Chapter 576 – Tree Seed
Chapter 576 – Tree Seed
Quickly coming out of the consciousness platform, Sol swept around.
His eyes landed on Lake Rhine, where the Headless Horseman carried his head in his hand and rode the Strangler Beast, fleeing at a faster speed than he came.
The old hag stood on the ice nearby, pinching her waist and jumping helplessly.
Seeing Saul rushing over, she grumbled, “His strangling beast is running too fast! It’s not like you can fly on Lake Rhine!”
Saul and the old hag stood side by side, and did not go up to chase after it.
It would be useless even if they went after him.
The opponent was a physical second-order witch, and there was no other way for him to leave the opponent alive other than to realize the battlefield.
The two men had been watching Brando dart out of Lake Rhine, only to suddenly stagger and nearly fall to the ground when he came ashore.
It turned out to be the small algae doppelganger at the lake, which suddenly appeared and tossed the strangling beast.
Of course, the small algae was also broken in inches and immediately shrunk back into the soil.
Seeing that the person was already far away, Saul told the old witch to go back to the tower, “After this person leaves, he will most likely come back again. You should not leave Lake Rhine during this time.”
The old hag stalked her neck, “I’m still afraid of him?”
Saul didn’t say anything, only staring at the large hole in the chest of the old hag’s dress.
Earlier, when the old hag fought Brando, she had been pierced by the other party’s conical gun. However, her perfect body didn’t care about such an injury, and now she had recovered, only her clothes were still torn.
The spring light was leaked.
If one didn’t look at the old hag’s three times enlarged features and pale face, this fifteen or sixteen year old girl-like body was still quite attractive.
The old hag looked down following Saul’s line of sight and saw the same scenery.
Saul hurriedly said what he originally wanted to say and diverted his eyes.
“You were all pierced through your body by a shot from the other side ……”
The old hag looked up, the expression on her face unchanged.
“What do you know? This injury is inconsequential to me, I can recover in the blink of an eye. I’m the one who restrained that iron skin the most!”
The old witch puffed out her chest and twisted her head back to the Witch Tower.
Saul stood alone by the lake and blew in the wind.
In the distance, the mushrooms that had just been cut down by Brando were slowly recovering.
It would take a bit of time to regrow enough spores to signal a warning. But it was thought that that Brando would easily not dare to come back.
The other party said that he had killed here to avenge Lanvin’s death.
But was it like he said or not?
After the establishment of the Pure Spirit Sorcerer Tower, other than Gaga Drum, who Sol had taken the initiative to market, only three waves of people had come to ask him to treat the contamination.
The first, Langevin, wanted to clean up the pearl strings.
After that, Clark descended, though he didn’t end up grabbing the Nightmare Butterfly in the end, taking into account Mentor Golza’s reputation.
The second was a man and two wizards. Appearances so far have forced them to return to the factory without a name.
Even the Watcher behind them was taken care of by the old witch.
It was certain, though, that they had been sent by the wind demon to test him.
The third was Justin, who was now being treated.
But he was a second-ranked sorcerer, so he shouldn’t be risking his life by helping the wind demon to test him.
But if it was along for the ride ……
Sol turned his thoughts to Brando, who had just escaped.
Was he really here to avenge his friend’s death, or was it just another test?
If the wind demon was behind all this, what was she trying to do?
Or what had gone wrong with her?
Several questions lingered in Saul’s mind, but he was getting too little information right now.
“Can’t always be so passive.”
Thor pondered the current situation in the Sorcerer’s Tower and slowly turned around and walked into the clean white tower.
For Justin’s healing took four more sessions before reaching Saul’s desired equilibrium. Although it didn’t completely dispel the contamination or truly cure the sorcery damage in Justin’s body, it finally prolonged his life in units measured in years.
But it was a good thing that Saul’s treatment regimen was working.
The next phase of the treatment might have a chance to completely cure what was wrong with Justin.
