Wizard: I brought the wrong system.

Chapter 203 Elf
Upon hearing that the White Deer's kind had died from the corruption of the Abyss's power, Yaro did not ask her if she had any purification potions.

—Even if they had such items, they would have used them up long ago.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have thought of using the fairy's innate ability to try and expel the abyssal power they were infected with into a forest.

what?
Need help?

impossible!
With teary eyes, the white deer looked pitifully at Yaro with her clear, bottomless gaze: "Why? Don't you humans all like to help others?"

Do they all like to help?
I don't!
Don't frame good people!

Yaro glanced at the young-looking white deer and could only say, "Look at the tree marks on your fingers. You're not even an adult yet, what are you thinking about all day long!"

A fully grown fairy can still be seen to have a ghostly green hue in its eyes if you look closely, but there will be no more signs of tree marks on its body.

Bai Lu lowered her head with a pitiful look on her cute little face and muttered, "But... Bai Lu doesn't want to be alone."

Yaro: "Don't you still have your deer companions? You're not alone."

Bai Lu always had her reasons: "But they can't talk either."

Yaro raised an eyebrow, ignoring the white deer, and turned to look to his right.

His muscles gradually trembled and activated, his breathing rhythm subtly changed, and his hands were already resting on the hilt of the sword at his waist.

He sensed the subtle abyssal power not far away!

“Alright, that’s enough,” Yaro interrupted the white deer’s soft nagging, turning to ask, “Is there any open space around it? Which direction would be best to observe it from?”

Yaro didn't know the magic tree's attack range, so he could only ask the fairy who was a daughter of the forest.

"Have we arrived yet?" Bai Lu finally became serious, looked up at his surroundings as if sensing something, and then turned back to say, "There is a large rock on its left side. That's where it's spreading the slowest. If you want to make a move, you can go that way."

Shooting?

If you act without knowing anything, aren't you just a fool?
Yaro turned back and instructed, "Let's go from the location you mentioned and observe from a distance. Don't make any rash moves."

The jungle was full of dense thorns and vines. Without the white deer leading the way, Yaro had no confidence in approaching the location where the power of the abyss emanated without making a sound.

Although Bai Lu was puzzled about what Ya Luo wanted to see, she obediently didn't ask any more questions and directly led the way, saying, "Okay, warrior, follow me."

As the white deer passed by, the surrounding bushes silently parted. Yaro quickened his pace, following closely behind the white deer, while keeping an eye on his large bearskin to prevent it from touching the surrounding grass.

Led by the white deer, Yaro could clearly sense that they were getting closer and closer to the source of the abyss's power.

When the white deer stopped and pushed aside the branches blocking its path, Yaro finally saw the magic tree.

……

In the center of a grove of dead trees stands a massive tree trunk that stretches upwards, forming a canopy that blocks out the sun.

With the help of the dim, gloomy light, one could vaguely see that the ground was a pale white expanse. Upon closer inspection, one could discover that it was all bones that had been drained of all their nutrients and were extremely soft.

The mournful cries of various wild beasts as they faced death echoed through the space, all because countless arm-thick vines hung from the tree canopy.

The vines, like dangling venomous snakes or octopus tentacles, swayed and moved through the air, tearing apart wild beasts of varying sizes and splattering their blood onto the wooden knots in the center of the tree trunk.

The remaining scraps of meat were discarded at the base of the giant tree.

When the meat scraps fall to the ground, countless wriggling pink roots on the ground quickly wrap around them, pulling them rapidly into the ground.

In just a short time, some bone fragments of varying sizes will be kicked out by the pink roots.

Looking at the horrific scene, Yaro felt a sharp pain in his teeth.

"You're telling me that the giant leopard can snatch food from its mouth?" "You want me to take a longsword and cut it down?"

"Is that all? You're saying it only has the strength of a mid-level apprentice?"

"Is this how you fool people?"

The tree trunk alone was four or five meters wide. Compared to it, the cross-shaped longsword looked like a toothpick. How could a cross-shaped longsword possibly destroy it?
"No, I'm not lying!" Bai Lu looked at the white bones on the ground, her pretty face pale, and murmured, "It's impossible, it didn't move, why would so many animals be killed!"

"Just two days ago, it looked about the same size as the surrounding trees!"

Seeing that the white deer did not make any extreme moves, and listening to what she was saying to herself, Yaro's tense muscles relaxed slightly, and he carefully looked at the outer perimeter of the giant tree.

Bai Lu is right. Every living thing has the instinct to survive. If there were no accidents, there wouldn't be so many skeletons around, nor would so many wild animals have been killed.

The fact that the demon tree grew so rapidly could not possibly be due to just its vines and roots; it must have some other way of luring wild beasts away from the trees.

Sniff!

Yaro took a few deep breaths but couldn't detect anything unusual in the air.

This shows that the giant tree did not use the method of insectivorous plants to lure animals with fake food; it had other methods.

Bai Lu suddenly nudged Ya Luo excitedly and whispered, "Warrior, look over there!"

Yaro glanced at the fair, slender hand and looked in the direction she was pointing.

Several white dots were rising and falling in the air over there.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be several palm-sized creatures with dragonfly-like wings, the middle of which resembled human bodies, like flower fairies from fairy tales.

They weren't wearing anything, and they looked somewhat like flying mice, which was strangely comical.

The white deer exclaimed in amazement, "It's an elf! No wonder it's a magic tree that grew from a white cat; it can actually create elves!"

Elf?

This was originally just a normal conjunction, but when Bai Lu said it in Finn, Ya Luo suddenly realized that the word was actually a combination of 'fairy' and 'soul'!
The soul of a fairy—an elf?
It doesn't sound like there's anything wrong with it?
Bai Lu examined them carefully for a moment, then shook her head in frustration: "What a pity... those elves have all been corrupted by the power of the abyss. Perhaps they should be called abyss sprites."

"Warriors, it must be those abyssal sprites that bewitched the surrounding animals."

"It was thanks to the nourishment from a large number of animals that the magic tree received enough nutrients to grow so big in just a few days."

"I—I didn't lie!"

At this moment, Bai Lu looked serious, as if she had proven something very great.

"Okay, I see." Yaro replied casually, still observing the abyssal sprites floating around him.

Not many.

It seems that Abyss Sprites aren't so easy to hatch.

Yaro seemed to be deep in thought.

Along the way, I didn't see any wild animals, which might mean that there aren't many wild animals around.

Overall, the Demon Tree is unlikely to experience another exaggerated increase in strength in the short term.

Yaro turned to look at the giant tree, gave it a thumbs-up and compared it a few times, then turned back and said, "Alright, let's go."

(End of this chapter)