Chapter 2828

After setting off again with Margaret's blessing, Xia De headed straight for the east of the city to find Galina and the others. At this moment, looking down at the city from a high vantage point, all one could see was the thick, swirling green mist.

This miasma had a sweetish taste, the kind of inferior industrial saccharin taste in the outlander's memory. Except for a Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi like him with an extremely robust physique, even high-tier Ring Mages had to use the "Bubble-Head Charm" to protect themselves from any influence.

So when Xia De found the group of witches, he discovered that everyone's head was covered by a transparent bubble. Galina was the same; seeing Xia De's expression of trying to hold back laughter, the beautiful red-haired witch reached out to conjure a layer of bubbles for him too, and then continued walking deeper into the thick fog.

At this time, even though 【Night Watcher】 was still sheathed in the scabbard 【Blade Without Edge】, its radiance continued to seep out from the gaps in the scabbard, which also represented the omnipresence of the whisper elements. However, after an hour of searching, Xia De and the two Great Witches and the high-tier girls had walked through every corner of the city's east district, not even sparing those dirty and smelly trash alleys, yet they still couldn't find the so-called treant.

By the time they returned to the Accordion Hotel, it was already approaching four o'clock on Friday morning. But if the miasma remained this thick, I'm afraid Vesta City wouldn't be able to welcome the sunlight even by dawn.

The people who went out rested a little, and the maids who stayed behind prepared tea and snacks for everyone. After Xia De drank a cup of tea, he went to Luvia, and the purple-eyed girl finally managed to reach a conclusion:

"The tree is in the city, but not in reality; it's in someone's dream. The specific location is in the center of the city. I cannot accurately know the address of the dreamer, but the whisper elements on that person must be the strongest.

We must force it out of the dream, and only then can we destroy the treant's body in reality and end tonight's disaster."

Luvia had exhausted too much spirit on the divination; after leaving the result, she was supported by Leixia back to her room to rest.

But there was no need for Xia De and the witches to go looking for the dreamer in the city, because not long after he shared Luvia's divination result, with the slight tremor of the entire city and the intense fluctuation of whisper elements, the shadow of a behemoth appeared in the thick fog to the west of the hotel.

That direction was the direction of the Golden Music Hall, and the shadow that appeared as if by spatial teleportation was in the shape of a giant tree.

As soon as it appeared, it was immediately attacked by magic in the fog. The witches in the hotel immediately recognized it as the church's divine arts. In other words, the church had already taken the first step to force out the giant tree hiding in the dream.

The tree itself was glowing, and its shadow in the fog looked even taller than the city's tallest building. As the tree crown's shadow swayed, even thicker fog continued to spread from the city center toward the urban area, and facing the attacks, an old sigh of "Ah~" struck everyone's spirit like a heavy hammer.

But even as a relic, the treant's appearance was clearly abnormal. When viewed from a distance, there seemed to be cyst-like things on the trunk. By the time Xia De, Galina, Sylvia, and dozens of high-tier girls approached the battlefield on the roof, they discovered that the giant treant's trunk was tightly covered with large patches of white cysts. Even without trypophobia, anyone with a sound mind would feel nauseated seeing this scene.

Looking closely, black insects were clearly curled up inside those white cysts. The pink crown and black trunk made these things very conspicuous in that strange pink light. Xia De, who had seen similar things in the underground mineral veins, recognized at a glance that these were all sleeping Paradox Worms.

These cysts were attached to the upper end of the giant pink treant's trunk, and some were even directly attached to the features of the treant's face. They squirmed continuously as the giant tree shook violently, as if sharing their power with the relic. The insects' power gathered into the trunk and then merged into the miasma, until it was sprayed out from the dense crown of this giant tree.

This was probably the reason why the Sage-level relic 【Dream Tree】 suddenly possessed the power to divide time.

Below the treant were four legs made of human-like black roots, and on both sides of the trunk were two thick wooden arms. It "stood" above the Golden Music Hall, its legs straightened just enough so that its body didn't touch the music hall.

And whether it was because of those sleeping Paradox Worms, this tree's resistance to divine arts was extremely powerful. The raised wooden arms easily blocked most of the attacks from the fog, and as the treant's mouth opened on the dry bark, large swarms of black insects flew out from it.

But fortunately, those human-sized flying insects that looked like "Paradox Worms" were not Paradox Worms, but they also possessed the power of time.

The church's Ring Ringed Ringed Shushi team hidden in the fog immediately intercepted those flying insects, and then a thunderclap sounded above the city, followed by a violent explosion that seemed to shake the world, as hundreds of lightning bolts struck straight from the sky toward the ancient treant's crown.

