……

The lack of ability to gain from entering the realm for the second time made Matthew a little unhappy, and he wanted to pick up the hawkface and beat him up.

But the return of his limited-time form lifted his spirits.

He had already proven the power of the Strengthening Dao in Ah Bing.

Now give Matthew another chance.

He's confident that he'll be able to grow an even more powerful zombie!

"It seems a little strange to say this, doing the work of the natural realm, but the undead who benefit greatly?"

"When I plant trees on a large scale in the future, won't the Minotaur realm grow rapidly again?"

Matthew pondered for a moment.

Start a new round of tree planting plans.

With the experience of last time, Matthew's thinking is clearer now.

He now has an army of zombies as coolies, and the most difficult digging and filling in the earth is not a problem at all.

At present, the only thing that can limit the productivity of tree planting is seeds, seedlings and growth.

In terms of seeds, Matthew's plan is two-pronged -

On the one hand, he was going to ask Samantha if there was a way to buy it.

On the other hand, he plans to ask Zeller to buy oak seeds through official channels in Rolling Stone.

Anyway, I am also a person in the lord's mansion, so it's not too much to use public channels to buy things, right?

The sapling's thing can still be left to Ella.

With the powerful germination ability shown by this Miss Owl, as long as there are enough seeds, the sapling will definitely not be a problem.

There was also a long-term cooperation agreement between Matthew and Ella.

It's just that Ella has been busy in the moonless glades lately.

Matthew hadn't seen her much.

As for the most important part of the oak tree growth.

Matthew plans to visit the "Crucible House" tomorrow morning, as long as the magic items are produced on the East Coast and in the inland areas, they can always be purchased in the Crucible House.

The only flaw of things there is that they are expensive.

But Matthew's net worth is also rising, as long as it is not too expensive, he is willing to pay for it.

"Speaking of which, can I increase my efficiency by increasing the level of my 'Rapid Growth' spells?"

Matthew stood firm under the tree.

The thought that had just crossed his mind lit up in his eyes.

There's really no way for him to improve his druid-type spells in the normal way.

But he has a "spell harmony"!

"I can try to use 'Fast Growth' as the main body, reconcile with other spells, and see if I can break through the limit of the number of times I can grow quickly!"

Do what you think.

Matthew pinched it on the spot.

……

"Hint: You used a spell to concoct the targets of "Fast Growth" and "Garcia's Armor";

After the blend is completed, "Rapid Growth" is enhanced to "Rapid Growth (Green Armor)".

The effect of this spell enhancement is as follows:

The number of times it can be used per day has been increased to 11;

This spell not only causes plants to grow faster, but also adds a green armor spell (armor +3/for 30 minutes).

When multiple plants in the same area have green armor, a wall of green trees will appear between these green armor plants, which is enough to withstand the impact of some external enemies."

……

Green Nail Plant? A wall of turquoise trees?

Although it didn't seem to be useful, Matthew went back to the house and carefully recorded the results of the spell blending.

"If you can add green armor to dozens of plants at the same time, it may have some strategic significance."

Matthew thought for a moment and moved on to the second spell.

……

"Hint: You used a spell to reconcile the targets of "Fast Growth" and "Vampire's Touch";

After the blending, "Rapid Growth" is strengthened to "Bloodthirsty Growth".

The effect of this spell enhancement is as follows:

The number of times it can be used per day has been increased to 15;

3 health will be deducted from the caster's own health before each use;

This spell has twice the plant growth rate of the original spell, but plants grown through bloodthirsty growth have a chance to mutate into cannibal plants, and have a low chance of getting an Elite/Lord template."

……

"That's not bad."

Matthew also recorded the results, spell blending can only be used twice a day, and the permutations and combinations of spells in his hands are hundreds, to say the least, and only by recording the results of various blends can they come in handy at critical moments.

Compared to the Green Nail Technique, the enhancement effect of Bloodthirsty Growth is more obvious.

Although it is a hassle to bleed every time.

However, for the purpose of protecting the forest, it is also feasible to cultivate a man-eating plant in the forest every other area.

This trip to the rainforest made Matthew realize that nature does not mean absolute peace.

A rainforest-like ecology of the jungle may be too cruel.

But an atmosphere like Oak Field, which is too much for serenity and serenity, is also a bit too monotonous.

He felt he had to give the oak a little stimulation.

Of course.

All of the above is just Matthew's imagination.

His goal now is to find the best concoction for "fast growth" as soon as possible.

At present, the green armor technique is stable and controllable, and if you use it once a day, you will have a little more enhancement experience, and you can also strengthen it twice a month.

Think so.

