Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 165: On-the-spot enchantment, the leader is bound

Health status: Perfect (adequate nutrition↑, abundant energy↑↑↑, full of energy↑↑↑)
After exercise, the potential vitality is further released, the muscles and bones are flexible and comfortable, the whole body feels light, and the mood is more satisfied and lively.

After finishing his night reading, even though he was in good spirits, Lin Bo still felt a little tired and depressed. It had been a long time since he had felt as cheerful as today.

After finishing the construction work in the morning, the filter of the underground workshop has been installed. All that is left is to open the pipes and introduce seawater so that the lighthouse will have running water.

Afternoon, East Cliff Grottoes.

[Network Tip: Player [Lighthouse Guest] invites you to join the dungeon campaign [Out-of-Control Botanical Garden on a Distant Star] (Purgatory Level)]

[Current number of players in the dungeon: 10]

[Affected by the fluctuations of time and space, the copy has undergone unknown changes...]

[Detecting mutation information, obtaining the prompt affix - Unholy Blessing]

Although it was only one day later, when they met again, Lin Bo noticed that his teammates had changed.

Summoner Xiaohaige's level increased, allowing him to summon both a white gorilla and a giant crocodile. Echo Knight gained a flaming enchanted greatsword. The rest of his teammates also upgraded their equipment and grew in strength, each making incremental progress on their career paths.

Lin Bo still remembers the affix [Unclean Blessing] very clearly. After all, it was the first dungeon affix he had ever challenged. The 5x benefit was already quite good, but the actual battle difficulty might be higher than the 6x benefit of [Nightmare Invasion], since it directly strengthened the dungeon enemies.

There was no need to rush this time, so the teammates took on most of the combat tasks, and the group advanced steadily and slowly.

Lin Bo is responsible for air support. When a large number of enemies appear on the battlefield, which may cause an avalanche in the team's situation, he will quickly clear out the excess enemy groups or directly guide his teammates to make a strategic shift.

This robust map-running plan is suitable for most player teams. Along the way, they count the number of minions and elite monsters, carefully recording key information such as enemy distribution range and strength changes.

After dealing with the three-headed moth-winged tree dweller in Garden No. 3, they took a short rest and set out again.

The boss monster enhanced by [Unclean Blessing] becomes much more difficult to deal with, with more diverse attack methods and more terrifying lethality.

The giant fish-bodied tree in Garden No. 5 is surging with electricity. If you want to attack the flower bud on its back, you must first induce it to spit out lightning and consume the accumulated charge.

So the teammates standing on the sky island tried their best to attract fire. Although they used the cover to avoid direct lightning strikes, they were also made numb all over by the step voltage.

The star steel skeleton worn by the mage can block electric current very well. As long as he is not directly hit by the lightning breath of the fish-bodied giant tree, any electric current attack will be like a breeze on his face.

Taking advantage of the moment the electricity dissipated after the giant tree's lightning bolt, Lin Bo led a few melee units to the top of the fish's back and, as usual, fired a whale fireball, quickly dispatching the giant. If they delayed any longer, their teammates would have been electrocuted to a pulp.

After arriving at the central control tower, the group watched silently as the Lost Tree Hunters killed the invading living trees.

Ever since Xiaohaige uploaded the compiled copy plot to the channel, players have had a more comprehensive understanding of the final boss monster, and some players have expressed that they are fans of the Lost Tree Man.

The leader monster easily tore the last pretender to pieces, then looked at the players. Its dark green wooden armor was stained by the unclean blessing, glowing with a faint bloody light, and its entire body looked like a dark red, slender shadow.

Echo Knight was one of its fans. He held up his flaming sword, his expression resolute and solemn, and shouted in the local language he had just learned: "Xinya, we bring death to you, may your soul rest in peace!"

Upon hearing this, the Lost Tree Man moved his posture, like a pistol pulling down the hammer, a crossbow drawing the string, and the guillotine's blade raised to its highest point. The pungent air in the place turned cold, making people's backs tighten.

After saying this polite remark, Echo Knight suddenly put down his sword, took two steps to the side, and stepped aside to let the mage, who was the core position of the team, move out.

The teammates, holding weapons, protected the mage on both sides, and their eyes were all fixed on the blood-like and tragic Lost Tree Dweller.

Without saying a word, the time-mechanical sorcerer stuffed a licorice root into his mouth and whispered, "Acceleration spell." The magic weapon emitted a clear light, covering Lin Bo's body.

A hoarse noise drifted out from under the three-eyed skull mask.

"(Mantra) Featherscale Starsteel."

Lin Bo pointed his sword with one hand, removed three steel bars from his ammunition pouch, and held them in his palm. The short, silvery-purple Star Steel shuttle trembled like a live fish, swaying head and tail, accumulating a surge of power.

The Lost Tree Man transformed his arms into swords and took a step forward. In an instant, two rays of purple light shot out from the hands of the opposite mage. The sharp whistling sound of the air being pierced echoed in the room, and the heavy steel beams and iron bars were shaking slightly.

