Small starships carry combat squads, enabling rapid battlefield support while conserving wizard mana.
There has been no news from the battlefield of the four Stigmata Great Wizard. According to the information exchange platform, the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard are preparing to seal and take away this tree.
Given the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard's ability to control plant slaves, he must see this tree as a gold mine for the poor and an emperor's throne for the rich.
If this tree can truly be subdued, it's not impossible for the power of the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard to double.
The reason this expedition is receiving so much attention may be due to the behind-the-scenes influence of the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard.
Leo is still on the cleanup mission. Now he is just waiting for the expedition to end so that he can return to the Wizard World after gaining a lot of battle merits.
Low-intensity combat is enough for Leo to activate his Hunter Bloodline.
"Alarm! Alarm! Alarm! The Stigmata Great Wizard is issuing an urgent order: all wizarding troops, return to the starship immediately!"
A piercing alarm blared across the entire planet, and all wizards received a mass message from the starship, urgently instructing the wizarding army to return immediately.
This was the first time the starship had so urgently recalled its entire wizard army, and figures quickly flew towards the starship in the sky.
Small starships and a large array of magical artifacts were deployed to transport the wizards back as quickly as possible.
"Teacher, let's hurry up and go too."
Just a few breaths after the alarm sounded on the starship, the planet beneath their feet seemed to transform into a turbulent sea. All the earth's crust moved violently, high-rise buildings in the city collapsed, bridges broke, and landslides occurred, as if a major earthquake of magnitude 10 or higher had taken place.
The distant mountains rumbled and collapsed, and every wizard instinctively sensed the impending danger.
It was a suffocating feeling, a crisis that made it almost impossible for them to breathe, and their instincts were frantically urging them to leave as quickly as possible.
"Walk."
Benji revealed his true form, and Leo pulled Benji Tao Mia onto his back and ran away, with the other Body Refinement Wizard following closely behind, not daring to slow down at all.
The wizards sensed what was about to happen, but the slaves, only belatedly realizing it, took flight after watching the wizards fly into the sky.
Many slaves were completely oblivious to the alarm, continuing their frenzied battle.
Suddenly, a root ten thousand meters long, like a prehistoric python, shot up from the ground, tearing a huge crack in the ground just by its appearance.
The machine swept across the ground, and the mutants, fused plant beings, living plants, and slaves who had been fighting on the ground were all swept away like garbage, instantly vanishing without a trace.
The entire city was wiped off the face of the earth.
It was so easy, like an eraser in the hand of a mischievous child, wiping away the marks on the book.
The wizards who had just left the battlefield in the sky sensed that the whole world seemed to have suddenly come alive, and they all looked down.
As far as the eye could see, the earth was covered with churning, thick roots, the thinnest of which were several meters in diameter, and the thickest of which was over fifty meters in diameter. They were drawn from the deepest part of the earth and still carried the scorching magma from underground.
In the frenzied beating, all the buildings and the entire environment on the ground were like clothes under the washing stick in the hands of a hardworking old aunt, being repeatedly pounded, wantonly ravaged and reshaped.
The thick earth layers turned into seawater, and these roots became raging schools of fish, bursting out from the depths of the earth and attacking everything in their path.
They didn't have a specific target; it seemed more like their goal was destruction—to destroy everything on the surface.
The earth was torn apart, rivers dried up, and mountains were filled into craters. One second it was a lush green grassland, and the next it turned into a bottomless abyss that seemed to connect to hell.
The entire planet instantly resembled a furry monster, swaying its fur!
Seeing this, all the wizards felt their hair stand on end and accelerated towards the starship. The aura emanating from each of those roots far exceeded their strength, and even the weakest one made Level Three Great Wizard break out in a cold sweat.
This is no longer a creature from the Homo Sapiens World, much less a terrifying life form that should exist in a miniature world!
"Run! That tree has gone berserk!"
After witnessing tens of thousands of slaves who had just taken flight being easily torn apart by a single root as if it were a cannon swatting a mosquito, Yaoyao was so frightened that she vanished instantly.
The tens of thousands of torn-to-the-ground slaves seemed to draw the gaze of all the roots to the sky, and the roots that had been tearing the earth apart fell silent for a moment.
