I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 173 173. Not just shrinking...

The appearance of these magical plants is very special.

It is a full 1.8 meters tall.

At first glance, it looked like a standing skeleton, and a very complete human skeleton with a wide frame. It was estimated to be a male skeleton, emitting a dark white glow and filled with a strong smell of death.

"Why does this skeleton look so fresh..." Kloya felt a little uncomfortable.

But on its top there is a small emerald green gem, which contains the breath of life that is completely opposite to the breath of the undead.

It looks like dewdrops rolling on the green leaves.

"Emerald Skeleton Tree."

"The names don't seem to be anything special. Emerald Fruit, Skeleton Tree."

Croya was a little confused. He picked up the letter the baron gave him, which described in detail the scene when the skeleton tree was discovered.

To put it simply, one of the baron's guards bravely stepped forward, but was immediately sucked by the skeleton tree until not even a bone was left.

The skeleton of the tree that Croa saw now was actually the skeleton of the guard - his skeleton had been absorbed by the tree.

"..."

After reading the letter, Cloya finally understood.

It turns out that this skeleton is really fresh. It absorbs human vitality and bones, and finally produces fruits full of vitality. To be honest, this is quite consistent with the magic of the dead.

Many undead magics have the ability to absorb vitality.

Fresh vitality is a very good nutrient for the undead. It can keep their physical and mental bodies from collapsing. Most of the undead need to draw on vitality.

"What good are you then?"

"Absorbed the vitality of a living person..."

He reached out and picked up the emerald-like fruit, which was no more than the size of an apple core. It was not hard in his hand, but soft and bouncy like slime.

But with a slight pinch, he felt something was wrong.

Because inside this soft fruit there are hard bumps, which feel like randomly growing branches, which is very strange.

Kloya was slightly stunned. In order not to rely so much on the golden finger, he had originally planned to sense it.

But he couldn't care less now, he used the Astral Body Imprinting Technique to examine it carefully, and was surprised to find that... the Astral Body of this thing was actually in the shape of a human.

No, just one person!

This man is tall and has a slightly rough appearance. At first glance, he is a typical soldier whose muscles are more developed than his brains.

The soldier's body was covered with emerald green translucent silk threads and he was tied inside the fruit with his eyes tightly closed.

If that were all, Kloya would have suspected that this was the soldier's soul being replicated by this emerald skeleton tree.

But the fact is... this soldier with his eyes closed is alive, or in other words, he is considered "human" according to the judgment of the Astral Body Imprinting Technique.

Because the Astral Body Imprinting Technique could not see through his body structure.

This has never happened before in the long time that Kloya has acquired the Astral Body Marking Technique - the Astral Body Marking Technique can see through the astral body structures of all magical plants and magical beasts, but it has no effect on humans.

"What level of demonic plant is this? It can actually trap a human soul inside... and even create a body."

His interest was immediately piqued.

The undead magic plant involved a special kind of death magic that he had never come into contact with before - the power of the ghost owl was no longer a simple undead magic.

"Let me try..."

Croix tried to extract the magic power from it, but the result disappointed him greatly. The magic power of the usually powerful Rainbow Poetry had a very obvious rejection when facing the magic power of the undead.

The light from the sun can never reach the magic power of these undead spirits.

This was his first failure.

But it did not make him feel disappointed. Instead, his interest became stronger. He had already expected this situation.

No matter how peaceful the sun's light is, it is still a kind of "positive energy". When faced with the "negative energy" of the undead, there will definitely be some trouble.

"Since my magic power is not enough, how about this?" Croix stretched out his hand and summoned the power from the Orpheus Swan Recorder Tree.

That is a special magic power coming from the etheric world.

With the help of this magic power, he quickly absorbed the power contained in the fruit.

But... the moment the power came into contact with the outside air.

"Zizi!"

The magic power that enveloped it quickly evaporated, and as the magic power evaporated, the fruit quickly filled up as if it was inflated.

It is absorbing the magic power of the etheric world!

"magic……"

The emerald fruit conveys a sense of desire.

"Then I will give you magic power."

Croix reached out and attracted more magic power, pouring all of it into it.

