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Chapter 772 Ladder Life Tree (7000)

beep--

A clear siren sounded throughout the Siren, and the lights in the banquet hall suddenly turned red, making all the distinguished guests and officials present on alert.

For a time, more than seventy bright spiritual energy shields lit up in the entire hall. The reason why more did not light up was because the surrounding natural spiritual energy was emptied, and the poor quality spiritual energy accessories could not borrow the surrounding natural energy. psionic.

This is also why the better the quality of psychic jewelry, the higher the price will be exponentially - because at critical moments, there will be such a psychic run on as now!
"What happened?"

"An attack? An assassin?"

"Protect your lord!" "Sir, stand in the middle!"

Just two seconds later, in the originally peaceful banquet hall, the tables full of various delicacies and pastries were overturned and erected, solidified with source essence, and used as simple protective walls to build temporary fortresses.

The noble officials frowned, hid in it under the protection of their own guards, and carefully observed the surrounding situation.

Because most of these noble officials are protected by psychic accessories, which exude a rather dazzling light, like light bulbs in the dark red hall, reflecting colorful lights-convenient for attack, but also more convenient for protection.

"There are no assassins!"

Soon, some guards realized that the danger did not come from the surroundings, but they became more vigilant instead-was it an assassination against someone?So an attack on the entire Siren?

Although it is very dangerous, but fortunately they have been prepared!
In a ghostly place like Terra, even officials who have been in the center or the court all year round must be cautious of various surprise attacks and need to be proficient in various life-saving secrets.

Regardless of the assassination by the powerful of other countries, it is not uncommon for the strong of their own country to discuss policies and start to fight.

It's like the battle between the Imperial Academy of the Intellectuals and the Great Library... You said that according to common sense, a researcher doesn't need to master any combat skills, and a librarian doesn't need any life-saving skills, right?

But when the Earl of Phoenix and Dean Moze fought, their personal guard knights would not tell you about their occupations. When they came, they started a war.

In the final analysis, it is Terra Continent, and the strong are respected!
People who are not strong must learn how to save their lives!

"Looks like a monster is coming."

As for Xio, he was still eating pastries at the moment.

She was not affected by the warning at all, and continued to happily put a baked powder cake into her mouth. The dragon girl chewed and muttered to herself, but her eyes looked at the distant sea beyond the Siren: "Wow... this amount... the Dragon King ah!"

Even the real dragon couldn't help being a little surprised: "Let's not talk about the number, there are actually three third-level beast kings?!"

"I've wandered around the South China Sea for decades, and I've only seen the third-level sea beast king once!"

[Level [-] Sea Beast Attack Alert]

At this moment, the voice of the captain of the Siren, Captain Elden, sounded: 【According to the observation of the Siren, there are three third-level sea beast kings approaching the ship, and the frigates around the Siren have already encountered a swarm of sea beasts. Fighting, but the enemy group is too large for the escort fleet to stop】

[You are all distinguished guests of Canaan Moore, we will do our best to ensure your safety, the Empire’s South Sea Fleet and our Silent Sea Fleet are approaching, and I will immediately set off to negotiate with the Sea Kings, please don’t worry ...]

Starting from the words "three-headed third-level sea beast king", the complexions of all the noble officials present began to change suddenly, and after hearing the words "please don't worry", even the most hearty people can't bear it. He couldn't help complaining loudly: "Worry about the fart, the three-headed Neptune of the third energy level, what's the use of worrying?"

"If I knew it was bad news, why did I lift the table." Someone picked up his hat from the ground and put it on his head while complaining, "I haven't finished my red blood steak yet."

"That's right." A Canaan Moore official who was on guard wiped his glasses and sighed, "But I don't have the heart to eat, so I'll write a suicide note first."

For a while, the atmosphere in the banquet hall even warmed up briefly. Although there were not people who were so frightened that they almost peed out, with the psychological quality of Terra people, most people rationally accepted the fact that life and death are up to fate.

It's no wonder that their reaction was too exaggerated... because the fact that three third-level monsters joined forces to attack is itself so exaggerated.

