Chapter 35: The Unexpected
Camp 5 gradually became the target of the dryads after Roth and the others entered the cave, first the trees around the camp were frequently activated, and then the patrolling dryads constantly changed their patrol routes.
But the battalion commander didn't fully believe the elven priest's theory of the scourge because of this.
After all, these invaders have captured the control node of the defense system of the Greenstone Forest, and if this is a functioning defense system, if it does not let the node self-destruct, then it should do its best to take the node back.
But so far, the node itself has been constantly attacking the camp, and the other forces of the greenstone forest are being mobilized in an irregular manner, and the path of movement of the dryads has often changed inexplicably, and even turned around directly, and the seventh camp has reported a group of dryads moving back and forth in a straight line of two hundred meters.
Now that in order to cooperate with McTzekin, the fifth camp has temporarily relaxed its suppression of the nodes, so it is a matter of course to be attacked to a certain extent.
It's better to say that the battalion commander has to be a little suspicious, which is no different from asking a person to shout until he is out of breath, and then asking him if he is faint?
Just as the battalion commander was muttering like this, directing the soldiers to fight with the tree spirits, a strange magic fluctuation suddenly came from the center of the entire elven kingdom, this magic fluctuation was very stable and difficult to interfere with, but it did not have any lethality, it seemed to be only used to transmit information.
And the recipients of this message that were delivered were also very obvious, and it was the dryants who suddenly lost their ability to move.
"It seems that General Li and they have arrived...... I don't know what it's for, but even I only have to listen to orders this time. He thought about this again when he felt that the battle was over, he had always felt that he was already a high-ranking officer, but he didn't think that this time he still didn't have the qualifications to know the secret behind the order, it was really a little sad.
But then the accident left him no longer in the mood to think about it.
Half of the Treants in sight nearly self-destructed in their attempt to re-root, while the other half managed to take root and the other half began to grow wildly, absorbing the magic of their surroundings!
Soon, the magic in the atmosphere and even in the land was depleted by the rapid absorption, and half of the crazy body became like an octopus's tentacles, looking for all the objects around it that reflected the magic power.
First of all, the self-destructing dryads, and then the other dryads who were also rampant, killing each other and swallowing each other, slowly forming a giant monster.
Fortunately, the soldiers retreated on their own the moment of the mutation and waited for new orders, and no one was caught up in the tree riot.
"The number of green stones on the bodies of all the rampaging dryads does not exceed one-third of the total amount...... Spell Advisor: Any clue?"
Although the gradually forming monster was completely unable to see the prototype, the battalion commander still completed the observation and judgment at the moment when the mutation occurred.
It's just that he is really a layman in terms of spells, and he must consult his advisor for further analysis.
"I'm sorry Battalion Commander, I only knew that the magic signal just now was supposed to be an emergency command to force all activity to stop, but I'm completely unsure why the Dryant became like this......" The Spell Advisor said embarrassedly unable to answer.
The battalion commander said impatiently: "Remove all the useless things, save your feelings for later, and now tell all the conjectures you have!"
"It may be that the will of the forest, which has gone mad, has misinterpreted the order, and at the same time, the dryads and the stones on their bodies are supposed to carry out different orders in this order, but now they are growing together, so it leads to conflict and chaos...... The structure of the elven spell is different from that of other spell systems, and now it is a mess, and there is not even a single comment, so I have nothing to understand......"
The mage ended up talking a bunch of nonsense, and the battalion commander shook his head, not expecting that people who had never made mistakes would suddenly become very useless when they were under pressure.
To be on the safe side, he first sent an elite soldier ant to move outside the camp and then launched a spear attack on the wriggling and entangled tree ball, and the spear entangled in the vindictive spirit pierced into it without too much hindrance, and some wooden tentacles tried to grab the spear, but it was not for the purpose of blocking, but it was like trying to pull it in.
The throwing gun obviously caused some damage, and the tree ball immediately dented inward for a moment after the throwing gun was pierced, but soon swelled again.
"Battalion commander, some adventurers seem to be eager to try, do you want them to try first?" reported the officer in charge of receiving the adventurers in the battalion.
"Eager to try, strange thing, don't let them get too close, but let them try and tell the soldiers not to attack without permission! Let the darkman with the sharpest senses monitor this thing to see if it will instead grow by absorbing the attacks of the adventurers, I suspect it will destroy itself when it exhausts the magic around it. After the battalion commander gave the order, he activated the tiger talisman on his right wrist and directly called up the image of the watchtower in front of his eyes.
None of the other camps have uploaded any information, so the crisis has not been resolved? Huge trees have appeared in the locations of camps 3, 6, and 7, but there is no crisis here......
"Wait a minute, there's no movement on the control node, damn it, I'd forget such an important thing!" the battalion commander couldn't figure out how he could be so negligent.
The military mage who served as a spell advisor immediately replied, "There is no movement!
Yes, in the cave, McTice Kim seems to have been fighting, and there have been fluctuations of extraordinary power, so he accidentally ignored there, but now it has stopped?
