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Chapter 634 Michaela's Sacred Tree
The eastern part of Huasheng Snowfield.

At the source of the frozen river that runs through the snowfield and divides the entire map into two parts, north and south, is a frozen waterfall. If you go upstream, its source is the frozen lake of the Giant Snow Mountain.

At the foot of the frozen waterfall lives an exceptionally large lava earth dragon, Theodoric the Great.

The name Theodoric once belonged to an ancient troll warrior who became famous as a hero in the Giant War. But now, the troll warrior is no longer there, and only a big earth dragon lives in a corner.

And today, the big earth dragon is about to come to an end.

"Roar--!!"

Theodoric, who was two or three times larger than an ordinary earth dragon, propped himself up and let out a shocking roar.

It was already covered in wounds, but also extremely angry. The big earth dragon stood up, holding the huge dark earth dragon scale sword with both hands, and smashed it down fiercely!

"boom!!"

On the frozen river surface, debris flew everywhere. The power of the Earth Dragon created hot lava, which spread on the ice surface. But no one knew how thick the frozen river was. Although a large pit was melted by the lava, there was still no sign of the bottom being visible.

The downward strike of the Earth Dragon Scale Sword was only the preliminary move. Theodoric then pulled violently, splashing a large amount of lava while he himself retreated. Then he opened his mouth and spewed out a huge ball of lava fire!

"boom--!!"

First there was magma falling like rain, and then there was a fireball like a meteor. This is already Theodoric's strongest combo.

However, opposite to it, a figure turned into a flash of light and flew over. The long-handled sword wrapped in flames in his hand flashed in the air, and it cut the rain of fire and the fire meteor in half!

The rain of fire was split in two, and from the gap that was separated, Li Youlong's humanized appearance appeared. He fluttered the four wings behind him, and instantly rushed out of the gap, swung his sword, and with just one strike, he penetrated the tough dragon scales on the head of the big earth dragon, and stabbed straight into the brain!

Theodoric roared unwillingly, but he was already covered in wounds and had no strength to resist. After the roar, his head drooped down and hit the frozen river surface with a muffled sound.

Li You then landed on the ground. He did not remove his dragon-man transformation, nor did he disassemble his long-handled sword. Instead, he cut open Theodoric's abdomen without hesitation and took out his heart.

Theodoric's blood soaked Li You's whole body, but he seemed to be unaware of it. He used magic to hold the dragon's heart in the air behind him, and then rushed to a cave entrance on the river bank without stopping.

This inconspicuous cave is called the Anshen Cave. Although it seems ordinary, at its deepest point, there is a lion hybrid paladin holding another legendary weapon in his hand.

There are a large number of hybrid enemies in this frozen cave, but Li You doesn't care who is standing in front of him. He picks up his sword and kills all the way to the deepest part.

At the bottom of the cave, for some unknown reason, the lion hybrid, who was holding the legendary greatsword - the Golden Law Greatsword, which was given to Radagon by the Full Moon Queen and reforged by Radagon, was a little confused when he saw Li You rushing in, but then he fought back without hesitation.

Li You still had no expression on his face, as if he was in a hurry. He didn't care about getting hurt at all and fought hard with the hybrid paladin with every blow!
"Dang Dang Dang——"

The sound of weapons striking each other became one, echoing in the cave. Finally, Li You took on the golden light wave of the hybrid paladin and pierced his heart with one knife!
When the hybrid paladin fell, there seemed to be a lingering look of disbelief on his face, and he didn't understand the origin of this madman who suddenly came to his door.

After killing the hybrid paladin, Li You picked up the Golden Law Great Sword on the ground. The half-illusory blade of this great sword flashed with golden light representing the fundamentalism of the Golden Law. Li You then raised the sword in his left hand and flew out of the cave.

Before the hybrid paladin died, he saw a scene that he could not understand at all - no blood flowed out of the wound on Li You's body that he had torn open. Instead, some kind of silver-gray fluid rolled and contracted from the inside to the outside, and the wound healed accordingly.

With unanswered questions in mind, the hybrid paladin died completely.

……

At the same time, at the northwest end of Huasheng Snow Plain, in a dilapidated church.

