Cannibal flowers.

This is the name of a normal plant, but I also know that the kind of ordinary plant that can only eat mosquitoes and rely on the smell of the smell is not the real culprit of the murder.

But since the word "flower" appeared, the variety of plants, the direction that could be imagined was naturally different, and the knights finally saw the possibility of meeting with this enemy.

With the clues, the first reaction of the royal knights was naturally some special species that escaped from the Arcane Forest, which also coincided with the initial conclusion.

In the Arcane Forest, plants with weak locomotor abilities are not uncommon. But out of the need for survival, most of them have a docile personality and get along well with their neighbors.

After all, plants are self-sufficient and often don't even need to hunt, and their biggest drawback is that they can't move quickly.

A plant has a violent temperament and behaves like a dossier in front of a neighbor's door, and then glues its butt to the door frame.

Too little attention to the retreat after trick-or-treating.

That's the truth, but of course the knight can't be sure that the whimsy is necessarily the hard truth.

Maybe there's a magical plant that can move anywhere, even faster than a horse, more than a magically blessed body?

Because of this, they borrowed the Tao and went to the nearest city, where they found scholars who specialized in the study of magical plants, and consulted specifically about aggressive plants.

But the scholar also made a mistake, and clearly told several of the more confused knights that incapacitation is the basis of the principle that most plants gain other powers, even the elven mother tree is subject to this limitation.

At least there are no migratory plants in the vicinity of the incident - except when they are born, they are mostly able to fly high in the form of seeds.

Despite rejecting the whimsical ideas of the knights, who were extremely brave and relatively unknowledgeable, out of sympathy and a sense of responsibility for the murdered civilians, the scholar who had studied magical plants decided to travel with the royal knights.

Not only that, but he also wrote a letter to an academic colleague with whom he had been a close friend, detailing all the previous information and the tasks they had planned for the future.

Because that person is far away from the ocean, maybe there really is a strange story like "riot animals and plants" on another continent, and it may be useful to ask more.

However, the transmission of letters across the strait often takes more than ten days, and it is a whole month to come and go, not to mention scholars and knights, and the civilians who are in distress naturally cannot wait that long.

After explaining the details and leaving a letter to his protégé, the botanist set off with the knight lightly, and the group went to the Arcane Forest first.

All plants have memories, and some even have wisdom, even beyond the wisdom of ordinary people.

and pure natural beauty.

Under the guidance of the botanist, the royal knight, who had been anxious about this matter for several days without any progress, arrived at the address of the elves in the Arcane Forest.

Elves are a race that is friendly to nature, and a rainforest centered on the Elven Mother Tree is home to all Elves.

The elf's hair is like a falling waterfall, and its eyes are as bright as stars. They are free and happy, and they are never alone.

Searching for their own answers over the years, the elves cast their souls into the woods, enjoying the fresh air, and running to the bountiful embrace of Mother Earth.

After greeting the elven archmage who couldn't raise cacti and owed a favor to a botanist, the group came to the elven holy land, under the elven ancient tree.

There is only the word heaven to describe the situation under the ancient elven tree that is full of life.

Surrounded by adorable young elves, the Knight, led by a botanist, pays homage to the Elven Tree as the representative of the Kingdom of Cole.

The knight then told the story of what had happened to the commoners.

The Elven Ancient Tree cannot speak directly, but it can sense all the dynamics around it, and can capture verbal and even non-verbal outpouring.

Because of this, after listening to the story, the gentle and generous ancient tree gave the answer, and in the form of elven words, words appeared on the surface of the bark.

The scholars translated the contents of the text, and the knights looked at each other, and the ignorant elves under the trees also widened their eyes.

[My companion has informed me of the situation.] The danger of devouring the Terrans is everywhere, they are unable to walk, they have survived on the continent for a long time, they have always been loved, but they have become bloodthirsty minions—danger lurks among them. 】

Elves are the children of the Elven Ancient Tree, and companions naturally refer to plants. The Elven Ancient Tree communicates with all things, and her fellow companions once regarded them as the Mother of the Arcane Forest.

However, there are no physical and noun descriptions - the elven trees can convey the experiences of the plants, but they cannot help them as eyeliners to gain the same senses as themselves.

But it's a valuable clue.

- Plants and flowers that are ubiquitous, immovable, and beloved.

Under the conditions, although he wondered how such a plant could cause murder on a large scale, the knight finally had a certain direction, and left the Arcane Forest and squatted separately.