At this moment, every wizard and slave felt a chilling sensation as if they were being watched by a terrifying predator!
These roots instantly straightened themselves, and roots ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of meters in length all lashed out towards the densely packed army of wizards in the sky.
In an instant, the entire sky was filled with terrifying howls, like the sinister laugh of death before reaping souls!
The wizards fared somewhat better, as they escaped the moment they received the warning; only a small number of wizards were within the attack range of these roots.
But the slave army that was a step too slow was in trouble; they were right in the attack range of these roots.
Every root that cuts through the sky leaves a whip mark that stretches straight to the heavens.
Slaves struck by these terrifying roots, or rather, those struck by the aftershocks they create, are instantly blasted into a bloody mist, leaving not even a single corpse behind.
Its overwhelming attack power is something no single slave can withstand.
Even though they hastily unleashed countless attacks, they could only withstand a portion of the terrifying roots.
The massive army of slaves quickly thinned out; having learned their lesson in blood, they dared not gather together to become easy targets.
Leo estimated that at least ten million slaves were killed by these roots within just half a minute.
This casualty rate was higher than the number of slaves who died in the seven-year Homo Sapiens World.
As for the wizards who died, there were quite a few. Those roots, which were tens of thousands of meters high, shattered many starships, and it's possible that only a few of the hundreds or thousands of wizards inside escaped.
These roots seem to be able to pinpoint where there are more wizards, and each attack inflicts the greatest casualties.
"Even four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard couldn't kill him?"
This was Tao Mia's first time experiencing such a terrifying war. The scene before her was completely different from the battles she had fought before. Her face turned pale, and she uncontrollably moved closer to Leo, wanting to find a sense of security from Leo.
When she fought those mutants, she was supported by a large army of slaves. Although she was on edge, she could still handle it all and felt the joy of battle every moment.
But now, they are like a pack of chased stray dogs, hastily fleeing back to the starship.
It wasn't that they couldn't fight, but rather that the roots below were simply too terrifying.
That would probably wipe out the entire academy's resources in one fell swoop.
All those previously arrogant claims about strength, attack power, and destructive power are utterly insignificant in the face of such absolute power.
"You'll get used to it; this is the battlefield of expeditions."
"We are not friends visiting with gifts; we are villains wielding swords and staffs to plunder resources. They will fight tooth and nail to protect their homes and resources."
Although the scene before him still made Leo tremble, he had experienced it many times before, and it was nothing special. With the support of the wizard civilization, no matter how arrogant this tree appeared, they were unlikely to fail.
Although the casualty rate is a bit high now, it is all under the control of the Stigmata Wizard.
Besides, this is a war between civilizations; how could there not be deaths?
The idea that people can survive only exists in fairy tales.
"Boom"
A beam of light descended from the starship high in the sky, instantly severing a root that was ten thousand meters long.
This is an energy cannon from a starship!
Meanwhile, attacks from the smaller starships continued relentlessly. After reaching a certain altitude, the slaves stopped flying towards the starship and instead hurled their attacks at the ground.
A single attack may be weak, but under restored command, hundreds of thousands of attacks crashing down on a single root would be unbearable for anyone.
Leo didn't stop. Once it was safe, he put Tao Mia down and let her leave with Roderick and the others.
As for Leo, he went directly back to his room on the third floor of the starship.
The Tree of Life inside the room was growing lushly and rapidly, even faster than it had been in the Homo Sapiens World. It must be said that the energy concentration on the starship was more suitable for the growth of the Tree of Life.
Leo immediately opened the information exchange platform to see what had happened and why the tree had suddenly gone berserk.
When Leo saw the intelligence on the information platform, he was so shocked that his mouth dropped open.
[It has been confirmed that the original tree is the Cosmic World Tree, and the limbs of the Homo Sapiens World are not the original tree, but merely branches of it.]
The sealing plans of the Soul-Devouring Seal Stigmata Great Wizard and the Purple-Gold Vine Stigmata Great Wizard failed due to miscalculation, awakening the slumbering World Tree.
[ The World Tree's energy intensity has reached the level six limit; all branches are running rampant, enough to destroy an entire planet. Wizards below the Stigmata level are advised not to linger. Immediately return to the starship and seek refuge in space.]