Synthesis Wizard.

Chapter 202 Black Forest

Astral Calendar Year 1278, the Month of Books (August).

The last independent city-state in the Northwest Territory was captured by the Golem Legion, announcing that the entire Northwest Territory had completely fallen into the hands of the Star Alliance.

At this point, the underground world welcomed its first ruler in a thousand years.

After the war subsided, the Star Alliance completely entered a period of development. It no longer launched large-scale military operations, but instead focused on developing the underground world.

Sunan specially made a list of what was needed to build the wizard tower and gave it to Carolina and Red Widow to collect. As soon as they returned from the Black Forest, the construction of the wizard tower would be put on the agenda.

This is a huge project and cannot be completed overnight.

Even if there were sufficient materials and labor, it would still take more than ten or twenty years to complete.

Considering the current situation of the Starlight Continent, Sunan estimated that it would be considered fast if it could be completed within a hundred years.

As time came to the end of the month, with only three days left before the Harvest Moon (September), the energy of the Black Key was finally full.

The moment the Black Key was activated, a dense and gloomy forest full of black trees almost immediately appeared in Sunan's mind, and he instantly knew its location.

"It's quite far from the Demon Spider City."

The map of the underground world had long been engraved in Sunan's mind. With a brief recollection, he determined the city-state closest to the Black Forest. He then reached that city-state through Longlin's space channel and flew towards the Black Forest.

More than a hundred kilometers passed in a flash, and Sunan soon found a dark entrance in a remote cave.

"Space channel?"

"It seems that unlike the Tower of Stars, the Black Forest is in another dimension."

Sunan was not surprised either.

If the Black Forest existed in the material world, his men would have found clues long ago.

So he guessed that the Black Forest was either an alternate dimension itself, or like the Tower of Stars, it could travel between the material world and other dimensional planes.

And this dark space passage undoubtedly proves that the Black Forest is the former.

After casting a defensive spell on himself and activating the Ring of Ultimate Protection, Sunan stepped into the space channel without hesitation.

His eyes blurred, and when his vision became clear again, Sunan found himself in a strange forest.

All I could see were tall, dark trees.

The trunk is black, the branches are black, and even the leaves are black.

There was a starry sky above my head, and the dim starlight sprinkled in the forest. From afar, the black trees looked like devils with bared fangs and claws, casting creepy shadows on the ground.

The whole forest is filled with ghosts, which makes people feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts.

There seemed to be a very light gray mist faintly floating in the air.

However, Sunan knew that it was not fog, but negative energy particles that were so dense that they were almost material.

"Such a rich negative energy particle."

Sunan was amazed.

Unlike positive energy particles, negative energy particles cannot penetrate and strengthen the body, but instead cause damage to the body.

Except for wizards (apprentices) who specialize in the undead, very few people will actively absorb negative energy particles.

Being in an environment with a high concentration of negative energy particles for a long time can also harm the body.

"The wizard organization that left this wizard legacy is most likely an evil organization."

"If a first-level wizard apprentice or a knight below the legendary level enters here, it won't take long for them to be corroded into a mass of pus."

"The requirements for this wizard inheritance are obviously more stringent than those of the Tower of Stars, and the assessment method should also be different."

Su Nan had a vague guess in his mind, but he needed to continue observing to verify whether it was accurate.

The mental power spread out, Su Nan sensed it for a moment, and then chose a direction with a higher concentration of negative energy particles and walked towards it.

If nothing unexpected happens, the core of the Black Forest should be in this direction.

The starlight fell into the forest, and seemed to be stained with a layer of darkness.

There was deathly silence all around, with no other sound except for Su Nan's own footsteps. Combined with the eerie and dark environment, it was extremely depressing.

Sunan originally wondered if he could find some rare magical plants, but after a careful search along the way, he found nothing.

Just when he was about to give up, a flash of bright red suddenly appeared in his vision.

Su Nan's eyes moved, and he walked over with some caution.

When I got closer, I realized it was a field of red roses.

The bright red petals are dotted with black or golden dots, and the roots are surrounded by hollow flower thorns about 6 inches long, blooming in groups on the pale skeleton!

