The golden armor had also fallen apart, as threads of lightning energy continued to dissipate into the air – a clear sign that the Lightning Giant’s ability to restrict its own energy had been reduced to the lowest level.
However, the beautiful Fairy, who had the upper hand and was in an advantageous position in the battlefield, actually looked restless and feverish. In fact, many times it had been able to push the Rock Snake to a corner. With just another round of fierce attack, it would have been able to pierce through the triangle-shaped head of the Rock Snake and crush the crystal core hiding inside its skull. Instead, it behaved like it was rushing for a very important date. As whenever there was a chance, it would turn around and try to leave the place, wasting the best opportunity to kill one of its enemies.
Therefore, relying on just the alternating cover fire, while being desperately held down by the Rock Snake and Lightning Giant, the Fairy continued to retreat while counter attacking. However, it just wasn’t able to get rid of these two super glues even after spending fifteen minutes.
Yet, right at this moment, the five Fallen Pseudo-Adepts from Elysium City had suddenly appeared at the edge of the battlefield.
No doubt, for both parties in battle, their arrival was a massive storm.
The Fairy was struck by a sudden sense of danger. It had felt with its own strength, it was probable that it wouldn’t be able to chase these group of enemies out of here today. Meanwhile, Greem’s heart started to race as he was hiding outside of the battlefield. He realized there was a huge loophole in his plan and thus, it looked like there was going to be a long day ahead.
Upon stepping into the battlefield, the faces of all five Fallen Pseudo-Adepts showed a horrified expression.
Previously, when they had sensed the uproarious battle happening in the demonized forest from a far distance, they thought that Greem had invited a whole group of surface Apprentice Adepts to jointly attack the Adept level Fairy. Who knew that when they came to the scene and took a look, it was actually… just Greem’s Golem team that was fighting against the frightening Fairy. The discovery had no doubt made them more fearful of this strange kid, who appeared to only possess the overall strength of an Intermediate Apprentice.
There was absolutely no way they could allow someone like this to continue to grow!
Facing the five Fallen Pseudo-Adepts who had come in a very threatening manner, Greem waved his hand and called the Rock Snake and Lightning Giant back, before turning around and starting to flee.
The miserable looking Rock Snake caught up to Greem, opened its giant mouth and swallowed him, before simply diving into the ground and disappearing without a trace. At the same time, enshrouded by crackling and dazzling electricity, the Lightning Giant vanished from the scene, and in next second, suddenly reappeared at the far end of one’s line of sight. But before they could catch up with it, the muffled sound of thunderclap rang out once again and the Lightning Giant had disappeared again without a trace.
Freed from the tangles of the Lightning Giant, the frightening Fairy completely ignored these few newcomers, flapped its wings and rushed back to the entrance to the ruins.
When it finally returned to the ruins, the Fairy found that the entire demon vine forest was in shambles.
Scattered, broken branches of demon vines and stinky, sticky green acid decorated this place and making it look like a miserable battlefield. Yet, the culprit behind this, the red-dressed Mary had long disappeared from the scene.
The Fairy let out a furious roar, retracted its wings and dived into the dark entrance.
Originally, there hadn’t been any passage under the ground.
When the self-destructing magical array of the Adept Tower had been activated, by a series of explosions, most of the magical equipment in this place had been turned into broken gravel and debris that scattered everywhere, burying everything under the collapsed rocks and sand. However, a Human-face Flower that originally planted in the magical garden had been fortunate enough to survive the explosion.
After sensing the huge amount of green Plant element energy leaking out from deep underground, the Human-face Flower had commenced the tireless journey of digging. Supported by its wild hunger for the Plant element energy, it had actually bored through the dense and solid heap of rubbles as far as dozens of meters underground, before setting its root into a surviving broken Elementium Pool inside of the Adept Tower.
Dominated by and by absorbing the mutated energy, the Human-face flower was able to step over numerous thresholds that ordinary demons could hardly overcome and eventually became the first frightening demon in this demonized forest to possess the overall strength of an Adept.
Although its overall strength had skyrocketed, it had been still lacking in intelligence and magical knowledge. As a matter of fact, this was the weakness of all wild demons. Even though by using the method of seizing resources, they were also able to become formidable existences that could compete with human Adepts, because they lacked the legacy of a magic spell, it was tough for them to fight against a human Adept of the same grade.
And, once they exposed themselves, often times they became prey hunted by human Adepts. Where had all the rare materials in the Adept World come from? They actually came from these wild demons who had never gotten acceptance from human Adepts.
Of course, there existed some foreign species Adept that were accepted by humans.
According to Greem’s knowledge, in the World of Adept, the number of marine species Adepts was nearly equal to the number of human Adepts. Apart from that, there was also some foreign species who possessed strange innate abilities who were also accepted by the World of Adept and become part of the population of official Adepts.
Take this frightening Fairy as an example. If there was a human Adept family who was willing to accept it and taught it some of the customs and knowledge of the Adept World, then it would have had the possibility of being accepted by human Adepts. Unfortunately, in this uncivilized and dark Underground Cave, it could only mix with a bunch of low-grade demons who had low intelligence and had only come to evolve by slaughtering, which caused it to fear contact with any humans.
