……

In the oak forest, ancient power is being revived.

Calling the Woods Guard is a long and difficult thing to do, and the innate limitations of plant species make it difficult for them to be as active as animals.

Matthew's woods are still young.

Under natural circumstances, it would take at least hundreds of years for the forest to give birth to oak guards.

But the presence of the fairy princess can break this limitation.

Because the power mobilized by the spell that Lulu chanted at this time did not come from the Flower Garden, but from an inner plane-

"Sea of Trees".

The sea of trees is the origin of all the plants in the multiverse.

The inner plane is a concept that corresponds to the outer plane.

Compared to the outer planes exposed in the astral plane, the inner planes are undoubtedly more secretive.

The druids regarded entering the sea of trees as the highest honor and the goal of their life's work.

And in the myths and legends of the Age of Enlightenment.

Even among the gods, few are qualified to visit the sea of trees.

The only two who could do so became the god of nature, the other the god of travelers.

Of course, they are all in prison in Tianlun Palace now.

The sea of trees is also the home of the plants of all worlds.

In the minds of the druids.

The final destination of each fallen leaf is a sea of trees, which are merely rotten on the surface of the material realm, and their "souls" as plants are summoned by mysterious forces to the sea of trees.

All in all.

The sea of trees is undoubtedly sacred and mysterious to plants.

Spells that can mobilize the power of Jukai are extremely scarce in themselves, and only the fairy princess who was reincarnated from Jukai has such power.

Matthew knew early on that Lulu was from Jukai.

Because it is difficult to give birth to an oak fairy on its own with the scale of an oak forest, he has not even named the precursor of the goblins, the "Light Demon".

Therefore, the only source of this group of outsiders can only be the sea of trees.

This is also the reason why Matthew decisively asks Lulu to summon the Oak Guard.

Lulu didn't disappoint Matthew.

Watered by the power of the sea of trees, after the chanting ended, four oak trees in the woods awakened to become oak guards!

That's a ridiculously high percentage.

What made Matthew even more excited was that with the movement of the oak trees, a fleeting gap in time and space also appeared in front of the two.

A burly figure slowly walked out from inside.

He bowed slightly to Lulu:

"I am willing to serve Her Royal Highness the Princess."

That's a male centaur!

……

"Hint: Obest the Centaur Tree Shepherd (LV18) was inspired by the fairy princess Lulu, and he left Jukai to follow her side!"

……

Obest has a muscular upper body.

His beard was thick, and his hair and beard were joined together, revealing only a brownish-red face.

His weapon is a spear, and he also wields a certain amount of natural magic.

As a shepherd.

Obest has a natural instinct for the maintenance of the woods, and he will patrol the woods every day, carefully inspecting and caring for each tree.

The nature of the Shepherd determines that he gains XP as he grows in the woods.

The larger the size of the forest.

The more he can gain.

It can be said that as long as he stays here, his achievements in this life will be bound to this oak forest.

"I'm not the owner of this wood."

Lulu is still a little shy when she meets the living.

She flew quickly behind Matthew, who had also reverted to his human form.

"Matthew is."

Lulu said.

Obest looked at Matthew with a solemn gaze:

"Necromancer?"

Matthew spread his right hand and took advantage of the situation to stimulate the realm of the undead.

A look of disgust suddenly appeared on Obester's face.

But Matthew stretched out his left hand almost synchronously, and also opened the oak realm.

The disgust on the centaur's face immediately turned to surprise!

"How is that possible?"

"Your Excellency is in your possession of both the Undead and the Oak Tree?"

"Aren't you afraid of repeating the mistakes of the second son of death?"

Obest was surprised.

Matthew's heart moved, and he asked:

"What happened to the second son of the Grim Reaper?"

Obest said in a deep voice:

"Maibalon, the second son of the Grim Reaper, who tried to combine death with the natural realm, and in the end almost drove himself crazy, and he almost fell because of this incident!"

"The Sea of Ten Thousand Worlds Shuhai has also been hurt to a certain extent because of that incident, and there are still many elves working day and night near the scars left by Mai Balon, and they are working hard to repair the scars."

Matthew's heart sank when he heard this.

But this result is actually not surprising to him, it is so easy to forcibly combine the two major fields.

