Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 551

Chapter 548: Nightmare of Life [Isisdal]

Locke heard that in the jungle of the Emerald Dream, birds and beasts were fleeing and scattering in groups, as if there was a terrible creature in the distance.

Before he could react, he saw an ancient tree-man of life walking towards him from a distance.

Locke was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect to encounter the Ancient Tree of Life here. But when he thought about it carefully, the Emerald Dream, as the underworld of plants and one of the planes with the most concentrated natural forces, it was not surprising that it had a first-ring Ancient Tree of Life.

But the next moment, Grace looked at Locke and said, “Fly upwards, don’t hesitate, don’t think.”

As she spoke, she shook the [Wind Chime Dandelion] in her hand, jumped up from the leaves of the apple tree, and flew into the sky.

Although Locke didn’t understand the meaning, he immediately used plant mimicry: the green dragon flew up, and the huge spiritual dragon power descended on the surroundings.

At the same time, he looked down and saw that the sacred ancient tree of life in the distance was projecting a life spear formed by branches from the crown of the ancient tree of life towards him and Grace.

The spear of life destroyed the crown of the apple tree under their feet, and at the same time summoned a spiritual spring, but that spiritual spring was not the spring of life that could nourish life, but a special kind of spiritual spring water that was completely black and emitted a foul odor.

Locke looked at the pool of black spiritual water surrounding the Spear of Life under his feet in astonishment. He could hardly believe that this was the magic released by the Ancient Tree of Life.

On the Yunze Cup, he had seen the water of the Fountain of Life released by Edgar’s Ancient Tree of Life. That spring water could restore the life force of living organisms at all times and could be called a divine artifact.

But this filthy pool in front of us is the opposite.

Locke and Grace developed skin rashes just by flying over it. The edges of the banana leaves of Locke’s dragonfly began to curl inward, and the roots of Grace the witch’s wind chime dandelion began to turn yellow.

“Such a powerful evil.” Locke’s face changed slightly. He realized that the power under his feet was very similar to the power of nature, but completely different. This made his life magic extremely easy to be contaminated by it.

He looked up into the distance and saw that the huge ancient tree of life in the distance, after discovering their target, suddenly rose from the ground at a speed that was impossible for a tree person, and ran towards them madly.

Just like a thirsty person trapped in the desert, after finding the water source, he ran towards it frantically.

At the same time, the appearance of the Ancient Tree of Life changed. It changed from a beautiful, powerful, sacred and perfect Ancient Tree of Life to an ugly, mutated tree man with ugly, short roots, all roots that looked like deformed roots, and withered branches.

Only between the outlines, one can still vaguely see that it was once the appearance of the ancient tree of life.

There is a terrible force that distorted the original ancient tree of life.

Locke immediately used the wizard’s [Spiritual Vision] and discovered that this ancient tree of life was still formed by the gathering of plant spirits and was not a real magic plant.

Therefore, there is no general weakness of tree people being slow.

It is not an ancient tree of life at all, or it used to be an ancient tree of life, but it is not now.

“They destroyed me, they destroyed me for their own sake, they ignored my pleas and destroyed me.” A red eye suddenly grew out of the trunk of the strange existence transformed from the ancient tree of life, and then one eye after another emerged from its trunk.

Like a beautiful dream turned into a nightmare.

That strange being uttered a strange tone. “In the end, they destroyed themselves. Hahahaha~”

“This land must be destroyed. The nightmare will destroy all that is beautiful.”

The nightmare transformed from the ancient tree of life no longer had the fountain of life around it, but turbid and smelly black water. The black water, with its strong acidic properties, made the soil harden and crack when it touched the ground, and the plants turned yellow, withered, blackened, and moldy.

The originally kind magical creatures in the Emerald Dream, after touching the black water, the black sewage will turn into tiny black worms, drill into the pores of the magical creatures, enter them, and then cause those magical creatures to fall into an abnormal state of v*olence.

The originally gentle Purple Demon Leopard King’s eyes suddenly turned black, and then he revealed his crazy claws and stared at the witch Locke and Grace.

Locke realized that the strange creature, whose predecessor was the ancient tree of life, was currently a nightmare.

However, this was his first encounter with a nightmare, and he only felt that there was a terrible evil in the nightmare.

Moreover, his own life magic was contaminated by the evil nature of the person just by getting close to him.

Locke controlled the Big Green Leaf Dragon Bird and dodged the Purple Demon Leopard King that pounced on him. He saw the Leopard King turned into a series of purple afterimages in the air, moving in the air like a sharp blade.

The Purple Demon Leopard King has the spell-like ability of the Force School, which is the innate spell ability of magical creatures. It can transform into a force blade similar to the Force School in mid-air, move rapidly in the air, and attack the enemy.

