149. Chapter 149: Expert Trial
Chapter 149 – The Experts’ Trial
“Mr. Dylan?”
Heine looked surprised.
“Why did the old man let you come?”
Dylan grunted.
“He probably thought you needed my help.”
Heine suddenly gave him a long, hard look, then used her scouting spell.
Instead of being offended, Dylan’s eyes flashed with amusement.
Yes, he had broken through to level four.
Heine drifted off.
…
Mr. Sa: “Is he bragging?”
Mr. Summer: “It sounded like he was, he meant that Heine needed help, why, wasn’t he?”
Mr. Sa: “Haha, he actually got yelled at by Barry.”
Mr. Summer: “You can understand that? What kind of scolding?”
Mr. Sa: “The old man speaks slowly and clearly, it is simply the perfect material for practicing hearing, he said ‘you stay home all day drumming up corpses has no use, what, this mansion is your lair ah? Might as well go out and do some serious business with that whoever.'”
Mr. Xia: “Hahahahaha ……”
…
So that’s what this is about.
Heine stifled a laugh and looked at Dylan with a slight change in his eyes.
A level four psychic, a level four necromancer and a level five tree herder.
With the consultation of the three experts, plus the controlling effect of the gladiatorial spell formation, Linumu quickly yanked out all the insect eggs in Ivica’s body with vines as thin as a hair’s thread.
The two necromancers teamed up to isolate the death aura, and with the potion, they were able to save the guy.
The two on the side looked dumbfounded.
Crap, this can also be saved?
Listening to their discussion, this was how Ivica traveled to a similar survivor camp in the game.
Then that night, he had a scenic blowout by the campfire.
Bugs flew in all directions along with blood and flesh, starting a new round of parasitism.
At the same time, a vast army of blight killed them, led by two rank four officers.
One was called Hua Wen and the other Hua Wu.
Just by hearing these two names Heine could guess what the looks were ……
It seems that in their world there is also Master Star.
“This is the Cayenne child of the Blight Trace, a tracking type of larva.”
Linumu twisted a dead worm with a stony face.
“Ka’ena is one of the leaders of the Worm Plague Zone, her direct descendants are the females of the third level, and it is to them that this larva owes …… This place has been targeted, the pheromones have been released along the way, and they like to attack at night the most.”
Dylan frowned, “Why do I sense something akin to death from this?”
“It’s blight.”
Linumu explained, “I explained to you the creation and spread of blight, and besides those, it has contamination properties.
“According to the Cuiye Court’s reconnaissance, the Trail of Blight is currently divided into three zones, the Insect Plague, Flower Plague, and Beast Plague zones.
“Its leaders are all deformed from magical beasts and magical plants, possessing similar characteristics such as parasitism and corruption.
“But interestingly, none of them are native to the local flora and fauna, more like …… following whatever migrated here.”
Heine’s heart stirred, “Since the elves in the beginning fled here and took the forest from Archduke McCalla, did they also bring these exotic species?”
Linumu nodded hesitantly.
“It’s possible …… that the withering of both the Mourning Wood Valley and the Mercury Forest caused the species to flee, so we can’t rule out that possibility. But how are we going to find information after such a long gap?”
Heine laughed lightly, “Ask the party.”
He snapped his fingers.
The illusory shape of Saberia appeared on the phalanx bound by chains.
“Yo, you’re getting beat up again?” Heine asked.
Sabelia glared at him at first, her expression easing only when she saw the agitated Linumu.
“Looking for me for what?”
“Lord Sabelia, it’s like this ……”
Linumu immediately gave a brief description of the local Blight Trace, and the bugs that Ivica had brought with her.
After hearing this Sabelia sneered.
“I didn’t realize that the worms parasitizing Quirkus could turn into disasters ……”
“Quirkus?” Linumu said in surprise, “You mean the oak sapling that the Wind of Sighs family brought back to the valley over two thousand years ago?”
“Of course.”
Sabelia looked around with a condescending expression.
Staring at Heine in particular.
