Half Elf Ranger

Chapter 160 The Guardian of the Plantation Garden

Inside the tower.

Anderina sat cross-legged with the elf girl, while Thorne stood guard in front of them with a long sword in his hand, staring solemnly at the undead creature elf girl who had been transformed into a physical banshee.

The demon-slaying long sword held tightly in his hand trembled slightly. As long as the banshee in front of him moved slightly, the scorching dark red blade would be under his control and kill her instantly.

In the dim rotunda, along with the sorceress Anderina's incomprehensible hums, within the range where she and the elf girl sat cross-legged, a faintly visible rune circle suddenly appeared.

"Crack!"

Under the guidance of the staff in Anderina's hand, a dozen or so energy spars of strange shapes appeared on the ground, and cracks appeared at the same time, making faint, undetectable noises.

Streams of substantial energy were slowly poured into the rune circle, and the faint light of the circle gradually became clearer, covering the two of them quickly.

At this moment, a golden glow suddenly appeared in Anderina's eyes, as if invisible magic power condensed on the top of her staff.

She stretched out her staff and gently touched the elf girl's forehead. The condensed magic energy flickered and turned into a special secret mark, which sank into the elf girl's forehead at a very fast speed until it disappeared.

At the same time, the elf girl's sickly pretty face was immediately filled with pain, and then she put her head in her hands, as if she was trying her best to endure the damage caused by the mark sinking into her body.

After bursts of suppressed low wailing lasted for a while, a faint gray energy erupted from the elf girl's body and submerged into Anderina's body.

One after another spiritual light spreads...

As the rune circle looming on the ground disappeared, the suppressed wailing of the elf girl gradually disappeared, and her blood-red eyes slowly subsided.

"Did it succeed?" Noticing that the ceremony was over, Thorne helped the sorceress sitting cross-legged on the ground and asked.

"Success." Anderina's face was as pale as paper, and her slightly weak body took advantage of the opportunity to lean on Thorn's shoulder and nodded slightly to him.

Thorne looked curiously at the elf girl sitting on the ground, thought for a while, frowned and said:

"Although I don't know much about the master-servant contract, I think that in the process of establishing a contract with this banshee, the master should not suffer any harm, but you seem to have suffered backlash."

"This is not a master-servant contract." Anderina regained a bit of strength, so she moved her steps forward a few steps, and said slowly:
"What I just performed was a contract of equality. In addition to imprinting a mark that belongs to me in the depths of her soul, there is also a trace of her negative energy remaining in my body.

Banshees are undead creatures, they don't need to rest, breathe, or eat, but they need to absorb negative energy to maintain normal operation. Because of this, their bodies are always full of negative energy, evil thoughts, and undead breath. The main cause of various sources of evil.

The body of this elf girl is like a source of negative energy radiation, as long as she appears, the surrounding will become barren, until it becomes a piece of wasteland. "

After Anderina finished speaking, she glanced at the weak elf girl, then turned to Thorne and said, "When I signed an equal contract with her just now, there was a link in which I needed to keep a breath of the other party in my body.

And I belong to a living body, the ray of negative energy just now is almost close to a "touch of corruption" spell, so it is naturally difficult to bear.

From this, it can be judged that she has grown to an extraordinary level after wandering ignorantly and ignorantly in this tower for nearly a hundred years. With a little training and correct guidance in the future, her potential may still grow into a A true banshee queen. "

"Since her growth potential is so high, why didn't you sign a master-servant contract with her, but chose an equal contract with a high degree of freedom, you are not afraid of growing up and making it difficult to control."

Seeing that the danger had been lifted, Thorne put the long sword back into the scabbard, and looked at Anderina with doubtful eyes.

When he searched for the belongings on the corpses in the hall, he found that all the magic equipment left by the wizards were damaged by the same method, which made him have to suspect that the source of all this was the elf girl who transformed into a physical banshee .

After all, the physical banshee itself is an accidental product of various coincidences, but all such accidents occur in places of death with strong negative energy.

