"Didn't I tell you we should disperse them?" Petra studied Gwen with her critical, calculating eyes. "They are not your allies, cousin. They are our competitors. Did you know that before you came, that old man was the one Rangira chased? he restrained their aggression against me? If I were a little magician, I would have died there, and he would have escaped. ”

Gwen gritted her teeth. Now she understands.

But it's not just the yuan. And the girls, not to mention Vivien, who cooked and cleaned behind her. She also owed him a sum of money because he had lured the mage away from the Xiao family.

Gwen glanced down, but they were too far from the canopy now.

The height of the tree is physiologically incredible. Gwen was sure that Caliban had been moving slowly but steadily for at least ten minutes. Even at the speed of a snail, it is capable of making trees up to 250-300 meters high. In fact, from the swamp, the tree looks to be in its 30s. The Eiffel Tower is 300 meters high, and the tallest tree in the world is Hyperion, which rises to 115 meters. So what the hell is going on with this thing? Saturn?

Then, Gwen reminded herself again. Expect the unexpected. Rhino sharks swim over solid rocks.

But none of that helped Gwen now.

"Anyway," Petra said, observing the fruit. "The goal is ours. That's all that matters. ”

Petra then uses Gwen's Void Arrow to create a spell cube.

"I've been saving this," she said as she left the cube suspended in the air, then waved it to activate it. Void energy escaped the limitations of the crystal wrap and connected to Petra's astral body, reshaping its spell signals to fall under her summons. When the lightning of the void revealed, Petra let out a low, breathless moan.

"The feedback was stronger than I expected. Petra met Gwen's eyes with her bright iris, her face pale from exertion. "I see. Think about how much pain you're enduring every time. You have the courage. I'll give it to you. ”

"Petra......" Gwen's mind was always thinking about the people below, especially the innocent Fei, who had been following her to destruction.

"It's about to fall! Catch it!" Petra ordered Gwen. "Use your storage ring!"

Gwen snaps back into reality and sees black cavities streak across the jackfruit's stem, free-falling.

An aroma bursts from the fruit, and a sickly sweetness envelops the senses, giving one a disgusting sense of delirium. Gwen tries to calculate the trajectory of the fallen fruit.

She waited until it was almost overhead, then ordered her storage ring to work its spatial magic.

Good thing she has a bunch of mana pools. It is impossible for a little mage with a ring with the same generous space to "catch" an item of such size and volume so easily, at least not more than the limits of their magic.

With a sudden sound of air being blown away, the fruit was gone.

"Quick! Petra commands the spider and the master. "We need to put it up right away. Let the Cariban put us on the branches!"

Gwen moved her spiders familiarly until they landed on the broad branch that Petra pointed out.

"Plastic wood!"

Petra burned a cube of utilities and razed the branches into a square platform that could comfortably accommodate both of them.

"Hurry up, fruit!"

Gwen brings fruit to life. On closer inspection, it is more like a durian.

Petra holds a dagger in one hand and plunges into the outside of durian's bulbous spikes. The blade easily penetrated its surface, and Petra kept grinding the edges until it reached the lowest point of the shell. Then, she put her finger into the open fold and tore the huge durian in half.

If earlier the scent was strong, now it is so strong that Gwen feels as if she is already tasting and eating the fruit. Like her old-world durian, it is a delicious stench with a smell so strong and disgusting that their eyes are drawn to the water.

Petra dug into the white membrane and pulled out a piece of flesh like a rickety piece of cream-colored jade with clear, cloudy juice on it.

"Let's eat first!" she ordered Gwen. "I can only seal so much so quickly. These are most effective when eaten fresh. ”

"Isn't there a stagnation in our storage ring?" asked Gwen carefully, wondering why Petra was so excited by the need for hurry.

"Just for the ordinary product. Petra took out a piece of meat and froze it in a crystal cube with a flash. Alchemists and professional herbalists are particularly charming with storage rings and hemostatic boxes. As for this specific result, I read about it in the university dungeon files. Unless I'm wrong, it's vitamin one or something like that. From the moment it is taken out of the mother tree, we have a limited window to either consume it or put it away. ”

"What happened—

"Shut up and eat!"