After completing the last healing, Saul pushed the mannequin on the ground, which had corroded beyond human form, aside with the mage’s hand.
“This time you’re in better shape than even before.”
Justin only blanched, but it was finally not as painful as before.
He lowered his head slightly to meet Saul’s eyes, and a small smile finally blossomed on his face, “That’s still thanks to the fact that you’ve already reduced the damage on me by a lot.”
Saul looked down and skillfully cut off the tentacles from his own fingertips.
Because of absorbing the contamination from Justin’s body, the tentacle had turned a dark brown color and twitched every now and then, as if it was a raw octopus that had just been caught on shore.
Justin watched Saul put away the tentacle, knowing that the other party would continue to study the contamination inside.
He was silent for a moment, recalling the four times Saul had been working very seriously and hard to help him absorb the contamination and balance his injuries, and finally opened his mouth to remind him.
“I know you’re studying the contamination in my body, and that’s probably what you’re used to as a healer. However, I still have to remind you that the contamination from other places is fine, but the contamination from the Masterless Land is a very dangerous thing. I suggest you seal up these contaminants and bury them far away.
Otherwise, I’m afraid that one day, you’ll realize that all this contamination has been transferred into your own body.”
Justin’s tip made Saul feel slightly relieved, finally, it wasn’t in vain that he had worked so hard to save people.
If only all future patients were as self-conscious as he and Gaga Drum were.
However, Saul already had a lot of experience in dealing with contamination in the Land of Ignorance, so he wasn’t afraid even if he was accidentally contaminated.
After all, he was a ruthless person who had once directly absorbed the contamination from someone else’s body and waited for the consciousness space to filter it.
Of course, since entering the Land of the Unknown, Saul, who had almost slaughtered himself the first time he absorbed the contamination in other people’s bodies, would no longer be foolish enough to wait directly for the diary to filter it now.
Saul thought again of the source of pollution that was eventually suppressed by his consciousness space and turned from a black ocean to a drop of black tide, and thought that Justin might know something inside.
He held up the tentacle that had been sealed into the test tube, “Justin, do you have any idea what the contamination inside you is?”
Justin’s eyes were hard to see, he looked at Saul to say something, but finally raised his arm suddenly.
The sleeve was rolled up to the elbow, and there was a shallow scar in the center of the inner side of his small arm.
Under Saul’s gaze, the scar opened automatically, and under the bright red muscle, there was a round grain the size of a sesame seed, hidden near a blood vessel.
If it wasn’t for the faint breath of life coming from the top of the round grain, Saul was afraid that he would have thought that it was just ordinary proliferating tissue.
“I had signed an oath that there are some things I cannot tell you directly. But I believe that with your ability, you will soon be able to access the secrets of this world.” Justin said as he removed the round pellet from his small arm and let it float in front of Saul.
“This is a seed. After it was born, it was discarded by some as a failure.
But my mentor and I never gave up on it. While we don’t know how far we can go down this path, its end is certainly not in the present moment.
If you’re going to continue to study the contamination of terra nullius, then try to cultivate it. It will surely be able to help you in your research.”
Saul did not immediately take the seed in the other’s hand, “This seed of yours is hidden so deeply, it must be very important to you, right?”
Justin smiled, “The method of making the seed is in my head, that’s all that matters to me.”
Sol sniffed, but took the seed anyway.
When the seed fell into his palm, Saul immediately felt a weak but very tenacious life force.
Just like weeds, even after being burned by wildfire, they could be revitalized in the spring.
“What kind of seed is this? Can this one tell?”
“Of course,” Justin’s gaze fell on the seed as well, with a gentle expression, “It was created by my mentor. My mentor named it the Black Sea Tree, a tree that can grow and provide energy in the Black Tide.
The Red Sea Tree, which is now the most planted tree in the continent of Nephrite, is actually a variant of it. Hm …… It’s just a shame that it’s become a mess and is still held as a treasure!”
I was out today and only managed to rush out one chapter, I’ll make up the rest tomorrow!
(End of chapter)