148. A New Round of the Tree of Life
In the surface world, at the bottom of the lake, Talos was checking the harvest from his previous trip to the dungeon, a total of seven fruits, two deformed and inflated, and five were only the size of a fist, the same fruit that the blue fishman had eaten by mistake.
In addition, there was a branch of the Mother Tree of the Undead, full of flesh and blood, full of bones, if he didn't know the strangeness of the Mother Tree of the Undead, Talos would have thought it was a human arm.
"It is a tree but it has flesh and blood, and it cries like a baby, and the fruit screams, as if it has wisdom and life. Talos recalled the situation of the Mother Tree of the Undead, "Could it be that such a painstaking research based on the High Elf Tree of Life is in the hands of an ordinary vampire, and he stole it from the Spider Sect?"
Although vampires have the ability to cast spells in the third order and their bodies are also strengthened, and their combat power is very outstanding in the same rank, in fact, their status in the spider sect is not high.
They are just the product of the failure to attack the fourth-order corpse witch with the help of elixirs and painful rituals, and they are plagued by the venom inside their bodies, and they will eventually be melted from the inside out, and they are not even as good as other ordinary third-order necromancers in terms of potential.
In addition, vampires are driven by other ghouls, just as vampires themselves drive undead creatures such as zombies, skeletons, ghouls, and carrion ghouls to fight for him.
"That fish-man vampire also attracted the pursuit of the three high-ranking clergy of the Death Temple! Yes, their attitude towards destroying the Mother Tree of the Dead was very resolute, and after dealing with Harvey's affairs, they even returned to the dungeon to confirm it. ”
"Presumably, in addition to helping vampires increase their strength, the Mother Tree of the Undead also has other abilities that are very feared by the Temple of Death. Unfortunately, the vampire was killed too quickly by the Priest of the Death Temple to get information from him. ”
A cold, wriggling touch awakened Talos from his thought mode, and at first glance, it was actually the tentacle of the three-eyed octopus that had already evolved into a first-order demonic beast.
The three-eyed octopus, which had long smelled the smell of the undead mother tree and the fruit, lifted their parasitic mode one after another, came down from the dead octopus, and surrounded the fruit.
After waiting for a long time to eat, the three-eyed octopus, the leader, stared at the red eyes and carefully stretched out a tentacle around Talos's arm to urge their owner to get permission to eat as soon as possible.
Talos reached out and patted the three-eyed octopus on the head, and said, "Wait a minute, I'm not sure if this is your ration yet." ”
At the call of Talos, a behemoth with a length of more than 60 appeared in the lake, which was the earthly python summoned by Talos.
Affected by the momentum of the earthly python, the three-eyed octopuses obediently shrank into a ball in submission.
The huge and hideous snake head of the earthly python slowly approached one of the deformed fruits, stretched out a forked snake head thicker than a human forearm, licked it twice, roared, and disappeared into the lake as a black smoke.
"Well, now it looks like they're indeed your rations. Talos said helplessly.
Because the stinking smell of the Mother Tree and the fruit is too much to compliment, Talos fights for the idea of gaining some of his power by eating the earthly python, but the result is obvious, the [Gluttony] avatar is also only interested in deliciousness.
"In that case," Talos originally wanted to simply and rudely distribute the branches of the Undead Mother Tree to the first-order demonic beasts that squeezed around him, and the remaining seven fruits were distributed to the other seven strongest three-eyed octopuses.
The blue-fish man, who had eaten the red fruit by mistake and ended up hungry for flesh, made Talos decide to do a small experiment first to avoid unnecessary losses.
The three-eyed octopus has no natural predators in the surface world, is polluted by gluttony, and in recent days, it has been parasitic on the dead octopus to obtain a steady stream of life energy replenishment, and the smallest three-eyed octopus has tentacles with a length of more than three.
Eventually, Talos found the smallest of the thirty-six three-eyed octopus, pointed to one of the red fruits, and said, "Go, that fruit is yours." ”
The three-eyed octopus, which had long been uncontrollable, let out a joyous whine at the envious gaze of its companions, and first wrapped its tentacles around Talos's fingers to express its gratitude, and then swam lightning near the fruit, stretching out two tentacles to wrap around it.
