Heroic Death System (BL)

ARC 11: SPRING COMES UPON A WITHERED TREE

Chapter 140

The specters continued to hunt down half-blooded elves without pause until every half-blooded elf that was born on the continent was immediately protected by the alliance the moment they were born. After the half-blooded elves grew to adulthood, they would all become a member of the alliance without exception to help in the war efforts. Despite their attempts, there were still many half-blooded elves being murdered every year.

Not too long ago, one of the alliance’s cities suffered from a sudden attack by the specters and hundreds of ordinary citizens were slaughtered. What shocked them even more was that thirty-five elf children were caged and burned alive. The tragic cries of those children thoroughly aroused the fury of every race within the alliance. They immediately counterattacked and seized one of the puppet cities of the specters and formally declared war.

Every race responded to the war call and readied themselves as they rushed to the battlefield.

After hearing the background events that led up to this point of time, Shang Ke’s mood was greatly dampened. He thought of those dead elves and looked toward the ones currently playing within his line of sight and promised to himself that he would not let them suffer as the others have.

Shang Ke’s worry was shown plain as day over his face and Ivan tried to comfort him, “The alliance is strong, they have their ways against specters.”

“The specters are immune to most magic attacks and physical attacks while being good at fire and gold magic. To some degree, they can’t be killed.” What limited the alliance even more was that while combating the specters, they could not use anything with any metal. Only nonmetal magic items could be used.

“We can choose to seal them and use nature elements to seal the specter’s power.” Ivan took out a dark golden wooden tile to Shang Ke. “This is an oxygen spirit seal I’ve developed recently, with the oxygen spirit bead as the foundation, it would increase a seal array’s power.”

Shang Ke took the offered tile and curiously checked it out. Ivan continued to explain, “But the seal array would need a very dense amount of oxygen. By gathering oxygen in the forest for one to two months, it would be enough to create one normal oxygen spirit seal. If we could find the phantom jade and remove the seal on the Spring of Life, then creating seals would be much more simpler.”

The phantom jade… Shang Ke turned his attention away from the seal and moved to Ivan’s left eye. If his previous reaction were to be proven true, then the phantom jade everyone was desperately trying to find was unfortunately in Ivan’s left eye. The intense reaction from before was due to the phantom jade coming in contact with Teldrassil’s power.

This information did not make Shang Ke feel any happier though. He did not know if forcefully undoing the seal on the phantom jade would endanger Ivan’s life. If he had to sacrifice him to complete his mission, Shang Ke did not know what choice he would make.

Shang Ke gave the seal back to Ivan and headed for his garden.

 
Ivan immediately blindly followed behind him.

Shang Ke picked up his basket and started to pick flowers, Ivan immediately did the same to help.

After the basket was filled, Shang Ke headed for the orchard.

Ivan continued to follow.

 
Whatever Shang Ke picked, Ivan picked.

After they finished picking everything, Shang Ke carried the basket to the kitchen and used magic to wash the petals and grind them into powder.