Chapter 0355: Nightmare Garden
Two days later, the two finally arrived at the legendary 'witch's hut'.
It's a magical hut hidden in the Garden of Nightmares, and it's guarded by a Tier 1 witch from the Death Witch clan, Sharon.
When Alice, with her immature and lovely face, asked the approximate location of the mysterious area from the nearby villagers, the two found the entrance to the Nightmare Garden in a deserted area.
According to Alice, this is also supposed to be a 'wild' mission point specially set up by the Witches' Council. Manned by official witches, they are responsible for assessing and reviewing the Witch Trainee Trials in the surrounding area.
Since it is not open to the public, the witches stationed here deliberately create a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere to scare away the troubled villagers who are curious about witches. However, there are really a lot of rare demonic plants in the Nightmare Garden, not to mention ordinary people, even the trainee witches with inferior strength may be difficult to break into.
So when Grim and Alice arrive at the entrance to the Nightmare Garden, they see a gloomy garden surrounded by a crooked iron fence. Through the half-open gate, you can faintly see the tall trees and strange flowers inside, and the slightly farther away is shrouded in a faint mist.
On an old street sign erected on the right side of the garden gate, a line of bloody characters stands out.
Nightmare Garden, Trespasser Dead!
Looking around, most of the iron fences as far as the eye could see were rusted, barely standing in a crooked position, and in many places wild dogs with large gaps were able to get in.
However, in such an area, ordinary wild dogs may not even have the courage to approach!
"Let's go, it's all a witch's trick to scare the hillbillies!" Alice shrugged, reached open the rusty iron gate, and stepped in with a creaking and hissing sound.
Grim, who was following behind, could see very clearly that Alice, who stepped through the door, seemed to suddenly merge into a film of water, and her short and thin body suddenly became distorted and abnormal.
"Chip, always be vigilant, and alert me in time if there is a problem!" Grim secretly gave the order.
"Drop, the task has been established...... It was found that the special force field fluctuated, and it did not reach the alert level for the time being......"
If only there was no danger!
Grim strode into the garden with confidence.
It's a garden of nightmares!
When he entered, Grim realized that what he saw was a botanical garden, a plantation full of demonic plants.
This is a magical plant resource point that is not much different from the garden of human nobility.
The stone path that winds its way is 5 meters wide, enough for two or three adults to walk side by side. On both sides of the path are flower beds separated by a 1-meter-high wooden fence, which are planted with strange plants of different shapes.
Although Grim is not a pharmacist, with the information from the chip database in his mind, he can recognize half of the plants inside at a glance.
The Nightmare Garden is indeed a Nightmare Garden, and there are not many normal varieties of plants planted in it, most of them are vicious and evil bloodthirsty plants and mutated species. If they appear in human society, I am afraid that any of them can set off a lot of turmoil.
Human-faced mushroom, vampire vine, man-eating flower, sun-wheel flower, konjac grass, snakehead mushroom, dryad, flower elf, .........
Most of these plants live in groups, and many of them, Grim, have been dealing with them for a long time in the Enchanted Swamp.
Like a human-faced mushroom, it is a small red mushroom shape, with a few slender dark markings on the umbrella surface, which looks like a human smiling face sketched by children at a glance. Once they smell popularity, they stretch out their delicate hands and feet as if they have been activated, and they squeak together to make a sound similar to that of a child's cry, which looks quite cute.
However, once someone is bewitched by them and walks among them, they will create a mysterious dream that resembles illusion, and the other person will be intoxicated by it.
Also, don't look cute about them, they're carnivores!
There are also plants that are solitary, and there is only one solitary one in the huge field. Like the Dryad, it's this terrible plant. They don't need partners to survive, and wherever they parasitize, all other plants will be robbed of their vitality and eventually wither.
However, the dryads planted here are apparently still juveniles, and once they reach adulthood, they pull their rhizomes out of the ground and transform into sapient creatures in humanoid form. At that time, the dryad, the handsome man and the charming woman, and had a natural charm spell, was also an ideal contract creature for witches.
As for the wild dryads, they usually hide in the depths of the jungle, which is a type of jungle elve, and it is easy and difficult to catch. Even Grim didn't expect to see their hatchlings here.
