Chapter 398 The Growth of All Things and the Art of Accelerating Life

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The Spirit Seed is a new ability that Matthew gained after entering the realm of life.

This ability allows Matthew to implant his own spiritual imprint in a qualified target, and then completely control the other party.

With his current level of spiritual power.

He can differentiate up to two spiritual imprints.

In other words.

He can have two clones at the same time.

Matthew actually has some special awe for the Divine Phoenix Egg.

Compared with other units.

He is not so eager to parasitize a Divine Phoenix egg.

But from the perspective of the element layer.

This egg is completely dead, and it does not contain any traces of soul, not even spiritual elements.

Even the greatest miracle may not be able to bring it back to life.

So he just hesitated for a moment.

Then he decided to seize this opportunity!

At this moment.

Matthew separated a wisp of spiritual imprint, and then cast it into the Divine Phoenix Egg through the air.

The spiritual imprint is actually a group of spiritual power that is free from the soul.

Matthew is very careful when separating and controlling.

This kind of out-of-body spiritual power is easily exhausted because it lacks the nourishment of the main body.

Once the outer mental power is exhausted.

The imprint wrapped in the core will also fall apart quickly.

Before that.

He must find a suitable parasitic point!

The intense state in the Gray Lake increased the difficulty of Matthew's parasitism. He spent more than ten seconds to send his mental power completely in.

"Huh..."

Matthew breathed a sigh of relief.

The situation is not too bad.

Then, he imitated Vasnov's mental worm in his mind and transformed the mental imprint into a wandering worm.

This move increased Matthew's parasitism success rate.

He could feel it clearly.

The mental imprint transformed into a wandering worm became more smooth inside the Phoenix Egg!

"Sure enough, these old guys have their own ways."

Even if Matthew only imitated an appearance, it greatly improved the efficiency of parasitism.

Soon.

He controlled the wandering worm to visit every corner of the Phoenix Egg.

Along with this process.

Matthew frowned slightly:

"No spirituality at all? How can I parasitize?"

"Stick directly to these egg yolks?"

"If I do this, even if I can parasitize successfully in the end, I will only get a phoenix egg as an incarnation, and I may not be able to become a real phoenix..."

Matthew realized the key to the problem.

There is no embryonic form of a little phoenix in this divine phoenix egg, and even the embryo has not been born. If he wants to parasitize, he can only turn into an egg.

This is not what he wants!

"Once I choose to parasitize, I must extract the phoenix egg from the ash lake as soon as possible, otherwise I will be attacked by the power of ash day and night, and the speed at which I am eroded by the void bloodline may also increase."

"But if the phoenix egg is taken out, it will inevitably break the balance between Tianlong and the seal..."

Matthew suddenly had a toothache.

He found that parasitizing this phoenix egg did not seem as good as he imagined at the first time!

Just as he was thinking hard.

A violent roar sounded in Matthew's ears!

The voice was sharp and rough.

Gives people a sense of impact that will tear their eardrums!

At this moment.

Matthew lost control of the spiritual wandering insect.

He had a headache for three or four seconds, his eyes turned dark red, he could feel liquid shaking under his nose and in his ear canal, and there was a fishy lick in his mouth!

Matthew looked at the center of the Gray Lake in shock and anger-

That was the roar of the Dragon Soul!

"I will tear the earth apart, I will tear the sky apart, I will let the ocean hang above the starry sky, I will let you shameful imprisoners taste the eternal flame and anger!"

The roar of the Dragon was still echoing in Matthew's ears.

His temple hurt so much!

Fortunately, he now has strong mental power and high resilience, and he recovered quickly.

"The Dragon Soul is becoming more and more irritable..."

Matthew looked at the ups and downs in the Gray Lake and wiped his nosebleed calmly with a handkerchief.

This section of the Dragon Soul under the Gray Lake gave people the worst impression.

Compared with this irritable maniac.

The Dragon Soul under the Junliu Island is much milder.

The two pieces of the Sky Dragon Soul even expressed their gratitude.

Unlike this one.

It gave people the feeling of a ferocious beast without reason!

"Is it because of the Balance Messenger and the ritual field?"

Matthew thought of the Great Dragon Lake, Junliu Island and the ritual fields scattered in between.

He realized before that the Balance Messenger set up the ritual field to resolve something.

Now it seems.

It is very likely that the other party resolved the fierceness of the Sky Dragon Soul!

The completely different performances of the two dragon souls are enough to show the credit of the Balance Messenger.

He used the power of terrain, topography and time to successfully resolve the violent tempers of the two dragon souls.

This is obviously very rare.

