I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1098 Tooth for Tooth
"Wait, you said... totem?"

"Yeah, that's the totem those guys used." The young man answered Mo Ling as he stabbed the knife into the giant tree.

After hearing the boy's words, Mo Ling became even more confused.

"How come you can draw those totems?" he asked puzzledly.

"When I destroyed those totems before, I wrote them down. Aren't they simple? There aren't many strokes. When I was a kid, my teacher taught me not to keep looking up and to write down the details of the painting..."

The young man spoke lightly as he carved the outline of the totem on the giant tree with a knife.

Mo Ling could tell that the boy was still very nervous. He kept talking only to ease his inner panic and to prevent his hand holding the knife from shaking.

The boy continued to talk in bits and pieces...

"Those goblins and totems are independent of each other. The goblins just borrowed the power of the totems. If the totems are a kind of relics, then they are using this kind of relics..."

"Anyone can use relics. If they can be used, so can we. As long as we come into contact with the relic in the right way and pay the price in the right way, we can unleash the relic's power."

"If I'm not mistaken, the ability of that 'totem relic' is 'transformation'. It can make scenes or objects within a certain range change into corresponding forms. It can turn the wilderness into a jungle and turn goblins into wild boars. All thanks to this relic."

"Those goblins painted totems on their bodies and used a 'ritual', or rather, it was not a ritual, but they interpreted the act of paying a price as a ritual... These totems need life to animate them. The dead boar just now was the price paid."

"The goblins probably didn't understand the definition of this price. They only had a vague understanding of it."

While talking to ease his fear, the boy carved a totem on the giant tree.

Although his hands were a little unsteady, the totem was carved very neatly.

First carve out an outer outline, then use the tip of the knife to clean the inside, and a standard totem will appear before your eyes.

The boy put the knife back and began to fumble in his pocket again. After a while, he took out something.

That's a struggling beetle...

The young man looked at the beetle and said in a deep voice: "If I'm not mistaken, the lives required for this price are calculated by the number of lives. One life is one price, not by the weight of the life..."

"A beetle and a wild boar can both pay a price. No matter the size or weight of a life, it is an irreplaceable life."

As he spoke, the boy pinched the beetle hard.

The beetle had just seen the light of day again when it was killed by the young man. The thick liquid flowed in the boy's hands. A trace of pity flashed in his eyes, but he quickly returned to normal.

"It should have received the price I paid."

The boy raised his glasses and looked at the totem on the giant tree.

Sure enough, after the beetle died, the totem on the giant tree began to glow faintly.

It succeeded. Just as the young man said, the totem "came to life" and, like the totems on the captives' bodies before, began to heat up, emitting faint white smoke, and then was deeply imprinted into the giant tree.

The annual rings of the giant tree became a totem, the lines on the bark became a totem, the cracks on the wood became a totem, and all traceable veins became part of the totem. This totem is merging into the giant tree, replacing the giant tree, and turning the giant tree into a carrier.

Transformation is just a matter of a moment.

Before Mo Ling could see clearly the spread of the totem, the tall tree suddenly began to shrink and twisted into a small object in a way that had never been seen before. The object looked exactly like the beetle that the boy had crushed to death before.

The beetle transformed from the giant tree lay motionless on the ground, as if it had no consciousness at all.

A look of surprise appeared on the boy's face. This was not just a matter of "making a hole", it was actually "pulling" out a huge tree.

Because the noise was so loud, everyone in the Colosseum noticed it. After all, how could they not notice a huge tree disappearing out of thin air? The creatures on top of the tree also became anxious when they saw the huge tree disappear. They gathered together and wanted to see what happened.

They pushed and shoved each other, and actually fell directly from the high wall, falling to the ground with screams, unable to move anymore.

When these creatures saw their companions being squeezed and fell, their first reaction was not anxiety. Instead, they shouted excitedly and began to gloat over their misfortune.

Mo Ling was in no mood to complain about these vile creatures. He looked at the boy and asked seriously, "Can the totem also be used to remove other wood? We need to make the opening bigger."

"Of course, I'll go draw it now...but now we don't have any lives to pay the price, and I only caught one beetle." The boy said while looking at the motionless beetle on the ground: "I wonder if it can be reused..."

"Don't worry, there are still a lot of them." Mo Ling pointed at the goblins that fell from the high wall.

The young man finally reacted and his eyes lit up.

Without any hesitation, he rushed to paint on other giant trees. With the experience from the first time, his hands were steadier this time and he painted a few more easily.

"It's time to pay the price!"

He shouted at Mo Ling.

"it is good."

After receiving the instructions, Mo Ling picked up the knife and cut the throat of a goblin.

Blood splattered on Mo Ling's face, but he just turned his head slightly and didn't show any discomfort.

There is nothing worthy of sympathy about these creatures, except that they look like humans.

But the young man was a little frightened. Looking at the flowing blood, the hand holding the knife began to shake uncontrollably.

"Don't look at it if you can't stand it." Mo Ling looked up and said to him.

"Yeah." The young man turned his head and looked at the totems on the giant tree. After the goblin with his throat cut died, all the totems lit up.

"One price can support multiple totems to change at the same time... It is indeed the case, so those captives just now turned into wild boars together."

The changes here were noticed by the explorers in the Colosseum. They moved around in the arena, avoiding the wild boars and gradually approaching.

The several giant trees with totems painted on them changed again and shrank into several motionless goblins. The goblins gathered on the high wall also felt empty under their feet and fell down like dumplings.

Those who did not fall began to taunt and shout, not taking their companions' crisis seriously at all.

The opening grew larger and larger, and more explorers came nearby, but the wild boars followed them.

"Throw these fallen guys in and let them attract the wild boar's attention!"

These fallen goblins became ready-made targets. After the explorers rushed to the vicinity, they did not sit idle. They directly grabbed the goblins struggling on the ground and threw them into the arena.

Those wild boars seemed to have completely lost their minds. As long as they saw a moving target, they would rush forward without hesitation and push the goblins that fell beside them like footballs. The remaining explorers also seized the opportunity and brought the wounded to the crack in the city wall.

"Is everyone here? Get out first!"

"Done!"

"go!"

(End of this chapter)