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Chapter 277 - 215 Forest Spirit_3

Chapter 277: Chapter 215 Forest Spirit_3

However, just as Mu You led his pets to charge, Vivian suddenly spoke: "Be careful, this bear is not quite normal..."

"Oh?"

Mu You was stunned and had no time to react to what she meant. He heard two whacks, and the two trolls at the front were unexpectedly sent flying by the bear with just one paw.

The bear then roared angrily, pouncing on four limbs, charging like a wild bull war chariot. Its speed was so fast that it left afterimages.

A power charged leap from the Little Spider only slightly slowed the bear’s speed. Meanwhile, the spider was repelled by the impact and hit a tree trunk, its eyes seeing stars.

Watching as the brown bear war chariot rushed towards him, Mu You hastily jumped up and narrowly avoided the impact, clinging to the trunk of a large tree three to four meters off the ground.

"Is this a level eight?"

Looking at the devastated forest below which was ploughed by a brown bear, like the aftermath of an earthquake, Mu You began to doubt if he had misread the level. Whether it was not level eight but level eighteen. But after looking carefully at the Omniscient Crystal’s info, he found that it was indeed level eight, with average monster attributes.

However, a level eight monster certainly couldn’t send a level fourteen troll flying with one paw, let alone cause such massive destruction with one charge.

Vivian was right, there was indeed something unusual about this bear...

"Boom!"

While thinking, a black shadow suddenly burst out from the dust and rubble below, rushing towards him at a speed as fast as lightning.

Fortunately, it was already nine o’clock at night, and his vampire skin attribute bonus had reached 60%. With high agility, Mu You was able to see the brown bear’s movements and dodge it in time, jumping off the tree before the brown bear pounced on him.

As they brushed past each other, Mu You sensed a very familiar aura from the bear: Black Magic, also known as natural magical energy!

This bear was filled with even more natural magical energy than his crystal store!

So it was because of natural magical energy that this brown bear became so strong?

Mu You had no time to think more, he quickly drew his Mithril Bow and fired a Burst Arrow infused with Explosive Potion, taking advantage of the airborne bear.

The distant brown bear seemed to have sensed the danger and evaded the arrow’s trajectory with great speed by stepping on a tree trunk to gain a boost.

Unfortunately, the Mithril Bow had just been upgraded, and this arrow had a tracking effect that worked once every five seconds. In the air, it drew a beautiful arc and finally, like a missile, accurately hit the brown bear’s right leg.

The brown bear screamed horribly as it fell to the ground. Its rear leg was blasted into a bloody mess. Its four-legged force turned into three-legged force. Although it wasn’t gravely wounded, at least its movement speed wasn’t as scary as before.

Mu You seized the chance, immediately landed and started casting magic, firing a string of Small Fireballs from the tip of his Magic Wand as if they were free.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Amidst the successive explosion noises, the flames quickly covered the brown bear’s location.

The Magic Wand was like an artillery gun, bombarding more than thirty times until one of his crystals was about to run out of natural magical energy, then finally, a prompt sounded in his mind.

[You killed a Storm Bear (Level 8), Life +1, Experience +8, and you have obtained a ’Black Magic Crystal’ *1.]

"Only eight experience points are given, what a big loss..." Mu You complained while looking at the prompt in his mind.

This monster nearly drained an entire crystal’s worth of magical energy. If he used this energy to farm other monsters, it would be enough to get hundreds of points.

What’s more, this monster didn’t drop any materials but a type of crystal.

Mu You quickly walked over to check it. Indeed, next to the brown bear’s corpse was a black crystal the size of a thumb.

At this time, the bear’s body looked as if it was infected by some kind of spore fungus. Numerous swellings and ulcers were erupting, and a large amount of black aura was mixed in. Finally, all the black aura was absorbed into the crystal, and the bear’s corpse decomposed and dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye. Eventually, it turned into dust and vanished from the land.

Mu You picked up the black crystal and examined it.

[Black Magic Crystal: A crystal containing abundant black magical energy. Wizards can absorb the energy inside to replenish their natural magic power, thereby unleashing powerful black magic. However, the price of letting black magic energy into the body is an extremely high risk of a backlash from black magic, which can lead to loss of control.]

"As expected, it’s natural magic power!"

After reading this, Mu You understood. This bear must have been forced to absorb a large amount of natural magic power. The black magic energy entering its body made it powerful, but also led it to lose control. It had turned into a monster that only knew destruction and killing.

What Mu You couldn’t understand was that it was just a monster, where did it absorb such a large amount of natural magic power from?

"The Forest Spirit has lost control, we need to act quickly..." Vivian suddenly said, her tone somewhat urgent.

"Forest Spirit?" Mu You was taken aback; it was a name he hadn’t heard before.

"The core of the Black Forest, the origin of all plants in the entire Black Forest and the source of the Maze Barrier’s energy," Vivian explained.

"You mean the Forest Spirit is ’out of control’...so, has it been infected by natural magic power as well?" Mu You asked as he ran into the forest.

Vivian shook her head: "The Forest Spirit itself has the power to absorb the pollution of the black magic. For the thousands of years since its creation, it has absorbed countless black magic pollutants for the earth. But now, the black magic that was once absorbed has been artificially detonated, causing the whole forest to be enveloped by black magic."

"In other words, the Forest Spirit was not infected, but it is the source of the infection itself! By now, all the creatures in the forest are probably in this state, and moreover, if it is not controlled, this infection will soon spread..." Vivian pointed at the remains of the bear.

"Who would do such a rotten thing? It can’t be the Wizard Association again, right?" Mu You never hesitated to malign the Wizard Association with the most malice possible. As soon as he heard about this malevolent event, he instinctively associated it with the Wizard Association.

"It shouldn’t be. The Wizard Association has a deep taboo against black magic. They wish nothing more than for black magic to disappear from this world completely. They wouldn’t deliberately detonate black magic to make trouble for themselves..." Vivian shook her head.