Chapter 742 – Undead in the Tree Center Space
Chapter 742 – Undead in the Tree Heart Space
It wasn’t the same as the nighttime city camouflaged by the Inverted Tree.
The Tree Heart Space was just a monotonous darkness.
As soon as Saul entered, he felt damp and oppressive.
It was as if he had been buried alive in deep underground soil.
But the gentle touch from the species of the Inverted Tree quickly eased his discomfort.
If Saul was able to completely devour the Tree Seed instead of simply carrying it on his body, then he might even enjoy this dark and quiet feeling.
Unfortunately, the Tree Seed was meant for Komoro.
After Saul adjusted to the place, he looked up and saw Bestana, who was still human with only half of her face left.
The same expressionless wizard Beth he once saw in the Dean’s office at Baidon Academy.
At this moment, Beth was still expressionless, except that she had no body other than that expressionless face.
Her body had completely turned into a tree branch, and had grown many, dense, dazzlingly tiny roots.
Some of these roots hung high and some hung straight down.
These roots and branches clustered around the head of Bestana in the center.
“Sorcerer Saul, when you came to Archaeust City, Baidong Academy had warmly entertained you and provided you with a lot of help. Now you are even repaying me like this!”
Bestana’s voice was not seen rising and falling, but her words were already filled with anger.
Sol laughed coldly, “Don’t put on airs, Sorceress Bestana. If I had been subdued by Dean Pound in the outside world, I’m afraid you would have happily used me as a sustenance for you to maintain your spirit body, right?”
Sol looked Bestana up and down and suddenly shook her head.
“Actually, I originally wanted to make a deal with you this time when I came over. But now it seems that you don’t even have the basic qualifications to make a deal.”
Sol directly threw down Bestana and flew to the side of the unconscious Shia.
At this time, Shia was holding the teeth of the white bone monster that Saul had brought back from the chaotic domain, and had already been contaminated by the radiation on it, and his spirit body was beginning to transform into an evil spirit.
Saul took the tooth from Shia’s fingertips and pressed it back into the palm of his left hand, closing off the contamination on it.
Afterwards, his right hand once again transformed into a tentacle and directly called out on Shia’s face, and with a gentle stroke of his left hand, he actually separated Shia’s head and body directly.
After the body and head were separated, Shia’s body completely alienated in a single breath, turning into a sphere with an uneven surface.
Except for the color, it was really somewhat like the moon.
However, this moon soon began to deform, its surface bumpy and undulating, and finally, a sharp thorn grew.
A good moon was actually clothed in the skin of a hedgehog.
Saul quickly discovered the characteristics of “sharpness” and “damage” on this unconscious evil spirit.
If an ordinary person or sorcerer apprentice accidentally touched this evil spirit, wounds would appear on his body that could not be healed, and he would bleed painfully until he died.
However, in front of Saul, who was already at the third level, the evil spirit that was partially transformed by Shia’s spirit body was not enough to be looked at.
Saul transferred Shia’s head to his left hand, and then the tentacles transformed into his right hand expanded in an instant and became huge, directly like an octopus stretching out all of its tentacles, and opened its mouth wide to swallow this prickly ball directly.
The sharpness and damage didn’t work half the time, it was directly absorbed by the tentacles as jelly.
After absorbing it, the spirit body and pollution were split in two within the tentacles.
The spirit body was spat out again, while the contamination was left at the tip of the tentacle, and was finally seized by Sol and isolated for preservation.
Sol reattached the clean spirit body to Shia’s neck.
It was just that the clean spirit body was like a chewed cake, and it was no longer in its original exquisite shape.
Shia’s body part of the spirit body, turned into a chaotic mass of soft mud.
Saul pinched it twice with his hand and realized that it was hard to restore it to its original state, so he decided that it would be better to wait for Shia to deal with it on his own later.
After being treated by Sol, Shia’s stagnant consciousness finally began to function. When he opened his eyes again, the first person who felt incredulous was Bestana behind Saul.
