Chapter 856 The Cottage in the Forest
The Black Forest.
There was a spot that had been left wholly untouched and yet to be excavated.
Tall and firm trees filled the area, covering the forest in a pitch-black shade with their dense foliage.
The black dirt of the earth was hardly exposed as a dense cover of fungus and moss grew above the ground. Of course, there were even more thorny brambles, bushes, and magical vines that crept everywhere.
It didn’t matter what ti of day it was. A light shroud of black mist lingered in the place, making it seem as if it was a magical forest.
Yet, a crude cottage abruptly stood there in this strange no man’s land; it was a stark contrast to the surrounding environnt.
A door creaked as a beautiful lady in green robes erged from within the cottage. She held in her hand a mysterious staff decorated with strange patterns.
She had a slender waist, beautiful figure, delicate facial features, long, light-green hair, and the long, sharp ears.
Unexpectedly, this beautiful lady was a forest elf from a different world.
Pushing open the wooden door, linda stood before the clearing in front of the cottage, her heart filled with terror and despair.
This little cottage was her prison cell, and the hideous Black Forest was the prison that contained her.
The howls and roars of all sorts of wild beasts and magical creatures could be heard deep in the night. Even hidden within the cottage, linda could hear the movents of the magical creatures prowling near the cabin due to her sharp sense of hearing.
If it wasn’t for the strange circle of magical plants around the house that stopped the magical creatures, she would probably have been torn to shreds and eaten.
The circle of magical plants only covered an area of approximately fifty square ters. As such, linda’s range of activity was limited to these fifty ters. If she ever stepped out of the circle, she would co face to face with the various strange and ferocious magical creatures of the Black Forest.
linda had never thought that this would happen to her; that as a forest elf, she would one day be trapped within a forest.
On the first day she was imprisoned here, she tried to communicate with the plants.
Unfortunately, every ancient tree and wild grass in this forest only returned to her a fierce desire for flesh and a twisted sense of consciousness close to insanity.
If Faen’s Fantasy Forest was like a herbivore, then the Black Forest was a vicious carnivore. It wasn’t just the magical beasts. Even the grass and flowers of the place were filled with a savage and terrifying aura of violence.
A forest elf–a mber of those hailed as the Children of the Forest–actually had trouble making their way through this vicious forest where danger, death, and slaughter were everywhere. Even if that horrifying demon did not place any shackles or chains on linda, she had nowhere to run. Her only place was here in the cottage, where she diligently tended to that demon’s strange ‘moonwell.’
Indeed, no one knew how, but that scary demon had actually planted a moonwell in front of the cottage. The reason for linda’s existence was to take care of the moonwell and hasten its growth.
Every ti night fell and the full moon hung in the skies, a single, quiet, and elegant beam of moonlight would descend on the cottage, landing on that strange moonwell. If linda knelt before the moonwell when this happened and prayed zealously, her ntal consciousness would vaguely return to that dreamy Fantasy Forest.
The familiar sll of the earth, the familiar scent of the grass, fairies beating their wings and weaving between the trees as the trees themselves swayed in the winds and greeted her...
The crisp and joyful voices of her companions could even be heard in the distance.
It was the only ti of the day when linda was happy!
Ever since this moonwell was planted here, the strange roots surrounding the moonwell had faced problems with the environnt and the earth. It had started shriveling and withering. It was only due to linda’s continued use of Rejuvenation, Cleanse Ground, Plant Growth, and various other nature magics that revived the moonwell.
It took six months for the moonwell to barely adapt to the environnt and once again sink its roots deep into the earth, taking in the entirely different magical power of this world. After another half a year of recovery and nourishnt, this one-ter deep moonwell with a half-ter diater finally succeeded in gathering a small pool of clear, jade-green moonwater.
linda had also secretly tasted the water.
Just that mouthful of moonwater had nearly burned a hole through her stomach. If she hadn’t managed to treat herself in ti, she would probably have died to this otherworldly version of moonwater.
linda was still a First Grade forest elf priest.
She was yet unable to analyze the exact reason for the drastic change to the moonwell’s water with her knowledge and understanding.
