Chapter 371 Heart of the Forest

When Roland walked to the center of the garden, he couldn't help being taken aback.

At the end of the passage, a small room made of plants suddenly appeared. The trunks and improved crops formed the walls, and criss-cross vines hung above the head, as if they had been carefully woven. Bunches of glistening grapes. A bonfire burns in the middle of the room, surrounded by lush furniture—if you look closely, they are all made of strange plants that grow out of the ground. For a moment, he thought he had come to the world in a fairy tale. If there were not several familiar figures standing by the bonfire, he would have doubted that this was a dream.

"How is this going?"

Tilly turned her head, showing a sighing expression, "The ability of the leaf has evolved, and she has turned into this garden."

"Where is she?" Roland asked in surprise.

"She has merged with the plant," Tilly looked around, "What you see before your eyes is all part of the leaves."

It wasn't an illusion that he felt that he was walking in a huge creature before feeling, but the "huge creature" was replaced by a leaf, and Roland's heart suddenly tightened, "She won't be unable to recover."

"As long as I remove the ability, I can return to my normal state," Ye Zi's voice suddenly sounded.

But if you listen carefully, this is not what she is speaking, but the words composed of the rustling of leaves and the friction of branches.

The other party's answer made Roland feel a little relieved, "Can you hear us?"

"Not only can I hear, but I can also see, smell, and touch," Leaf said happily, "I can feel any change in the garden, including the birds building their nests on the branches and the insects crawling on the trunk. ...This feeling is hard to describe in words, Lady Tilly is right, I am the garden itself now, and I have noticed you from the moment you walked in here."

As he said that, a huge rolled leaf hung from the ceiling to Roland's hand, and slowly opened, and there was a cup filled with purple-red liquid inside. The cup is made of four overlapping olive leaves, and the petioles form the ears of the cup, which looks small and exquisite. Roland picked up the glass and put it to his mouth to take a sip, and found that it was actually a new wine, slightly sour with a refreshing sweetness. It seems that both the wine and the container come from this garden.

Roland drank the other party's "toast", walked to the bonfire, and sat on the plant bench with great interest—its support was made of thick bark branches, and the seat and back were covered with a thick layer of wheat leaves. The sofa is average. There is a barbecue grill standing by the campfire, and Andrea is baking apples and corn for everyone. These too, no doubt, were taken locally from the garden.

"How did you do all this?" the prince asked, looking up.

"I don't know much about the process," the voice quickly responded, "I just took care of the newly planted crops and your flying messenger as usual, and practiced my abilities by the way—then they responded to my call. Maybe this It's the path of integration I've been looking for, of bringing the jungle and the life it supports into a true whole."

"What if you use your ability in the Hidden Forest? Can you also make it a part of you?"

"I don't think... no," she hesitated for a while, "Even if I could, it would take a long time. It doesn't take much mana to maintain this state, and even the woods can replenish it for me, but every time I expand A circle of control makes me feel slow thinking."

"Slow thinking?" Roland was taken aback.

"I don't know how to describe this feeling," Ye Zi said, "If I slowly expand the scope of control, after a few years, I should be able to become one with the Misty Forest, but if I merge into it instantly, I'm afraid I will lose my mind ——When I first merged with the garden, I felt that my head was not enough, as if my mind suddenly became extremely empty, and it took a long time to get used to it before returning to normal." She paused, and added, "But the plants that have been controlled , There will be no such strange feeling when entering again, as long as the thought changes, it can be realized."

It's really incredible, Roland thought to himself, compared to Anna and Lily's evolution towards the microscopic direction, Ye Zi's new ability is obviously a breakthrough on the macroscopic level. If one day she can control the entire Misty Forest, there is no doubt that any enemy's movements will not be able to escape her eyes and ears.

"Congratulations," Wendy said with a smile, "Now the Witch Union has another evolved witch. According to Agatha, this is already equivalent to half the size of the union."

"If she's here, she'll definitely be sighing for a while," Roland smiled, and then looked at the little girl who was peeking at him curiously, "Where's the blank paper?"

"About her ability...I'm afraid that further tests are needed," Wendy responded, "but I discovered a strange phenomenon."

After she finished speaking, she snapped her fingers, and two balls of wrapped snow soon fell on the roof.

Wendy spread them out one by one, put one ball by the bonfire, and one ball in a corner of the room, and then asked the white paper to cast its ability on it, "I am teaching her how to use magic power evenly, so as to achieve a stable ability to cast The effect——just like what you taught me at first. Although she can't control it precisely now, it generally won't be much different."

Roland noticed that the snow near the campfire quickly melted into a puddle of ice water, while the one farther away was only half melted.

Wendy took the melted water and walked to the wall, knocked on the wall, and the tightly wrapped vines shrank to both sides, revealing a hole the size of a fist, and the cold wind from outside immediately poured in.

"Come on, use your ability on this again," she said to the white paper.

The little girl nodded and stretched out her hands. Roland was surprised to find that the snow in the leaves formed a thin layer of ice crystals again.

"This is... to speed up time, to make the result appear in advance?" He vetoed his conjecture as soon as he said it, no, time is just a concept set by human beings for their own convenience, and it does not exist in itself. How can a thing that does not exist affect it?

"I thought so too at first, but Lady Tilly said it wasn't so." Wendy lifted a stone with a vine and shook it in front of the white paper. The latter used his ability again, but the speed of the pendulum did not change, and it still swayed left and right with the same amplitude until it finally stopped, "If it is to accelerate time, it should swing faster, right?"

Indeed, Roland quickly realized the essence of the opponent's ability—she was not affecting time, but the movement of particles. The magic power changed the energy level of particles, causing them to decrease or increase, which manifested as freezing or melting at the macro level . Of course, Bai Zhi herself may not be able to understand this point at all. She only releases the ability according to her own feelings, so she comes to the conclusion that it has little effect on other objects: oxidation is a relatively long process, and it takes a longer time to observe the results .

If I guessed right, then her ability is simply a natural catalyst.

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