Kara looked at the giant Platinum Son sleeping in the church with some surprise. She had a very similar appearance and the same clothes as Letina, and she closed her eyes and breathed slowly.

The spirit of Letina was kneeling beside her. She stretched out her hand and let a handful of stardust fly into the body of the huge Son of Platinum.

After that, she turned to look at Kara: "...Thank you, I have finally completed my mission. Our huge sister will definitely become hope. I have no worries in my heart. Let me fight with you until the last moment."

"…and, when the war is over, will you bury me next to my wolf, Rob?"

Kara looked at her and nodded solemnly.

"Thank you. Well, it will be the same from now on. Call me when you need anything."

As Letina spoke, she disappeared, leaving behind only her thank-you gift - a piece of ancient dragon rock faded forging stone.

Kara didn't hesitate to pick up the forging stone and put it away. She took another look at the huge Son of Platinum and walked out of the church.

Outside the church, on the snowy field beside the river, another walking mausoleum was shaking the large bell beneath it, making a roar and vibration with every step.

What’s unique is that this Wandering Temple is not only guarded by a large number of soulless soldiers, but it can also summon floating magic cannons to launch attacks.

But this was meaningless. In mid-air, another Li You vibrated his illusory dragon wings, circling the temple, diverting all the floating cannons that were flying towards him.

At the foot of the mausoleum, Yuzu, Edge and V each took action to smash all the barnacles on the four legs of the skeletons strolling around the mausoleum.

"Rumble--"

The Strolling Spiritual Temple soon lost its power to move and fell back to the ground like the other spiritual temples. Li You then fell from mid-air and pushed open the door of the spiritual temple.

When Kara arrived, Li You had already walked out of the temple. With the help of the headless demigod's coffin, he copied another copy of the Golden Memories.

"Has Letina completed what she was supposed to do?" Li You looked at Kara and nodded after getting a positive answer: "Okay, the Simulated Teardrop has also completed its mission. Let's go to the Holy Tree."

As they were talking, Li You, who was transformed from a teardrop, was flying over at high speed, holding the Golden Law Sword and the Dragon Heart. It landed in front of Li You and the others, and handed over the sword and the heart.

Li You took it naturally and put it away. The imitation teardrop canceled its dragon-man transformation and stood quietly beside Li You.

Everyone was amazed when they saw the replica teardrop. What surprised them was not the appearance that was exactly the same as the real person, but the fact that the replica teardrop could actually imitate Li You's power and even transform into a dragon.

"It's not that omnipotent." Li You guessed what everyone was thinking and shook his head.

Today's replica teardrops can indeed perfectly replicate his abilities, even the Blood Undying Slash can be reproduced, and exert the same power, but there are also parts that cannot be replicated. The most obvious one is that the replica teardrops cannot replicate the large number of enhancement items that Li You put in the system backpack, and cannot enjoy their enhancements.

Secondly, the spiral sword transformed from the imitation teardrop is still a degraded version.

Perhaps the spiral sword was too special. Even a perfect replica teardrop could only replicate its basic transformation ability, and its special ability was at most to display a weakened flame field. As for the ability of the spiral sword to transform into other weapons, it would not be possible unless Li You actively transformed it first and then let the replica teardrop replicate and update it.

From this point, we can also see how special the power from the primordial fire contained in the Spiral Sword is.

Fortunately, when the replica teardrop is within the range of Li You's genuine flame field, it can be amplified through the flame field, and the ability exerted through the spiral sword is exactly the same as Li You himself.

Under this premise, it stands to reason that even if the strength of the two were added together, the upper limit of the flame would remain at the original level, only the quantity would have increased - this made Li You's previous plan of suppressing the Three Fingers of Madness Fire together with the Fake Tear Drop come to naught.

On the one hand, the spiral sword is the only thing that cannot be perfectly copied. On the other hand, although the replicant teardrop will copy the object's thinking when it transforms, it only gives it the ability to think and a "model", and it itself still has no consciousness.

Therefore, it was fine in battle or when Li You arranged the task in advance, but in other situations, the imitation teardrop did not know how to adapt. This was also a problem that could not be ignored. At critical moments, Li You had to log in himself and control it remotely.

