A large influx of nutrients into the body is like the desert finally enduring the rainy season.
Hall's body was constantly recovering and strengthening, and the plant on the back of his neck was growing in sync with him.
The scales on its surface regained their luster, and the plant's stems shed their previous withered appearance.
His muscles swelled more and more, and the plants sprouted new buds.
The Decay bones were filled again, and the roots of plants Spread rampantly beneath the skin.
The parasitic plant, which had been half-dead, was thus revived.
Before long, Ed, far away in Valhalla, had already noticed the unusual situation.
Because a Aberration plant he created, which had long since entered a dormant period, has somehow reconnected with the organization!
After realizing what was happening on the other side, Ed couldn't help but think that the world was truly magical.
Only then did he witness Wens ' death through the alchemical golem's perspective, and he remarked that "even a fool's thousand thoughts may contain a stroke of genius."
Even a muddle-headed fellow like the Grand Duke has his own schemes in the shadows, and we can't simply treat them like robots and push them aside.
Although he had seen the blood pact between Wens and Hall, he never expected that Wens would use this method to transfer his Authority at the critical moment of life and death, so that the person who killed him would get nothing.
It seems that when he made up his mind to take action, he was already prepared to die...
Wens ' actions before his death were indeed unexpected by Ed. He had originally planned to either take Wens ' Authority for himself or exchange it for something useful.
However, this means the plan will need to be slightly adjusted.
Hall has achieved a truly significant result, which will undoubtedly make the subsequent battles in the Demon Realm even more difficult.
Although Ed was certain that with the Theocracy's current strength, combined with the current number of players, the Demon Realm would still be within the Theocracy's grasp, the game's difficulty would obviously increase.
As a result, some players believe that the non-existent mother of the game planner will also disappear into the shadows.
Just as Ed was pondering how to smooth things over by updating the announcement, a message came from the plants on the Hall's side.
And it's actually good news...
Before Ed appeared, the Symbiotic Tree always played the dual role of Savior and executioner for the ordinary people of the Theocracy.
These plants help them survive in this apocalyptic world of Demonic Tide, but they also drastically reduce their lifespan, like a noose gradually tightening on a gallows.
It wasn't until Ed Descent and replaced the original rules with his own domain, and with Willow's development and application of her mother's research results, that the people of the Tree Worship Church were freed from their inevitable distorted fate.
This is the Demon Realm, where neither Ed nor Willow exists, nor do they possess their abilities or research findings.
Not only that, Ed completely abandoned his suppression of the Aberration plants.
Previously, in order to prevent Hall from discovering the abnormality at the back of the neck, Ed had suppressed the growth of this Aberration plant to a very low level.
Now, he has completely freed the plant from its constraints and, for once, has begun to perform "micro-management."
Just like tumbleweeds in a place with abundant water, they plunder and grow wildly until they break through their limits!
Ed's command was transmitted to the back of Hall Number Two's neck as a Psionic Energy message that only certain plants could perceive.
In that instant, countless genetic locks were broken.
The Rejection and Alienation that would normally take decades to accumulate and erupt began to show signs within a few breaths.
Having completed the consolidation of Authority, Hall, like a Starve glutton, used his authority as the patriarch to gather all the legion members around him for his own consumption.
Countless spirits were crushed, bodies were absorbed, and Vitality was Drain. At the same time, a large amount of nutrients were supplied to the small plant behind his head.
The tiny plant, while growing, did not forget Hall, its benefactor, and naturally secreted large amounts of anesthetic and hallucinogenic substances, making Hall unaware of its presence.
In just a few minutes, the plant had grown from the thickness of a hair to the thickness of a wrist, and had even begun to climb upwards.
If viewed from the front, Hall's physique would only appear slightly out of place.
However, when viewed from the side, a very obvious, almost right-angled bend can be seen in his neck.
His neck was tilted forward so much that his head was at the very front of his body.
The area that originally belonged to the neck and head has been taken over by a plant, which is continuing to climb upwards.
It looked as if the plant was Hall's true form, while his neck and head were merely insignificant side branches.
However, Hall was unaware of the abnormality behind him and continued to eat.
I always felt that the nutrients converted from the Blood Corpse were too little.
A vague idea began to form in the Hall's mind.
why is that?
It must be because I didn't eat fast enough.
The large amount of psychedelic substances had significantly impaired Hall's cognitive abilities.
Hall could easily find out the truth by simply turning his head to check behind him, but Hall felt that doing so was a waste of time.
I'm currently in my "golden recovery period," how can I do anything other than eat?
"Heh, heh..."
A strange sound came from his throat:
"Keep going, keep going!"
Hall staggered forward for a moment, his body leaning forward before he never straightened up again.
He only felt that the distance between him and the ground was much closer than before, but he didn't think about why.
Hall lunged at the horde of Blood Corpse, his entire body absorbing life force, his massive jaws snapping open.
However, both Wens's Drain and Rosalind's devouring selectively ignored the reddish-brown trees that had already bent Hall's back.
Because the roots of the Aberration plant had already spread to every corner of the Hall's body.
Around every bone, inside every muscle, and beside every ligament, grew white-red roots.
Unbeknownst to the Hall, the tree had already merged with his body, transitioning from "tenant" to "roommate," and now showing signs of becoming the "owner."
The tree was now on the Hall's back, yet all the Blood Corpse ignored it, even though the once incredibly strong half-dragon's body was now hunched over in the shape of the number "5".
The dense root system draws nutrients from all parts of the Hall's body, and you can almost hear the "glug-glug" sucking sound.
Hall's back became more and more hunched, and his body lower and lower. He went from feeling that devouring Blood Corpse was not very effective, to feeling that devouring Blood Corpse had no effect at all, to now, if Hall stopped devouring, he would feel the power in his body constantly draining away.
Ed's personally engineered creation of a large amount of Alienation substance has completely destroyed Hall's mind.
He could only repeat the process of "eating" with his remaining consciousness.
Hall's consciousness, namely " Hall Number Two " before the split, had long since dissipated into a wisp of Psionic Energy amidst spiritual decay and physical Decay.