Considering how close they were to the capital, Lind doubted it could be bandits but there were new conditions in the fallen land that allowed outside forces to thrive better than other areas.
So he was willing to be proven wrong but the instant he was allowed in the control center, he saw it was actually sothing a bit more simple but far more dangerous.
Massive beasts were flowing like a small sea towards the city and were being t by soldiers desperately fighting at what looked like giant insects mixed in with massive forest beasts.
Lind had never seen such large beasts but his eyes narrowed as sothing felt off.
"Are those native to your lands?" His question brought the chaotic command area to a standstill. The soldiers were stunned that an outsider was there but Gilgash was standing with him so they quickly went back to preparing to fight.
A woman with several decorations on her armor revealed she was the current leader of the Strider.
"Lord Gilgash, why have you brought an outsider to the command center?" She was weaker than him but she was in charge of the Strider. Solene Hibak was whip thin with dark green hair cut short. Her eyes were molten fire to his perception. He doubted it was natural but an effect of her technique.
She had been quite polite before but she was stern as hell now.
Her tanned skin had so scars but the power in her fra was still impressive even in the tense mont. She stood out.
"We saw the smoke from the ss. Having Lord Erald Immortal help may be a key victory for us." Her hand shook with rage and Lind understood they did not want his help but he spoke up once more.
"Those are not natural beasts, where are they from?" His words snapped her to him but her anger was quickly replaced with confusion. She quickly ran over to a large table she infused Qi into.
It was a projection of the area the beast tide was currently ravaging but the figures began to glow. The humans seed to light up with so of the 6 natural elents and he understood what the artifact did.
It was a good piece of information but he could think of several ways to fool it. His own dantian for instance would likely break the damn thing.
The beasts, on the other hand, had not one iota of any glow to them at all!
"THEY HAVE NO CORES!" Unlike the surprise he expected, there was anger. Lind was now confused but the crew beca grim as different panels lit up and he easily recognized a targeting reticle when he saw one.
He saw sothing along the bottom but he did not pry. He felt things shift before the Qi flow changed massively around him. No one seed to react to it but he saw pure beams of lightning surge into the sea of large beasts.
It was not simple lightning like he had created before but supercharge with the Laws behind them! The highest realm in the room was Sky Realm but they controlled an artifact that could kill Immortals!
The expected death, or at least injury, onto the seething horde did not occur. Instead, it seed to strengthen them.
"Conjurings. Is this an attack or banditry technique?" Lind was fascinated but Gilgash shook his head.
"They are not conjurings, they are puppets. It is still a beast tide but not a normal one. A plant is behind it." Shock flooded Lind's body as he grasped what was happening.
A parasitic plant!
"So it killed these beasts, took their cores, and kept their bodies for it to use?" The man nodded at his words but Lind was floored.
That showed a level of intelligence that only an Immortal plant could demonstrate!
The beams switched to fire based and had far better effects. However, Lind noticed the limitation. The forests would be ruined by the sa weapons so they could only aim for clusters of beasts that would be incinerated or majorly injured.
"Parasitic plant, likes lightning, but weak to fire…hmmm." Lind pondered all he knew of but he could not place such a plant. It was likely a variant or maybe simply one that was not well known.
Still, if it was a puppet master type, he could find it.
"Is there a hatch to the top of the Strider?" His question surprised Solene and Gilgash. Neither spoke but he quickly found what he wanted.
He infused Qi into the formation and the thud of tal was followed but the hatch slid into the ceiling. The sll of blood and the sounds of screams reached them but he quickly hopped out and felt the fresh air for the first ti in a few weeks.
He closed his eyes as he let his eyes adjust before they shimred with his Talent.
Law Eyes swept the sea of beasts and quickly found what he was looking for. The beast bodies still retained their elents sohow without their cores but there was a dark thread through all of them.
"Demonic plant? Of course!" He knew what the parasite was! It was a demonic fungus that was a hallucinogen in the Soul and World Realms but he never considered it after that as he hardly ever found it at grade 5 and above.
How did one beco Immortal? The Celestial Fields were always broadening his horizons. Relatively harmless plants in the mortal realm could beco suprely dangerous in the Immortal lands!
