"The Blood Rose is a local creature of the Dark Forest, a carnivorous vine-like plant that traps its prey with thorny vines. They can suck blood as well as inject special acids to digest insects and small species that fall into their trap.
The Blood Rose, although they call it that, has nothing to do with the Rosaceae family, The Blood Rose does not even know that they call it the Blood Rose. Right?"
Christel, since she has been acting alone, began to say monologues in solitude, and this ti, she talks to a vine of thorns that she touches with her hands and caresses it.
When Christel looked at the pink thorn vines coming out of the hole in the side wall. He approached carefully, watching for any movent the vine might make. But to his surprise, the vine didn't move at all.
Thinking that the plant is -asleep- since, definitely, it is not dead. He crouched on the ground next to the thin vine that led to the sarcophagus and touched it with a finger.
To Christel's surprise, the vine is not only not asleep, but it is very much alive and the reason why it does not move is that she is afraid of it.
And more than fear, when Christel touched the vine with her finger, she also felt reverence and ecstasy. It is as if so kind of little bird had encountered a large falcon. After communicating a little spiritually with the vine, now the vine is not only coiled in Christel's hand, but its red-tipped thorns are now soft, as if taking care not to thorn the girl that gives her a feeling of closeness.
Christel conjured a small needle of bones and pricked his left ring finger, which is said to have a direct artery to the heart. And he let the vine absorb a little of his blood.
When the vine tasted the girl's blood, she shuddered so much with happiness, and a desire to devour more was born, but she held back, she just took what was offered to her and enjoyed it.
"And here thinking that it would be difficult to deal with you, hehe~. Blood Rose, do you want to co with ?"
The mont Christel said that, the whole plant began to vibrate, not only the thin vine that was going towards the sarcophagus, but also the large and thick ones that ca out of the hole in the wall.
Then, it seed that the Blood Rose was moving.
Christel waited a dozen minutes and a little more. Until suddenly a large flower appeared, with a circumference of thirty or forty centiters.
It's too small for what appears in the immortal version of Diablo for mobile devices. Christel walked over to the hole in the wall where a large number of vines were now coming out.
Despite the terror of what the scene looks like, Christel didn't feel a malice coming from the plant. It seed rather that the plant was in a hurry.
"Calm, calm. Don't be in a hurry. I can't carry your whole body, can't you gather all your vitality in one point?"
The plant froze for a mont, she seed to be thinking. Christel waited. He may feel that this plant has just awakened a thread of spirituality. She feels a lot like Celine when Lala brought her in a pot.
But the difference is that the Blood Rose has much more stored energy than Celine, it is a plant that has been devouring prey and drinking blood.
Lakrii seems to have helped a lot. Slaying the bandits of the Dark Forest as well as hellish creatures and wild beasts corrupted by the energies of hell. All these bodies, she threw them into an area where carnivorous plants rule.
In this way, Lakrii has been getting rid of bodies that she would otherwise have to dig pits to throw them or create large fires to incinerate them.
So the Blood Rose has received many nutrients and has grown to this place.
Christel doesn't know if her growth was due to prey in the dark forest or falling under the control of The Countess. But it doesn't matter, now Christel sees that the Blood Rose has not been contaminated in her spirit that has just been born.
Although its vitality has dark spots. But that's the least of it for Christel. The infernal energies are nothing more than a composite energy that was part of a being that was divided. Creatures born with these energies have been born in an environnt of war, in the middle of a wild and very primitive jungle.
Maintaining a high intellect as shown by the so-called "Primordial Evils" and a capacity for social communication shows that everything can be talked about no matter where you co from.
For this reason, Christel is confident to put Andariel under her maroon skirt and much less worries that a creature has been contaminated with hellish energy.
As Christel thought and waited, the Blood Rose moved, seemingly making up her mind, and much to Christel's dismay, the red-petaled flower that did not yet have the terrifying appearance it acquired after devouring Lakrii moved towards the sarcophagus on the platform.
Curiously, Christel approached the part between the sarcophagus and the bed, and where the thin vine entered a small hole in the sarcophagus stone.
The flower had approached and began to surround the sarcophagus with its thorny vines. More and more vines were coming out of the hole in the wall and wrapped around the sarcophagus until it could no longer be seen.
"What are you doing?"
Christel asked, but as the Blood Rose continued, a breaking noise was heard.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
A terrifying scream ca from what appeared to be a spherical bird's nest. Then pieces and pieces of stones and debris ca out from among the vines.
The eerie scream stopped abruptly, then a scarlet reddish glow emanated from the center of the vine.
This ti, Christel felt the enormous amount of blood mana. He could feel that there were at least more than a hundred Blood Golems that burst into energy at the sa ti.
Christel put on every magic shield she knew, from mana bubbles to bone shields. And he set up the spells to instantly conjure walls of bone and earth in case the wooden sphere that glowed red exploded.
But after a few minutes, the red glow began to diminish, and the huge blood energy began to dissipate.