It has speed, strength and attack power, but its defense is very weak compared to its peers. It has always been a very efficient killer in nature.

But at this moment, it encountered not Locke in the outside world, but Locke in the Emerald Dream, who was blessed by the power of the Emerald Dream and possessed infinite magic power as the incarnation of nature.

Locke raised his hand and used a killing move. A force of Mist turned into a giant axe, destroying the magical creature controlled by the power of nightmare.

Locke saw the nightmare of life coming towards him, “Doomsday, when will you come! That is the end of all life!”

Streams of black sewage attacked him, and Locke took off the Angel’s Tear bracelet given to him by the witch Ekaterina.

It’s better to take this thing off when fighting.

Although his super intuition has not been truly awakened at present, what if it suddenly comes in handy during a battle, and he is blocked because he is carrying a second-ring magic weapon?

At this time, Locke used the power of Mist to block the black sewage cannon shot by the opponent.

He was surprised to find that the sewage fired at him by the Nightmare of Life could actually assimilate the power of Mist. Although the speed was slower than normal natural forces, it was still happening.

Locke stepped back quickly.

At the same time, Witch Grace’s pupils suddenly shrank when she saw Locke using his permanent defense field to withstand the nitrous elemental wastewater from Life Nightmare. “How is that possible?”

“That’s the nightmare of heavy-particle nitrite wastewater. Can a wizard’s permanent defense field stop it?”

Witch Grace looked at Locke in surprise and suspicion.

She didn’t expect that someone was so powerful that he could use his permanent defense field to resist the nightmare of the heavy particle sewage of the niobium element.

Are all the wizards in the Sanze Land so outstanding?

Witch Grace said to Locke, “Locke, this is the Summoning Battlefield. In the Summoning Battlefield, there will be special beings at the same level that cannot be easily defeated. For example, this Life Ancient Tree has become a Life Nightmare. It possesses a power that is difficult for ordinary botanical wizards at the first ring to deal with.”

“We, the Jungle Hand, have a contract with the Emerald Dream. We will enter the conscription battlefield and solve the problems that ordinary botanical wizards of the same level cannot solve.”

“We, the Hands of the Jungle, will be the scavengers of the Emerald Dream.”

“This is to gain the special privileges that the Emerald Dream grants to the wizards who are members of our collective Jungle Hand.”

“That’s why I need to represent the Jungle Hand and enter the conscription battlefield to fulfill the contract. What’s your situation?”

At this time, Locke had distanced himself from the Nightmare of Life, and the Nightmare of Life turned around and attacked Witch Grace.

Witch Grace used a magic plant and a botanical spell model that Locke had never seen before. A potato shield appeared on her left hand side. The potato quickly grew larger and became as tall as a person, blocking the attack of the Nightmare of Life.

The next moment, the surface of the potato exploded.

A large amount of dark green sticky liquid, like blood, sprayed out from the broken branches of the Nightmare of Life. The liquid stained the potatoes, and the whole potatoes immediately began to wither and shrink. Witch Grace’s face also changed slightly, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

She seemed to be in great pain. Even though she did not come into contact with the dark blue blood of the Life Nightmare, she still suffered huge damage, and her permanent defense force field could not withstand this power.

The Nightmare of Life laughed. “Our death is near.”

“We destroyed ourselves!”

The next moment, the Nightmare of Life was about to continue its attack, but Locke transformed Mist’s power into an axe in time and chopped it down with one axe.

The natural force field cut into its branches and trunk. The life force field, harvest force field, and withering force were continuously transformed to fight against the strange physical strength in the body of the Life Nightmare. As the seasons rotated, the force field continued and turned into a cycle. Then, the branches of the Life Nightmare suddenly broke with a “click”.

A large part of its branches fell off, and a large amount of black-green sticky liquid fell from its branches.

Life Nightmare rolled on the ground in pain. “It hurts, it hurts!”

Locke gave him a cold look and said, “I’ve had enough of your nonsense.”

“Would you please shut up?”

Locke looked at Witch Grace and said, “I was summoned here by the will of the world of the Emerald Dream.”

“However, if you have any information about Nightmare, could you share it with me? If the Emerald Dream summoned me here just to have me kill Nightmare, then the more information I have, the better.”

Witch Grace seized the opportunity and used the Wind Chime Dandelion to shake six times in a row, seizing the opportunity to distance herself from the Nightmare of Life.

She looked at Locke and said, “I see. You are indeed special, possessing the power to resist the erosion of the heavy particles of the element Ni. Although the heavy particles are still eroding your strength, the rate of erosion is very slow, and your permanent defense force field has the characteristic of purifying these special heavy particles.”

