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Chapter 1040 - 482 Fairy’s Tears_3

Chapter 1040: Chapter 482 Fairy’s Tears_3

[What lay before you was a pitch-black, profound jungle, its dimly lit forest brimming with a misty vapor. From a distance, every withered tree in the forest seemed to bear a twisted crying face, appearing eerie and bizarre in the darkness...]

By now, Mu You had almost become immune to such texts purposely infused with a mysterious atmosphere. Compared to the initial oppressive force of the Black Forest, what was this forest? Moreover, his power had become incomparable to what it once was.

[You and Fuya entered the forest fearlessly.]

[Stepping on the soft soil of the forest, you subtly smelled a strange fragrance of flowers, sweet yet accompanied by a hint of bitterness.]

[Suddenly, you spotted a toad-like monster ahead of you, rushing towards you with its gaping maw.]

[You switched to Mechanical Armor Skin and raised your dual gun barrels towards the monster.]

"Hey, wait a minute!"

[Before you could fire, Fuya called out to stop you.]

[You paused, only to see the monster flash past you and disappear, causing no harm whatsoever.]

[After the monster vanished, Fuya stepped forward, took out her Magic Wand, and aimed at the bushes ahead, casting ’True Form Reveal’!]

[The scene before the bushes instantly changed, revealing a path through the dense forest. A cluster of purple mushrooms on the roadside became visible, but they burrowed into the ground and disappeared before you could approach.]

"This type of mushroom is called ’Psychedelic fungus’, capable of creating illusions. They’re everywhere in Bitter Forest, so what your eyes see here may often not be real," Fuya quickly explained to Mu You: "You’re new here, so you might not be used to it. Just follow me, and when I tell you to shoot, then shoot..."]

Fuya appeared like a seasoned guide showing the ropes to a newbie.

Unfortunately, before she could finish her sentence, Mu You had already raised his dual guns, firing off two streams of fire above her head.

[With Fuya stunned, you demonstrated masterful marksmanship, tracing a line of fire around her body. With the final shot, a cry of pain from an animal rang out from behind Fuya. A blood-covered long-toothed squirrel fell to the ground, lifeless.]

[You killed the Long-toothed squirrel. Experience +12, Lifespan +1, Squirrel Fur *1, Bitter Pollen *1.]

"How did you know this one was real?" Fuya messaged after a few seconds of being dazed.

"If I say it was intuition, would you believe me?" Mu You replied.

"..."

Fuya didn’t respond; she had realized that Mu You must have some way to discern reality from illusion, otherwise, he couldn’t have acted so decisively and smoothly.

She only then remembered that the man in front of her had just slain five Titans, and was no longer on the same level as her. Thinking she could guide someone like him was indeed thinking too much.

While Fuya was still brooding, Mu You was already controlling his character to pick up the spoils of battle.

The tail goes without saying; it was a common drop, but the other item was key.

"What is this?" Mu You looked at the text that popped up in the game, ’Bitter Pollen’—a drop he had never seen before; even the Omniscient Crystal hadn’t provided any special information.

"Bitter Pollen, a type of Magic Medicine Material, a special product of this forest. However, it’s not really from a flower since no one knows where it comes from or what its real form looks like. In any case, every creature that dies in this forest drops at least one portion of Bitter Pollen, and that’s the origin of the name ’Bitter Forest,’" Fuya explained.

"Oh? What can this stuff do?"

"It can make...chocolate..."

"Chocolate?" Mu You looked puzzled. He had asked what magic it could perform, and her answer about a type of food confused him.

"Don’t underestimate chocolate! This pollen can be used to make animated Magic Chocolate. The taste is bitter yet oddly sweet, surprisingly potent. Also, legend has it that this pollen was transformed from the tears of the Fairy of Love. The chocolate made from it can help people increase their chances of finding true love! In some sense, it’s more precious than any Magic Potion."

"So every year around Valentine’s Day, a massive influx of students would swarm into the forbidden woods to hunt for this pollen and make chocolates for their loved ones. It has become a fixed event in the Imperial Capital called ’Bitter Valentine’s Day’, during which even witches from other places would come specially to gather pollen!"

"So around Valentine’s Day each year, this place is the liveliest, but at other times, it’s scarcely visited."

[With a longing look, Fuya shared with you about the grand occasions of past ’Bitter Valentine’s Days’.]

Mu You wasn’t interested in the students’ gossip, but one term Fuya mentioned caught his attention: Fairy of Love!

His purpose for this trip was to find ’fairies’, could it be that Bitter Garden truly existed here?

"You said large groups of students come here every year, has anyone ever encountered a fairy in here?" Mu You messaged Fuya.

"Fairy? Not at all..." Fuya paused, laughing slightly: "Stuff like the Fairy of Love is just legends, how could they be real?"

"Not even one?" Mu You persisted.

"Really none," Fuya said decisively: "Fairies are symbols of rare fortune; it’s said even a glimpse of a fairy would grant prolonged good luck. If there were fairies here, it would be widely popular by now, why would it be so deserted?"