The wizard in the crevice seemed reluctant to promise the Old Witch that he could make a hundred men fall in love with her.
Ten minutes later, a hoarse voice came from beneath the pile of stones. "You're being far too greedy."
"Listen to me. One is enough."
"You couldn't handle any more than that anyway."
"I have a potion. You put a bushel of snapdragons into it, and then..."
The Old Witch walked over to the deep crevice in the pile of stones. A snake-headed vine crept out from beneath her robe, its tail still held in her hand.
The snake-headed vine even stuck out its tongue. It was a stamen, only with a forked tip.
The snake head silently slipped into the crevice between the stones.
The Old Witch and Yveta had already determined the limits of his power, so they had nothing to fear from him.
The wizard kept chattering away inside the crevice. "One Saxifraga stolonifera, two Medusa Jade Phoenix Flowers. After extracting them, leave them on ice for a day. Then have a boy who's never been with a woman swallow the potion, and take the blood from his wrist..."
The Old Witch sneered and continued for him. "And then you add a fragment of a leaf from the Exotic Plant from the Heavens called [Great King Grass], right?"
A confused voice came from inside the crevice. "King Grass? What's that? You only need clover... Why use an Exotic Plant from the Heavens?"
"You don't understand..."
"This is my own special love spell."
The Hearthstone Great Witch's face darkened. "Idiot! That's because this is the proper recipe for an [Intelligence Reduction Potion]. Your version is some rubbish passed down by who knows what school. Since you can't get a leaf from an Exotic Plant from