“No wonder the world will of the Emerald Dream wants to summon you in.”

“It’s just…” Witch Grace’s eyes flashed with hesitation. “This information is top secret information of my Jungle Hand. Logically speaking, it cannot be shared with non-members of the Jungle Hand. Otherwise, if you join my Jungle Hand and become our member, I will share the information with you immediately?”

Locke was speechless. Both the witch Grace and the wizard Salvador in front of him were trying to pull him into the hands of the jungle.

Locke thought for a moment and said tentatively, “I’m doing this to eliminate Nightmare, so I need Nightmare’s information. Even if I’m not a member of Jungle Hand, it shouldn’t affect my initiative to eliminate Nightmare pollution, right?”

Witch Grace was stunned for a moment, then her eyes grew wild. “You’re right. Protecting the environment is the responsibility of all wizards. Compared to your awareness, I was truly too selfish just now. I shouldn’t have thought of keeping this environmental protection information for myself. I’ll apologize to our Three Rings instructor when I return and write a self-criticism!”

“I will tell you all about the nightmare.”

“It’s just that we need to temporarily isolate ourselves from the Nightmare of Life. It’s even more terrifying than I imagined.” Witch Grace coughed weakly. “I originally came here to kill it, but during our previous exchange, I sensed the Beast Soul Incarnation. I can’t defeat it.”

“In fact, its name is [Isisdal], and it has already killed five members of the Jungle Hand who came to clean it up. If I fail again this time, the next one to come will most likely be a second-ring wizard!”

Locke didn’t expect that he just wanted to test it out, and if he failed, he would find other ways to make a deal with Witch Grace.

Who knew that a casual word from me would actually work?

To some extent, the wizard of Jungle Hand can be said to have achieved unity of knowledge and action.

At that time, the nightmare of life had crawled out from the ground. It seemed to become very angry, and the land and plants centered on it had become barren.

This desolate power, in turn, nourished it, allowing the part that had just been cut by Locke to quickly repair itself.

The nightmare of life, Isisdal, crawled up from the ground. Its branches were twisted like blood vessels. It suddenly used the palms formed by the branches to dig open its own trunk and dug out a beating heart from it.

That’s the animal’s heart.

But it was not a heart of normal color, but a dark blue one.

After seeing the heart, Witch Grace closed her eyes in disbelief. “Damn it! What did the wizards of the Material Plane do? They actually turned the once kind and beautiful Ancient Tree of Life into what it is now.”

Locke frowned, trying to guess what the so-called nightmare was from Witch Grace’s words.

At the same time, the Nightmare of Life roared. “I feel it. I remember you. This power… I come from the same world as you. I am the spirit transformed from the dead plants of the Great World of Truth.”

“In the endless void, the nightmares that are transformed when the plants in your Great World of Truth die are the most powerful.”

“Hahahaha… I finally remembered.”

Life Nightmare dropped the heart on the ground, and immediately a dark blue wastewater pool was corroded out of the ground. Then the heart was pierced, and a strange and ugly sapling emerged from it.

Locke had a bad suspicion. “If Edgar saw this, he’d probably be furious. I hope he doesn’t get summoned into the conscription zone even if he’s signed a contract with the Emerald Dream.”

I saw a new tree man quickly growing out from the heart. It was the war tree man.

The beautiful image of the burly and powerful war tree man only existed for less than 5 seconds. With a roar from the war tree man, in an instant, it was as if a beautiful dream turned into a nightmare. The beautiful image of the war tree man changed and turned into a short and ugly little tree stump. It was very low, but the branches were very thick.

The War Treants turned into war nightmares.

Locke was speechless, “I knew it.”

He picked up the sea sand and summoned countless plant spirits to gather together, amplifying the shining sea sand, and at the same time used the botanical spell model [Golden Sand Waterfall].

A wizard’s battle is a battle of information.

Now that he has a channel to learn about the nightmare, Locke has no plans to fight the Nightmare of Life in advance. After all, the opponent’s special power is indeed weird, and he dare not act decisively without knowing the details.

Under the blessing of the plant spirits and the amplification of the golden sands of the tree fern sea, in an instant, the sky full of golden sands covered Locke, Grace and the two nightmares.

Life Nightmare laughed shrilly. “You can’t leave.”

Billowing black-green smoke emerged from the crown of the War Nightmare. It was very pungent and contained strong acid. Everything it touched was corroded.

At the same time, War Nightmare unfolded the battlefield field, trying to lock Locke’s hostility, and at the same time pull Locke into the battlefield field, making it impossible for him to escape through deception.