All the mouths on the three-eyed octopus's tentacles worked at the same time, and it took less than a few seconds to eat a fist-sized fruit.
Talos looked at the three-eyed octopus closely, and it didn't change much.
A minute passed, five minutes passed, and it wasn't until the seventh minute that the three-eyed octopus changed, but not badly, but in a new round of evolution.
I saw that the size of the three-eyed octopus after eating the red fruit increased at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the biggest change appeared on his head, covered with a layer of skin and spikes, and it no longer had the softness and roundness that was unique to the previous mollusks, and it looked quite vicious and hideous.
"If you don't look at your tentacles, you think it's the head of a young dragon. Talos reached out and stroked the three-eyed octopus's head, which was cold and rough to the touch.
After another seven minutes, the Three-Eyed Octopus, which had finished the remaining branches and fruits of the Mother Undead tree, underwent the same change.
Especially the first-order demonic beast that devoured the branches of the undead mother tree, its tentacles have reached 15 in length, and the spikes covered on its head are divided into two rows on the left and right, forming a sharp blade the size of an ordinary person's index finger, and even the fangs that the octopus itself does not have appear in its mouth, and with hundreds of mouths in its tentacles, it already has the rudiments of a monster.
But it turns out that Talos was relieved too early, and when he wakes up the next morning and enters the watch world, he finds that the dead octopus, which had only been parasitized by the three-eyed octopus for a few days, was completely dead.
Not only that, but even his huge corpse was eaten by thirty-six three-eyed octopuses overnight.
In return, in addition to the seven octopuses that received the fruits yesterday, ten more three-eyed octopuses were promoted to the first rank and became magical beasts with extraordinary powers.
If they are released, it can be regarded as a large-scale help.
"I didn't sleep all night. Richard, a mariculturist, complained to Talos about the misdeeds of the three-eyed octopus, "All night long, I could hear them chewing on dead octopuses. ”
Although the number of three-eyed octopuses is only thirty-six, the combined number of mouths is at least six thousand, and Talos can fully imagine how much movement they cause when they eat together.
However, this would have left Talos no time to comfort Richard, for with the death of the octopus, its soul was imprisoned by the surface world
The soul of the Death Octopus was not absorbed and refined by the soul fire at the first time, nor was it devoured by the earthly python, but sank to the bottom of the lake, turning into eight huge, cocoon-like eggs.
Talos froze as he looked at the egg, which was beating slightly like a heart.
"The Spider Sect has really researched that forbidden tree!"
On a small island, the bald mage is talking to the short and fat mage who is looking for the black dragon Marcus in other seas through magic props, and he holds a red fruit the size of two fists, shaped like a deformed giant head, and his facial features are distorted, which looks very strange.
At first, the bald mage thought that it would be easy to secretly protect a second-order Naga, as long as he did not reveal his identity as a member of the Illuminati, but then he realized that the truth was not as simple as he imagined.
Living under the sea for a long time was no small challenge for him, and with the beta-level standard magical defense system and tight guards that hung over Evelyn Palace, he had to turn into a swimming fish today and a starfish tomorrow.
Thanks to his frequent transformations, his ability in the field of marine creature transformation in recent times can be described as leaps and bounds.
On the day of the siege of Evelyn, the bald mage was glad more than once that he had not recklessly broken into Evelyn Palace before, otherwise he would have been captured and tortured by the Black Sea Lord who had secretly promoted to legend.
If the other party learns the memory reading spell of the Psychic Faction, all the secrets on his body will be a book waiting to be read for the Black Sea Lord.
"The Mother Tree of the Dead, modeled after the High Elf Tree of Life?" "The voice of the Humpty Dumpty mage filled with surprise came from the small round mirror, "It can't be, that's just a hypothesis put forward by the crazy people of the Spider Church back then." Moreover, we had investigated before entering Sainz this time, and the only three remaining living trees of the elven clan were all in the elven royal court, and there were no accidents. ”
"Barty, I'm right, you can't argue with that. The bald mage said as he placed the fruit in front of the mirror to make sure the image was transmitted to the other side, "Now, the damned vampires of the Spider Cult can no longer rely on sucking the blood of other creatures to alleviate the dissolution of venom from within their bodies. ”
"Unbelievable! How the hell did they do it?"
