Above the mage

Chapter 471 Advancement, Fourth Fluctuation

Valar Bay, Flora Forest.

Flora floated above a piece of land, her face serious and her eyes more focused than ever before.

She stretched out her right hand towards the ground below, and a stream of yellowish-brown energy, the Mother Qi of All Earth, shot out from her fingertips like a nimble little snake, burrowing into the soil.

The primordial energy of the myriad earths continued to surge forth and flow in.

The originally grayish-white, hard-textured ash-covered soil of the snowfield is undergoing an astonishing change, beginning to homogenize with the clump of original soil in the planting pit, and slowly spreading outwards.

"That's a wrap." Once a large area of ​​soil had undergone this transformation, Flora stopped pouring in the Mother Earth Qi, patted her chest, and indicated that she was tired.

The forestry staff who were waiting nearby rushed forward and carefully planted the magic tree seeds that had been prepared in advance, following Flora's instructions.

This is the last of the magic tree seeds that Gaode brought back.

In other words, this stage of the tree-planting project has been completed.

All that's left is to wait for these tree species to sprout one after another.

Of course, there was no need to worry about the survival rate. Flora had explained all the key points of planting one by one, and the staff of the forestry office had also taken careful notes.

Flora was a responsible adult. After settling on the tree species, she led the forestry staff on a tour of Flora's Forest to check on the condition of other tree species.

Whenever she discovers any problems with a tree, or if the needs of a particular tree have changed, she immediately points it out, instructs the staff to make a record, and then takes appropriate measures to ensure the healthy growth of all the trees in Flora's Forest.

However, this can only be done now that the area of ​​Flora Forest is not particularly large.

Once Flora's Forest becomes a truly vast forest, if the Forestry Office continues to operate under the same model, Flora will be overwhelmed.

Not only Flora, but Sunefa had long been aware of this problem.

Therefore, they have been working hard to cultivate professional talents for the forestry office.

Flora would describe in detail every tree problem she discovered, including its symptoms, causes, and solutions.

Then, the forestry office staff who followed were required to record everything word for word, compile it into a booklet, and distribute it to all forestry office staff for study.

Sunafa is even preparing to reorganize this book into teaching materials and include "Forestry Elective Education" in the school's next stage of teaching plan, which is incredibly forward-thinking.

Meanwhile, under the joint consultation of Flora and Sunefa, the Forestry Office is focusing its efforts on stimulating the growth of the first batch of century-old trees, or more accurately, five-hundred-year-old trees.

This was done to bring out the effect of Yugathira's second-tier ability, [Enlightenment].

According to Flora, the Tree People are not only powerful warriors, but also top-notch "forestry experts," possessing innate knowledge of nature and the ability to care for trees.

This is equivalent to simultaneously cultivating local talent and bringing in foreign aid.

Even with Flora's unusually high efficiency, it still took her half a day to complete the entire Flora Forest. Recording also takes time, and most of the time was spent on this.

Thus, Flora's mission was officially completed.

However, she did not leave immediately.

Because of her close connection with Yugathira, she had already realized that Yugathira's growth was nearing its advancement. After absorbing enough "new tree species rewards", it should be able to transform from the second tier to the third tier today.

Flora is ready to witness and accompany Yugathira's ascension.

Arriving at the base of the Yogathira tree, one can see wisps of green, grassy essence constantly emanating from its trunk.

This is like an overloaded, red-hot machine that is emitting hot air.

As the green aura of vegetation continued to emerge, it spread outwards.

Any plant touched by the essence of grass and trees, regardless of its species or grade, will instinctively absorb this overflowing essence.

Subsequently, although no obvious changes were visible in their leaves, Flora could sense that their vitality had increased significantly, making them stronger and less prone to disease.

This is a sign that Yugathira is about to advance.

The reason for this phenomenon is that Yugathira has acquired too much plant energy in a short period of time, which has accumulated unevenly in its body. However, Yugathira has a strong ability to adapt and is autonomously dispersing this accumulated plant energy throughout its body, including visible and invisible roots, to promote its own growth and evolution.

As time passed, the dissipation of the plant energy of Yugathira gradually disappeared, and in its place, the multicolored energy swirling among the branches and leaves began to flow unstablely.

Flora's expression turned serious, and she stared intently into Yugathira's eyes.