It's normal for people to be unable to walk this road before, and just because others can't do it doesn't mean they can't either!

Matthew has plenty of confidence in himself.

So he said:

"I don't have the noble and illustrious background of the second son of the god of death, and I don't have the ambition to merge the two realms into one, I follow the path of balance and transformation."

"I'm a necromancer, but I planted every oak tree here."

"If you mind who I am, it's not impossible to leave now, but I want you to stay."

There was no expression on Obester's face.

He thought for half a minute, and finally said:

"I choose to stay."

"Because I believe in Her Highness the Princess's choice."

"But if I find out that this place is not what I expected, I may leave at any time."

said.

The centaur lowered his spear and knelt on his forelegs, his forehead touching the ground.

……

"Hint: You have gained a follower "Centaur Herder Obest"!

+1 Race Friendliness (Centaur);

Obest will be based in the oak grove, and you'll need to prepare a tall treehouse for him to live in.

Your oak forest gains the trait: Friends of the Critters.

Critter Friends: Centaurs are naturally popular with all critters, and with Obester, your oak grove will have a certain number of critters in the future."

……

Obester's requirements were easily met.

Without Lulu and Matthew taking action, he started building the treehouse himself with spells.

And just when Obest was working.

The four awakened oak guards also walked over.

Matthew noted.

One of them is actually a cannibal tree!

Oak Guardians are Oak Tree's awakening of humanoid spirits, and they have the appearance of a Treant, but they are far more powerful than normal Treants.

Matthew took a look.

A normal Oak Guardian has a total of six abilities.

……

"Trebuchet: As long as the Oak Guards are provided with the right size stones, they are natural trebuchets.

Effective range: 150m~180m;

Firing frequency: 1 round in 30 seconds;

"Charged Charge: The Oak Guardian can take root in place, charge for a while, and then charge at enemies at several times the speed of normal.

The longer the charge time, the faster it will be, and the fastest will be 3 times the usual."

"Malicious Binding: The Oak Guardian can summon a large number of vines to entangle the enemy, this ability is considered a "natural spell", and the spell effect is equivalent to the fourth-order group vine spell.

Each Oak Guard can be tied up 2 times a day."

"Weight Crush: The Oak Guard doubles his weight, allowing him to crush enemies with his weight advantage when fighting in close combat.

Current Oak Guard Average Weight: 1 ton.

With this capacity, it can be achieved up to: 2 tons."

"Sighing Wall: Two or more oak guards can connect their bodies into a single wall.

Tree walls have high innate armor and at least 10% damage reduction.

The greater the number of Oak Guards that make up the Sigh Wall, the wider the area of the Wall and the more significant the reduction effect."

"Light Demon Lair: Each oak guard has at least one "Light Elf" lair, and each lair will have 10~50 Light Elf active.

The Elves of Light can sow seeds, spawn plants, and clean up pests.

You can also do some simple construction work, such as building a tree house and digging a well."

……

A fairly comprehensive set of competencies.

It can be long-range, can be close combat, can be defensive, and there is a construction team living on it all year round-

It was an elven creature called the "Elf of Light".

They are small fluffy balls of light that feel like sponges to the touch, and always like to move in groups.

Light demons lack individual intelligence and can only accept orders in a collective form.

Not only are they the cheapest forest workers, but they are also the "past lives" of all elf creatures.

All the big goblins, little goblins, wood elves, night elves in this world, including other higher elf creatures.

They were all reincarnated from light demons.

Among the goblins, there is such a legend.

After a light demon has finished its long and arduous life, its consciousness will be lifted into the reincarnation pool of the sea of trees, waiting in line to be reincarnated.

Depending on how hard the light demons worked during their lifetime, they will be evaluated and rewarded differently.

Lazy light demons can only be transformed into goblins;

Industrious light demons can become great goblins or wood elves;

Only the most diligent light demons can be reincarnated as high-level spirit creatures such as night elves or sea elves after a lifetime of hard work;

The laziest of the Light Demons will reincarnate as Drow.

This legend is so widespread that even Matthew has heard of it.

Perhaps it is because of this legend that most of the elves of light work hard.

They are accumulating good fortune for the next life.

……

The three normal Oak Guard levels are all LV14.

