The golden lake rolled uneasily.

Stirred by the huge oak trees emerging from the lake, bubbles emerge from the surface of the water.

But if that's all there is to it, it's not an exaggeration to call it gentle. Joseph was faced with a scene far more dangerous than that—

There was not a trace of blood in the pure white vines with dense golden veins, and all the flesh and blood of the Order were devoured and digested by the Tree of Suffering, completely becoming its power.

But as its strength grew, the beastliness in its blood engulfed its originally pure heart.

The rampage of the origin called [Fusion] never ended. Long ago, the Tree of Affliction ceased to live as a human being, but became a plant and a monster.

Like Elukado, with the help of Origin, it is able to merge all the living and even non-living virtues that he devours, but it cannot guarantee its dominance.

The more you devour, the hungrier you get. The Tree of Crucifixion has long since gone from being a hero to an inadequate wild dog.

Joseph looked at the Tree of Suffering, which was violently waving vines at him, and his eyes were only cold to the bone marrow and pathetic from the heart.

If it can grow normally, it may eventually be able to regain its human consciousness. But after being interfered with by Roland, in order to avoid burning its roots by the light of the fire, it can only choose to devour all the life it can find.

A fact that no one knows is that Roland burned down only a quarter of the people of the City of Fortune that year. The remaining three-quarters were devoured by the Tree of Crucifixion itself.

It was the lives of those people that allowed the Tree of Crucifixion to survive the most difficult first week. After that, the "fertilizer" of the entire Order made it fully adapt to the heat of the Flowing Fire Light, and turned it into its own power.

Its vines have reverted back to their original pure white. But the golden liquid that had been absorbed turned into golden streaks on the surface of the vines—each time the vines were wielded, the scorching heat left a twisted trail in the air.

as a plant. But it has mastered the most primitive power to kill itself - high temperature. This mutation makes it more ferocious, more animalistic, and thinks from the point of view of a predator rather than a producer.

I guess it's the reason I forgot. Joseph could feel it clearly. The rage on it quickly dissipated. And at the same time, even more red. Naked hunger poured out, and bloodthirsty vines danced like snakes, constantly rolling up monstrous waves.

And Joseph looked at all this with no fear in his eyes.

"Look! God handed me over to the ungodly and threw me into the hands of the wicked! ”

In a self-deprecating tone, Joseph sang aloud a curse to God.

It was resentment at God not saving him, madness at the sight of despair.

The moment he spoke, the silver-gray flame that was as thick as lacquer in his eyes flowed out of his eyes like candle tears. Hanging on his skin, it made his skin bubble and melt in an instant.

Joseph just looked coldly at the Tree of Crucifixion and stretched out his right hand to the front.

At that moment, it seemed that some terrible aura was surging over Joseph, and the Tree of Crucifixion was instantly frightened, and the dozens of huge vines that almost smashed Joseph into flesh were instantly retracted.

But then it realizes that it has been deceived.

"Kill...... Eat ......"

A faint voice rang out among the endless vines. As if ashamed, the vines on the Tree of Affliction waved even more frantically, and there was a brief hesitation. He slashed more vines at Joseph.

But for a moment of hesitation, Joseph's chant did not stop. By the time the vine was once again waved at him, his desperate prayer was halfway complete: "He will take me by the neck and throw me to the ground, and break my heart." Pour out my gall on the ground. ”

The poisonous fire gradually boiled with his prayers.

Silver-gray poisonous fire dripped from his face, and his facial features were completely submerged in the raging poisonous fire, only his eyes were pitch black.

His outstretched right hand had melted. The skin on the surface burns and twists, melting in the fire like an inferior plastic doll. Revealing a metallic silver-gray color inside.

"My days are coming to an end, and my hope is gone."

"Now I have a dry grave as my house. With floating earth as a tomb, decay as a father, and insects and ants as a mother—"

As Joseph Sr. whispered, sporadic silver-gray sparks erupted from his throat.

Deep in his silver-black pupils, an invisible gray-white flame danced quietly.

In his eyes, a frenzied glow gradually ignited.

Joseph cried out in a loud voice, "By the mercy of the Lord, grant me an eternal sleep!" ”

The next moment, his right hand was finally completely burned out.

A small silver-gray ball like a spherical joint was attached to the wrist of his right arm, and a gray-white poisonous fire like a dripping bone marrow rose from it, turning into a gray-white fire dragon like a dragon several times larger than himself, and met the falling vines.

These gray-white fire dragons seemed to possess entities, and they forcibly stopped the vines.

A furious shockwave burst out mercilessly from the point of exchange.

The golden water surface under his feet was suddenly dispersed by the shock wave, and the water under Joseph's feet suddenly vacated more than ten square meters of open space, as those tentacle-like giant vines continued to slap at Joseph at a violent speed, the gray-white fire dragon was smashed after only two or three rounds of slapping, and then condensed into a thin and pale flame barrier in the air to stop the tentacles with difficulty.

It is constantly being evacuated and quickly restored. For a time, despite the fact that the storm that had been raised by the collision had already caused a tsunami in the city, the Crucifixion Tree did not cause substantial harm to Joseph.

Joseph, however, was not satisfied with this result.

"Mad Dog ......"

He squeezed the words out between his teeth, and the silver-gray fireball on his right wrist suddenly spontaneously ascended, engulfing half of Joseph's arm in his pale and furious face. The radius of the fireball increased by a few points.

At this point, as the water was drained, Joseph's side became dry again. And in the shadow behind Joseph, a blood-red eye opened, staring at Joseph closely, with a demonic light shining in it.

At the same time, a fierce hatred and fanaticism surged out of Joseph's heart. A manic murderous intent filled Joseph's heart, as if he had a father-killing vendetta against the Tree of Suffering.

Driven by the frenzied killing intent and hatred, Joseph pressed his intact left hand against the fireball on his right arm like a madman, and a sneering sound rose along with white smoke.

"Take as much as you want! Take it all! Take it all! ”

Joseph roared in rage, his arms burning to ashes almost instantly.

Instead, there were several ribbons of satin-like light formed by two silver-gray flames.

The next moment, even more violent flames poured out of him. With the momentum of burning the sky all together, I met those vines from the bottom up! (To be continued.) )

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