Chapter 307: Manipulating Large-Scale Ecology
Old Witch Forbes used the potion master technique of vaporizing potions on her alchemy cottage's crucible. She chuckled, "My little darlings, it's all up to you now."
"Let that group of black wizards know the power of potion masters!"
The large crucible at the top of the alchemy cottage, under Old Witch Forbes's mana, boiled violently, transforming into mist that rushed into the sky. Before the black wizards in the sky could react, it transformed into rain, sprinkling down on the land and ocean of Lilith's Cottage's port city.
At the same time, Francis also chanted a spell, casting Nature’s Voice on Locke.
Meanwhile, Locke, located at the barrier defense device control core, after receiving the blessing of Nature's Voice, gained a special language knowledge in his mind. This part of knowledge seemed to be stored in his instincts. He had mastered the ability to conduct simple conversations with cats, dogs, and plants and trees.
Through the large Life Barrier's core crystal, Locke conversed with the entire Lilith's Cottage ecology. "Plants, it's time to awaken."
Locke observed that the entire Lilith's Cottage ecosystem seemed to struggle a bit, but still didn't have much reaction.
Locke frowned. The number of mosses and algae was increasing substantially, but the proportion was still too small.
Moreover, the plants within the entire ecology still seemed to be in a bribed state, so they naturally chose to avoid involvement.
This land was already cursed land, with life force under suppression. Furthermore, Locke clearly sensed those plants' resistance toward him.
Locke had a sudden inspiration. He summoned the Forest Sanctuary to bless himself, transforming himself into a forest, and in the identity of a forest, conversed with Lilith's Cottage's forest.
"Awaken, forest."
"Forest, wake up at this moment, before the negative energy truly harms our foundation, awaken."
Locke paused. He frowned. Had he failed?
But the forest he transformed into should possess a very high position among forests. He was a forest composed of six First Circle magical plant Scorched Earth Holly. Scorched Earth Holly was the king of magical plants, so the forest he composed would have a very high divine position.
Even within Lilith's Cottage's ecology, First Circle magical plants should still possess a very high rank.
In a certain sense, as a simulated forest conversing with the forest, the mimicked forest he transformed into should be equivalent to possessing very high prestige.
The next moment, the entire Lilith's Cottage ecology suddenly showed some kind of disturbance. Then on the energy level, a huge storm appeared, as if triggering some kind of earth-rumbling.
The entire forest came alive. Moss covered the land, then what awakened were ancient fern plants. Long ago, they had already appeared and were once food for reptiles. Next were giant forest groves and various trees reviving one after another.
Then came the youngest herbaceous plants. They appeared after trees and gained a place in the ecology through their developed underground root systems.
With Lilith's Cottage ecology's revival again, the originally unbalanced wood element reappeared, beginning to attempt to balance with the four basic elements of wind, water, fire, and earth that were collapsing everywhere.
The existence of forests and plants stabilized this world. If the forests and plants in a region went on strike, that region would soon be destroyed.
And with the forest working again, Lilith's Cottage's ecology began to balance. The scale of extreme disasters like storms and earthquakes began to be controlled.
The forest was like this land's kidneys, maintaining elemental balance for this land, as well as other aspects of balance.
Even though this land's climate and disasters were already extremely chaotic, at this moment they were still being effectively regulated, controlling everything that was out of control.
And with the plants beginning to work again, this earth's life energy flood reappeared. Like a sick person whose immune mechanism began operating again, the curse spirits on this land stopped attacking the living one after another.
They stood in place. Before long, their surfaces began to crack, revealing the normal souls hidden within, transforming into green light, beginning to return to nature.
One soul after another was grateful to the forest.
Even those black wizards' souls were now only relieved. According to the previous situation, they could only eternally transform into curse spirits or ghost brides of this cursed land, decaying eternally along with this twisted earth.
Not even having the possibility of entering the soul cycle.
At this time, a ghost bride had already floated into the control room where Locke was. She ignored all the automatically attacking internal defensive magic within the control room, slowly walking to Locke's front.
The ghost bride wore a black wedding gown. At this moment, she suddenly raised her head, revealing pale, beast-like eyes beneath the black wedding gown. She suddenly lunged at Locke's face, but just as she was about to touch Locke's skin, she suddenly froze. Then, like a cooked shrimp, she arched her body and let out a scream.
"No!" This evil thing disguised in human form, but actually not human at all, not undead, let out a roar, trying to place her palm on Locke's face, but the next moment, even her palm began to decay.
Locke looked at her coldly, without the slightest fear.
Although this thing still had unsolved mysteries and was the most formidable curse developed by the Blood Curse Court's curse magic over a hundred years, Locke could simply understand it as some kind of disease that appeared on this land after the ecology had problems.
Just like sickly plants easily grew a bunch of insects.
Sickly earth easily grew this kind of thing.
So as long as the plants were revived again, the sickly earth could gain power again, and this thing would naturally be suppressed by the land returning to normal.
"I... will never disappear." The ghost bride let out a beast-like roar, but Locke frowned, because at this moment, what was conversing with him was not this ghost bride as an individual, but a special existence behind this ghost bride created by this curse.
A strange blue halo appeared behind her.
"I was born... then... will absolutely not disappear."
"I was born... will never disappear!"
The Blood Lord in the sky suddenly sensed that his bride blood curse was actually beginning to lose control. His face turned pale. The white wizards' sudden counterattack was like suddenly delivering him a fatal blow in a desperate situation. This would naturally make the Blood Lord angry but it was also limited.
Because as one of the leaders of the White Wizard Association, a benchmark in ecology and potionology, Lilith's Cottage having this kind of ability was still within his understanding.
But at this moment, his blood curse had lost control. In his blood curse was an existence that had never been human, always hidden within. When he was at his weakest, it stopped disguising itself and tried to regain control of the situation.
'How is this possible?' The Blood Lord kept calculating formula after formula in his mind, checking proof process after proof process of advanced geometry in his brain to ensure there were no problems. 'The curse formation has no problems.'
'Then the only problem is the totem god mechanism part. Could it be that the part where I utilized the totem god mechanism, I haven't researched it clearly, causing me to create something I wasn't aware of?'
The Blood Lord's face flushed red. At this moment, he had an even more terrifying speculation in his heart. 'Was that thing created by me, or did it come along following our Blood Curse Court's magic?'
At this time, the Ghost Sacred Order's female sect leader's eyes were full of mockery. The Golden Skull Wizard continuously let out mocking cold laughs.
Meanwhile, Wizard Hammerk paused for a moment and suddenly spoke, "Have our undead troops go cut down those forest trees. As long as we destroy those forest bodies, this land without a large number of plants will still lose control, and the Blood Lord's blood curse won't be broken."
The Blood Lord's eyes flickered. For an instant, he wanted to stop his black wizard colleagues from doing this, because his magic clearly had problems. Something unknown had mixed into his magic.
If these people knew this, he would lose face again. A senior curse master who didn't even understand his own curse magic clearly, even if this war was won, if the Blood Curse Court lost face, what difference would there be from not winning?
But after considering again and again, the Blood Lord still didn't speak up, because he couldn't explain to these colleagues why he wanted to stop the destruction of the forest.