Chapter 9: The Single Dog's Magical Artifact Performs a Great Service
The moment entering the black soil range.

Rhodes could clearly feel that the vitality in his body was slipping away, and it was as if he was watching himself slowly aging.

If it were an ordinary flesh and blood creature.

This damage is almost irreversible.

But the structure of plants is different. Even broken branches can regenerate in a very short time.

Only when it decays to the inside and the roots will it be completely destroyed and its vitality cut off.

Therefore, as long as there is a steady supply of nutrients, the lost vitality can be replenished, and in theory it is possible to resist black soil erosion.

of course.

This is not an easy task.

For example, even though Rhodes was using his magic power to restore himself, he still felt that his income was not enough to cover his expenses.

Ten minutes at most.

When his magic power is exhausted, he has to go back to the altar.

"Hold on, I'm going to speed up."

After saying something to the little thing, Rhodes started running.

Every step he took into the black soil felt like stepping into a quagmire, with countless black tentacles trying to wrap around his body.

Fortunately, his physical condition improved after the upgrade.

The tentacles can be torn off with a little force.

Like a train, it rushed towards a place far away from the altar with sparks and lightning.

"Yeah!"

Suddenly, the little thing on his head started to cry out.

As if he had discovered something, the spear in his hand kept pointing into the distance, his eyes full of anxiety.

Rhodes glanced in the direction it was pointing.

But he found that it was the corpse of an ancient tree.

The bare tree trunks had long been eroded by the black soil, like an elder who had reached the end of his life, sitting upright on the hillside, surrounded by a circle of charred trees.

"Do you want to save it?"

Rhodes looked up and asked.

"Yeah!"

The little thing responded immediately.

And just as the two were talking.

The ancient tree suddenly made a "click" sound and slowly stood up.

As if sensing a living creature approaching, the surging black aura gathered towards the ancient tree and poured madly into its body.

A pair of dark and violent eyes suddenly opened on the originally dark and hollow tree trunk.

"Roar!!!"

A deafening roar resounded across the earth.

The ancient tree that should have been dead long ago suddenly turned into a monster they were familiar with, staring at them intently.

"Black beast!"

Rhodes cried out.

Although the appearance is slightly different.

But he felt the same aura from the ancient tree as the jungle hyena before, and he couldn't help but be shocked.

These black beasts.

It turned out to be the original creatures of the Dream Forest!
What kind of hatred or resentment?

Even the dead bodies were not spared.

And it has to transform into this bloodthirsty monster.

No wonder he always felt something strange after killing the black beast before. Not even a piece of meat was left. It turned out to be a corpse that had been dead for a long time.

"Are you sure? This one is much bigger than the last one."

Rhodes looked at the huge body of the ancient tree with a guilty conscience. The aura seemed to be a bit stronger, and because it had just mutated, it was impossible to tell its level.

"Yeah!"

The little thing responded without any retreat. Instead, it was full of fighting spirit and anger, staring at the ancient tree.

Perhaps it also knew that it was not its companion.

But it is a puppet controlled by Heitu.

Considering that he couldn't just leave this kind of threat around the altar, Rhode became serious and said, "Go ahead. I'll assist you from behind!"

When saying this sentence.

Rhodes just felt his cheeks flushed.

This is the first time I've seen someone talk about assisting in paddling so confidently.

However, he was thick-skinned and was not greatly affected. Seeing the little thing rushing towards the ancient tree without hesitation, the magic power in his body began to circulate rapidly.

Cultivate!

The surging magic power was transformed into a surge of vitality through his branch arms, completely enveloping the little thing's body.

All of a sudden.

The black energy around the little thing was forced back.

The protective thorns on his body also grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a blink of an eye they turned into a set of hard thorn armor.

This was a new method of cultivating magic that Rhodes had researched a few days ago. He didn't expect the first actual combat effect to be so good.

With the blessing of thorn armor.

