Chapter Forty-Eight: Nightmare
Inside the Tree of Life is a vast space, with thick branches spiraling upwards like a staircase. In the center of the Tree of Life is a brilliant emerald green light source, from which it continues to exude a vast vitality to nourish the entire tree.
Carlo followed Vivien up the stairs, quickly reaching the top of the tree, peeling open the broad leaves to reveal a small space inside.
Isn't it captivity? Why is there no prohibition at all.
Carlo soon learned why, and the space was filled with beautiful golden flowers.
Each petal contains a strong vitality, this is the flower of life blooming from the sacred tree of life, ordinary people can take a piece, can get a long life.
But in the middle of this golden flower, there is a contrary aura of death emanating from it. A woman lay in it, dressed in a splendid dress, and her dull blonde hair and withered face could be discerned from her former beauty.
I think this is Merlin's mother, the elven princess who was humiliated by the devil.
The elven princess closed her eyes tightly, her eyelids fluttered, and a look of horror flashed on her face from time to time, the source of the aura of death was her, and she seemed to have been living in a painful nightmare all along.
Vivien's eyes showed a hint of sadness, "Mother has been asleep since giving birth to Andrei, she should have died a long time ago, and it was her father who has been using the power of the sacred tree to keep her alive... Father never blamed his mother, he loved her dearly... It's all because of the hateful devil who caused everything now... AndrΓ©, of course, was also a victim .."
"Bang", a drop of water fell from the top of the tree, dripping on the chapped lips of the elf princess, the dead air on her body instantly disappeared, her face slowly became calmer, and the golden petals around her were more energetic. But soon, the dead air swells again, and it is a never-ending cycle of suffering.
"I think if you poor mother could speak.." With a flick of Carlo's finger, a black light hit the Elven Princess's forehead, "I will curse you with the most vicious language." β
The elven princess let out a howl of pain, and she opened her eyes sharply, revealing a pure black, distorted and hideous countenance, and kept roaring at Carlo.
"What did you do to your mother?" exclaimed Vivien, angrily about to stop Carlo, but was held back by Carlo.
"Shhh β
"Who are you, who dare to sabotage Lord Satan's plans?" a hoarse and shrill voice came from the Elven Princess's mouth, like the wail of a wild beast, not in a tone that a normal person could utter.
Carlo smiled evilly, did not speak, but instead a steady stream of flames came out of her body and climbed up the elven princess's body, setting her whole on fire.
"Infernal fire!" the voice whispered, but quickly turned into a rampant laugh, "You're lending me power, fool.."
The Elven Princess's whole body was burning, the crimson flames turned black, and it seemed that something wanted to crawl out of her body.
The narrow scythe slipped out of Carlo's hand, and when he slashed off her head, a straight black line was drawn from the top of the elven princess's head to her lower body.
The flames rushed up with a "boom", igniting and withering all the golden petals of the entire space.
"No.. Damn it.. Lord Satan will avenge me!" The voice roared angrily, then turned into a scream, and finally died away in the black flames, leaving only ashes in the room, the elven princess, the flower of life... It's all gone.
"Satan doesn't have the time to help you trouble me." Carlo chuckled lowly.
The batwing behind him and the scythe in his hand were withdrawn once more.
The voice of the system sounded in my head: "Kill the Nightmare, reward 200,000 experience points, and evil 2 million points." β
Nightmare is a high-level devil, and his strength is equal to that of a boss-level big demon, and after being promoted to a high-level big demon, Carlo took advantage of the fact that its strength was not fully recovered, and it happened to be at the critical moment of coming, and he struck it with all his strength, and he could kill it in one fell swoop by destroying the power of its host.
He hadn't expected such a situation before he started. Originally, I just didn't want it to come, but I didn't expect this stupid devil to choose to come early with the help of purgatory flames, I can only say that it is too arrogant and deserves to die.
This incident also reminded Carlo that his current stage of purgatory flames is a huge hidden danger when used against the devil.
Hell is divided into two levels, and under purgatory is hell. Purgatory flames can be said to be invincible against ordinary unjust ghosts, but for devils who are already strong enough to fall into hell, purgatory flames will not only not play any role in restraint, but will also become nourishment for the opponent's strength.
It seemed that the strength of the Purgatory Flames must be increased as soon as possible, and Carlo remembered that the Headless Horseman who was chasing him everywhere in the abyss could raise the Purgatory Flames to the level of dark blue, then he would not have to fear the power of Hell.
There is also the seal of the Scythe of Envy.
Souls, Carlo now needs a lot of souls.
"Your mother is long dead." Carlo turned to Vivien, who was stunned by the scene just now, and explained, "What you saw just now is the devil who invaded her body. β
Vivien came back to her senses and looked at Carlo and took two steps back in horror, "And what are you? I can feel that your divine evil is no less than it." β
Carlo chuckled and looked directly into Vivien's pretty blue eyes, her slender fingers ruffling her chin, "Hey, chick." I've saved your life several times so far. That's what you're going to do to me?"
"Phew. Vivien spat in his face and glared angrily, "If it weren't for you, my father and my clan would not have died, and you are the real demon... Moreover, you only save me once. β
Carlo gently wiped the filth off his face and showed an obsessive and perverted smile, "I didn't kill you, didn't I save you?"
The red glow in Carlo's eyes was great, and he had an impulse in his heart to press the stubborn and cute elf in front of him and ravage him now.
However, he contained.
Fun toys should be played slowly, and if they break all at once, the next one will be difficult to find.
Vivien clung to the wall, trembling all over, Carlo's powerful and ferocious aura exuded in an instant made her almost collapse, but fortunately, the momentum was immediately closed, and she returned to her strength, but her whole body was also drenched in sweat.
"Let's go.." Carlo smiled and said a word to Vivien, then stepped out of the top of the Tree of Life.
He looked condescendingly at the light source in the center of the sacred tree, as if he were looking at a soft green sun.
"After that, there will be no more trees of life.."
Carlo spread his batwing and flew towards the center of the tree.
A gentle force kept repelling him, and the Tree of Life seemed to sense an existential crisis, branching out countless branches and vines to stop him, but it could only be reduced to char in the flames of purgatory.
Carlo finally stood in front of the heart of the tree.
"What do you want to do with the Sacred Tree?" Vivien shouted in horror behind her.
"Give it a different attribute.."
Carlo muttered to himself, then stretched out his right hand to the Little Sun in the heart of the tree.
"Obtain a low-level source of life, which can be exchanged for 100,000 experience points, and evil is worth 1 million points. Do you want to redeem it?"
"Yes. β
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"Do you want to exchange for a low-level source of darkness and spend 1.5 million evil points?"
"Yes. β
The next moment, the emerald green "sun" disappeared, and the tree of life let out a mournful wail, and then, an extremely deep black "sun" appeared in the void, taking the place of the original center of the tree.