Two straight purple lines remained on the teammates' retinas, extending from the mage's palm to the boss monster.

Almost instantly, the Lost Tree Hunter was struck by the Featherscale Star Steel. The sturdy armor absorbed most of the kinetic energy, but it was still penetrated. From the two circular wounds on its chest and abdomen, silvery threads sprouted like tree buds, quickly wrapping around its arms and locking its legs.

The Lost Tree Hunter was tied up tightly and fell to the ground, struggling. The overwhelming force stretched the slender Feather Scale Star Steel violently.

The third steel shuttle in Lin Bo's hand flew out, turned into a ring in mid-air, and wrapped around the neck of the lost tree keeper.

"(Incantation) Those who touch this object will become stiff in body. Those who touch this object will become confused in mind." The mage chanted the incantation in a low voice, and with each word he uttered, a power rune was imprinted on the inner surface of the ring around the leader monster's neck.

When the first spell of enchantment was completed, the Lost Tree's struggles suddenly weakened. When the second spell was finished, it was as quiet as death.

[Comprehensive Network Tips: The enemy (the final experimental subject - the perfect lost tree - Xinya) is in a bound/paralyzed/incapacitated state]

When the teammates looked at the information board, their expressions were as confused as the leader monster's.

Lin Bo walked up to the Lost Tree, sat down cross-legged, gently stroked its back, listened to the murmuring of Gu'dorei as the living vines inside it squirmed, chased after its true name in meditation, turned into a ghost and immersed itself in the ocean of memory.

Dr. Xinya was the first researcher to theoretically break through the barrier of genetically coupling living plants and humans. Company executives approved her for further research, increased her authority, and poured significant resources into the project.

She lived a very glorious life during those days.

Sinya's goal is to make living plants resemble humans, like biorobots. The camouflage vine is a milestone in this project.

But the clumsy camouflage vines were of little practical use, and the company needed more efficient biological weapons. So another scholar proposed transplanting plant genes into the human body. This plan was opposed by Xinya, who was subsequently removed from the decision-making process and returned to her original small laboratory.

There is always a flowerpot on the desk in the laboratory, with a camouflage vine planted in it. It will turn into a palm-sized child, staring at the busy Xinya with its eyes, listening to her complaints, and gently stroking Xinya's forehead and cheeks when she is drunk and slumped over the desk.

Even without resources, Xinya still insisted on her project. Together with her friend who is a doctor of neuroscience, she used neuromanipulation technology to implant human knowledge and memory into the camouflage vines, successfully improving their intelligence level.

At the same time, the company lost patience with the lack of progress in the human trial project, and Dr. Xinya brought her findings back to the senior management's attention.

Xinya did not make a comeback as expected. Instead, the company blocked all her projects and achievements, suspended her position, and did not allow her to approach the laboratory.

After falling into complete poverty, Xinya lay in the dormitory every day and often did one thing.

Using a Neuromancer headset, she reviewed her failed life with her favorite potted plant. She named the plant "Yami" and always hugged it while lying on the sofa.

Lin Bo turned into a ghost in his memory, sitting side by side with them in the messy staff dormitory. When he turned his head, he could see Xinya and Bonsai wearing two helmets, one big and one small.

Soon after, the company's experiment goes horribly wrong. A lifelike imposter begins to infiltrate the botanical gardens, assassinating and replacing company employees. When their killing spree finally breaks out, the situation is irreversible.

Lin Bo witnessed the dormitory door being kicked open, and a disguised person with two knives on his head and arms rushed into the room, stabbed Xin Ya to death who was caught off guard, and devoured most of her corpse.

The potted plant fell into a pool of blood, and the camouflage vine absorbed nutrients and gradually grew into a girl half a meter tall.

It walked to the mirror and looked at itself, as if it was looking at the ghostly wizard behind it in the mirror light.

Lin Bo heard it muttering to itself.

"Who am I? Xinya. Something's wrong with the botanical garden... and it's my fault. I have to save them."

He witnessed it grow from weak to strong, from avoiding living plants to killing its way through the botanical garden. Finally, he saw another Xinya in the central control tower, the imposter who broke into the dormitory. It suddenly realized that it was not the real her.

The so-called perfect gene receptor has never existed. The reason why the Lost Tree can complete deep mutation is because it is not human.

And it didn't get lost because it saved all the survivors but couldn't escape.

Limbaugh came out of meditation.

He already knew the true name of the Lost Tree-Bearer, which was also the true name of the purple equipment Deep Mutation Set.

Although the teammates were curious about why the mage was suddenly meditating next to the leader monster, they all waited quietly.

Lin Bo whispered, "(Mantra) Camouflage Vine."

The Lost Tree Man suddenly opened his eyes, and the eyes under the visor stared straight at the mage.

"Your real name is Yami."

“…” The Lost Tree Man just laughed softly.

Lin Bo used whale fire to light it until it was completely reduced to a pool of snow-white ashes, and it never struggled.

[The conditions for clearing the dungeon have been met...]

(End of this chapter)