Chapter 690: Sprouts (1/2)
Within the dead forest, Sam and his friends are staying currently.
The next day the group divided into smaller groups of two and they split themselves to do some hunting.
Meanwhile, within the area Sam marked, a large Pre-transcendent stage creature that looked like a Rhinoceros is walking slowly.
This is not a beast though, it is an undead creature formed from the beast carcass and it can be seen from the way there is a large chunk of flesh missing from its body.
But the creature's energy doesn't seem to be proportionate to its size as it is walking a bit clumsily.
Because that morning, it discovered that its energy is being drained out of its body from a point on its back and it couldn't reach any matter where it went.
It walked for a long while and soon it stopped in its tracks and sat down on the ground leaning to a rock.
What the creature doesn't know is that there is a small sprout on the back of its body with black leaves and the number of leaves is increasing.
The creature just stayed there till afternoon and soon it never moved.
But after some time, a black vine was growing out of the body of the creature, and flesh on the carcass is completely gone with only a bit of skin and bones left. By the end of it, there are two flowers that bloomed and another bud on the vine.
The flowers looked extremely similar to flowers Sam blew the pollen off of and with a small breeze this pollen also disappeared while the flowers on the vine wilted away after the pollen fell off.
Soon a group of vampires came to that area following the tracks of that Rhino and were stupefied to find out that the creature is already gone, it cannot be considered dead as it is already undead, but it is gone.
This made them feel a bit frustrated.
”Why are the tracks so fresh if this is gone a long time ago? There are even vines all over it.”
One of the vampires said in an indignant voice.
The vampires didn't bother with it but what they didn't notice is that a small white grain stuck to the skin of one of the vampires at the back of his neck.
While Sam's little plan is expanding wildly and becoming a large plan, he noticed the change in the number of his wrist screen.
There is an excess of thirty-five points.
Sam didn't expect that he would be able to get results this early. He could guess what happened. Generally, even for the vine he planted, he estimated that it would take another three days to show any form of results, but the very next day he managed to enter this area, the situation changed.
But what he doesn't know is, his plan has spread faster than he thought and he didn't know that a Vampire was currently carrying one of the pollen grains on his nape.
If he knew he would be even more eager to see the results.
Meanwhile, he went along with Jack to see visit a place.
From the chess pieces he collected, he learned of some good places in this area.
The forest they are in is the forest of dying. As he already knew this place is also a graveyard for some beasts and creatures from another realm. They don't know which realm it is.
This forest is the house for few of such beasts but of lower cultivation.
Apart from that, there is a place near this area where a high-level swordsman died.
He died in the valley near the forest.
No one knows what level of cultivation that person is, but the valley is surrounded by the sword storm and in the middle of it, everyone can see the silhouette of a person sitting in the middle of that storm.
It is the dead body of the cultivator that died in there and the rumors are that he has a sword in his hands while dying and that sword contains all his legacy.
This place is used as a training ground by many swordsmen of this realm.
Currently, Sam and Jack are standing on the edge of the valley. There are a lot of undead creatures nearby. Vampires, Wights, Ghouls and there is even a specter with a faintly transparent silhouette.
They all have different cultivation levels, but nobody bothered with these two humans, that is because they are currently under the disguise created by Chatur.