Chapter 49: In the Deep Forest(1/2)
"There is another one, don't let him run away!"
The fire spread in the Hall of Trees, but the callers quickly realized that it was more important to leave the culprit than to put out the fire.
The element made him escape to the kitchen by the smog of smoke, where there was a window leading to the forest outside, which was the route they had planned for escape, but then he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "He is here!"
He looked back and saw several summoners breaking open the door and rushing in. Elements make him furious, "These hindrance bastards!" If it weren't for these nosy guys, they would have retreated smoothly after completing the mission.
He turned around and raised the staff in his hand and paused hard on the ground. When the end of the staff hit the wooden floor, bright flames rose up, and several fire snakes spread in all directions from there.
"Be careful, Fire Ring Technique!" Some of the candidates who rushed in were conscious and screamed and pulled their companions back. But their level still requires some luck to avoid this spell. When the person who was not lucky retreated, he tripped up by a wooden barrel. The barrel rolled to the ground with it, and the mushrooms inside sprinkled all over the floor.
The fire snake spread along the man's trouser legs, turning it into a walking flame amid his screams. The grease crackled in the high temperature, and a burnt smell of flesh instantly filled the air. The remaining few people looked pale and almost vomited. Soon the human figure in the flames was only left, and the skeleton turned into ashes.
The fire spread on the walls, burning the wooden cabinets and ceiling into charred scales, and the entire kitchen was swallowed by the flames in a flash. The elemental force stood in the middle of this sea of fire, holding up the staff in his hand unruly - he knew he could not escape, and planned to fight to the death before he died.
But it was at this moment that a neat and orderly spell in his mind suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Elemental Slightly stunned, suddenly thought of something, and his face turned pale. And this moment of stunned silence made him unable to maintain his calmness. The seven-level magic array formed by spells in his mind collapsed suddenly, and all spells wandered in his thoughts like disorderly chaos. The familiar spells in the past seemed strange and alienated at this moment.
"No!" He widened his eyes and shouted: "Remember it for me!"
But to no avail, most of the fire in the entire kitchen disappeared suddenly, and the magic flame was pulled away from the manifestation form and turned into a free elemental state. The original ether rushed back towards the center of this collapse point like a landslide.
However, just as this huge force was about to turn the element into powder, it seemed as if an invisible hand had intercepted them from it and changed their form, allowing them to capture the rising water vapor, and then condensed the water vapor into water droplets and fell from mid-air.
A drizzle drizzled in the kitchen, extinguishing the remaining flames. Just as the element was stunned, several candidates with their backs and waists rushed over and pushed him to the ground:
"We've caught him!"
The hot floor made his face roar, and the latter rolled his eyes and screamed, but no one cared about his feelings at this moment.
...
The man withdrew his gaze from the fire that soared into the sky in the distance and looked coldly at the edge of the forest. In the dark outside the window, a ranger raised his hand and compared him with a normal gesture. He turned around, crossed his hands and looked at the tall man in front of him, and then spoke:
"Mr. Leader, how long do you have to consider? The order was sent by your guild. You should have confirmed it, right?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild raised his head from the projected light page in front of him and looked at the other party: "What are you going to do in that place at this time?"
“Our mission destination is that place.”
"But you can absolutely use a more peaceful way, and you have seen that the tree man has no malice towards us. If you ask, the Heart of the Tree will meet you."
"The Heart of the Tree is still sleeping, and we don't have time to wait for it to wake up. And to be honest," the man shrugged, "I don't think that those people can stop the monsters outside. If they attack this place, our mission will fail."
"But you have to admit that they did a good job before, repelling Crystal three attacks, and the last two casualties were not serious." The leader of the Saint White Stone Guild said: "At present, Orca's reinforcements have arrived, just waiting for the people from other guilds to arrive at the forward camp. I don't know why you think so?"