Matthew canceled the result of the spell blend, and until he figured out a better blend, he would leave the second chance of the daily spell blend to the Green Armor.

After the end of the reconciliation.

Matthew wandered through the oak grove again.

Walking in the forest that I have planted with my own hands is so wonderful and so reassuring.

A light breeze through the woods brushed Matthew's face.

The tiredness on his body disappeared in an instant, and the boredom accumulated a while ago due to the fatigue of traveling and traveling also dissipated a lot.

Matthew's body and mind were greatly relaxed.

Suddenly.

He suddenly realized that his forest was actually very large.

It spread from the eastern part of the town to the northern part of the town, where it was formerly a private territory belonging to Rhaeggar.

And further north.

Many neatly arranged potholes have appeared.

It was the result of hard-working zombie laborers working through the night.

Matthew was very pleased with this.

But then he didn't plan to plant exactly the holes.

Because Matthew had only roughly estimated the bearing capacity of the earth before.

And after returning from this trip to the south.

Matthew has the ability to feel the pulsation of the earth more intuitively.

"Balanced Perception"!

In a flash.

The world changed color in front of Matthew.

Elemental Field.

Aether field.

Feature Field.

The material realm.

The structure of the plane seemed to be peeled away in front of him.

He could clearly see every abnormal flow of energy!

"Huh? In the past three and a half days, I have planted 100 trees, and I am almost draining the "life elements" in the forest? ”

"No, it's not just that, it's probably because the oak forests are expanding so fast that the land is almost being drained."

Matthew's expression was solemn.

Before, he only vaguely knew that he couldn't plant trees too quickly, or it might cause permanent damage to the ground.

But this is the first time that we have such an intuitive insight into the flow of elements in the earth.

He saw that there was not much life left in the elemental field of the earth under the oak forest, and the most filled elements were "dirt", "stone" and "gravel" derived from the earth elemental layer.

The oak grove greedily absorbs the life elements of the earth, causing it to show signs of depletion.

Although the oak forest will feed back to the earth, the expansion is too fast and the feedback is too slow, which has caused the current imbalance of factors.

"Fortunately, there is still a chance to make amends."

"It should be possible to fill the lack of life elements through measures such as fertilization."

Matthew was a little scared.

At the same time, he also noticed that near the cemetery, which was located beneath the earth, a small amount of death elements were incorporated into the soil layer due to the large number of activities of the undead.

The "death" element replaces the "life" element in the earth.

And so on.

A few years later, the oak forest will draw pure negative energy from the earth!

What will become of the oak grove then?

Matthew couldn't imagine.

"Luckily, I have a balanced sense of everything, and I can plant trees further north first, but luckily the land area given by Rega is large enough."

"And in addition to fertilizing, I remember that the druids of the Earth Society had a ritual of the "Sanctuary of Life" to ensure the vitality of the earth, and I would ask Eli when he returned."

Think so.

Matthew glanced northeast.

I don't know if I don't look at it.

When I saw him, I almost glared out of my eyes—

But a huge fault appeared in the energy field to the northeast.

That scene was like a merciless machete, cutting into a huge piece of cheese!

The marks left by the machete have not healed for a long time, and are even expanding outward.

In a trance.

Matthew also saw an extremely strange monster in that trace.

The monster had three human faces and a zombie-like body, and debris of ash and sparks fell from it at all times.

It has an unknown number of hands, and the most eye-catching one of them holds a scythe that stands up to the sky!

The monster's side face glanced at Matthew.

Matthew felt a pain in his temples, and instantly withdrew from the state of balanced perception.

"Shhh

Matthew leaned on the oak tree and gently rubbed his temples to soothe the pain.

……

"Warning: You have spied on the secret of the Traces of the Dead, the Ash Lord who is active in the elemental layer!

The Ember Lord has noticed your gaze, and it is about to send his generals and troops to destroy you!

It is expected that there will be 720 hours before the arrival of the first wave of troops."

……

An Ember Lord active in the elemental layer.

Is this the source of the Marks of the Dead's constant expansion?

Matthew frowned.

He knew that he would never be able to avoid the difficulty of the Traces of the Dead, and when he came back this time, he was also ready to deal with the westward expansion of the Traces of the Dead.

I didn't expect to be attacked by the other party first.

The reason was just because I looked at the monster one more time.

However, Matthew was not worried, he had seen similar cases in the materials of the Seven Holy Alliance.

Theoretically, the impact of the Marks of the Dead on the physical realm is limited to the devouring of the land and the killing of living creatures around the traces.

A little farther away, and its influence plummets.

As long as this thing doesn't mutate, the troops it sends out shouldn't be too powerful.

That being said.

Matthew returned to his home in town as soon as possible.