She had initially been concerned that that demon would give up on this place due to the change in the moonwater. If that happened, she would have to return to that terrifying adept’s tower, locked up in a dark prison, or waiting to be chosen by an adept and turned into those damned blood elves or an experintal subject.
There had been over a hundred forest elves with her when the adepts abducted them. However, after all this ti, there were no longer many companions who could maintain their pure faith and their beautiful souls.
If the demon had not chosen linda for her identity as a priest, she would probably not have escaped the sa fate as her companions.
And that demon; that demon was actually a young, handso man with a wise and powerful aura, along with a wicked charm. Disregarding both of their identities and factions, he would have been an incredibly charming individual to fall in love with.
Unfortunately, their identities, status, factions, and beliefs were utterly at odds with each other. It filled linda’s heart with regret and sorrow!
It was almost the ti when night ca and the full moon rose. The demon would be here soon.
The sowhat panicking linda quickly walked to a corner of the clearing. A strange wooden well appeared here.
The wooden well protruded half a ter above the ground, where green vines and branches wrapped around it. These vines didn’t grow on their own; they were embedded alongside wooden patterns on the well, slightly projecting outward, looking as lifelike and fresh as actual vines.
Perhaps because they sensed linda approaching, the vines and branches along the moonwell also beca active. Several buds blood, and a fragrant scent filled the air. For the first ti, the deathly quiet forest beca a warm and peaceful place.
linda knelt lightly in front of the moonwell. She held her nature staff in one hand and caressed the moonwell with the other while she mumbled softly, repeatedly singing praises and prayers to the Moon Goddess.
No one knew when, but a sliver of quiet and elegant moonlight shone through the canopy and landed within the well.
A strange and mysterious power rippled within the moonwell as linda continued to pray religiously and sing praises of the Moon Goddess. Several beautiful streams of light started to flow along the walls of the well. If one looked carefully, they would see that these beautiful lights were made up of tiny runes.
A dense shroud of nature power spread outward. Part of it stimulated the moonwell’s roots to continue growing, while another seeped into the dirt and the air, changing the environnt around the well. Yet another portion of the nature power gathered within the well, condensing into droplets of green liquid containing a peculiar magical aura.
Just as linda fell into a strange trance-like state of ditation and hallucination, a blast of fire rose in the corner of the clearing.
The fire went as fast as it had co.
When it erupted, it did not harm the plants around it at all. In fact, it didn’t even startle the elven priest, still lost in her prayer.
When the fire faded, Greem’s tall and handso figure appeared on the spot.
This cottage was one of his magical experints, made to demonstrate the wonders of the moonwell as a magical facility of the elves.
Judging from the current effects, this was the only place to have succeeded. The other two locations had both failed.
Of course, there were many possible reasons for the failures, but the most suspicious one of them all was linda’s identity as a priest.
She was the only elven priest to have been abducted back from Faen. The other two locations were being looked after by an elven mage and a druid, respectively. They also possessed nature magic much like linda, but unfortunately, their moonwells had withered, bit by bit.
Of course, the experint here with linda couldn’t be considered a complete success!
According to a sample that Greem had taken, the moonwater produced here was completely different in nature to those produced in the Faen Plane.
According to the Chip’s analysis, the concentration of the new moonwater was 230% more than that of the Faen moonwater.
That ant that any adept that drank the new moonwater would have the elentium balance within their body disrupted by the magical aura, causing their magical power to go berserk.
The new moonwater was not only not a life-saving cure, but a deadly and lethal poison!
However, given the unique nature of the new moonwater, a sort of strange magic essence could be obtained if the water was put through a unique process of extraction.
This magic essence was a powdered form of the essence of magical power. It was an extrely precious magical material in high-grade alchemy and could provide high-grade magical items with the unique attribute of automatic magic regeneration.
In the high-grade markets of the World of Adept, every gram of magic essence could sell for two thousand magical crystals.
Given the production rate of moonwater from this moonwell, as much as fifty grams of magic essence could be extracted every month.
Of course, the Chip’s investigations and calculations provided Greem with a new line of thought.
If the refinent process could be improved, the magic essence powder could be further refined into Empowered Magic Essence. Empowered Magic Essence could allow ordinary individuals with no magical talent to possess magical power and step upon the path of becoming an adept.
That was what Greem truly had his eyes set on!
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