Chapter 235: Mark (b) (1/2)

Immediately the eyes of the two females turned towards him.

”Really?”

Elliot nodded his head, picked one up from the branch, brought it close to his nostrils, and gave it a deep sniff before saying, ”This one is a Red Seed. Although it looks like an apple, don't fall for its calming appearance. It's a treacherous fruit with parasitic properties.”

”You mean?”

”Let me finish first,” Elliot said. ”With an aroma sweet enough to muddle anyone's head, it entices others to eat it. Once inside, it consumes the host's vitality to lay dozens of seeds before wilting. In only twelve days, each of the newborn seeds devours the person whole to grow. As a result, twelve more Red Seeds come into being.”

”What a horrifying thing.”

Grace was so scared that she covered her gaping mouth and moved away from the handsome spiritual fruit.

”Is it useful?”

Lucy responded to Elliot's words pretty calmly. There wasn't much change in her expression. Back home, she had read about some creatures with parasitic properties and also knew that many more dangerous creatures existed on planet Xavier.

Actually, there were four forbidden zones, places even magic emperors failed to explore properly. They were so dangerous that even an army of strong magicians suffered significant losses, losing nine-tenths of their total numbers in mere days. And in the end, the surviving soldiers had to tuck their pride between their legs and scram back to their base. After the significant losses of many families, no magician families dared to explore it.

Those who try to explore it go all alone, and they are all either magic kings or magic emperors. From them, humanity found out that great dangers lie in the four forbidden zones. And one of the zones houses a parasite that had enslaved all the creatures, forcing them to serve it!

Lucy was terrified when she heard about it, not only because she was a child at that time but also because the parasite had an army of ten million beasts under it that could easily lay waste to the magician community. However, her sister told her that they didn't need to worry about it as the parasite couldn't leave the forbidden zone, that the four emperors had taken precautions and sealed it in its place, a seal which would last another hundred years. Her words instantly pacified Lucy.

Back to the present, Elliot carefully stored the four fruit in his subspace

Only after storing all of them did he say the following words with a mysterious smile, ”It's one of the materials needed to engrave a special type of mark on living beings.”

Grace was curious, so was Lucy.