From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 288 Shocking Change
After getting rid of the horned demon undead wizard, the sea of ​​skeletons that was originally surging like a tide immediately lost control and shattered into pieces on the ground.

Without the siege of the Skeleton Sea, the escort team felt less pressure and could turn around to deal with the blood demons.

This team of blood demons are summoners of the abyss, and each of them is very powerful.

If there were only the Elf Guards, facing such a group of blood demons, the team might be in danger of being wiped out.

With the participation of human superpowers, they were able to resist the attack of the blood demons.

Lu Heng drew his sword and charged into the blood demons, going in and out seven times as if he was in an empty space.

Every time the sword is drawn, the life of a blood demon will be taken.

Most blood demons, when seriously injured and dying, will choose to self-destruct and release scarlet blood. The blood mist will splash over ten meters, and anyone who comes into contact with it will be corroded by the toxins in the scarlet blood.

Therefore, as the number of blood demons decreased, elves and humans also began to be injured.

Lu Heng hid in the shadows many times to avoid the scarlet blood, killing the blood demons so hard that their heads rolled and blood mist filled the sky.

A series of kill data emerged and energy data filled the screen.

[Kill the Blood Demon Summoner and absorb 3000 points of demonic energy. ]

[Kill the Blood Demon Summoner and absorb 3500 points of demonic energy. ]

Lu Heng accumulated enough energy through killing, and a tide of energy rolled up in his body, breaking through the level boundaries.

[Energy level increased to level 36, all attributes +4, agility attribute additional +1.2]

Rift Slash, Dragon Breath Slash, Wind Dragon's Breath Slash, the big moves were launched one after another, and the blood demon began to show signs of defeat.

More than twenty blood demons released their defensive skills at the same time, but they were unable to withstand the powerful destructive power of Rift Slash and Dragon Breath Slash.

After the Wind Dragon's Absolute Breath swept a dozen blood demons into the sky, the blood demons were defeated head-on and began to flee in all directions.

Human psychics and the elven guards continue to hunt down the blood demons.

At this time, a human mutant quietly withdrew from the battle circle, approached the box on Eric's mount, and showed greed in his eyes.

He made a quick decision and reached out to press the box to open it.

That's when.

Another human mutant pressed the box almost at the same time. The two looked at each other and saw greed in each other's eyes.

The former swung his sword to force the latter back, then broke the box with one punch and wanted to reach in to take out the Moon Well water inside.

At this moment.

Su Muyu, who had been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, noticed the two men's actions and shouted, "What are you doing!"

Seeing that their plan was exposed, the two men stopped attacking each other and wanted to get the water from the Moon Well first.

Just as they reached into the box, the double-headed bird swooped down and knocked the two men to the ground.

One of them cursed, "Why are you pretending to be so noble? Who doesn't want the fountain water that can improve skill levels? Whoever gets it gets it."

The two men rushed towards the box again, but before they touched it, a figure flashed in front of them and Lu Heng stood in front of them with a sword.

The two gritted their teeth and cursed: "If you don't want it, then get out of here. Why are you stopping us?"

Lu Heng's face was gloomy. He had already held a meeting to remind these people, but he didn't expect that some people would still take the risk.

In fact, anyone would be tempted if they knew that the Moon Well water could improve skill levels.

Lu Heng is no exception.

Although you can use [Divine Evolution] to upgrade skills, this requires the consumption of divine energy.

If you get the Moon Well water, you can directly upgrade your skills, which is equivalent to a large amount of divine energy.

Therefore, Lu Heng was also tempted, but he had to have a scale in his heart to decide what he could take and what he could not take.

Besides, even if they wanted to, it's not the way they do it.

"Do you think you can get the water from the Moon Well if I don't stop you?"

Lu Heng reached into the box, took out a crystal bottle, held it in his hand, shook it, and shouted, "Look carefully! Is there something in it? I have already warned you, but you still want to do it? Why are you so stupid!"

When the two saw the crystal bottle in Lu Heng's hand, their expressions froze, their bodies softened, and they fell to the ground.