"I guess there are two possibilities, first, the Spider Sect has already forcibly seized one of the Trees of Life from the High Elves at some point in the past, but due to prestige or other reasons, in short, the Elven Court did not announce this kind of shameful thing, and the secrecy was done very well. ”
"Second, the Spider Sect, like our Illuminati, has its own secret base, which is far more advanced in dimensional travel technology than the main material plane, and can be visited"
"I know what you're trying to say, there may be other trees of life on other newly born planes of matter, but that probability is even smaller, infinitely close to zero. Humpty Dumpty mage rudely interrupted the bald mage, "Besides, those habitable material planes are basically the sphere of influence of the old gods, and according to the last Void Protocol, we can't come to the world where the old gods are located. ”
"So what, this time the four elemental messengers and we were able to secretly enter the main material plane before the Church of the Gods found out, not to get the help of the old gods, if Hans hadn't been exposed early due to the accidental death of the second son of the Hemmer family, the four elemental messengers might have been able to wipe the entire city of wealth off the map. ”
"In order to defeat the new gods who now rule the main material plane, the old gods can cooperate with our former enemies, as long as there are enough interests, they can also cooperate with the spider sect. ”
"And, you're wrong again, Barty!" the bald mage laughed, finally venting his frustration at being reprimanded by Humpty Dumpty in Birlingham, "Just now, I witnessed a visitor from the Outer Plane descend on the main material plane by shattering the spatial barrier. ”
Humpty Dumpty mage squinted, if it weren't for the fact that the bald mage was talking about it too important now, he would have just turned off the magic item and thrown it to the ground as Thomas's bald head and stomped on both feet.
A fourth-order ** master, even the kind that specializes in space factions, is not possible to break the space barrier with the power of one person, which is the basis for the main material plane to be independent from the void, but there is one thing that can help the fourth-order ** master successfully locate and enter the main material plane life tree.
Ordinary people only know that the Tree of Life is a symbol of natural harmony and life, but they do not know that the Tree of Life has some mysterious connection with the World Tree at the beginning of the birth of the universe.
Regardless of the material plane, as long as there is a mature tree of life, it can locate and open the main material plane.
"Straight to the point, Thomas!" said Humpty Dumpty, angrily.
His focus had completely shifted away from how the Spider Cult had studied the Mother Tree of the Undead, and he wanted only one very important answer.
"The moment that fourth-order mage named Harvey descended on the main material plane, I felt the breath of the Tree of Life!"
"I wish you had recorded the spatial coordinates of the material plane behind the spatial rift. Humpty Dumpty mage said with a sneer.
"Do you think I'm a legendary mage who specializes in spatial factions? ”
"Then you should really apologize for what you just said, because you almost fooled the Red King and the White Queen. ”
"Hmph, although I can't parse the coordinates of the specific plane space, I can determine that the star field of the material plane is located, which is in the third house of the ecliptic. ”
After thinking about it, the bald mage said again, "Barty, don't take all the credit for reporting this important news to the two Majesies. ”
It's a reluctant choice, who wants Humpty Dumpty mage to have an eye of knowledge that can transmit information across planes?
"Don't worry, I don't have the ability to parse spatial coordinates. Humpty Dumpty mage pouted, "Is there any other notable news?"
"Yes, when the space was shattered, there were three high-ranking priests of the Temple of Death and a Naga witch from the Temple of Snow Mountain in the dungeon. ”
"The Water Dragon has never been interested in this kind of thing, and like the other five primordial gods, he hasn't even participated in a Void War, as for the Temple of Death......" Humpty Dumpty Mage sneered, "Since the Spider Sect has re-emerged in the main material plane, it means that the avatar of the [Death] after the Death Spider has reawakened, and there shouldn't be much energy to pay attention to the material plane of the third house." ”
Therefore, the tree of life was destined to be their illuminati. 2k reading web