Chapter 2821 Flowers and Infant Spirits
After being tricked by Angel, Dox didn't want to pursue who Orao was paying attention to.
Anyway, it wasn't him, nor was it Kael.
As for who among the remaining three, Dox was too lazy to think about it. But his intuition told him that Angel was the most likely, and even though Angel denied it, Dox still didn't rule out his suspicion.
"By the way, Orao and Adanis seemed to have mentioned... an infant spirit just now." Dox: "It seems that the information obtained by Angel is correct, it is indeed an infant spirit. Moreover, from their tone, this infant spirit may really be as difficult to deal with as Angel said."
Way also nodded: "Also, before Orao left, he said that it was an infant spirit holding a flower?"
Dox: "Holding a flower... flower? Generally speaking, flowers should have a smell, right?"
"This is not nonsense. If a flower has no smell, what is it called a flower..." Wai originally answered unhappily, but halfway through his words, Wai seemed to think of something: "You mean, the smell that adults smell is the fragrance of flowers?"
Dox nodded gently.
Everyone thought about it carefully, and it seemed to make sense. They all looked at the Black Earl, wanting to get the answer from him.
The Black Earl had actually been thinking about this problem when Orao mentioned "holding flowers", but he still had no clue until now: "It is impossible to judge for the time being. However, this inference is reasonable."
"If the 'flower-holding infant spirit' is really the source of the fragrance, then we need to be careful."
As for what to be careful about, everyone understood without the Black Earl mentioning it. As the undead spirit of the chaotic will, the infant spirit could not hold flowers for no reason. Since Orao used "holding flowers" as the prefix of the infant spirit, it is very likely that the flowers held by the infant spirit are the top priority.
There are many plant monsters in the wizard world. There are many plant monsters in the Wunong Principality, which is called the 'country of fairies' by wizards. Among them, Genoa in the Long Night Forest has many flower monsters raised by the Night Language Forest.
The characteristics of flower monsters cannot be avoided by poison and vines. The "poison" among them, generally speaking, refers to the smell of flowers.
The floral fragrance in the air is most likely a means of attack by the infant spirit.
Although the Black Earl did not feel anything special when he smelled the fragrance, who knows if this is a means of luring the enemy? Once in combat, the fragrance may immediately turn into an offensive weapon.
Thinking of this, both the Black Earl and others turned their eyes to Angel.
When Angel manipulated the mobile illusion before, he also supported a purification force field, and this purification force field was very useful at this time.
Angel also understood what everyone meant, and directly called out Ermi, and once again constructed a mobile illusion with Ermi as the core.
Although Angel could release the purification force field directly, he thought about it and decided to build it together with the mobile illusion. Infant spirits are also undead, and some illusions that are mainly based on isolating energy can work on undead. So, maybe the mobile illusion can also work on infant spirits?
When everyone was bathed in the mobile illusion again, the one who showed the most positive emotions was the Black Earl.
Even though there was no odor on this stretch of road, the smell of dampness was not pleasant. With the shielding of the purification force field, the air immediately became extremely fresh.
However, the Black Earl did not forget to care about Angel: "If there is a problem, don't force it."
The problem that the Black Earl mentioned was not the moving illusion or the purification force field.
It was Ermi.
Although the Black Earl did not know the specific details of Ermi's situation, he listened to Laplace's words. Moreover, Angel's attitude towards Ermi had changed more subtly than at the beginning.
Angel nodded: "I understand."
Ermi did have some abnormalities, but these abnormalities were still controllable, and Angel could also feel that Ermi seemed to be closer to him, but Angel himself did not dare to get too close to Ermi.
However, at least from the current situation, Ermi is not to be worried for the time being.
After supporting the moving illusion, everyone did not delay any further and got on the road again.
Soon, they came to the previous up and down forked road.
At this time, the downward fork has disappeared, leaving only an upward slope, and this slope has not collapsed. However, at first glance, it is dark and there is no end in sight.
"Go on, according to Orao and Adanis, they should not appear before we reach the Clear Sky Poetry Room... We should only have one last test left." Angel said.
Everyone nodded, at least now they don't have to worry about suddenly breaking into the mirror.
When looking from below, the dark slope is endless, but when you really walk into the slope, you will find that this slope is not as straight as they imagined, but has countless bends.
It's like walking on a steep mountain road, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, and occasionally a big turn.
In the process, they also saw many collapses, but it seems that someone has cleaned them up. Even if there are signs of collapse, there will always be a passage left.
After such a "twists and turns" upward journey, everyone finally understood why they had never smelled the smell that Black Earl mentioned. The path that this smell had to take was longer and more "difficult" than they had imagined.
Black Earl could smell it, which only meant that... Black Earl was indeed at a different level from them.
Finally, when they walked out of a side passage slightly larger than the dog hole, the road ahead was no longer sloping, but turned into a normal, spacious avenue.
After experiencing the cramped and depressing slopes, everyone's mood seemed to be much brighter when they saw the spacious avenue again.
However, the expressions of Angel and Black Earl were not so optimistic.
Angel saw a familiar road and knew that he was very close to "the wall", so he felt a little uneasy and a little subtle.
The Black Earl and Angel cared about different things. Although he had been in the purification force field, he still cared about the smell in his heart, and he was calculating the distance between the smell and them all the way.
Now Earl Black can basically determine that the source of the smell is within a hundred meters or so nearby.
Maybe you can see the source of the smell just around the next turn.
If the source of the smell is really coming from the flower-holding baby spirit, then they are very close to each other...
The Black Earl thought for a while and told everyone what he discovered.
"...According to normal circumstances, if the other party is really powerful, he might have discovered us. However, we have been here for a while, but the other party still has not appeared, which shows that Angel's illusion is blocking this baby. The spirit has a certain effect." Black Earl: "It should not have noticed us now, but if we continue to move forward and get within a hundred meters of the opponent, it will be difficult to tell."
