dark witches rise

Chapter 158 Soul Shaman Tree, Forest of Steles of Knights
While Roja was thinking, the woods suddenly trembled.

"Shhhh-"

Trees, bushes, and thorns voluntarily get out of the way, forming a passage leading to the depths of the dense forest.

The mandolin wizard glanced at the paladin technique and the seed of life in Roja's hands, and then looked at Roja's pupils.

"I have given you the paladin's skills and the seed of life. Next, go to the most suitable training place I have prepared for you."

"I believe that with your talent, you will be able to become a paladin in a short time."

"Maybe not only stepping into the paladin, but also cultivating "Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden" to the highest level of Qihua?"

"Go."

The voice of the mandolin wizard is very soft, without any ups and downs, but with an unquestionable momentum.

Roja stuffed the books and seeds into his pocket, bid farewell to the mandolin wizard, and dragged the stone tablet towards the depths of the dense forest.

Roja left, leaving Weiss alone to face the Mandolin wizard.

Weiss sat nervously, watching Roja's back going away, and wanted to get up many times to follow.

I didn't feel it when I stayed with Roja, only after losing her did I realize how safe it was when I acted with Roja.

"Son, don't be nervous, raise your head and let me see you." The mandolin wizard's voice was so kind that Weiss couldn't help but follow suit.

Weiss raised her head and looked at the amiable old woman in front of her. It was hard to imagine that the other party was actually the evil wizard who spread the plague in the river region and harmed millions of people.

"You are really similar to me when I was young." The mandolin wizard looked at Weiss with emotion, and she stretched out her skinny hands and stroked towards Weiss.

Seeing the mandolin wizard approaching, Weiss body was stiff, and her heart almost stopped beating in fear.

However, in the next second, seeing the change of the mandolin wizard, Weiss' eyes widened in shock.

The mandolin wizard is slowly getting younger!
The wrinkles on the face faded, the rough skin became smooth, and the thin body gradually plumped up.

When her hands touched Weiss's face, the appearance of the mandolin wizard had changed from that of an eighty-ninety-year-old old woman to a beautiful young woman in her thirties.

Weiss has heard a lot about wizards, and it is very easy to modify the appearance of a formal wizard, so it is not worth being too surprised.

But the mandolin wizard is not as simple as looking younger. What really shocked Weiss is——

The look of the mandolin wizard!

Except for the still gray hair, the mandolin wizard looks exactly like her!
Why did the mandolin wizard pretend to be her on purpose?
Could it be that?
perhaps?

Recalling the phrase "You are very similar to me when I was young" that the mandolin wizard said to her just now, the answer is ready to come out.

The Craigie family is descended from mandolin wizards!

She has the same blood as the mandolin wizard!
"Are you Weiss? You can just call me grandma from now on." The mandolin wizard said softly.

"Okay, okay, Grandma Mandolin." Weiss replied stammeringly.

After caressing Weiss' face in a daze for a while, the mandolin wizard let go of his hand and stepped back, sitting back on his seat.

The Thousand Grudge Fruit that Weiss had been holding flew towards the mandolin wizard under an invisible traction.

The mandolin wizard stared at the thousand resentment tumor fruit, "Now it is fused with the resentment tree, and all the materials to turn it into a soul tree have been gathered."

"The Wraith Tree? The Soul Shaman Tree?" Weiss blinked her big eyes in doubt.

"The Wraith Tree is a cursed tree that grows in a cursed place, absorbing resentment and death, and the Soul Shaman Tree..."

With a throw of the mandolin wizard's hand, the thousand resentment tumors flew towards the big tree behind her and merged into the trunk.

"After becoming an official wizard, the lifespan of a wizard can be greatly extended. A first-level wizard can live for 300 years, and a second-level wizard can live for 500 years."

"However, by using witchcraft and secret methods, you can continue to participate in the life span on the basis of the basic life span. Unfortunately, the life span that can be increased is limited."

"I became a first-level wizard at the age of 73. Now I have been in the first-level wizard realm for 310 years. This year I am 380 five years old."