In the end, the room sank back into darkness, leaving only the light emanating from his magical shields.
"Blood Rose? Did you evolve, did you eat The Countess?"
Christel approached the nest sphere, which now seed to have lost its vitality and was now stone. Christel touched the vines and felt that although there was still so heat left, it was like touching a cent wall.
Christel squeezed his hand with so force, and the stone vine shattered into dust. Then the whole sphere of vines began to collapse, blowing a little breeze to drive away the dust, Christel saw in the center of what was left of the vines, a bud of closed petals.
With Christel's perception, he could sense two entities within the bud with their own vitalities and auras.
The petals in Christel's hand felt as soft as silk or like the skin of a peach. When Christel carefully opened the petals, he already knew what he was going to find inside the bud of petal.
"Why do you plants like to do this... pfff~"
Christel sighed, picked up the bud in his hands, and began the journey back to the surface. But not without forgetting all the treasures, chests, gold coins and other things in the room that seed valuable.
"It's a pity that such a good bed can't be moved..."
This ti, the return trip was longer as it carried many loads. Even with the spirit wolves, he was going at a gentle pace, and before just dawn, he arrived at the camp on the outskirts of the Dark Forest, where everyone was already awake, and there were also visitors.
"Christel!! Where were you?"
"You, girl. You had us very worried"
"Sweetheart~"
"Big sister..."
Christel arrived in the vicinity of the camp and dismounted the spirit wolf. And they all saw that each spirit wolf had red and white cloth bags that looked very bulky, tied to each wolf with vines.
When Christel stopped channeling mana and canceled the summoning, the wolves disappeared like ghosts into the night and howled at everything in farewell.
Each cloth bag fell to the floor when the wolf to which they were attached disappeared.
*clans* *plons* *triks*
A series of tallic noises were heard and everyone knew that this girl had apparently stolen the cave of a dragon.
"I'm sorry, everyone, it took longer than I thought... sorry Jaina, Roxene. Kashya, Fenrir, I'm fine"
"Where did you go? And that is that bundle that you carry in your arms"
Kashya looked a little angry, Christel could only smile and lower his gaze, Christel clearly knows that what he did is very wrong, leaving like this, without saying anything, is deserving of punishnt. But there was nothing he could do. It was risky to go to the Forgotten Tower.
Christel has ways to escape, but if he goes with people, he doesn't know what they will find in the Forgotten Tower, so it was best to go alone. But no one was going to let him go, so he could only cling to the saying that goes: It is better to ask for forgiveness, than to ask permission.
But even so, Christel told the story of the book he found, the legend of The Countess, the treasures inside, so since he was around here, why not go and see.
After finishing telling the story, he received an axe blow with Kashya hand on the head from Kashya that is not very harsh, and an angry look from Jaina that will not last until after breakfast.
Fenrir could only shake his head, this half-apprentice druid of his was in complete chaos, but his skills in druidic sorcery leave him happy and proud.
Roxene, on the other hand, at Christel's request, could only go to the carriage for so clean silk and cotton sheets and bedspreads.
By the ti the sun had just risen completely over the horizon. Christel carefully placed the bundle of red petals on the white sheets on a wooden table. And he opened it.
By this ti, the visitors had also approached. There was a tall woman, approximately 190 centiters tall. Very beautiful with scarlet red hair. She wears a style armor - long dress - of black leather and dark tallic escapes like scales that charge her from her neck to her arms. The dress at the bottom has a slit on the right leg and the length goes below the knee.
She wears black leather knee-high boots as well as gloves that leave her fingers free.
She on each side of her waist carries two swords as well as a large long sword on her back.
This red-haired woman is accompanied by four won in similar but simpler leather armor, as well as swords, axes, mallets, spears. Already far away in the Dark Wood, more won are seen waiting with bows and crossbows.
"Kashya, is this little girl the person you were waiting for so eagerly? Is she your daughter?"
The red-haired woman said, Christel looked at her for a while but ignored her, even so, his perception was in her as in the other guests.
But for now, he has a smile on his face, Christel is waiting to see everyone's reaction when there will be the Bud of red petals.
"What's that?" Jaina couldn't contain her curiosity. She notice the other fabric bags that seed to contain tals, but Christel personally carried this load and left the rest lying on the floor as if it didn't matter.
This also attracted the curiosity of others.
"hehe~ Jaina, Roxene, I will entrust you with a very important mission on this trip..."
Roxene, who was alluded to, made a puzzled face. Normally, the missions they give her are to go get food or other things or write. Although she has participated in the battle for Tristan, she feels that her status in the Blind Eye Sisters is the lowest.
Now that he is told that she has a mission just like Jaina, who has beco very powerful. Although sowhat nervous, she is also expectant. 'Does it have anything to do with what you carry?'
"Ugu~ Ugu gaga?~"
"AH? That's it?"
Then Christel opened the Bud of red petals with a smile. And...
"One... TWO BABIES!???" x 4 N visitors...
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