After setting off again with Margaret's blessing, Shade went directly to the east of the city to look for Carina and the others. At this moment, looking down at the city from a high place, all he could see was the thick green mist that was sweeping in.
This miasma has a sweet smell, the kind of smell foreigners remember from low-quality industrial saccharin. Except for ring warlocks like him who are extremely physically strong, even high-level warlocks must use the "Head Soaking Curse" to protect them.
You are not affected in any way.
So when Shade discovered the witch and his party, he found that everyone's heads were shrouded in transparent bubbles. The same was true for Carina. Seeing Shade's expression of holding back laughter, the beautiful red-haired witch reached out to do the same for him.
A layer of bubbles appeared, and then continued into the depths of the thick fog.
At this time, even if [Night Watch] is still inserted into the scabbard [Edgeless Blade], light is still seeping out from the gaps in the scabbard, which also means that the whisper element is everywhere. It only lasts for an hour.
After the search, Shade, the two great witches, and the girls from Gaohuan have visited every corner of the East District of the city, even the dirty and smelly garbage alleys, but still cannot find the so-called tree man.
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By the time they returned to the Accordion Hotel, it was already close to four o'clock on Friday morning. But if the fog remained so thick, I'm afraid Vista City wouldn't be able to see the sun even in the early morning.
The people who went out took a short rest, and the maids who stayed behind prepared tea and snacks for everyone. After Shade drank a cup of tea, he went to Luvia's place, and the purple-eyed girl finally came to the conclusion reluctantly:
"That tree is in the city, but it's not in reality, but in someone's dream. The specific location is in the middle of the city. I can't accurately know the address of the dreamer, but the whispering element in that person must be the strongest.
Force it out of the dream, and then you can destroy the tree man's body in reality and end tonight's disaster."
Luvia's divination consumed too much energy. After leaving the divination results, she was supported by Lesia and returned to the room to rest.
But there was no need for Shade and the witches to look for the dreamer in the city, because not long after he shared Luvia's divination results, with the slight vibration of the whole city and the strong fluctuation of the whispering elements, the hotel
Directly to the west, in the thick fog, the shadow of the huge creature appeared.
That direction was the direction of the Golden Concert Hall, and the shadow that appeared as if the space suddenly moved was the shape of a huge tree.
After it appeared, it was immediately attacked by thaumaturgy in the fog. The witches in the hotel immediately recognized that it was the magic of the church. In other words, the church had already forced out the big tree hidden in the dream.
The tree itself was glowing, and its shadow in the fog looked taller than the tallest building in the city. As the shadow of the tree crown swayed, the denser fog continued to spread from the city center toward the city, and in the face of the attack,
An old sigh of "Ah~" hit everyone's spirit like a heavy hammer.
But even though the tree man is a relic, its appearance is obviously abnormal. When viewed from a distance, there seems to be something similar to a cyst on the tree trunk. When Shade, Carina, Sylvia and dozens of others
After the girls with high rankings approached the battlefield on the roof, they discovered that there were large areas of white vesicles tightly attached to the trunk of the huge tree man. Even if they did not have trypophobia, any sane observer would
I can't help but feel sick when I see this scene.
If you look carefully, you can see that black bugs are clearly curled up in those white vesicles. The pink crown and black trunks make these things very conspicuous in the strange pink light. Shade, who has seen similar things in underground mineral veins,
At a glance, you can recognize that these are sleeping paradox insects.
These vesicles are attached to the upper end of the trunk of the giant pink tree man, and some are even directly attached to the facial features of the tree man's face. They are constantly squirming with the violent trembling of the big tree, as if they are sharing their power with the relics.
The power of the insects converges into the trunk, then merges into the miasma, until it erupts from the dense canopy of the giant tree.
This is probably the reason why the sage-level relic [Dream Tree] suddenly possesses the power to divide time.
Below the tree man are four legs composed of human-like black roots, and there are two thick wooden arms on both sides of the trunk. It "stands" above the golden music hall, with its legs standing straight
Just barely touching the concert hall with my body.
I don’t know whether it’s because of those sleeping Paradox Insects, but this tree is extremely resistant to magical spells. The erect wooden arms easily blocked most of the attacks from the fog, and with the dry
The tree man's mouth opened on the bark, and large black insects flew out.
Fortunately, those human-sized flying insects that resemble "paradox bugs" are not paradox bugs, but they also have the power of time.
The ring warlock team of the church hidden in the fog immediately attacked the flying insects. Immediately, a thunder exploded above the city, and then in the violent explosion that seemed to shake the world, hundreds of thunder struck straight from the air towards the ancient tree.
Human canopy.
