Chapter 673 - 457: Now, Who Is the Real Calamity? (Leaning Back)
The Demon Beast Forest, known as the most dangerous presence on the Dawn Continent, has always played a pivotal role in the continent’s history.
It produces the majority of magical beast materials, laying a solid foundation for the magic development on the Dawn Continent.
However, the periodic magical beast disasters have also become an incurable chronic problem for the Dawn Continent. In the most severe years, these disasters even directly led to the downfall of the empire that once unified the entire continent.
The Thunder Church and the Roland Empire’s lack of enthusiasm towards the rebellion in South Roland is largely due to the impending magical beast disaster, which is one of the most critical factors.
In the eyes of these high and mighty nobles and clergy, having the rebel army occupy South Roland at this time is actually beneficial. Once the magical beast disaster ends, they can eradicate these damn rebels effortlessly, simultaneously avoiding the post-disaster relief efforts.
However, all of this is about to change from the moment a blonde girl poured a potion into the central lake of the Demon Beast Forest.
This massive lake, known as the Wise Lake, is a vital water source for the entire Demon Beast Forest. It could be said that the entire forest exists around this lake.
After Alice poured the potion into the lake, there was initially no change.
Gradually, however, a mist began to rise from the lake’s surface.
The potion, upon entering the lake, instantly transformed the entire lake into the same explosive potion. The evaporating steam, beyond Alice’s perception, caused minute explosions. Since it was almost invisible mist, the explosion’s energy mainly incited elemental disturbances, creating a dazzling display of colors within the mist.
Vivian said the potion’s assimilation has a limit, but she didn’t mention that the limit was so high!
Thankfully, Alice is only at the ninth rank, and the potion activated by her Dawn Power barely covered the entire Demon Beast Forest. Otherwise, given the potion’s design, spreading across the whole Dawn Continent with the water cycle wouldn’t be out of question.
Yet even so, Alice’s actions still brought unprecedented disaster to the Demon Beast Forest.
Alice had no idea that the potion she just concocted had such terrifying properties. She merely continued sitting in the lake’s safe zone, engrossed in researching the Transformation Potion for the Golden Ship.
Thus, while she was racking her brain over magic potion brewing, the explosive potion seeped through the groundwater linked to Wise Lake, contaminating the Demon Beast Forest’s soil and transforming all the plants into dangerous bombs that would explode the moment they left her sight or perception.
Of course, before this process, the magical beasts that drank the water near Wise Lake were the first to suffer.
The water entered their bodies, instantly turning their bodily fluids into explosive potion. These magical beasts, being out of Alice’s perception, naturally exploded.
All at once, continuous explosions erupted by Wise Lake, and those magical beasts that hadn’t yet drunk water were also hit by their comrades’ explosions and met their demise.
The explosion of bodily fluids was an instant death for magical beasts weaker than Alice. Those stronger than Alice survived only by racial traits, and even those who dominated the forest with their strong bodies found little hope of rescue at the instant of internal fluid explosions.
The stronger the magical beasts, the quicker they realized something was amiss with the water. They began to rapidly distance themselves from the obviously problematic lake water.
However, by then, plants all over were drawing water from the soil.
The groundwater assimilated with explosive potion was turning them into bombs.
Due to the distance, this assimilation process needed some time to complete, yet the massacre at Wise Lake had already instilled fear among the magical beasts. The forest, which was in the brewing stage of a magical beast disaster, had many beasts impatient to flee.
"If transformed into bombs, will they always maintain this transformed state?" Shen Sui asked Vivian beside him, concerned about the potion’s properties.
If it always maintained, it undoubtedly represented the most dangerous potion, and Shen Sui wouldn’t dare let Alice use it recklessly.
But if there was a method to reverse the assimilation state, then such potions might become highly valuable in battle.
Vivian thought for a moment, then said, "Exposure to the light of Dawn would neutralize it. By the next morning, the potion’s effect would be nullified."
"That’s a relief."
Vivian gave Shen Sui a helpless glance, "That’s a relief? Without Alice’s control, the entire Demon Beast Forest could be razed."
To flatten the Demon Beast Forest was an unprecedented feat, now potentially achievable by a human girl.
[Ding! You obtained a Spell Card: Potion Assimilation]
Finally, when Shen Sui caught up with Alice’s timeline, the potion’s assimilation of the forest completed fully.
Thus, starting from the trees at the furthest limit of the potion’s reach from Alice, a splendid series of explosions began rapidly unfolding in the Demon Beast Forest.