Because the crystal bottle in Lu Heng's hand was empty, not even ordinary river water.

In fact, Eric hadn't even looked at the box since the fight broke out. It was obvious as day, but he didn't expect that someone would fall into his trap.

The battle is over and Fiona returns, ordering the Elven Guard to capture the two men.

Lu Heng opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally held back.

The two psychics who wanted to steal the Moon Well water were not among the 16 members of the team, but two of the other four.

The supernatural warriors who came from the military sequence had good discipline and suppressed their greed.

Fiona ordered her men to take the two psychics away and prepare to take them back to Kolos City for disposal.

This time, the blood demon's attack was repelled and more than 30 blood demons were killed.

Since everyone participated in the fight, they were judged to have participated in the kill.

Therefore, all the psychics who participated in the mission completed the first challenge task and killed 20 Abyss Summoners.

After the battle, the convoy continued on its way.

This time the team moved much faster and arrived at Moonshadow Forest a day later.

After arriving at Moonshadow Forest, Fiona took out the Moonwell water and gave it to the forest elder Seren.

Seren held the spring water, walked to the fence and used it to water the seeds in the soil.

He was very frugal when using the water from the Moon Well, and used it drop by drop.

Fiona stood in the back and asked, "Elder Seren, how is the progress?"

Seren said calmly, "We are still working on it. We can currently slow down the pollution in the Abyss, but we haven't found a way to purify it yet."

In fact, on the day he was teleported to the Moon Shadow Forest, Lu Heng realized that this elven forest elder was trying to purify the abyss through the vitality of trees.

In other words, he was looking for ways to purify the forest trees.

Black spots appeared on the giant trees in the Moon Shadow Forest, which were traces of pollution from the abyss.

After traveling to many places in the Quel'dorei world, Lu Heng discovered that this world had been seriously polluted, and the Moonshadow Forest was considered to be relatively lightly polluted.

At least the trees in the forest can still grow instead of dying in the pollution of the abyss.

This should be attributed to the efforts of Thryn, who should have found a way to slow down the pollution of the Abyss, but has not yet found a way to purify it.

"Is the Queen okay?" After watering the plants, Seren stood up and asked about the Queen's recent situation.

He was Queen Orleana's teacher and could have addressed her by her name, but he addressed her as the queen.

"The queen is very nice and asked me to say hello to Elder Seren." Fiona nodded in response.

"The things for Elder Augustus are ready. Come in with me to get them." Seren said and turned to walk into the tree house.

Fiona followed into the tree house, not knowing what she was getting.

Lu Heng stood under the fence and heard their conversation, but did not follow them as that would be impolite.

……

The escort team had been traveling for two days and was very tired, so they rested for a night in the Moon Shadow Forest.

night.

Su Muyu got up in the middle of the night, walked into the forest, and came to the ancient tree of knowledge space again.

She stood in front of the Ancient Tree of Knowledge, stretched out her hand, released the vines of life, and helped the Ancient Tree of Knowledge repair its wounds for the second time.

"There are still eight days left, and I will be back then." Su Muyu promised.

"I've seen it a long time ago. The fact that the Tree of Life can accept you shows that you are different from other humans. I believe you will come back." The Ancient Tree of Knowledge seemed very sure of this.

Su Muyu remembered something and asked, “I was too nervous when I came in last time, and I didn’t ask a few questions. I only remembered them after I left.

"Last time you said that the vine of life on my body was incomplete, what did you mean?"

The Ancient Tree of Knowledge was silent for a long time before answering, "The vine of life on you is only a small part of what those humans took away."

Su Muyu immediately raised her eyebrows and asked, "You mean, the team that snatched the Life Vine still has the Life Vine Essence in their hands?"

"Yes." The ancient tree of knowledge gave an affirmative answer.

"If that's the case, when I go back, I will try to continue looking for the Vine of Life, but it will be difficult. The team that stole the Vine of Life is a very powerful and mysterious organization." Su Muyu made a decision in his heart, but he would not rush to do it.

