Chapter 203: Meeting the God Again, Information Gap
Generally speaking, plants mostly symbolize vitality and are not associated with death.
However, in the wizarding world, this is not a rule of thumb.
There is a group of wizards who specialize in studying the combination of plants and death, and in the process create a group of strange creatures.
For example, the Demon Palace Rose.
For example, the plague vine ball.
This wizard force is called the [Deadwood Council].
The [Deadwood Council] is a wizard force that leans towards the evil camp. Its members are all wizards (apprentices) who specialize in the fields of plants and death. They act in a dark and extreme way, and their reputation in the multiverse is not much different from that of the [Dark Throne].
However, the overall strength of the [Deadwood Council] is much inferior to that of the [Dark Throne], and can barely be ranked as a second-rate wizard force.
The Dark Demonic Tree is an alchemical creature unique to the [Deadwood Council].
The wizards of the Deadwood Council will plant a dark magic tree in each invaded plane, which will serve as a base and also as a plane anchor.
The Dark Demonic Tree has powerful combat capabilities and many auxiliary functions. It can be said that the Dark Demonic Tree has played a significant role in the [Deadwood Council] being able to enter the second-tier ranks.
As early as when he encountered the undead plants such as the Demon Palace Rose and the Plague Vine Ball, Sunan had vaguely guessed that the Black Forest might be a legacy left by the [Deadwood Council]. Now that he saw the Dark Demon Tree, he directly confirmed this.
"No wonder the environment here is so gloomy, it turns out that the Deadwood Council is behind it."
Su Nan muttered inwardly, looking up and down at the huge dark tree in front of him.
The branches and leaves of the Dark Demonic Tree suddenly trembled, followed by a low and hoarse voice, as if that of an elderly man.
"Lucky wizard, congratulations on passing the test of the Black Forest."
The sound seemed to come from all directions, and it seemed to come from within the dark magic tree in front of it.
"As a reward, you will receive the Thousand Trees Essence."
A long black branch stretched out from the dense tree canopy and extended all the way in front of Su Nan. Embedded in the top of the branch was a piece of wood that looked like it had been picked out from the trunk and had a surface full of wood texture.
The entire piece of wood was only the size of an egg, but Su Nan could clearly feel the powerful energy contained within it.
There was a gleam in his eyes.
Thousand Trees Essence is a crystal formed by condensing the essence of a magical tree species that has grown for more than a thousand years after its death. It contains huge and gentle energy that can be absorbed without refining and purification. It can greatly increase the concentration of the mind and is very popular among first-level wizards.
Just this small piece of Thousand Trees Essence can at least increase his mental concentration by 10%.
Since the formation conditions are very harsh, not only does it require a magical tree species, but it also has to grow for more than a thousand years, so the Thousand Tree Spirit is quite rare.
Even the [Dead Tree Council], which specializes in the field of plants, can only produce no more than a dozen Thousand Tree Essences each year.
Sunan really didn't expect that the [Dead Tree Council] would leave thousands of tree spirits in the Black Forest as a reward for those who passed the test.
And since it is a reward, does it mean that there is more than one Thousand Trees Essence? Such a generous reward is not like the style of the dark camp.
Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly, and he calmly took the Thousand Trees Essence and pretended to put it into the space ring, but in fact he put the Thousand Trees Essence into the Rubik's Cube.
When he saw the words displayed on the Rubik's Cube, a glimmer of understanding flashed across his eyes and he sneered secretly.
Sure enough, it was just as he guessed.
"Okay, wizard, you can leave now." The dark magic tree's low voice sounded again, "The Black Forest is about to close. It will be twenty years before it appears again. I hope to see you then."
"I'm afraid you don't want that." Su Nan said meaningfully.
".What do you mean by that?"
"Literally."
The moment the words fell, Sunan swung his hand violently, and two gems engraved with thunder and lightning flew out of his hand. They turned into dazzling and violent thunder in mid-air and struck the dark magic tree with a slam.
At the same time, a small and exquisite spear head also fell into Sunan's palm. As he closed his five fingers, a deep light instantly burst out from between his fingers and quickly turned into a pitch-black spear.
Swish! The spear flew out of his hand, turning into a stream of black light that pierced through the void like lightning and shot towards the dark demon tree.
Hualala! A large amount of liquid metal rushed out from Sunan's body, condensing into silver cones shining with cold light in the void, densely packed almost covering the sky, and then swept out like a storm.