Gwen flinched. She obediently picked up the white meat and put it in her mouth. The moment Gwen bites the flesh, the peach fibers melt into a creamy, indescribable taste that runs down her throat and penetrates her torso warmly. Apparently, her hair grew longer and she felt that her nails were a bit long.

"Oh my gosh. Gwen couldn't help but let out a slight moan. In her body, the dust of Almudegi's magic began to glow brilliantly with renewal and vitality, as if each one was a small seed that had just tasted the spring rains.

She reached for another slice.

"No!" Pietra clapped his hands, then returned to his deep thoughts. "You're going to explode!"

"I can handle it," Gwen insisted. She didn't intend to give the opportunity to restore or empower Almud's mana to pass through her. The greater the snake's life force, the more likely she is to survive the unstable feedback of a higher level of emptiness. Who knows, if she collects enough life force, maybe she can reconnect with Almoody and wake it up from sleep, even.

Not to mention, she also owes the rainbow fabulous life.

Gwen admits that there is also selfishness in this, a lingering fantasy of wish fulfillment, maybe, just maybe, if she gets into trouble again, a mythical snake will fall from the sky to save her.

"Okay. If you want to be a python that thinks you can swallow an elephant, be my guest. Petra turned around and focused on her work. She has finished her work and is now making crystal cubes that preserve the fleshy nature of the fruit.

"Don't talk about it. Gwen smiled to herself as she remembered Almuji swallowing the dark sun. Her ominous prophecy buzzed like a saw, but there was no way to retrieve the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den.

The second piece fell down her throat like a bag of razors, forcing Gwen to her knees in agony. The life force that permeated her body seemed to stretch every inch of her body, and it felt as if someone was forcibly inflating her lungs until she was about to collapse. Next to Gwen, Petra completes her third cube. She was about to start the fourth day when Gwen's moans became impossible to ignore.

Petra expanded a limited supply of utility cubes while cursing at her cousin's arrogance.

At the same time, she regained her sobriety as her agonizing pain hung over her mind like ashes.

The essence of Almudegi was immediately activated, and the primordial life force was devoured with hunger.

Gradually, the pent-up raging pressure in her body dissipated. Even though she had to wipe a handful of blood from under her nose, Gwen felt the green particles of Almuji's mana spreading and multiplying.

Does she dare to take a third risk?

"You're crazy. It's so reckless!" Petra snapped, watching her cousin staring desolate at the white jade flesh. "Gwen, don't be stupid. I couldn't have a worse fix than this. ”

Petram's advice is sufficient. As soon as she touched the third piece, she had a premonition, indicating that there was a major test of life and death ahead. Although her prophecy was unpredictable, it warned her of an impending crisis and has not yet been proven completely wrong.

Petra completed her sixth cube.

"Okay, we've got to go," she suddenly announced, ditching the lychee meat that had spilled from the oversized durian. "Now. The flesh is about to change. ”

The two girls quickly boarded the Caliban, who began to advance below.

On the top of their heads, the juicy meat suddenly changed. In the place where the fruit radiates positive energy, the crystalline jelly tissue suddenly dies and is negative and malignant. The wooden platform immediately dried up and turned into a dead skeleton, and the branches were black and rotten as if they had been decades before.

The necrotic cobwebs quickly spread for more than a dozen meters, devouring everything within the radius of its evil negative energy pulses.

The tree itself seemed to lose its vitality, and the leaves of a shower of rain began to surrender to the uncertain space below, falling on the girls, clamping their hair and the nooks and crannies of the Caliban.

"Oh God!, Gwen observed, as they descended, so that it was just over the range of the weakened explosion, the scale of the discharge of awe.

"There is a duality in everything," Petra parroted. "Where there is life, there is death. That's why we have to hurry. ”

Speaking of death, Gwen's thoughts swept over the people they had abandoned below. Are they okay?

To Gwen's great relief, no guardian has so far made its existence public. Young men and women are the same as they were when they left.

But in distress that tingled her spine and numbled her scalp, they were ambushed.

"Hooray!" When Gwen and Petra arrived at Caliban, the Shaw confessor appeared from behind the tree.

His team is strategically semicircular, roughly within his shielding capabilities. Two girls stand on one side, an indifferent gallery, with Fei and Yuan occupying the adjacent space.

