen or simply possessed extremely high natural resistance to plagues, the symptoms never manifested in them—only mild fever and slight agitation, with no strong transmission.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bestiality disease might have remained forever underground, had it not been for the human craze known as Maze Fever.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she spoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the elf’s gaze toward Luo De carried a hint of “stupid human.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maze Fever?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De couldn’t help but press his palm to his forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a still-famous turning point in human history—the kind of fame that other intelligent races laughed at.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, a human mage discovered a stable, non-dangerous ultra-small maze and auctioned it for a staggering 700 million Jin Along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That wasn’t unusual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stable, non-dangerous mazes were always rare; after the frantic plundering a thousand years ago, such maze dimensions became even scarcer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two billion Jin Along? The price was inflated, but everyone just shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So when the same mage found another such valuable maze the next year and sold it for 400 million Jin Along, many didn’t even realize it was the same person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But trouble came when a goblin merchant who ran underground villas smelled opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used special means to bewitch the mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then forced him to publicly claim both mazes were found deeper beneath the merchant’s own underground villas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to guess—the goblin merchant’s villas sold out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why didn’t he just have the woman steal the mage’s money outright? That touches on goblin ethics—their notion of a “proper merchant”—something most people simply couldn’t grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, he made a fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, certain desperate human mages, eager to ride the wave, spread the absurd claim that “stable, safe mazes are more likely to form underground.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They published it outright in major, low-integrity newspapers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Maze Fever was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even this wasn’t yet laughable enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What made later generations laugh hardest was that both “stable, safe” mazes collapsed simultaneously two years later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result: the complete extinction of the two clans that had purchased them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The incident caused a massive uproar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knew something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Ethelon Kingdom’s investigation—then still powerful—revealed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The so-called “mazes” were temporary dimensions built by the mage using a new spell, costing only 200,000 Jin Along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his arrest, the criminal mage admitted the two magical mazes lasting two years far exceeded his expectations—he’d only planned for them to last two or three months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But due to this tenfold miscalculation, the underground had been dug through almost entirely over those two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led to frequent contact between humans and subterranean goblins, bringing bestiality disease to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was how bestiality disease reached the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was also the origin of the eighth-rank spell [Maze Spell].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you noticed how I handled that bestiality disease patient?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kali didn’t dwell on it, continuing:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I purified the body along with the splattered blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Correct. The primary transmission route of bestiality disease is blood contact—even external contact carries high infection risk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elf looked at Luo De with added disdain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he’d personally severed the patient’s limbs—the most likely point of blood exposure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De knew she was deliberately reminding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So stubborn—she’s clearly worried but won’t say it outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled: \"My sword didn't even get bloody.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1075,"2026-06-20T19:55:31.704Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8356f6762dbb0c5b09fc71764141ca31539afee770b4309e5123868515bcef70","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-231","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-229",704,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-cover.jpg"]