"Send a scout down to see what is going on, although I promised not to intervene in this matter, but now the situation has changed. ”
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Roth's head hit, and now it's buzzing, and it's dizzy to see clearly.
All he remembered was that all the magic around him had suddenly been sucked into the depths of the cavern, as if the cave itself had taken a deep breath.
It was as if countless green points of light were gushing out, and huge trees appeared out of thin air to fill the entire cavern.
He checked his body and groped around him.
There is no internal force left in the body, almost overdrawn to the extent that it will affect normal physiological activities, and at the same time, I don't feel the powerlessness I should have, there was once some kind of power lodged in this body, even if it is gone now, the rest of the sound still makes this body feel full.
It seems that the [Gray Man] borrowed this body for a short time, but I don't know what kind of strength it is this time.
The right hand groping everywhere felt the texture of the trees in front and on both sides, only the stone wall behind him should be a normal situation, but Roth remembered that the materials of the stones and trees in this cave were interchanged, ......right?
It's better to recover his sight as soon as possible, Roth struggled to adjust his internal breath, and finally he was able to see clearly.
Then he saw the clown dig open the wall of the tree in front of him with his bare hands, and get out.
"Roar, Roth, are you alright, I'm worried when you look like you've fainted after that slash!" the clown leaned out of the sunken tree wall and looked up and down, left and right, "This is the perfect hemispherical shape." ”
"Joker, you're okay, that's good. I didn't expect that I was involved in you this time, and I always thought it was the other way around......" Roth felt very embarrassed to see him, honestly, how many times did the clown die in the battle just now?
The clown didn't care, and said with a smile: "I can't say what the fate of your world is, but I have nothing to do with your fate! If you can control me with something like fate, our god of cooking won't have to pull me to nag for a long time before!"
"What about McTiffin, how is he now?"
The clown shook his head: "I don't know, you have to see it yourself, I seem to be leaving this world." ”
"What!?Wait a minute, are you going back or are you going to die?" Roth was shocked.
The clown spread his hands that had begun to become translucent and said: "I don't know if I will be alive or dead after I go back, it seems that I have been transferred into that interdimensional labyrinth by that bastard too many times, and my connection with this world that does not belong to me has weakened." I don't know if I'm going back normally this time, but I thought there was definitely something wrong with that bowl of noodles from the beginning!"
Roth didn't know what to say to this person at this time, if it weren't for his sudden appearance, he wouldn't have been targeted by McTice Kim and the organization that might exist behind him, but if he hadn't involved McTwinkin's main energy, he would have been caught by that unpredictable elf priest a long time ago.
"So that's it, you appeared inexplicably and disappeared inexplicably?" Roth felt a little unacceptable.
The Joker looks at Roth, a little unsure of what parting joke to tell him, and finally realizes that the most important thing is to make this encounter not a joke rather than telling a joke.
So he promised Roth: "I don't believe this experience is meaningless, because everything in my life is meaningful." Ask Chef Xie about the bowl of noodles, ask the special chefs I know to help me cook a suitable dish, who knows, if necessary, I will see the god of our family again!"
"There is a must to do this!" "It is necessary to involve the gods!? In Roth's worldview, the gods are not such casual existences.
"You see, I'm often asked what the meaning of your work is. The clown has only a floating head left, but he doesn't seem to be affected, "Ah, I'm not talking about the job of a gourmet, no one will question that, they mean my job as a circus clown." But I think it's just as important to respond to food as it is to bring laughter to people, I don't care what people think, I like it, my audience likes it, that's enough! ”
Even though he couldn't even see his face anymore, the clown's red lips were still talking in mid-air - it was really a bit oozing, "I think Roth, you did a very bad job at this point, and to put it bluntly, this trip to this world as a whole feels very bad." Everyone was so surprised that no one could appreciate my juggling! only you were able to accept what I said, but you were too ...... as a spectator."
The Joker, who has always been funny, was criticizing people before leaving, and disappeared before he finished speaking.
Roth was a little upset, what did he know about himself?
Daddy, [Gray Man], Joel, he has always lived in the shadow of others, what does he know?
...... That being said, now Roth still has one thing to thank the Joker, and that is that he dug a passage for himself before leaving.
With his current physical condition, he may not have the ability to destroy the tree wall in front of him at all, and he doesn't know if he can recover enough internal strength to escape before suffocating to death due to confined space.
It's just that the passage dug out by the clown is exactly as wide as one person, and if it weren't for the clown's body being bigger than Roth, he wouldn't know how to get into this passage.
The excavation marks left in the passage were not so much hand-dug as with a shovel, and Roth couldn't imagine how he could have dug the hole like this with his bare hands, an earthworm? or a moth?
Reminding himself not to think too much, Roth tied the long knife to his feet with a rope, burrowed into the passage, and crawled with difficulty to the other end.
The clown told him to see for himself, but unless McZekin was knocked away by the giant tree, otherwise the clown should have been next to McZekin after he came out of the malicious labyrinth, right?
It looked like the entire cavern had been filled with the huge trees...... Is this the root of a tree? Is this cave originally formed by the roots of a tree? When this root appears, it seems to appear in an instant, so it won't be sent flying, maybe it will be suppressed, right?
