Chapter 380: Core
Theoretically, Nangong Rong only needs to make superficial contact with the abyss monster and its infected person, such as shaking hands and patting his head, to absorb the energy in the other party's body, but that is also theoretical, not suitable for all targets. If you shake hands, you can suck up Stephanie's energy and make her whole person powerless, even if Sao Nian is unwilling to ally the group of people who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and the guy who has never done things will desperately package Nangong Rong into super little fresh meat and then support him to launch a strategy against the black-haired girl, and also say that the girl is saving the world.
It's a pity that Nangong Rong doesn't have that much ability, and Stephanie, who started fighting after meeting and talking for less than two sentences, is more difficult to attack than a beautiful girl wearing a red and black gothic costume who uses various time system abilities, so this situation that is likely to be realized by the alliance has not happened.
It is true that the boy can forcibly seize the energy in the body of the enemy of the Abyss Camp whose strength is much higher than his own, but there is an upper limit after all. In the face of the existence of the Tree of Life, Nangong Rong is useless to poke a hole on the surface of the bark and stick his fingers in, the super control of the tree's own energy can effectively prevent the attraction of the young man's special physique to the abyss energy, as long as it does not casually mobilize energy to perform skills, Nangong Rong will always be helpless against it.
This is still in the case that the infected tree of life can't move casually, and Stephanie who uses crossbow arrows to paste people's faces when she is unhappy, Nangong Rong is afraid that she can't even get close to touching the girl, how can she be allowed to stay still and then go to extract abyss energy?
Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the alliance sent the shopkeeper of a maid café and his queen (divine beast) palace group to help Nangong Rong, and the out-of-specification girl named Emilina from the main palace also successfully beat Stephanie down, it was impossible for him to absorb the abyssal energy in the black-haired girl's body through superficial skin contact.
Is it possible to stick his finger into an indescribable hole in the girl's body like an online game house who tried to disguise himself as the great demon king after crossing into another world, but actually panicked in the face of various bosses...... Ahem, you didn't see anything.
In short, after Nangong Rong explained the difficulties she was facing to Angelot, who asked the boy to purify the Tree of Life, the elf girl immediately smiled and waved her hand at him gently: "Don't worry about this, the Tree of Life is not a naturally grown plant after all, it has its own core when it is created, and if you go there, I think you should be able to exert your abilities on it." ”
"Well, if that's the case, I can really give it a try. Nangong Rong thought that if he directly entered the core, he might be able to disintegrate the Tree of Life's control over the abyssal energy, so he nodded in agreement, "But have you figured out how this tree was infected?"
After getting the boy's affirmative answer, Angelot sighed a little helplessly as she walked out of the room and led the way in front: "It's not clear, yesterday was fine, but today it suddenly became like this." Besides, there were no suspicious creatures nearby, and if there were people or animals with the aura of the abyss, the refugees who camped around the Tree of Life would surely notice immediately, and the enemy would not have had a chance to approach the tree. ”
Nangong Ronggang wanted to subconsciously agree with the elf girl's statement, but a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, and then he decisively changed his words: "Wait, isn't there a guy who can touch the Tree of Life in a bright way, and he also exchanges energy with it in front of everyone." ”
Angellot's pretty face turned white on the spot, although her skin was already very white, but now it has become more exaggerated, and there is no other color at all: "You mean...... The pet that supplies the leylines to the Tree of Life?"
"Ah, it's not as simple as it seems. Octavir quickly understood the meaning of the young man's words, grabbed Nangong Rong's arm and dragged him to speed up the pace of his feet, "Hurry up and solve the troubles here, and then go to confirm other places, things may become bigger." ”
The frightened elf girl was about to fall into a state of six gods and no master, and the guards around her were also colorless, but because the eldest princess took the lead in standing up, several of them were also affected by it and quickly regained their composure, realizing that just being stunned could not change the status quo at all, so they followed and sped up.
"You're right, it's time to hurry. Come on, let's get in the teleportation array. ”
The core of the Tree of Life and the outside world do not have a direct connection to the outside world, it is sealed in the depths of the tree, and can only be entered through the teleportation array. Luckily, Angelot was one of the few people who had the means to get in, and she led them to the confined space in no time.
"It's not as big as I thought. Lin Weiyin looked around and then gave her own evaluation, "I thought it would be at least the size of a basketball hall as in the movie, but it turned out to be the size of a classroom?"
Octavir gestured to the center of the space, "The core of the house is an apple, what are you doing in such a big space?"
That's right, the so-called core that sparkles in everyone's eyes is a golden apple, and you can feel the strong breath of life that it exudes, which is almost substantial. The small apple was gently held up in the air by a branch, about the same level as an adult's chest, and could be easily reached by reaching out with one hand.
However, Angellot obviously had no intention of taking it down and examining it carefully, because when everyone came to this space, they were greeted not by the soft energy fluctuations like a greeting, but by a dozen writhing branches posing as tentacles, blocking between the team and the core.
Although this tree is an artifact, it is also alive, and the abyss naturally does not intend to sit idly by after realizing that Angellot and the others are not good, so he manipulates the tree to attack everyone.
"Did you activate it in advance, but it's too late!" Octavir saw the enemy's intentions at a glance, and rushed out quickly with a spear before everyone else, and the branches that blocked in front of the eldest princess instantly turned into a cloud of debris with a large number of cyan wind blades, "Nangong Rong, keep up, are you just here to stand and watch me farm monsters alone!?"