“How did you do that? Surprisingly, you completely separated the contamination from the spirit body?”
Saul dragged Shia closer to Bestana and was secretly wary of the other party’s final resistance.
“I’ve had more dealings with the dead, and I’ve seen a lot of souls. For example, I can see now that your sacrifice didn’t have the expected effect.”
The closer Sol got to Bestana, the more he could tell that the other party’s situation wasn’t normal.
Bestana blinked, her eyelashes buckling messily like dead branches.
“Yes, the very same tooth you gave to Shia.”
Bestana’s voice remained unruffled, even as she was discussing her demise.
“I had originally thought that I hadn’t come into contact with the contamination on that tooth, and was laughing at Shia for being too presumptuous with his same demise. I can’t imagine that the one who was truly foolish was actually myself.”
“Since the moment that tooth was exposed, it began to covertly emit a contamination that I couldn’t detect and couldn’t resist!”
Her face rose slightly as if to look at the sky, but there was only darkness above her head, and roots that shook from her movements.
“I’ve sacrificed the entire city, but with every spirit I absorb, the contamination in me increases. I can already feel its contamination all over my roots and branches, and the overflowing spirit power only makes me feel incredibly weak, as if I’ve lost all my strength.”
Thor freed a hand and rested it on his chin, “Are you not stalling for time by going into such detail?”
Bestana’s eyes snapped round, looking at Sol incredulously.
“No need to praise me.” Saul waved his hand.
“Heh heh heh ……” Bestana, who hadn’t had any mood swings all along, suddenly began to laugh, “Even if you found out, what can you do? I’ve already closed the space in the heart of the tree, even if you’re a third rank, you can’t open the cage that I’ve formed with my life! Since I can’t be resurrected, then you guys can just die here with me as well!”
The tree heart space suddenly brightened, as if it had switched from night to day in an instant.
In Sol’s surroundings, as far as the eye could see, it was surprisingly full of uncountable, unending tree branches and roots.
Without knowing when, they had spread throughout the entire Tree Center Space, forming a cage that could not be seen at all.
“The tree heart space can only be entered by spirit bodies, your body is still outside. Even if you are strong, a body that has lost its soul can be worn down a little bit by the Inverted Tree. After that, you will be trapped here forever, dissipating little by little after I die!”
Bestana seemed to have given up on resurrection, and her entire body’s strength was put into trapping Sol in the spatial confinement of the heart of the tree.
Sol tried to sense his body, but the densely packed branches and roots made the entire space seem as if it had been detached from the world.
Saul’s face was not seen to be panicked, and after thinking for a moment, he surprisingly brought Shaya to continue approaching Beth.
The distance between the two drew a little closer, ten meters, five meters …… one meter.
In the end, Saul could touch Beth’s face as long as he raised his hand.
The only remaining piece of face skin.
“There’s actually a way I can survive this.” Saul literally raised his hand, his fingertips about to touch the other woman’s nose.
“That would be to take your place, become the core of the Inverted Tree, establish a link with it, and turn it into my locator. The equivalent of becoming another you.”
A flicker of panic flashed across Bestana’s face.
Before she could retort anything, however, she saw Sol suddenly look down and stifle a smile.
“Heh, heh, heh, hahaha ……”
“What are you laughing at?”
“I laughed …… you acting skills can be really bad!” Saul collected his smile for an instant, “In fact, your real purpose of closing the space in the heart of the tree is to let me take the initiative to replace you as the core of the Inverted Tree, right?”
Bestana was stunned and opened her mouth, surprisingly not knowing what to say.
Sol cocked his head, “Whether you want me to suffer what you suffered all over again as well, or you simply hope that I can keep the Inverted Tree alive in your place after you die from the contamination …… Oh, your eyes tell me it’s the latter… …”
“If that’s the case, that’s even better.” The fingertips of Sol’s right hand suddenly turned into gray translucent tentacles, “I’ll give you a second way. Let’s make a deal, shall we?”
(End of chapter)