Fei looked badly beaten, his shirt was torn, and one side of his face was swollen. However, the meta-mage had a smug expression, which Gwen knew very well.

Petra shoots Gwen, "I told you a long time ago", watching Gwen's face become as hard as a stone, her eyes drooping gloomily.

Gwen considered her current situation. Her mana was almost full and full of energy. Would it help if they drove them away? It's hard to say, in order to prevent them from getting into the situation they are in, she had to force their competitors to give up dungeon diving.

But now it's useless to cry over the spilled milk. No one helped these fools. Gwen gritted her teeth. Even if she had to burn herself to the last inch, she had to make sure these bastards knew that the price of going against her wasn't once, but twice.

"Are you two sisters?"

Indeed, some Asians are unrecognizable when it comes to Westerners. In the eyes of the confessor, this pair of stunning European beauties, who are similar in figure and figure, must be related, especially given their collaboration. In his world, the harmony of the family and the family is supreme and privileged. Even forty years of social conditions under the communist government could not change this state of affairs.

"Anyway. The confessor rubbed his mouth. "If you want, you can call me Xiao Huyi, or Young Master Huyi, I am from the Xiao family's Hubei family. These are my companions: Lei, Jingwen, Fuhui, and Pan, all of whom are fellow initiates, all named Xiao. ”

"As far as I know, you're Gwen Song, and you, darling. Juy turned his gaze to Petra. "You're a prodigy from Fudan, aren't you? Mineral magician? My brother is also in the second grade at Fudan. ”

"What does Xiao Gongzi want a civilian like me to do?" Petra protectively walked up to Gwen, her posture aggressive. She's the kind of girl whose anger makes men's hearts move.

"A commoner?barely!You're the beauty of Lord Wen!Her dear disciple, who can blame her?" Joy's keen gaze didn't suggest to Gwen that he was privileged Petra's magical talents. "If you two are willing to give up what you've acquired, I wouldn't mind giving you both a little CCs before the dungeon ends. You have to keep your face and we can part ways amicably. ”

"Shut your mouth," Petra said coldly. "Your stinking breath makes me sick. ”

"Why make yourself more uncomfortable?" Huy tried to hide the anger boiling beneath his amiable exterior, but it went without saying that the smile on the man's chest did not reach his eyes. "Didn't your master teach you to share the devotional of respect, instead of forcing you to put down the bitter cup?

"You're on a dangerous path," Gwen interjected suddenly, her eyes glowing blue with electricity as she ignited a powerful flashbang. Her spells and spells are likely to be confusing. If they were going to fight, she would strike first. There is no point in freeing these bastards from their egos.

A biting breeze took away the tepid warmth of the area.

The next second, it started to rain.

Not a drizzle, but a shower of fog pouring on the peat bog.

Particles of water sizzled against Gwen's leather coat, emitting blue static from her.

"Okay, the first item on the agenda, how about sharing these fruits?" Hu Yi began.

"Flash—"

"Dispel the magic!"

In an instant, the mana she had used rushed back into her body. This feedback made her feel like she was knocking on the head.

Even Alesia has said that the ability to resist spells is rare. Affinity, experience, talent, and split-second judgment, all of which are the most powerful of all dueling skills of a renouncer – the answer to all offensive spells – the ability to destroy damage before it becomes a thing.

"Hah!" Hu Yi smiled and looked at Gwen's face pale. It was a lucky blow. The patriarch told him that the Lightning Witch's signature spell was in a contest with Lin Yifu.

"!" Petra immediately called, activating her crystal shell, a stone wall that had been transformed using her affinity for minerals. Shelter also formed around Caliban, protecting the Void Spiders as they began to retreat.

"Gwen, take us up!"

Although Gwen was drunk, her orders were enough for Kaleban to rise quickly. Petra, too, was hung on wayward limbs. The Caliban quickly climbed back into the tree.

"Oh no, you won't!" Hu Yi found a bamboo roll from his storage ring. "Cover me!"

"Fireball!"

"Smash!"

"God forbid!"

"Scorching light!"

Their opponents have two summoners, one is a fire, one is an air teleporter, and one is a soothsayer. The soothsayer stayed behind, scanning their surroundings suspiciously.