"I wonder how long he took?"

"If I go to Junliu Island to learn, can I also set up a similar ritual field in Cuiyu Cangting?"

Matthew thought about it.

I think this matter is difficult to handle.

His Balance Messenger level is very low, and he is still a part-time worker, and he is definitely not as skilled as his predecessors.

And the Sky Dragon Soul on Junliu Island was still sleeping at that time.

The Dragon Soul under the Gray Lake has awakened.

It must not be so easy to fool.

But no matter what, Matthew planned to give it a try.

After all, the Phoenix Egg still has a certain value.

What if it can really hatch?

Matthew has an extra Phoenix incarnation out of thin air, which is definitely a big profit.

Even if it is still an egg.

Matthew will waste a little spiritual imprint at most.

There is no extra cost.

What's more, if the Phoenix Egg is hard enough, it can also be used to hit people!

Do it as soon as you think of it.

Matthew took advantage of the Sky Dragon Soul's resting moment to concentrate again and re-establish contact with the spiritual imprint in the Phoenix Egg.

This time he was quite decisive.

Directly spread the spiritual imprint evenly in the egg yolk.

A whole group of imprints turned into strands.

Slowly began to merge into the life substances that had lost their spirituality attached to the egg yolk.

This involves a process of spiritual activation.

Matthew took a look.

The parasitic success rate is still quite high.

As long as I can replenish my spirituality on time, it will be fine.

This might be a problem for others.

But after just experiencing a hearty undead disaster, Matthew has all kinds of spirituality!

If stacking spirituality can hatch a phoenix.

Then Matthew can now start to consider how to complete the first flight of the clone!

After doing all this.

Matthew turned his attention back to reality.

At this moment.

There were two mages standing in front of him, a man and a woman.

Both of them looked at him very nervously.

The male mage was Henry, the wild mage recruited by Matthew before, and now he is his assistant.

Matthew glanced at Henry.

The latter lowered his head slightly, his expression was a little timid.

Matthew did not react, but he was a little disappointed.

In his opinion.

Henry is obviously a fifth-level mage, but his aura is not as good as the third-level female mage next to him.

Perhaps it is the origin of wild mage + necromancer that makes him always unconsciously weaker than the alliance mage.

Matthew gave him many opportunities.

But he didn't seem to have the will and ability to seize these opportunities.

Matthew felt that Henry was still suitable for a position similar to a researcher, or maintaining a fixed project.

There was no problem with his professional quality.

It was just that his interpersonal communication and management were full of loopholes.

In comparison.

The blonde, blue-eyed, hot female mage next to him was much better.

She was Leslie, a former mage apprentice who had worked with Matthew several times before.

Now Leslie has successfully graduated from the academy. The graduation requirement for mage apprentices who graduated from professional schools is level 8, and Leslie is obviously much better than this standard.

Matthew vaguely remembered that when he sent the invitation letter to the other party before, the female mage was already level 11.

And when they met again in the camp.

Matthew noticed that Leslie was already level 12.

She did a great job in the management work assigned to her by Matthew, and had already started preparing for the subsequent advancement.

This made Matthew look at her differently.

Matthew knew.

Mage apprentices who graduated from professional schools will upgrade very quickly after successful graduation.

This is because the magic academy will lay a good foundation for them. In order to lay the foundation, they will even restrict their upgrade speed to a certain extent.

There is often a phenomenon that an apprentice is still level 8~9 when he graduates, and he is already level 15~16 two or three years later.

This phenomenon is almost incredible to wild mages.

But they often ignore the role of accumulation and the characteristics of professional mages themselves with better talents.

Leslie is a very typical example.

There are many apprentices in the mage camp who are very similar to her.

Some of them are about to graduate, and some have just graduated. They are all in a period of rapid development in their lives.

Matthew is very optimistic about their future.

He also realized that this group of people may become his helpers in the future.

So Matthew has been in contact with apprentices in the camp these days.

Today, Matthew is well-known.

Not to mention the apprentices, even those formal mages are quite enthusiastic to come and deal with Matthew.

During this period of time.

Matthew has met many familiar faces.

He plans to select some members from them as soon as possible after completing the Trace of the Dead project and arrange some other projects for them.

This process is both a test and a win-over.

In addition to the undead.

It's time for Matthew to form some of his own magicians.

Ronan's base is in the Gem Bay.

Then there must be someone to fill the gap in the magic district of Rolling Stone City, right?

"Master Matthew? Are you okay?"

Leslie looked at the blood on Matthew's face with some concern. She had already conjured a cup of chrysanthemum tea and waited by the side.

As for Henry.

