Chapter 742: The Undead in the Heart of the Tree
It is different from the night city disguised as an inverted tree.
The space at the heart of the tree is monotonous darkness.
As soon as Thor came in, he felt damp and oppressive.
It was as if he was buried alive deep in the soil.
However, the gentle touch of the Inverted Tree quickly relieved his discomfort.
If Thor could devour the tree seeds completely instead of simply carrying them around with him, he might even come to like the dark and quiet feeling.
Unfortunately, the tree species is prepared for the small algae.
After Thor adjusted to the place, he looked up and saw Bestana, with only half of her face still human.
That was the expressionless wizard Beth whom he had seen in the dean's office of Baidong College.
Beth still had no expression on her face at this moment, but apart from that expressionless face, she had no other body.
Her body has completely turned into branches, and has grown numerous, densely packed, dazzlingly tiny roots.
Some of these roots hang high, while others hang straight down.
These roots and branches surround Bestana's head in the center.
"Wizard Thor, when you first came to Archaeoster City, Baidong College welcomed you warmly and provided you with a lot of help. Now you repay me like this!"
Bestana's voice was flat, but her words were full of anger.
Thor sneered, "Don't pretend, Wizard Bestana. If I were subdued by Dean Pound in the outside world, you would probably be happy to use me as nourishment to maintain your spiritual body, right?"
Thor looked Bestana up and down, then suddenly shook his head.
"Actually, I came here to make a deal with you. But now it seems that you don't even have the basic qualifications to make a deal."
Thor simply left Bestana behind and flew to the unconscious Char.
At this time, Char was holding the tooth of the bone monster that Thor brought back from the Chaos Realm. It had been contaminated by the radiation and its spirit began to transform into an evil spirit.
Thor took the tooth from Char's fingertips and pressed it back into the palm of his left hand, sealing the pollution on it.
Then, his right hand turned into a tentacle again and hit Char's face directly. With a light stroke of his left hand, he actually separated Char's head and body.
After his head and body were separated, Char's body completely changed in a breath and turned into a sphere with an uneven surface.
Apart from the color, it really looks a bit like the moon.
But the moon soon began to deform, its surface became bumpy, and finally it even grew sharp thorns.
The beautiful moon was actually covered with the skin of a hedgehog.
Thor soon discovered characteristics such as "sharp" and "harmful" in this group of unconscious evil spirits.
If an ordinary person or wizard apprentice accidentally touches this evil spirit, they will suffer from unhealable wounds and bleed in pain until death.
However, in front of Thor, who has already reached the third level, the evil spirits that have been partially transformed by Char are not enough.
Thor transferred Char's head to his left hand, and then the tentacle of his right hand expanded in an instant, becoming huge, just like an octopus stretching out all its tentacles and opening its mouth wide to swallow the thorn ball directly.
The sharpness and damage had no effect at all, and the tentacles directly absorbed it like jelly.
After sucking it in, the spirit and pollution are split into two within the tentacles.
The spirit was spit out again, and the pollution was left at the tip of the tentacle, and was finally pulled off by Thor and isolated for preservation.
Thor attached the clean spirit back to Char's neck.
But the clean spirit is like a chewed cake and no longer has its original exquisite appearance.
The spiritual part of Char's body turned into a ball of chaotic slime.
Thor pinched it twice with his hands and found it difficult to restore it to its original state, so he decided to wait for Char to handle it himself later.
After receiving treatment from Thor, Char's stagnant consciousness finally began to function.
When he opened his eyes again, the first person who felt incredible was Bestana behind Thor.
"How did you do it? You managed to completely separate the pollution from the spirit?"
Thor dragged Char closer to Bestana and secretly watched out for the other party's final resistance.
"I have dealt with the dead quite a lot, and have seen many souls. For example, I can see right now that your sacrifice did not achieve the desired effect."
The closer Thor got to Bestana, the more he could see that something was not normal about her.
Bestana blinked, and her eyelashes curled up like dead branches.
"Yes, it is the tooth you gave to Char."
Bestana's voice remained calm, even as she discussed her own demise.
"I originally thought that I had not been touched by the stain on that tooth, and I was laughing at Char's rash decision to die together. I never expected that I was the foolish one."
"Since the moment this tooth was exposed, it has been secretly emitting pollution that I cannot detect or resist!"
She raised her face slightly, as if she wanted to look at the sky, but there was only darkness above her head and roots that were shaking because of her movements.
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"I sacrificed everyone in the city, but every time I absorbed a spirit, the pollution in my body became worse. I can already feel its pollution spreading through my roots and branches. The overflowing spiritual power only makes me feel extremely weak, as if I have lost all my strength."
Thor freed one hand and held his chin. "You've gone into so much detail. Are you stalling for time?"
Bestana's eyes suddenly widened and she looked at Thor in disbelief.
"No need to praise me." Thor waved his hand.
“Hehehe…” Bestana, who had been calm all this time, suddenly started laughing. “Even if you find out, what can you do? I have already sealed off the tree core space. Even if you are level three, you can’t open the cage I made of my life! Since I can’t be resurrected, you can just die here and accompany me!”
The space in the center of the tree suddenly became brighter, as if it switched from night to day in an instant.
Around Sol, as far as the eye can see, there are countless branches and endless tree roots.
No one knew when, but they had spread throughout the entire tree core, forming a cage with no visible boundaries.
"Only spirits can enter the tree's core space, and your body is still outside. No matter how powerful you are, a body without a soul can be worn down by the inverted tree bit by bit. After that, you will be trapped here forever, and after I die, you will dissipate bit by bit!"
Bestana seemed to have given up on resurrection and put all her energy into trapping Thor in the space at the heart of the tree.
Thor tried to sense his body, but the dense branches and roots made the entire space seem isolated from the world.
There was no sign of panic on Thor's face. After thinking for a moment, he took Char and continued to approach Beth.
The distance between the two gradually narrowed, ten meters, five meters... one meter.
Finally, Thor could touch Beth's face just by raising his hand.
The only piece of face left.
"Actually, I still have a way to survive." Thor really raised his hand, his fingertips almost touching the other's nose.
"That means replacing you and becoming the core of the Inverted Tree. I can establish a connection with it and turn it into my locator. It's like becoming another you."
A trace of panic flashed across Bestana's face.
However, before she could refute anything, she saw Thor suddenly lower his head and couldn't help laughing.
"Haha, haha, hahaha..."
"why are you laughing?"
"I laughed... your acting is really bad!" Thor restrained his smile in an instant, "In fact, the real purpose of your sealing the tree's core space is to make me take your place as the core of the Inverted Tree, right?"
Bestana was stunned and opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.
Thor tilted his head. "Whether you want me to suffer the same pain you have suffered, or simply hope that after you die from the pollution, I can keep the Inverted Tree alive on your behalf... Oh, your eyes tell me it's the latter..."
"If that's the case, then it's easier to deal with." Thor's right fingertips suddenly turned into gray translucent tentacles. "I'll give you a second way. Shall we make a deal?"
(End of this chapter)
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