Driven by its fear, this demonized forest dweller had developed the xenophobia and aggressiveness toward any outsider. Those underground races who had lived in the surrounding areas of the demonized forest kept coming here to harvest some of the materials that Adepts wanted, had further intensified its feelings of confrontation and conflict.
In the eyes of humans, this demonized forest was like a magical treasure vault containing numerous magical materials. Yet, in the eyes of the Fairy and all other demons in this forest, the humans and underground creatures were the fresh food that could satiate their hunger.
As a result as this hostile relationship, any foreign species who intruded into the demonized forest would immediately attract a violent response from the demons.
Flying down the dark and narrow tunnel in top speed, the Fairy’s mind was completely filled with anger. It wished to charge into the place and slaughter everything in sight and cruelly kill every single enemy who dared to intrude on its territory.
But before that, it had to guarantee the safety of the source of its power.
It had personally excavated the dark and deep tunnel; it was a winding tunnel that twisted and turned in all directions and its diameter was just enough to allow the Fairy’s slim body to travel through. The entire stretch of tunnel was filled with countless openings, most of them led to some crafty trap or a dead end. There was only one path that would lead to its nest directly.
Though most of the upper floors of the Adept Tower had collapsed, in the first and second underground floors, there were still some magical equipment that were preserved in good shape. After coming out of the dark tunnel, one would come upon a broken corridor which had originally belonged to the first underground floor. Most of the stone rooms and magical secret rooms on both sides of the tunnel had been broken through by force. L
ooking through the broken stone doors, it was evident that there was nothing left inside.
Originally, this place had been used as a storage warehouse for the Adept Tower, thus there were many spare resources. However, throughout the years, they were all breached by the Fairy and it had looted everything stored inside.
The Fairy hadn’t stopped here and had continued to rush through the corridor, following the spiral stone stair located at the end of the passage and leaping towards the second underground floor, where its true form was located.
However, without its detections, right inside of an emptied stone room, in a dark corner where no light could reach, a pair of crimson eyes had suddenly opened.
Chapter 102
The second underground floor, which served as the energy room for Adept Tower, was a huge and spacious space.
The collapse of the above-ground buildings had caused an immeasurable amount of damage to this floor. Out of the five Elementium Pools, four of them had been completely destroyed by the devastating explosion. The last Elementium Pool had suffered some damage as well, as the supposedly balanced magical elementium contained within had skewed. It now contained primarily Plant Elementium.
Every Elementium Pool was a huge pool. The pool wall was completely engraved with countless magic spell runes and magical lines. The energy gathering array at the bottom of the pool constantly absorbed magical Elementium from the surrounding space and filled the huge pool.
Four of the Elementium Pools had collapsed and broken down. The debris and rock fragments that had fallen from above had fully filled the pool, and the remaining magical arrays had stopped giving out the glow which meant the magical energy was functioning. The surviving Elementium Pool was functioning, but one could see a huge crack in the pool wall.
Elementium water was leaking out from the crack and was diffusing into the surrounding air.
Clearly, the dissipating magical energy was mainly Plant element energy, for an indescribably pleasant scent of vegetation had filled the entire underground floor.
Right in the middle of the remaining Elementium Pool, there was a huge, ancient looking tree that filled every inch of the pool with its sprawling roots. Its trunk took five men to encircle. On top of the ancient tree was a huge room made up of pink flower petals, and inside was a warm and sweet little bed made of fragrant and soft flower pistils. All of it emanated a luscious scent that could make anyone drunk.
Although it looked like a tall and ancient tree, in fact, it was not a real tree, but the true form of the Fairy, who was originally a tiny and delicate Human-faced Flower. Because it had absorbed a huge amount of Plant element magical Elementium, it had grown explosively into its current form.
Honestly speaking, from its current looks, perhaps even the most knowledgeable Adept would have a tough time identifying its original species. After all, it was extremely rare to see a demon who had solely occupied an Elementium Pool!
After it had rushed to the underground floor, upon realizing nothing had happened to its true form, which occupied almost 1/5 of the underground space, the Fairy finally breathed out a sigh of relief. But when it communicated with its true form’s sleeping consciousness, it suddenly let out a shrill roar.
It had a jarring and sharp voice, a combination of male and female, that was noisy and unpleasant to the ears.
“You damn bastard, get out here! What have you done to my true form?”
After the Fairy waved its slim arm, countless green acid arrows shot out instantly, targeting a seemingly insignificant rock at the corner of a far away wall.
“Don’t hit me, don’t hit me! I’m coming out now!” A panic-stricken cry was heard, and then the short and green body of Snorlax rolled out from where the incorporeal rock had been.
The powerful acid arrows pierced through the rock, which was actually camouflage from the gray cloak, and right into the wall behind it. A hissing sound betrayed the presence of the corrosive acid as a large patch of the wall simply melted like hot wax, exposing the magical runes and lines that were engraved on the wall’s insides.