"It turns out that you call it Crystal, but it doesn't matter. Do you think the strength of that thing is limited to this? It's just a test," the man shook his head and said, "If the Orca people have not arrived yet, maybe I'm not that anxious yet. But the arrival of reinforcements may have given it a signal, and if it takes all its strength, it will be ruined."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was slightly silent. They had only obtained the same news from another very important source of information not long ago. This made him think carefully and hesitate:
"I have to ask the guild."
The man looked at him and reached out and said, "Please."
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild pulled his deputy and walked aside, took out the communication crystal, and waited for the sound of connecting from the other end of the crystal to be heard, and immediately asked in a low voice: "President, what's going on with that order?"
"Old He, the news is not written very clearly, to help the people of the Twilight Guild complete the task."
"I understand, but the President, the situation below is not optimistic at the moment. Why not wait until the reinforcements arrive before completing this task?"
"This is what the people from the Twilight Guild asked."
"But then our people could be in danger."
"Old He, I understand what you mean," the president's voice seemed a little optimistic: "But don't worry, the guild will compensate you - think about it, what are we coming to this world for? It's just to collect more valuable high-dimensional information. If necessary, the loss of starlight is also an acceptable price. You should understand this?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild understood what he said: "What price did the people from the Twilight Guild offer? It's worth our doing this?"
“A lot, including but not limited to the complete transfer of their share of this mining area to us.”
The former couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning when he heard this: "What kind of task are they worthy of this?"
"That's not our business."
"But if the monsters outside attacked... are the people from the Twilight Guild playing some tricks..."
"Don't worry, even if those monsters occupy the mining area for a while, we can still wipe them out. If several of our guilds unite together, they can't even do this little thing?"
"But that would happen, this matter would be a big deal."
"Even if we pay taxes to the king, the income below the mining area will be stable and profitable for us. No one knows better than us about the crystal reserves below the mining area in the past few months."
The leader was silent for a moment before nodding, indicating that he understood. He closed the communication crystal, walked back to the other party, and spoke, "Okay, let's talk about how we cooperate specifically?"
The man smiled and looked at the side and said, "Before talking about this, should you invite the lady outside the door to come in first?"
The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild was slightly stunned and couldn't help looking in that direction. The door pushed open. Outside the door, there was a expressionless nightingale Miss Alice, who stood outside the door, looked at the two of them calmly, and said in a plain tone: "Captain, it seems that there is a fire in the other side of the Tree Hall."
"Don't care about that for now," the commander shook his head, "You're here just right, Rainbow, there's something to notify you."
"I heard it outside," Alice's tone was not in any emotional fluctuation, "Do you want me to inform others?"
The former was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, let everyone gather, we may take action later."
Alice nodded. She glanced at the man, who was also looking at her, with some fun in her eyes. But Alice was indifferent and just closed the door and walked out.
"That's our Nightingale Team Leader." The leader of the Holy White Stone Guild explained to the other party.
The man nodded, but thought about it and sent a message:
"Follow the nightingale and have a look."
...
Alice walked down the tree house and stayed at the door for a moment, and couldn't help but recall what had happened before:
"... The heart of the mountain that the tree man mentioned is actually pure crystal, the central stone buried deep in the mountains. If there is anything wrong with it, the entire Nognes area will probably become a forbidden zone of life."
Time reflection stopped, "I was by the side of Captain Ed and the others at that time. The tree people mistakenly thought that I was with them, so they happened to hear these things. Captain Ed and I saved my life. I shouldn't have revealed these to the outside world, but Miss Rainbow, you know Captain Ed and the others..."
"Don't worry, I just see you with them and ask about their current situation," Alice looked at the other party, "but I don't want my private affairs to affect the team. They are them and we are us, so there is no need to tell the team leader about this."
"I understand, but Captain Ed and others are also good people,"
“That’s two different things.”
"Okay," Shi Zhi nodded, but called her again: "Wait, by the way... Please tell the leader, don't trust the people of the Twilight Guild too much. What kind of alliance guild are they? Even our people will never save them."
She nodded.
Alice's eyes quickly returned to reality, turned around and looked in one direction - there was a twilight ranger hiding on the edge of the forest, and she could feel that the other person's eyes were also looking in her own direction.