And the big tree guard level transformed from the cannibal tree is actually as high as LV16!

Apparently.

In the process of absorbing the power of the sea of trees.

He produced a mutation.

The Cannibal Tree Guardian not only has the power of a normal ward, but also has two additional abilities.

……

"Bloodthirsty Mania: After consuming a serving of enough Blood Food, the Cannibal Tree Guardian gains +1 Agility, +1 Strength, and a "Fever Aura."

Frenzy Aura: Increases the attack speed of allies within the aura by 5%.

Duration: 60 minutes;

Cooldown: 24 hours"

"Predator's Wall: The Cannibal Tree disguises itself as a tree wall, allowing it to mingle in the wall of the Sighing Tree, waiting for an opportunity to devour enemies."

……

In addition, Matthew also discovered that the Cannibal Tree Guardian moved laterally much faster than the Oak Guard.

His presence greatly enriches the Oak Guard's defensive tactics.

It also compensates for the slow traverse speed of the Oak Ward.

The only thing that needs to be a headache for Matthew is.

He's going to have to find a way to teach this guy not to eat people.

As the masters of the oak forest, the oak guards naturally obey Matthew directly, but they are actually similar to the undead when they are newly born, and can only carry out some of the simplest orders.

Deep communication can't be done.

Matthew and the Cannibal Tree Guard have several rounds of friendly interactions.

Ultimately.

Matthew still decided to hang a sign on the other party -

"I'm a man-eating tree, and if you get close, you'll be eaten!"

"In the future, we have to find out how much he eats and feed him blood food regularly."

Matthew thought so.

After exchanging feelings with the Oak Guards.

Matthew asked Lulu:

"Can you turn me into a goblin at any time?"

Lulu Says:

"Only in this oak forest can, and the transformation won't last more than six hours."

"My Transfiguration is actually just a part of my own power injected into you, if you want to exert the true effect of the scepter and crown, you must become a real goblin."

She apparently read Matthew's mind as well.

Matthew shook his head with some regret.

The attributes of the princess two-piece set are too fragrant, but unfortunately it can only be used in the fairy form.

None of Lulu's Transfigurations can fully activate her powers.

It seems that the only way to do this is to master the true transfiguration technique of turning into a goblin!

"In fact, even if you become a goblin, because you don't have many natural spells, you won't have too many effects."

"On the contrary, the soul form is a bit of a saying, I have the characteristic of "soul projection", but it is too dangerous."

Matthew carefully put away the princess two-piece suit that he had prostituted for nothing.

The two then began to perform the "Enemy of the Woods" ceremony.

The purpose of this ritual is to communicate the will of nature and target the greatest potential threat to the woods.

The ceremony itself is not complicated, but it consumes a lot of physical strength from the presiding officer.

Matthew worries that Lulu won't be able to hold it up, but Lulu stubbornly says she can.

At the moment, Lulu is the main one, and Matthew is the secondary.

They spread the leaves on the ground in a circle.

Matthew stands in the center of the circle.

Lulu begins to communicate with nature.

Under the moonlight.

The crown on her forehead shone brightly.

A crisp moan sounded.

Matthew took advantage of the situation to activate the Oak Tree Realm to lighten Lulu's burden.

Soon after.

A powerful magic force poured into Matthew's eyes.

His eyes seemed to be covered by countless clouds and mist.

A voice rang in his ears.

"Are you tracking the enemy in the woods?"

Matthew replied loudly:

"Yes!"

"To the southwest, one hundred and twenty kilometers, not on the ground, but in the clouds."

The voice said one by one.

In a flash.

The clouds in front of Matthew's eyes quickly dispersed.

He saw a lonely climbing vine hanging from the sky, with no clue where it led below, and no trace of its origin.

A raised platform looms over the climbing vine.

There are some small houses on the platform.

Several figures were moving at the door.

Matthew doesn't really see it.

When he tried to wipe his eyes and see more clearly, all the sights quickly became disillusioned.

And in his mind, there is an ambiguous coordinate.

There is no specific direction indication for this coordinate.

But no matter where Matthew is.

He could sense the opposite direction of the scene just now.

"It's just northwest!"

"That's the direction of Riptide City!"

