Chapter 365 364. Colleagues who sleep and slack off at work
Countless pale pilgrims gathered together, their branches emitting pure and cold silver light. From afar, they looked like a shimmering silver ocean, presenting an eerie and holy beauty in the dim space at the bottom of the dungeon.
However, beneath this breathtaking beauty lies deadly danger.
At the edge of the silver forest, a large number of monster corpses were piled up like a mountain, among which one or two pale parasites could be seen occasionally, having lost their vitality and broken and fallen to the ground.
"It's like a natural barrier..." Salian sighed softly as he looked at the scene in front of him.
"It is indeed a barrier," Ilos explained calmly behind him, "It is a defense mechanism of the sacred tree itself, preventing any existence from approaching its center."
"They look... as if they won't be infected?" Salian noticed that the trunks of all the small trees remained silvery white, without showing the typical dark red veins after being eroded by "madness".
But Ilos slowly shook his head. He raised his hand and pointed to a small tree in the pile of corpses that had long been broken and half buried in the wreckage.
On one of its dead branches, there were those dark red lines!
"It's not that they won't be infected, but those individuals that have been contaminated will be cleared by them on their own."
"Are we going to... destroy them by force?" Salian couldn't help but ask.
"Of course not," the guard captain Echo interrupted behind him. "If we chop them all down, will my rangers have to stand guard here day and night?"
Then, under his command, the well-trained elven rangers quickly divided into several groups.
They approached quietly from different flanks, carefully purifying the poisonous fog in the air while provoking with arrows or disruptive magic.
Soon, some of the Pale Patrol were attracted by these actions, broke away from the silver group, and chased after the source of the harassment.
Gradually, the silver forest blocking their way became sparse.
However, when only a thin layer was left, no matter how the rangers intensified their provocation, the remaining small trees would decisively turn back after chasing them for a short distance, firmly guarding the last boundary and never willing to move away.
"What should we do now? Should we force our way through?" asked Salian.
Ilos looked at the last line of defense and raised his staff: "The inevitable sacrifice... is still within the acceptable range."
The captain of the guards, Eko, did not hesitate at all. He drew out the two elven scimitars on his back with a "swish". The sharp blades shone with a cold light in the dim light.
Even if the remaining Pale Pilgrimages tried their best to release poisonous mist and wave their roots to resist, how could they withstand the joint advancement of these two powerful men, Ilos and Eko?
Before long, they were transformed into charred fragments and broken wood all over the ground under the impact of sharp sword lights and powerful magic.
After clearing a path, Ilos didn't let everyone go deeper. He left a few mages to support them on the periphery, and he took only three of his most capable students with him, along with Echo, and headed towards the deepest part.
The darkness gradually faded and the surrounding environment gradually became brighter.
Finally, a pure beam of light from the sky fell directly from above his head, causing Salian, who had long been accustomed to the dim environment, to subconsciously squint his eyes.
They arrived at the very bottom center of this vast underground spiral structure.
However, in the middle of this empty muddy land, there was only a very young seedling that could not even be called a tree!
"Teacher, could that be..." Salian asked uncertainly.
And Ilos confirmed his guess: "That is the sacred tree."
Another accompanying mage couldn't help but smack his lips: "I thought... it would be very huge."
Echo laughed when he heard this: "That's what I thought when I first heard it."
Although this was the first time he had seen the sacred tree in person, as the captain of the guards, he had already seen related records in various documents.
Ilos said more: "The sacred tree is indeed enormous. What you see is only a tiny part of it."
"The rest...are they all underground?"
As Salian speculated, he subconsciously cast a space reconnaissance orb, trying to explore the shape of the sacred tree underground.
However, the scene presented in the magic ball was a chaotic spatial distortion, and all the images were disordered as if they were forcibly squeezed. This was the first time that Salian encountered such a situation!
He was just about to move to check if he was disturbed by something when Puji above him suddenly used its two short mycelium legs to kick his head lightly.
Salian, who had gradually gained experience in "sitting", immediately understood that this was Puji warning him to stop.
Almost at the same time, Ilos behind him also reached out and pressed his shoulder.
"Everyone, stay where you are. Do not move." Ilos' voice was unusually serious. "The spatial structure here is not as simple as it appears to the naked eye."
Salian looked at the reconnaissance ball in his hand, which seemed to be deformed by an invisible force, and suddenly realized what was going on. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, and he dared not act rashly again.
At the same time, he was once again amazed at Xiaoji's ability. In addition to magical perception, this Puji seemed to have the ability to perceive space?
After returning, he must take this little guy for a comprehensive examination to see how many unexpected abilities it has!
Lin Jun had no time to care about what was in Salian's mind. In fact, even if he had just stopped him from wandering around, it was because of Ellawen that Lin Jun reminded him in the midst of his busy schedule.
He is now concentrating on looking at the panel of the sapling in front of him!
[Name: Esoggar]
[Level: LV99]
[Race: Divine Tree]
[Racial Talent: Magic Gathering]
【Skill:】
[Status: Dormant]
[Title: Dungeon Administrator No. 5 (Obtain the highest authority in this dungeon)]
…
Lin Jun switched the perspective to the Far North, where Xiao Hei was carefully scraping a piece of ice with his claws, trying to figure out whether it was shiny or not.
Pull open the panel.
[Name: Xiao Hei]
[Level: LV62]
There is no problem with the panel.
In other words, this is indeed a LV99 dungeon master named Esoggar, with a blank skill bar and in a dormant state? !
Fortunately, he was dormant, otherwise Lin Jun would have to consider whether he should say hello to his fellow dungeon administrator...
While Lin Jun was concentrating on studying the information on the panel, Ilos had already slowly walked to the tender seedling.
He stretched out his palm, and the emerald green light of natural magic lit up from his palm, gently covering the seedling, as if conducting some kind of deep exploration and communication with it.
Time passed quietly. The captain of the guards, Eko, who was not proficient in magic, finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Ilos, what's going on..."
Before he finished speaking, something strange happened!
(End of this chapter)
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