On the earth, the material circulation of most organisms revolves around the land and the offshore waters around the land. In fact, there are not many large organisms in the deep ocean, especially those thousands of kilometers away from the land. It is isolated from many lands and ocean currents. Fish It is difficult to reach the swarms, only extremely low-level plankton and algae exist, and the biological density can even be compared with the desert, or even less than the desert.

Most of the large marine organisms will live in areas close to land and ocean currents, and the deep sea area thousands of meters deep relies on chemosynthetic bacteria, that is, submarine volcanoes and black chimneys to support small-scale ecological circles, and it is impossible to breed ordinary people An imaginary giant of the deep sea.

But in Terra, it was different.

Terra has plasm and natural psionic existence.

Just like the super-giant spiritual energy field of the Eternal Ocean, a huge ocean current cycle is directly constructed in the sea, directly pouring the source matter from the sun into the deep sea, and the spiritual energy field is withdrawn from the weak part of the earth's crust The thermal energy quality of the earth's core... This turned the supposedly barren deep sea of ​​Terra into a paradise for countless creatures to multiply.

Just as Xiou said in his heart——in Terra, there are very few large monsters of the third energy level in the coastal waters.

Because the offshore is the territory of land titans and 'human beings'.

But in the deep sea far away from the land, there is a battlefield of hell where many giant sea beasts fight.

Viscount Grant's bloodline 'Abyssal Lizard Whale' is the overlord of the deep sea abyss. It will also come to the sea surface to spit clouds and mist, float into the atmosphere, soar above the sky, absorb the source of the sun to achieve the final evolution, and become A dragon whale that is almost like a dragon.But most lizard whales are like their name, just lizards rather than dragons.

Ian also studied Terra's marine ecology, and the result of his research was 'What is the sacred place for raising Gu in the ocean here? '——A lot of sea creatures who know whether they were original or mutated from Terra, and alien warcraft from at least seven or eight different planets (or the beast version after the aliens lost their wisdom) seemed to be Killing each other in the calm sea, each with different skills and abilities, and these strange things are all fused, hybridized, absorbed, and evolved in the sea of ​​Terra...

God knows what's going on there.

Ian guessed at that time that the situation in Terra Ocean was so complicated that it was directly related to the fact that the Skyfall spacecraft fell directly into the depths of the ocean... Most of the parts of the Skyfall spacecraft should be in the sea, which is why he The reason why the crystal dragon avatar is so important.

With such a monster body that can move freely in the sea, it will be much smoother than humans.

But even in such an almost crazy Terra ocean ecosystem, the behemoth of the third energy level is also an existence at the upper level of the food chain.

The higher-level fourth-level Titan Sea Beast is the overlord of the seas, or the head of a clan, and does not move frequently, while the fifth-level sea god, such as the protector of Far Sword Port' Crystal Longfur Stie' doesn't care what territory it is, so in fact, it is these third-level Neptunes who travel across the sea and frequently deal with human beings.

Each of them leads a huge group, and can stir up huge wind and waves with their own power, creating storms and small-scale tsunamis... Ordinary naval fleets can only consider themselves unlucky when encountering them, let alone merchant ships, so in For some routes close to the ocean, strong human beings are required to sign contracts with the kings of sea beasts to ensure the stability of the routes.

But now, there are actually three sea kings violating the contract and attacking from the deep sea...On the entire Siren, there is only Elden, who is apparently the third level, what else can he do except wait for death?
Even those spies and killers are in a hurry.

"what happened?!"

The internal communication channel of the Institute of the Intellect has become a mess: "Who attracted Aquaman? Didn't it just attract a group of blue giant chapters to divert Elden's attention? How did you attract the beast king of the third level? head?!"

"I don't know!" The spy in charge of this aspect looked at a loss: "Even if the lure bait is really so useful, I only lured one monster lair..."

At the same time, the killer hired by the Canaan Moore Council also hid in the corner of the cabin, and roared to the communication equipment in a low voice: "I asked you to lure the monsters to find a chance for me, not to ask you to lure the Beastmaster to kill the Siren." Kill everyone on board——if you want to kill everyone, why invite me!? There are a large group of imperial nobles and businessmen on board, do you want to create a major diplomatic incident?!"

"You broke the rules, even if the mission is successful, we will be thrown out as scapegoats!"

