Chapter 28 Black Moon
For Rhodes.
Getting help from the tree spirits is undoubtedly good news.
Although they are in a worrying situation now, they have great potential and may help him rebuild the dream forest.
"According to this progress, the next batch of seeds should be mature in ten days."
Looking at Augla who was chasing the little thing for fruit, Rhodes fell into thought.
With the huge body of the war giant tree, the life energy consumed must be not low. I don't know if these wheats are enough. It would be better if the range of the black soil retreated a few dozen meters.
Although the suppression of the tree god mark made the black soil retreat ten meters, this range is only enough to plant a small part of the plants.
If you want to expand the range.
You can only find the remaining three demigod marks, or get more plant seeds that have the same clearing effect on the black soil as the mutant tree.
There is no need to think about the demigod mark for a while.
After all, he doesn't even have any news.
Then there is only the second method left, to get more rare seeds, or to divide the plants.
Rhodes had observed before that the fruits of the mutant trees had no seeds, just like the specially cultivated seedless watermelons, which lost the ability to spread seeds.
But it was not a big problem.
Because it is well known that the branches of many plants can be directly cut out and planted independently, why not try to plant the branches of the mutant trees?
"I am such a genius!"
After figuring this out, Rhodes instantly had a goal.
He wanted to plant the masochistic trees in every corner to disperse the surrounding black soil, so that he could have more land for planting.
"Ga! Ga!"
Suddenly, the call of the soul raven came from the sky.
Rhodes looked up and found that it was already night without realizing it, but he didn't see any unusual movement.
But strangely, the soul raven seemed to sense something, and it flew around in the sky with a hint of anxiety in its call.
Augula, who was fighting with the little thing for the remaining half of the fruit, also ran over after hearing the news, with a puzzled look on his face.
"Lord Rhodes, what happened?"
"I'm not sure yet, it looks a little wrong."
Rhodes looked solemn.
As the purest soul, the Soul Raven's perception of danger is almost instinctive, just like ants will move ahead of time when encountering a rainstorm, and they will definitely not scream for no reason.
In other words.
Something dangerous is approaching here!
"Ah!"
Just then, the little thing discovered something and started to scream.
Rhodes followed his gaze and found that the sky had become chaotic at some point.
The place where black and emerald colors were originally intertwined had been completely replaced by darkness, and the remaining light was almost forced into the corner, exuding an extremely oppressive atmosphere.
Gradually.
Something that shocked Rhodes happened.
The sky that should have been empty actually had a strange black full moon, which slowly appeared in the center until it was fully formed, like a huge eyeball staring at the earth.
"Black Moon!"
Rhodes almost subconsciously whispered.
He clearly remembered that the moon in this world should have disappeared.
But why.
The moon suddenly appeared in the sky?
And it was so strange!
Not to mention Augla and the little thing, they had never seen the moon since they were born.
They only felt a suction force on the black moon, as if it was going to suck away their souls, and even their vision became blurred and distorted.
"Everyone be careful! Don't look at that moon!"
Rhodes was the first to react, and woke them up with a roar.
The soul raven was like a frightened bird, flapping its wings and flying back to the plantation, with only a bird head showing through the gap between the leaves.
"Roar!!"
"Ah~"
The roars and roars echoed in the black soil, as if they were collectively in a frenzy, and even the surrounding black air began to surge violently.
Rhodes' face changed slightly, and he didn't expect that there would be such a change in the black soil world.
The appearance of the black moon.
It was like pouring a basin of cold water into a calm oil pan, making the entire black soil world boil.
He even heard a few extremely terrifying roars from those voices, one of which came from the druid's nest he had explored before!
"Damn it! I'm so unlucky that everything I drink is a mess."
"Are you two okay?"
Rhodes looked up into the distance.
Augura, who had the strength of the fourth level, had a solemn expression, while the little creature, who was less than the first level, hid in the pit, exposing his head and alertly looking around.
"I'm fine, I just feel a little dizzy, and I feel like something is tearing my soul and limiting my strength."
"Ah!"
After getting their response, Rhodes finally felt relieved and hurriedly said, "This black moon is not simple, it may cause some trouble, you guys be prepared."
After that.
He ran to the edge of the altar to check the surrounding situation.
As he expected, under the shining of the black moon, the erosion power of the black soil became more terrifying, and even the wheat seedlings near the edge were not spared, and all of them were drained of vitality and died.
He looked up into the distance.
In the endless darkness, dense figures were approaching this side.
"Oh no! It's a black beast!"
Finally, the worst and most undesirable situation occurred.
Rhodes had thought that he might be attacked by black beasts, but he did not expect that there would be so many. At a glance, there were at least dozens of them, and they were increasing rapidly.
He even saw many familiar figures among them.
[Crazy Tree Demon lv6]
[Demonized Druid (Raven) lv7]
[Demonized Druid (Owl Beast) lv10]
…
Even the monsters from the Druid's lair were attracted.
There is even a level 10 one!
"Is this the black beast?"
At this time, Augula recovered and frowned as he looked at the monster running towards him.
He felt a familiar aura from those monsters.
They look like companions, but they also look a little different. I can't tell the difference for a while.
"Yes, this is the black beast I'm talking about."
Rhodes said seriously: "They were supposed to be the corpses of the forest guardians. After being contaminated by the black soil, they turned into these unconscious monsters that would attack anything with the breath of life."
"Damn it! How dare you defile the corpses of the guardians!"
At this moment, Ogula finally became angry, and his huge body stood up suddenly, making a clicking sound.
There was no need for Rhodes to give orders at all.
Without a muscle, he had already rushed out of the altar and directly faced the surging army of black beasts.
"Humble reptiles, let me show you how powerful Lord Ogola is!"
Boom——
The ground collapsed and soil flew up.
In a rage, Augura directly activated the war tree's innate ability, War Trample!
The huge body is like a wolf entering a flock of sheep. Every time it steps out, it will trample large black beasts to death. The swinging giant arms even turn the crows flying in the sky into corpses, and they fall down like rain.
The power of the fourth level.
So scary!
Rhodes was pleasantly surprised. He had underestimated the level 4 combat power.
Even if it is just a soul body and cannot exert all its strength, it is at the crushing level for these black beasts that are not even second level.
Fortunately, Augura is here.
Otherwise, relying on them alone would probably result in heavy losses.
"Lord Rhodes, those who are alone will be left to you!"
At this time, Augura, who was in the herd of beasts, turned around and shouted.
He knew that Rhodes was the messenger sent by the Moon God to rebuild the forest and was not good at fighting, so he rushed to the front and blocked most of the black beasts.
But with the blessing of the black moon.
Those black beasts were like crazy, biting fiercely without fear of death, dragging down his footsteps, causing several smaller low-level black beasts to pass by and go straight to the altar.
Fortunately, Rhodes was prepared.
Together with the little thing, he quickly greeted him.
Coupled with the restraint of Dragon Blood Vine, these fish that slipped through the net were eliminated with three strikes, five strikes and two strikes, and the situation was quickly stabilized.
Looking over at Ogula, corpses have already piled up into a mountain at their feet, and the huge branches are swaying wildly. It is quite courageous for one man to stand in front of ten thousand others.
that's all.
Until more than half an hour later.
The number of attacking black beasts slowly began to decrease.
Under the astonished gazes of Rhodes and others, the corpses on the ground turned into countless light spots and flew high into the sky, as if they were being pulled by some force, and converged towards the black moon.
"What's going on?"
"Why does the color of the moon seem to be getting lighter?"