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Chapter 4 - Chapter 0003 The Killer Tree

This is a gloomy magic swamp.

Although in the day, the warm sunshine cannot be projected through the thick fog, so the light here is slightly dim, and the background color of the whole environment is more cold earthy yellow.

If you stay in such an environment for a long time, even people's personalities will become much gloomy.

When the stone gate slowly closed behind the two, Tony put on his hood and said coldly.

"I'm going over there!"

After saying that, without waiting for Grimm's answer, he turned around and stepped on the sheep intestine path on the left covered with fine white pebbles.

When Tony's magnificent figure disappeared in the fog, Grimm pulled on his hood and twisted onto the path on the right.

As he walked, he whispered, "Get Tony's detection data."

The next second, he projected a detection report of the biochip on the apprentice Tony in his mind.

Name: Tony

Attributes: Strength 7, Agility 3, Psysique 8, Mental Strength 6

...

Grimm curled his lips in surprise. With such a constitution, why didn't he change his line to be a barbarian warrior? His strength and physique are actually twice his own, which also means that if Grimm fights close to him, he may be knocked down even if he can't hold up a punch.

However, as a wizard apprentice, his mental strength is only 6 points, 2 points lower than his own, but this essential advantage cannot be made up for by no more strength and physique. In this way, he should intend to develop into the route of melee wizards. He tried to strengthen his body with various witches, and then used witchcraft to assist his melee ability. This is probably the only way he can choose!

Only after getting along closely with the other party for a period of time, the biochip can detect such accurate data information from the target's behavior and other intelligence. This undoubtedly allows Grimm to take more initiative in interacting with others and avoid more unnecessary risks.

And this is undoubtedly what Grimm cares most about!

However, I'm afraid that such detection methods are useless for real wizards, because there are always strong elemental fluctuations radiating out on the bodies of those official wizards all the time. This is not only an instinctive expression after the condensation of their own huge energy, but also a means to avoid being perceived by outsiders.

Under the interference of strong energy radiation, it is unknown how much valuable information bioassisted chips can get from them. Even Grimm can't be sure whether they will notice the existence of biochips, so he must be cautious about the use of biochips in the tower. The gravel path in front of you is constantly winding in the fog, and strange plants of uncertain height can be seen on both sides of the road. Short and thick conical trunks, curled closed leaves, hanging vines in twos and threes, mysterious flowers with petals as big as basins and bright colors, damp and dirty stinky cement pools...

This scene looks very ordinary, but Grimm knows that he must not step out of the gravel path.

There is almost no meek and kind animal and plant that can survive in the magic swamp. All of them are terrible monsters that eat people without spitting bones.

Those low trees that look shy are terrible killing trees. Once you get close to them, their curled-up leaves will suddenly stretch out and hold you in your arms. At this time, the blood-sucking vines hanging on its body will curl up, piercing countless sharp tentacles into your body, so that you can experience the death of life in the little by little blood loss.

After your blood is sucked out, the remaining flesh and bones become the best fertilizer for the killing tree.

If you are lucky enough to pick up the scarlet soil in the black sink at the foot of the killing tree, you will definitely find dense white bones, human bones, and animal bones. This is the only proof of the existence left by the prey they once hunted on!

The reason why the swamp tower raises these monsters is to prevent the intrusion of strangers from the outside world, and to harvest some special witchcraft materials. The rhizomes of the killing tree and the blood sacs conceived in the body of the blood-sucking vine are both good tonics, which are also a beneficial supplement for wizards who have always been in poor physical physique. Every now and then, wizard apprentices have to come here to pick materials at the risk of being attacked by magical plants, so this is also a dangerous task with a high mortality rate.

Perhaps sensing the flesh and blood on Grimm's body, the swamp jungle, which was still slightly dead just now, suddenly became active. Those monsters outside Grim's senses and vision are intentionally or unintentionally squirming their bodies and branches, slowly approaching the gravel path. But when Grim's sight swept past, they became stiff again, as if they had never moved.

Grimm didn't care about these small actions of magic plants and didn't care at all.

No matter how crazy and cruel they are, they never dare to cross the simple gravel path under their feet, as if there is something on it that scares them.

"Query the database and record and archive the magic plants in front of you!"

"The task failed to start... The ontological database has been damaged, and species matching cannot be carried out... Turn on the element vision and remodeling..."

With a series of chip prompts, the images projected on his retina first shook, and then a large amount of data flowed down like a waterfall at the top, and every object in the horizon was rendered colorfully with gorgeous fluorescence.

