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Chapter 279 - 217: Forest Spirit’s Wrath_1

Chapter 279: Chapter 217: Forest Spirit’s Wrath_1

It’s a high-quality skin with both lifespan tasks and talents!

There’s not much to say about the talent, as it increases the success rate of divination, but it will decrease with each use, even to a negative value. In other words, there is a limit to the number of divinations per day, and there is a 100% failure rate after the twelfth time.

As for the lifespan tasks, there are seven per week, which isn’t much different from one per day. However, in order to complete these tasks, you first need to learn divination. Furthermore, there is a regional restriction, as lifespan can only be gained by divining within the Star Spirit World.

After the skin was integrated, the woman’s corpse on the ground simply disappeared, leaving only the crystal ball behind.

Mu You picked up the crystal ball and looked at it.

[An ordinary crystal ball, it can slightly increase the success rate of divination and reduce the magic consumption of divination.]

This crystal ball is just an excellent grade item considering its color, the effect is rather ordinary. However, it is one of the necessities for divination.

What puzzled Mu You was that the diviner only left a crystal ball and no other tools... could they all have been thrown into the brazier?

Mu You stood up, looked into the brazier on the altar, and found it full of ashes. Occasionally, he could make out the edges of something resembling cards.

"So, it really was burned..."

Mu You shook his head in regret. It didn’t matter that other things were burned, but that Tarot deck was a good item. Each card sealed a type of power. All together, it should at least be considered an epic grade item. Unfortunately, it was all reduced to ashes...

While he was feeling sorry, suddenly, there was a fluttering sound from the side.

Mu You instinctively turned his head to look and saw a raven seemingly flying out from the void. The raven had a card in its beak which it dropped into his hand, before unceremoniously landing on his other shoulder and began preening its feathers.

Mu You was taken aback and looked at the card in his hand.

It was a Tarot card, the face of the card was ’The Hermit’.

[The Hermit Card: Activation can make the user invisible. When standing still, the user will enter a state of deep invisibility.]

Unexpectedly, a card was left...

Mu You looked again at the raven on his shoulder.

This raven was clearly the one that had guided him in the game. It was Vivian’s familiar and once her hosting body. He didn’t expect that it had also hidden in the barrier ahead of time and even knew how to use The Hermit card to hide...

Could it be, the Tarot cards were all burned by the raven?

Mu You suddenly thought this was a possibility.

If that’s the case, his initial speculation might be wrong. The diviner might have been dead for many days. But for maintaining the formation of the barrier, the raven took her treasures and kept throwing them into the brazier for survival.

No matter what, everything got burned anyway. The remaining Hermit card is not too valuable, it only has the ability of deep invisibility, just slightly better than an Invisibility Cloak.

Mu You put away the card, left the barrier, and continued forward according to Vivian’s guidance.

A few miles ahead, the forest changed once more.

Mu You patiently waited. After all the terrains’ changes had stopped and he looked up again, there was a stone platform in the open space ahead, on which stood a massive Libra.

This was evidently the fifth trial in the game who held the Black Magic Scroll. One could only choose one thing from either side, and after taking the item, an equivalent thing had to be returned to maintain balance.

At that time, there were four scrolls on the Libra, on one side was a forbidden black magic named ’Meteor Fall’, on the other side were ’Midas Touch’, ’Rejuvenation’, and ’Small Fireball Technique’.

Mu You didn’t carry many items at that time, so he only took Rejuvenation and Small Fireball, and he left some random items back. Only then was he able to maintain the balance.

However, when he saw the scales again, one side was out of balance. The scroll of ’Midas Touch’ in the tray had disappeared, leading the scales to tilt completely to the other side.

Dozens of meters away from the stone platform, there was also a golden statue standing. The statue was an ugly man covered in lumps and large pimples. Only half of it was human, the other half had turned into a monster under the influence of black magic.

The man appeared terrified at the moment, holding a wand in his hand, but the tip of the wand was pointed at himself.

Upon seeing this statue, a name immediately came to mind: the Mad Pharmacist, the fanatical pharmacist that he encountered in the second trial, who used his own body as a test subject and turned himself into a ghastly figure.

Combining all the clues, Mu You quickly guessed what had happened here.

After Vivian was summoned away by him using the Spirit Summoning Ceremony, this pharmacist probably got greedy seeing the Black Forest unmonitored and set his sights on the treasures on the Libra. However, he didn’t know the rule of the scale and stole Midas Touch. The scale lost its balance and he fell into an uncontrollable state, his body starting to mutate.

Before he completely lost his sanity and turned into a monster, the pharmacist had to use Midas Touch on himself to stop the uncontrollable state.

The result was him turning into a statue and Midas Touch vanished completely with his death...

"What a waste..."

Mu You shook his head helplessly. Such a practical spell, and it just got snatched away.

Then, Mu You walked up to the scale, picked up the only remaining scroll, and casually put some miscellaneous items on it, restoring the balance.

[Meteor Fall: Forbidden Black Magic that summons a destructive meteor swarm to cause destruction to everything around, except you. The power and range depend on the consumption of natural magic power.]