The little thing suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the ancient tree. "Boom--"

The gravel is flying.

The ancient tree stretched out its two heavy hands from the ground, and slapped the little thing on the left and right, creating a terrifying hurricane on the hillside.

Just when Rhodes was worried.

Instead, the little thing stepped on the palm of the hand, used the force to bounce flexibly, looked down from above, and thrust the short spear in its hand fiercely into the forehead of the ancient tree.

"Ow!!"

unexpected.

A short spear made from tree branches.

It actually broke through the ancient tree's defense with ease and penetrated directly into it.

The ancient trees screamed in pain, or rather, the black air attached to the ancient trees suffered severe damage and escaped from the bodies of the ancient trees one after another, as if they had encountered something that frightened them.

The scene is spectacular.

Like a hundred ghosts walking at night.

Some of them even turned into resentful spirits and tried to entangle the little thing, but it dodged them accurately and pulled out its short spears to disperse them one by one.

"Oh my god, when did you become so fierce?"

Rhodes was surprised.

He remembered that it wasn't so easy to deal with the black beast before.

Could it be that this ancient black beast on the tree only looks intimidating but is actually useless?

Or was it that the Moon Goddess performed a miracle last time and gave the little thing an invincible buff?

No time to think too much.

The battle has reached a white-hot stage.

Although the little creature was agile and managed to dodge a large number of attacks, it was gradually running out of strength as it was harassed by more and more resentful spirits, leaving Rhodes scratching his head.

"Oh right, the girl's prayer!"

At the critical moment, Rhodes suddenly thought of the magic that made him ashamed.

Without caring too much, she directly injected magic power to activate the wreath. The girl's shadow floated towards the little thing and gave it an adrenaline kiss.

All of a sudden.

The little thing rose again.

With the dual blessing of cultivation magic, he finally broke free from the shackles of the resentful spirit, and the short spear fiercely penetrated into the place where the energy of the ancient tree gathered, completely cutting off the black soil's control over it.

The huge body, having lost its support, paused.

Then he slowly fell to the ground.

"Good job, little one!"

"The Single Dog's Artifact has done a great job!"

Rhodes shouted in surprise and ran over to check on the little thing.

After finding out that it had simply consumed too much food, I fed it some of the fruits I had with me.

"It seems I need to make some kind of container to carry the Moon Spring Water with me."

Looking at the little thing wolfing down the food, Rhodes fell into deep thought.

When it comes to recovery effects, Moon Spring Water is definitely the most powerful.

Although the black fruit also has a recovery effect, the speed is too slow and is completely incomparable to the Moon Fountain's direct full health recovery.

The only problem.

It's just inconvenient to carry.

So next time I pray, I have to ask God for a container.

correct.

There are also corpses!

Rhodes looked back at the corpse of the ancient tree.

Just like last time, after the black energy on its body was cleared, its body began to slowly dissipate.

But this time it's a little different.

The dissipated energy did not disappear immediately, but condensed into an old face. It looked at the little thing trying to eat with its head down with satisfaction, then bowed slightly to Rhodes, and then floated into the air.

Followed by.

The shadow of a tree bud turned into a stream of light and sank into Rhodes' brow.

[Obtain Tree God Mark x1]

[Note: The mark can be used to reshape the demigod statue. ]

Statue of a demigod?

what?
Rhodes was slightly stunned.

I didn't expect that this old tree spirit would actually explode something.

Could it be that he was rewarding it because he had freed its soul?
If he remembered correctly.

In addition to the Moon God statue in the center, there are indeed other statues on the altar, but they are so badly damaged that their appearance cannot be seen.

Is that what the demigod statue is talking about?

Touching his brow, Rhodes decided to study it carefully after returning.

"Let's go, while we still have some time, let's go check out some other places."

After saying that, he left the hillside with the little thing.

With the altar as the center and radius, he continued to patrol the surrounding area.

(End of this chapter)