At this moment, Sunan almost used all his strength, and used his three strongest trump cards at the same time, attacking the Dark Demon Tree in unison.
The Dark Demonic Tree never expected that Su Nan would suddenly attack. It was caught off guard and had no time to make much defense. It could only control the roots and branches to drill out from the ground and the crown of the tree, and quickly interweave in front of it to form a thick vine net.
But the next moment, the vine net was torn into pieces by the incoming thunder, turning into ashes and dissipating in the air!
Immediately afterwards, a stream of black light penetrated its trunk! As the violent black thunder burst out, a shocking hole instantly appeared in the center of the huge trunk of the Dark Demon Tree!
Through the pit, you can even see the charred wood with a little smoke coming out of it, as well as the scenery behind the tree.
Before it could catch its breath, the silver metal storm swept over again, accompanied by a continuous hissing sound, tearing one gap after another on the tree! After a series of fierce moves, the Dark Demon Tree was already covered with wounds and let out a shrill howl.
Wow! A violet demonic fire suddenly ignited from the center of the tree, quickly spreading to the entire trunk and crown. When the silver spike touched the flames, it was instantly vaporized.
"wizard!"
The dark demon tree finally had enough energy to utter an angry question. Countless black branches emerged from its crown, pointing at Su Nan like poisonous snakes.
"Why did you attack me?"
"Do you still have to pretend now?"
Sunan sneered, his eyes sweeping across the purple demonic fire on the dark demon tree.
silence!
After a long while, the Dark Demonic Tree slowly spoke, but this time the voice was no longer low and hoarse, but a pleasant and mature female voice.
"How did you find out?"
The voice was strangely familiar.
Even though he had only heard it once, Sunan was still impressed.
It was the same female voice that appeared in his ears three years ago after he killed the Half-Spider God.
The voice of the Spider Queen, the protector of the dark elves!
"Guess." Su Nan said calmly.
According to the display of the Rubik's Cube, the piece of Thousand Trees Essence was indeed the real thing, but it had a little bit of added stuff inside - a kind of terrible spider venom!
Once he absorbed the essence of a thousand trees without any precautions, the spider poison would naturally enter his body, corroding and corrupting his flesh and soul.
Su Nan could figure out who did it with just his toes.
This is not the first time such tactics have been used.
After hearing what Sunan said, the Spider Queen was not angry, but seemed to be thinking about something.
"It was my mistake."
"When I saw that you were not poisoned by the soul poison I left behind, I should have guessed that you had the ability to detect poisons. I should have used a more covert method."
Su Nan's face remained calm, but he sneered in his heart.
With the Rubik's Cube here, no matter how many methods the Spider Queen uses, it will be in vain.
To put it another way, even without the Rubik's Cube, he would not have been fooled by the Spider Queen.
He originally suspected that the Spider Queen might interfere in the Black Forest, and now seeing that the [Dead Tree Council] unreasonably retained the Thousand Trees Essence, he had long had doubts in his heart and would never rashly absorb the Thousand Trees Essence.
The Spider Queen was defeated because she didn't know that she knew the [Deadwood Council] very well.
The gap in information meant that the Spider Queen's conspiracy was doomed to fail.
"You seem to have a lot of secrets."
The Spider Queen's tone held a hint of interest.
"I'm surprised that there are still wizards like you in the Starlight Continent today."
"I'm beginning to be interested in you."
"But I'm not interested in you." Su Nan's face was indifferent. "Gods should stay in their own kingdoms. Isn't a place as big as the Deep Pit Demon Network enough to satisfy you? Whether in the past, now or in the future, the Starlight Continent is not a place you can interfere with."
"You seem to know me very well?" The Spider Queen paused for a moment, "I am becoming more and more curious about your origins."
"You can go back and think about it slowly."
The Spider Queen chuckled, a hint of seduction in her voice.
"Young wizard, I lost this time. As a reward for your victory over me, this tree trunk will be left to you."
"I am looking forward to the day when I can meet you again in the future. I hope you can bring me some more surprises then."
As the Spider Queen spoke, the purple flames on the Dark Demon Tree gradually weakened.
When the last word was uttered, the last trace of flame was extinguished.
The breath of the gods completely disappeared from the huge tree body.
