Lin Ze stood under that gray sky for a long time.
Underfoot is warm black soil.
Light comes from all directions and has no direction, so there is no shadow.
He tried to take a step forward, and a circle of small ripples appeared on the soil, as if he had stepped into water.
He squatted down, stretched out his hand and pressed the ground, his fingertips dug in half an inch, and the touch felt very strange.
A black line slowly appeared in the distance, and then the line became thicker and thicker until it turned into a branch and stopped three meters away from him.
There are no leaves on the branches and the skin is wrinkled.
Lin Ze looked at the branch. "Isn't this your true appearance?"
"If you think it is, then it is."
Sounds came from all around, making the whole space buzz.
"People outside say there is a curse in this forest?"
"Curse? No... that's not a curse, it's just that my body is constantly growing. Human beings usually describe unknown things as evil and curse to explain their own ignorance."
The voice continued.
Occult?
Lin Ze nodded, and then felt something was wrong. "But those trees seem to be different from ordinary trees?"
"Do you think a tree that can communicate with you normally should be the same as an ordinary tree?"
Well... that does...
"I was entrusted by someone outside and wanted to talk to you." Lin Ze said.
"What to talk about?"
"The expansion of the forest has affected the normal survival of people outside. Could you please change the direction and continue the expansion?"
"In another direction? Do you mean the Rift Valley to the east or the swamps to the west?"
"Um..."
Lin Ze scratched his head. He didn't know what the terrain outside was like. What he just said was also a test of the awareness of the woods.
"Okay, I admit that I really don't know much about this forest." Lin Ze rubbed the mud on his hands on his pants, "But the people outside are almost being forced to have no place to live, so there must be an explanation, right?"
"Explanation?" The voice sneered.
"When I was planted hundreds of years ago, there were only weeds and rabbits in this valley."
Lin Ze was silent for a while.
"Every inch of me is growing as it should naturally, but they just find it in the way."
It's hard to refute this, but Lin Ze needs something that can help him get home, no matter what it is, he has to give it a try.
"But how can those people outside live with you like this?"
"They can move."
"It's not easy to move more than two thousand people."
"But I can't move, but they can, why do they have to make me give in?"
Lin Ze sighed, of course now I have something to ask for from them.
"If you think so, we won't be able to continue talking. I can only find a way to trim the extra branches for you."
"Actually, you didn't come here with the intention of having a conversation, right?"
The surrounding gray space suddenly became brighter.
Lin Ze's consciousness returned to the body, and his eyes opened instantly.
The dark green eyes on the tree trunk in front of him opened at the same time. This time there were more eyes than before, densely covering the entire boundary of the field of vision, like two huge walls of eyes.
The ground shook violently.
The entire piece of black soil seemed to have been pushed from below. The soil under Lin Ze's feet cracked, and several wrist-thick roots jumped out from the cracks and wrapped around his ankles.
Lin Ze kicked his feet, turned around in the air, avoided those roots, took out the wand with his right hand and pointed forward.
"Reducto"
The spell hit the nearest black tree trunk, exploding into a cloud of gray down and dark green sawdust.
A crater as big as the mouth of a bowl was blasted on the tree trunk, but new fibers quickly emerged from the edges of the crater, filling the gap in a matter of seconds.
It's just that this forest is too huge, and this damage is simply insignificant to it.
"Fiendfyre"
Golden flames burst out from the wand, and the moment the flames licked the bark of the tree, the whole forest let out a low roar.
It wasn't a scream, it was more like some kind of offended response.
The black soil underfoot surged, and dozens of roots jumped out from the cracks, like a group of frightened snakes, gathering in the direction of Lin Ze.
Lin Ze jumped into the air, and Fiendfyre spread out a golden ring of fire under his feet. The roots retracted when they touched the edge of the fire ring, and the tips were charred and curled.
Countless tree eyes blinked at the same time, and an invisible pressure came from all directions. Lin Ze felt that his movements were slowing down, as if someone was holding his shoulders.
"I think you can feel how big this forest is." The voice sounded again.
"You think a fire can solve it?"
"Fiendfyre" continued to spread on the trunk, burning through the gray velvet, revealing the dark green wood underneath, but those burnt marks were quickly covered by new fibers.
The burned trunks grew new bark, the bark cracked, and more eyes opened, larger and denser.
But the all-devouring nature of "Fiendfyre" continues to support it and suck the vitality of the forest.
The forces of destruction and rebirth collide, and the two cancel each other out.
Lin Ze stood in the circle of Fiendfyre, the temperature of the soles of his feet was so hot that it could fry an egg.
Those roots retracted and formed a ball on the outside of the fire ring, like a group of snakes spitting messages around him, with thin white smoke emitting from the charred tips.
Looking at the increasingly strong "Fiendfyre" Lin Ze, I feel that my control over it is getting weaker and weaker.
Behind the branches swallowed by "Fiendfyre", countless vines rolled out, and the mucus oozing from the vines actually tightly controlled the spread of "Fiendfyre" within a small range. At the same time, it continued to fill in new branches into "Fiendfyre" with the intention of increasing the intensity of the fire.
It is in...
Drive away tigers and devour wolves?
Lin Ze was surprised by the wisdom of the forest, but at the same time, he felt a little uneasy in his heart.
The domineering aspect of "Fiendfyre" is that when it grows to a certain level of power, even the caster cannot control it. In history, countless wizards died in the sea of fire because of "Fiendfyre" losing control.
Good guy, he knows how to play!
Lin Ze admired secretly in his heart, and used his wand to open a crack in the air with a flashing blue arc "Boundary Break".
With the final control over "Fiendfyre", Lin Ze threw the increasingly burning flame into the void.
"Okay, I think... we can have a chat..." Lin Ze nodded slightly on the spot.
The other party is not an ignorant consciousness, but has turned into a life full of wisdom and patience over hundreds of years.
Since it's difficult to deal with, let's talk about it...