"Are you ready?" As the light of dawn spilled into the room, Sno, who had just returned to Black Swan Castle from Backlund, looked at Lily before asking once more.
"I'm ready! Really ready!" Lily answered with great solemnity, but Sno was still somewhat suspicious. Although the Characteristic in his hand had been purified by Heavenly Punishment, giving her a decent chance of successfully advancing even if she swallowed it whole, whether Lily had truly finished digesting it did not seem all that important.
But Sno still could not shake his unease, because what she was about to drink was Witch potion!
If someone else drank Witch potion, they would merely change sex. But if Lily drank Witch potion, she would be changing species!
Yes, Sno had no doubt that Lily would become human, because there had been hints of this in the original work—
From the spiritual pollution of 422 turning people into Zombies and Werewolves, it could be seen that the spiritual pollution of high-level Mythical Creatures transformed other beings into lower-sequence creatures of their own pathway. Whether they possessed Beyonder Characteristics or were complete Beyonders aside, their forms should first reflect the appearance of the Low Sequence of that pathway.
And in the original work, at the end of Volume Eight, Chapter Twenty-Three, what was the spiritual pollution of the Primordial Demoness?
All contaminated objects turned into good-looking women.
Yes, it did not turn everything into "females," but into "women."
And the word "woman" clearly referred specifically to female humanoids. From this, it seemed that the Witch pathway was fixed as "female humans," or at the very least, "female demihumans."
Of course, even if that was not the case, it did not matter. Sequence Two of the Paradox Path possessed the ability to rewrite reality. At worst,