Obviously, this kind of environment does not exist in the tower.

Then, another method is that some powerful wizards use evil transformation rituals to cast "evoke undead" spells, retain their souls in the main material plane, and then consume a huge amount of elemental energy to recast their bodies.

Because of this, he suspected that the elf banshee in front of him was a premeditated derivative. Although the other party had lost all memory and turned into an innocent girl, he still couldn't let people relax their vigilance and guard against unknown accidents. The situation occurs.

Moreover, the banshee itself is a kind of undead creature. No matter how innocent she is, the evil hidden in her heart will be awakened one day. That's why he persuaded Anderina to sign a master-servant contract with the banshee.

What surprised him was that this stubborn female sorceress did not follow his advice completely, but chose a relatively free and equal contract, which made him a little puzzled.

"The master-servant contract itself is a very unfair contract for the servant. It would be fine if the servant was willing, but this elf girl obviously lacks common sense. Signing a master-servant contract with her is not the same as It’s about defrauding the other party’s pure trust in us.”

Andelina shook her head slightly and explained to Thorne:

"Of course, this is just one point. The real reason is that she is an evil undead creature. For the sake of easy control, if she is tricked into signing a master-servant contract with her, she becomes the master who controls life and death.

In doing so, we will not only restrict the rapid growth of strength, but when she understands the cause and effect of the incident with the improvement of strength, the evil will in her heart will slowly breed hatred and resentment, until one day she will successfully attack her master.

The reason why I signed an equal contract with her now is mainly because of her innocent character and strong potential. I believe that under my correct guidance and ideological indoctrination, her evil nature will be gradually replaced. "

Thorne probably understood what Anderina meant, and he just wanted to use the innocence of the banshee to guide her correctly, but he didn't think this method really worked, so he pondered for a while, and organized his words to persuade her road:

"After all, she is an undead creature, and the source of her power is the breath of negative energy. Due to her accidental birth, she lost all her memories, and was trapped in a high tower for nearly a hundred years, resulting in no contact with living things, so she maintained her innocence. character.

Now, she has been discovered by us, and she will gradually come into contact with the evil of human nature. Under the guidance of these evil ideas, it will also stimulate the evil will hidden deep in the heart. When the time comes, the first person to suffer is yourself. So you are playing with fire. "

"Don't worry, this kind of situation will not happen. One of the equal contracts between the two of us is that we can't hurt each other, so even if that kind of thing happens, it won't affect me much, and I believe that as long as we don't let This kind of thing can't happen if she leaves the range of the tower."

Andrina smiled at Thorne, and gave him a reassuring look.

"I hope so." Seeing the confident smile of the sorceress, Thorne shrugged helplessly.

Then, he noticed the banshee sitting paralyzed on the ground due to the contract. After thinking for a while, he took out a black spar the size of a fingernail from the dimensional bag, threw it to Anderina and said:
"This is a soul spar that I got when I just killed the banshee. This spar is a great tonic for the banshee. I think her physical condition is very unstable. Give it to her, it will help The body recovers quickly."

When the elf girl sitting on the ground saw the soul spar in Anderina's hand, her pale red eyes lit up, like a child seeing her favorite candy.

……

Thorne and Anderina didn't linger too much on the second floor of the tower. After Anderina told the banshee elf girl to wait for them in place, the two immediately went to the upper floor of the tower.

The third floor of the tower belongs to the public laboratory area of ​​wizards. Although it is not as messy as the second floor, it is still hard to escape the erosion of time as time goes by.

In the third floor of the tower, apart from the mysterious runes and thick dust on the walls, as well as the pungent, moldy, cold, metal and other smells in the air, the rest are some wizards studying experimental equipment.

Well-preserved beakers, broken balances, decayed blueprints, unknown useless herbs, scattered teeth and fangs, and other weird and weird things were randomly placed on the tables and counters.

The two searched, but except for some intact daily necessities, none of the other precious things were found.

Seeing that there were no unexpected gains, after leaving a series of footprints in the thick dust, he walked from the spiral staircase to the upper floor of the tower.

