In Teyvat, it all begins with rescuing the grass god.

if not.

If they could all be killed with a single blow, Nasita's tests would not be able to continue.

that's it.

Rhode would go out each time he reached his limit, and then go back in once he had fully recovered. He did this more than ten times until he finally smashed the core of this large dead zone tumor. Only then did this dead zone that was blocking his way finally end its painful experience of being tortured by Rhode and completely disappear.

Narcida's test also yielded the results she wanted.

First, the elemental power that Rhode obtains through the power of the Dead Zone can indeed increase his absorption limit of the Dead Zone's power, thus the nested doll theory of becoming stronger holds true.

Secondly, Rhode's conversion efficiency of the power of the Dead Zone is still affected by his physical strength. When he is close to exhaustion, the conversion efficiency is the slowest, dropping to about 10% of the normal state. If the power of the Dead Zone in Rhode's body reaches its limit at the same time in this state, then his situation will become very dangerous. Nasita did not risk testing this state, but only warned Rhode not to fight to exhaustion in the Dead Zone, otherwise unpredictable changes may occur.

(End of this chapter)

126. Chapter 124: Don't kill anyone, got it?

Chapter 124: Don't kill anyone, got it?

Watching Rhodes repeatedly enter and exit the dead zone to test the abnormalities in his body.

Tina felt a little numb.

At first, he specifically reminded Rhodes several times not to be too anxious, and if it really didn't work, to wait for the other patrol teams to come and clear the dead zone together.

But when he saw that Rhodes was completely unharmed, treating the Dead Zone like his own living room, coming and going as he pleased, he obediently shut his mouth.

to be frank.

If only he had that kind of constitution.

He would also choose to clean up the dead zone like Rhodes.

Since we're not afraid of the corruption of the Dead Zone's power, we only need to guard against attacks from the Dead Zone's branches and monsters.

Compared to the previous point.

Fighting the Dead Zone Scrolls and monsters is indeed much easier.

If once doesn't work, try twice; if twice doesn't work, try three times. If Rhodes does it like this, going back and forth a dozen times, sooner or later he will be able to completely clear this dead zone.

"Your bow."

After thoroughly clearing the dead zone, Rhodes returned carrying a jade-green longbow.

This bow is Tinari's personal weapon.

He lost it here during the previous battle.

"Thank you very much."

Taking his weapon, Tinari sighed heavily.

His injury hasn't healed yet, but he can move around a bit now.

However, Rhodes did not let him walk on his own. Instead, he carried him on his back, and together with Farusan, the three of them set off again towards the Zen Garden.

"By the way, how did you end up in such a huge dead zone all by yourself?"

On the way, Rod asked Tinari this question out of curiosity.

In his impression.

Tinari was a very cautious, meticulous, and reliable person.

Given his personality, he shouldn't have rashly entered such a large dead zone alone.

It's important to know that this Dead Zone is not only teeming with monsters, but also overgrown with numerous branches. Moreover, Tina is quite different from himself; he needs to be on his guard here to deal with the Dead Zone's power that is constantly eroding his body.

Rhodes knew that if he hadn't been able to ignore the corrosive power of the Dead Zone, it would have taken him at least three times longer to clear it away without any damage, and he might not have even needed Narcida's help.

How dare Tinali enter such a massive dead zone all by himself?

Talk about it.

A bitter expression immediately appeared on Tina's face: "This dead zone wasn't this big at first."

"what?"

"You mean, it wasn't this big when you cleaned it, and then it suddenly grew to this size?"

Rod paused for a moment, then said with a wry smile, "How could you run into such bad luck?"

"Ugh--"

Tinali was speechless and could only sigh deeply.

That was really bad luck.

There is a certain chance that the dead zone will suddenly expand.

However, the chances are very small.

Normal dead zones expand slowly, and clearing them rarely involves danger.

However, his bad luck came when the dead zone suddenly expanded rapidly while he was halfway through clearing it, and within just a few minutes it had expanded to the area that Rhodes and the others were now seeing.

