Chapter 142: Finding the locations of several Spirit Trees (1/2)

The beings he just created had the body of a queen bee and plenty of eyes as many as a spider. Above all, they could travel for a hundred miles and record the journey. A hundred miles, that was their lifespan. Traveling a mile burned a part of their body. Ninety-nine miles meant death.

Elliot believed that his creations, although filled with imperfections, would be able to discover the hiding places of the spirit trees.

For now, though, he could only hope for that to happen and wait for their return.

He gathered many leaves and made a bed out of them. These leaves came from regular trees and didn't have any effects. He plopped down on the bed of leaves. While looking at the partly clear skies, he started whistling.

So many mysteries, when will I clear them all?

The creatures with wings bigger than their bodies buzzed through several trees, searching for the spirit trees. Each of them was covering an area of their own.

Several minutes later, the active spiritual senses of a spirit tree that was out on a hunt caught a source of vitality on its radar. It wasn't like anything it had ever felt before, and it was a far cry from spiritual energy, but it was still a source of nourishment for it.

Immediately, it set its plan in play, intent on hunting down the innocent prey. First off, it determined the trajectory of the source of vitality. Then, it determined the places it would go through. After that, it decided to set up traps in those places.

Its wooden branches extended, bursting outwards and slithering for some distance before wrapping around the trunks and coiling the branches of some trees, hiding in plain sight.

A few minutes later, the moment it sensed the source of vitality passing in between its trap, the spirit tree made its move. Branches with sharp ends burst out from their hiding spot, swiftly making their way towards the golden bee with several eyes.

Their approach didn't escape its notice.

It maneuvered its body irregularly, charging ahead while moving left and right, up and down, dodging the branches coming from its sides and moving past them, slipping away smoothly.

All of that happened in a few seconds.

The spirit tree felt the shock of a lifetime as it failed to capture the source of vitality miserably.

Nevertheless, it was not willing to admit defeat just yet.

It held nothing back and went all out, using all its branches to capture the source of vitality.

As it saw branches of the spirit tree coming from all the sides, Elliot's creation immediately moved upwards, heading towards the open sky.

To its dismay, the branches followed after it.

They were far faster than themselves and were catching up to it at a rate visible to the eyes.

It didn't doubt that they would cage it soon.

Of course, it had no intention of getting caught!

Elliot's creation burned a portion of its body and used it as fuel to increase its speed.

Although it lost thirty percent of its lifespan, it was well worth it.

Just as it looked like the branches would entrap it, its speed increased by so much that it left them all in the dust.

Right at that very moment, the spirit tree poured spiritual energy into its spirit mark, activating its ability to increase the speed of its body parts.