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Bryce explained the story about 'Abyss' and 'Shadow' to Crossel in great detail.

Xidi had heard all of this before, and he was too lazy to listen to it a second time. He grabbed a vine hanging from the tree of life and climbed onto a branch.

The main body of the tree of life is very large, and the branches near the main trunk are very strong, and a few more people standing on it have no effect at all. Sidi stepped on it, and it didn't even cause the branches to tremble.

Instead, he touched a few leaves on the top of his head, and the leaves had become dry and curled. When he touched them, they swirled and fell down, landing beside the two people under the tree.

The boy put his hands behind his back, bent slightly, walked unsteadily on the branch, and came to the elf youth sitting on the branch.

Not all elves have blond hair. This one's hair is light green. It hangs long behind her back, and the ends of her hair are a little messy. It may have been hung here for too long and blown by the wind.

The young man closed his eyes serenely, without any expression on his face, his knees were covered by a transparent carapace, and it was impossible to tell whether he was in pain or not.

Xidi reached out and poked the elf's shoulder, but found nothing, then tilted her head and looked behind him.

The elf was sitting near the end of a branch. When it got here, the branch had become very thin. It was already difficult for a person to stand directly on it. Xidi moved around without any scruples, and refused to grab something to stabilize herself. It made him even more wobbly and dangerous.

It's quite high here, even if it's Xidi, it may not be able to land normally if it falls.

But Sheedy didn't care about that, he had already seen something that attracted his attention more.

It turned out that the reason why the elf could sit so securely was that his back was covered with dense roots protruding from the tree trunk.

These roots were brown, and grew from a point on the branch, and then quickly forked, and crawled in along the elf's clothes. Judging from the elf's exposed neck and wrists, they should all be wrapped around him. fixed him in place.

Sidi: "Um..."

He rubbed his chin and tried to break one of the daggers Bryce had given him.

This time, the root of the tree broke off quickly, and the juice that flowed out from the cut was also ordinary plant juice, and there was no other reaction.

It seems that they are the original abilities of the tree of life, and should only play a fixed role.

So why did she turn these elves into fetuses?

After all, he is not an elf, and Sidi doesn't know much about the tree of life. Even he can't guess everything right away, he can only speculate bit by bit.

He's quite interested in this.

However, Sidi was too absorbed in his thinking, and failed to notice immediately that there was another tree root silently appearing from behind him, and then wrapped around his ankle insidiously, and pulled it aside vigorously.

The branch was originally thin and narrow, and no matter who it was, it was impossible for it to stand still after being pulled like this. Xidi's body shook sharply, and immediately fell to the side.

Xidi blinked in a daze, as if she hadn't reacted.

He couldn't stand still anyway, so he didn't struggle, he just relaxed his body and let himself fall, staring at the tree crown above his head and quickly moved away.

The boy fell from the sky, and was caught in the arms of Brice, who had expected it under the tree.

Brice put him on the ground and reproachfully said, "You should be more careful."

Siddie: "...Oh."

It means that I heard it, but I don't listen to you.

Seeing him standing still, Brice then finished the last sentence with the startled Crossel: "...So, the tree of life will become like this, I am afraid it is attacked by shadows."

When Xidi was studying the elf on the tree, Bryce had already talked about the matter with Crossel in general.

As a priest, Crossel is very important to the entire elf clan, and there may be issues in the clan that need him to deal with, so he rarely leaves the forest.

He knows the existence of the abyss and what this continent relies on to exist, but the elves' understanding of the continent only stops here. As for the shadows and erosion, those things have nothing to do with the forest of life before. Never heard of it.

Originally, there was no need to understand it, but who knew that such a big thing would happen this time.

Crossel is regretting that he didn't know more about the outside world before.

Bryce: "... You must know that the purpose of shadows coming to this continent is to grab vitality. The tree of life can breed so many elves. She is one of the most vigorous... species in the world. If shadows If it really entered your forest, then its first target is the tree of life."

Crossel: "The mother tree..."

He looked up at the elf in the tree.

The three of them made such a big commotion, but these elves didn't seem to hear anything, they just lowered their heads, and their state didn't change in any way.

It is not known how long they have held this position.

Croselle's voice was a bit harsh, and it was very difficult for him to ask this question: "Didn't the mother tree abandon us?"

Brice's voice was soft: "It shouldn't be like this."

"Shadows can affect the minds of creatures parasitized by it." He said, "You may not know this, but the last town we passed was destroyed because a child's soul was affected by shadows and spread the plague. To the whole city."

