Elder Polo's Shock

On the fifth floor of the apartment building, in a secret apartment room.

Liu Na extended her pale little hand and picked up a thin piece of wood, throwing it into the brazier in front of her.

The bonfire in the brazier burned fiercely. With the addition of the wood, sparks immediately crackled and sputtered, and the fire burned even more intensely.

This also brought ample light into the room.

"Miss Liu Na, would you like something to eat?"

The Halfling elder named Polo walked over, holding a dark, elongated object in his hand.

"Thank you." Liu Na took it and put it in her mouth. As her red lips gently pressed together, a sweet and bitter taste immediately spread through her mouth.

However, after eating this thing, which she had named Energy Bar, for over a year, she was now used to the taste.

After all, it was made by grinding dried mushrooms and dried earthworms, then adding rice, flour, and sugar from Blue Star.

Thinking about it, the taste wouldn't be very good. It could only be used to fill the stomach and provide energy to the body.

But even this kind of thing...

Liu Na understood.

Many ordinary people, those without the Spiritual Realm Mark, were not qualified to eat it.

Because this Energy Bar could quickly restore physical strength and mental energy.

For Liu Na, just eating one made her feel much more energetic, as her head had been a bit sleepy in the evening.

Clearly, the substances in this Energy Bar had replenished the mental energy Liu Na had lost due to staying up late.

"Elder Polo, how many dried mushrooms and dried earthworms do we have left now?"

Liu Na asked.

"We still have over seventy catties of dried mushrooms and over four hundred dried earthworms. There's no need to worry about the quantity."

The furry Elder Polo, whose surface was covered with white fluff symbolizing old age, comforted her, "We can eat more ordinary food from this world. The mushrooms and earthworms are strategic supplies prepared for your advancement to a Professional. As long as you can successfully advance to a Level 2 Druid, Miss Liu Na, you will be able to comprehend the passive skill Low-Level Nature Affinity, which will allow the mushrooms and earthworms we brought from our Homeland to grow faster."

"Thank you." Hearing these words, Liu Na's pale and pretty little face lowered slightly, and she said again with a hint of guilt, "I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to be sorry about, this is normal." The Halfling elder Polo comforted her again, "Even in the Spiritual Realm, becoming a Professional is not an easy task, let alone a Spellcaster type like a Druid. Only those with a peaceful heart, who care about nature and know how to protect it, can successfully change professions. Miss Liu Na, you are already very capable."

Liu Na pursed her lips and didn't say much. Only the light from the bonfire in front of her flickered on her small face, showing an increasingly dejected expression.

"Alas." The Halfling elder Polo just sighed softly and sat beside her without saying anything more.

He understood why Liu Na was so down.

After all, in half a year, Liu Na was still a Level 1 Druid, with no sign of leveling up at all. It was indeed a bit tormenting.

But there was really nothing they could do.

The 207-year-old Halfling elder Polo picked up another thin piece of wood and threw it into the bonfire in front of him.

Looking at the wood that had started crackling and burning again, he said in a deliberately steady tone, "Miss Liu Na, you don't need to worry about leveling up. We will cultivate more stable natural conditions. When flowers and green plants fill this room, perhaps it will make your Druid profession change possible."

These words were more for comfort than substance.

"Okay." But Liu Na still nodded gently, choosing to believe.

"Oh, right, Kokoro!" Elder Polo seemed to have thought of something and turned his head to the corner of the room, saying, "Before it got dark, you said you detected the aura of the Spiritual Realm. What was that about?"

He was asking the young Halfling in the corner, who was sitting there, holding a pot of roses and sniffing them intently, seemingly immersed in them.

Kokoro, Elder Polo's grandson.

"Ah... oh! Yes!" Hearing his grandfather's question, Kokoro immediately woke up from the scent of the flowers.

He nodded, then pointed upwards and said, "I feel like there's an aura of the Spiritual Realm circulating on our rooftop. Although it's only a trace, I really felt it!"

"The aura of the Spiritual Realm?" Liu Na even raised her head to look at this young, usually energetic and adventurous Halfling.

"Tell me in detail." Elder Polo asked seriously.

"I think it should be on the seventh floor. You know, I like to quietly explore the apartments in this world, especially going to the rooftop to see what this world looks like..."

Kokoro said, "But when I went to the seventh floor today, I found Human Race soldiers patrolling there. It seems like the seventh floor has become their territory. So I quietly observed for a while and ran back after being discovered."