……

"Hint: You've found the Blight Order's makeshift camp, the Lodge in the Clouds!

Lodge in the Clouds: A hunting lodge built by the Cloud Elves, which is suspected to have been abandoned and has become a gathering place for the Blighted."

……

Boy.

It's actually in the sky.

No wonder Eli's dog's nose doesn't react at all.

Matthew guessed that the white cat was not the Blighter, and that the real Blighters were hiding from afar, and that they should have somehow practiced ultra-long-distance contact.

It's not simple.

But consider that the Scourge Order has the help of the Midnight God behind them.

It is not uncommon for the Blight Order to have a true god as a foreign aid.

Matthew stared in the northwest direction, not making a rash move.

This is a great opportunity to exterminate the wilters.

He had to be prepared.

Then go all out.

Be sure to wipe out all the flies that are thinking about your oak forest!

……

Early the next morning.

Matthew goes to the Lord's Mansion to talk to Rhaegar and Zeller about exterminating the Blight Order.

But as soon as he entered the door, he met Loraine.

The latter looked tired.

As soon as he saw Matthew, he said with a bit of a wilt:

"Matthew, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

Matthew was taken aback:

"Are you leaving? Stay a few more days? Wait, didn't you say yesterday that you were going to take Eli out to see the world? ”

Lorraine sighed:

"I was about to tell you that it was because of Eli's incident that I had the intention of leaving early-

I was meant to leave, and you've invited Ekmund out of the Far North Floating City, what else can happen in Rolling Stone?

I'm going to try my luck at Gao Yeling, and maybe I'll catch a big news or two. ”

Matthew asked curiously:

"What's wrong with Eli?"

Lorand Road:

"I took him to the Sweetheart Tavern yesterday, and Eli pushed and procrastinated, but I managed to convince him.

At the same time, in order to stimulate the undercover agents of the Blight Order, I also asked Eli to take the white cat with him when he went to the brothel. ”

Matthew frowned:

"Wouldn't that be a bit too much?"

Loren squinted at him:

"As far as I know, you seem to do this kind of thing a lot."

Matthew coughed lightly and changed the subject at the right time:

"And what about later? Did he not want to go in at all? ”

Lorraine said helplessly:

"That's right, but I'm sorry to say that, with my eloquence and charm, he was finally persuaded by me to enter the room of the woman named Lily."

Matthew asks again:

"Who's Lily?"

Lorand Road:

"The number one of the Sweetheart Tavern, you don't have to care who she is, you just need to know that she's doing a good job. Unless you want to arrange it too, then I can tell you about her physical characteristics and what time she usually goes to work. ”

Matthew shook his head:

"And then?"

Loren Says:

"I tricked Eli into Lily's room, along with the white cat.

At first, there was no movement inside, but it wasn't long before Lily's laughter could be heard.

I thought it was okay, so I took a break and went to have some fun on my own.

Who knew that an hour later, when I got back outside Lily's door, I heard still laughing inside!

I realized something was wrong, and immediately pushed the door in, and guess what I saw-

I saw two kittens, one white and one black, bouncing around Lily's bed.

They were fighting, and they were having a lot of fun.

And Lily was playing with the cat, and she looked like she couldn't get enough!

So there's no problem with my judgment of the druids, they're just playing wild.

Obviously there is a big beauty who is stripped naked, and he has to play with the little female cat all night, isn't this a special fetish?

Afterwards, Lily told me that she had a work ethic and was ready to seduce Eli.

But she can't be in heat with a kitten, she can't do it!! ”

Speaking of which.

Luo Lan sighed:

"I'll admit I bragged, Matthew.

I've never seen anything like Eli.

I thought he was just young and amorous, but I didn't expect it to be really a brain disease.

I can't change his mind without hurting him.

He didn't seem to have any interest in anyone of the opposite sex other than the little white cat right now.

I'm afraid you'll have to tell him the truth quickly, or he'll sink deeper and deeper.

In the end, it was himself who suffered. ”

At this time, Rhaegar in his pajamas walked over.

He was intrigued by what the two were talking about, so he leaned over and asked:

"Who are you talking about?"

"Some adolescent who is troubled by love?"

"Tell me that no one knows how to solve these boys' problems better than I do."

……

(End of chapter)