Just half a minute later, the big eyes on the War Nightmare tree showed doubts because it did not succeed.

At the same time, Locke summoned the ferryman of the underworld in the golden sand waterfall. After paying two gold coins from the underworld, he took the witch Grace into the illusory state of the spiritual world and left.

Archaeologists have a magical skill for escaping – summoning the ferryman of the underworld. Once in the virtual state, they can gain resistance to most magic and enter a semi-invisible state, so they can retreat quickly in the golden sand storm.

When the golden sand waterfall stopped, the two nightmares looked at the wizards who had disappeared and fell into a rage.

The Nightmare of Life whispered, “The desire for revenge will never cease.”

“Wizards, I will find you.”

“I will kill you, kill all of you. I am the enemy of life, I am the nightmare of life.”

As the power of nightmare contaminated the surrounding animals and plants, the Emerald Dream, which was originally a paradise, instantly turned into hell.

Moreover, as the scope of pollution expanded, the originally sunny Emerald Dream also became dark and terrifying.

There were dense lightning in the sky.

Inside the hollow trunk of a large baobab tree, Locke canceled the summons for the Ferryman of the Underworld and sent him away. He then looked at Witch Grace and said seriously, “Witch Grace, now you can tell me what nightmares are, right? My current understanding is that nightmares are the spirits of plants that died for special reasons and came to the place where these plants died. They are a force formed by a special grudge.”

Witch Grace nodded and said, “Your perception is correct. You have revealed the essence of the nightmare.”

“Furthermore, nightmares are special within the Emerald Dream. The Emerald Dream is completely incapable of clearing them out on its own. Therefore, nightmares can grow rapidly within the Emerald Dream. Furthermore, some special nightmares, especially those born with extremely high-level racial souls, can rapidly increase their level while rapidly gaining power.”

Locke immediately realized the point.

The Ancient Tree of Life is only a high-level second-ring when it matures, and it is even possible that it will become a third-ring existence after it matures.

That means that if the Nightmare of Life is allowed to act in the Emerald Dream, it is very likely to become a second-ring level existence in a short period of time.

No wonder the Emerald Dream needs to establish a conscription battlefield.

It is no wonder that the Emerald Dream needs to establish cooperation with the wizards of the Jungle Hand, invite the wizards of the Jungle Hand to become scavengers here, and give the Jungle Hand privileges.

Locke asked, “So, the source of those nightmares…”

Witch Grace nodded, confirming Locke’s guess. “As you guessed, the predecessors of those nightmares are the dead plants from the various worlds within the Endless Void, which were severely polluted due to the development of various civilizations.”

“Those plants suffered a death not found in nature, and therefore they have accumulated immense rage. If they were just ordinary grasses in life, that would be fine. However, some of them are demonic plants that have accumulated a large amount of plant spirits. These demonic plants that died due to environmental pollution have a certain probability of becoming nightmares in the Emerald Dream.”

“Nightmares were born with an absolutely pessimistic outlook.” Grace shook her head, a look of pity on her face. “Nightmares have suffered the damage caused by development, and so they mistakenly believe that development inevitably brings harm. Development is the instinct of civilization and life, and so they mistakenly believe that the future of all civilizations is destruction.”

“Nightmare is misled by his own tragedy,” said Witch Grace.

“One of the main themes of our Jungle Hands is that environmental protection and civilization development coexist and can complement each other rather than conflict with each other.”

“That’s why I’m saying that if you in the Three Lakes accept the theoretical guidance of our Jungle Hand, you can definitely triple the output of the magic heavy industry within five years, quintuple it within ten years, and tenfold it within thirty years!”

Locke coughed awkwardly. “Who told you that?”

Witch Grace said proudly, “My three-ring mentor at Jungle Hand said so.”

Locke nodded and skipped over the topic. “So those two nightmares were the reincarnations of demonic plant spirits killed by environmental pollution in the Emerald Dream?”

“But what’s with the evil power in them?”

Witch Grace said, “I was just wondering, how can your permanent defense field directly resist the heavy particle wastewater containing the element of niobium?”

“Those are heavy elements that existed at the beginning of the world and only appeared in high temperature and high pressure environments.”

“Besides, nightmares are already ferocious enough. But the nightmare of life you just witnessed is probably even more sinister. According to our Jungle Hands’ investigation, the nightmare of life, Isisdal, was formed during the Blue Rice Blast incident in the Spiral Basin.”

“It was the major incident involving the illegal discharge of waste from the Magic Heavy Industry, which killed and maimed over 5,000 wizard apprentices of all levels!”

“Countless mortals were killed and injured. Only after that incident was the Jungle Hand able to force its way into the wizard’s land.”

(End of this chapter)