She withdrew her gaze without a trace, turned around, and walked towards the camp. In her perception, the other party indeed followed. She knew that the other party should see more clearly when she saw her, and the people in Twilight were much higher than theirs.
So she carefully walked through the camp and sent messages to everyone one by one, asking them to gather in the open space not far away, and there might be important tasks later. And when passing by a tree, a shadow extended from Alice's feet and merged into the trunk.
Unlike her sister who is dedicated to Shadow Dance, she is better at another direction - the Eye of the Forest and the Night Owl. That shadow is the Night Owl's skill - Shadow Perception. A high-level Night Owl can leave up to dozens of shadow marks within a range of several kilometers. But of course she cannot control such a large range, but it is more than enough to leave one or two marks without knowing it.
The forest was located at the intersection of light and darkness, and she was sure that the other party would not notice her small movements.
After passing through the last camp area, Alice finally sensed the departure of the Twilight Guild Ranger through the shadow mark she left. It felt like she was standing in the shadow mark position, watching the other party explored from afar, then turned around and left.
She also turned around and looked at the figures in the forest, which were the other people who were heading for the meeting. But she took a step back, left the road, and stepped in the opposite direction from the others, like a shadow, throwing into the dark woodland.
But in a certain direction Alice didn't notice, a dark light was flashing by.
In the woodland, a man in a gray alchemist robe raised his head and stared at the sky, looking at the shadow flying back in that direction. He raised his hand and caught it, and a meaningful light appeared in his eyes.
He put away the clockwork, then wrote a message in the void, and sent it out with his hand.
...
Fang Zhu looked at the element tied up, and a piece of flesh was burned off the other party's face, revealing the bloody muscles and connective tissue below. A loose eyeball swayed in his head, and the remaining eye was also looking at him weakly.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Ji Ta looked at it and couldn't bear to read it again. He couldn't help but close his eyes and lower his head, but when she lowered her head, the huge round glasses slid down from the bridge of her nose, which scared her so much that she quickly supported her with her hands.
Reed couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the scene, stretched out his claws from behind and hooked up the hood on her scholar's robe, turned it over and pulled it down, covering the latter's eyes tightly, revealing only half of his chin outside.
"In the future, the scenes that are not suitable for children are not suitable for them, let Ji Ta and Tian Lan see more." Big Cat Man said in a muffled voice.
"Ah, sorry." Fang Rong grabbed her hair, but she didn't expect that there would be one more time. To be honest, he was shocked by himself. These people were a little too rough and just pressed the person on the burnt floor.
But to a certain extent, this was a consequence of his own fault. When he took action to turn others into coke, he never thought that he would suffer the same kind of suffering. Even if he could be resurrected, it would definitely not feel good about that, and it might not leave a psychological shadow.
This is one of the reasons why the candidates need psychological counseling to return to their original world.
Fang Zhu looked up at the burnt kitchen again. The walls and cabinets were charred black, fog was steaming around, and a thin layer of water was accumulated on the floor.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that after learning from Mr. Karatu, Jita's control of elements and spells had become more and more perfect. In a flash, he borrowed the other party's spell and turned it into his own spells. He found the opposite attributes from the extreme fire environment, and turned it into a safe situation with his backhand.
This operation has already touched the edge of the superior realm, and it is enough to put it between the magician and the elemental envoy. Of course, this is based on the advantages of naturalists and magicians themselves, but Jita still has a lot of room for growth compared to others.
She was only fourteen years old, and there were still two months and fifteen days left before she was fifteen years old.
Others are talking about the identity of the attacker.
"Is this guy a spy?"
"They must have defected to those monsters."
"We need to interrogate it carefully, he must have accomplices."
The elementals were dying, but at this moment it seemed that some strength had finally been restored. He looked at the people around him weakly, and suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice: "Give me a pleasure, you know I will not speak. And you can't torture me... This is a violation of the Star Gate Declaration."
To be continued...