As the magic power of the etheric world continued to be injected into it, the fruit grew from the size of an apple core to the size of a football.

Finally, it exploded in a burst of light, and a small figure emerged from inside the fruit.

He looked at Cloya in confusion, his little face full of helplessness.

"Little man?"

Croix was a little surprised for a moment.

He stared at the little man, who was no more than five centimeters tall, and scanned him carefully with his mental power. He found that the guy's body structure was exactly the same as a real person.

How can this be?

Create humans?

Of course, he believed that some wizards could create little people through various unimaginable means, but this magic plant in front of him could do it...

If someone else had told him this, he would never have believed it, but the facts were before him.

A living, breathing little man with a complete body structure and strong vitality was right in front of him, looking at him with horror.

"Ahhh!"

The little man let out a sharp cry.

I don’t know if his original voice was like this, or if his voice changed along with his body after he shrank.

Anyway, this sound is really unpleasant.

Croa frowned: "Silence!"

The little man suddenly felt like a chicken with its neck strangled. Although he was still very frightened, he obediently shut up.

Without the unpleasant scream, Kloya was sure that this guy should be smart enough to at least understand what he said.

"Can you speak?" he tried to ask.

"My Lord, I...I know you."

The villain knelt timidly and saluted: "I am the baron's subordinate and have met you once."

Kloya's expression didn't change at all, but he was more and more shocked in his heart. This guy could actually speak and still have memories from before?
As of now, apart from the size of his body, he is almost no different from ordinary humans.

Is this Jade Skeleton Tree...really a magical plant that turns people into villains? In order to answer the question in his mind, he conducted many tests and inquiries on the villains.

After spending two hours, he was finally able to confirm that this guy's body had shrunk, but the rest of his body was exactly the same as an ordinary person.

The only regret is that he has no recollection of how he became like this.

"This tree is truly magical... I'll have to ask the Shengquan Chamber of Commerce."

Faced with something he could not understand no matter what, Kroya had no choice but to seek help from others.

But before that, he reached out with interest and took some white mud, and made a small house for the little man to live in.

There was also a crystal cover outside that allowed people from outside to see inside, but people from inside could not see outside.

He wanted to observe whether the villain would change over time, and how long he could live.
Just like that, after properly settling the little man, he took out the Holy Spring Crystal Card and asked about the news about the Emerald Skeleton Tree.

As a result, as soon as the question was asked, the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce immediately responded: "Dear Star Spirit, the master codenamed Puppet wants to communicate with you. Do you want to answer the call?"

"..."

Puppet, isn’t that the dwarf who originally wanted to buy the simulated magic tree? Does he also know about the Emerald Skeleton Tree?
"Answer it."

"Please wait……"

The intellectual female voice of the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce turned into a rough male voice, which was the dwarf from last time.

"Oh, friend!"

The other party's voice was full of enthusiasm: "Have you heard any news about the Emerald Skeleton Tree? May the Earth Mother watch over your journey."

"I have received some information, but I am still working hard. Is there anything you want to tell me, Puppet Master?" Kloya was unusually calm.

The puppet replied: "My Star Spirit friend, if you can really find the Skeleton Emerald Tree, I hope to buy a branch from you.

We all know that it can shrink and reorganize living beings inside its fruit. I really have too many things that require the help of this smart and capable little man.

As for the price, I am willing to give you a bottle of Mother Earth Spring, or a mineral core, which is a treasure that our clan inherited from our Titan friends. "

It's really tempting to say the least.

He knew that the so-called Spring of Mother Earth was a miracle bestowed upon the dwarves by the Mother Earth. As long as the spring water was poured on the earth, a fertile land blessed by the Mother Earth would be formed.

No matter what kind of crops you plant in it - except for the undead magic plants, you can get a hundredfold harvest.

It is said that in the core ancestral land of the dwarves there is a huge field irrigated by the Spring of Mother Earth, which continuously produces a variety of food.

This is also the main reason why the dwarves can become the most famous food supplier in the continent of Semlia.

With miracles granted by God, one can truly do whatever he wants.

However, since he also took out the core of the mineral vein...can it be proved that the core of the mineral vein is more precious than the Spring of Mother Earth, and based on this, it can be inferred that the Emerald Skeleton Tree is also more precious than the simulated Demon Tree?
The last time I wanted to buy the simulated magic tree, I didn’t offer this price.