A blanket of flames of incantation washed over Petra's crystal shield, blinding them and the trees trembling in the explosion, sending a violent shower of leaves that fell around them like an emerald waterfall.

Part of the tree caught fire, which made the Caliban's takeover even more precarious.

Underneath the girls, Juy cast an activated spell on the bamboo scroll, causing it to glow white in elementless remorse.

"The Seal of the Nine Families!" the translated Lion Stone was completely unable to keep up with the Taoist mantra and babbled nonsense to Gwen.

Caliban's upward retreat suddenly froze, followed by a loud bang!" as his physical manifestation collapsed in the material world.

"Peter—"

Gwen suddenly jumped to her feet, her legs not straddled anything. She fell about half a meter before landing at the bottom of the Petra Crystal Wall. Petra also descended the same distance, landing beside Gwen, albeit with more grace and control. Petra made a gesture to bite the trunk with a crystal partition and dig hard into the wood.

"Ariel!"

The marten has now been visibly repaired, appearing next to Gwen.

When Gwen tries to summon Caliban again, she discovers that the netherworld creature is not in its pocket. Where did it go?

"I'll prepare some magic flashlights and turn them on with a void explosion," Gwen shouted to the jingle of Petra's shield under a spell.

"No," Petra stopped her. "It's too risky. ”

"What do you suggest?"

Petra strengthened her cover. The Mineral Mage's greatest strength is its walls, barriers, and shields, which have high physical and elemental damage effects.

"We break through the middle. Here's the script. Let's start by giving the door dimensions: me, right, you, left. Then, we pinched where they least expected it. Let's go to their leaders. Our lightning is all at close range, and we should at least be able to knock that bastard out. As soon as we are in range, you surround us with an air shield, and I will capture the monster. Take Xiao as a hostage. We can force others to confiscate. ”

Gwen's heart beat on the ribs where she was sitting.

"Okay. She nodded affirmatively, believing that her cousin was an experienced tactician.

"Gwen. Petra grabbed Gwen's wrist.

"Petra?"

"Stop being merciful. ”

Gwen felt her lips go soft when she met Petra's eyes, and two crystals, pale blue balls trailed around her dark pupils. She suppressed the screams in her head. The voices of the past, recent and distant, echoed in her churning conscience. Gunther's lesson lifted its head from the state of mind of memory like Almoody's rainbow.

"Do you think this will end amicably?"

"As soon as you appear in their lives, they die!"

"Go ahead!"

Petra's barrier shook. Cracks abound, making transparent crystals opaque, refracting light, illuminating their faces with bright geometric ochre fragments.

"Yes," Gwen affirmed her cousin's feelings. "Stop being merciful. ”

Gwen moaned inhibitedly, letting the void fill her mana channel, feeling Almuj's life force fighting to keep her body intact. Her electric eyes darkened until they turned into two swirling orbs of darkness.

Next to her, Pietra's own eyes lost their color and turned into two crystal pools, pale with barely a hint of blue.

"Crystal Skin"

"Empty skin. ”

A thick layer of bark-like texture covered Gwen's body, enveloping her at midnight.

Petra is encased in a glittering crystal.

They're ready.

Gwen took a deep breath. When her detailed design appeared, she didn't believe at all that she could control the burst of Void Matter, but it wasn't anyone's fault, it was Howy's.

Maybe she should make a proper declaration of war? The situation seems ripe for a good rally.

"Ahh

"Damn it!"

"!

"Shhhh

Attacks on their shields stopped.

What the hell is that? The girls looked at each other.

"Tricks?" Gwen turned to Petra.

Petra fucking shook her head and held the detailed design just in case. ”

It would be absolutely stupid for their opponents to stop attacking now. Gwen is the kind of mage who can quickly turn things around, if one is negligent in their ongoing crimes.

Suspicious, the girls waited another minute, and they were suspended on the trunk of a tree, where the crystal structure had bitten into the wood. They wait for the moment when the last spell appears, and in that moment they will attack the enemy like two tigresses. Yuan never thought that he would be in a better situation of death. The first minutes of his watery sleeve gave him an important time to philosophize, and 18 years of life flashed before his eyes.

Then his breathing stopped.

The next ten seconds passed like years.

Just when he thought his life had been taken from him, a sweet breath came to his face.