He was still in a daze.

Matthew shook his head secretly in his heart, but he looked calm on the surface:

"I'm fine."

Leslie looked at the violently boiling Gray Lake and asked:

"I seemed to hear a roar just now, but it was not clear."

"But the intensity of the boiling seems to be getting higher and higher. I wonder what your previous plan was?"

Matthew replied calmly:

"Don't blow it up yet."

"I'm looking for other solutions."

Just kidding.

He didn't know before that it was the Heavenly Dragon Soul and the Lord of the Void fighting each other, so he planned to blow it up directly.

Now I know the inside story.

Matthew wouldn't dare to do this even if he had ten thousand courages.

"Then what should we do?"

Leslie saw that Matthew had no intention of drinking tea, so she diligently picked up two bags of cold diamonds from the ground next to her.

These actions made her figure even more eye-catching.

Even Matthew couldn't help but take a second look.

"What's wrong?"

Leslie was not angry at all, but looked at Matthew with a smile.

"Leave the camp less often in the future. Even if you have to leave the camp, remember to wear loose mage robes."

Matthew warned seriously:

"You can easily attract the jealousy of female wood elves."

Leslie was stunned for a moment.

At this time, Henry next to him finally reacted. He gritted his teeth and stared at Leslie's chest——

Those two bags of cold diamonds were clearly brought over by him!

He took a step forward and asked:

"Master Matthew, according to the current intensity, the mitigation materials we prepared previously may not be enough..."

Matthew said calmly:

"Then increase the dose!"

Henry looked a little embarrassed:

"It's possible, but the cost will go up a lot."

Matthew raised his eyes:

"Remember to write down every expense, compile it into a bill, and send the purchase receipt to Jade Cang Ting."

"This account will be held on their heads."

"Well, don't send it to the door of the paralyzed Willow Leaf Agency, just give it to Beanna."

Finish this sentence.

He found that Leslie and Henry were looking at him extremely earnestly.

Matthew's eyes flickered back and forth between the two of them.

"I'll leave this to you, Ms. Leslie."

In Henry's eyes full of disappointment.

Matthew waved his hand and turned to leave.

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Leslie was very resolute in her work.

That evening, Matthew received the money she had received from Beanna.

This also reflects from the side that Tyrast has indeed quietly taken over the administrative power of Jade Cangting.

And with his support, Biana became the most powerful person on the surface.

All elves know it.

She represents the will of Terraste.

If the Elf God is really resurrected.

Then she is a well-deserved saint.

Matthew originally thought that "letting a human be the saint of the elves" would cause some trouble.

But it turns out.

There was no commotion at all.

Terraste has seen through his compatriots.

This made Matthew even more awed by Terraste's methods——

The old elf man is both civil and military.

You must not be your enemy!

And since the first batch of exiles entered the Secret Light Jungle.

The Valley of the Sacred Tree, which was originally unnoticed, has become bustling with people. Many wood elves come here for pilgrimage every day, including many former refugees.

The situation in Jade Cangting has completely stabilized.

Biana maintains a frequency of showing up every three days, sending 800 to 1,000 exiles into the Secret Light Jungle each time.

other time.

She was hidden from the sight of the elves.

This is still the case with Biana.

The image of Tyrast, who was completely invisible, became even taller in the hearts of the elves.

People can't remember the last time he appeared.

The atmosphere of faith in the Valley of the Divine Trees is getting stronger and stronger.

Later.

Every day, young elves men and women sing and dance in the valley.

They seemed to have forgotten the bloody chaos of "Bloody May" and were immersed in the beautiful atmosphere of the revival of faith.

The scattered voices of opposition were drowned in the huge jade sky.

Even Tyrani and Ai Lan, who had previously been the most staunch opponents, no longer appeared.

Matthew estimated that the former was hypnotized by Beanna every day until he fell asleep, while the latter should have started preparing to go all out to become a legend.

This kind of singing and dancing environment is of course the best for Matthew.

Even A Bing also benefited——

This kid squats among a pile of authentic works of ancient beauties to appreciate aesthetics every day.

His practice in the field of aesthetics has entered the most critical state.

Matthew reckoned.

It won't take long for him to master the fields of art and beauty, and then accumulate enough practice points to become a legend with "Shadow", "Killing" and "Art and Beauty"!

For an inherently deficient unit like the undead.

Being promoted to legend is already a miracle.

Not to mention that A Bing has many fields.

Matthew is already looking forward to the changes after A Bing is promoted to Legend!

And he himself did not waste his time.

In addition to daily affairs and the protection of the Mark of the Dead.