At the same time, the Ancient Tree of the Forest, ashamed of not providing more effective clues, summons the orc neighbors and hires rat mercenaries with a keen sense of smell to help the Terran knights find their targets.

After ten days, constantly vigilant for flowers and grass as they ate and walked, the knights finally caught a delicate culprit in a secret ambush with the volunteer civilians as bait.

Loria flowers usually grow freely in the wilderness, but they are not too close to their kind, but are evenly distributed in the wilderness, and they attract people's attention with their dream-like beauty against the contrast of the green grass.

However, the moment its true body was discovered, it showed fangs and claws, and an unimaginable attack.

The blue petals turned into sharp blades, and the light-colored stamens were instantly torn, bursting out with colorless and transparent venom, which was stained on the petals at the same time.

What the victim finally saw was the slime flowing from the torn heart of the flower, as well as the sharp petals around it, like the fangs of a monster growing in the mouth of a blood basin.

In terms of being loved, Loria Flower's superiority has always been high, and it is naturally one of the suspicions.

The royal knights have conducted indiscriminate investigations in order to find the real culprit, and will not ignore this suspicion, but they never expected that the real change can be so amazing.

After saving the bait, cutting down the changing delicate flower, and confirming that it was harmless, the knight handed over the remaining samples of the wreckage to the botanist for personal confirmation.

After countless sampling and observations, scholars did not find any difference between this hurtful flower and its own family.

And the Loria flowers, which are all over the continent for hundreds or thousands of years, obviously cannot have such characteristics all the time, but no one has ever discovered them.

But at this moment, the half-orc mercenary who had been following for a long time suddenly smelled the clue and was extremely vigilant.

The orcs swore that the flower was very different from the other Loria flowers they had seen in the woods, and that it had a "dangerous aura".

He couldn't tell what it was, but he thought it was a sign engraved in his instinct.

However, with her arguments, the knights were able to tentatively confirm that this was a newly acquired mutation of Loria Flower, and not a long-standing hidden trait.

But at the same time, as time flies, the disaster caused by Loria Flower has also expanded, and even related events have been reported around the Imperial City.

After immediately summoning the murder to the king at the time, the royal knight immediately led the people to clear the nearby Loria flowers.

At first, they thought that it was just a few plants that had been damaged, and hired more orcs with a keen sense of smell to investigate the situation, but they didn't realize that every Loria flower was like this, and no one in the vicinity was spared.

The samples were handled by special personnel, and in order to ensure the safety of civilians to spread the news, in addition to the brave royal knights, there were also people who had the courage to gather crowds to eradicate harmful plants, and they were also successful because of adequate precautions.

At the same time, botanists have gathered their colleagues, mages skilled in healing magic or potions, to study the venom of the mutated stamens in an attempt to save the victims who have so far been unconscious.

Everything seems to be looking good. Although there is no time to study the cause of the mutation in order to save people, according to the speed and trend of eradication, this disaster will be solved soon.

But the situation has turned out to be the opposite.

After the operation to eradicate Loria Flower began, the disaster spread faster and faster, even extending to the east of the continent of Iverson, where the current Kingdom of Denton is located, where several small city-states were competing at the time.

The utter counter-intuitive phenomenon is frustrating, and to add insult to injury, the Loria flower is buried beneath the surface all year round, and is no different from other flowers, but only blooms at the right time.

The flowers have just been cleared here, and new shoots have grown over there. Even if the knights and the local warriors swept away one or two hundreds of flowers, Loria grew in the shadows, and once again turned into flowers that could hurt people.

The only good news was that the antidote to the venom and save the victim was soon developed, allowing botanists to concentrate on the study of the flower itself.

The botanist, who had just finished studying the antidote, devoted himself to the development of various samples, and at the same time, reinforcements from the royal capital also arrived as scheduled, and he was not an ordinary potions scholar, but a big man.

It was the Grand Mage of the Kingdom of Cole at the time, a wood mage who was proficient in Potions.

At that time, she had not yet finished her visit to the east of the Iverson continent, so she stopped her mission halfway, and was personally written by the king to invite her to the city where the royal knights were stationed.

When he first saw the sample, the Great Magician thought it was strange. But after casting the spell and probing, the experienced archmage who fought with the power of the wood attribute had the answer.

She used her magic to freeze the broken Loria flower and isolate a spore from it.

- Not a native seed of the Loria flower, but belonging to another unknown creature.

Creatures that are truly threatening.

