On the Seven Towers

Sariel's face was a strange brown color, and her originally white and smooth skin suddenly had many lines. She clasped her hands together and placed them in front of her chest as if she was praying. Her long green hair moved without wind, as if there was some huge power in her body, about to break out of the cocoon.

"Sariel! Don't!" Elaina shouted behind her. As a rain and dew priest, she was particularly sensitive to the power of nature. She could feel the power in Sariel's body!

That was the "Guardian Seed"! The seeds born on the world tree were much rarer than the vine seeds.

For an elf wizard or priest, the guardian seed is the last killer in a desperate situation, but the price to pay for using it is also unbearable.

As a rain and dew priest who went out for training, Elaina did not have such a rare treasure in her hand. She did not expect that the inspector actually brought one.

When she saw that Sariel's skin had changed color, she knew that she could no longer stop her.

"You should give it to me." Elaina murmured.

The other elves were of ordinary origin and had never seen such a thing. They didn't understand why and just trembled in fear.

Ralph saw that Sariel was in a strange state and heard another elf screaming, so he felt that something was wrong. He suspected that this was some kind of trick of Sariel. Whatever the enemy wanted to do, I would not let her do it. This was Ralph's usual principle. At this time, he no longer had the intention of capturing Sariel alive. He drew his sword and stabbed her heart with all his strength.

However, just when the tip of his sword was about to touch Sariel's body, Sariel's body suddenly grew, and her clothes broke into pieces in an instant.

As her body grew taller and bigger, her appearance also changed dramatically. Her lower limbs turned into two clusters of tree roots, her body turned into a thick tree trunk, her hands turned into huge branches, her skin all over her body completely turned into rough and hard bark, and her flying hair turned into vines. Her head merged into the tree trunk and turned into a wooden face with eyes and mouth.

She turned into a tree man as tall as a three-story building.

Because it suddenly rose to more than five meters, Ralph stabbed the tree man's calf with a sword, breaking off several pieces of bark and leaving a two-inch deep puncture mark. But for the thick tree man, it was no big deal.

The tree man used his forked giant hand to hit Ralph, and he was knocked out. He didn't turn over in the air until he was more than ten meters away and stood on the ground.

The force was too great, and he was injured a little after a face-to-face encounter. Ralph wiped the blood from his mouth and looked at the tree man with a serious face. He had only heard about tree men in legends. It is said that when the Elf Kingdom fought, the tree men were their main siege force. These guys were strong and tough, with no internal organs. Except for being slightly slow and a little afraid of fire, they had almost no weaknesses.

Sure enough, some masters among the slaves tried to cut the tree man's limbs, but apart from cutting off a few pieces of bark and causing wood chips to fly, there was no effect. The other slaves had long been scared and hid to one side. The tree man was too tall. Ordinary people would feel great psychological pressure just by looking at him, let alone fighting.

"Don't fight it head-on! Grab the other elf women first." Ralph shouted. He circled and pounced on Elena from the side.

However, the tree man soon discovered their trick. It stretched out its giant hand and gently grabbed the five elves in its hand, lifted them up in the air, and then used the remaining hand to fight the slaves.

Ralph fought for a while, but there was no progress. However, several of his slaves were beaten to death by the tree man. A small leader came over and asked, "Boss Ralph, why don't we forget it. We can't get any good by fighting this thing to death. It's better to search a few more villages."

Ralph slapped the small leader in the face, "Bullshit, these elves are the most valuable things in these villages. We have lost a lot of people, how can we let them go!"

"But that thing is invulnerable to swords and guns." The small leader said with a sad face.

"You, you, and you, go get some torches. You guys, go get the kerosene and liquor from the cellar." Ralph ordered, "Others, help me to entangle it, and attack the elves in her hand. Make it too busy and don't let it escape from the yard."

The tree man originally wanted to kick down the house and the wall to escape from the inner yard, but when it went to that side, the slaves attacked the elves in its hand from that side, some shot with bows and arrows, and some threw stones. It was exhausted from the attacks from all sides.

The fire starter was soon ready. Ralph picked up a wine barrel and threw it hard. The barrel broke on the tree man's body and soaked one of its legs. Other slaves followed suit and threw barrels of oil and wine on the tree man.

The tree man's body was too big, and even if it blocked a few wooden barrels, most of them still hit it.

Ralph lit a torch and waved it in his hand, "Listen, Elf woman, I know your consciousness is still in this broken tree, surrender quickly, otherwise you will be left with nothing. Don't you want to protect these women? Are you going to let them burn to death here?"