The young man who was named suddenly came back to his senses, spread his steps and followed behind Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, and the other people around him also reacted immediately, and invariably launched a charge towards the core.
The branches would soon regrow after being chopped to pieces by Octavir, and Lin Weiyin was very keenly aware that the strength of this second wave of branches was obviously much stronger than their predecessors, and even blatantly carried the aura of purple red and abyss.
But that's it, without waiting for the little girl to make any moves, the elite elven guards swept away the obstacles in front of everyone with a devastating force.
It is true that the abyssal energy has been activated, but after all, it is not so quick to produce an effect, and it is impossible for it to use all its strength to fight everyone before the Tree of Life is completely transformed into an abyssal monster. And I don't know if the elves have great confidence or what, they didn't arrange puppets and other guards in this space, and as a result, the abyss could only temporarily make tentacle branches to fight, as for its combat efficiency......
You can see how Octavir slashed the branch holding the golden apple with a single shot, and then held it in his hand before the core hit the ground.
There is nothing special about it, this is the eldest princess's first impression of the core. It was as warm and smooth as a piece of jade, and it didn't happen that a lot of energy would burst out when you touched it, and you couldn't even feel the heat if you didn't experience it carefully, and it didn't look like an energy core.
Of course, these were all illusions, and Octavir dared to bet with all the rest of his life that he would somehow make this thing unstable by his death, and that it would burst out with enough energy to blow the entire tree in two in the middle - it was still a disposable, and there was no way to break it off because of its own weight.
Nangong Rong quickly rushed over and took the core from the eldest princess, and before the boy could take any action, the thing crackled and burst out a large arc of lilac electricity, making him almost throw the golden apple to the ground.
At the same time, a black smoke visible to the naked eye surged out of the core like a tidal wave, enveloping Octavir in an instant. Of course, there were other people behind who were shrouded in it, but the eldest princess couldn't take care of them anymore.
Because at this moment, the girl's ears were filled with countless desperate wails, screams of pain, and resentful curses, and these voices were almost infinitely amplified without seeing anything in front of her, and even if the eldest princess blocked her ears with her fingers, they still couldn't stop them from burrowing into her brain frantically.
Unable to stand it, Octaviel finally let go of her throat and shouted, she thought it would alleviate the pain and even drown out the damn sounds, but to the girl's horror, she couldn't hear her own voice at all, even though her throat was already burning with a burning pain from the exertion.
Octavir didn't know how long this terrible state lasted, maybe a few minutes, maybe only a dozen seconds, but just when she thought she would be unable to bear it and was about to fall into madness, the black fog and the sound suddenly dissipated, and the whole person immediately collapsed on the ground in an extremely standard duck sitting position, greedily breathing air while finding that all the underwear was already completely sweaty.
"What was that just now?" the frightened eldest princess clutched her hand tightly to her chest and gasped sharply, her face full of a look of joy for the rest of her life, "Some kind of offensive magic?"
Lin Weiyin and several guards were unable to answer the girl's question, their strength was relatively weak, and the impact was naturally greater, and the current situation was even worse than that of the eldest princess, only to collapse on the ground and gasp for breath, and nothing else could be done.
Angelot didn't seem to be affected much, it should be Chenyu who took action to protect her in time, and was answering the eldest princess's question on behalf of everyone at this time: "That is the spiritual attack of the abyss, the sound you hear does not actually exist, but acts directly on the brain, so it is useless to block your ears." The other party will use these sounds to disturb and destroy your will, corrupt your soul, and turn you into a monster that is so manic that it only knows how to destroy under the stimulation of sounds, and eventually become a puppet of the abyss. ”
"My God, is this the spiritual attack of the Abyss?" Octavier, who exhaled deeply, wiped a cold sweat and sighed, "If it lasts longer, I'm afraid I won't be able to support it." ”
"Duration?" The elf girl curled the corners of her mouth as if she had heard something funny, and pointed in a certain direction, "Don't tease, that kind of attack won't stop until you are completely tormented and crazy, and the reason why it dissipated just now is entirely because of him." In addition, I have to say that I now completely believe that there really is an abyss nemesis in this world. ”
Even if she didn't turn her head to look at Octavier, she knew who Angellot was talking about, but the eldest princess couldn't help but turn her gaze away. The reasonable girl was purely worried about whether the boy was affected when he fought against the abyss's mental attack, and wanted to see what his current state was, whether he was in a bullish posture and pretended to be thirteen in the second illness.
But what the girl saw was Nangong Rong's confused expression, who didn't know what was going on, "Who am I, where am I, what am I doing", if it weren't for the fact that there was still light in his eyes, instead of a dim look that had lost his expression, the eldest princess would have thought that he was controlled by the abyss.
"Hey, what are you kid doing?" Nangong Rong shuddered as Nangong Rong spoke, and then recovered from his stunned state, "The mental attack just now shouldn't be a to you, why do you look like you've been stunned?"
"No, I feel like I've been beaten by electricity for a long time, my body is about to lose consciousness, and my brain can't turn around for a while, so there's nothing wrong with letting us be stunned for a while, right?" Nangong Rong said and raised his hand and scratched his scalp, as if to confirm whether the sensation in his body had returned, "Well, it doesn't seem to be injured." By the way, what's wrong with you, could it be that the target of the spiritual attack of the abyss just now was all of us?"
Did you just find out!? Everyone looked at the young man who finally noticed this, and they all showed a look of crying and laughing, but they didn't say anything more to him.
After all, it was he who defused the spiritual attack of the abyss and thus saved everyone's lives.