Chapter 0003: The Killing Tree
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Even in the daytime, the warm sunlight does not shine through the heavy fog, so the light here is slightly dim, and the background color of the environment is more of a cold earthy yellow.
After staying in such an environment for a long time, even people's personalities will become much more gloomy.
When the stone door slowly closed behind the two of them, Tony pulled his hood and said coldly.
"I'm going over there!"
Without waiting for Grim to reply, he turned and stepped onto the path on the left side of the sheep's intestines, paved with small white stones.
When Tony's muscular figure disappeared in the fog, Grim pulled up his hood and turned to the path on the right.
As he walked, he whispered, "Call up this Tony's detection data." ”
In the next second, a biochip's detection report on apprentice Tony was projected in his mind.
Name: Tony
Attributes: Strength 7 Agility 3 Constitution 8 Mental Power 6
……
Grim pursed his lips in surprise, with such a physique, why not change his career to become a brute warrior. The strength and physique are actually twice as strong as his own, which also means that if Grim fights him in close combat, he may not be able to hold even a punch and be knocked down.
However, as a wizard apprentice, his spiritual power is only 6 points, which is 2 points lower than himself, and this essential advantage cannot be compensated for by no amount of strength and physique.
In this case, he should be planning to move towards the melee wizard route. Using all kinds of witchcraft to strengthen his body, and then using witchcraft to assist his melee ability, this is probably the only path he can choose!
Just by getting along with the other party for a period of time, the biochip can detect such accurate data information from the target's behavior and other intelligence. This undoubtedly allows Grim to take more initiative in his interactions with others, and can also avoid more unnecessary risks.
And this is undoubtedly what Grim cares about the most!
However, this kind of detection method may not be of use to real wizards, because those official wizards always radiate strong elemental fluctuations from their bodies all the time. This is not only an instinctive manifestation of their own huge energy condensation, but also a means to avoid being perceived by outsiders about their true condition.
Under the interference of strong energy radiation, it is unknown how much valuable information the bio-assist chip can obtain from them. Even Grim wasn't sure if they would be aware of the biochip's existence, so he had to be cautious about the use of the biochip within the tower.
The gravel path in front of you winds its way through the mist, and strange plants of varying heights can be seen on both sides of the road. Short, thick, conical trunks, curled up with closed leaves, hanging rattans, mysterious flowers with petals as large as basins and bright colors, damp and filthy stinky cement pools......
The scene looked ordinary and ordinary, but Grim knew that he must not take half a step out of the gravel path.
Of the animals and plants that can survive in the magic swamp, there is almost no one who is docile and kind, and all of them are terrible monsters that eat people and do not spit out bones.
Those shy looking low trees are terrible killer trees, and once you get close to them, their curled leaves stretch out sharply and hold you in your arms. At this time, the vampire vines hanging from its body will roll up, piercing countless sharp tentacles into your body, making you feel the passing of life in the loss of blood bit by bit.
After your blood is sucked out, the remaining flesh and bones become the best fertilizer for the killing tree.
If you are lucky enough to peel open the dark and scarlet soil at the foot of the killing tree, you will definitely find dense white bones, human bones, and animal bones. This is the only proof of existence left by the prey they once preyed!
The reason why the swamp tower raised these monsters was to block the intrusion of strangers from the outside world, and to harvest some special witchcraft materials.
The rhizomes of the killer tree and the blood sacs in the vampire vine are good tonics, and they are also a useful supplement for wizards who have never had a good physique. Every once in a while, apprentice wizards risk being attacked by demonic plants to come here to harvest materials, making it a dangerous task with a high mortality rate.
Perhaps sensing the aura of flesh and blood on Grim's body, the swampy jungle that had been a little lifeless just now suddenly became active. The monsters outside of Grim's senses and vision were squirming their bodies and branches, consciously or unconsciously, slowly approaching the gravel path. But when Grim's gaze swept over, they froze again, as if they had never moved.
For these small actions of the demonized plant, Grim turned a blind eye and didn't care at all.
No matter how crazy and brutal they were, they never dared to cross the simple gravel path beneath their feet, as if there was something on it that made them fearful.
"Query the database and archive the magic plants in front of you!"
"Task start failed...... The ontology database is corrupted and species matching is not possible...... Turn on Element Vision, remodeling......"
As a series of chip prompts sounded, the image projected on his retina first shook for a while, and then a massive amount of data flowed down from the top like a waterfall, and every object in the field of vision was rendered colorful with brilliant fluorescence.
