Chapter 378: Entering the Garden
Chapter 378: Entering the Garden
Kaghi stared at Lindsey ahead of him.
Lindsey drew a wooden sword-shaped branch from the void.
With the skills of a Sensor, he noticed the difference between the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout and ordinary plants, but upon closer inspection, his skills, not yet advanced to the fifth stage, failed to reveal the true strangeness of this plant:
"Lord Diablo, what is that you're holding?" Kaghi asked.
Lindsey replied calmly, "This is a tool for clearing the way."
The Lindsey before them was no longer the same as when he had left the hidden frontier.
In addition to the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout, Lindsey also had the Winterberry Beanvine, a magical plant with the power to break through spatial limitations.
However, there was only one seed of this magical plant.
For now, it was best to try the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout first.
Kaghi was puzzled, "Clear the way?"
"Can this branch tear open space...?" Kaghi asked, but before he could finish his sentence.
Lindsey, facing the underground fault ahead, lightly drew the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout across it.
Swish—
The Purple Leaf Vine Sprout, when waved in the air, would usually create no spectacle, just like a child's wooden stick being waved around.
But this time, Lindsey felt a completely different sensation from the branch in his hand.
It was as if he were using chopsticks to tear open the surface of cooled hot milk, with its thin skin.
In reality, the tip of the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout tore through the wall, simultaneously ripping open a rift in the void, revealing a cold, ancient light behind it.
"Let's go," Lindsey said, putting away the Purple Leaf Vine Sprout and taking a step forward, entering the rift.
Kaghi, standing behind Lindsey, watched as his figure disappeared.
He hesitated for a moment, but then gritted his teeth and followed him in.
...
Mullernahun sat inside a wooden hall, his appearance disheveled. His once-elegant clothes were now torn to shreds, making him resemble a beggar who had just fled for his life.
After multiple schemes, Mullernahun had driven Hans Ke into a desperate situation.
However, his condition was no better after entering the Garden.
Before him stood a solid wooden door, and Mullernahun tried to use his skills to open it, but the door remained unmoved, resisting his power.
"If not for that damned Law..." Mullernahun muttered under his breath.
The Organizer scowled, feeling the vibrant life force just beyond the door at this distance.
As long as he could obtain this power, not only could he heal his physical injuries, but he might also have a chance to break through to the eighth stage.
But at this very moment, Mullernahun was blocked by the door.
The Organizer's skills mainly involved controlling people. After the seventh stage, by extending his concept, he could also manipulate the city or territory under his control.
However, in Mullernahun's current state...
"Open it for me... Ugh—Cough, cough, cough!" Mullernahun tried to mobilize his Source Essence skills, but failure followed.
He coughed a few times, covering his chest, and a hint of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
In Echo Valley, Mullernahun had exhausted himself to drive Hans Ke into a deadly situation, and then he had torn open this spatial rift to enter the Garden.
Now, manipulating objects in reality was as difficult as climbing a mountain.
"It's fine, I have all the time in the world," Mullernahun said, adjusting himself and taking a deep breath.
He straightened his torn clothes and sat in the hall, regaining his dignified posture, and an aura of authority emanated from him.
Currently, Hans Ke was buried underground, and in the Forest Courtyard, apart from Mullernahun himself, there was only one other powerful individual, Cosweylite.
The old wizard's personality was such that he would undoubtedly be calming the civilians and managing the various symptoms that had appeared in the forest. It was highly unlikely that they would find him here in a short time.
"Three days."
"Just give me three more days, and I'll recover enough to open this door. Wait and see!"
"..."
"Lord Diablo, did we enter so quickly?"
On the other side, Lindsey and Kaghi had just crossed the spatial rift.
The Sensor had thought that traversing space would take considerable effort, but to his surprise, in the blink of an eye, his feet were firmly back on the ground.
Kaghi looked around and was immediately astonished by his surroundings.
The place where he and Lindsey had landed seemed like the hollow interior of a tree trunk, with a path leading to the distance on either side.
In reality, the volume of this place was far greater than that of a tree trunk, many times over.
Even the wooden corridor where they were standing was as wide as a small town street!
At the same time, the veins between the trees emitted a faint cold light.
This cool light illuminated the surroundings, neither glaring nor dim, maintaining a perfectly balanced level of illumination.
The entire environment made one feel as if they had stepped into a fantastical fairy tale dream.
An ordinary person would be amazed by this sight.
But Kaghi was different. With his exceptional sensory abilities, he took just one step and, through tactile perception, understood the grandeur of this place and what was hidden within these brown trees.
The ground beneath his feet seemed to have a life of its own.
This was a magnificent existence, hard to describe in words!
"Yes, we're in," Kaghi affirmed.
Lindsey, ahead of Kaghi, nodded solemnly.
Unlike the Sensor, who was still in awe of the surroundings, Lindsey's gaze was fixed on the ground at the exit.
The Puzzle Module was displaying two sets of different footprints on the ground.
Lindsey stared at them, and the corresponding information appeared.
【Male Footprints - Weight: 70 kg, Height: 177 cm.】
【Male Footprints - Weight: 73 kg, Height: 181 cm. These footprints are intermittent, with the left foot's impression deeper than the right, indicating the owner has a special physical condition.】
"Two sets of footprints..."
Lindsey furrowed his brows.
The man with the special condition was undoubtedly Mullernahun.
But the other person—Lindsey recalled the information Kaghi had shared earlier.
When they first arrived at the underground crack, the Sensor had sensed that there was another person who had been in long-term contact with the horse.
Now it seemed that this unidentified individual had also made it through the spatial rift and entered the Garden.
Lindsey immediately opened his map.
Then, something unexpected happened.
A thick green color filled his vision, and the map's ability to detect enemies within the Garden, beyond basic terrain scanning, was completely ineffective.
This was the Garden, the very dwelling place of the Forest Will.
The sheer size of the Forest Will created a massive marker that occupied Lindsey's detection abilities.
"Tsk—"
Lindsey turned his head and glanced at Kaghi.
The Sensor was still observing the surroundings with childlike wonder, as if seeing the world for the first time.
"Bringing him here was indeed an unexpectedly correct choice," Lindsey muttered.
Then, he followed the footprints forward while instructing Kaghi:
"Kaghi, observe the surroundings carefully."
(End of Chapter)
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