"Shimring Shadow Fungus!" It thrived in darkness but it was a rare plant that had dark light and shadow Qi in it. It would create a dangerous illusion if its spores were inhaled by a cultivator no matter if they were human or demon.
It burned easily but strangely beca stronger with lightning Arts. He suspected it was because light and dark light reacted in odd ways in plants and beasts.
It also ant what he was seeing was more complex. Yet, he smirked.
"You think you are strong but unfortunately for you, I hate weeds!" A jade vial appeared in his hand and the air currents began to swirl around him as he took a pitching stance. Lind smiled wider as he cocked his arm back and then shot the vial towards the spot above the beast tide.
He waited until it was at the apex and then closed his fist.
"SHATTER!" The vial broke open and the instant that it was exposed to air it beca a spreading cloud of green death. The beasts did not even notice but the humans were pointing in panic. The flow of air moved at his command to push it out and down.
Despite how small the vial, the cloud was easily as big as 6 or 7 of the massive beasts below. Lind sneered as it was dispersed over the center of the beast tide. The mont the cloud touched, many expected sothing dramatic but nothing happened.
"Did it fail, Lord Erald Immortal?" Gilgash had joined him but Lind rely smiled and pointed at the deadly wave of beasts.
"It takes so ti, but I assure you, they are all dead." Gilgash looked out at the tide and found that unlikely. There were hundreds of beasts and the vial had only landed on maybe 8 or 9 of them at most.
The attack continued but then Gilgash frowned. The beasts were slowing down. Why were they slowing down?
"Too late." Lind saw Gilgash was confused but then far behind the tide a scream was heard. The mont of the scream, the entire beast tide froze. The eyes of the beasts all seed to beco dull but for a mont they all looked over at the Strider.
Gilgash felt the hairs on his neck stand on end but Lind bowed low to them.
"Please go into the cycle of death and rebirth." As if waiting for his words, the massive beasts began to decay and fall apart. The entire tide ended just like that!
"How did you do that?!" Lind smiled and summoned another vial for Gilgash to look at.
"I grew up in a place that regulated many Ruins for an academy. They were used for education and testing purposes and one of them had a nasty stretch of plants in them. People used various Arts but for so reason no one used a simple weed killer." Gilgash looked floored.
The enemy was a parasitic plant! The beasts would not care about a weed killer but the parasite would!
"How did it trace back to the original?" Lind smirked at his question.
"I have used the Shimring Shadow Fungus for a long ti in many concoctions. While I am stunned there is one that reached Immortality–" He was about to continue when his instincts scread at him.
He forced Gilgash back into the Strider and sealed it up. A lance of plant fiber smacked into the hull where he had just been standing!
"It is rude to target those weaker than you and further, I am the enemy." Lind looked up to see a partially darkened man with tendrils of roots flaring all around him. His eyes were both dark light orbs while the shadows danced around him.
"All humans are just food for ! You should be grateful!" It was almost sad to hear that. Could he not be more original?
"Let
guess, you angered a Crystal Tier?" The man flinched as the poison was still acting on him. Its primary characteristic was weed killer but he had added a regenerative effect to it. It had been kind of a lucky break that the poison he created would propagate so long as it ca in contact with a cultivating plant.
It would keep going until it got back to the source! He had cleared an entire patch of blood thirsty plants in a Ruin that way! He was a pariah back then so he had to do such drastic things to survive.
The fungus' aura was hard to place but Lind could tell it was at least a Shard Tier. Even though he was stronger he was not so foolish as to let his guard down. It was fully capable of killing him.
"Let's settle this then!" Lind prepared to fight when the armants lit up with pure fire Qi! He saw it sear through the roots but the man easily deflected it with cold fire!
"Puny ants should not interfere!" The remaining roots struck out but now it was Lind's turn. He flexed his legs and then a fist slamd into the stomach of the man in the air. The pair flew off to the newly cleared area of the forr beast tide.
The soldiers frantically activated formations as 2 powerful Immortals were about to fight!
Compared to simple beast attacks, what was to co would shatter their walls with ease! The Strider also began to move faster but the crew inside could only look on as the pair landed and the fight began!
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