Su Nan's nostrils moved slightly, and he could smell the sweet fragrance in the air, faintly mixed with a hint of rotten meat.

The shape of the flower, coupled with its highly recognizable scent, allowed Sunan to quickly recognize the origin of what was before him. Without hesitation, he released a magic missile to take the initiative.

The Demonic Rose, an evil plant that feeds on corpses, attacks any living thing that comes near, sucks its blood and turns it into a new flower bed.

After realizing that they were exposed, all the roses in the Demon Palace immediately spread their petals and flapped them like wings, then took off into the air like a swarm of bees and swooped over.

Buzz!
Suddenly, a dull sound like the flapping of bees' wings was heard in the void.

More than twenty spell missiles killed a lot of Demon Palace Roses, but more Demon Palace Roses surrounded Su Nan.

Su Nan looked indifferent.

The combat power of a single Demon Palace Rose is only at the knight level. If they appear on a large scale, it is enough to threaten the great knight, but that's all.

There was no threat to him.

After four burning hands, Sunan easily dealt with the remaining Demon Palace Roses.

However, this battle seemed to have pressed a switch, and strange rustling sounds suddenly came from the darkness around.

Rumble!
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the left, as if a huge rock was rolling over, accompanied by the sound of trees being crushed.

The next moment, a giant round sphere rushed out from the darkness and rolled towards Su Nan.

With the help of the dim starlight, Sunan quickly saw the true appearance of the sphere.

It was a sphere made entirely of vines and branches, as big as a building, and its surface was covered with a layer of pale green spore mist. It didn't look like something that could be touched.

"Plague Vine Ball!"

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. This was a three-ring legendary creature that could spread plague. The plague cloud on the surface was enough to kill a two-ring legendary knight instantly.

At the same time, there were bursts of metal friction sounds coming from the front.

Tall and burly voices rushed out from the depths of the forest.

At first glance, these creatures looked like apes wearing black armor, with hideous faces, two tongues sticking out of their mouths dripping with disgusting pus, and snakes sticking out of their helmets entwined around their armored arms. "Corrupted Dead King!"

Su Nan's eyes flickered slightly.

The Corrupted Dead King is a three-ring legendary undead creature. In addition to possessing powerful combat power, he can also summon and drive undead creatures.

As the corrupt dead kings raised their battle axes and roared, the ground suddenly cracked and undead creatures, whose bodies were rotten and whose pale bones were exposed in many places, crawled out from the ground.

More and more creatures appeared from the surroundings and surrounded Sunan like a tide.

"Is this the test of the Black Forest?"

Even though he was surrounded by countless monsters, Su Nan remained calm and composed.

With a slight thought, countless puppets appeared out of thin air around him, marching in unison towards the monsters.

A fierce battle broke out instantly!

Roars and roars broke the silence of the night!

Hundreds of elite steel golems and platinum golems protected Sunan in the middle, like a sharp blade tearing through the monsters' encirclement and advancing forward continuously.

The density of the monsters surprised Sunan.

Almost every step forward was accompanied by the death of monsters or puppets.

Looking down from a high altitude, the path he was on was a trail paved with blood and metal fragments.

"Something's wrong."

"Even a third-level wizard apprentice can't withstand this kind of attack strength. The assessment loses its meaning at all."

Su Nan was confused.

Could it be that the Black Forest, unlike the Tower of Stars, was not built to recruit qualified wizard apprentices?

But if this is not the case, why would the wizarding power behind the Black Forest leave behind this wizarding heritage?
Or did something unexpected happen in the Black Forest?

Although he was confused, Sunan had no intention of stopping. He cast spells from time to time to kill any fish that broke through the defense line.

In any case, you will know it once you reach the core of the Black Forest.

After all, the number of monsters in the Black Forest is limited.

As time passed, Sunan clearly felt that the number of monsters surrounding him began to decrease significantly.

He estimated that he had killed at least fourteen to fifteen hundred monsters along the way, and the price he paid was the destruction of hundreds of golems.

However, for Sunan, who now has a large family and a large business, this loss is completely bearable.

