Cloud Thinking

Before they had time to search the fifth floor, it was blown up along with the fourth floor. However, judging from the large amount of burnt branches and vines in the remaining ruins, it should have been an open-air greenhouse.

Helia returned to the fourth floor again, firstly to confirm that the strange summoned creature was dead, and secondly to continue searching. After all, Tang Yaoxing said that he left something for her, and they had searched the third floor and below but found nothing, so it was most likely on the fourth or fifth floor.

"This smell is so weird." As soon as Helia came up, she smelled a strange fragrance, mixed with the burnt smell after the explosion, which made people feel nauseous and want to vomit.

"Is it poisonous?" Elroy was unsure, but he still dutifully cast protective magic on himself and others to isolate the strange smell.

Helia took Theodore and absorbed the still burning flames, dispersing the fire elements gathered nearby, causing the ruins after the explosion to cool down quickly.

A group of people scattered and fumbled around, trying to find something useful. Lydia and Ansel followed Helia, one protecting her and the other needing her protection. The three of them together should not be in any danger.

Helia was very strong, and Lydia knew it as early as when they were searching for survivors after the war, but Ansel didn't know that. The stereotype that Helia took three steps and breathed twice was still in his mind, so when he saw Helia lift a collapsed wall with one hand, his eyes almost popped out.

"Aya...you're really strong..." He gave an objective comment with a twitch of his mouth.

"Hmm? Are you okay?" Helia clapped her hands and looked at the stone wall she had lifted up. She didn't feel that there was anything wrong with her arrogance.

Ansel had wanted to take this opportunity to show off his masculine charm in front of Helia, but in comparison, he felt that he was completely defeated.

He was not as strong as Helia, not as skilled in combat as Helia, and even his looks were barely comparable to those of the Imperial Rose. Ansel, who had always been confident, suddenly felt a little unconfident.

It was not known whether Helia was unlucky or lucky, but when everyone else was making no progress, she dug up something incredible - a large emerald green ball of flesh that would bulge regularly.

It looked like the fruit of a plant, about one and a half times the height of Helia, and as thick as three people hugging together. There was a circle of strong and sturdy roots around the bottom, and thorny branches grew upward around the fruit. There were also protrusions similar to blood vessels on the fruit's skin, which were throbbing in a certain pattern.

The epidermis is smooth and hairless, without any signs of burning. It feels warm to the touch, but slightly lower than human body temperature.

There was something similar to a flower stalk at the top of the fruit, but generally speaking, flowers bloomed before fruits. But the flower stalk at the top of this strange fruit seemed to be still growing, and at a very fast speed. Before Helia finished checking, she could already see some rudiments of flowers.

"What the hell is this?" Grammy really gained a lot of knowledge after going out. He thought he was already well-informed, but after working in the palace for ten years, the outside world seemed to have changed dramatically. Why did he always see things he didn't know at all today?

“Those summoned creatures may have merged.” Alfie stared at the branches reaching up into the sky and discovered that at the tips of the buds on the branches, he could vaguely see the shadows of the humanoid summoned creatures from before.

"The junior sister's blasting magic is very powerful. Even the underground castle can be blown into ruins in an instant. These summoned creatures can actually survive..." Vikes frowned, very worried.

If these summoned creatures are plants, then their corresponding attribute should be wood. However, even fire magic, which is the most effective against wood, cannot solve the problem. So how can we destroy them later?

Helia was not worried about this problem at all. Watersise had given her the power of devouring. She could even devour Golesa, so what was this little summoned creature?

However, I still have to worry a little about whether I will suffer from indigestion and diarrhea.

She pulled out her dagger and slashed the surface of the fruit. Before she could react, she heard a scream that almost pierced her eardrums. If Elroy hadn't cast a protective spell on them in advance, she would have been deafened by now.

Light pink juice oozes out from the cuts on the fruit, revealing the scarlet flesh beneath the emerald green skin.

Unlike human flesh, the flesh inside the fruit was in a state similar to crushed meat, soft and loose. She didn't need to squeeze it, the flesh inside would flow out along with the juice.

Obviously it was such a disgusting scene, but whether it was Helia, Ansel or Lydia, all three of them looked calm, as if they had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and they even dared to scoop out a piece with their hands and study it by smelling or pinching it.

"That strange fragrance seems to be emitted by this fruit." Helia deduced after smelling the minced meat, "This should not be meat, but the... fruit grains of this fruit?"

She slowly looked at the opening, and suddenly remembered how she had obtained the image stone from Camelin's sea of ​​consciousness. Perhaps, she needed to enter the fruit and look for its seed, or the core.

But she didn't intend to go in. Nausea was one reason, but the most important reason was that it was dangerous.

What's the difference between her drilling in and drilling directly into someone's stomach?

"Lydia, help me split it open." Helia threw away the rotten meat in her hand, pulled Ansel's wrist, and led him back to a safe place, and instructed Lydia.

Lydia quickly drew her sword and poured her magic power into it. The dark red flames enveloped the blade, and she aimed the tip of the sword at the original gap. As she swung her arm, she chopped forward with all her strength.

But the fruit, which had been quietly pretending to be dead, suddenly manipulated its branches to block the gap and managed to withstand Lydia's sword.