It is the one who turns the beautiful Loria flower into a bloodthirsty devil, and it is nothing more than a "messenger behind the scenes" attached to it that no one has observed.

The more intense the confrontation with the Loria Flower, the more the nameless spores will spread in the air, allowing it to lodge a Loria Flower and cause it to mutate.

Cycle after cycle, week after week.

In addition to providing answers, the archmage also immediately compiled a counterspell to completely destroy the spores emitted by Loria Flower in a short period of time, looking for the mage to cast and teach.

But it was too late.

The spores that have spread cannot mutate other plants, but they can hide in all corners, perhaps sleeping, or wandering in the air, but can lodge in Loria flowers whenever they come across.

The scourge cannot end unless the Loria Flower can be completely wiped out.

They did it all the hard work, and they did it.

A "daisy" that can be seen everywhere on the roadside can take a person's life at the moment of turning.

Even if it is destroyed, there will be invisible spores that break away from the grasp and become attached to another plant of the same kind.

At this point, Lucifer hesitated, then nodded, signaling that he was finished.

"Since the Loria Flower has been completely extinct, and there is no information about the Kol Kingdom itself, why did you know that it grew like this?"

As a native of Mirnik, who empathized with His Majesty's previous metaphor, Melissa was of course puzzled, and pointed to the beautiful "teaching aid" in Lucifer's hand by the way.

Moreover, the flowers condensed by His Majesty the King are so vivid and beautiful that they are so lifelike that they do not look like they are reproduced from the patterns of ancient paintings.

The king was stunned, "My ...... My friend's maternal grandfather had a collection of such plants, which are said to have been obtained before the disaster, and they were preserved in resin. ”

"Then your friend's grandfather and the person he collected the collection are quite romantic, and the thought of preserving a beautiful chrysanthemum is quite far-sighted."

Melissa rubbed her chin.

Although he doesn't understand this behavior, Captain Blue Eagle is still a loyal leader of the group without discrimination.

It's just that Mogan squinted his eyes and looked at Lucifer, who had managed to cover up his past and was glad that he didn't talk.

"We can't just dock now, because we don't know what the effect of what we can't see is?"

Austin naturally understood the deep meaning of the words, turned his head to look around, from blades of grass to trees, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

"If these debris and Loria flowers are the same lodge, then we can't be sure if all the mutated products in this green space contain the same spores, and how many plants can be infected."

Being able to mutate one plant, and being able to mutate many plants, are completely different concepts.

If the latter appears, especially if the place of practice is not contrasted with the largest number of ordinary plants, the possible danger is not calm.

And once the spores of this plant are released into the port, the consequences may be unimaginable.

This also explains why cargo ships are used, and the bottom of the cargo ship is such an expensive absolute space.

"Counterspells are usually the result of research, sorry, I haven't seen any of them, maybe ......"

Lucifer may have just been about to ask for a temporary study to see if there was a specific anti-spell, but he was pulled by Mogan.

In the blink of an eye, seeing that the two of the Blue Eagle Pirate Regiment didn't seem to be paying attention, and Mogan didn't seem to want to stop him from overplaying to arouse suspicion, His Majesty the King looked confused and at a loss.

"This story, and hereafter."

Mogan pressed His Majesty's shoulder very unceremoniously, his expression resolute and calm, and his conclusion was unwavering.

This is an affirmative sentence.

It's just that in Lucifer's narration, after saying some seemingly inconsequential details, a very important content is hidden in the end.

"You're really very sharp......

His Majesty pondered for a moment, and at last nodded his head as his lips twitched, deciding to tell him some of the truths that he had omitted from his own jerky.

Compared to the discovery of spores, the part of the extinction is the real problem.

Late one night, the busy botanist's protégé reported that someone was waiting for him outside the city—the same colleague scholar to whom the botanist had originally written to ask for help.

That man actually rushed to the Iverson continent in person.

At that time, the great magician was still stationed in the city, and the city was the safest place. But as a sign of respect, the botanist went out to greet him personally.

But he didn't expect this guest who had come across the sea in person to be in a hurry, not like he wanted to stay for a long time.

After a brief greeting, the botanist not only explained the results of recent research, but also saw the true face of the pen pal who could only be trusted in letters in the past.

With bright blonde hair, the visitor's face appears to be younger than expected, but his temperament is mature and steady, which is no different from the style of correspondence.

The mysterious man did not give his name to the botanist, but his name was Joshua Lestus - from the Mirnik continent, the kingdom of Lestus.