Compared to the Marionette, the materials for the Iron Golem and the Adamantite Golem are much easier to obtain.

He would rather lose some puppets than save his strength to deal with the next situation.

A moment later, accompanied by a wail, the last corrupt dead king fell under the giant fist of the adamantine golem.

At this point, the monsters surrounding Sunan had been completely wiped out, and there were no more monsters to be seen except for the pitch-black trees.

"Is it over?" Su Nan's eyes flashed slightly.

At this moment, the tree behind him shook violently, and several extremely thick roots and branches suddenly broke out of the ground, lashing towards his back like a whip!

Benedict!
With a dull sound, the root branch was blocked by an invisible force field a few centimeters away from Su Nan's body.

Sunan swung his hand and sent out a bolt of lightning, which turned the roots and branches into charcoal.

Wow!
The sound of branches shaking came one after another!

At this moment, all the surrounding trees began to shake violently, and countless branches emerged from the ground, densely packed like a storm and sweeping towards Su Nan and the puppet!

Crunch!

In an instant, several elite steel golems were tightly bound by the roots. As the roots continued to tighten, their metal bodies twisted visibly, making harsh sounds, and turned into a pile of scrap metal in the blink of an eye.

Without saying a word, Sunan cast a flaming ball, and the surrounding golems also released fire spells, instantly burning the surrounding roots and branches to ashes.

But the next moment, there was suddenly a rustling sound of branches swaying in my ears.

With Su Nan as the center, the trees within a radius of 100 meters began to tremble violently. One after another, roots and branches emerged from the ground and shot towards this side like sharp arrows.

The roots and branches that had just been cleared to become sparse suddenly became dense again.

Looking at this scene, Su Nan couldn't help but frown.

Could it be that all the trees in this forest are monsters that can manipulate their roots and branches?
Although it was difficult to see clearly due to the dim light, Sunan had been using his mental power to sense the surrounding environment along the way. He initially estimated that the number of trees in this forest would definitely not be less than four digits.

It would be tricky if these trees were living monsters.

While Sunan was thinking, the entire forest had slowly awakened like a sleeping giant beast.

The shaking of the trees gradually spread in all directions like a wave.

Countless trees woke up one after another, pulled out branches from the ground, stretched them up into the sky and swung them wildly like crazy demons.

Seeing this, Sunan no longer hesitated and decisively put away the golem, and the whole person floated in the air.

At the same time, a large amount of silver liquid emerged from his pores, instantly wrapping his entire body and quickly condensing into a giant pointed cone more than ten meters long.

boom!
Accompanied by a sharp sonic boom, the giant spike shot out forward like lightning.

It moves forward rapidly while rotating at high speed like a turbine!
Whoohoo!
Dense black roots and branches gathered from all directions, covering the sky and the earth, but were crushed into debris the moment they touched the giant spikes.

For a moment, the giant cone was like a high-speed tank, carving a path through the black ocean, and countless black roots and branches were turned into powder wherever it passed.

After an unknown amount of time, Su Nan suddenly felt the pressure in front of him ease.

He looked around and found that he had broken out of the roots and branches and entered a wide open space.

This open space seemed to have some kind of restriction. The roots and branches could only twitch and swing wildly within the boundary between the open space and the trees, but could not enter.

After making sure that the roots and branches could no longer pose a threat, Sunan retracted the liquid metal and looked towards the center of the open space.

A huge black tree with spreading branches and leaves quietly took root in the center of the clearing.

The tree was estimated to be two to three hundred meters tall and was completely black, blending almost perfectly with the night. It seemed to have the ability to block spiritual perception, so that Su Nan did not notice the existence of this towering tree at first, until he entered the open space, when he suddenly discovered its existence.

The pitch-black giant tree stands motionless. Although its color is deep and dark, it presents an enchanting beauty, forming a strong visual conflict with the desolation of its surroundings. It is like seeing a real illusion, full of fantasy.

"Dark Demonic Tree."

Su Nan murmured in his heart.

His previous experience, combined with the huge black tree in front of him, confirmed the guess in his mind.

He knew which wizard organization was behind the Black Forest.

(End of this chapter)