Elemental Vision?Is this a special means by which the chip fuses the abilities of his current body?
The green base indicates the botanical nature of these monsters, while the red, yellow, blue, and purple chromophores indicate where their energy converges. In addition, there are slight changes in environmental humidity, temperature, wind, concentration of toxic particles, distribution and flow of elemental particles...... All the changes in the data that the chip can detect are presented in front of him in the form of dynamic color maps.
Grim frowned.
Such a colorful and overly complex projection of the horizon has seriously affected his normal vision, which makes him see things in the future?
"Removal of invalid chromatography...... Removal of diffuse fluorescence...... Focusing on only a few common energy spectrums......"
As Grim's order was conveyed step by step, the colorful light that had been dazzling just now finally dimmed little by little, and all the matter in the horizon returned to its original appearance again. However, under the perspective of the biochip's powerful elemental vision, the edges of all matter show signs of translucency, and even the elemental particles that diffuse the air become faintly visible.
The mist that was still white and thick just now was a clumpy, thready, slow-flowing water elemental particle in Grim's eyes. Restrained by a mysterious force, they could not disperse, and could only shroud this magical swamp for years.
Grim stood still, his eyes glinting in the shadow of his hood, and he looked at the demonic plant on the side of the road without blinking. Under the new visual perception, the other side of the other party hidden under the camouflage was finally revealed.
Under the withered and wrinkled bark, there are dense clusters of eerie grimaces, which are all forcibly bound by the killing tree. And on the gray torso of the killer tree, the curly leaf edges, and the tips of the needle-like wooden thorns, Grim also "saw" the turquoise energy fluorescence. This is supposed to be the energy spectrum radiation presented by the killing tree paralysis venom.
And the vampire vine parasitic on the killing tree, under Grim's elemental vision, is a terrifying monster with a red root. Pure blood flowed beneath its twisted, wriggling, grass-green skin, and in the hollow cavity where it joined the Killer Tree, fist-sized sacs of blood were rising and shrinking in a regular rhythm, looking like a human heart.
Croak......
With a few shrill hisses, a flock of scavenging crows flew in from a distance and landed on a branch, staring at Grim with blinking scarlet eyes.
To be honest, being stared at by such a group of ominous monsters made Grim feel uncomfortable all over his body.
For such an uninvited group of swamp monsters, Grim did not dare to ignore it. The Scavenging Raven isn't a powerful beast, but its blood-red eyes also have a slight "demoralization" ability, and there have been horrific instances of wizard apprentices being blinded by their pecking eyes.
Seeing that the scavenging crows were a little eager to try, Grim raised his right hand and whispered a sorcery spell that he knew so well, and as the 5-second spell was completed, a large burst of bright red magic flames burst out in Grim's hand, and it couldn't stop spurting and twisting.
Grim's entire right hand was completely encased in magical flames, but he remained unscathed.
Burning Hands!
This is the only sorcery that Grim mastered after studying at the Wizard's Tower for 6 years.
With Grim's current methods, he can only extend the magic fire caused by the burning hand to 5 steps away, and he can't do anything farther. So it's still only a hand-to-hand sorcery.
The magical flames that reflected the surrounding fog were blazing, and the strong fluctuations of the fire element finally made the monsters in this swampy jungle realize that the humans in front of them were not something they could easily capture.
And the monsters that had slowly gathered around Grim seemed to be greatly frightened, and fled from both sides of the path in panic one by one. The scavenging crows roared and flew into the sky, spiraling slightly before disappearing into the depths of the mist.
Grim let out a long breath, finally reassuring a little.
The monsters would never dare to set foot on the gravel path, but that didn't stop them from luring or intimidating the wizard apprentices out of the path in their own way. Once Grim was frightened by the terrible scene of them gathering and ran out of the path in a panic, it would be difficult to protect his life even if there was a witchcraft amulet.
The soul and flesh of a wizard's apprentice are undoubtedly much more delicious than those of ordinary humans and beasts, and this does not violate the agreement between the monsters and the wizards of the Tower. Therefore, every inspection outside the tower is a profound examination of the spiritual will, once there is a mental loophole caught by these monsters, the fate of the wizard apprentice is definitely not much better.
"Record all the information of these monsters!" said Grim calmly.
"Nourish...... It's been documented! ”
"Killing Tree...... Vampire Vine ...... Scavenging Crow ......"
"Naming done! The new information has been added to the database. ”