Chapter 318 : Power of Withering
Chapter 318: Power of Withering
After a moment of contemplation, the withered yellow light once again surged from Janna-Roland’s palm. But this time, instead of extracting the vitality of the magic plants, she returned the few strands of "life force" she had just drawn back into the potted magic plants.
"As expected, energy is conserved—"
As the "life force" returned to its original owner, Janna's body also reverted to its previously exhausted state.
"Grow One"
A flash of green light appeared, the magic plants grew, and within just a few breaths, the previously withered and decaying plants had grown anew——only, they were noticeably smaller than they had been at first.
"With my current mastery over the 【Growth Law Fragment】, accelerating the growth of ordinary magic plants isn’t a problem. However, for those with strict environmental needs and slow growth cycles, the effect is greatly diminished."
Looking at the smaller plants in the pots, Janna shook her head and then used the 【Hand of the Witch】 to place them back in their original positions.
"It’s still not that late. I’ll rest for a while before heading to the Misty Forest for quests——"
It had been more than three months since Janna first received the 【Mainline Quest】.
From initially struggling to heal just two or three polluted trees per day, she had now become significantly more efficient at healing them, thanks to her growing command over the 【Growth Law Fragment】.
As of now, Janna could complete the healing of nearly five trees in a single night.
Therefore, Janna estimated that at her current pace, she would likely complete the 【Mainline Quest】 "Revive 500 Trees in the Misty Forest" by the end of next month at the latest.
"I wonder what the reward for completing the 【Mainline Quest】 will be"
Thinking this, Janna once again opened her quest panel.
【Mainline Quest: Save the Withering Lives, Revive the Trees on the Verge of Death in the Misty Forest (397/500);
Quest Reward: 1000 Talent EXP, 3000 Skill EXP, 3 Random Rewards;
Quest Duration: Unlimited.】
Since the quest was ranked as red-level, in addition to the high amounts of talent and skill experience, it also granted a total of three random rewards.
Janna still remembered that her last red-level quest was 【Eradicate the Remnants of the Dim Sun Church】. The random rewards from that quest had been boosts to the 【Constitution】 and 【Luck】 attributes, as well as 【Insight into the Purification Law Fragment *1】.
It was precisely thanks to the reward of 【Insight into the Purification Law Fragment *1】 that Janna had later successfully comprehended her very first 【Law Fragment】.
Thus, Janna boldly speculated that the reward for the 【Mainline Quest】 "Save the Withering Lives" might also contain insights related to a "Law Fragment", most likely pertaining to the 【Growth Law Fragment】.
"If it really is insight into the 【Growth Law Fragment】, that would be great. It would help me form the 【Law Seed】 as early as possible."
So far, among Janna’s four 【Law Fragments】, her progress with the 【Growth Law Fragment】 was the most advanced, reaching 10%. The second was the 【Purification Law Fragment】, at only 1%.
Meanwhile, both the 【Beauty Law Fragment】 and the newly acquired 【Withering Law Fragment】 remained at 0%...
Thinking of this, Janna couldn’t help but recall the banquet three months ago with Sophina-Silvermoon and Koukie-Wolf, where they had mentioned that the 【Witch Sect】 had ways to comprehend the 【Beauty Law Fragment】.
However, since Janna had not yet officially become a member of the 【Witch Sect】, she was not qualified to learn the specifics.
"I wonder if Sophina and Koukie managed to complete the task they mentioned last time"
For the entire three months, Sophina-Silvermoon and Koukie-Wolf had vanished without a trace. Ever since that last banquet, they had never shown up again.
If Janna didn’t still have the contract scroll from the 【Witch Sect】 in her possession, she might have suspected they had gone back on their word...
"I’ll wait a bit longer. If I don’t hear anything by August, I’ll just pretend this whole thing never happened."
With a slightly frustrated sigh, Janna glanced at the clock on the wall and chose to stop thinking about these bothersome matters.
After casting a 【Cleaning Spell】 on herself, she sat cross-legged on the bed, preparing to enter a state of meditation.
"I still hope the 【Witch Sect】 gives a response soon——"
Letting out a slow breath and clearing her mind of all stray thoughts, Janna closed her eyes and gradually entered into a meditative state, breathing in a steady rhythm.
"In—hale—Ex—hale—In—hale—Ex—hale—"
Light swirled, brimming with vitality.
With Janna’s increasingly steady breath, glowing light particles once again surrounded her body.
Only this time, amidst the dense emerald green particles, a few specks of withered yellow light also flickered.
As the glow intensified, the magic plants in the dorm began to absorb the surrounding magical particles in rhythm with Janna’s breathing.
In the ebb and flow of it all, the magic plants that had shrunk under the "Power of Withering" gradually began to grow again. It wasn’t long before those experimental plants had returned to their original state.
As if nothing had ever happened.
Compared to the long winter, the summer in Duling wasn’t that long. However, the heat was enough to render the crows resting in the tree shade listless.
Especially in August, the hottest month of the year—even the usually boisterous cicadas had gone noticeably quiet.
"At times like this, the persistent mist over the Misty Forest actually provides some relief from the heat."
At the barrier of the magic tower in the Misty Forest, still working on the 【Mainline Quest】, Janna wiped the light sweat from her forehead.
As a plant-type apprentice, Janna typically enjoyed the summer climate, but Duling’s August was hot enough to leave even her feeling scorched.
"Vivian, that girl... took a whole month off just to avoid the heat. I wonder if she’ll even pass the end-of-term exams this semester."
Vivian, who had awakened the bloodline of the 【Cochin King Serpent】, hadn’t left Rose Manor for nearly a month.
Aside from the natural heat aversion of ice-elemental beast bloodlines, the other reason was that Vivian, currently just a Level-2 Witch Apprentice, still couldn’t properly control the power of the 【Cochin King Serpent】 bloodline.
As a result, she couldn’t maintain her human form for long, and had to live in a half-human, half-serpent form—.