The Witcher: Elemental Lords

Around the locust tree, many shadows had appeared on the ground at some point. These shadows suddenly appeared and then took root beneath everyone's feet.

Everyone was unable to move, watching helplessly as the shadows rose from the ground,缠上 their bodies, and then...

Before long, a gust of wind blew through the air, and everyone's body suddenly turned into dust and disappeared, leaving only some clothes and armor.

Several hundred meters away, Dole hid behind a rock, watching all this with trepidation. 'Damn it, it really is that guy from last night. Looks like I have to wait a while, until he calms down.'

He was determined to get the lightning-struck wood. If it really came down to it, he would have to ask Lord Baal to take action and kill this ghost.

However, he would be satisfied even if he could get just a little bit of lightning-struck wood. It wouldn't matter whether or not he asked Lord Baal for help.

Although Yin Ghosts can manipulate various negative energies, their main bodies dare not appear directly in the sunlight. As long as he goes to sleep, Dole can approach and chop off a piece of wood to take back.

Lightning-struck wood, regardless of its age, is many times stronger in nature than the core of a thousand-year-old locust tree.

As time passed and the sun shone brightly, the Yin energy was withdrawn, and the mountaintop quickly returned to its previous warm scene.

The mountain wind blew, no longer carrying the previous biting chill.

Dole glanced around.

The mountaintop was only so big, and there were only so many places to hide. When the Yin Ghost went berserk just now, the people around him had long since fled. He saw several familiar teams already scurrying down the mountain to find some warm jade elsewhere.

He now realized that the news about the warm jade was probably a lie. In the past few days, several murders had occurred in the mountains, probably people being lured into a trap.

About half an hour passed, and the temperature on the mountain rose, and the Yin Ghost completely returned to a dormant state.

Seeing this, Dole restrained all his aura and walked out from behind the rock. This time, he didn't even release a trace of mental power. All the concealment equipment on his body was activated to ensure that not a single trace of magic leaked out.

He carried his sword and came to the locust tree.

He had observed it just now. He needed a little bit of branch with the locust tree core. Now was a good time to take another look.

Carefully observing, afraid of alarming the Yin Ghost, Dole walked very slowly.

Before long, he saw another thick branch, which should have the tree core inside. After thinking about it, he bit the sword in his mouth and slowly climbed up the tree.

As long as there were no energy fluctuations, he wouldn't attract the Yin Ghost's attention.

After being struck by lightning many times, the locust tree's trunk was covered with charred bark, as well as various new buds. Although there were still some old branches, there weren't many. The one Dole saw was one of the thicker old branches.

Slowly climbing over, coming to the front of the old branch, Dole felt a little apprehensive looking at the charred tree hole.

He had to get the branch down as soon as possible, otherwise, if the Yin Ghost came out again, he would have no choice but to summon Lord Baal.

Thinking of this, he stood in front of the branch, raised his sword, placed it on the locust tree, and tested the position and strength.

He suddenly raised his sword, and then used all his strength to chop down.

Bang.

After eating dragon blood, his strength had far exceeded that of an ordinary level one extraordinary warrior, even comparable to a level two extraordinary warrior. Without using battle aura, this sword with pure physical strength had almost three or four hundred kilograms of force, but it didn't even cut the branch.

Dole was a little dumbfounded at the time. He hurriedly raised his hand again, following the previous position, and chopped down again.

Continuously chopping several swords in the same position, Dole's forehead was covered with sweat. He was just afraid of alarming the Yin Ghost in the tree.

Poof.

The sword in his hand fell empty, the branch broke off and fell to the ground.

At this time, some subtle Yin energy in the tree began to condense.

Dole didn't have time to wipe his sweat. He jumped up from the tree, jumped to the ground, and then dragged the branch and ran down the mountain.

While running, he looked at the wood grain of the cut branch, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

There was indeed a tree core. The brown tree core seemed to emit a strange, fine, purple light, which almost made his eyes unable to open.

His speed was very fast, and he quickly fled, disappearing into the mountains.

...

Baal was standing on the other side of the mountain at this time, standing on a rock, seeing Dole's unpromising appearance, the corner of his mouth twitched.

This guy is really afraid of death.

Seeing Dole succeed, he gently moved his steps, seemingly only crossing two or three steps, but had already come behind Dole.

Dole ran several kilometers in one breath, coming to a dark and gloomy valley, before stopping to rest, panting heavily before slumping to the ground.

Too exciting.

Looking at the locust branch on his shoulder, Dole's eyes gleamed. After catching his breath, he took out his sword and chopped off all the excess branches on the branch, leaving only a bare stick.

While stroking the stick, he probed with his mental power. His heart blossomed with joy.

Lightning-struck Locust.

The locust tree core has a particularly good mental affinity, containing Yin attribute power. However, the lightning-struck locust's tree core contains even more of a lightning intent, belonging to the lightning intent between heaven and earth. When he specializes in the Son of Storms in the future, this lightning intent will have a huge effect, amplifying lightning, and allowing him to comprehend the true meaning of lightning will not be a problem.

This was left by the heavenly lightning, naturally carrying a trace of heaven and earth's majesty, almost able to amplify any lightning spell, greatly increasing its power.

Baal walked out from behind Dole, came to his front, looked at the locust tree core, nodded slightly, and said, "This material is not bad. Although the locust branch's age is a bit low, it is still four or five hundred years old. The lightning intent contained within perfectly compensates for the rest. If this is made, the grade will be at least extraordinary level five or above."

Dole nodded excitedly. He stroked the branch while sighing, "This trip was not in vain." He stroked the branch as if he were stroking his lover.

At this moment, Baal turned his head, glanced at the mountain, and smiled faintly, "Dole, don't be too obsessed. Haven't you noticed? You are already surrounded."

Hearing this, Dole immediately raised his head and looked into the mountains.

Just now, in order not to be discovered by the Yin Ghost, he had restrained all his aura in his body and had not observed his surroundings at all, let alone used his mental power to observe.

With Baal saying this, he immediately released his mental power and felt the killing intent hidden in the dark.

The mountains were full of killing intent. He had run all the way down and only rested for less than two minutes. The other party had already surrounded him?

Could this be the group of people who secretly spread the news?

Glancing at the dark forest, Dole stood up expressionlessly and began to use his sword to clean the bark and excess white trunk from the tree core. He only needed to leave the brown tree core.

In the shadows, the danger was getting closer and closer.

At this moment, in Dole's mental field, from different directions, a full four extremely fast arrows shot out from the shadows, directly towards his position, the arrows almost sealing off all his angles.

Dole didn't panic. He gently stepped forward, as if he had foreseen it, dodging the arrows, free and easy. His hands didn't stop, continuing to whittle the wooden stick.

In the mountains and forests, those people had already exposed themselves, and suddenly a rain of arrows came.

Dole spread out his mental field, covering more than a hundred meters around, perfectly capturing the flight path of the arrows. Archers are the nemesis of magicians. They hide in the dark, and it is difficult for any magician to withstand a round of archer fire, especially high-level archers. The arrows they shoot can even turn or explode in mid-air, making them impossible to defend against.