The pink luminous crown immediately grew upward under the bombardment of thunder, and the dense pink light at the ends of the branches formed a barrier to resist this round of lightning strikes, but higher up in the night sky, Gareth Sander, "The Wrath of Thunder"
The thirteen life rings behind Mr. Wang faced the starry sky. During the second round of thunder bombardment, there were even meteorites falling downwards mixed with the thunder.
"Power of the Earth·Earth Energy Cannon!"
Iluna's voice came clearly in the fog, and the light that immediately lit up seemed to illuminate the darkness before dawn. The huge orange light held by Iluna gradually fell, and it had resisted almost all attacks just now.
On the trunk of the tree man, six extra hands grew together, and immediately eight hands moved forward to block the falling "sun".
The "sun" was tilted and held up by eight hands, so the fog quickly dissipated in the sun's supreme light, thus revealing the thirteen life rings behind the gryphon with its wings spread high in the sky.
The gryphon had brown wings, and on its back, a paladin from the early sixth era drew out his sword.
It was not a high-end relic like [Night Watch], and it was not even an alchemy item. But when the serious knight took out the long sword from its sheath, the sound of friction between the blade and the scabbard could be heard by almost everyone.
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The tree's crown resisted lightning strikes, and its trunk resisted the power of the sun. Facing the sound of a long sword being unsheathed in the air, the tree man opened its mouth and sprayed out a black light, but it was blown away by the lightning strike. It also tried to move to avoid the incoming attack.
A fatal attack, but the ceremonial matrix surrounding the golden music hall had already been formed, and golden chains locked its four legs. It wanted to move, but it was already difficult to move.
The "Blade of the Sky" was unsheathed, and as the gryphon glided past in the clear night sky, hundreds of stars in the starry sky shone brightly and then connected into the shape of a long sword.
The paladin raised the sword in his hand high. When the sword fell, the "Sword of the Sky" in the starry sky also swung down. The tree man was then overwhelmed by the irresistible starlight. Immediately, the crown and trunk of the tree fell at the same time, and were destroyed by the falling lightning strike.
The branches spit out the miasma, and the sun's rays purify the bark that releases poisonous insects.
When the strong wind summoned by the "Nightmare Witch" Maria who was watching the battle blew by, the fog dispersed and most of the city center was gone, with no trace of the pink tree left.
"Even if it is strengthened, it is still no match for the Thirteenth Ring. Do you think you still need our help?"
Miss Sylvia on the roof asked Shade, and Shade nodded affirmatively:
"Already here!"
As the relics dissipated, the vesicles originally attached to the tree trunks fell to the ground one after another, and then fell deeper into the ground as if melting. The church's ring magicians immediately cast spells to try to keep those bugs.
, whether it’s finding a way to completely eliminate them or studying their weaknesses, it’s all a gain.
But most thaumaturgy can't work on these sleeping evil things. What's more important is that at this time, the buzzing sound came from below the ground and became louder and louder. People in the air and on the ground watched.
Heading towards the four-leaf clover petal square on the east side of the "Golden Music Hall", there was no sound of impact or breaking of the ground. The huge paradox insect broke out of the ground from under the square, and the buzzing sound was shattered in the form of a sonic attack.
Covered the entire block of glass.
"It's the Paradox Bug! The third backup plan! Prepare the ceremony!"
From the direction of the natural church in the distance, bright golden rays shot straight, and soon the entire night sky lit up with the brilliance of a magical ritual centered on an hourglass pattern.
The light of the ceremony was even brighter than the moonlight and starlight. The bugs that broke out of the ground were originally illusory due to the unstable nature of time, but they immediately slowly solidified under the light and shadow of the ceremony.
The ring magicians of the church changed their positions to prepare for the ceremony. At the same time, as the whispering element appeared again, the light emitted by the unknown relic effect covered everyone flying in the air. Soon, those strange creatures who were originally unable to attack the "Paradox Worm"
All the magic bombarded the insect's carapace.
This is a race-nemesis relic specifically aimed at the "Zerg" race. Although the "Paradox Bug" race is an "ancient evil" rather than a bug, it unfortunately has the appearance of a bug.
The bug was about the same size as a small apartment. The thaumaturgic bombardment caused it to deviate from its flight path, but immediately its wings vibrated, and the white mist from the Narrow of Time, representing "time instability", quickly filled the green poisonous miasma.
of gaps.
Even the magical spells and relics under the starry sky could not completely dispel the white mist, and the effect of the second round of thaumaturgic attacks was greatly reduced due to the cover of the white mist.
Fortunately, Iluna, who was flying in the air on a skeleton horse, held up the dark golden scale in her hand and pointed it at the insect in the air. The moment her beautiful heterochromatic pupils looked at the compound eyes of the paradox insect, all the white mist was revealed.
disappeared, which means that the power of "balance" has re-stabilized time and space: