Chapter 731 – Beth’s Sacrifice

Chapter 731 Beth’s Sacrifice

Shia didn’t trust Saul even though she stopped struggling.

“You? Healing me? You know what’s happening to me? Do you think that under the banner of healing, you can temporarily help me suppress the contamination, and then you can make me work for you?”

Seemingly having stayed in place for too long, the streetlights in front of and behind Saul dimmed once again.

The shadows also blurred Saul’s expression.

However, his voice was exceptionally clear.

“In case you don’t know, I’ve been moonlighting as a healer for the past few years since I left Archaust, and I still hold my own in the area of treating contamination.”

Sol’s voice was very natural and confident.

“Moreover, even if I don’t know what happened to you, can’t you tell me? Even the most powerful healer has to know the cause and symptoms from the patient before treating them. If you want to get out of your current predicament, then obediently cooperate with my treatment!”

The sudden strong tone coupled with the pressure of spiritual power made both the moon in front of her and the orange cat behind her all shorten by half.

Startled by Sol’s suddenly stronger pressure, Shia trembled her lips and opened her mouth but, “You really have hidden your strength. What level are you at now? What exactly is your plot?”

Trading with Shia was really troublesome!

He always looked at Saul as a treacherous businessman and suspected his intentions.

Though Saul was indeed a treacherous businessman.

Now, the “traitor” ran out of patience, and pressed the moon to the ground and rubbed it, “Cut the crap, I’m just asking you, to cure or not to cure?”

“Cure! Cure!” Shia’s desire to live eventually overcame his paranoia, and he said in a loud voice.

“Cure! Cure! Meow!” Even Kate in the back repeated mechanically.

Saul heard the cat calling and turned around to see that Kate was all of twenty meters away from him.

“Don’t run around.”

“Yes, yes!” The orange cat hurriedly took up its short legs and ran to Saul’s side, acting incredibly honest.

Saul looked back at Shia who had also become honest, took a deep breath, and loosened his hand.

He thought to himself, ”Surely, my style of dealing with the world is still too gentle? It’s because I was promoted too quickly and didn’t come into contact with other forces, so I haven’t been able to change my original mindset.”

Seeing Saul finally loosening his hand, Shaya hastily eased his breath and said, “It’s not safe here, let’s go to another place to start.”

After saying that, the moon that Shia had changed into lit up fiercely, and white light wrapped Saul and Kate’s figures.

When the white light disappeared, the three of them unexpectedly came to a house.

Saul looked around and immediately remembered that this was the same villa that Shia had been living in during his lifetime.

He also remembered that in the basement of the villa, there was also a space teleportation spell formation hidden.

“Man, how did you do that?” Kate rubbed her cat’s paws against the ground, and the flesh pads sent real tactile feedback.

“If you can live here for more than a year, so can you.”

Facing the orange cat, Shia still couldn’t help but use a mocking tone.

But as soon as he turned around and saw Sol, his aura was gone.

The moon-like shell of light slowly cracked open, revealing the sorcerer inside.

Shia transformed back into his human form in this villa.

It’s just that this appearance wasn’t exactly the same as the original him anymore.

The Shia in front of him was shirtless, and tender green branches had sprouted from his forehead, cheeks, neck, and arms.

It was as if a seed had taken root inside him and brutally drilled through his internal skin to germinate.

He looked down at the branches on his body and sighed, “You’re right, if no one helps me out of my predicament, I’m going to be assimilated into the environment here and completely become Beth’s puppet.”

“Beth?” Sol wasn’t surprised to hear that name.

“Yes, Beth. If you want to understand the cause of the contamination in me, you must know Beth, and know the Inverted Tree.” “In fact, the real controller of Baidong Academy is not the headmaster, but the witch Beth, who appears to be only of the first rank. And she is actually the previous dean of Baidong Academy, the former Third Order Sorceress of Baidong Academy!”

“Ka!” The orange cat’s jaw dislocated.

Sol frowned, but did not interrupt Shia.

Then, Shia retold what happened in Baidong Academy from his perspective.

Beth was once a powerful third-ranked sorcerer who led Baidong Academy to defeat the Kemah Empire’s army.

But she was actually a loser as well.

When she was forced to take the academy out of the Masterless Land, she was actually driven out after failing to beat Clark in the land grab.

Also because she was severely injured in the battle with Clark, Beth barely relied on the means of moving mountains and burying people and creating the Droopy Hand Valley tragedy to get Baidong Academy to quickly gain a foothold before she died from her injuries.

However, Beth was after all a third-order sorcerer, and had long been prepared for resurrection.

She raised the Tree of Inversion with her own corpse and gradually cultivated it into a magical creature huge enough to cover a city.

In turn, Beth used the branches and resin of the Inverted Tree, mixed with her blood to create a vessel for herself that would allow her to resemble a living person.

And she hosted her soul in the inverted space of the Tree of Inversions, and used the souls and special energies absorbed by the Tree of Inversions to maintain the daily wear and tear of her soul, and could ensure that her soul would not be easily contaminated.

In this way, Beth disguisedly accomplished the subject of resurrection.

But resurrection was, after all, an over-the-top topic for a third-order sorcerer.

Beth, who had a new body and was ready to restore her strength as soon as possible, soon sensed something strange.

Gradually become strong inverted tree, even began and Beth grab “nutrition”.

The most difficult thing for Beth is that she can’t really fight with the inverted tree.

If she loses, even if she doesn’t disappear, she will be contaminated due to excessive weakness.

If she won, the Inverted Tree would die of starvation, and she, the soul attached to it, would naturally be left without a place to live.

After thinking for a day and a night, Beth finally decided: since there wasn’t enough nutrition, she would eat more.

From that day onwards, Baidong Academy, which had not yet gained a firm foothold, began to desperately expand its enrollment.

As long as the students came with magical qualifications, they would accept all of them regardless of whether they had good or bad qualifications.

However, the number of sorcerer apprentices was not large after all, so Baidong Academy began to change its strategy and mainly recruited ordinary people to enter and settle down in Kaukoust City.

Using quantity to ensure quality.

The Inverted Tree, on the other hand, would hide underground, enjoying the soul fragments that everyone on the ground collectively provided to it.

In spite of all the sharing, some people fell to their deaths under the exploitation of the Tree of Inversions day after day.

Their souls had been absorbed long ago, and they would eventually turn into ashes after death.

It couldn’t even be considered a spiritual body.

And as the city of Archester grew bigger and bigger, and the residential buildings grew taller and taller, this place wasn’t insignificant even if dozens or hundreds of people died or were injured.

But things didn’t work out perfectly.

As the Inverted Tree grew stronger, so did its appetite.

And if Beth wanted to maintain the stability of her spiritual body, she would have to continue to feed the Inverted Tree and then watch helplessly as it continued to grow stronger.

Everything would be caught in a vicious cycle.

Before things progressed to a point where it was difficult to resolve, Beth once again made a decision.

She was going to abandon the original locator that majored in the earth attribute choice, and instead turn the Inverted Tree, into her new locator, from then on, the two would be one, and she would no longer have to worry about robbing nutrition, and she would also be able to better control the Inverted Tree.

For this determination, Beth will sacrifice the entire city!

(End of chapter)