Chapter 28 Black Moon
For Rhodes.

Getting help from the tree spirits is undoubtedly good news.

Although their current situation is worrying, they have great potential and may be able to help him rebuild the Dream Forest.

"According to this progress, the next batch of seeds should be mature in just ten days."

After taking a look at Augla who was chasing the little creature for fruit, Rhodes fell into deep thought.

With the huge body of the war tree, the life energy it needs to consume must be very high. I don’t know if these wheats are enough. It would be better if the range of the black soil could be retreated a few dozen meters.

Although the black soil was forced to retreat ten meters with the suppression of the Tree God's Mark, this range was only enough to plant a small number of plants.

Want to expand the scope.

The only way is to find the remaining three demigod marks, or get more plant seeds that have the same cleansing effect on the black soil as the mutant tree.

There is no need to think about the demigod mark for the time being.

After all, he had no news at all.

Then the only option left is the second one, which is to obtain more rare seeds or to divide the plants.

Rhodes had observed before that the fruits of the mutant trees did not have seeds, just like the specially bred seedless watermelons, which had lost the ability to spread seeds.

But it's not a big problem.

As we all know, the branches of many plants can be directly cut off and planted independently. Why doesn't he try planting the branches of the mutant saplings?

"I'm such a genius!"

After figuring this out, Rhodes instantly had a goal.

He wanted to plant masochistic trees in every corner to disperse the surrounding black soil so that he would have more land for planting.

"quack!"

Suddenly, the cry of soul ravens was heard in the sky.

Rhodes looked up and found that it was already night without him noticing, but he didn't see any unusual movement.

But the strange thing was that the Soul Raven seemed to sense something, and there was a hint of anxiety in its cry as it flew around in the sky.

Augula, who was fighting with the little thing for the remaining half of the fruit, also ran over after hearing the news, looking confused.

"Lord Rhodes, what happened?"

"It's not clear yet, something doesn't look right."

Rhodes looked solemn.

As the purest soul, the Soul Raven's perception of danger is almost instinctive, just like an ant that will move ahead of time when encountering a rainstorm. It will definitely not scream for no reason.

In other words.

There's some danger approaching here!

"Yeah!"

Just then, the little thing discovered something and started shouting too.

Rhodes followed his gaze and found that the sky had become chaotic at some point.

The place where black and emerald colors were originally intertwined has been completely replaced by darkness, and the remaining light has almost been forced into the corner, exuding an extremely depressing atmosphere.

Gradually.

Something happened that shocked Rhodes.

A strange black full moon appeared in the sky that should have been empty. It slowly appeared in the center until it was fully formed, like a giant eyeball staring at the earth.

"Black Moon!"

Rhodes let out a low cry almost subconsciously.

He clearly remembered that the moon in this world had disappeared.

But why.

Will the moon suddenly appear in the sky?

And it’s so weird!
Not to mention Augla and the little thing, they have never seen the moon since they were born.

They only felt a suction force on the black moon, as if it was sucking away their souls, and even their vision became blurred and distorted.

"Everybody be careful! Don't look at that moon!"

Rhodes was the first to react, waking them up with a loud roar.

The Soul Raven was like a frightened bird, flapping its wings and flying back into the plantation, with only its head visible from the gaps between the leaves.

"Roar!!"

"Ow~"

The roars and howls that came one after another echoed everywhere in the black soil, as if everyone was collectively in a frenzy, and even the surrounding black air began to surge violently.

Rhodes' expression changed slightly. He didn't expect that there would be such a change in the Black Soil World.

The appearance of the Black Moon.

It was like pouring a basin of cold water into a calm oil pan, making the entire black soil world boil.

He even heard a few extremely terrifying roars among those voices, one of which came from the druid's nest he had explored before!
"Drink it! I'm so unlucky that everything I drink gets stuck in my teeth."

"Are you two okay?"

Rhodes looked up into the distance.

Augla, who possessed the strength of the fourth level, had a solemn expression on his face, while the little creature, who was less than the first level, hid in the pit, sticking its head out to look around vigilantly. "I'm fine, I just feel a little dizzy, and I feel like something is tearing at my soul and limiting my strength."

"Yeah!"

After getting their response, Rhode finally felt relieved and said hurriedly, "This Black Moon is not simple. It may cause some trouble. Be prepared."

Say it.

He ran to the edge of the altar and checked the surrounding situation.

As he expected, under the shining of the black moon, the erosive power of the black soil became even more terrifying. Even the wheat seedlings near the edge were not spared. All of them were drained of vitality and died.

Look up and into the distance.

In the boundless darkness, densely packed figures were approaching this side.

"Oh no! It's the black beast!"

Finally, the worst and most undesirable situation occurred.

Rhodes had thought that he might be attacked by black beasts, but he didn't expect there would be so many of them. At a glance, there were at least dozens of them, and they were increasing rapidly.

He even saw many familiar figures among them.

【Crazy Tree Demon lv6】

[Magic Druid (Raven) lv7]

[Magic Druid (Owlbeast) lv10]

……

Even the monsters in the druid's lair were attracted here.

There's even a level 10 one!

"Is this the black beast?"

At this time, Augla recovered and looked at the monster rushing towards him with a frown.

He felt a familiar aura from those monsters.

They seem like companions, but also somewhat unlike each other, and it’s hard to tell them apart.

"Yes, this is the black beast I was talking about."

Rhode said seriously: "They should have been the corpses of the forest guardians. After being contaminated by the black soil, they turned into these unconscious monsters that will attack anything with a breath of life."

"Damn it! How dare you defile the bodies of the guardians!"

This time, Augla finally got angry. His huge body stood up suddenly, making a crackling sound.

There was no need for Rhodes to give any orders.

He was so stubborn that he rushed out of the altar and directly faced the surging army of black beasts.

"Humble reptiles, I will let you see the power of Lord Augla!"

Boom——

The ground collapsed and dirt flew everywhere.

In a rage, Augla directly activated the innate ability of the War Tree, War Trampling!
Its huge body was like a wolf among a flock of sheep. Every step it took would crush large numbers of black beasts to death. Its swinging giant arms even turned the crows flying in the sky into corpses that fell to the ground like rain.

The power of the fourth level.

Horror!
Rhodes was pleasantly surprised. He had underestimated the combat power of the fourth level.

Even though it is only a soul body and cannot exert its full strength, it is still able to crush these black beasts that are not even at the second level.

Fortunately, Augla is here.

Otherwise, if they rely on themselves, they will probably suffer heavy losses.

"Lord Rhodes, those who are alone are left to you!"

At this time, Augla, who was in the herd, turned around and shouted.

He knew that Rhodes was a messenger sent by the Moon Goddess to rebuild the forest and was not good at fighting, so he rushed to the front and blocked most of the black beasts.

But with the blessing of the black moon.

Those black beasts were like crazy, biting and tearing at him fearlessly, trying to hold him back, causing several smaller and lower-level black beasts to fly past and head straight for the altar.

Fortunately, Rhodes was well prepared.

Together with the little thing, he quickly went to meet them.

With the help of the dragon blood vine to restrain them, they quickly eliminated those fish that had escaped the net and stabilized the situation soon.

Looking at Augla's side, the corpses had already piled up into a mountain at their feet, and the huge branches were swinging wildly, with the courage of one man blocking the way for ten thousand.

that's it.

Until more than half an hour later.

The number of attacking black beasts began to decrease slowly.

As Rhode and his companions watched in amazement, the corpses scattered all over the ground turned into countless points of light and flew high into the sky, as if being pulled by some force and converging towards the black moon.

"what happened?"

"Why does the color of the moon seem to fade?"

(End of this chapter)