The red-haired girl clearly made a pouting gesture:

"Earth Power · Earth Energy Cannon!"

Iluna's voice came clearly through the fog, and then the glowing light seemed to want to illuminate the darkness before dawn. The huge orange light held up by Iluna gradually descended, and on the trunk of the treant, which had just resisted almost all attacks, six extra hands grew out, and then eight hands blocked the descending "sun" together.

The "sun" was held up obliquely by the eight hands, so the miasma dissipated rapidly in the sun's supreme radiance, and thus revealed the 13th-tier Destiny Ring behind the griffin spreading its wings in the high sky.

The griffin had brown-yellow feathers, and on its back, the Paladin from the early Sixth Era drew his sword.

This way, Xia De didn't need to do anything in the past; the group in the treehouse in 1854 would hold the ritual. Xia De only needed to wait for the time to end and return, by which time Luweiya would be considered to have been defeated by Emilia, and the qualification would have been transferred.

The treant's crown resisted the lightning, and the trunk withstood the sun's great power. Facing the sound of the longsword being drawn in the sky, the treant opened its mouth and sprayed a black light, but it was blasted away by the lightning. It wanted to move its position to avoid the impending fatal attack, but the ritual base array surrounding the Golden Music Hall had already formed, and golden chains locked its four legs; it wanted to move but was already unable to take a step.

The "Blade of the Firmament" was drawn, and as the griffin glided across the clear night sky, hundreds of stars in the starry sky flickered and then connected into the shape of a longsword.

The Paladin held his longsword high, and as the longsword swung down, the "Sword of the Firmament" in the starry sky also swung down. The treant was then submerged by irresistible starlight, and then the crown and trunk fell at the same time; the falling lightning destroyed the branches spraying the miasma, and the sun's light purified the bark releasing the poisonous insects.

By the time the gale summoned by Miss Maria, the "Nightmare Witch" who was watching the battle from the side, blew over, the city center, where most of the miasma had dissipated, no longer had the trace of that pink color.

"Even if it was strengthened, it's ultimately no match for a 13th-tier... Do you guess we still need to help?"

Miss Sylvia on the roof asked Xia De, and Xia De nodded firmly:

"It's already here!"

With the dissipation of the relic, the cysts that were originally attached to the trunk fell to the ground one after another, and then fell deeper into the ground as if melting. The church's Ring Mages immediately cast spells, trying to keep those insects; whether finding a way to completely eliminate them or studying their weaknesses was a gain.

But most of the magic could not work on these sleeping evil things, and more importantly, at this moment, a buzzing sound came from beneath the ground and grew louder. People in the sky and on the ground looked at the Clover Petal Plaza on the east side of the "Golden Music Hall." Without any impact or soil-breaking sound, the giant Paradox Worm broke through the ground from beneath the plaza, and the buzzing sound shattered the glass of the entire block in the form of a sonic attack.

"It's a Paradox Worm! Third contingency plan! Prepare the ritual!"

From the direction of the distant Nature Church, bright golden rays shot straight over, and then the entire night sky lit up with the radiance of a divine ritual centered on an hourglass pattern.

The ritual's light was even brighter than the moonlight and starlight, and the insect that broke through the ground, which was originally illusory due to the unstable time characteristics, immediately began to solidify slowly under the ritual's light and shadow.

The church's Ring Mages changed positions to prepare the ritual, and at the same time, with the reappearance of the whisper elements, the light radiated by the unknown relic's effect covered everyone flying in the sky, and then all the magic that originally couldn't attack the "Paradox Worm" bombarded the insect's carapace.

This was a relic specifically targeting the "Insect" race. Although the "Paradox Worm" race was "Ancient Evil" rather than insects, it unfortunately possessed the appearance of an insect.

The insect was about the size of a small apartment, and the bombardment of magic caused it to deviate from its flight path, but then its wings vibrated, and the white mist representing "time instability" from the Time Rift quickly filled the gaps in the green poisonous miasma.

Even the divine arts and relics under the starry sky could not completely disperse these white mists, and the effect of the second round of magic attacks was greatly reduced due to the cover of these white mists.

Fortunately, Iluna, flying in the sky on a skeleton horse, held the dark golden scales in her hand and aimed them at the insect in the sky. The moment her beautiful heterochromatic eyes met the compound eyes of the Paradox Worm, the white mist actually disappeared completely, which represented the power of "balance" re-stabilizing time and space:

"Now, quick!"