Kokoro paused slightly and added, "It was at the seventh-floor stairwell that I sensed what seemed to be the aura of the Human Race. Based on the Human Race soldiers I saw, someone must have obtained the Human Race's mark and rescued a group of Human Race from the Time Seal."

"The Human Race's mark, Human Race soldiers." Elder Polo nodded, and he also remembered.

It was almost dark then, and he was still cultivating mushrooms.

His grandson had also told him about this, but at the time, he was still thinking about how to make the room have more natural aura, so he had overlooked the news.

But it didn't matter.

After all, there were so many Spiritual Realm Marks, and the various races sealed by the Time Seal were countless.

It was only natural that someone obtained the Human Race's mark and gained the allegiance of the sealed Human Race.

After all, if creatures from the Spiritual Realm did not sign a contract with the people of this world and choose to follow the Human Race of this world,

Then it would be impossible for them to live in this world at all.

They would fall back into the Time Seal after the Human Race of this world left, forever suffering as if frozen, existing between the boundaries of life and death, like purgatory!

"Tomorrow, after dawn, we'll go up to the seventh floor and visit our new neighbor." Elder Polo looked at Liu Na at this point and said seriously, "Perhaps this new neighbor can bring us an unexpected gain."

"Okay." Liu Na pursed her pink lips and nodded gently.

She also understood.

If someone truly obtained a Human Race Mark and was lucky enough to get a territory that could unfold in reality.

Then those territories that hadn't been contaminated by the Necromantic Rules.

And still retained fragments of the Will of Nature, might be able to help her complete her Druid upgrade!

Caw caw!

Just then, Liu Na's brows furrowed slightly.

She seemed to hear something.

Including Elder Polo beside her, and the dozen or so Halflings who had also heard the commotion and stood up.

"It's Imps! There are Imps on the top floor attacking the seventh floor!"

Elder Polo was very experienced.

Through the faint sound of flapping wings and the smell of sulfur coming from outside the window, he immediately understood what kind of Undead Monster it was.

After the Undead and Demons from the Kingdom of the Dead and the Endless Abyss joined forces, and the Devils from the Nine Hells fanned the flames, defeating the Alliance of Justice, the Evil Faction gained absolute dominance.

Even after the Crystal Wall System of the Spiritual Realm they lived in completely shattered in the end.

And they all turned into fragments and fell into this unknown world.

Due to the mass extinction caused by the death of most Spiritual Realm creatures and the extreme chaos of complete disorder.

The power of the Undead and Demons was amplified to the extreme.

Even this unknown world was contaminated.

Therefore, in the darkness of this world, most of the monsters were also evil creatures from the Undead Race and the Demon Race!

Imps were one of the monsters of the Demon Race!

"The reason there are so many Imps now is thanks to the Demons' mortal enemies, those Devils who think they are extremely intelligent."

Elder Polo carefully checked the window.

He confirmed that it had been sealed with iron bars and carefully covered with wooden boards, leaving only a vent for smoke. After confirming there were no surprises, he breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, he gritted his teeth at the Devils who liked to cause trouble in the dark: "It's really thanks to those stupid Devils for providing a large number of soul fragments that there are so many Imps!"

Liu Na just listened silently beside him.

This was all secret information from the former Spiritual Realm.

However.

With the shattering of the Spiritual Realm, no matter how hidden something was, it wasn't as important as being alive now.

Besides, for Blue Star people, knowing it didn't matter.

The information was outdated.

The origin of the information had exploded.

Just listening to the faint sounds of shouting and killing coming from the rooftop, which were heavily blocked by the Gray Fog but still faintly audible.

Then black figures were thrown down from above outside the window.

They hit the ground with a slapping sound.

This made Liu Na and these Halflings even more puzzled and surprised.

"It seems our new neighbor on the seventh floor has brought us a different kind of surprise."

At this moment, Elder Polo came to the inside of the window, stood on his tiptoes, and carefully looked up.

His short stature combined with this action was a bit comical.

But Elder Polo's eyes suddenly changed, and his expression suddenly became a little more serious.

"This... this... this is..."

He found that on the outer edge of the window, there was a section of wheat stalk that was clearly flattened and stained with some dirt!

"What's wrong?" Liu Na was surprised to see Elder Polo so astonished, his back stiff at the window.

"This is... uncontaminated wheat stalk and dirt!"

Elder Polo stretched out his finger, picked up the section of wheat stalk stained with dirt, and his whole body began to tremble. He was so excited that he couldn't even speak properly.