After all, the opponent is the Creator Organization, and we don’t even know the background of this organization. Finding the vine of life is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time.

"I believe you can do it, child." The voice of the ancient tree of knowledge was distant and kind.

……

After seeing the ancient tree of knowledge, Su Muyu left the ancient tree space and returned to the tree house to rest.

She lay in bed, not feeling sleepy, resting with her eyes closed, wondering when the day would come.

As dawn approached, a shrill scream suddenly came from the Moon Shadow Forest, waking everyone up.

Su Muyu opened his eyes suddenly, and the Chongming bird had already flown away, flying towards the direction where the scream came from.

The others also jumped out of their beds and rushed out of the tree house.

"Everyone gather together and see if anyone is missing." Lu Heng ran out of the tree house and called everyone loudly.

Soon Lin Zeyu replied: "Xie Shien is gone!"

Lu Heng looked around and indeed did not see Xie Shien, but everyone else was there.

At this moment.

Su Muyu's face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "I found Master Xie. The screams should have come from him."

"Where?" When Lu Heng asked, he had already run towards the direction where the scream came from.

The others quickly followed.

When we rushed to an open space in the forest, we saw Xie Shien pierced through the chest by a thick branch and nailed to the ground. Blood was flowing from his mouth and formed a pool on the ground.

Lu Heng rushed over, stretched out his hand to feel the pulse at the neck, and then shouted: "There is still a pulse, save him!"

But the chest was pierced, which was a serious injury.

Lu Heng had no ability to treat the wound, and he didn't dare to move the branch that pierced his chest.

In this situation, pulling out the branches will cause the animals to die faster.

Su Muyu hurriedly followed and released the vine of life to wrap around the wound and stop the bleeding.

Then, Seren walked forward slowly, squatted down to check the situation, released life magic to help heal, and then slowly pulled out the branch.

"He won't die for now, but his injuries are serious and he needs to recuperate for some time." Seren put his palm on Xie Shien's chest and used the vine of life to help him sew up his wound.

Lu Heng frowned, not understanding what was going on.

At this moment.

Xie Shien's closed eyelids moved twice, and his lips also moved.

Lu Heng lowered his body, put his ear close to his mouth, and said, "I'm listening, what do you want to say?"

"Protect...protect...lost...lost..." Xie Shien used up his last bit of strength to say an unclear word, and then fainted.

The voice was very faint and intermittent, but Lu Heng already understood what it meant.

What he probably meant to say was: The phylactery is lost.

The phylactery is lost!
In other words, the people who attacked him were aiming to seize the phylactery.

Who wants to steal the phylactery?

Is it a lich?
Or is it the "unknown force" in the main mission?
Or is it the mysterious killer who appeared before?
But why was this attacker able to attack in Moonshadow Forest?
Countless questions suddenly emerged in Lu Heng's mind, but the most urgent task now was to take Xie Shien back to the tree house to recuperate.

While thinking about these questions in his mind, Lu Heng gently picked up Xie Shien, brought him back to the tree house, put him on the bed, checked his wound to make sure there was no further bleeding, then turned around and walked out of the tree house.

Everyone gathered in the open space in front of the tree house because this matter was a bit weird.

If this attacker is still around, the rest of the group may also be in danger.

After Lu Heng paced back and forth and thought for a while, he looked up at Seren and asked, "Elder Seren, although I am willing to believe you, I remember you said that the trees in this forest are your eyes, but this incident happened in the forest. How do you explain it?"

Seren replied calmly, "It is not accurate to say that the trees in the forest are my eyes. To be precise, the trees in the forest are alive.

“They are alive and they talk to me and tell me interesting things that happen in the forest.

"If they hadn't spoken, I wouldn't have known what was happening. I certainly didn't know what was happening until the screaming came."

Lu Heng agreed with his explanation, but this did not eliminate his suspicion.

However, if we treat him as a suspect, there will be no way to investigate this matter.