Then, as if it had discerned the intentions of Helia and her group, the fruit began to fight back, waving its branches like an octopus, indiscriminately attacking the people around it.

Ansel felt like the sky had fallen on him, and his whole body was in disarray because the moment the branch came, Helia hugged his waist directly and held him so hard that his feet left the ground. He was now being carried by Helia and running away!!!

"You can put me down. I can run by myself..." Ansel was strangled to the point of wanting to vomit. He pressed down Helia's hands that were holding his waist, trying to break free.

"Don't move!" Helia slapped him on the back of the head. She was busy running away and didn't pay attention to controlling her strength. She just noticed that the struggling Ansel didn't move. She thought he was obedient, but she didn't expect that he was knocked unconscious by her.

Helia held Theodore in one hand, and occasionally turned around to fire a fireball at the chasing branches. It turned out that the damage caused by attribute restraint was very considerable.

"Lydia, you go with the senior and Captain Carlisle, and see if you can chop this damn thing in half!" Seeing that Lydia had been chasing after her to help her intercept the branches rushing towards her, Helia felt that this was not a solution, so she shouted orders to the three magic swordsmen in the team.

Although for Helia and the other three ninth-level magicians, getting rid of this ghost thing is a piece of cake.

But the key point is that Helia wants this ghost thing to die, but does not want to completely destroy its corpse, so she can only let the magic swordsman do it. After all, using a sword can only cut the corpse into pieces at most, but it is not like magic, where a magic bullet will directly blow it into pieces.

"Oh, following the little princess out here really brings back the feeling of my youth." Grammy dodged the attacks of branches leisurely and even had the mood to chat. It can be seen that these branches posed no threat to him at all.

But soon he could no longer laugh, because he found that the branches cut off by Vikes beside him were still alive after falling to the ground, and like the unknown summoned creature they had seen before, they began to transform into a human shape little by little.

"You three, work harder!!!" Alfie had just used distortion magic to twist the three "vegetable people" around him who had turned into his appearance into a pretzel, but when he saw at least five more "vegetable people" appearing on the other side, he really couldn't help but want to take action.

In fact, the three of them were all very skilled in swordsmanship and magic, but they usually fought alone. They had never cooperated with each other and had no tacit understanding at all, so their fights were a mess.

And every time they cut off a branch, the others would have to face one more "vegetable person", and the problem had to be solved quickly. These "vegetable people" grew and imitated too fast, and if they were not careful they would be stabbed in the back by "themselves".

Seeing that Helia was almost surrounded by "vegetables", Lydia couldn't stand the other two teammates who were dragging their feet, so she imitated Helia's tone and gave an order directly: "Listen to me, Carlisle, attract firepower in the upper left corner, and Vikes covers me as I approach."

Vikes and Carlisle thought for a moment, and finally obeyed Lydia's order, one to seduce and the other to cover.

Although there was still no tacit understanding, Vikes always chopped together with Lydia. Lydia was still worried about leaving her back to others, and Vikes always wanted to deal with it alone. Carlisle's skill in seducing the enemy was too poor, and it was even said that Helia had more branches than him.

But fortunately, the three ninth-level magicians gathered together to cover each other, and finally freed up their hands to help them share the pressure.

Lydia slashed with her sword, and the sword energy wrapped in magic spread out in the shape of a lotus, splitting the fruit that had not yet had time to bloom into eight petals, which fell in different directions.

The fruit particles and juice inside could not be contained and flowed out, staining the surrounding ruins an eerie scarlet color. A layer of juice accumulated on the ground, and the area closest to the fruit was almost above the ankles.

Lydia really didn't like the feeling of being wet, it was so sticky, but there was nothing she could do, she was the one who swung the last sword, and even though she ran very fast, the juice in the fruit still splashed all over her after it burst. She ran back to Helia with a downcast face and looked at her aggrievedly.

"Come on, wipe it off quickly. It must be uncomfortable to be rubbed with water, right?" Helia put away Theodore and freed her hands to hand Lydia a handkerchief, but she didn't take it. She just bent down slightly, moved her face towards Helia, and closed her eyes on her own initiative.

"Do you want me to help you wipe it?" Helia asked. Seeing Lydia's eyelashes tremble, she couldn't help but chuckled twice.

Yes, puppies also need rewards. Lydia did a really good job this time, and she deserves it.

She shook Ansel, who was under her arm, and said, "Ansel, shall I put you down?"

Ansel did not respond.

Helia shook again, "What's the matter, do you like me hugging you so much? Come down!"

Ansel Unresponsive.exe

Helia sensed something was wrong and looked down, discovering that Ansel's limbs were limp and hanging weakly, half of his calves were dragging on the ground, and his pants were torn, but he didn't make a sound.

It won’t be a rat! ?

Helia found a clean place to put the man down, and attentively touched Ansel's carotid artery to confirm that he was still breathing and was just unconscious. Then she left him there with peace of mind and went back to wipe Lydia's face.

She even complained in her heart: Men can’t be too weak…

Lydia, who had her face touched, her chin scratched, and her ears rubbed by Helia, was obviously in a good mood. She followed Helia stickily towards the fruit corpse. Elroy and others had already taken a look around, and when they saw Helia coming, they waved to her.