Chapter 186 Pureblood Nightmare? The Sleeping Soul
Sure enough, it was the soul aura of the river spirit!
Xi twitched the corners of her mouth. This trip has really been quite fruitful!
Just as the old emperor was about to pour the potion into his mouth, his palm suddenly felt empty. Despite the brilliant and bright light emanating from the magical gas lamps in the room, the old emperor found himself surrounded by a large shadow. He opened his mouth to call for help, but his vision blurred, and when it cleared again, he was utterly astonished to see himself slumped in his chair with his eyes closed.
Slowly lowering his head, the last thing the old emperor saw before losing consciousness was his own semi-transparent hands and feet.
After stuffing the human soul fragments she had casually torn out into the spatial rift, Xi put the stopper back on the potion bottle and carefully put it away.
After circling the soulless human body twice, Xi had a good idea. He cut the old emperor's finger and used the blood to draw a top-level summoning circle on the floor.
After activating the magic circle by inputting magic power, accompanied by the tremors of spatial fluctuations, chaotic and frenzied magical energy from the dimensional demon realm overflowed from the magic circle. Xi was not surprised to find that the defensive magic circle in the old emperor's palace had begun to take effect, and the loud shouts of the court mages also came over. He crossed his arms and looked at the summoning magic circle in front of him with a leisurely air.
Within the highly polluting dimensional magic, a spatial passage is slowly taking shape.
The old emperor's life force was also rapidly depleting; in the blink of an eye, the tall old man had turned into a skeleton covered with a layer of withered human skin.
To be honest, Xi didn't think this summoning circle could actually summon any demons. After all, the magic power that activated the summoning circle came from himself, and any demon with a modicum of sense wouldn't come over. But Xi didn't expect that a demon would actually come over—the aura of the pure-blooded nightmare poured out through the spatial passage, distorting the surrounding scenery until it began to turn upside down and change.
This incredibly shallow and unrestrained use of magic... is this little brat still breastfeeding? He hasn't even mastered his own innate magic yet, and he's already thinking about coming to the material plane? Xi curled her lips in disgust. It seems that after he came to the material plane, his bloodline father temporarily won the territorial war, otherwise he wouldn't have had the time and energy to make a child.
Touching her chin, Xi decided to spare the little thing's life and see if she should kill it when it grew up.
With a slap, Xi knocked back the little black pony that had just poked its head out of the spatial passage. He also "accidentally" broke off the little guy's horn, sealed the spatial passage, put away the pure-blooded nightmare horn, transformed into a huge nightmare beast, stomped the entire palace to pieces, and swaggered into the sky, defying the dense attacks of the court mages.
The next day, martial law was declared throughout the city. The Purple Flower Mercenary Group, who were out hunting magical beasts, took the opportunity to stay in the villages and towns near the royal city for a while. After the new emperor ascended the throne, the Purple Flower Mercenary Group entered the city with the main force.
With the harvest month approaching, Xi made a special trip to the magic academy to say goodbye to Wols, who had become a magic apprentice, using the excuse that the mercenary group had taken on a new escort mission.
Wols has quite good magical talent. Xi thinks he's starting to get smarter now. If he can grow up smoothly, he could become a mage. At that time, they could get intelligence from the human race through him. So Xi thought about it and left a mental imprint on the kid, just in case.
Before leaving, Creek took the elves to the manor that produced "Golden Acorn Powder".
"Is there something wrong with these oak trees?" Creek asked, arms crossed.
Under the bright moonlight, the lush forest resembled rolling green mountains, and the elves who had been brought to the human manor all stood with gloomy faces at the edge of the oak forest.
Ananka gritted her teeth: "Not the oak forest, but this land!"
The elves felt an immense sense of intimacy with the ground beneath their feet, where an entire oak forest grew. However, the mere thought of the true nature of the magical material that humans had named "Golden Acorn Powder" fueled their uncontrollable rage.
Xi turned her head and looked at the acorns hanging on the branches, gleaming with a pale golden light: "Then it seems that the actual situation is about the same as I guessed."
When Xi discovered that the "golden acorn powder" was indeed derived from golden acorns, he felt that these oak trees were most likely rooted in the corpses of the river elves. He carefully examined the soil, but there were no remains of any kind.
Aside from the unusually abundant vitality, there was nothing unusual about the oak forest. You see, the water of the Sun Spring under the Tree of Life exudes the unique aura of the undead. Thanks to Nightmare's magical talent, Xi could even discern a very faint sense of resentment and regret flowing in that aura. But this land within the human manor was clean and tidy, and the magical aura emanating from the oak trees was so peaceful that Xi felt it was a bit eerie.
“I was worried that the human mages were using forbidden magic to control the river elves,” Xi explained to Shuxin upon returning to the Land of Sin. “When we left, there were already forbidden magicians heading towards the Blazeman Empire, so I didn’t touch that oak forest.”
Shu Xin was examining the potion that Xi had snatched from the human emperor. She looked up at Xi, who was intently pondering the possible methods of a human mage. This left her with mixed feelings, unsure of what expression to make.
"The alchemical runes within the flower fairies weren't even at the level of forbidden spells. How should I put it? It's certainly possible that human mages controlled the river elves, but is it possible that these river elves buried beneath the manor's land actually voluntarily used their bodies to nourish this oak forest?"
With a soft clatter, Shu Xin placed the potion bottle on the table. She turned to look at the swaying shadows of the trees outside the window and sighed softly, "The first group of river elves to set foot on human territory all left the Garnar Plains voluntarily."
The potion bottle did indeed contain the soul of a river elf, but unlike the soul fragments Xi had brought back before, the soul in this potion bottle was remarkably intact. Soul fragments shattered beyond repair naturally lost all consciousness, but the soul sleeping peacefully in the potion bottle still retained its reason. The Tree of Life had informed Xi of this the moment she entered the Garnar Plains with the potion bottle.
The potion bottle had mottled and subtle marks on its surface. At first, Shu Xin thought they were just scratches from improper storage, but the Tree of Life told her that they were the manifestation of the rules of time in the material plane—this seemingly ordinary crystal bottle was actually a magical device that could stop the flow of time inside the bottle.
The internal space of a space stone is a naturally formed subspace independent of the material plane, so the time of items stored inside can be slowed down to a certain extent. Except for a very few space stones, most space stones can only store inanimate objects and also have certain storage limitations. As for a pure natural space stone that can store souls, it has not yet been created.
In other words, this crystal bottle was carefully crafted by human mages specifically to preserve the soul of the river elf.
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