“Roar~”
“The holy beast is helping too. Hurry, let’s charge together, all at once.”
“The dark subdragon, its weak point is its rear. Are there any assassin ability users? Let’s go for it together.”
“Hehe, count me in for this kind of sneak attack. I love it.”
Awooo~~~
Within the Saint Ruins, the lower layer of the Third Plane.
Following a mournful cry filled with fury and agony,
a massive subdragon with short wings, under the combined efforts of the “Big Guy” and a group of adventurers, had its weak point blasted and was brought down to the ground.
Boom~
Watching the subdragon, which had fallen like a small mountain, its corpse dissolving into the wind,
and watching the pitch black beasts that had come alongside it being hunted down and slain by the adventurers one after another,
Adventurer Guild Master Wu Qiong witnessed it all.
If this had been ten days ago, faced with such a great victory, he would have jumped up and cheered, punching the sky with all his might.
But lately, since this scene had been playing out frequently in the Saint Ruins, it was nothing out of the ordinary anymore.
Last time, after Su Lulu brought intel about the Fifth Plane, the Adventurers’ Guild of Lin City reported it up the chain.
Upon hearing news of high-rank beasts from the Fifth Plane, many high-rank adventurers, organized by the Adventurers’ Guild, flocked to Lin City to wage a defensive battle to keep the Saint Ruins from being overrun by beasts.
Among them were many active members of S-rank teams, as well as veteran S-class adventurers who had long since retired.
Honestly, if it were only the addition of powerful adventurers, holding back the pitch black beasts burning with black aura would still have been extremely difficult.
After all, the human race’s strength lies in learning ability and the methods of borrowing external power, not in brute physique like wild beasts.
However, with the book on ‘pitch black beast’ weak points that Su Lulu had provided, they now had some ways to counter them. On top of that, there was the super combat support of the ‘holy beast Big Guy’.
Although the Fourth Plane had been completely breached by the pitch black beasts, its land now exuding waves of deathly aura,
the Third Plane, having held the entrance, remained as lively and verdant as ever. It was just that the adventurers, well, there were a lot more of them.
“Whew~” Standing atop the Big Guy’s head casting spells, Su Lulu watched the subdragon wreathed in black aura fall and dissolve into the wind. Her full chest finally relaxed as she let out a long sigh of relief.
She let out that long breath partly because fighting powerful foes while casting spells from atop the Big Guy’s head, despite the recent practice and coordination, was still a rather thrilling experience overall.
Beyond that, there was another reason: after defeating the pitch black beasts, just like leveling up in a game, Su Lulu could sense that, in some mysterious way, the spiritual energy within her body had increased a bit. It felt rather pleasant.
After briefly calming her emotions, she looked down slightly at the many high-rank adventurers beneath the Big Guy. A small smile curled up at the corners of her lips as she began to murmur softly.
“The number of pitch black beasts invading lately seems to be getting smaller and smaller. And some of the beasts that come to the Saint Ruins are already wounded.”
“It seems everything is heading in a good direction. Xiao Qi, you wait for your sister over there. The moment the transmission stone lights up, we’ll come save you.”
Just as Su Lulu solemnly clenched her little pink fist and issued her rescue declaration—
At the same time,
inside the World Tree, within a certain small wooden cabin.
The sun had already risen high, and within the treehouse, a flirtatious atmosphere hung thick in the air.
Yet the little one Su Lulu longed for day and night was the one issuing a plea for rescue.
“Dah… no~ I want to get up. Don’t eat me anymore. Let me rest a while, please~” On the super, super, super big bed, another classic scene of struggling to get up was playing out today.
Stark naked, Su Qi trembled with adorable shivers. A film of tears glistened in his peach blossom eyes as he let out an incredibly pitiful and cute string of soft, flimsy words.
At this moment, five beautiful young women were clustered around Su Qi.
Even though the tender skin-on-skin contact between soft girls felt wonderful to Su Qi,
still, hey… don’t rub against me like that!
And your little hands and little mouths, they can’t be this naughty.
“Hehe, Sister Su Su, when you were bullying me last night, you were pretty tough yourself!”
Within the little treehouse, as a cute black-hearted loli voice rang out, the temperature quickly rose once more.
And as Su Qi began his third round of cuddling with the girls today, none of them noticed a certain detail—
with their intimate contact, the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from the bracelets, along with some sweetness of love, dripped from the bed onto the tree bed.
The vines that had once been somewhat withered and aged had, in recent days, sprouted new branches. Beyond that, the excess rich spiritual energy carrying a hint of enhancement flowed bit by bit up the vines through the World Tree, eventually gathering all into a crystal-clear fruit.
This fruit was not one of the ordinary tree fruits the World Tree bore. If Su Qi had seen it, he would have realized it was the very World Tree fruit that the Demon King coveted, one about to ripen.
At this moment, perhaps having gathered too much energy from ‘Shuxi bentos’ over the past few days, the World Tree fruit was ready to evolve.
Whoosh~
The World Tree fruit, which had been only about the size of an apple, suddenly burst forth with a dazzling radiance.
The next moment, as if it had eaten Doraemon’s growth pill, the World Tree fruit began to rapidly grow in size, transforming from a small apple into a little watermelon.
And as its size grew, some wondrous changes also took place in the fruit’s form.
Originally just an ordinary fruit shape, once the fluorescent glow faded and it could be looked at directly,
all the elves present were shocked to discover that the fruit faintly resembled the image of a humanoid infant. However, this infant’s eyes were still tightly shut, as if having a sweet dream, with little hands and little feet curled up together.
Beyond its cuteness, one could faintly sense the life force contained within.
“The World Tree fruit is finally about to ripen? Praise the Mother Goddess, praise the World Tree!”
“Wait, why do I feel like this fruit looks a bit like the Saintess?”
“Holy Beast Lord, this fruit cannot be eaten.”
Just as all the elves sensed the change in the World Tree fruit’s growth and rushed to the treetop, kneeling devoutly on the ground—
Meanwhile, in the Demon King’s Castle.
Sensing the life force above the World Tree growing ever stronger,
the Demon King, who had been repeatedly thwarted in his various actions on Segus and Blue Star recently, furrowed his pitch-black brows deeply into an inverted V. After a moment of deliberation, he muttered to himself.
“No, based on the frequency the World Tree had been absorbing energy before, the initial ripening of the World Tree fruit should have been two months away. Why has the fruit entered its ripening period early now?”
This is wrong, very wrong!
And as the Demon King pondered, a black-robed elder slowly stepped out from the shadows of the castle’s mottled hall.
He held a staff made from a skull, his entire form a fusion of human and beast, wreathed in dark evil aura.
When he reached the Demon King, he bowed slightly in greeting and spoke slowly.
“Demon King, the World Tree fruit is on the verge of ripening. The time has come. Shall we launch the final assault?”
The black-robed elder’s manner was respectful, but the instant he lowered his head completely,
A faint smirk slowly crept across the corner of his mouth.