This is the only forbidden curse level black magic known to Mu You so far!

The power of black magic is inherently two levels above ordinary magic, and the forbidden curse level black magic can be said to be the most powerful spell that humans can create!

This is a truly world-destroying method. Mu You can hardly imagine what degree of destruction would be caused if the spell is invoked.

Such a spell, of course, cannot be used recklessly, or even traded with others in the Secret Technique Association. This kind of nuclear weaponry of the magic world is best kept in one’s own hands.

Mu You carefully stowed away the scroll and looked ahead.

After the fifth level of the game Libra, Vivian’s cottage in the forest is right next to it.

Mu You left the stone platform and walked forward for a while.

Sure enough, the forest ahead began to change rapidly, and after a earth-shattering tremble, a new path appeared. At the end of the path, a house hidden in the forest was vaguely visible.

Mu You quickly approached the cottage and pushed the door open.

The interior of the cottage seems to have been subjected to some sort of space expansion magic, the interior is much larger than it looks.

However, the cottage was empty at this moment, without the pyre described in the game, and there were no remains of Vivian.

As Mu You was about to walk into the house to see clearly, the ground suddenly shook from an unknown energy.

A giant wooden hand erupted from the ground, instantly grabbing the whole house, and immediately plunged it into the ground with a rumble.

The house was shattered in an instant with wood, rubble, and dirt flying about. Mu You quickly used the Strong Wind Blowing to blow away all the falling objects around him.

After a few seconds of falling, he finally landed in a cavern ten meters deep from the ground.

The underground was filled with spore balls and colorful mushroom groves, entwined with numerous plant roots in the soil above, adorned with countless glowing purple stones that lit up the underground environment.

In the dim purple light, Mu You finally saw the pyre placed on an open space in front of him. On the pyre, a witch who had been dead for a long time was bound with tendrils and thorns.

Unlike the imagined age and dryness, Vivian’s corpse on the pyre showed no signs of age but maintained a youthful appearance. Even her body, though skinny due to the excessive loss of energy, her skin surprisingly maintained a living color, as if she was just asleep.

Next to the pyre was a clear and vibrant spring. Even from a distance, Mu You could feel the abundant vitality coming from it.

[Fountain of Youth: Any creature within ten meters of the spring will continue to recover HP and stop aging.]

A body of water that can stop aging, this should be the reason why Vivian’s remains have not decayed for hundreds of years.

And at this moment, soaking in this spring was a six to seven meters tall giant plant life form with purple skin, bright red eyes, a body covered with branches and roots of trees, shaped like a deer with a pair of huge brightly branched antlers extending into the soil layer above.

Mu You noticed that the tendrils and thorns entwining the pyre were all grown from this life form, and quickly looked it up with the Omniscient Crystal.

[Forest Spirit: A spirit of the forest composed of pure wood elements. It can freely transform into any form, and it’s only likely to be born in areas extremely rich in wood and life energy. It can absorb and digest all kinds of toxins and pollution, and is the ’Lungs of the Earth’ in the world of star spirits.]

[Forest Spirit (Chaotic state), Level ???]

Indeed, this is the legendary ’Forest Spirit’ even the Omniscient Crystal can’t detect its level.

At this moment, the Forest Spirit, whose eyes are red and mired in madness, was constantly exhaling black gas from its body, through its roots, seeping into the earth, transmitting into the entire Black Forest.

The Forest Spirit apparently can no longer control the overflow of black gas. It looked over at Mu You with a pained expression, and its gaze quickly moved to the canary on Mu You’s shoulder.

"Familiar scent..."

The Forest Spirit’s voice was chaotic, layered and seemed to come from nowhere: "Anseni Vivian, have you come to fulfill your promise?"

"No, I have come to take back my body..." Vivian replied.

"LIAR!!!" A deafening roar.

The Forest Spirit seemed to be completely angered by this statement, its eyes became blood red, and the black gas on its body surged out more violently.

"You are the most vicious liar in the world, you broke your promise, the way I am now, is all because of you!"

As soon as it finished speaking, a giant wooden hand erupted from the ground and, with a strong sense of resentment, slapped at Mu You.

Mu You quickly jumped back to avoid.

Luckily, the Forest Spirit was currently in a chaotic state and not fully conscious, like drunk, swinging its two giant wooden hands wildly, but its aim was awful.

Mu You moved back over a dozen meters, jumped onto a high platform, and finally managed to get out of the attack range of the Forest Spirit.

Seeing the Forest Spirit still venting its fury in the distance, Mu You looked at Vivian in confusion: "What’s going on? It doesn’t seem to like you very much?"

Originally, seeing the Forest Spirit dutifully protecting Vivian’s remains for nearly a hundred years, Mu You thought that Vivian had tamed this Forest Spirit, or at the very least, they should have some kind of friendly relationship.

But on the contrary, from the tone of the Forest Spirit, only hatred and resentment could be heard, as if Vivian had done something utterly contemptible to it.