Matthew finally found an opportunity to start his first "spell enhancement training".

Spell upgrade training is only available once for each level after entering the fifth level.

through this training.

Ability to train originally lower-level spells into higher-level spells.

And before that.

Matthew also conducted a round of screening of the low-level spells he mastered.

He set two standards -

First, the subsequent advanced spells are directly excluded. Just learn the advanced spells directly without the need for special upgrades. An example of this is "Malicious Transformation/Group Malicious Transformation".

Second, practicality is the main priority, and those with higher frequency of use are ranked higher.

finally.

The first spell he chose to upgrade was the druid's signature spell——

"Fast growth"!

The feeling after starting the spell upgrade training is amazing.

Matthew could feel that his body had temporarily opened a two-way channel to the etheric plane.

This left him completely exposed to the etheric plane, and there was a risk of being etherified.

At the same time, he also received a silver cloak that no one else could see.

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"Aether Cloak: While the Aether Cloak lasts, you can use the target spell at a high frequency that breaks the limit of the number of spells cast by the human body.

Current target spell: Rapid Growth.

Available times per day: 120 times.

Warning: You have used the treasure "Quick Gem" on yourself, and you have broken more shackles of the human body!

The number of times available per day has been increased to 240! "

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The mechanism of spell enhancement training is actually very similar to Colin Tobacco Leaf.

It can break the bloodline restrictions that the human body uses to protect itself.

But the difference is.

The shackles broken by spell enhancement training are fixed to a certain spell, and the gap between the mage and the etheric plane is smaller. Although there is also the risk of etherification, it is much lower than the addiction to Colin's tobacco leaves.

But Matthew considered that rapid growth was just a trick, and it would take more training to reach the fifth level he wanted, so he simply used the "Rapid Gem" he had previously obtained from the alliance traitor Spencer.

With his current mental strength and the divinity he has in store, he should be able to offset the risks of releasing more exposure to the etheric plane.

After the preparations were completed, Matthew got straight to work.

The training that matches the spell of rapid growth is of course planting trees!

It just so happened that the tree planting efficiency of Umbrella Project 2.0 was far inferior to the popularization efficiency of Death Realm, so Matthew planned to personally lead the team to improve the progress——

It is impossible to expect that group of druids to complete their tasks efficiently.

Druids are inherently loose creatures.

They may be keen on planting trees.

But it’s hard to force them to clock in every day and plant trees like a robot.

it's out of the question.

Matthew went to the defense several times to patrol the surrounding area and found that most of the druids were either flirting, chatting, or simply flirting and chatting at the same time - still in groups.

They did plant a lot of trees.

But it was far from what Matthew wanted.

So after Matthew started building.

For the first time, the young druids of the Earth Society felt the shock of coming from the cemetery!

Matthew specially recruited a group of skilled workers to dig holes from the mother of coolies.

He compiled this group of coolie zombies into an independent roll call and asked them to dig holes day and night on the outer layer of the previously planned extension.

Matthew himself is personally responsible for planting trees and rapid growth.

As for the laborious landfilling in the middle.

The spirits of nature in the holy oak seeds will pray for them. These spirits of nature have been lying in the shelter provided by Matthew for so long, and it is time to come out and stretch their muscles.

And those young druids.

Matthew's only request from them was to ripen as many seeds as possible.

This is not difficult for a druid at all.

What's more, even if they can't keep up with the progress.

Matthew also has help from Ella of Moonglade and other nature spirits.

all in all.

On the first day, Matthew showed the efficiency of afforestation under the extremely mature teamwork.

The Trace of the Dead starts from Gemstone Bay in the east, passes through Jade Cangting, and is sucked into Rolling Stone Town.

There are a total of 34 protruding sections along the way.

Matthew had made plans beforehand.

First day down.

He covered 6 protruding sections by himself, which means he created six forests!

And this time.

Matthew did not have a single choice of oak or pine.

As long as they are trees suitable for the environment.

Matthew accepts all comers!

quickly.

He planted oak forest, pine forest, camphor forest, peach forest, willow forest... at a speed that stunned the druids...

The figure of Matthew working is like the grace of the god of agriculture in ancient times.

The place he passed by.

After a night, lush green woods will appear.

Under the leadership of Matthew.

The druids who were used to paddling suddenly started working hard with all their strength.

They twisted into a rope, vaguely intending to compete with Matthew.

Matthew didn't mind this at all.

He wished that all the druids could wind up and work hard for him.

that's all.

This vigorous afforestation boom lasted until late June.

It took Matthew almost a week to wrap up all 34 extended sections of synapses.