Taken aback by the power of the acid arrows, Snorlax kept jumping up and down while swinging the short wooden stick in its hand. With a loud voice, it threatened, “Stop attacking me, or else I’ll detonate the alchemy bomb I placed inside the Elementium Pool!”
“Alchemy bomb?!” Worried, the Fairy immediately stopped its movement.
The events of the past half day were quickly transmitted to it from its true form. After the damn goblin had intruded, it had spent a long time searching for all of the hidden places. Then it climbed into the Elementium Pool and tossed in quite a few strange cylindrical scroll-like objects into the pool. Not only that, the fellow had also stuck many of the cylinders into different parts of the true form’s body.
The Fairy opened its soft and fair hand, and the root of its true form pushed up a cylinder and placed it onto the Fairy’s palm.
What was this object?
Curiously, the Fairy flipped it around in its palm and spent some time looking at it, but it just couldn’t figure out the exact function of the cylinder. There weren’t any identifiable magical patterns engraved on top of it, and there weren’t any Elementium crystals that could be used as a source of energy. How could something like this cause any damage to it?
Just as the Fairy’s face showed perplexity and it decided to capture the goblin, Snorlax raised the short wooden stick high and let out a stern shout, “Explode!”
In next moment, under the Fairy’s disbelieving gaze, the cylinder in its hand exploded.
A huge fireball instantly swallowed the upper body of the Fairy. The raging airwave blew away all of the debris and rock fragments around it, shooting them out in all directions, and a mini mushroom dust cloud bloomed. When the dust gradually settled down and the fireball slowly disappeared, the smoky black body of the Fairy finally was revealed.
However, after a bright green ring of light flashed, the fair and beautiful face of the Fairy had returned and it didn’t seem to be hurt by the explosion.
Clenching its jaw tightly in anger, the Fairy crushed the remaining half of the iron tube in its palm. It decided to straightaway kill the damn goblin who dared to provoke the almighty.
But, before it could charge towards its target, Snorlax suddenly pointed its short stick in the direction of the Elementium Pool. “Don’t move! If you move a little bit, I’ll detonate the alchemy bomb placed in that place!”
Coming from Snorlax, it was a rather weak threat, but it caused the Fairy to change its expression instantly.
The power of the previous explosion wasn’t really strong – trying to use it to kill a formidable Adept level demon was no different than an ant, ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness, trying to topple a huge tree. But it was strong enough to destroy the Elementium Pool.
The Elementium Pool had been damaged into a very fragile state. With one wrong touch, it could be destroyed. Even the Fairy’s true form had to be careful when growing in it. It was afraid that it might burst the pool wall and destroy the energy source which had brought it the power it now had.
It wouldn’t take many of those alchemy bombs. Just one or two would be sufficient to inflict massive and irreversible damage to the Elementium Pool. If that really happened, the Fairy’s ability to continue growing strong would disappear. The Fairy cried out in terror but didn’t dare move anymore.
“Can you please not destroy my home?” Its eyes damp with tears, the Fairy begged in a soft voice. “I’m willing to pay any price.”
The Fairy spoke with an affectedly sweet voice. Together with its ethereal beauty, it could easily make any male creature in the world desire to indulge in its delicate appearance.
Perhaps living together with a Fairy like this was not a bad choice. It would no longer be the green-skinned goblin who was looked down by everybody, but a…
Before the perfect lifestyle in Snorlax’s imagination completely unfolded, Greem’s cold snort sudd
enly rang out in its mind. Snorlax shuddered, recalling the magical collar strapped around its neck and the magical slave contract binding it.
“Ugly, don’t think that you can seduce the great Snorlax. If you don’t obey me, I’ll detonate all of the alchemy bombs at the same time!” After being warned by its master, Snorlax, angry from embarrassment, jumped up from the ground and waved its fist angrily at the Fairy.
Oh dear, in front of Snorlax was an Adept level demon Fairy! Normally, a frightening demon like this could vanish Snorlax with a single finger. But now, this demon could only swallow the insults and humiliation silently and flatter Snorlax in a hundred and one ways. The indescribably pleasant feeling coming from the situation was more enjoyable than having ten goblin girls giving it a massage.
Any other time, if an insignificant green-skinned goblin-like this one was served as food to the Fairy, it would complain about the stinking and sour meat which was tough to chew. But now, with the goblin’s dominating position in the situation, it actually kept yelling and shouting at the Fairy.
The Fairy’s face turned red from anger, then it gradually turned pale green, and eventually became as dark as the bottom of a used pot.
However, as it was a demon by nature, it didn’t care about the virtue and dignity that normal human held so dear. In an instant, it had brought up a smiling face and said, “Since your honorable self has risked your life and intruded into this place, I supposed you’re looking for the treasures buried deep under the ruin, huh? I’ve saved the trouble for your honorable self, because I have cleaned up that place, and found some pretty good treasures. Here!”
Following the sweet chuckle of the Fairy, the tall and thick trunk of the Human-faced Flower, which looked like an ancient tree, suddenly trembled slightly, and the exotic little bed placed in the flower petal room split open, revealing a pile of magical gems and magic spell materials.
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