"Trash!" The spies of the Royal Court of Heaven also angrily scolded the other end of the communication device: "Are you trying to let the Empire and Canaan Moore directly fight against the Royal Court? Our goal is to assassinate key targets, not to kill everyone !"

……

It seems that the reason why there are three different kings of sea beasts attacking is very clear.

"Three third-level monsters are enough to start a war."

After Siou finished eating the snacks in front of her, she stood up, stretched herself, then shook her head, and walked out of the hall.

The red-haired girl sighed in her heart: "No wonder Ian asked me to help stop it—this is a troublesome matter. But it's not a big problem, and I'm also a little curious why they come here."

Thinking of this, Xiou's eyes lighted up faintly, and her soul escaped into the void, where she went to negotiate with the souls of the kings of sea beasts.

……

"Sure enough, someone wants to do something to me."

The Siren, deep in the hold, storage bay 17.

At the center of the incident, the bioalchemist Grave Feiye quietly listened to Captain Elden's announcement, and nodded calmly: "Is it the council of my hometown, or the Institute of the Intellectual? Maybe there are radicals from the Royal Court of Heaven... …Huh, maybe they came together? They definitely didn’t have the guts to disturb the king of sea beasts, at most they would attract a group of second-level monsters to harass and attract Elden’s attention.”

"The reason why these kings of sea beasts came here is entirely because of you."

Turning his gaze back to the silver alloy secret box in front of him, the old elf spoke with a touch of excitement: "Sure enough, my inference is correct...you didn't die at all, but your vitality was suppressed by the secret method of the Institute of the Senses. "

"As long as you come to the outside world, you will gradually recover, grow... and attract other creatures to become your family members and become part of the ecology you built."

"Then, it will become your recovery power."

Talking to himself, Master Gravey raised his hand and stroked the silver alloy secret box. He could vaguely see that the elf's fingertips had already shown some woody lines: "The empire just wants to figure out the relationship between you and the family. There is a wonderful phenomenon of soul resonance between you, but I want to know your immortality, immortality and immortality."

"The Tree of Resurrection, the Eternal God Tree... The Heavenly Ladder is Immortal, the Tree of Life—the God of Outer Heaven who descended on Terra in the Lost Era and almost destroyed the Quinnor Plain."

"I want to know where your true strength lies."

The Lost Age was a long blank period in Terra's history.

Some scholars believe that the length of this lost period should be more than 300 years and less than 500 years, but some scholars believe that the duration of the lost era should be about 1000 years, and both sides have a lot of evidence to prove it.

But no matter what, they can confirm that... During the Lost Era, there were many extremely terrible wars on the continent of Terra.

Primitive sublimators fought against many terrifying sublimation behemoths, and the heaven, earth and ocean also undergone huge changes. Terrible geological changes completely changed the terrain of every part of the Terra continent, and even the geological structure of the entire planet. Change.

Ordinary scholars, the research on the lost era, will stop here.

However, Gravey knew that in the Lost Era, a large part of the terrifying existences who fought against those primitive sublimated human beings were giant beasts called "Gods Beyond Heaven".

Among those behemoths, there are divine snakes that are as huge as mountains, and giant algae that overturn the world and come down with meteorites; there are silver mountain behemoths that are covered with metal, like moving mountains, and there are also behemoths that shine on everything, like the brilliance of the second sun divine bird...

Naturally, among these gods beyond the sky, there are also plants.

The Ladder Tree of Life is one of them.

This is an extremely powerful plant alien god that once descended around the Quinol Plain. The moment it descended, it assimilated all the protozoa on the entire plain and turned them into its own kin... At that time, the imperial capital was the earliest A group of residents harnessed the power of the imperial capital to fight the sacred tree and its dependents, and finally sealed and suppressed it in the mantle fifty kilometers below the imperial capital. The price was that the earliest controllers of the imperial capital were severely injured. It was defeated and disappeared in the war, and was later occupied by the Setar people.

It is said that there were other reasons for the aborigines of the imperial capital to defeat the ladder of life tree back then. They seemed to be very familiar with the characteristics of the "Shenmu" series of outer gods, and even used the power of the ladder of life tree to strengthen the defense of the imperial capital.

After all, Gravey is a first-generation immigrant. He has no access to the most core information, so he can only know these rumors that are almost legendary.

