On the third floor of the villa there is a stone bridge built by Adeste, which leads directly to the old crater converted into a crater lake.

In the middle of the lake is the place where the city tree has been planted, and here is a small island made of mud, and directly below the island is the lava pipe of the old volcano.

In the morning, after everyone had done the morning prayers, they gathered together for breakfast, and hugged Adès to the crater lake.

On the small island in the lake, someone had already dug a mud pit four or five feet deep.

Winnie stood next to Adès and patted him on the back and told him to walk to the dirt pit on his own, while the rest of the group waited for Adès a little farther away.

This is an unspoken rule on the continent, Ward and Nat know this better, and have already secretly told everyone, because the planting of the city tree requires enlightenment to recognize the master, in order to avoid someone preemptively casting such magic, on the mainland, when this happens, everyone watching the ceremony must avoid suspicion from a little distance.

Adès took a few steps closer, took out the box from the tabby shell, and took out the tree seed, there were two more steps before planting, the righteous man wanted to drip blood, so that one of the magic cores could store Adez's breath, so that the city tree could remember who his master was when it grew up.

The second step is to use the emblem given by Merrikai to activate the Enlightenment, and under the guidance of the runes on one of the magic cores, it resides in the body of the City Tree, which is one of the means of controlling the City Tree.

Before reaching the pit, Adès pulled out a steel needle, which Evis had borrowed, and was one of the tools she used to make her leather armor, which was very sharp. It is most suitable to puncture the skin for blood.

Taking a deep breath, Adès used the family secret method to control some of the blood in his body. He thought about it last night, and he couldn't use ordinary blood as a core. A drop of dragon blood essence with source power particles and two elemental origin breaths was slowly moved to the fingertips.

Holding the tree seed in the palm of his left hand, Ades cocked his ring finger out, picked up the steel needle and pricked it gently, because he completely retracted his strength, the skin on his finger was very light and was punctured by himself, and a drop of dragon blood essence appeared on the wound under Ades's control.

He put away the needle and took the seed with his right hand. Adès pressed his ring finger into one of the three magical cores, blood smeared all over the core.

The blood with the golden dot was absorbed by the magic core, and the energy was spurted, and it instantly changed into a complex magic array, and Ades knew that this core was activated, and his own blood was also absorbed by the tree seed.

There is only one last step left.

The diggers were very careful, leaving two small steps at the edge of the pit, which could only be stepped on by half a foot, but enough for Adès to get down into the pit. Place the tree seed with the last magic core facing up.

Ades communicated with the Holy Emblem in the Sea of Consciousness, and activated the energy nodes reserved by the Holy Emblem, instantly. The emblem turned into a streamer, rushing out of the sea of consciousness and following Ades's thoughts. projected onto the tree species.

"Enlightenment"

The next moment, Adès felt as if a spirit had appeared in the tree species. I seem to be extremely close to it, and I have a feeling of facing the celestial snow lion.

It worked.

Initiation prepared by the goddess herself. The effect is the same as when he poured knowledge into Ades before, one kind of magic technique, two uses, Ades admired Merikai at this time, he could save and use his divine power to this kind of process, and it was not wasted at all.

The three core magic were activated, and the consciousness of the tree species was also generated, and Ades hurriedly walked out of the dirt pit, grabbed the shovel next to him, and shoveled the dirt piled on the side into the pit and buried the tree seed.

Everyone saw him start to shovel the soil, and knew that the process of recognizing the Lord was over, so they all came up to help, and Mia even took out a large wooden bucket directly from the tabby, which had already prepared water, so as not to go to the edge of the island to fill it when watering it later.

The soil is buried, the water is watered, everyone stands by and waits for the tree species to sprout and grow, whether it is the magic academy or the temple of the goddess of the forest, it is recorded that the tree species will sprout and grow quickly when it is fully activated, but Ades rummaged through all the information books, and the description in it was one word, extremely fast.

