"Are you gone here?" asked Garrenthal. Of course, he was not so hospitable, but he was still thinking about the balance of the three hundred silver coins that Lukka had promised.

"When you say that, I remember. Lukka turned, "I haven't been to the scene yet." ”

"Do you mean the safe room where the treasure was kept? Garrensel led them out of the dining room.

The floor they were on was already the highest level that the lifting basket could reach, and the room was even higher, depending on Garrenthel's meaning.

"You don't want to climb vines, do you?" asked Lukka worriedly.

"No, just walk up. Garrenthel replied.

Do you want to climb the stairs again?, Lukka frowned. After turning a corner in the hallway, he realized that he was thinking too simply. The upper floor is not a staircase, but a rotating upward slope of wood, although the angle is not too large, but if you want to go up, the soles of your feet keep slipping, and it is much more tiring than climbing stairs.

Garrenthel and a few of his Wood Elves helped to pull most of them up, but there was nothing they could do about the half-giant Lind, so they had to stay at the bottom of the slope. Linde was sleepy, sitting in the aisle and napping.

"Your shoes don't fit here, our garrison's special boots are all soft soles with adhesive bottoms, and there is no problem with this. Garlander said.

Lukka went to the safe, walked around the room, and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. He probed it again with a stream of mana, but still didn't find anything. It's no wonder that nearly a hundred years is enough to erase most of the clues.

He shook his head, counted out three hundred silver coins from his purse, and placed them in Garrenthel's hand. Nora also took out twenty silver coins from her pocket to cover the cleaning costs she had just promised.

The head of the garrison was of course overjoyed by this huge sum of money, which he had not seen for decades, and personally sent them to the side of the slope leading below.

This slope is very difficult to climb, but if you want to go down, you can use it as a slide.

However, with Luka's ability to balance down, he still made him a little embarrassed. He stood up, dusted himself off, patted Linde to wake him up, and was about to continue walking forward when the ground shook suddenly.

The walls, floors, nooses and baskets are made of wood. To be exact, they are made from the trunk and branches of this "sacred tree".

Now, from the walls on both sides of the passage in front of him, countless new branches suddenly grew, with tender yellow buds on them, stretched wantonly in the corridor, and in a short time the passage in front of him was completely blocked.

"It's okay, it's a holy tree that grows occasionally, it's a common thing, if it grows outside the trunk, it needs to have an extra side branch. Garrensel said.

"But it's in there. Luca said.

"Occasionally, it grows in the wrong place, and our daily work includes cleaning up these branches and leaves that grow in the wrong place. "However, it will take some time to clear these new branches, and this passage will certainly not be able to pass today." ”

"How do we go back?" asked Ollie.

"No problem, on the upper floor, we have three more basket entrances, but they are all outside the tree trunk, you don't have to be afraid of heights. Garlandel said as he led them back down the slope.

"Okay, let's go see. Lukka made up his mind that if the basket was really scary, he would use a fictitious gravity and go straight down on his own.

The slope was now completely covered in branches, which made it much easier for Luca, at least not to slip under his feet anymore, and even Lindh climbed up with no difficulty.

"This is it. After climbing the slope, and walking a short distance, Garrensel pushed open a wooden door, and the clear sky and calm water outside the tower appeared unobstructed.

Several Wood Elves lifted the basket, hung it on the noose, and pushed it down from the door, the basket shook a few times in mid-air, and it looked fairly sturdy.

Lukka had barely reached the edge of the basket before his hand reached the edge of the basket, and the ground under his feet began to shake slightly, and within seconds, the doorway in front of him was tightly sealed with young branches, and the basket and noose were also wrapped around the branches.

"This sacred tree is quite active today. Garrensel scratched his head and turned to the other end of the hallway, "There are two other exits anyway." ”

Lukka didn't follow, he leaned against the wall and shook his head and said, "I guess, the other two exits have also been sealed, or you send someone to take a look, I don't bother to leave." ”

Garanthel hurriedly sent two elves to investigate, and after a few minutes, the news they brought was exactly as Lukka had guessed.

"What's wrong with the Sacred Tree?" not only Garrenthel, but all the Wood Elves in the Tree Tower whispered in confusion.

Lukka thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back to the safe room first, it seems that this tree doesn't plan to let us go." ”

Garrenthel nodded, ready to return with them the way they came. But just as he turned around, the passage was also occupied by dense twigs.

These twigs are not sturdy and do not require Ollie's greatsword, as Phil can cut quite a few with a few small dagger strokes. However, Lukka didn't want to meet the sacred tree just yet, at least not under the watchful eye of the Wood Elf garrison.

"What about Dolan, plants should be able to communicate with each other, right?" asked Ollie.

Lukka shook his head: "I've been looking for it for a long time, but it seems that I haven't seen that guy since I left the restaurant just now." ”

He did notice Dolan's disappearance, but the Wood Elf had climbed up the vine by himself when he went up the tower, and Lukka had just thought he had climbed down on his own.

"Could it be that he's messing around?" Thea had never trusted the wood spirits.

"It's hard to say right now, but now that I think about it, he was really active in encouraging us to come here. Luca said. In fact, even if Dolan hadn't thrown out the lyrics, he would have gone to the Tower of Calm to check it out.

"So what do we do now?" asked Ollie, drawing his greatsword.

"Let's see, don't these branches seal up most of the passage and leave us a way?" Luca said.

Indeed, the increasingly dense branches did not seem to have the intention of attacking them, but only to connect the other passages one by one, presumably only to guide them to the higher position of the tree tower.

"But, if you go any further, there is no way. Garrensel said.

"The tree probably didn't think so. Lukka pointed ahead.

The branches of the sacred tree overlapped each other, gradually ascending, erecting an upward escalator where there was no road.