She almost wrote “I know a lot more, come and beg me” on her face.
Huh?
Beg you? Heine shoved him right back.
Incidentally, he also told Nobita to beat him up again.
The other two looked at each other, not understanding what this meant.
“We all know the name Quirkus anyway, so there’s no point in continuing to hold him up and beg him, I for one don’t like to spoil things.”
Heine re-summoned a silver head.
“Might as well ask the person in question.”
Katie Wind of Sighs.
Katie’s expression was more vivid and less bewildered today than it had been when she’d first peeled herself away from the tweets and whispers.
“Greetings, Lord Heine, young sapling, and …… this human.”
She greeted the three.
Linumu, on the other hand, frowned.
I think I’ve seen this face somewhere before ……
“Hello, Ms. Katie.”
Heine got straight to the point, “Do you remember the name Quirkus?”
Sure enough, Katie was deep in thought.
After a long time, she murmured, “I remember many things, like muddy memories tumbled up from the silt at the bottom of a river, I see a withered giant tree, a newborn seedling, a grand ceremony ……”
She suddenly looked pained, and her tone became more wavering:
“I see a promise, a betrayal, and…and killing …… I see ……
“Our blood flowed on the withered earth, watering a seed of vengeance …… Ahhhhhh ……”
Seeing that she was showing signs of cracking, Heine hurriedly put her back into the spell.
After confirming that she was unharmed, he breathed a sigh of relief.
“Well, any luck?” He asked Linumu.
The wood elf asked seriously, “Is this Ms. Katie ……”
“The Banished One, the original traitor, the source of the Witch Scourge, Katie Jemitislia.”
“Indeed ……”
Linumu sighed.
“The Winds of Sighs family is one of the four seats of the Council of Elders, and the ‘Silver People’ who led the way out of the Valley of Mourning Wood.
“They are called ‘traitors’ because they took a quarter section of the roots of the ‘Mourning Wood’ with them when they left.
“The Wood of Mourning is the spiritual totem of the Wood Elves, also known as the Ancestral Wood, and its size represents the prosperity of the Elven community, which is said to have covered half of the Valley of Mourning in its heyday.
“But as the blight spread, it continued to shrink, becoming less than a seedling in its day.
“If I’m not mistaken, the Quirkus that Lady Katie tells of is the oak that grew from the root of the one that was taken away, and it is the source of the Blight Scar in the Whispering Woods.”
Heine: “What about blood, betrayal and revenge?”
“The Winds of Sighs contaminated the Ancestral Wood with sorcery and were therefore put to death by the Council of Elders in an attempt to undo the sorcery with their blood, which backfired, and I’m guessing that Quelkus is revenge for the betrayal.”
“So… ……”
While that made sense, Heine always felt there was something fishy going on.
After all, the player had said that the history of the wood elves had been tampered with.
Moreover, Linumu hadn’t mentioned “witch hunting” at all just now.
So, he put his hopes on the two brothers.
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Mr. Xia: “Do you understand? The dude’s accent is too heavy.”
Mr. Sa: “That’s because you’ve heard less of it, and it’s quite a belt when you’ve heard more of it.”
Mr. Xia: “So you got it?”
Mr. Sa: “No.”
Mr. Xia: “Well, well, well, really.”
…
OK, send.
On second thought, though, even Megumi doesn’t know such a great figure as Katie stripped from her equipment, let alone them.
Good thing Linumu knew quite a bit.
The wood elf said, “If it’s Quirkus, then it’s basically confirmed that it possesses certain Ancestral Wood traits, meaning that it creates labyrinths, and within the labyrinth’s boundaries, the minds of the individuals sheltered by the Ancestral Wood are connected.”
Crap?
Heine froze at that.
Artificial lane fighting plus shared network, what kind of extreme defense configuration was this?
How did the players fight their way into such a fierce Blight Mark?
At this moment, Tiny Sa and Dylan’s Raven, who were on guard outside, flew in together and each landed on their master’s shoulders.
“There’s someone from the Emerald Leaf Court.”
(End of chapter)