Come to your familiar desk.

Matthew first wrote a reply letter to Loraine, telling him that although he still minded being deceived, as long as Loren could ensure that there would be no more deliberate fraud in the future, the friendship between the two sides would have a chance to continue.

He then gave the letter to the albatross, who had been standing guard in the garden for the past few days.

The sweet girl pecked the letter and flew away without looking back.

The porcelain vase that Matthew was holding in the palm of his hand didn't have a chance to hand it over at all.

"Only next time."

He thought with peace of mind.

Subsequently.

Matthew went back to the basement, took out the thick paper, and read it carefully.

The Seven Holy Alliance's research on the traces of the dead is very good, which can be seen from the weight of the information bag.

Broadly speaking, this information can be divided into three parts.

The first part is the historical background and reasons for the formation of the traces of the dead.

In the second part, the Seven Holy Alliances have made many efforts to stop the spread of the traces of the dead, but most of these efforts have failed, and the second part is a summary of these failed cases, which is also valuable in Matthew's opinion.

The third part is the feasibility prediction of a series of plans for the traces of the dead proposed by the high-level of the Seven Holy Alliance.

This section is also very informative.

Matthew started with the first part of the reading.

Only soon he frowned.

Although there is a lot of information in this part, I don't know if it was a clerical error, or if someone deliberately did it.

The information is quite messy, and many of the claims are contradictory.

Its outrageous degree has reached the point where the bull's head may not be right in the previous paragraph and the next paragraph!

"This is officially documented by the Alliance?"

Matthew was deeply suspicious.

But when he thought of the Blinken incident, he put that suspicion down again.

He hadn't actually had much contact with the Seven Saints Alliance, and all the impressions in his mind were heard from Ronan.

After the Tianlun Palace was ascensed, the Seven Saints Alliance was the most powerful organization and authority in the world, and it seemed that it was not uncommon for it to be slightly corrupted internally.

Present.

He endured his nausea and tried to extract useful information from the mess of textual materials.

A few hours later.

Matthew put down a thick parchment bag with some weariness.

At this time, he was extremely convinced.

This information has been contaminated.

It's not just Matthew who got this, it should be that after a certain point in time, everyone else got the information from the alliance officials that was contaminated.

The intention may have been to obscure the historical causes of the traces of the dead.

But Matthew, as an equalizer, has a natural ability to capture unbalanced elements.

Many of the contradictions in the information were easily discerned by him.

Gradually, he really extracted some relatively useful information.

Matthew pieced together this information in an effort to restore the truth of history.

"So, the origin of the traces of the dead is actually in the Jade Garden? The surrounding area has only been affected. ”

In the information that Matthew put together, the story goes something like this:

Since the ascension of Tianlun Palace.

Tyristina, the main elven god worshipped by the wood elves who inhabited the Jade Garden, was also exiled by the Scourge Mage.

Since then, the entire Wood Elf community has been in constant fear.

It seems that for a race like elves, not having faith is a very terrible thing.

They instinctively seek out some powerful presence as their spiritual support.

A certain year.

A legendary sorcerer named Lance discovered this.

Through careful disguise and stratagem, he succeeded in convincing the Wood Elves that although Tyrestina had been banished, he had prepared a shell as a Sage in advance in the human world to continue to guide the elves' spiritual world.

Lance claims to be Tyrestina's human incarnation.

Paradoxically.

Such an outrageous lie, the Wood Elves actually believed it all!

Since then, the legendary sorcerer has successfully entered the Jade Court, and has also married the then Wood Elf Queen, giving birth to two children, a boy and a girl.

The day the queen gave birth.

The jade garden was still immersed in joy.

Can be fast.

The Wood Elf Queen was the first to realize that something was wrong.

For she was horrified to find that the two children she had just given birth to were neither like elves nor humans.

They look like a humanoid with an octopus face!

At this time, no matter how obsessed the elf queen is, she knows something bad.

She wanted to question Lance.

But the latter flew away after the queen gave birth smoothly.

The following night.

It was the most painful night in the history of the Jade Garden.

No one knows what really happened in the Elven Palace.

The elves who lived in the outer city saw only two tentacles rising from the ground.

One of the tentacles pierced the crown of the World Tree, Maia.

The other tentacle indiscriminately attacks all living beings in the vicinity.

Descriptions of this terrible catastrophe Matthew found only these few words.

What he could be sure of was.

After that night.

The fairy queen in her prime has fallen.

Many of the Wood Elves were sacrificed alive by a mysterious evil ritual before the queen gave birth to an heir.

And many more Wood Elves died in the ensuing disaster.

As for the boy and girl born to the Queen.

They each turned into two tentacles.