She knew that when Yugathira exhibited this behavior, it meant that her advancement had begun.

The same is true.

The five-colored energies were initially disordered.

Then, the surrounding air suddenly became viscous.

The canopy of Yugathira trembled violently, its leaves rustling with a metallic clang, and liquid starlight began to flow from each leaf.

A net of light is woven among the branches.

Throughout the entire Flora Forest, every tree trunk exudes a stream of plant essence of varying colors.

These plant essences surged back and swept towards Yugathira.

They transformed into countless vines that entwined around the trunk of Yogathira.

The next moment, some mysterious and obscure ancient runes appeared on the surface of Yogg-Sarah's bark, pulsating with emerald light like blood vessels.

The runes representing astral teleportation also appeared on the trunk of Yogg-Sarah, shimmering with light.

Without warning, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the ground.

Actually, it wasn't entirely without warning.

This is caused by the sudden expansion of the Yugathishira root system, which pushes open the soil.

The multicolored astral energy surged like magma among the branches and leaves of Yugathhira, incredibly abundant.

The alien raccoon egg that Gaode had fostered in the tree canopy was now like someone at a buffet, grabbing and absorbing the astral energy like crazy.

Of course, compared to the astral energy that Yugathira currently possesses, the small amount of astral energy absorbed by the Alien Egg is truly negligible and not worth mentioning.

Yugathira began to emit a melodious sound, which grew louder and louder, immediately attracting the attention of everyone in the Flora Forest.

Elder Gain arrived immediately. After Flora informed him of the situation, he immediately became serious and summoned all the mages in Flora Forest to enter a state of high alert to ensure that no external object would affect the advancement of the sacred tree.

Hundreds of roots broke through the soil in the spiderweb-like cracks, twisting and intertwining on the ground to form a complex network.

The surface of these roots still shimmered with a faint silver light, while the ends converged into illusory light and shadow.

Each ray of light and shadow presents a different scene: some depict an eternally blazing inferno, others a frozen kingdom dotted with icebergs, and still others a dark and gloomy region...

At this moment, Flora could feel a large amount of information flowing into her mental connection with Yugathira, making her instinctively understand the specific changes in Yugathira.

It was a normal change in her eyes, but if you told her about it, it would be absolutely astonishing, or even terrifying.

The roots of Yogg-Sarah are in contact with other planes in some inexplicable way, attempting to draw different energies from these different planes.

This is precisely the root of its transformation of spiritual lands—energy cannot be generated out of thin air.

In reality, Yogg-Sarah draws various complex energies from other planes, transforms them within her body into pure magic, and thus modifies the land.

With a final boom, the echoing sound emanating from Yogg-Sarah ceased completely.

But the changes did not stop.

The main trunk of Yogathira splits into a second canopy, and the newly grown branches are translucent, with a spiritual and ethereal radiance flowing inside.

Two intertwined patterns have now appeared on the bark of Yogathira.

One pattern is a confluence of star vines that originate from the same source as astral teleportation; the other pattern is a semi-transparent soulfire intertwined with double helixes.

The two soul flames were dark blue and silver-white, respectively.

At the top of the tree canopy, a golden vortex about half a meter in diameter slowly took shape. Although it was not yet stable, with each flicker, one could feel the faint aura from other dimensions.

And so, it all came to an end.

Yugathira has successfully advanced and officially become a third-tier magical plant.

Flora blinked, looking very happy.

For Yugathira and Flora, everything came to a temporary end the moment their advancement was completed.

But in reality, many things only began the moment Yugathira completed her advancement.

The eastern part of the North, also known as the Forbidden Zone.

In the underground space, darkness, like thick asphalt, filled every crevice.

In the midst of this deathly silence, two blue fireflies suddenly flickered, their light swaying in the thick darkness like will-o'-the-wisps from the underworld, exuding an eerie chill that sent shivers down one's spine.

Upon closer inspection, it was clearly a pair of eyes gleaming with a cold, sharp light, their pupils shimmering with a deep blue glow.

"This is a very unpleasant feeling. It's coming from the west, and it's emanating from the same source as the aura I sensed last time, only it's stronger..."

A cold voice echoed in the darkness, its tone seemingly carrying the chill of millennia-old ice, each word piercingly cold.