But overall, the replica teardrop still gave Li You a nearly perfect clone. It was only slightly weaker than Li You himself, and only needed to invest all of its magic power at once, and it could replenish itself afterwards. Moreover, the replica teardrop's physique was particularly durable, making it a perfect tool.

So Li You was still very satisfied. It was indeed a good deal to feed the Pope doll to it.

"Is my judgment correct?" Kara said with a smile.

"Indeed." Li You nodded, "It seems that you have reached a level in the field of magic that is far beyond mine."

"Alright, you two can go back and study." V ​​next to him complained, "Shouldn't we hurry to the Holy Tree? This has been delayed for so long."

Li You smiled and said, "That's true. Let's go. Kara, remember to call Letina out. Let's go to the Yidian Town ahead."

The ceremonial town of Utina is a small town guarded by the Sons of Platinum, where the portal leading to the Sacred Tree of Mikaela is sealed.

To break the seal, one needs to enter the sealed prison of Yidian Town and light a candle in the town inside the prison. Regardless of inside or outside, Yidian Town is guarded by the Sons of Platinum.

And it was time for Letina to come forward. Under the guidance of this Platinum Son, Li You and his party avoided fighting with other Platinum Sons and successfully arrived at the sealed prison.

However, the Sons of Platinum here also told Li You that even if they could not launch an attack, the most dangerous people in the sealed prison were the four black knife assassins hidden in it - they were the killers who had killed "Gold" Godwin.

They can hide their bodies perfectly, and the black knives in their hands can kill even demigods. If you want to pass through Yidian Town, you will risk the destruction of both your soul and body.

Then the Sons of Platinum saw that Li You was not surprised or afraid. Instead, he looked excited and entered the sealed prison alone without hesitation.

The Platinum Son who led the Yidian Town looked at the remaining Kara people and said, "...Are you going to let him go alone?"

Kara spread her hands: "Master has his own ideas."

The Son of Platinum obviously didn't quite understand, and looked at Letina who was in spirit form, but Letina actually didn't know these things either, so she could only stare at him.

Leader of the Sons of Platinum: "..."

At this moment, on the tower on the roof at the edge of Yidian Town, the light of the statue flashed, and flames ignited.

The sons of platinum were all startled: "The first one is lit."

"So fast?"

"No, wait... look!"

Just a moment after the first candlestick, the second candlestick lit up. A moment later, the third candlestick was also lit, and the seal leading to the sacred tree was lifted.

The magic circle that sealed the prison flashed, and Li You appeared in the center.

The Sons of Platinum were all dumbfounded.

"how did you do that?"

Li You smiled: "It's just a little trick, not worth mentioning."

In his backpack, four newly acquired black knives lay neatly together, emitting a faint glow.

"We need to go to the sacred tree instead of this."

……

Michaela's sacred tree, a giant tree that he planted with his own hands and grew with the help of blood, is said to carry Michaela's ideals.

On this lush tree, and in the city built around it, live races with very different habits, such as hybrids, giant ants, and Miranda flowers.

These races, which were originally closer to the relationship between predators and prey, lived together, but there was no conflict between them. Instead, they united against the outside world and would attack outsiders.

In addition to them, there are a large number of oracle messengers on the sacred tree. They are a peculiar race that only appears when a new god is born. They are said to be the messengers announcing the birth of gods.

It is precisely because of the sacred tree that many players originally believed that Michaela’s ideal might be a world of universal harmony regardless of race, and therefore had a good impression of him... until the DLC revealed his true character and thoughts.

In fact, from another perspective, there are also foreshadowings in the original story. If the Holy Tree represents Michaela's ideal, then the fact that the Holy Tree is ugly and twisted, and that it is infested with scarlet corruption, shows that beneath the surface prosperity and harmony, there is a deeper poison hidden.

After walking out of the portal, Li You stood at the end of the branch of the sacred tree and looked down. His companions also found a place that looked safe to stand.

"The Holy Tree... Apart from the last Royal City, this should be our third to last stop."

Looking at the outline of the city at the root of the sacred tree, Li You said, "The person we are looking for is at the very bottom of the sacred tree. Millicent and the others should be heading there as well, but... there are still uncertainties on her side."

"Let's go, meet up with them as soon as possible and finish what we need to do here."

(End of this chapter)