[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-witch-hunter-system":3,"chapter-the-witch-hunter-system-the-witch-hunter-system-chapter-232":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Witch Hunter System",{"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},1517751,1970,"Chapter 232 Truth Spell","the-witch-hunter-system-chapter-232",232,"\u003Cp>“No way… Was there such a big power difference between High Witches? How did Headmaster Tabitha lose so one-sidedly?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why were they even fighting? What’s going on? Are we supposed to do something about this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What can we do exactly? Besides, it looks like the two headmasters have made up. Maybe they were just sparring.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sparring? With that level of injury? It looked more like Headmaster Tabitha was beaten into submission instead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Apprentice Witches in the vicinity quietly chatted among themselves with blind speculations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Senior Witch-level instructors and True Witch-level students had a better understanding of the power difference between the two headmasters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Headmaster Tabitha and Headmaster Astoria were both High Witches, Headmaster Astoria also had Aura Lord-level physical prowess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As such, she was naturally stronger than Headmaster Tabitha, who had no other distinctive strengths to her name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, they didn’t understand why the two headmasters fought either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Vaan watched from the sidelines with Dahlia, he also pondered on the matter before his eyes flickered..\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Could it be…?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vaan faintly guessed it was something related to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a brief glance, but he remembered seeing an entire new row of books, the Book of Solomon Raphna, in the library when he went to see Dahlia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that case, there was a high chance that Headmaster Tabitha received a copy of the book from Headmaster Astoria earlier and learned about her search for him, or Vaan Raphna, to be exact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, when Headmaster Tabitha saw Headmaster Astoria close to him while he was still under the alias Vahn Cadieux, she must have figured something out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So they fought because Headmaster Tabitha found out about me?’ Vaan furrowed his brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evidently, Headmaster Tabitha was also a sharp woman. The sharp sense of a High Witch couldn’t be underestimated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, he didn’t know who else knew about Headmaster Astoria’s search for him. It would be troublesome if more people learned about him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the two headmasters’ fight ended, they dispersed the crowd and had the instructors restore the training field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, they returned to the office for a more private talk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vaan sent Dahlia back to the library before he quickly joined them, causing Tabitha to frown when she heard the door being opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, her brows slowly relaxed when she noticed it was Vaan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh my, the guest of honor came of his own accord. What business does he have here, I wonder?” Tabitha uttered with a side glance as she fixed her face in front of the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why did you come here, Teacher Raphna?” Astoria also asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way she addressed Vaan in front of Headmaster Tabitha immediately allowed him to confirm his prior suspicions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came to see what was going on, seeing how the two headmasters were sparring. That said, I presume it was about me, Headmaster Astoria?” Vaan calmly replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he walked over to the hole in the wall and casually glanced down, scanning the area with his Omni-Sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I suppose nothing escapes your notice, Teacher Raphna,” Astoria wryly smiled before she nodded. “That’s right. Headmaster Tabitha figured out your identity, Teacher Raphna.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am to blame for this,” Astoria added with guilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had accidentally exposed his identity in front of others before. And now, she had done it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry about it,” Vaan casually smiled as he used Earth Manipulation to repair the hole in the wall as if time had been reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the scattered rubbles and shattered glasses were put back together before he used Earth Transmutation to fix them in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if the hole had never existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after, he turned to Tabitha and said, “More importantly, what does Headmaster Tabitha intend to do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, aren’t you full of surprises, Sir Vaan?” Tabitha ruefully smiled after her initial surprise and said, “I would love to keep a man of your caliber to myself, but I don’t want to get beaten up again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Anyway, you don’t need to worry about me. I wouldn’t turn you in for something like killing a sinner who made Wise Scholar Eniwse become an Abomination. You have far too much value to witches to be put to death for something like that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That said, I can’t promise that I wouldn’t report about you to Her Majesty unless you agree to be put under a truth spell and answer one of my questions,” Tabitha stated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after she spoke, she immediately felt a threatening gaze from Astoria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry. I won’t pry into his secrets. I just want to know whether he is on the side of witches or not,” Tabitha quickly assured with a rueful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was aware that Vaan Raphna’s knowledge could help a lot of witches. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean he would help them; he might even harm them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, she had to know where he stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sure, I’ll accept the truth spell for one question,” Vaan agreed with a calm smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Headmaster Tabitha was a person who leaned towards academics and didn’t discriminate against gender like the witch supremacists from the capital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also likely that all academy headmasters were like this, but he couldn’t be sure unless he met them personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, he could be certain that Headmaster Tabitha would keep her word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she didn’t, he still had Headmaster Astoria on the side. She would definitely protect him if things turned out differently from what was said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Great! Then, please forgive me if I offend you,” Tabitha said before she cast a mental spell on Vaan to make him answer her question truthfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Vaan’s mind remained unaffected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mental spell’s mana went straight into his Heaven-Swallowing Space and got devoured by it, which wasn’t all that surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given the vastness of his mental energy, he was most likely immune to most mental spells cast by anyone below the Transcendent rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, Tabitha didn’t notice her spell had failed and believed Vaan was under the effect of the truth spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you think men should reign over witches or the other way around?” Tabitha asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vaan thought of several ways she could have asked her question to find out whether he sided with witches or not. And yet, it turned out to be this one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t care about any of that,” Vaan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>",1064,"2026-06-06T05:27:57.812Z",1,"novelbin.me","edb3c144725f15cd1a1d452856328c96fc057a3ec1e3790e3703bfd7f0d12740","the-witch-hunter-system-chapter-233","the-witch-hunter-system-chapter-231",1230,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-witch-hunter-system-cover.jpg"]