At that time, Tinari had already consumed a lot of elemental power to protect against the power of the Dead Zone, and coupled with the previous battle with the monsters, she was no longer in her best condition.

As a result of the sudden expansion of the Dead Zone, the number of monsters inside increased by no less than tenfold, and branches of the Dead Zone sprang up like mushrooms after rain, immediately unleashing machine gun fire at him.

If he hadn't run fast enough, Rod might never have seen him again.

We arrived at Zenna Garden.

When Nafis saw Tinari's miserable state, he was truly panicked.

While grumbling about how she had told Tina to stop trying to clear the dead zone on her own, she methodically stitched up his wounds and changed his dressings.

I was so busy that I didn't even have a chance to talk to Rod.

He only had time to spare after he had settled Tinaly in.

“I heard about it from Tinari.”

"Thanks to you this time."

As he said this, Nafis still looked terrified.

He had never really paid much attention to Tinali in the past.

Even when Tinaly voluntarily gave up his promising future as a successor to the sages of the Biophysical School and chose to become a forest ranger in Huacheng Guo, he didn't say a word about it.

Occasionally, when he felt like it, he would write a letter to scold Tinari, but he never said anything about forcing Tinari to return to the Church.

But this time he was genuinely terrified.

He genuinely wanted to persuade Tinari to give up her job as a ranger and, if she didn't want to work at the Order of the Fathers, to come and keep him company.

"Teacher, Senior Brother Tinari was just unlucky this time."

Nafis practically had his desire for Tinari to stay written all over his face, which Rhodes immediately noticed, so he offered a simple excuse for Tinari.

"Hmph, bad luck."

"He was lucky this time."

"If I hadn't run into you, I would have died in the Dead Zone long ago."

Nafis gets angry whenever this is mentioned.

Her apprentice was almost lost, and while she was still shaken, she was even more furious at Tinali for not listening to her advice.

“But Senior Brother Tinari doesn’t like the academic atmosphere of the Order of the Church. He told me about this once.”

Rhodes curled his lip and said, "You know how the academic atmosphere is in the Council of the Church these days."

Nafis was immediately deflated.

How could I not know?

He sent Rod to the Zen Garden to find him, wasn't it to resolve the issue of the problematic academic atmosphere within the Life Theory School?

"Ugh--"

"That's enough, the child is grown up now, let him walk his own path from now on."

Nafis sighed, then took out a grant certificate and a statement announcing the establishment of the research group and handed them to Rhodes.

"Remember, this research topic was your own choice, and I didn't participate in it at all."

After placing the items in Rhodes' hands, he solemnly instructed, "After today, I will be going to Daochenglin for a year of recuperation due to illness. During this time, no one can help you. Gülesh can't help you with the matter of the Life Theory, and neither can Seno until you have sufficient evidence. Understand?"

Having said this.

Before Rhodes could even glance at what he was holding, Nafis shoved another rather thick document into his hands.

"This is my backup plan for you."

"If you fail this time, this research result should be enough to get you through the tests of the Mahabharata from the Tasata."

"I will arrange for you and Hafsey to compete on the same stage, so that the two of you can compete for the position of Sage. Who will win or lose will depend on your respective abilities."

Nafis had barely finished speaking.

Rhodes' pupils constricted slightly, and he exclaimed repeatedly, "Teacher, this..."

"keep it."

"This is an order."

Nafis's expression grew increasingly serious: "I'm old, and I don't have many years left before retirement. While I'm still a wise man, I can't leave those children who come here full of joy to learn with such a bastard who will make them regret it for the rest of their lives."

“Tinari told me what you said to him here.”

“Sino also told me about what you did in Aru village.”

"At that time, I was just hesitating about how to reform the biological theory school."

“You’ve come at a good time, child.”

"Hehe, to be honest, at first Jules told me that I couldn't trust you so easily, and that I should test you for a while to make sure you were true to your word."

"After all, knowledge does not represent character. No matter how talented you are, if you are a scoundrel, we cannot entrust you with all the knowledge we have acquired in our lives."

"But when you were so determined to tell everyone about Adebay that day, and even accused Seno, I made my decision. What's the point of testing you? You're the one!"