After realizing that he had been completely defeated and could not make a comeback, the cunning god decisively admitted defeat and left, putting his hopes of revenge into the future.
Sunan laughed at this.
There is a high probability that he will meet the Spider Queen again in the future, but that will definitely not be the scene that she expects.
In his memory, the wizard's ambush on the Spider Queen in the future would end in a disastrous failure, but that was without his intervention.
If he were to come along and take advantage of the situation, that might not be the case.
Maybe I can give the Spider Queen another surprise! After concentrating for a while and making sure that the Spider Queen had indeed given up and left, Sunan came to the Dark Demon Tree.
The Dark Demon Tree has the function of a spatial anchor point, and can also be used as a spatial channel for plane travel.
The reason why the [Deadwood Council] left the Dark Demonic Tree in the Black Forest was probably because they wanted to wait until the plane barrier of the Starlight Continent was almost repaired, and then use the Dark Demonic Tree as a springboard to send people to sneak into the Starlight Continent before other wizard forces to seize the initiative.
But later, the Spider Queen discovered the Black Forest, and she took over its nest. She in turn used the Dark Magic Tree's function as a spatial anchor to open a gap and allow the divine power to penetrate in, which led to a series of events in the Magic Spider City.
In other words, as long as the Dark Demon Tree is destroyed, it is equivalent to cutting off the Spider Queen's channel to infiltrate the Starlight Continent.
Before the plane barrier is repaired, she will no longer be able to interfere in the Starlight Continent.
If Sunan had not launched a sneak attack that severely damaged the Dark Demon Tree, the Spider Queen would not have given up so easily, and there would have definitely been a fierce battle between the two.
Su Nan stroked the rough surface of the Dark Demonic Tree, sensing the rich divine energy remaining inside, and a smile appeared on his face.
This dark demon tree has long been dead.
That piece of Thousand Trees' Essence was most likely the essence condensed after its death.
The dead tree trunk had long been transformed by the Spider Queen into a tool for transferring divine power, so a large amount of divine energy remained inside it.
The Spider Queen did not really intend to leave the tree trunk to him as a reward, but she was unable to extract the divine energy inside for the time being, so she had no choice but to give up.
The so-called reward is just a statement to save face.
No matter what, this is always a good thing for Sunan.
With so much divine energy, his spiritual concentration will usher in another leap in growth.
Boom!
Suddenly there was a deafening noise in the distance.
Sunan came back to his senses from his joy, immediately soared into the sky and looked into the distance.
At the end of the sky, large areas of visible distortion filled every inch of space in the void, advancing slowly and steadily, constantly devouring everything.
Huge trees were shattered and destroyed in the twisting.
"Has the space collapsed?"
Su Nan frowned, looked at the dark magic tree, and understood after a little thought.
The core of the Black Forest is most likely the Dark Demon Tree.
Its death caused the natural collapse of the Black Forest.
It’s just that the Spider Queen had been maintaining the stability of this space before. Now that she has left, the space is naturally difficult to maintain.
Su Nan felt a little regretful.
He had originally wondered if he could take the Black Forest into his possession, but now it seems impossible.
"Whatever. The environment of the Black Forest already limits its use. If we give up, then we give up."
Shaking his head, Sunan gathered his thoughts and began to explore around, looking for the resource storage point in the Black Forest.
However, it is not known whether the resources had been taken away by the Spider Queen a long time ago, or whether the [Deadwood Council] had left no resources at all. After searching for a long time, nothing was found.
"Could it be that the Deadwood Council has no intention of training wizard apprentices and just regards this place as a pure spatial anchor point?"
Su Nan was a little disappointed, but when he thought of the essence of the thousands of trees and the tree trunks containing divine energy, he felt better.
With these two things, at least this trip was not in vain.
Seeing that the space collapse was about to spread to this side, Su Nan did not delay any longer and immediately retracted the tree trunk.
Fortunately, he had the Rubik's Cube, otherwise he would not have been able to take away such a huge tree trunk.
Sunan guessed that the Spider Queen must have thought of this as well, and leaving the tree trunk behind might be her intention to let him experience the frustration of seeing something but not being able to eat it.
It can only be said that the Spider Queen is not someone who is willing to suffer losses.
After activating the Black Key, Sunan's figure disappeared into the air.
Not long after, a large area of distorted void swept over like a tide, submerging the last bit of space.
(End of this chapter)
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