"I was awakened by this feeling a while ago..."

The owner of that voice seemed to have a bad memory. After a moment of silence, he remembered some things he had done before. "If I remember correctly, I should have sent out an eye to find the source of this feeling."

"Why haven't we received any feedback?" The cold voice carried a hint of doubt.

Then, the two blue flames dimmed.

Judging from the appearance, the owner of the eyes must have closed them at this moment.

However, it only stayed closed for a moment before the blue firefly flickered again.

"They've been wiped out..." The seemingly calm voice held a hint of anger, yet also a thoughtful expression: "That seemed to be Boreas's bloodline..."

Then, no sound could be heard in the darkness anymore; only the two blue glowing lights indicated that the owner of the sound was still conscious.

It did not fall into a deep sleep.

This deathly silence lasted for several minutes, then a strange purple light emerged from the darkness like a ghost, gradually coalescing.

It forms a huge light source, illuminating a small area around it.

"Go, find out everything for me." This was a self-talk accompanied by a cold voice.

The two blue flames disappeared once again.

The owner of the voice entered "hibernation" mode once again.

In the central region of the North, towering volcanoes flow with scorching lava that even extreme cold cannot extinguish.

The rhythmic clanging of forging iron inside the volcano resembled a beautiful and stirring melody.

But at that moment, the music suddenly stopped.

However, the pause was brief, and the music resumed, as if the performer had simply forgotten the next section of the score.

There was a brief pause.

The Winterhammer tribe in the western region of the North.

The burly, mountain-like Master Sheep, radiating a scorching aura, listened intently to Yarna's cautious report with a blank expression.

Several more months passed, and Yarna still hadn't been able to bring the Sheep Master the information he needed.

Finally, Yarna finished reporting on the investigation results of her dispatched personnel over the past week and stopped to wait for Master Sheep's reaction.

Master Yang's orange-red pupils gleamed with a flame-like light, as if he were deep in thought.

However, you could still tell from his expression that he wasn't in a good mood.

Just then.

Master Yang seemed to sense something and his whole body trembled.

Not only did he shudder, but the unusually shaped hammer hanging at his waist also trembled.

The hammer was buzzing and vibrating intensely, while its interior shone brightly.

The tremor lasted only about a breath before abruptly stopping, but in that short time, Master Yang's eyes widened and the flames in his pupils "burned".

He suddenly stood up and pointed west.

"Is there anything special about this direction?" Master Yang asked.

Yarna was clearly still processing the question. She paused for a moment, then instinctively replied, "That's the direction where the Zhenbing tribe is located..."

The Columbus.

Gao De stood on the deck, squinting as he observed his surroundings.

The salty sea breeze, carrying a strong fishy smell of seaweed, rushed towards us like a savage beast.

The boat bobbed and swayed with the waves, making a sickeningly loud groan.

In this world, voyages are not like those in the previous life, where only the crew had to worry about things.

Because of the presence of ley line creatures, the mage's task is also very important, as they need to keep a close watch to prevent the ship from being suddenly attacked by these creatures.

When sailing at sea, in addition to being wary of sea monsters, the threats from the sky are also considerable.

These leyline creatures, born with wings and capable of flight, inhabit a variety of terrains.

In contrast, the more expansive seas, where few mages are present, are one of their preferred habitats.

Even according to incomplete statistics, marine mammals may account for less than 30% of the species that attack ships, because marine mammals usually have to breach the ship first in order to pose a threat to humans on board.

Flying leyline creatures, on the other hand, prefer to launch surprise attacks, targeting one or two people on the ship, and then fleeing thousands of miles away after a successful strike.

The former's attack is relentless and will fight to the death. If it is not defended against, the entire army will be wiped out, but the probability of encountering it is relatively low.

The latter has a much higher probability of being encountered, but fortunately, even if it happens, the loss in most cases is at most a reduction in personnel.

However, the so-called high probability is only relative.

For example, since it started operating overseas, Gaode Maps has not encountered a single incident of an attack by a ley line creature.

He closed the Mandora's Eye, stretched, and was about to return to his cabin to rest when he suddenly felt an extremely pure life force emerge from the void and surge into his entire body.

This is.

Gaode paused for a moment, then quickly understood everything:

This is a feedback phenomenon resulting from Yugathishira's ascension!