From shoveling the soil to watering, Adès's own feeling is that it is an extremely short two or three minutes, which is a unit of time that only he can know, and everyone else is a few breaths, an instant, and a moment, and there is no unified standard unit.

But in the next moment, Adès was completely out of his thoughts, because at this time he felt that supernatural energy began to appear in the pit, eh? and arcane energy?

The fluctuation of energy became larger and larger, and suddenly it exploded, and then under the witness of everyone, a miracle appeared.

The soil was turned over, a seedling appeared, and in a very short time it grew into a small tree as tall as a man.

Then the growth of the little tree stopped, and when Mia and Evis thought that was the end of it, the little tree suddenly began to grow violently, and the trunk began to grow larger and taller, and the branches kept sticking out.

In the blink of an eye, the city tree, which had few leaves, had grown to a height of fifty feet, and its trunk was thicker than a man's.

At this time, the growth of the City Tree stopped again, Mia stared at the apricot eyes, and asked Ades with a little stammer: "Young, young master, this is the end, right?"

"Not yet, now the roots of the City Tree are extending and expanding, the trunk on the ground is not a miracle, the root growth of the underground is called horror, I can detect that under the pedestal of the villa, its roots are beginning to appear on the side of the wall of the magic room. ”

Everyone listened with surprised expressions, and turned their heads to see how far away it was, but there was a villa cover, how could they see it, but everyone walked up to the villa from the steps under the pedestal every day, and after being surprised, they all estimated the approximate distance.

Evis also stared at the city tree in front of her with wide eyes, as if she had seen something terrible, and said with a sigh, "How far can its roots grow?"

Although Yunni had read some information, she still couldn't believe it when she witnessed the miracle happening, and she answered her sister's question a little blankly: "It's said in the book." A mature city tree can control a floating city, which I used to think was an exaggeration. Now I'm kind of convinced. ”

In fact, in the underground, which is invisible to everyone, great changes are taking place.

The roots of the City Tree first spread out in the dirt of the island in the middle of the lake. As if he was born with a magic array, he invaded the magic node of the communication circle of the water elemental plane buried deep in the middle of the lake, and after obtaining some of the energy, it continued to extend, and in a very short period of time, it had already wrapped the crater lake with tree roots.

This was the first pause in the growth of the City Tree, that is, the time when it grew to the height of a person, and Ades began to think that this was the end of the first stage, and it would take time for the City Tree to grow.

Who knows at the pause. It continued to grow, the trunk of the tree growing to a height of fifty feet, and the roots of the underground continued to descend through the cracks in the rocks of the old volcano, and the lava pipes in the middle were completely occupied by it.

In the secret room of the Magic Chamber, where the lava lake of the old volcano was located, the City Tree seemed to know that it was a space, that there was nothing but air in it, and it surrounded it. Through the cracks in the rocks, continue to expand down and outward.

By the time the City Tree had grown to a height of fifty feet, it was not surprising that the villa's servants had already discovered it. Early in the morning, the rulers of the volcanic island had gathered there, and the servants below must have wondered what they were doing. If you have nothing to do, you can sneak a peek at what is happening on the volcanic lake.

When they saw a big tree with only a trunk suddenly grow, everyone seemed to have seen a miracle. Some of the servants knelt down and prayed in the direction of the tree.

From the servants to the guards stationed at the villa. Then the guards outside the villa, the guards under the base of the pyramid, layer by layer, began to discover anomalies on the volcanic lake.

"W-what kind of plant is this? It can't be left by the Abyss Demon, right?"

"Bah, don't be foolish, you adults have already cleaned up all the demon-related things on the island, and it seems to be a crater lake in that direction, it must be the work of Lord Clifford, only the gods of the goddess of the forest can grow such plants. ”

"Not necessarily, there is also such a possibility under Mia's crown. ”

"Hey, I just want to know what it is, it looks like a plant, but there are no leaves?"