In addition to these, the Nightmare Garden is also home to a number of mysterious plants that Grim has never seen before.
It was a dense pale yellow flower, with its pink petals slightly closed, swaying slowly in the breeze, and there was nothing unusual about it from the outside. However, when Grim leaned down slightly to take a closer look, he was shocked to find that there was a human face with eyebrows in each closed petal.
The old, the young, the male, the female, the beautiful, the ugly...... All of them are clearly visible, and their faces are different, but the only thing they have in common is that they all have their eyes closed.
Seeing this, Grim couldn't help but use a "they" to describe these ......
Because the sleeping faces inside these petals are so realistic, they give Grim the illusion that they are real human beings.
Grim looked up in shock, a large area of flowers was lush, but it inexplicably gave him a hint of cold and weird feeling. A breeze blew, and a cacophony of whispers rang out, and the faces seemed to be talking to each other secretly.
"Drop, an unknown force field fluctuation was detected, and it was preliminarily determined to be in the realm of illusion...... It is recommended that the subject stay away immediately!"
Maybe it's not a delusion!
Grim hurried two steps away from the creepy flower garden. He had a feeling that once those human faces opened their eyes, something terrible would happen.
"Rest assured, this is one of the many resource points of the Witches' Council, and all demonized plants are strictly managed. As long as you don't step out of this stone path, they won't dare attack you. But once you're lured into the flower garden by them, then ......" Alice didn't go on, but she understood exactly what Grim meant.
The situation here is similar to the magical swamp where Grim once was. There are too many overly dangerous demonic plants planted and bred in the resource point, and they are simply the most terrifying monsters in the world for ordinary people, even those weaker apprentice witches who break in rashly, I am afraid they will also suffer a lot.
This...... Perhaps that's the main reason why the Witches Council has chosen this place as one of the Probationary Witch Trials mission review locations!
And such a place, of course, is also managed!
Just as Alice led Grim to wander around the Nightmare Garden, a strange trumpet flower beside them suddenly grew a little bigger, and from it came the voice of a hoarse and eerie old woman.
"It's not Nightmare Garden's day! Whoever you're from has the audacity to trespass into my Sharon's territory, it's a huge offense! Give you three minutes to get out of here, or you'll ......"
"Graciful Grandma Sharon, it's lovely Alice who has come to see you! have you forgotten me?" Alice screamed with excitement instead of being frightened.
She and the witch here actually know each other?
Grim suddenly realized, no wonder there are so many locations, she chose this place first!
Alice...... Which Alice ......"
As the old witch muttered to herself, a palm-sized, naked flower that looked like a miniature version of a human girl looked like a miniature version of a human girl's flower elf, and behind her back was a pair of transparent wings as thin as cicada wings.
To be honest, although the Flower Elves and the Green Elves that Grimm had seen before were similar in appearance, they belonged to different Jungle Elf subjects.
A species of sorcery that specializes in auxiliary plant-based witchcraft, has a docile and peaceful temperament, and is usually captured by wizards to manage their homes and laboratories for themselves. A highly poisonous sorcery that specializes in plants, it is fierce and fierce by nature, and its flight speed is fast, and it is often used as a battle pet.
After the flower fairy flew out of the trumpet flower, it waved a small magic wand in its hand, flapped its transparent wings and circled Alice several times quickly, leaving a pale green light spot in the air that slowly dissipated......
"Alice! It's you, Alice...... Alice of the Mayan family...... Your name has been very popular in witch circles lately, and I thought it was another guy with the same name as you, but I didn't expect it to be you......! But the guy you're traveling with, you'd better stay outside, he's a big problem now!" It seemed that with the help of the eyes of the flower elf, the old witch in the distant hut also saw Alice, and her voice continued to be heard from the trumpet flower.
"Grandma Sharon, Grim is Alice's current companion, can you bear to let Alice's companion be left alone outside with these demonic plants?"
A sigh came from the trumpet flower.
"You're already a mature woman of twenty-five or sixteen years old, and you're still playing this game in front of me...... Okay, okay, let that wizard come in with you!"
Hearing the old witch's command, the flower fairy smiled sweetly at the two of them, turned around and flew towards the witch's hut in the distance.
With the flower elf leading the way, the cabin, which had been unable to get close to it before, only took two or three minutes to come to it this time.