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Urged on by Erina, Barbie stopped in her tracks. Scratching her body, she said, "Erina, I, I feel strange. My, my legs feel like they can't lift."

The others frowned deeply, suspecting that the kid had cursed Barbie.

Faintly, Erina noticed something was wrong with Barbie's legs. She reached out with a puzzled expression and lifted Barbie's robe, discovering that her legs were rooted to the ground like trees.

"Erina, I... Fire, quickly burn me... Uh... Uh... Uh... Uh..."

Suddenly, Barbie opened her mouth wide, and several branches extended from it, blocking her mouth. In an instant, branches sprouted from her orifices, the top of her head, and her limbs.

Everyone was shocked, watching Barbie slowly sprout and turn into a large tree.

"Burn... burn me!" Seeing that her companions were ignoring her, Barbie used her last bit of consciousness to frantically set herself ablaze.

With a whooshing sound, Barbie was engulfed in flames as if doused in gasoline, burning like a torch. The fire crackled on her body, and soon, the fiercely burning Barbie-tree turned into charcoal.

With a series of strange creaking sounds, the charred Barbie-tree uprooted itself and slowly walked to a good spot in the forest, re-rooting and growing.

Looking at the strange appearance of the Barbie-tree, Erina and the others were completely numb.

"How... how could this happen? How could this happen..." Erina took a few steps back in terror, suddenly realizing that her boots were stuck to the ground.

She looked down and found that tiny roots had grown beneath her feet.

Looking up again, she saw that branches had already sprouted from the ears of several low-level apprentices.

The group frantically took various magic potions to suppress the curse, but they had no effect.

"What is this curse? What is this curse?!" Celi cried out in terror, "Why isn't my arcane item reacting?!"

A lazy voice came from a distance: "I told you, fire, fire. You can't even learn that, you idiots."

Celi looked angrily in that direction: "You bastard, don't think you can fool me! See if your curse still works after I kill you!"

She transformed into a shadow and chased after him.

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong here!"

Erina looked at the surrounding trees and said, "These trees... these trees, could they all have been people originally?!"

"Burn! Burn! Burn!"

One of the apprentices who had turned into a half-tree went mad and started setting fires everywhere, igniting several nearby companions.

Everyone's faces were extremely unsightly, and they hurriedly tried to put out the fire.

But the half-tree apprentice was extremely flammable. After setting himself on fire, he quickly turned into a torch that couldn't be extinguished. Soon, only a pair of feet remained, and these feet turned into roots at a visible rate.

At this moment, Erina suddenly discovered that the branches on her body stopped growing in areas that had been baked by the high temperature.

Her eyes slowly lit up. She threw out a chain and bound a subordinate whose tree transformation was very advanced.

"I'll have to sacrifice you a little."

After transforming into a shadow, Celi's body was still growing branches. Anxiously, she urged her magic power to frantically chase after the direction Roland was running.

Her speed was extremely fast. Before long, she saw the back of the kid between the distant trees.

"Nowhere to run!"

Celi released a group of evil spirits to entangle him.

The kid glanced back at her and disappeared on the spot.

Celi manipulated her puppet to follow closely. A wooden doll inexplicably appeared on Celi's path, standing there silently and motionless.

"Get out of the way!"

Celi cast a spell, and the puppet seemed unusually fragile, being shattered by Celi's move. But the next second, the puppet reappeared in front of Celi.

She vaguely felt that something was wrong. She casually cast another spell. The puppet was instantly shattered.

This time, she looked back at the puppet's shattered corpse, feeling that it vaguely resembled that thing in the rumors.

Just then, that ballet doll inexplicably appeared in front of Celi again.

She stopped in shock, looking at the two broken puppets not far away, and then at the puppet in front of her, her expression becoming extremely interesting.

"A... a Ballet Ghoul? How could it be so coincidental? No, if it's a Ballet Ghoul, why would my spell still work after flying past?!"

Celi was suspicious and uncertain. Not daring to take her eyes off it, she carefully took out a magic eye and released it.

As soon as the magic eye came out, it stared at the puppet, slowly drifting to its vicinity.

Out of caution, Celi summoned back the evil spirits and had one touch it.

With a snap, the evil spirit turned into a wooden sculpture and fell to the ground.

Celi was overjoyed: "I've searched high and low for it, and it came without any effort!"

The Ballet Ghoul was a legacy of the old Black Abyss Academy. The Nightshade Family was very interested in it. If she could capture a Ballet Ghoul and hand it over to the family, it would be a great achievement.

She carefully drove four evil spirits to surround the puppet, and then the evil spirits pounced on it at the same time.

Immediately, the puppet had four evil spirits hugging it.

"Hahaha! Hahahahaha!"

Black Abyss wizards had indeed used this method to capture Ballet Ghouls.

After the magic eye stared at the Ballet Ghoul, it might still dance, but it would no longer teleport.

At this time, as long as some apprentices or ghosts were sacrificed to hug it and become wooden sculptures, then those wooden sculptures holding the Ballet Ghoul could be moved, and thus the Ballet Ghoul itself could be moved.

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Laughing wildly, Celi felt someone touch her back, and then saw her body gradually turning into a wooden sculpture.

"How could it be, how is it possible! There's clearly a magic eye, and how could it appear behind me..."

Celi's voice stopped abruptly, completely turning into a wooden sculpture.

A moment later, a young wizard with lizard skin bound all over his body came to the vicinity of the wooden sculpture.

Roland stroked his chin and observed the wooden sculpture.

"Hmm, after turning into a wooden doll, it seems that 'treeification' can also be stopped."

At this moment, Roland suddenly saw a ballet puppet pass through his body.

— Thirst

Roland took the Soul Tear from Celi's bag and placed it on the Book of the Demon. Then the liquid in the vial gradually dried up.

— Comfort

"You can rest for a while now."

Roland sent Leona the Great Immortal back into the book.

Afterwards, he stripped Celi naked and burned her wooden sculpture to ashes.

Hanging Celi's storage bag around his waist, Roland drew a tracking array on the ground, and then took out a few scraps of cloth.

Inside the scraps of cloth were some hair, a handkerchief for wiping snot, and so on.

"Erina, as a black wizard, you casually throw things around... You all don't take me seriously at all." Roland somewhat disgustedly placed the handkerchief containing the witch's body fluid on the tracking array.

These past two days, Barbie had been staring at Roland. But when Roland repaired the camp's barrier, she didn't follow.

When Erina and the others followed Roland to repair the camp, they threw a lot of messy things near the cabin.

Roland collected them all.

Most of them were Erina's things, because her hair and handkerchief were easy to identify, and since she was the leader, finding her would basically mean finding everyone.

Roland wasn't worried at all about whether those people could successfully water the fire.

Because he was the first to complete watering the fire.

After coming out of the Shepherd of Trees, the Red Skulls only had two choices: either chase Roland and turn into trees one by one, or water the fire in place, and then be slowly played to death by Roland nearby using 'Mouth Sealing Technique' and other tricks.

Now, Celi and Barbie are both dead. Only one of the three intermediate apprentices is left, and it's time to finish things up.

Soon, he located Erina's position.

A deep chill appeared in Roland's eyes.

The wizard's hat on the magic array flew up, and Roland followed behind at top speed.