The mandolin wizard sighed, "I have reached the limit of my lifespan, and I was unwilling to die. I wanted to continue living, so I found a way to fuse with the Wraith Tree and become a Soul Shaman Tree."

"Theoretically becoming a tree, there is absolutely no problem living for tens of thousands of years, but after 200 years..."

The divine light in the eyes of the mandolin wizard dimmed suddenly, "Weiss, I will do my best to support you and help you cultivate, I only hope that if you can become a formal wizard in the future, you can go to the tree of life to find something for me. "

"What?" Weiss couldn't help asking.

"You are still too far away from the official wizard realm, I will tell you at that time." The mandolin wizard shook his head.

"Grandma Mandolin, Roja?" Weiss asked carefully, looking at the direction Roja left.

"Relax, for the pleas of my dear offspring, I will not take his life," replied the Mandolin Wizard.

From the mandolin wizard's answer, Weiss had already guessed Roja's ending.

With the pampering of the Mandolin wizard to her, if he continued to beg, the Mandolin wizard might be able to let Roja leave safely?

It's just that Weiss is still worried, worried that the mandolin wizard's pampering to her is just an appearance, just pretending, so she dare not speak at all.

She could only read Roja's name deep in her heart, and silently said sorry.

"Grandma, with your strength, can't you go to the Living Tree Realm by yourself?" Weiss asked.

"The thing I want is unusual, but I have already found a way. If it weren't for the fact that my life span is approaching, maybe I can get it with my own ability." The mandolin wizard sighed.

"Grandma, didn't you merge the Wraith Tree into the Soul Shaman Tree to prolong your lifespan? You can't go now, but after the lifespan is extended?" Weiss asked strangely.

"I want to do the same, but unfortunately, after becoming a soul-shaman tree, there is a huge flaw, that is, it cannot move at will, and can only stay in the same place as a tree." The mandolin wizard said disappointedly.

The mandolin wizard, who didn't want to continue discussing this matter, looked at Weiss and asked, "There are many ways of wizarding. I have dabbled in all of them except the White Wizard of the Nine Ring Tower. Which one do you want to learn?"

Weiss's brain flickered, and she quickly replied: "I want to become a green-robed wizard, and I will go to the tree of life world to get what you need, grandma."

"Haha, I'm not mistaken, Weiss, you are such a good boy."

The mandolin wizard stretched out his hand and took out a seed of life that was bigger, rounder and greener than the one given to Roja, "This is the seed of life refined from the core of the 500-year-old tree of life. , Weiss, you swallow it."

Weiss took the Seed of Life without any hesitation, and swallowed it with a grunt.

……

唦——

Roja dragged the stone tablet and walked deep in the dense forest. The trees beside him shook without wind, making harsh noises.

After saying goodbye to the mandolin wizard, Roja had been walking in the jungle for 10 minutes.

The lush forest that should be full of vitality is now full of confusion and death.

Feeling the breath of death entwined around his body, Roja stared at the thick and substantial death air in front of him, his face expressionless.

"Is this the so-called most suitable place for paladins to practice?"

"It's really a good calculus."

The cultivation of paladins, especially the process of nurturing the seeds of life and allowing them to take root and germinate, requires a huge amount of vitality.

There is no massive vitality here, but there is an endless stream of death breath!
Although it is possible to obtain the vitality needed for cultivation by transforming the breath of death into vitality.

But while transforming the spirit of death, while practicing paladin skills, is this something that ordinary people can do?
Only a lunatic would choose this method!

But there are good and bad.

The advantage is that you can comprehend the conversion between the qi of life and the qi of death in the process of cultivation, and you can deeply understand the qi of life and the power of death, and lay a solid foundation for further cultivation in the future.

The difficulty has increased dozens of times!
And there is more than just the power of death ahead.

"Due to killing too many lives, do you have too many curses and resentments attached to your body?"

"Hope to rely on those of us who break through the paladins here to absorb a little bit of curse and resentment?"