But this does not prevent him from being able to directly join the team researching the ladder of life tree with his own knowledge.

But this is not a good thing... because it was too close, it caused so much trouble after leaving.

With Grave's wisdom, how could he not have thought that someone would want to attack him?After all, he has also worked in the Institute of Gnosis for decades, and he knows their mode of action very well.

But there are times when brute force trumps cunning.After leaving the Gnosis Academy, Gravey didn't have any trustworthy guards, and Canaan Moore's protection couldn't be trusted either, so he could only rely on himself to protect himself.

There is no life, and dreams are meaningless.

It's just that Gravey didn't expect that the breath of the "God Beyond the Sky" was so attractive to sea beasts... He just released a little dew with its pheromone, which could attract the three-headed king of sea beasts , which was beyond his expectation.

Theoretically speaking, it would be good to be able to attract one. Such a crisis is enough to make those spy killers in a hurry, and they cannot come to trouble him in a short time.

The three heads are a bit too much, and Gravey is not sure whether Elden can block it... But at this time, he can only trust the other party, and he must come to check whether there is any omission in the silver box that stores the "Ladder of Life Tree".

If the power of the Tree of Life is really leaked out, 90.00% of the crew members on the Siren are estimated to be eroded by pollution and become its family members.

Fortunately not.After the inspection, Gravey confirmed this. The three sea beasts probably sensed the pure vitality of the tree of life and came to investigate the situation.Also, if it is really leaked, it will not be the third energy level, but the fourth energy level Titan.

But at this moment, a cold light shot from behind him surprised Gravey. He didn't expect that he would be followed and found after sneaking into the cabin. This cold light came extremely quickly, surpassing the speed of sound The wind source quality suppressed the sound waves, so there was no sound. Even though Gravey's second-level spirit could react, his aging and rigid body couldn't move immediately.

Boom, the cold light revealed his real body, it was a sleeve arrow shining with silver light, it directly hit the back of Master Gravey's head, and then...

It was like a bullet hitting an iron wall, and was bounced away with a crisp metal clanging sound.

"Huh?" The person who made the shot was also extremely surprised. He had no idea that the assassination arrows allocated by the parliament were so weak——Although Master Gravey is at the second energy level, he has already entered the final aging period of his life. Theoretically speaking, this arrow The supersonic sleeve arrow is enough to pierce the opponent's surface flesh and blood, and then inject the poison into it, killing him instantly!
But who knew that such a supersonic assassination arrow couldn't even pierce the target's skin?Master Grave's strength far exceeded expectations!
——Damn it, our intelligence has never been accurate!The assassin couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

But the problem is not big, he still has a chance!
"Go directly to the killer? It seems that it should be on the side of the council." At this moment, Master Gravey's body began to turn around slowly, and activated the psionic ornaments on his body. He could vaguely see a layer of emerald green shimmer covering his whole body. Immediately afterwards, an oval diamond-shaped grid shield emerged.

Relying on the power of the tree of life, Gravey's physical strength is far stronger than that of the general second energy level, but because of this, his physical flexibility has also dropped significantly, and his steps are as slow as a real tree.

Facing the killers of the Canaan Moor Council, he was not worried, but he was a little strange: "The king of the three sea beasts attacked, and they also want to kill me? It seems that the council really doesn't want me to come back... It should be that the scientific research faction that the teacher belongs to failed in the struggle, and the winner does not want me to go back to power and pull up the team again."

As a one-on-one council killer, Gravey is quite confident. Although his family body has not been completely transformed, in terms of toughness, it is already considered a very top-level defensive sublimation inheritance. If you want to break through the ordinary third energy level, you have to With a little effort, it will definitely last until the guard knights on the Siren find out.

But soon, he and the council killer all changed their expressions.

Because on the other side, accompanied by an invisible gust of wind hitting the wall of the storage compartment like a giant hammer, a tall and majestic man directly smashed the wall and rushed straight with a long ax in hand.

The brawny man was obviously in a hurry to come, and he didn't notice the brief confrontation between Gravey and the council killer, so when he rushed into the storage cabin, he was stunned for a while, and he didn't understand his goal. How come other people exist.

——The Gale Charge of the Royal Court of Heaven!