"The Tree of War, I've heard that only this plant can grow so fast, and you think, if you plant the Tree of War on the Garden Villa in the middle of the Levels, then it will be impossible for others to sneak into the villa. ”

The commotion spread to the harbor under the pedestal, and the guards in the magic room also discovered the abnormality, and hurriedly invited out the magicians inside, and now there are magic academy mages residing here in the real room, they have all signed a contract with Ades, and they can use the tools and energy of the real room to study magic, but they must complete the tasks issued every month.

The magician was invited out by the guards, and frowned at the villa halfway up the mountain, behind the villa, half a plant could be faintly seen, only the trunk and branches on the outside, and the few leaves were so far away that it was impossible to see at all.

"This is Your Excellency cultivating supermagic plants, right? I can feel the energy of nature and the arcane energy, it's definitely not a strange thing, don't worry. The magician said lightly to the guards.

Ward had also vaguely revealed that he would plant some magical plants on the villa in the middle of the mountain, and the magician also understood the behavior of the Lady of the Forest Goddess planting magical plants in her own residence.

With such a natural advantage, if it were him, he would do the same.

It's as natural as there are magic traps in his own dwelling.

"You go and explain to the people around you that this is the lord planting magic plants, tell them not to panic. The magician frowned at the noisy crowd and ordered the guards to explain.

At this time, a few soldiers also ran out of the villa, and informed the officers stationed on the base of the pyramid about this, and after a while, some soldiers came out of the wall, some explained to the surrounding people, and some went to inform the soldiers in other places, and the temple of the unicorn goddess.

By the time the City Tree's growth stopped for the second time, its roots had begun to spread underground in the harbor, and at the same time, the roots that wrapped around the base of the pyramid began to connect to the energy nodes, absorbing the energy drawn from the massive magma lake underground.

On the volcanic lake behind the villa, Mia and the others watched as the trunk of the City Tree began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, slowly growing from a person's waist thickness to a thickness of two people.

Just as Mia was pestering Yunnie to ask her if the tree would grow and how big it would be, the City Tree erupted with surging natural energy again, and even on the docks in the distance, you could see a burst of emerald green light from the top of the volcanic lake.

The explosion continued, followed by another explosion of energy, this time arcane energy, and silver dots of light appeared within the emerald green light.

On the volcanic island, especially in the harbor, most people saw this explosion of energy, and then in full view, the city tree grew again, and the fifty-foot-tall tree grew again, and in a few breaths it grew to seventy feet high, and some of the branches gradually appeared tender green leaves.

Ward tilted his head, opened his mouth wide, looked at the towering plant, his face was full of shock, although he had already been mentally prepared, but seeing a seed grow from seventy feet tall in a short period of time, his heart was still a little unacceptable.

Not only he can't accept it, but everyone on the island in the middle of the lake can't accept it, including Ades.

Instead of being surprised by the trunks on the surface, he was magnified by the magic array that passed through the altar, and he observed that the roots of the City Tree seemed to have wisdom, and several taproots that had grown from the beginning began to grow straight down.

The lava pipe of the old volcano was originally a branch pipe of the huge magma lake underground, and at first Ades thought that the roots of the tree would grow along the pipe, but who knows if it wasn't, after it grew down the pipe for a while, it didn't care, and did not follow the direction of the pipe diagonally, but went straight down.

No rocks or gravel could stop the growth of the roots, not even the blazing temperature outside the magma lake, and the roots of the tree plunged straight into the giant magma lake, although as soon as they entered, they were immediately scorched by the burning of the high temperature spots.

The root of the tree seemed to know that it could not fight the heat head-on now, and began to advance from the side curve, and the taproot began to grow branches, slowly eating away at the blazing outer layer of the giant magma lake, constantly absorbing the high temperature and heat, and converting it into energy.

After transforming the energy, the City Tree did not put this energy into the trunk of the tree on the surface, but continued to develop the root system, and continued to differentiate more branch root systems, like a gluttonous child, constantly robbing food. (To be continued......)