"Not only is the difficulty of cultivation increased, but also curses and resentment will be entangled after successful cultivation. Will anyone really accept this kind of transaction?"

"Can someone really come back alive as a paladin from the forest of knight steles?"

"The Forest of Steles is a marketing scam, right?"

After scolding the mandolin wizard in the depths of his heart, this inhuman old man, Roja dragged the stone tablet and continued walking towards the depths of the dense forest.

The farther you go, the stronger the aura of death becomes.

To the point where Roja's skin was corroded and sizzling when it was already so thick that he didn't defend.

At this time, Roja noticed the tombstones standing in the dense forest and the dead bones lying beside the tombstones.

At a glance, there are hundreds or thousands of tombstones.

"Are these people all great knights who entered the Knight Forest of Steles before to accept the knight's trial?"

"I don't know if they realized that the Forest of Steles was just a hoax before they died."

Roja came to a stone tablet, stretched out his hand and wiped the dusty stone tablet lightly, and a paragraph of words appeared in front of Roja's eyes.

In addition to the name of the deceased engraved on it, there is also a passage inscribed by the deceased with his fingers before he died.

"It's only a little bit close, why can't it succeed?"

"I think Gates practiced swordsmanship at the age of three, became a knight at the age of 12, stepped into the realm of a great knight at the age of 15, and practiced knight swordsmanship to the ninth level before the age of 40."

"Afterwards, it took 20 years of hard training to cultivate the health regimen, and cultivated the internal organs to the strongest."

"I have already come to the end of the knight's road, why can't I become a paladin?"

"why?"

"Why!"

Seeing these words full of resentment and unwillingness, Roja heaved a long sigh.

This Gates is undoubtedly a genius among geniuses on the road of knights, the kind of genius who can only lift his shoes for the Talu knight who has half-stepped into the realm of the paladins.

In another environment, he would become a paladin.

It's a pity that he should never have come to the Forest of Steles, a place where not only the difficulty of becoming a paladin has been increased by dozens of times, but also curses and resentment are everywhere.

Roja looked at the stone monuments one by one.

"Do paladins really exist?"

"Perhaps there are no paladins in this world? Paladins are just a scam fabricated by wizards to comfort us?"

"Although I failed, I don't regret it!"

"Haha, I didn't know until I came here that I'm not alone on the road of exploring paladins."

"How much I want to discuss swordsmanship with you, but unfortunately, when I came, you were already dead, and when the next person came, I was already dead."

When Roja looked at all the steles, half a day had passed.

Look at the dying words of those who pursued the path of the paladin.

There are those who are open-minded, those who are unwilling, those who regret, and those who curse God...

Let Roja feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

"The realm of paladins they are pursuing so hard, in my opinion, is nothing more than something that can be achieved if you want to become it after you have the skills."

"But can I laugh at them for that?"

"Because to put it bluntly, there is no essential difference between me and them."

"One day I will be like them, stuck in a certain realm, unable to break through after trying everything, and finally die unwillingly?"

Roja looked up at the sky, and when he saw it was pitch black, "Their end may be my end."

"I just wish that day would come later."

Roja put his tombstone on the ground, and he sat cross-legged in front of the tombstone.

He used the certificate of twin souls to read "Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden", a paladin exercise obtained from the mandolin wizard.

"As expected of a top paladin technique from the Holy Tree Kingdom."

"After casting the holy foundation with the seed of life, the vitality of the human body can exceed one thousand units."

"Afterwards, transform the vitality into the power of brilliance, become a paladin, and cultivate the vitality to three thousand units."

"At this time, he is considered a first-class paladin, comparable to a first-class apprentice."

"Continue to practice afterwards. As the vitality becomes stronger, the Holy Foundation in the body will condense life flower buds. Every [-] units of vitality can condense one life flower bud, and a total of seven can be condensed."

"This realm is a second-class paladin, corresponding to a second-class apprentice."

"After that, let the seven life buds on your body bloom. When all seven buds bloom, you will be the peak of the third-class paladin, and the realm and strength are comparable to the peak of the third-class apprentice."

