Chapter 333 (1/2)

Chapter 333: The Forest’s Challenge

Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav

“Only fifty Justice Points? Sigh, what a pity”

Because a certain roup had volunteered their assistance, I ended up earning only 50 Justice Points in this “finding a spy” incident since I had provided the fingerprints

And it wasn’t only that Those two “culprits” were adauilty They profusely confessed; Fain insisted that he had been allured by the prospect of having his ga debts paid off, while Dean claimed that he had been mysteriously enslaved by a lich Their repeated confessions ainst them—they had claimed all responsibility

I had not hesitated to use a forbidden spell to retrieve their memories Granted, this forbidden spell had the side effect of wiping their brains blank for a feeeks, but even after using it I obtained nothing useful That weak Bronze-ranked undead e naic forbidden spell He had indeed becoh there was no confirmation that it was a lich who had cast the spell

And no erprints also proved that Dean was the one who had written that letter Still, I felt so off with the situation The low-ranked Dean was unable to explain how he had obtained this high-level information His only excuse was that he had heard it from the rumors

“Rumors? Indeed, there are so many rumors out there There’s even a rumor that the God of Nature is about to personally descend—do you believe that as well?”

But now, there were no o on After all, no serious consequences had come about of this information leak as I had intercepted the letter In the end, I could only punish these two by re their statuses as Contract Heroes The rest I could do was be evenquite suspicious about all of this Soht not even be real This was all the more so because ic spells that had the ability to e

“Increase our threat level in the caical plants spy on all essential locations, and also place surveillance on the following individuals…”

And so, even if I didn’t say anything about it on the surface, I secretly uard

Two days wasn’t a particularly long or short period of time But on the battlefield, where every second was precious, it was very valuable

Maybe the spies really were those t-ranked brats? Or maybe the true culprit temporarily stopped their activities in order to avoid suspicion? During the next two days, there were no signs of infor leaked to the undead Nor did anyone else seem to attempt to deliver letters to the undead… I had now converted every single undead in this entire nearby area into my subordinate Unless the spy had some even more secure es But if the spy had a more secure method in the first place, they wouldn’t have had to rely on sending a letter the first time

The fact that no Undead Lord seemed to send a massive army over was a tentative testa aood news for us

Around ical spell array flashed brilliantly in the night sky This was an eather By this point, there was noour intentions Since ould be eventually discovered anyways, it was far th and face the upco battle head-on

But when the adventurers, who had been out hunting all this tiotten lost and had taken a wrong turn soround utterly unlike before

In fairy tales, spirits were capable of constructing a sht, while in this world, it was the elves who had the ability to utilize the forest to erect a solid defense But the wood spirits far outclassed the elves in this area With A over the as they ithin Amelia’s domain, of course

The old tree in the center of the cauise Its withered tree bark had been discarded to the winds, replaced by a gigantic root that reached out froly and colossal root was an extension of the largest and strongest tree in the entire Forest of Drearound Now, countless specks of green light e more spirited than ever as they fed the plants here with plentiful nourishment

In the past two days, the wood spirits had crafted s a hole—the hole had a radius of ten meters and a depth of one meter They then buried two stones in this hole, an essential step in their ritual to worshi+p the earth

What folloas the wood spirits planting the seeds fro for ten seconds, sincerely thanking their Mother for her gifts Rainwater stored in various containers was poured on the seeds, a way of thanking the blessings of nature and paying respect to its authority And that was the conclusion of their ritual The abundant nourishiant treants and dangerous ical plants in just three minutes

“Youa hole, planting so the seeds? …Why is it three minutes? I just recalled instant ramen Are these supposed to be instant seeds?”

Samantha pretended not to hear my comments, but a mysterious red blush appeared on her cheeks Rosa, however, was ht Actually, we don’t even need a ritual—all we need to do is plant the seeds and water them Mother herself hates coy with us However, Sister Saood because it would cause others to look down on us, so she wanted to ful”

Alright then, I supposed that ions would get started In the end, they would addproper,even their own believers annoyed in the end

“Little Sae in ways you can’t ienerations In the end, even you won’t recognize it, and if you attempt to remove part of the ritual to simplify it, your believers won’t have it Ittrouble for yourself… digging a pitfall for yourself to jump into!”

Samantha nodded with a pained expression She’d already noticed the problems as well The issue was that she had already publicized the steps of this ritual, and changing it noouldn’t be that easy

Cough, I should stop talking about the future, where even Aion’s cereround was currently undergoing a complete evolution

The power of the Forest of Drea transle tree’s roots Approxied to make it here Still, the Forest of Dreain with, and it wouldn’t , so we could definitely afford it The riskiest part was actually that the underground root ht have been decimated by the power, but that part had already passed us by The root was now thick and powerful enough that even destroying it would be difficult

That’s ith the assistance of the endless power of nature, all sorts of war trees and inally makeshi+ft wooden fence expanded more than ten times in size into a solid castle wall that was several tens of inal root and were absorbing nutrition from the earth Compared to a solid castle wall, a wall like this, one which would be capable of repairing itself, would probably cause a person to despair even randiose and irowth period and lack of sufficient care from Amelia caused them to be born preence and potential, these trees were born at the peak of their coth and retained their combat instincts Under the command of the wood spirits, the war trees would be fearless and unyielding

If those war trees were said to be the best guards, then the ned war machines Enormous peashooters—approximately three or four ular intervals Their mouths alone were half a meter in radius, and if you stepped near one you would be able to perceive the faint sounds of prayer…

“Praise the Holy Light!” “The radiance of the Holy Light shall cleanse all evil!””In the nauish all evil!”

Yep, these Holy Light peashooters were all praying to the Holy Light Their roots and aht My experi since proved that even deht, so plants could obviously use Holy Light as well The only side effect was that any Holy Knight or Holy Light priests itness this worldview-toppling sight would probably go into shock