The fourth floor of the tower.

When they walked out of the stair passage, a completely new beauty came into their eyes.

In this bright hall, there is a basketball-sized magical lighting inlaid in the center of the ceiling, emitting a warm light like the sun, dispelling all the darkness.

The freshness of the soil and the fresh greenness of the plants filled the entire hall.

"This is the planting area for wizards." After getting used to the bright light, Thorne looked at the lush green vegetation and various grass flowers around him, then glanced at the crystal ball on the ceiling and said casually:
"That basketball-sized crystal ball should be a normal temperature environment simulated by using the energy of sunlight."

"Do you see those three bushes look like tigers, wild boars and elephants?"

Anderina's attention was attracted by the neatly pruned animal-shaped bushes not far away. Looking at the vivid bushes, a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she said to Thorne.

"It is indeed very similar, but it is too real. It looks vivid, especially the two tusks made of dead wood of the elephant and wild boar. Obviously, the gardeners who used to manage this place are not only very careful, but also have good cutting skills. very good."

Thorne turned his gaze away and said to the sorceress.

"However, I always feel that something is wrong." After Thorn finished speaking, a look of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"After a hundred years have passed, this place can still maintain its natural appearance. I have to sigh at the power and versatility of the wizard profession." Anderina couldn't help but sigh.

Hundred years?

Maintain the original appearance?

Hearing the two words of Andelina's exclamation, a flash of inspiration flashed in Thorne's mind, and he finally knew something was wrong, so he reminded her: "Be careful, there may be unknown dangers here."

"What danger?" Anderina couldn't help but wonder.

"Didn't you see it?" Thorne pointed to a few shrubs that had been pruned into animal shapes and said, "It's been a hundred years, why those animal-shaped shrubs seem to have never grown."

"What's so strange about this? The wizard has a spell that can suppress the growth of plants after they are cast on them, and keep them as they are." Anderina didn't really care, feeling that the other party was making too much fuss.

"Really?" Thorne shook his head slightly: "Then can you feel the breath of magic? And it's impossible for a spell to last for such a long time, right?"

"That's true, I'll give it a try." Andrina stared blankly, then walked towards the animal-shaped bushes.

"careful!"

When Anderina just stepped onto the ground covered with green grass, Thorne suddenly noticed the abnormality of the three bush-shaped animals he had been staring at, so he immediately pulled her back.

"The moment you stepped into the grass, I noticed their subtle movements. I suspect that these three shrubs are the guards of the plantation." Noticing the suspicious gaze of the other party, Thorne said in a deep voice.

The guard of the plantation?
Anderina repeated it in her heart, as if she had thought of some key clue, she immediately took out a book introducing Constructed Creatures and began to look it up.

After a while.

She put away the books, took another unexpected look at the distant shrubs, and said suddenly: "I know what they belong to."

Noticing Thorne's gaze, Andrina went on to say: "They are plant guards shaped into animal shapes, not living plants that can move at will, but similar to clay golems, It belongs to the branch of Constructed Creatures."

Construct creature?

A trace of surprise flashed in Thorne's eyes. He didn't expect there to be plant-type constructs. The world is indeed so big and full of wonders. This made him sigh inwardly. Wizards are a group of omnipotent spellcasters.

Thorne then looked at the sorceress beside him, waiting for her next introduction.

"Their power comes from the soul that magic is connected to the elemental plane, and its defense function is just like a decoration. These constructed creatures are mixed in the ordinary vegetation, and only when intruders break in, they will activate the defense system.

However, since their crafting materials consist primarily of tiny twigs and leaves, these plant-like constructs are not as defensive and powerful as clay golems and other golems.

But correspondingly, their speed and sensitivity have been improved a lot, which should not be a big problem for you, the only thing you need to pay attention to is that they are filled with natural spells by wizards, so that they have the ability to cast spells. "

　Thanks to the boss: Walking should be moderate, I can't get my tip anymore, thank you for your support! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)