Master Gravey didn't know much about sublimation combat skills, but the council killer beside him couldn't help feeling surprised. The other party was obviously a killer spy from the royal court of heaven, and the target should also be Master Gravey.

It sounds like the two of them have the same goal, and it seems that they can work together to kill their mission target... But how is it possible?Now that they already know each other's true face, the relationship between the two parties will never end!

The big man obviously also noticed this, and his eyes sank.

But before the three people present could calm down and confront each other, the ceiling of No. 17 storage compartment suddenly began to tremble violently, and then melted silently under the high heat. A faceless man covered in light blue spiritual fire also Pounced down with an extremely fierce momentum.

But in the middle of the pounce, a wave of doubt and fright came, and the killer of the Imperial Academy of Gnostics turned around in midair and jumped to the other side of the storage cabin—he looked at it in shock and at the same time. The three of them were completely confused about what the situation was now.

——What's going on, where is the killer spy meeting?

For a moment, the entire storage compartment fell into a strange silence.The crew of the Siren have now gone to combat positions to prepare for the next sea beast raid, and most of the guard knights are gathered around the banquet hall to protect those important nobles and officials.

This is the most dangerous time, but also the safest time, so the four people present all started their actions in unison, and gathered beside this secret storage cabin.

"I didn't expect so many people to want to kill me."

Facing the three killers with their own unique skills, even Master Gravey is still in a cold sweat at this moment, no matter how confident he is, especially the killer from the Institute of the Wisdom. The body of Shenmu's family, it is obvious that the other party already knows part of his plan.

But Gravey thought that the Institute of the Intellect would destroy the pile of research manuscripts left in the room at most, but he didn't expect that the Institute of the Intellect would kill him!
This is a misunderstanding—the killer of the Institute of the Intellect simply thought that Gravey had more secret manuscripts stored in other places, so he planned to come over to see the situation... Who knew that there were so many in such a small storage room People, it really made him a little incomprehensible.

The four sides faced each other, and an atmosphere of danger or embarrassment circulated in the air. Everyone stared at the other three nervously, not daring to speak or move, for fear that they would show their flaws in front of others.

A few minutes passed, 10 minutes passed, the four of them were still motionless, very calm, and for various reasons, the crew of the Siren did not notice any abnormalities here.

Everyone is quite patient, as long as no one comes over, they will never take the lead in showing their flaws. Only 10 minutes, for professionally trained killers like them, it was a blink of an eye.

—Is it over?
On the contrary, Master Gravey has already started to roar in his heart. He is old and has long been unable to concentrate. Not to mention as a researcher, although he has the patience to carry out long experiments, he is extremely impatient with this situation.

—Is it over?My time is precious!
Another researcher had the same thought.

So... the next moment.

A gust of cold wind blew up, and a silver light pierced the darkness with thunder.

The killer of the Heavenly King's Court suddenly felt an extremely cold force coming from behind him, and the extreme numbness and coldness spread to his entire back almost instantly, followed by the stabbing pain of the blade stirring the internal organs, Let him stagger forward and fall to the ground.

Can't get up again.

The killer of the Canaan Moor Council was slightly stunned. He reacted the fastest. He noticed that the thunderous silver sword light pierced through the big man's chest and abdomen, then lightly sliced ​​through the opponent's ribs and flesh horizontally, and then moved towards him. Moved from the neck.

He raised the assassination dagger in his hand, trying to block the blow, but it was too slow. After the killer was stunned for a moment, he saw the broken sword in his hand, his body, and his cut face. Smooth neck.

The killer of the Institute of the Intellect turned around and fled. Although he didn't understand what happened at all, his instinctive sense of crisis almost wailed and ordered him to leave this place immediately. An extremely strong premonition of death made him want to vomit... But before that, a thunder ray caught up to him.

Immediately, the head of this psyker who was covered in spiritual fire really burned, and a dazzling blue-white pillar of fire shot out from his mouth, nose and ears, with bright blue-blue arcs.

"Who?!"

Master Gravey only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the three people who were confronting him all fell down, but soon, he saw a white and firm fist, which was carved like white jade.

Immediately afterwards came concussion, dizziness, uncontrollable daze and self-doubt.

Master Grave passed out.

(End of this chapter)