Roth couldn't tell if he wanted something to happen to McTsikin, so he climbed to a downhill slope with mixed feelings and slipped out of the passage.
Then he saw an unbelievable scene.
He watched as Lista slowly pulled the blood-stained twin swords out of McTinkin's lifeless body, the phantom of the Wheel of Divine Power spinning silently behind Lista.
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McTzekin made a common mistake of immortals.
Just as most Elven royals believed from the bottom of their hearts that the Terran armies should be held back by the Greenstone Forest without the guidance of the Elves, McTiffin was also extremely certain that every control node in the Greenstone Forest that he had personally inspected [before] would be an excellent battleground.
Even though he found that the face of this place had changed dramatically because of the effects of filth, the innocuous little questions along the way paralyzed his mind.
He's already used the power of the Wheel of Divine Power to control the node, what other accidents can happen here?Earthquake? That's not worth mentioning in front of his spells!
He didn't expect this to be the current situation.
The magic power in the environment was absorbed by the mutated node, and he only relied on the magic power refined by the life force in his own body, so naturally he could not resist the power of this node.
And the power of the Wheel of Divine Power has also lost its effect, this is not a simple spell explosion, but part of a huge process involving many people, even the Wheel of Divine Power has no way to reverse it.
He could only speed himself up, using the magic power in his body to try to create a safe space for himself, and this almost extravagant way of refining his life force almost cost him half his life.
This may be the only shortcoming of mages as a transcendent class, if they can't use the magic in the environment, they can basically rely on magical items, and McZekin doesn't carry any magical items at all out of confidence in his own strength and reserve about his status as a priest.
However, he was more worried about Roth's life and death than he was at that time - the disaster brought by the disaster star would not threaten their own lives, but this accident clearly did not leave any room for Roth to survive.
If his misjudgment only makes him lose face, if it also causes the death of innocent human beings, then what qualifications does he have to continue to maintain his pride?
But before he could confirm Roth's life and death, a little figure he had never cared about appeared in front of him.
Lista.
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The power of the Wheel of Divine Power fascinates Lista.
So fascinated that when the magic in the environment was drained by something deep in the cavern, his first thought was: even if the caster of the spell could affect time, he would be very weak in this situation, right?
An elf with the Wheel of Divine Power will not simply die here, but will he be injured? Will he be weak?
Will......
Can you even kill him yourself?
Credit rating, oh, to hell with that kind of thing, Roth doesn't even know if he's alive or not, and his own conversion is in vain anyway.
If that wheel can be used for oneself, then what is the right one?
The transcendent profession of warrior is far worse than that of mage, and it is impossible to fly into the sky until it reaches the legend, and low-level spells such as mire magic can effectively restrict the actions of a mid-to-high-level warrior when used at the right time.
But there is one good thing about a warrior, that is, the fighting spirit does not need to be mobilized from the outside world, it is the strength tempered from the well-trained body and spirit.
He didn't understand McTiffin's vague explanation, he only thought that the Wheel of Divine Power was a powerful artifact, even if he couldn't use it, it would be good to have it in his hand.
After that, it's pretty simple.
He was slightly injured, and followed his memory all the way to break through the roots of the obstructive tree and dig towards the location where McTykin had been before, and chased all the way to the traces left by the other party to find McZekin who had not actually run far.
The quagmire technique, stone bullet technique, stone pillar technique and hardening technique that McTsikin forcibly cast were cracked by him one by one, although the opponent reversed his attacks again and again with the wheel of divine power, but there was only one and a half statues left on the wheel of divine power, and McZekin no longer had the ability to fight back.
"It's not an ordinary magic item, let alone use it, it's impossible for you to even get it!"
"If I die, the wheel will go with me, and it can't be yours!"
"If this continues, I will completely consume the power of the Wheel of Divine Might, and you will not get anything!"
McTsikin kept saying something like that, but Klista didn't care.
Since such a decision has been made, then McZekin must die, even if he does not get the wheel of divine power in the end.
You can't get something, you just don't earn it.
If the original owner is not dead, then there is a blood loss.
This is the ecology of the brand.
For some reason, when there was still half of the statue of the Wheel of Divine Might, McTiffin gave up reversing time as if he had resigned himself to his fate, and just stared at Lista and let the other party take his life.
To Lista's great surprise, the Wheel of Divine Power spun around Lista as if he had confessed to his lord after McTiffin's death, and Lista tried to touch it with his own will, and with a burst of vertigo, he found that he could sense and control it slightly!
"Haha......ha Don't you want this artifact to be consumed by yourself? After all, it's too wasteful for such a precious artifact to bury you, isn't it?hahahahaha! Thank you so much! I'll definitely use it well......"
At this moment, a familiar aura made Lista stop laughing wildly, and he even shook the air with his fighting spirit to stop the echo in the small space.
He saw a man slip out of a strange hole that he had neglected because he was too focused on McTwinkin.
"Boss, you're still alive. ”
"Lista, this is ...... What's going on?"