The tree man rolled his eyes, looked down at Ralph, and then looked further away.

Elena, who was lifted high in the air, pleaded, "Sariel, stop. You have done enough for us. Leave us behind and go back to the Elf Forest."

The tree man did not answer. From its height, it saw many people coming from a distance, staring at it in amazement outside the wall of the yard.

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Xiao Chen led his men into the Oaks' village. Before entering the inner courtyard, he heard a lively fight inside. Then a moving tree suddenly grew out of the wall. Its height exceeded the roof and the wall, and it was very clear from the outside. This made Xiao Chen a little overwhelmed. The scene in front of him was a little beyond his cognition.

"It seems that something terrible has happened inside." Xiao Chen stopped his team and asked Roger, "Have you seen such a thing?"

Roger shook his head and said, "No, but I think it should be a tree man. There is no such thing in the human kingdom. Legend has it that only elf casters can control them."

"You mean, there are elf casters fighting slaves?" Xiao Chen suddenly remembered the slave transport team he met here in the morning. There was a powerful mage in it. Could it be her?

At this time, the tree man's eyes suddenly looked at Xiao Chen. The eyes were two spots of light in the hollow of the tree, looking like two small lights. Although it was still daytime, they were very clear.

Xiao Chen had never seen this tree man, but the flickering light gave him a familiar feeling, like the narrow eyes under the cloak in the morning.

"Human magician, can I trust you?" A pleasant but anxious female voice sounded in Xiao Chen's heart. Xiao Chen felt that if this voice was matched with a face, it must be a beautiful face.

"Who is talking to me?" He immediately understood that this was a magical magic that could directly communicate the hearts of two people.

"I am in front of you, and you are looking at me."

"Tree man?" Xiao Chen was quite surprised. The contrast between the voice and the image was too great.

"Yes. I want to entrust the five elves to your care. Please send them home. The Elf Kingdom will give you enough compensation."

"Why choose me?"

"It's not that I trust you, but these bandits who besieged me have left me with no other choice. The reputation of a mage...maybe more worth looking forward to than a mercenary."

Xiao Chen had already noticed that the tree man had five elves in his hands, and they were being besieged by the people below. He thought about it and roughly guessed the situation here. He answered without hesitation: "I can promise not to let my people harm them, and send them back when it is convenient for me. Apart from that, there is no more promise. You hold on, we will rush in soon..."

"It's too late... Protect them, you will be rewarded... If you break your promise, you will bear the anger of the entire Elf Kingdom."

"You are really rude..."

The vines on the tree man suddenly twisted towards the five elves, entangled with each other to form a rattan ball, wrapping the elves inside like a cage.

The tree man lifted the rattan ball and suddenly made a throwing motion, throwing the rattan ball containing the five elves to Xiao Chen.

"Catch them." Xiao Chen shouted, and Roger and others hurriedly gathered their luck and Qi, and six or seven people worked together to catch the rattan ball. The rattan ball withered as soon as it landed, revealing several elves who were dizzy inside.

Roger and others carefully helped the elves sitting on the ground, and exclamations came from all around.

It was really beautiful, Xiao Chen had to praise it, the elves' reputation was well-deserved, although there were many differences in their appearance from humans, but this difference made their appearance have an unprecedented exotic style. The elves in front of him could be described as spring orchids and autumn chrysanthemums, each with its own merits, especially the one who stood up first, who had a charm that instantly captured people's hearts.

The first thing the elf did after standing up was to rush to Xiao Chen.

"Mr. Mage, please save Sariel! She's going to be burned to death."

"Are you injured? Your body is covered in blood!" Xiao Chen saw that half of her yellow robe was stained red.

"That's not my blood. Go save Sariel. It's too late." Elena grabbed Xiao Chen's arm.

"Who is Sariel? It's the tree man who talked to my soul. Please let me protect you."

"Sariel is the tree man who 'spoke to your soul'. The thugs have poured oil on her. Please break open the door and stop them. Please!" Elena's tears flowed down her cheeks. Xiao Chen couldn't help but feel sympathy for her.

Xiao Chen patted her hands that were holding him and said to Roger: "Quick, take all the good hands, break open the door of the yard, and take down those guys who besieged the tree man."

Roger led five or six fighting spirit warriors as the vanguard, and led thirty or forty strong men, picked up wooden pillars and stones that could break the door, and rushed to the inner courtyard.

But when he led the crowd to break open the inner door, he saw Ralph and his men throwing more than a dozen torches on the tree man. The oil and wine were ignited, and several fire snakes climbed up the tree man's body from bottom to top. In an instant, it was covered in flames.