This means 34 woods, with a total of nearly 4,000 towering trees!

More than 2,000 of the trees were planted by Matthew himself.

The rest is the joint contribution of those dozen druids.

finally.

Matthew completed the spell training before the Aether Cloak disappeared, and also completed the forest part of the Umbrella Plan just before midsummer!

Walking in a camphor forest exuding the fragrance of vegetation.

Matthew silently felt the changes in the spells he had mastered.

After more than two thousand practices.

The spell of rapid growth has undergone a qualitative change!

It became the fifth-level spell in Matthew's mind as he wished!

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"Growth (formerly Rapid Growth): At dawn every day, you can use the Rapid Growth effect on all plants on one hectare of land at once.

Special.

Whenever you use Growth to give birth to a forest, there is a certain chance that the forest will randomly give birth to the following three characteristics-

1. Fairy of Light (a large number of Fairies of Light will settle and reproduce here and respect you as their master)

2. Spring of the Moon (a pool of water will appear in your forest, shining in the moonlight. This pool of water will inject more vitality into your forest. Drinking the pool water can slowly restore mana)

3. Friendly Animals (many friendly and powerful animals will be attracted to these forests. They often have the potential to become the soul of nature)

In addition.

You can use Growth on undead or negative energy units.

The latter will face an effect similar to "Divine Spell: Holy Punishment"!

It can be used ten times a day."

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The great success of spell power training is something worth celebrating.

Matthew gained experience because of this.

He has submitted an application to the Silver Council to enter the Arcane Castle, where he can upgrade as many low-level spells as possible to high-level spells.

This experience will be of great use.

What surprised Matthew even more was that.

This sudden large-scale afforestation operation actually allowed him to easily enter the realm of death!

Of course.

Unlike the rapid progress in the field of life brought about by the undead disaster.

Matthew only reached the level of preliminary exploration in the field of death this time.

Therefore.

He only mastered one field ability.

…

"Life-accelerating spell: Your probability of instant death judgment increases by 10%."

…

This is a very practical ability.

The combat methods of the necromancer are nothing more than summoning minions, negative energy debuffs, and the probability of instant death in a single shot.

The useless nature of the instant death judgment makes the necromancer face a very passive situation when fighting alone.

Matthew originally practiced the spell of the life-taking curse that can improve the instant death judgment.

Now with the addition of the life-accelerating spell.

His instant death judgment is much higher than that of ordinary people.

It might come in handy at a critical moment.

"I have now successfully entered the realm of life and death."

"These two are also a pair of sharply opposed but coordinated realms."

"I can complete the Balance Contract in a formal way - just modify the Balance Contract between the Oak and the Undead."

"In my previous plan, in the definition of each major realm, the next stage is facing the last stage, that is, nature and immortality."

"I incorporate life into nature and elevate immortality above death. As long as I can successfully enter these two realms, complete the definition of concepts and write the Balance Contract, my legendary path will basically be completed."

"Becoming a legend is also a natural outcome..."

On the way back to the camp.

Matthew thought about a lot of follow-up things.

The camp was very quiet.

The mages were very obedient, basically having fun in their own rooms, and rarely went out to cause trouble.

Matthew was very satisfied with this.

He liked this quiet atmosphere very much.

However, when he came to the door of his room humming a little tune.

He found a slender figure.

"Tyrani?"

Matthew looked at the other party with some surprise.

He rarely saw Terrani without armor or men's clothes.

Not to mention pajamas!

At the same time.

Matthew noticed that the corners of the eyes of the Wind Chaser Major General were red and his eye bags were swollen. It was obvious that he had just cried.

"What happened?"

Matthew stepped forward.

Terrani bit her lip, turned her head, and faced Matthew's door, her voice hoarse and slight:

"Let's go in and talk."

Matthew nodded.

But at this moment.

A human figure hurried into the camp gate.

Matthew looked back.

It was Beanna wearing a gray nun's robe and a veil on her face!

As soon as Beanna saw Terrani, she rushed over in a hurry.

Her face was full of relieved smiles:

"Finally found you."

"Come back with me."

"It's time to go to bed, Nini..."

As she spoke.

She had the nightmare pendant on her hand again, and a very sweet smile appeared on her face.

When Terrani saw the pendant, her face turned pale instantly:

"Don't, don't, don't..."

She tried her best to grab Matthew's hands, and the blue veins on the back of her white hands almost popped out:

"Save me!"

Terrani helplessly and restrainedly lowered her voice in Matthew's ear:

"She wants to kill me!"

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Keep asking for monthly tickets! I don't feel any pressure at all. Are you too weak or am I too strong?