Of course, it is also possible that the source of the smell is not the flower in the hand of the flower-holding infant spirit, which is why the other party did not appear. However, this possibility is very small... because Angel knows that this place is not far from the wall, which is the door of the Clear Sky Poetry Room.
If there really is an infant spirit blocking the way, it should be nearby. This almost coincides with the location of the aroma source mentioned by the Black Earl.
Doakes: "If Lord Black Earl is right, then we should be able to smell it now?"
After Doakes finished speaking, there was an eager expression on his face.
Vai said angrily: "The problem now is not the smell, but how to deal with this infant spirit! Moreover, we have thought all the way about which kind of creature's cubs are flower-bearing and powerful, but we still have no clue. . If you don’t know its original form, you will suffer big losses if you don’t pay attention to it.”
Doakes is not as worried as Vai: "Although the undead will be affected by their abilities in life, the impact is not great. At most, the power of the soul in their bodies will be more surging."
"There are only a few abilities of the undead, so be sure to defend the land of souls and don't let your spiritual tentacles poke out of your body at will. Then you and Kael will stay in Angel's illusion, and I'll make sure nothing happens to you."
Doakes blinked: "If it doesn't work out, can't I still use planes to block the way?"
If it were in the past, it would not be so easy for Doakes to mention the plane crossing. Now, since he has decided to follow Angel, he must follow Angel in everything. For example: Are the consumables for plane tunnels expensive? What a scumbag.
Vai didn't care about why Doakes suddenly became generous. He was more worried about the "Infant Spirit".
If the infant spirit is really just an evolved and enhanced version of the "undead" as Doakes said, then there is really nothing to worry about. But is it really that simple?
Adanis personally set up obstacles, and also directly stated that it was impossible for them to defeat the infant spirit.
After all the talk, we ended up arranging for a large undead to come out?
Vai still thinks that the infant spirit may be different this time. You must know that the undead have no intelligence, especially as the lowest infant spirit among the undead. But this time, the infant spirit actually obeyed Adanis' orders to intercept and kill everyone, which was a bit unusual.
Vai expressed his thoughts, but Doakes still didn't take it seriously. Anyway, he was floating now. He had received a satisfactory reward from the wise master, and there were planes in his way. No matter how strong it was, anyway Just reckless. Just run away if you can't be too reckless, and Qingkong Poetry Room has nothing to do with him.
On the contrary, Kael seriously thought about Vai's words.
"Lord Red Sword is actually right, and Vai's considerations are also reasonable. The infant spirit is indeed unlikely to be that strong, but the attitudes of Orao and Adanis are also a little unusual. I'm wondering if there will be Such a possibility." Kael paused and whispered a word: "...parasitism."
Vai: "You mean, the baby spirit is not the focus, the focus is the flower?"
Kael nodded.
Vai thought along Kael's train of thought: "What if the infant spirit is parasitized by a flower? Does that mean that the flower is the focus we need to pay attention to? And the flower may be highly intelligent, so it obeys Ada's orders. Nice can understand it too.”
The more Vai talked, the smoother he felt. Maybe Kael's guess was right.
"The alien monsters Master Chao Dimension mentioned are not infant spirits, but flowers! And there are actually quite a few powerful flower monsters."
"Now we know that this flower can parasitize infant spirits, which means it uses the energy of the undead as food. In addition, it is very strong and comes from another world. Thinking about it this way, the scope seems to have narrowed a lot."
When Vai said this, he looked at the wizards present.
He could deduce the conditions, but he couldn't tell what kind of flower it was. There are too many flowers in the other world, and Vai is not a person who likes to appreciate flowers.
Vai first looked at Doakes, but Doakes gave him a simple and direct response: shrugged, spread his hands, and looked like he didn't know.
Immediately afterwards, Vai looked at Angel and Earl Black.
After seeing this, Vai noticed that Angel and his master had been communicating privately through the psychic tether, and seemed to have completely ignored their conversation.
Vai was a little frustrated. He felt that his inference was very useful, but now it seems that it has not been taken seriously.
Vai didn't dare to make any noise and could only wait quietly until Angel and the Black Earl finished talking.
After about half a minute, the psychic tie between Angel and Black Earl was disconnected.
Angel turned around and immediately sensed Vai's depressed mood. Although he was talking to the Black Earl, he also heard other people's conversations. After thinking about it for a moment, he understood why Vai was so depressed.
Angel: "I also agree with Vai's conjecture. Perhaps the infant spirit is not important, but the flower is important. However, with my shallow knowledge, I can't tell which kind of flower it is."
Angel's answer stunned Vai for a moment, but he soon realized that Angel was responding to his own inference.
Vai, who was still in a low mood, instantly wiped away the disappointment in his heart. Following Angel's words, he said, "Could it be some magic flowers from the abyss? I heard that there are many powerful flowers in the Abyss Plain." The magic flower.”
Angel: "I don't know about this, but I just discussed it with Lord Black Earl. Since the other party hasn't appeared yet, maybe we can stay put for now and do some research and experiments."
The object that can be studied now is naturally the diffuse fragrance outside the purification force field.
First, by studying the components of these aromas, see if we can roughly determine their source.
Of course, the most important thing to do in these studies is Angel. As an alchemist, Angel is not very familiar with aromatics, but the bottom layer of aromatics is pharmacy. Pharmacy studies magic plants, ingredients, materials, and energy.
By deconstructing aroma, we study the most basic ingredients and energy essence. Perhaps, one can deduce where this aroma comes from.
After determining which world it comes from, further delineate the scope, which will make it easier to locate its true origin.
And this was indeed one of the topics Angel discussed with the Black Earl before.