It felt so good to be close to the witch!

"Right now, all we can do is stay here and wait for reinforcements."

Ais's voice was cold, but it silenced all the witches in the room.

……

"You mortals, how dare you overstep your bounds!"

above the ground.

As Shanika's indifferent voice faded, dozens, even hundreds, of towering trees rose from the ground, and a mysterious power suddenly descended upon the area.

The tattooed bald man and the mechanical-eyed bald man didn't have time to launch an attack. Their expressions changed immediately, and their bodies fell involuntarily. Even though they desperately unleashed their fighting spirit and domain, it was all in vain.

This feeling is as if one's own status is being cruelly suppressed, and anyone who is not of a higher status cannot disobey the "lawful command."

The two people who fell to this spot were immediately engulfed by the surging sea of ​​plants.

Shanika floated in mid-air, with pale green light spots spreading around the edges of a giant white flower that slowly bloomed and spun beneath her feet.

At this moment, Shanika is in a very special state.

Upon ascending to the rank of Great Witch, her talent underwent a second perfect evolution, not only qualitatively changing her healing abilities and granting her the miraculous power to bring the dead back to life, but also endowing her with incredible plant manipulation abilities.

This ability to indirectly control plants with powerful life force originates from a one-third fragment of the core of the World Tree deep within her soul.

The World Tree, as the supreme being among plants, possesses the power to command all plants in the world; this is a divine authority that is etched in memory.

However, due to Shanika's own status and magical abilities, she was unable to fully unleash her power.

This caused Shanika a lot of distress.

Compared to Grand Witches, she, now a Great Witch, naturally possesses undeniable overwhelming power. However, compared to true powerhouses, legendary limit beings, or even demigods, her impact on the battle as a newly ascended Great Witch is negligible—the plants infused with her life force, though incredibly resilient, require about a second for even legendary limit beings to break free.

On the surface, it does seem to have a certain degree of control.

However, this is only in theory.

To grow into a legendary powerhouse, how rich must one's combat experience be? She wouldn't allow any plants the slightest chance to get close; with her high mobility, Shanika's presence would be practically useless.

After her trip to the Privy Cathedral, Shanika, having learned a painful lesson, eventually discovered a clever way to solve the problem through continuous research.

That is to briefly integrate one's own consciousness into the core fragment of the World Tree in order to gain powerful strength.

However, this action carries unknown dangers, so Shanika has been hesitant.

She originally planned to try again after reaching the second stage of the Great Witch, which would give her more confidence. However, the appearance of the two bald men disrupted her plans.

Shanika knew very well that she couldn't possibly contend with these two high-ranking legends in her normal state. Therefore, in order to buy enough time to hold out until Young Master Roy returned, she did not hesitate to merge her consciousness into the fragment of the World Tree's core.

This attempt can be considered both a success and a failure.

Her success lay in the fact that she truly possessed immense power at this moment, while her failure lay in the fact that her consciousness was imprisoned within a fragment of the World Tree's core, and what was controlling her body at this moment were the remaining fragments of memories from that fragment.

Of course, none of this is known to the tattooed bald man and the mechanical-eyed bald man outside the community.

At this moment, the two are suffering a terrible attack.

Thick vines, some half a meter long, lashed out like gnarled wooden dragons, lashing furiously at the protective barrier erected by the two men.

Everywhere you could see, in all directions, was filled with wooden dragons.

These vines, brimming with immense life force, are all incredibly resilient and possess energy-blocking properties, making them extremely susceptible to the effects of external energy.

The relentless whipping caused the fighting spirit within the tattooed bald man and the mechanical-eyed bald man to drop drastically—under the influence of the law, for example, the energy of heaven and earth no longer supplied them with the ability to restore their fighting spirit, and their legendary fighting spirit bodies were directly abolished.

"We can't go on like this!"

The same thought occurred to both brothers at the same time.

The strangeness of this great witch was beyond their imagination.

If they continue to be beaten like this, the two of them might even die here.

Almost at the same time.

The tattooed bald man, shrouded in lightning, and the mechanical-eyed bald man, transformed into a metal man, roared simultaneously, and blinding light erupted from their bodies.

Ultimate sublimation, the soul burns.

Faced with an existence whose energy level was only at the initial stage of the Great Witch realm, a half-step Legendary Limit Knight and a Legendary Limit Knight simultaneously burned their souls.

If this gets out, it will probably cause the two of them to lose face completely.

However, the bald brothers couldn't care less about that at that moment.

Thanks to the terrifying explosive power brought about by the burning of their souls, the two broke through the blockade of countless wooden dragons.

The diffusion of liquid plasma, while unable to destroy the wooden dragon, made it difficult for the outer circle of wooden dragons to enter for a time.

The tattooed bald man and the mechanical-eyed bald man exchanged a glance. Then, the tattooed bald man took a step and stood behind the mechanical bald man. At the same time, metal expanded on the back of the mechanical-eyed bald man, forming a port similar to a charging interface.