One of the tentacles was slashed by the queen with an artifact that suppressed the World Tree.

The other tentacle also received a fatal blow from the Queen, but was not completely dead.

It fell to the earth and merged with the leylines, forming a shallow trail eighty kilometers south of the Jade Cangting City.

At that time, the elves were immersed in grief and did not notice the abnormality of the traces.

And when the trail grew stronger, the elves were surprised to find that they could no longer contain the trace.

The Traces of the Dead were born.

After the tragedy of this night.

The population of the once thriving Wood Elves has plummeted, and they have lost the ability to monopolize the forest.

Eventually, they had to maintain their dominance in the region by moving their capitals and bringing in outside powers.

Before that.

Matthew agrees on the two human neighbors, the Wood Elves and the Night Elves.

He also felt that the night elves were too arrogant and indifferent, not to mention their royal court, and even the Eternal Song Forest, where the night elves lived, did not allow ordinary humans to enter.

In comparison, the wood elves are much more reasonable, not only can the jade court be entered casually, but even their capital city, ordinary humans have the opportunity to enter and have a look.

Now it seems.

It turned out that it was only the wood elves who had died, and after suffering a big loss, they had to introduce human power to balance the same clan next to them.

"Sure enough, there are no special cases in this world for no reason, no wonder even the daughter of a small town merchant like Beanna has the opportunity to go to the Jade Court to learn dance, and the wood elves are also in decline."

Matthew stretched.

I picked up the pen and wrote down the background I had sorted out—

……

"Later, when the Seven Saints League studied the slain tentacle, they discovered that it belonged to a void creature that they had not heard much of, and the latter's name was Yucruz, the Void Master believed in by the sorcerers of the Scourge Order.

We have reason to believe that the legendary sorcerer is also a member of the Scourge Order."

……

Finish writing these.

Matthew stopped.

It's tiring to extract the right information from a bunch of mixed sources.

He had to rest.

You can't use all your mental power tonight.

One is to make an appointment with Sieve for class.

It's been a month since the pigeon.

Matthew was somewhat embarrassed.

He decided to prepare for tonight's history lesson and try to make the best impression on Sif possible.

"I have to plant trees, I have to sort out materials, and I have to find time to learn spells, it seems that the office of the lord's mansion really has no time to go."

"Well, let's do it for two or three days first, and then find a chance to ask Rhaegar for leave."

Think so.

Matthew happily grabbed a history lesson plan and scanned it comfortably.

……

Night.

Matthew's living room, the lecture is loud.

Matthew worked extra hard tonight.

But soon.

He realized that something was wrong with Sif's state.

Except when they first met, she seemed very happy.

After the start of the lesson.

She looked absent-minded.

This is rare in Siv.

So Matthew stopped talking and asked with concern:

"What's wrong, Siv? Is something happening? ”

Seve was stunned for a moment, and smiled reluctantly:

"Nope."

Matthew said solemnly:

"You can't lie to the teacher in class."

Seve blushed and sighed:

"This afternoon, I heard from my father that he had also taken part in your adventure to the south."

"When I found out about this, I felt a little uncomfortable."

Matthew was stunned for a moment, and immediately apologized:

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have put your father in that kind of danger."

Although Matthew didn't expect the person to come would be Rhaegar, but this kind of thing was like an excuse to say it himself, so he didn't say it.

Who knew that Seve immediately shook his head and said:

"That's not what I care about, I heard him say that you are now a spell advisor in the Lord's Mansion."

Matthew was surprised:

"Is there anything wrong?"

Seve looked at Matthew seriously with a small face:

"So, you've been with my father longer than you've been with me?"

What the hell is this?

You don't even want to eat your father's vinegar, do you?

Matthew was shocked by the girl's bizarre comparison.

To avoid a misunderstanding by Sev, Matthew explained:

"Don't worry, I don't have such a good relationship with Rhaegar, except for official contacts, we hardly talk in private."

Sifu looked at him suspiciously:

"Really?"

Matthew laughed:

"Of course, I can guarantee it."

Seve suddenly breathed a sigh of relief:

"I'm sorry, but I'd love to see you and my father get better, but I'm afraid you're getting too close...... Oops, don't talk about that. ”

"Anyway, it's not as good as I thought it would be, shall we continue the lesson?"

Matthew nodded.

He picked up the lesson plan and wanted to continue.

And yet at this very moment.

A loud and excited voice suddenly came from outside the main entrance:

"Open the door, Matthew!"

"I came up with a brilliant idea, we can sell my sword oil to the south, and it will make a lot of money!"

"Open the door! Matthew! ”

That moment.

The smile on Matthew's face froze completely.

……

(End of chapter)