"You, the new comer, must remember to keep your round badge. Otherwise, if you die in the botanical garden, no one will take care of it for you."
The manager of the botanical garden faintly heard in his ears. Admonished, Taylor looked back at the ever-smaller entrance to the arboretum, turned around and continued down a path to where the poison ivy tree was.
Both sides of the path were shrouded in thick white smoke. Taylor could only vaguely see some motionless tentacles flying around in the sky, like mysterious creatures the size of fists, and some tree roots. with vines trying to creep into the path.
But when these tree roots and vines were about to touch the boulders on the side of the path, they quickly retracted like an electric shock, and a faint wailing sound could be heard.
Taylor couldn't help but squat down and study it carefully. He found that the two rows of round stones beside the path were engraved with subtle witchcraft runes. He could only faintly distinguish the meaning of burns from the witchcraft runes inside. .
Sure enough, in the world of wizards, there are traces of knowledge and witchcraft runes everywhere.
Whoosh...
While Taylor was squatting on the ground studying the countless runes carved on the stone, a big bird with a dog's head suddenly came from behind him and swooped towards Taylor. The big bird with a dog's head was drooling from the corner of its mouth. , eyes red with desire for food.
Plop!
Just when the big dog-headed bird was about to cross the long stone belt composed of witchcraft runes, its eyes trembled, and it fell to the ground as if it had lost the sense of control of its body. It kicked its legs weakly, and then lost its energy.
Taylor, who had his back turned to the big dog-headed bird, dispersed the fireball in his palm and turned his head to look at the strange creature that suddenly died.
"Sure enough, as the passage of the botanical garden, how can these non-human monsters be allowed to set foot on it?"
Although the big dog-headed bird was only a few steps away from Taylor, Taylor had no idea of dragging the body of the big dog-headed bird. When he came back, who knew if the big bird was lying to him, or if there were other monsters coveting him secretly.
After looking at it twice, Taylor turned and left. He had to continue his mission.
Shortly after Taylor left, a thick root suddenly spread from beneath the ground and tied up the body of the big dog-headed bird, dragging the body into the ground and turning it into nutrients.
If Taylor could see this scene now, he would probably only lament that even in the White Wizard's botanical garden, there are dangers everywhere.
Following the directions given by the manager of the botanical garden, Taylor quickly followed the path and came to a strange tree covered with spikes and dancing vines like tentacles.
Looking at the transparent liquid dripping from the tips of the thorns, Taylor inexplicably wanted to study these venoms carefully to see how toxic and strong these transparent liquids were, how to reorganize them, and how to maximize the toxicity of the venom. .
But now it's better to extract the juice and submit the task.
Taylor took out two long-tube instruments from the bag on his waist. There was a bottle connected to the bottom of each instrument. There were three scales on the bottle. One scale would be a portion of juice. Three scales would be enough to measure the entire amount. The bottle is full.
If this mission can be completed successfully, four portions of juice can be collected through cooperation, which can be exchanged for 32 points.
But depending on the situation, it may not be completed satisfactorily.
When Taylor took out these two instruments, there were poisonous thorns in front of him, and the strange tree wrapped with vines seemed to come alive. It kept dancing its vines and tried to attack Taylor. .
But considering the path under Taylor's feet, the vines just kept testing, and even began to slowly retract, trying to show their honest attitude to seduce.
Taylor watched helplessly as one of the vines suddenly struck a seemingly ordinary tree next to it, leaving a deep whip mark on the tree. He felt that once this blow hit him, It is estimated that he will be disabled even if he is not dead.
Looking at the round stone engraved with witchcraft runes at his feet, and then at the round badge in his hand, Taylor hesitated.
He saw with his own eyes how powerful the round stone engraved with countless runes was, but Taylor didn't have much confidence in the badge he was holding now.
The white wizard would never take human life lightly and deliberately sent his apprentice to die.
With this idea in mind, Taylor first held his circular badge in one hand and slowly stretched it out beyond the shelter of the stone path.
When Taylor's right hand left the range, the vine immediately seemed to come alive. Sharp spikes suddenly sprouted from the vine and stabbed toward Taylor's right hand.
After Taylor turned his wrist and showed his circular badge, the vines covered with sharp spikes suddenly stopped, as if in fear, trembling slightly. After a moment of hesitation, the vines slowly retracted, but they were still hovering. Around Taylor's right hand.
"It really worked."
After he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Taylor condensed a ball of fire in his left hand. Although his current magic power could not last long for this ball of fire, it was still the poison ivy tree in front of him. It's a deterrent.
He took a step forward, holding a round badge in one hand and a small fireball in the other. Sure enough, after seeing the heat emitted by the round fireball, the vines were further away from Taylor, but they were still like poisonous snakes. Just as tightly around Taylor.
As soon as the circular badge in his hand is taken off, the poison ivy tree will strangle Taylor and turn his blood and magic power into its own food, even if it endures the burns of the fireball.
Taking a few steps forward, Taylor discovered that there were several special holes at the roots of the single vine tree. These holes matched the long-tube instrument he was hanging on his waist.
Now that the place to draw the juice has been found, Taylor dispersed the fireball with his left hand. When the fireball dispersed, the surrounding vines were two points closer to him. Due to the deterrence of the circular badge, the poison ivy tree still did not dare to directly attack Attack Taylor holding the badge.
Taylor poured the circular badge into his left hand and turned it around himself. After pushing the vines with stings back a certain distance, he immediately took out the long-tube instrument hanging from his waist with his right hand and inserted the long-tube instrument into his left hand. The head of the pipe is inserted into a special hole.
The instrument immediately began to work, and drop after drop of dark green liquid was introduced into the container below through the long tube.
But the poison ivy tree was showing extreme pain at this time, a pain that was visible to the naked eye. The whole tree began to tremble, and the vines kept flying wildly, trying to kill Taylor again and again, but there was still no way. approach him.
Taylor's heart was in his throat, and he could only hold the circular badge in his hand tightly, not daring to relax for a moment.
Drops of cold sweat gathered on his forehead. Less than 20 centimeters in front of him, those vines were like crazy, and the sharp thorns attached to the vines crossed in front of his eyes again and again.
I don't know how much time passed, but the tubes connected to the two instruments stopped dripping. Looking at the dark green liquid inside, Taylor estimated that there were at most two servings.
Reaching out to take back the instrument and holding it in his hand, Taylor held up the circular badge and stepped out slowly step by step.
When his feet once again stepped on the path he came on, Taylor felt that his legs were weak and he almost sat down.
This was the first time he faced such a dangerous scene. Although he knew that the poison ivy tree would not attack him, he was indeed very nervous, especially when the poisonous thorns were floating in front of his face.
(End of chapter)