Without hesitation or delay, the tattooed bald man thrust his hand into the interface, channeling his fighting spirit into the mechanical-eyed bald man's body with maximum power.

The abundance of energy caused uncontrollable black arcs of electricity to appear on the surface of the bald man with mechanical eyes.

He clasped his hands together, palms facing each other, and a deep, dark metal pipe appeared in his palms, within which an extremely profound power of lightning was compressed.

After a second of charging, a dazzling purple-black lightning beam shot into the sky, aimed directly at Shanika in mid-air.

"boom!"

The moment the Thunder Cannon was fired, the terrifying recoil caused the ground beneath the bald brothers' feet to cave in continuously, spreading out large spiderweb-like cracks.

The sheer force of the shockwave caused any nearby wooden dragons to shatter into splinters.

In mid-air, the rapidly approaching, dazzling lightning beam was reflected in her indifferent pupils. "Sanika" remained expressionless, simply raising her hand and making a downward grasping motion.

In an instant, the wooden dragons converged, forming a bowl-shaped wooden shield that blocked their path.

"Boom--!"

After a moment of silence, a terrifying explosion resounded through the sky.

Tiny fragments of space drifted down, indicating that the combined attack of the bald brothers had reached the threshold of demigods.

However, even with such terrifying power, the wooden dragon shield was not completely destroyed.

The wooden dragon shield, now charred black, was crackling with lightning. Its broken parts healed rapidly under the influence of powerful life force, and even formed one after another blue flower bud the size of a human head.

Under the stunned gaze of the two bald brothers, the jet-black flower buds bloomed slowly yet quickly, and countless blue light spots fell at that moment.

The seemingly slow-falling blue light spots actually filled the entire area the moment they appeared in sight.

Faced with such a bizarre sight, the bald brothers naturally dared not be careless and immediately joined forces to erect an energy shield overflowing with lightning.

However, to their horror, the maximum power lightning shield had no effect whatsoever on these blue dots of light.

They passed through the lightning shield with ease, as if it didn't exist at all. Before the bald brothers could react further, these blue light spots merged into their bodies.

"?!"

The moment the blue light entered their bodies, the bald brothers frantically unleashed their fighting spirit, attempting to expel the foreign object. Then, they were puzzled.

Their bodies do not perceive these blue spots as "harmful foreign objects," but instead actively and proactively accommodate them.

What puzzled the brothers even more was that after the cyan light spots merged into the flesh cells, they actually caused these damaged cells to recover quickly.

The enemy doesn't attack me, but instead heals my wounds?

This strange operation left the bald brothers, who had never seen anything like it before, completely bewildered.

As time went by, all their injuries were repaired in less than 0.1 seconds, demonstrating just how pure the life energy contained in the cyan light was.

However, the next moment, the pupils of the two bald brothers suddenly contracted.

The life force contained within the cyan light spots did not stop after repairing their injuries, but continued to heal them.

Their flesh and blood cells began to turn bluish and swell in size, clearly filled with the power of life.

Even so, the healing power of life force did not stop.

"Do not!!!"

The tattooed bald man screamed. As a mechanical knight of the body theory, his body had hardly undergone any mechanical modifications. More than 99.9% of it was made of flesh and blood, so he was more susceptible to the influence of life force.

His body continued to swell, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not stop this "cellular expansion" that occurred from the inside out.

Finally, with a terrified scream, the tattooed bald man "exploded".

It literally exploded.

Blood rained down, mixed with bits of flesh, and splashed onto the lightning energy shield, making a sizzling sound.

The red light in the mechanical-eyed bald man's eyes flickered violently, and his aura was extremely low.

Although he has carried out the maximum mechanization modifications within the limits of his rank, there are still some parts of his flesh and blood that he cannot modify now.

A rapidly moving heart, like the brain.

At this moment, under the excessive "pouring" of life force, his heart and brain also shattered on a large scale.

The presence of the Soul Flame prevented him from dying immediately. As he watched the figure revealed after the wooden dragon shield scattered in mid-air, the bald man with mechanical eyes trembled.

Fear consumed his soul, plunging him into endless regret.

Why should I accept this seemingly simple task?

why?

Why……

"Even if the mission is accomplished, so what?"

Filled with resentment, the red light in the mechanical-eyed bald man's eyes gradually dimmed, and the flame of his soul was completely extinguished.

Having eliminated the "enemies" within sight, "Sanika" lowered her head, her gaze falling deep underground at the wooden cage with a hole torn in it, and she also saw a mechanical object fleeing into the distance at an exaggerated speed.

She raised her head, preparing to launch an attack, but at that moment, the blue light in her eyes faded, and her body fell limply from the sky.

"Peng!"

The soil broke open, and Ais, Elena, and Vivian rushed out.

Vivian controlled the light elements to condense into wings, took off and caught the unconscious Shanika, while Ais burst into speed in the west, and then stopped after chasing for nearly a kilometer, her face pale.

fast!

too fast!