They have all seen Joshua's lethality, and it has become a dead city.

Shadows can erode even the soul, and the tree of life still has an entity after all, which makes it easier for it to do what it wants to do.

Bryce sighed: "Although I don't want to say this, but - the life of an elf is also very attractive to shadows."

Shadows themselves are repelled by nature and cannot draw enough power from nature's elements, but elves can.

Elves are born from the tree of life, and their life comes from the gift of the mother tree. Their bodies contain very powerful natural energy... and the vitality that shadows like most.

It just so happened that the shadow quietly controlled the tree of life, and the elves would never resist the mother who gave them life.

I'm afraid that until the last moment when they were entangled by roots, they still didn't know what the mother tree called them to do.

Crossel was speechless.

He just hasn't been out much, and he doesn't know much about these things. Now that Brice explained it to him, he immediately guessed what happened in this open space.

The elf priest's eye circles were red: "Then, do you know how to save them?"

There was no one here, Brice had already taken off his hood, his silver-gray eyes stared at Crossel for a while, and finally sighed: "Don't worry."

How could Crossel not be in a hurry?

The problem is his mother tree. All the "nutrients" here are his people. Because of the particularity of life, the elves have a very sense of belonging to their own group, not to mention Crossel—every elf here, It can be said that he watched the birth.

He looked at the magician who had come from afar, as if he had grasped a ray of rekindled hope. This was his last hope, and he was unwilling to give up no matter what.

Maybe the results of divination are real?

These two people have the breath of the abyss, and they know the existence of shadows, so is it possible that they know how to expel the shadows and how to save their own people?

Crossel is ready to face anything.

Bryce: "Don't worry, the erosion of shadows is a rather long process, especially for thoughtful prey. It is very difficult to trap so many elves together and prevent them from struggling. It can control Your clansmen have borrowed the power of the tree of life. In contrast, the speed at which it invades the life of the elves will become very slow. We just leave to say a few words, and nothing bad will happen suddenly. "

He spoke patiently for a long time, and then said: "Besides, didn't you notice it? Your arrival revived it."

Crossel: "...what?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Sidi suddenly held the dagger and swung it vigorously from top to bottom behind him. There was a sound of being cut off very close to Crossel, and then there was a sticky liquid Over his shoulder and splashed to the ground.

Another root of the tree that controls the elves.

Xidi learned the lesson this time, and with [-]% of her strength, she finally managed to split the tree root in two. She didn't study the tree root too much, but looked down at the dagger in her hand.

He himself knew how much strength he had used for that blow, and he also knew how hard the tree root was. If it was replaced with a small sickle, it might not even cut off the bark of the tree root.However, this dagger has neither a curved blade nor a gap, it seems that it is indeed a very good thing.

Anyway, Brice said he was going to send him off, and Sidi stuffed the dagger into her arms with peace of mind and carried it close to her body.

The affinity between the tree of life and the elf priest was too high, Crossel didn't notice the approach of the tree root at all, and didn't react until now.

Crossel turned her head in a hurry: "Mother tree...?"

The mother tree that refused to respond to him before no matter what seemed to be alive, its branches and leaves were trembling, and several roots had already protruded from the soil under the feet of the several people. At first, they wanted to tie them up secretly, but now they were discovered, and the action immediately Get faster and reach out to them without hesitation.

I don't know why, they bypassed Bryce, and they all went to Crossel and Xidi.

Bryce's expression became indifferent, and he spread his five fingers forward, forming a dark red magic circle in front of the roots. As long as the hard roots touched a little, they would immediately catch fire from the tip.

The flames are quickly doused with sap, but the roots themselves are still wounded, blackened and curled.

It was the trick he used to deal with the succubus.

The tree roots seemed to be very afraid of Bryce's flames, so they retreated a little bit for a while, but they didn't shrink back, and they were still gazing towards this side.

"Let's go first." Brice looked at those tree roots with cold eyes, but his voice was as gentle as ever, and he couldn't hear any extra emotion, "Didn't you notice? Your arrival will awaken the tree of life, and at the same time... will also Awaken shadows temporarily dormant."

"Plundering energy is very tiring, and the shadow also needs to rest, so there has been no response just now."

"But you are powerful, and you are the shadow's favorite prey. If you stand there for a while, you will wake up... probably not just the tree of life and the shadow."

Maybe even the elves in that clearing will be manipulated by the roots in an attempt to keep them in place forever.