Elemental vision? Is this the special means of the chip to integrate his current physical ability?

The green base indicates the plant essence of these monsters, while the color groups such as red, yellow, blue and purple indicate the parts where their energy gathers. In addition, the environmental humidity, temperature, wind, toxic particle concentration, elemental particle distribution and flow are always in slight changes... The data changes that can be detected by all chips are presented in front of him in the form of dynamic color maps. Grim frowned.

Such a colorful and overly complex horizon projection has seriously affected his normal vision, which makes him look at things in the future?

"Removing ineffective chromatography...removing diffuse fluorescence...focusing only the visuals of the elements on a few common energy spectrum..."

With the step-by-step transmission of Grimm's order, the colorful light mass that was still dazzling just now finally dimmed little by little, and all the substances in the horizon restored their original face again. However, under the visual perspective of the powerful elements of the biochip, the edges of all matter show translucent signs, and even the elemental particles flowing in the air become faintly visible.

Just now, it was still a misty white and thick fog. At this moment, in Grimm's eyes, there are clusters of water element particles flowing slowly. Under the constraints of a mysterious force, they cannot spread out, and can only be covered in this magical swamp over the years.

Grim stood still, his pupils hidden in the shadow of the hood flashed, and he looked at the magic plants on the roadside without blinking. Under the new visual perception, the other side hidden under the disguise of the other party was finally revealed. Under the withered and wrinkled bark, there are densely clusters of gloomy ghost faces, which are all souls forcibly bound by the killing tree. On the gray-white trunk of the killer tree, the curled leaf edge, and the tip of the needle-shaped wood thorn, Grim also "see" the blue-green energy fluorescence. This should be the energy spectrum radiation presented by the venom of the killing tree.

And the blood-sucking vine parasitized on the killing tree, under the elemental vision of Grimm, is a whole red and terrible monster. Under its twisted and squirming grass-green skin, there is pure blood flowing, and in the empty tree cavity where it combines with the killing tree, fist-sized blood sacs are rising and shrinking regularly, which looks like a human heart.

Quack...

With a few harsh hiss, a group of crows flew from a distance and landed on a branch, blinking its scarlet eyes and staring at Grimm.

To be honest, Grim felt uncomfortable all over being stared at by such a group of ominous monsters.

Grimm didn't dare to be careless about such a group of uninvited swamp monsters. Although the crows are not powerful beasts, the pair of scarlet pupils also have a slight "aspiration" power, and there have been a terrible example of wizard apprentices being blinded by them before. Seeing that the rotten crows were a little eager to try, Grimm raised his right hand and recited the witchcraft spell he was familiar with in his heart. With the completion of the completion of the spell for 5 seconds, a large red magic flame exploded in Grimm's hand, gushing out and twisting.

And Grimm's whole right hand was completely wrapped in the magic flame, but it was still unharmed.

Burning hand!

This is the only witchcraft that Grimm has mastered after 6 years of study in the Wizarding Tower.

With Grimm's current means, it is only enough to extend the magic fire caused by the burning hand beyond 5 steps. No matter how far it is, there is nothing we can do. Therefore, it can only be regarded as a melee witchcraft at present.

The magic flame that reflected the surrounding thick fog was burning, and the strong fluctuation of the fire element finally made the monsters in the swamp jungle realize that the human beings in front of them could not be easily captured by them.

And the monsters that had slowly gathered around Grim seemed to be greatly frightened and fled from both sides of the path one by one. The flock of rot-eating crows flew into the sky with a quack, and disappeared into the depths of the fog with a slight circle.

Grimm took a long breath and finally felt a little relieved. These monsters never dare to set foot on this gravel path, but this does not prevent them from luring or intimidating wizard apprentices to leave this path in their own way. Once Grimm was frightened by the terrible scene of their gathering and ran out of the path in panic, even if there were witchcraft amulets, it would be difficult to protect his life.

The soul and flesh and blood of a wizard apprentice are undoubtedly much more delicious than those ordinary humans and beasts, and this does not violate the agreement between monsters and tower wizards. Therefore, every inspection outside the tower is a profound examination of the spiritual will. Once there is a spiritual loophole caught by these monsters, the end of the wizard apprentice will definitely not be much better.

"Record all the information of these monsters!" Grimm said calmly.

"Zi... has been recorded! Please name it for the subject.

"Killing tree... Blood-sucking vine... Rotten-eating crow..."

"The name is done! The new information has been included in the database.