Black Tower Secret Realm

Chapter 92 The Black Tower Secret Realm (Part 2)

Twisted Forest is a low thicket of thorny bushes covered with black and red spots.

However, upon closer inspection, it can be discovered that these so-called black and red spots are all composed of tiny insects, which is how the terrifying spots covering the mountains and fields were formed.

Ge took out a test tube and Lin carefully collected some "spotted worms". Each of these worms was only one-tenth the size of a little fingernail. Apart from a mouth that took up half of its body and a black poison needle, the legs of its entire body had degenerated and turned into something like a suction cup.

"Hmm, I've never seen this kind of creature before. I'll see if its toxicity can be improved into a mixed poison for body tempering." With that thought, Green tossed the test tube into his spatial pocket.

Just as Green was about to turn and leave, a thought suddenly struck him. He silently shifted his body a few meters, dodging a sudden attack from a branch covered in "spotted worms." A look of surprise crossed Green's face. "Oh? They've formed a symbiotic relationship. No wonder these worms' legs are so atrophied."

With a slash of the Hydra Greatsword, a branch dripping with green "blood" fell to the ground.

After a burst of lightning, all the "spotted worms" on the broken branch fell off. Green then made the still struggling branch into a specimen and threw it into his spatial pocket.

After glancing around, Green casually flew off in one direction again.

After flying several thousand meters at high speed, Green captured a few small creatures unique to this fragment of the world and made them into specimens. Then, a towering tree, much larger than the other trees around it, appeared before Green's eyes.

This giant tree is three or four hundred meters tall, and even in the twisted forest filled with towering trees, it still appears incredibly huge.

Legend has it that the tallest plant known to wizards is the "World Tree," discovered in a wondrous world. This giant tree is said to be the "guardian" of that world, supporting the heavens and earth, and all life in that world thrives and multiplies around it, much like the importance of the Seven Rings Tower to the numerous wizarding academies surrounding it.

Later, many other legendary life forms also became renowned for their towering size, such as the Tree of Life in the Wizarding World, which is said to be several thousand or even tens of thousands of meters tall. However, according to the knowledge and research of the Wizarding World, all these giant plant life forms must have one characteristic: there are absolutely no other large-sized plants around them, which is determined by the essential level of their life.

But this peculiar giant tree before us…

After pondering for a moment, Green began to walk around the roots of the giant tree, which were about forty or fifty meters in diameter. After a while, Green found a small hole about two or three meters above the roots, just wide enough for one person to squeeze through.

Without rushing inside, Green, guided by the light of the undying flame, saw numerous eerie green "eyes" within the vast space of the tree hollow.

Squeak, squeak, squeak...

A group of green bats, no bigger than butterflies, flew out of the tree hole, seemingly afraid of light, avoiding the light of the inextinguishable flame in Green's hand. In the blink of an eye, an empty tree hole appeared in front of Green.

Ok?

The dark, round stones floating in the center of the tree hole caught Green's attention. These stones were as smooth as pebbles and seemed to repel everything around them. Green tried to use his double-force repulsion, but he didn't feel any power from the earth's veins.

"Huh? This is Bald Kironite?" Green was stunned.

The so-called Bald Kiron Stone is a transliteration of an otherworldly language. It's a malignant material used by dark wizards to create terrifying, stitched-together life forms, cursed beasts, and mutated creatures, gradually enlarging their bodies. However, it is "toxic" to life in nature. (This toxicity is not the voodoo that tempers cells; it can be understood as some kind of mystical substance.)

Unexpectedly, some natural life forms within this fragment of the world adapted to this malignant material and underwent a gigantic mutation.

Somewhat surprised, this material might not be of much use to Green now, but who knows what it might be in the future. Green unceremoniously collected all the floating bald kilon stones in the tree hole and threw them into his spatial pocket.

"Huh? That's not right. These bat droppings seem to have some special life fluctuations. Maybe they'll be useful for cultivating certain special plants in the future, like those exploding mushrooms..." Thinking this, Green didn't care about the filth and directly grabbed the bat droppings with his hands, squeezed them into balls, and then threw them into his spatial pocket one by one.

After working for a while, Green was unwilling to waste time resting, because in this world fragment where he could be thrown out at any moment, every bit of time was precious.

With that thought, Green's body repelled the earth and flew into the sky, heading directly towards the canopy of the giant tree.

"Huh, this is... a Shadow Butterfly?" Green exclaimed in surprise.

At the top of the treetop, Green saw thousands of Shadow Butterflies flying in pairs. He would never forget this strange creature recorded in the "Scent Atlas of Nose Modification and Odors." It was a peculiar creature that survived by collecting foul odors, and it had long been extinct in the wizarding world.

With a pull from his palm, several Shadow Butterflies were collected by Green and made into specimens, which he then threw into his spatial pocket. Green then looked at the golden fruits at the very top of the tree canopy, and... that large bird's nest.

goooo...

Swallowing hard, Green crept stealthily toward the top of the treetop, faintly hearing a snoring sound coming from above the bird's nest. Just from the nest's diameter of over thirty meters, Green could imagine what kind of monster lived up there; he had no interest in saying hello.

There were about seventy or eighty golden fruits at the top of the tree canopy. After taking a deep breath, Lin grabbed a fruit and stuffed it into his spatial pocket. Just as he was about to pick a second fruit, the sound of a group of children wailing suddenly broke out in the quiet space.

"Wow... Lilian has been kidnapped, waaaaah..."

"A bad guy's come! He's grabbed Lilia and kidnapped her! Help! Waaaaah..."

Grimm stared in disbelief at the golden fruits above him. These fruits had not only grown facial features, but they were also crying and making a fuss in fluent wizarding language, their voices like those of three or four-year-old children, tears streaming down their faces as they looked at Grimm with fear.

This……

Suddenly, Green felt a chill run down his spine. He looked up in horror and saw a huge, one-eyed, red-crowned head staring at him with a fierce look!

The atmosphere suddenly became oppressive, making one's hair stand on end, as if the air itself had frozen!

Almost without thinking, the space in front of Green distorted and he vanished on the spot. The next moment, another space distortion occurred a hundred meters away, and Green disappeared again. Strangely, this "big bird" showed no intention of pursuing Green. Instead, it let out a loud, sharp cry that echoed in the vast, distorted forest sky.

A short while later, a chaotic array of creatures, including dark owls, three-eyed monkeys, two-headed dogs, and six-winged cicadas, rapidly gathered in the sky, then flew off in the direction Green had fled...

This "big bird" is probably one of the high-ranking soul servants of the Black Tower Master.

…………

Green flew until the giant tree was completely out of sight before landing with a "thud" on an open space, leaning against a small tree and panting heavily. The chilling moment he'd just experienced had truly terrified him; that giant bird was at least a powerful creature of the third-level wizard caliber!

Fortunately, they were in the Black Tower Secret Realm; if it were an unfamiliar world, Grimm would have been doomed.

After recovering slightly, Green suddenly noticed a protruding "stone" in the center of the open space. Somewhat surprised, he walked over and was immediately astonished when he gently touched the stone. It was made of metal and crystal, clearly showing signs of wizard alchemy.

Could it be... some ancient ruin somewhere underground?

wrong……

According to Senior Sister Youquan, ancient ruins are guarded by the soul servants of the Lord of the Black Tower, but there is nothing here, just a small, unremarkable clearing in the Twisted Forest.

(End of this chapter)