Seren is the elder of the elves. The elven guards who are escorting the Moon Well water this time will definitely listen to him.

That is to say, if Seren was the attacker, he had the ability to kill everyone here.

Therefore, if you want to get to the bottom of this matter, you must first assume that he is not the murderer.

Even if Seren is ruled out, the situation is still serious.

Lu Heng looked at everyone present, thinking about a question.

Is this attacker among the elves or humans here, or did he come from outside?

If the attacker is among the humans and elves here, then the range is actually very small.

Because this attacker needs to avoid Seren's eyes and ears, and also have the strength to seriously injure Master Xie, and his combat power and level are very high.

Lu Heng knew Xie Shien's abilities very well. If he faced off head-on, perhaps someone could beat him, but it would not be so easy to keep him.

Therefore, among the humans and elves here, the only ones capable of seriously injuring Master Xie, apart from Lu Heng himself, are basically Fiona and Seren.

Even Eric, the captain of the Elf Guard, may not have this ability.

When they were attacked by the Abyss Summoners before, Lu Heng had seen Eric fighting and he was quite powerful.

In a head-on confrontation, he should be able to defeat Xie Shien, but it would be very difficult to severely injure Xie Shien.

Moreover, if Xie Shien wanted to escape, he would not be able to stop him.

In other words, if this attacker is here, it would basically only be Seren and Fiona.

Of course, there is another possibility, which is team action.

Lu Heng took a deep breath and asked, "Everyone, in order to confirm whether the attacker is among us, please submit your alibi for last night. Monitor each other to see if anyone went out in the middle of the night."

This is a very normal process. By supervising each other and confirming the alibi, suspicion can be eliminated and then they can work together to find the real murderer.

Everyone discussed with each other and some people raised their hands.

The one who raised his hand was Tao Yalun. He took the initiative to say, "I went out to relieve myself last night. I was out for about ten minutes and came back soon."

Chen Zihang continued, "I can prove this. When he went out, I woke up. He wasn't out for long."

Then, an elf warrior reported: "I saw a man enter the forest last night."

"Who?"

The elf warrior pointed at Su Muyu and said, "She, she went into the forest and has been gone for a long time."

Su Muyu nodded and admitted, "Yes, I was gone for more than an hour."

When these words were spoken, many people immediately became suspicious.

Su Muyu quickly added: "I went to the ancient tree space. I can't lie about this. Elder Serien only needs to ask the ancient tree of knowledge to find out."

Not long after, Seren nodded and confirmed: "Yes, she went to the ancient tree space."

In the end, only Thryn and Fiona failed to provide alibis.

Because they both had separate tree houses to rest in, they had no contact with other people last night.

After some investigation, things returned to the starting point.

Lu Heng looked back at Xie Shien who was unconscious in the tree house, took a deep breath, and wanted to get to the bottom of the matter, but the information was too confusing and he couldn't see what was going on.

There is only one piece of information that can be confirmed at the moment.

The attackers were targeting the phylactery.

It's the phylactery again.

This phylactery has attracted several attacks in succession.

Unknown forces, mysterious killers, and tonight's attackers.

Are these three the same?
Besides this, there is another possibility.

The scale of humans recruited this time is relatively large, with the number exceeding 50.

There is a possibility that there is a team organized by the Creator among them.

In other words, if there is a team organized by the Creator here, once they know that Xie Shien has a life-saving box on him, they will definitely take action.

Lu Heng recalled carefully, how many people knew about the information about the life-saving box?

Apart from the three people in his team, the only ones who knew that Xie Shien had a life box were Queen Orianna and Fiona.

In addition, there is another key message.

This attacker had the ability to strike in the forest without Thryn knowing.

Lu Heng looked at Seren again and asked, "Elder Seren, what kind of existence can take action in the forest without being discovered by you? Is there anyone here who can do it?"

When Seren heard this question, he fell silent. After a moment, he replied, "If this is the question, the elves' arcanists and magic warriors who master advanced natural magic may be able to do it."

(End of this chapter)