[{"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-585":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},2329629,4555,"Chapter 585: The News of the Culprit and the Conscription Team","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-585",585,"\u003Cp>Luo De couldn’t rest against Kali’s shoulder for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he tried again to bury his face downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elf lady noticed his small move and kicked him away with a cold expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She snorted coldly and walked off quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De smiled and didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her graceful, swaying back, he gathered his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out the dwarf’s brass spirit-measuring sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——533 ke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this, he had been at 583 ke, meaning he’d lost a full 50 ke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment this number appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De grimaced in pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never expected that merely glancing at the trees’ memories would bring such a severe negative state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A single glance reduced my physical quality by 50 ke? What kind of god-level being is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The better part was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De had been stuck at the peak of the seventh stage for two full months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the help of the derived skill from Enchanting Fluid: 【Paradoxical Motivation】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Paradoxical Motivation: The desires beings feel toward you transform into your source of power.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he removed his self-imposed restrictions and broke through to the eighth stage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on Luo De’s fundamental source, it wouldn’t be just eighth stage, early phase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to the forest guard cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately saw the tree spirit Vivian sitting upright on the hide sofa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Tally stood beside her, braiding her hair into two buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tree spirit showed no reaction, blinking her large eyes glowing with white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when Luo De entered did she turn to look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Evening, Luo De, good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She still wore Luo De’s brown linen tunic; recently, with warmer weather, she’d removed the long skirt below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked much cooler overall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tally was even more so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had casually tossed her hunting gear on the floor, wearing only a short undershirt and tiny shorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large portions of her thighs and abdomen were exposed to the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both girls were smeared with dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Presumably from planting trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaah~~ Master’s back~~ Let’s all bathe together~”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bath, Vivian, Tally, together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De went over and kissed Vivian’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breathing in the girl’s herbal, woody scent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grew momentarily dazed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the ancient memories of the trees, it mentioned “using the tree spirit’s bloodline to suppress here,” and also spoke of the cooperation between half-deer people and druids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That would be Vivian, Xiao Ke, and the half-wolf druid Oja.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And all three had lived in the Windwall Forest before Luo De became forest guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witherer Greta had also mentioned this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian’s clan, due to the 【Royal Pact】, controls half the forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be related.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And would the relics beneath Shiying Town affect Vivian and Xiao Ke?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was what Luo De worried about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I want a kiss too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tally tiptoed over, pressed close, and rubbed against him with sultry eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De ignored her and took Vivian’s hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s bathe.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mournful cry echoed from the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three entered the added-on bathroom, one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bathroom was as large as the cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides normal bathing tools and equipment, there was also a hollowed-out hot spring beside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it wasn’t natural, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hot water came entirely from 【Water Creation】 and 【Heating Stones】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while they said they were bathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, they were just changing locations for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid white steam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sweat and hot spring water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All manner of cleansing methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De sat on a small stool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vivian in front, Tally behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without moving, every inch of his body was gently, if slightly clumsy, cleaned by the two girls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enjoy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath slippery soap suds, each of their bodies looked more radiant than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three played in the bathroom until late into the night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tally hadn’t seen her master so delighted in a long time, and she was overjoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She insisted on playing until dawn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She secretly drank a bottle of Stimulant Potion to avoid collapsing midway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She also pulled out the 【Elemental Harmonizing Incense】, 【Arcane Resonance】 scroll, and 【Elemental Siphon】 rune stone she’d obtained from Olive Town.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, 【Arcane Resonance】 was active here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luo De didn’t need to do much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He opened another letter delivered that day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was from Wen Na·Pweil, the female lord of Axe Beach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was mostly about the difficulties of running Axe Beach, her own mistakes, and what she’d learned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It also contained subtle hints of longing and affection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps even more than Luo De imagined, though he couldn’t tell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noteworthy was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her mention of Ed Stevens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former captain of the Axe Beach militia, labeled by the half-deer seer as the first 【Source of Calamity】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Old Ed killed five Hero Candidates in Deepwater City, and over ten half-deer people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the slain half-deer, only one was a 【Hero Giver】; the rest were ordinary half-deer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This enraged the Deepwater City adventurers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During an ambush by a Hero Candidate organization, Old Ed was severely wounded—if you’d been there, he surely wouldn’t have survived; adventurers are easily stirred fools.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, Old Ed came to Axe Beach seeking help from his children, but was reported to the militia and fled immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How tragic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own children reported him for the reward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, we learned from his children his next destination—Longhu Region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s not far from Dusk Hills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Luo De, your death notice scared me half to death, but then I received word you repelled the Infernal Duke. No wonder you’re you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But please avoid getting entangled with Old Ed; many of the half-deer Hero Candidates are bastards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of Longhu Region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s nowhere near as beautiful as Jianwan Sea; from Frostfall City to Bor Gate are all outstanding scenic cities. You left too quickly last time—why not come back and tour them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Longhu Region?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, not far.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trade route through Eagle Claw Canyon in Shi Ying Town aimed directly at Shanlun City and Taler's Town in the Longhu region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Luo De had already made a promise to Edith, the representative of the Hero Candidates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those Hero Candidates probably won’t come to Dusk Hills anymore, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A conscription team of about fifty men entered Shi Ying Town’s inn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knights wore rune-embossed heavy armor, their storm-eye cloaks embroidered with silver thread snapping in the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their warhorses exhaled hot, domineering breaths; their powerful muscles drove iron hooves with cold arrogance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strong troops, sturdy steeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each one wore full armor, concealing their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their haughty demeanor was instantly apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can you believe it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just within this team, there were twelve Hero Candidates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was actually normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Hero Candidates were divided into factions; Edith certainly couldn’t control them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What surprised Demia the witch and the old gentleman Humbert, who came to welcome the conscription team, was:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A familiar face appeared in this team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——The Tooth Fairy Fairy Rosalia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1143,"2026-06-20T19:55:32.074Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ce78dab11ea2358fdc417f83a901dc70d0debcec87aaf7e892e10bc435398b15","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-586","i-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-chapter-584",704,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-a-forest-warden-why-am-i-enslaving-a-succubu-cover.jpg"]