So I Became a Witch and Started Doing Daily Quests

Chapter 262: Main Quest: Save Life

"Indeed, she had mastered quite a few witchcraft spells—"

Looking at the numerous witchcraft leaves on the Witch’s Tree, Janna couldn’t help but silently marvel in her heart.

Previously, Janna had only been using the character panel, going through lines of unremarkable text data to understand what witchcraft she had already mastered.

Although it was clear, it wasn’t as intuitive as "leaves growing on a tree". Of course, this was also because the witchcraft leaves were much larger than normal leaves, making the quantity seem relatively abundant...

"Swoosh—"

Looking at the two newly refreshed emerald green fruits, Janna extended two tendrils of consciousness, connecting them to the [Plant Affinity] talent fruit and the [Growth Law Fragment] fruit.

[Nature Affinity: ① Gain the favor of nature, becoming a friend of nature, able to communicate with all living beings without barriers;

② Hear the voice of nature’s will, warning of disasters and signaling opportunities; ③ Inheritances of nature, through sensing nature, one can grasp various mystical natural abilities; ④ Nature’s curse, any malice toward the darling of nature’s will shall become the sharpest curse, delivering annihilation; ⑤ Nature’s gift, doubles one’s lifespan.]

"Doubling lifespan—"

Upon seeing the first four descriptions of [Nature Affinity], Janna was more focused on pondering its content and feeling gratified that her efforts had paid off. But when she saw the fifth line, she was momentarily stunned.

Doubling lifespan—

This meant that the essence of Janna’s life had, in some way, already transcended the short-lived human race, reaching transcendence simply through her lifespan.

"In this world, an extraordinary being can live up to one hundred and fifty years in the absence of illness or disaster. Doubling that means three hundred years—"

Janna had devoted herself so tirelessly to the path of becoming a witch fundamentally for the sake of gaining extraordinary power and the route to immortality.

And the talent of [Nature Affinity] had directly taken her a significant step forward on the path to "immortality".

Even without being promoted to a full-fledged witch, from now on, Janna had only just stepped into 5% of her total lifespan. Thinking this, the gloom in her heart caused by the will-sharing with the Misty Forest was swept away, and even her Sea of Spirit began to churn joyfully.

"Friend of nature means I can communicate with all living beings——"

Seeing the words "all living beings", Janna couldn’t help but feel puzzled about what granularity this range included.

After all, microorganisms were also within the category of living beings.

"Warning of disasters and signaling opportunities———"

The second talent description was also written rather subtly.

Janna could interpret the disaster warning as alerts for natural disasters, but as for signaling opportunities, if understood literally,

Wouldn’t that mean that Janna could receive hints about secret realms or treasures through "listening to nature"?

Shaking her head, Janna turned her gaze to the next line.

"Inheritances of nature———Through sensing nature, one can gain natural abilities——"

This line was also relatively ambiguous in its description.

When Janna saw this line, her greatest question was:

How does one sense it?

And what exactly were natural abilities?

Janna herself had no clue about these things.

Especially the fourth line, Nature’s Curse——

"Any malice toward the darling of nature’s will shall become the sharpest curse, delivering annihilation—"

Reciting this slightly conceptual talent description, Janna couldn’t help but feel doubt.

"Malice—does it refer to thoughts in one’s mind, or actual actions taken? And how is the sharpest curse applied? Does it descend out of nowhere to deliver destruction?"

Thinking this, Janna shook her head again.

If it could really reach that extent, then it couldn’t be described merely as an A-grade talent. Even a full-fledged witch who had mastered a Law couldn’t do something like that.

Thus, Janna speculated that the nature of this curse was similar to the [Ocean Curse] that descended from the sea after she killed the Deep Sea Mermaid.

After all, the Deep Sea Mermaid, as the darling of the sea, likely held a similar status in her domain as one who possessed [Nature Affinity].

The one who killed the mermaid would never be able to enter the sea again in their lifetime, or else they would surely face the worst maritime weather.

Of course, if they endured that one time, the curse’s effectiveness would gradually decrease until the energy dissipated and it completely lost its effect.

"I wonder, if I were to be killed, what kind of cursed retaliation would the killer face————"

Shaking her head, Janna cleared this ominous thought from her mind, calmed her mood slightly, and continued looking at the consciousness link description of the [Growth Law Fragment].

[Growth Law: The Beginning of Life]

Like the [Law of Beauty] and [Purification Law Fragment], the description for the [Growth Law] was also a very broad conceptual statement.

Unlike the two A-grade talents, which had almost everything listed out in detail.

"The beginning of life, huh—"

Reading this phrase, Janna couldn’t help but recall again the decaying scene outside the magic tower barrier she had seen earlier through the will projection of the Misty Forest.

What appeared to be a peaceful landscape was actually a facade under the shroud of Dim Sun’s pollution.

And from the wails of the Misty Forest, Janna could genuinely feel that the continuation of life seemed to exist only within the magic tower barrier.

"This might be the fundamental reason why all the witch gathering places are so urgent and unrelenting in cultivating witch seeds——"

This world really couldn’t hold on any longer.

"Ding—" Just as Janna was about to continue exploring the abilities of the [Growth Law Fragment], a crisp ding echoed in her ear again.

"Another quest?"

At this moment, it was deep into the night, and only a few hours had passed since Janna completed her last quest. Latest content publıshed on novelfire(.)net

By the normal pace of quest distribution, the system shouldn’t be assigning another task for at least a couple of days.

"System, open the quest panel."

[Main Quest: Save the withering lives, revive the dying trees in the Misty Forest (0/500);

Quest Reward: 1000 points of talent experience, 3000 points of skill experience, and three random rewards;

Quest Time: Unlimited.]

"This—it's another red-level quest?"

Looking at the conspicuous red text on the quest panel and the rewards several times greater than usual, Janna was shocked inwardly while exhaling deeply to quickly calm herself.

"This should be the second red-level quest after 'Exterminate the Remnants of the Dim Sun Church'——"