Chapter 193: Disposal and Outbreak of War

The half-werewolf druid seemed to have a solitary personality.

Only when everyone left the Shi Ying Town army did she come forward to meet them, and she maintained the 【Wild Shape】 form the whole time, never revealing her true form.

Everyone else knew a druid ally would be arriving, so they were not particularly surprised.

At this moment, this elderly tiefling, Lu Lu Xiusi, seeing the scene, decisively admitted defeat:

"Amel sensed something and deliberately left me here to draw fire; he has already used 【Spatial Shift】 to leave ahead of time."

Upon hearing this.

The half-werewolf druid immediately shifted from owl-bear form into giant wolf form, her nimble nose twitching slightly as she constantly sniffed the air.

Soon, she sensed something and dashed rapidly toward the north.

Rod stood still, saying to the zombies and ghouls: "Tally sensed Amel's movements a step ahead and has gone to pursue him. Selena, Pan Ni, you go help first; we will deal with this person and arrive immediately after."

The two women nodded.

Selena's mana surged, and she rose into the air, floating toward the giant wolf.

Her speed was not very fast, though.

It was the 【Fly】 spell of a mage, but clearly Selena was not very proficient in it.

The elf was somewhat surprised: "A succubus discovered it early? Does she have such great ability?"

Rod smiled: "Don't underestimate Tally; her shadow magic has improved greatly. The moment the 【Spatial Shift】 fluctuation appeared, she had already chased after him."

Tally awakened the 【Great Duke Bloodline】, deepening her understanding of shadows and darkness, and with the 【Shadow Insect's Feather】 Rod had purchased for her previously, her proficiency in shadow magic was far different from before.

"It's not that I'm underestimating her; succubi are generally lazy by nature and rarely bother to seriously study techniques. Did you use something on her? Be very careful of side effects."

Lady Kali was cold-faced but warm-hearted; even regarding Tally, she voiced her concern.

"Thanks for your concern. Don't you know me yet? I am the gentlest to girls."

"Hehe... I wasn't concerned about you; I was just afraid you'd die in the forest someday, rot, and affect the trees' gentleness? Who knows."

Vivian, the tree spirit beside them, expressionless, hearing her say this, obediently came over and gently hugged Rod's arm.

"Rod, gentle."

Lady Kali rolled a good-looking white eye with her elf scowl.

Then she chanted a spell and cast a 【Mana Prison】, trapping the tiefling who was in the 【No-Fly Zone】.

She then used 【Mage Hand】 to confiscate his staff and spell satchel.

"How should we handle this person? Should we kill him?"

Rod glanced at the old tiefling who offered no resistance whatsoever.

"He might still have other uses. Do you have any spell suggestions? We cannot waste time on him."

The opponent was too compliant, with no thought of resistance at all, and since his identity was unknown, Rod truly had no killing intent for the moment.

Although being in cahoots with Amel meant he was no good thing, of course.

Lady Kali pointed to the 【Soul-Trembling Blade】 at Rod's waist.

"His mana accumulation is technically seventh tier, but it is very weak; it might even be weaker than your half-step seventh-tier Young Lady zombie. The 【Domain of Fear】 on the sword is enough to make him dare not move."

Rod nodded.

He threw the 【Soul-Trembling Blade】 into the research lab in the pit below.

Hiss—

The blade stabbed into the earth.

The bulging eye on it suddenly opened, rolled with a gurgle, and fixed its gaze on Lu Lu Xiusi.

This old tiefling had never mastered domain power and was completely unable to resist; he was instantly terrified out of his wits, entering a state of animal-like tonic immobility or false death, utterly unable to move.

Although this sword possessed the little bitch skill 【Accept All Comers】, Rod truly wasn't afraid of losing it.

On one hand, the sword's innate 【Domain of Fear】 would target the wielder.

On the other hand, after the battle with the seventh-tier feathered people, Rod felt uneasy about weapon strength and had poured a large amount of the past two weeks' 【Growth Spirituality】 into the two swords.

Um, both swords performed steadily.

The 【Devoted Body Sword】 remained reliable, continuously generating combat skills like 【High Sharpness】 and 【Heart Flame Attachment】, with sharpness reaching 75.

The 【Soul-Trembling Blade】 had gone down the path of daily-use skills without return: 【Unlock】, 【Brilliant Fireworks】, 【Message】, 【Item Location】, and 【Invisible Rope】.

All were quite good; Rod had already made peace with it.

Even daily-use skills were fine; for instance, 【Message】 and 【Unlock】 directly saved Rod the cost of learning them.

It was just that if this continued, the 【Soul-Trembling Blade】 might as well be renamed the 【Soul-Trembling Staff】.

Among them, the 【Invisible Rope】 could connect an invisible rope from the sword's hilt end to Rod's wrist; even if left in place, there was no fear, and if needed, he only had to pull with his hand to reel it back.

After dealing with this fellow.

The three of them set off rapidly, heading toward the half-werewolf druid and the zombie Selena.

Soon.

Rod and the others felt the aura of battle ahead.

Getting closer, they saw Selena floating in the air; as she chanted the spell.

Three 【Ice Seal】 spheres appeared beside her, shooting toward the Wen Yi Fa mage on the ground.

This person was the culprit destroying the forest, so the tree spirit Vivian, upon seeing him, became especially furious.

A massive tree vine burst from the ground, rapidly propelling her into the half-air.

Then, a huge amount of spiritual pressure thunderously descended from the sky, and a projection of the Tree Realm appeared in the half-air.

Vivian raised her hand and unleashed her ultimate move—【Tree Realm Descent】.

In fact, most so-called paths after the seventh tier were created by humans themselves, after all, humans possess no innate spiritual arts.

Other intelligent races with abundant innate spiritual arts possessed their own racial paths from the very beginning.

For example, the beastmen's Tier 7 path centered on 【Frenzy】 is what humans call the Rage path.

The Tree Spirit, on the other hand, follows the Wrath of Nature path of 【Descent of the Tree Realm】.

Its most prominent feature is the flood-like, inexhaustible barrage of spiritual arts unleashed.

The Tree Spirit Vivian rose into the Tree Realm projection suspended in midair, her large white eyes blazing with a radiance far beyond their usual.

【Seed Cannon】, 【Steel Vine Charge】, 【Entangling Art】, 【Nature Lash】, 【Decay Spores】, 【Bone Dissolution】 — one spiritual art after another rained down without pause, blasting wave after wave of spiritual shockwaves into the ground.

Rod saw the half-werewolf druid appear in the form of a more agile blue-white great wolf, prowling along the edge of the Tree Spirit's attacks and occasionally swiping a claw at the plague caster.

The succubus Tally, meanwhile, was still lying in ambush.

"The situation's better than I imagined."

Lady Kali, however, remained wary: "【Descent of the Tree Realm】 drains spiritual power enormously. Vivian's realm is far too unstable — it can't last long."

Hearing that, Rod nodded.

True enough — Vivian's endurance had never been strong.

"And look — that plague caster is responding very skillfully: 【Prismatic Wall】, 【Spell Absorption】, 【Exorcism Barrier】."

He took a closer look.

Although the plague caster Amel was in a very sorry state on the battlefield, every one of his responses came perfectly on time, far more rhythmic than Vivian's wild carpet-bombing.

Rather, it was that the druid's strength hadn't been brought to bear — to avoid being caught in Vivian's attacks by accident, she had been holding back the whole time.

But no matter how timely, no matter how skilled, he was still facing a coordinated assault by two Tier 7s and a half-step Tier 7.

Before long, the plague caster Amel was swallowed up in the massive bombardment of spells and spiritual arts.

(End of Chapter)