"As for letting the buds that have already bloomed on my body bear fruit, I will become a first-level green-robed wizard..."

"It's too far away from my current realm."

"Besides, I'm from the Ten Thousand Demons' Nest, and I'm destined to walk the path of a black wizard. Although the Ten Thousand Demons' Nest does not exclude black wizards from learning other methods to become stronger, but sure enough..."

"Sure enough, think about it later!"

Roja's strength is still too weak, his understanding of the wizarding world is still too little, and the official wizarding is still too far away from him. It is too early to make a decision which is beyond his ability and knowledge to choose which wizarding path.

"Let's start practicing."

With the help of Roja's efforts and the certificate of twin souls, Roja has fully comprehended the paladin's skill "Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden". What he needs to do now is to practice!

"There is still a little more than a year before the deadline to go to the root of the earth, so we can't delay it just to become a paladin."

"If you miss the time, it won't be good to be punished by the Ten Thousand Devils' Nest."

Roja put the Seed of Life into his mouth and swallowed it slowly.

When Roja was going to let the seed of life take root and germinate according to the method recorded in the paladin's exercises, and complete the process of casting the holy foundation.

Solara -

Strips of black vines shot out from the depths of the dense forest, tightly entangled Roja, and their roots pierced into Roja's skin.

Then, the power of death poured into Roja's body continuously like a gushing fountain.

"Wow-"

Roja gritted his teeth feeling the death air injected into his body by tens of units per second.

"Mandolin Wizard, are you so impatient?"

Roja knew that it was useless to reason with the mandolin wizard. Even if he used brute force to tear off the vines, he would only face more vines.

All he could do was bear silently.

The incantation that Roja recited silently used his mental power to control his life force to carve life runes one by one in his body, forming a small life rune array.

He guided the death energy in his body to rush towards the life talisman array.

Among the many magic skills that Roja has learned, some transform magic power into elements such as wind, fire, lightning, some transform magic power into vitality, and some transform vitality into death energy. There are various types and functions.

But because Roja didn't have time to study in depth, he didn't have a deep grasp of these magic skills.

Regarding the depiction of the life talisman that transforms the air of death into vitality, Roja not long ago, he just learned it from the "Seven Trees Sacred Flower Garden", a paladin exercise.

He was obviously just cramming to learn the life talisman array temporarily, but he used it in a decent manner, easily transforming tens of units of death energy per second into pure life force.

"Fortunately, the certificate of two souls has a great bonus to the depiction of things like rune patterns, and it's even more fortunate that after a life rune is drawn, it can be used for a long time."

"Otherwise I will suffer."

Roja didn't immediately inspire the Seed of Life to cast the Holy Foundation.

Because the process of casting the holy foundation will consume a lot of mind, casting the holy foundation while refining the spirit of death will affect the success rate, and once it fails, it will have a great impact on the body.

In order to increase the success rate, Roja is accumulating vitality.

And he also further purified the transformed vitality to make the vitality more pure.

However, due to his rather rough purification technique, hundreds of units of ordinary life force can be transformed into one unit of pure life force.

But he doesn't care, there is too much death energy here, too much life force reserve, there is no problem at all wasting a little.

suddenly!

buzzing-

Listening to the buzzing and vibration coming into his ears, Roja felt surprised.

"Why did the Holy Sword Lion Heart Roar move by itself...it's not the Holy Sword Lion Heart Roar!"

Roja was surprised to find that it was the tombstone next to him that shook!

The tombstone with his name engraved on it that he brought out from Knight Town!

And after his tombstone vibrated, the other tombstones in the forest of knight steles vibrated as if a chain reaction had taken place.

Hundreds of thousands of vibrating sounds formed a strange rhythm that enveloped Roja.

Roja opened his eyes and found a figure dressed as a knight standing on each tombstone, and they nodded to Roja with a smile on their faces.

When Roja took a closer look, the figures disappeared, as if they were just hallucinations.

Those figures may be hallucinations, but the shaking tombstones are definitely not hallucinations!

(End of this chapter)