He thought about it and did not give him a reply for the time being. Instead, he bought a simple description of the Emerald Skeleton Tree and spent one hundred magic crystals.

After looking at it carefully, he became thoughtful.

This... was actually the magic plant created by Mage Ilister and a great mage from the Orpheus family when they were traveling among the elves.

It is said that some power outside of this world was used, which was able to reorganize life through the power of the tree and create a small body for the soul.

Here, the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce emphasized that although the created body looks no different from the original body, it is actually a kind of magic plant fruit.

After being born from the fruit until the end of life, it needs to draw power from the Emerald Skeleton Tree in order to survive.

However, to form such a body, the amount of magic power consumed is astronomical, and it must be transformed by the unique magic plant power of the Orpheus family.

After Archmage Ilister left, this magical plant completely disappeared. At the end of the explanation, the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce was willing to purchase a living plant at an extremely high price.

The price is...

"One hundred level three magic crystals."

Croix took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to sell the tree directly.

That’s one million first-level magic crystals!
Although this was indeed a huge sum of money, Cloya knew that since such a high price was offered, it meant that the tree was valuable.

Based on the information we know so far, this thing can give people a new body, but what if it is a terminal illness? What if it is an incurable injury?
Even if I become smaller, as long as I can survive, that is absolutely acceptable. What's more, I can do more things after becoming smaller.

To extend this further, this thing can stably transfer the soul to another body. If this method and technique can be learned, it is no worse than one million magic crystals.

When it comes to the soul, the price of everything becomes extremely expensive.

Finally, can the body it creates in this way reproduce? If it can, it would be equivalent to creating a whole new race out of thin air!
However, there are some doubts here: the magic plant fruit, if the life it created belongs to the magic plant fruit, then Kloya should be able to see the star body.

But in fact, he couldn't see it at all.

At least the Astral Body Imprinting Technique treats it as "human".

After some brainstorming, he responded to the puppet and tentatively agreed to exchange it if it could be found.

He planned to study this magical plant carefully before making a deal. After all, he didn't know whether a branch could grow by cuttings or something like that.

……

After putting away the Holy Spring Crystal Card, Cloya tried to charge the tree with magic power - the magic power of the Orpheus Swan Recorder Tree was continuously injected into the Emerald Skeleton Tree.

During this process, Cloya discovered that this tree could actually transform pure magic into undead magic. This ability to transform magic came from the entire Emerald Skeleton Tree.

Its astral body is extremely delicate and complex. Rather than being a magic plant, it is more like a collection of magic patterns gathered together, with branches and bones as carriers.

The extremely regular arrangement of magic patterns made Cloya, who had a little obsessive-compulsive disorder, feel particularly satisfied, but he had no way to study it.

Because it is too complicated.

With his current magical power and mental strength as a fourth-level wizard, it would be too complicated to analyze it.

Given that the difficulty was too high, he had to give up temporarily and turned to studying the conversion of other species.

Thanks to the endless magic power obtained from the tortured people in the Orpheus Swan Recorder Tree, he tried the fish-tailed sea duck, sea dolphin, mountain goat, ice rabbit...

The result is a bunch of shrunken monsters.

The amount of magic power consumed in making the body varies from level to size to the amount of magic power available - the most consumed by Ice Rabbits and the least by Mountain Sheep.

Kroya kept them in the pots he had carefully made, and observed and tried to see if magic such as Astral Body Imprinting could work.

The answer is absolutely yes.

They can even mate and reproduce normally.

This really shocked Kroya, and just when he was in doubt.

The long-sleeping Mu Yao Qu Teng King woke up by stretching his vines.

The first words it said after waking up were...

"Master, two carriages from the capital have entered the dock area of ​​Hanjiao Island."

"The royal capital?"

Only then did Kloya look at the time. It turned out that he had not paid attention to time at all because of his research. Five days had already passed!

His guests and enemies had arrived.

"You came just in time. I was just in need of a mage to try..."

Taking a look at the standing emerald skeleton tree, Kloya smiled with some anticipation.

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