Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 480 The Hidden Monster

On his way back to his temporary residence, Thor was quite annoyed to find that the scorpion tail that had been stored in his diary had been destroyed and absorbed.

Thor had always removed the scorpion stinger before putting Anne in his diary. But today, the situation was urgent, and Anne suddenly lost control, leading Thor to suspect that the contamination attached to the scorpion stinger might have affected Anne's sanity during the battle.

Given the root monsters that might continue to attack beneath his feet, Thor had no choice but to deal with Ann's problem as quickly as possible and take her away.

However, compared to the loss of the scorpion stinger, the sudden attack on Ann by the talisman monster was more serious.

Those roots look thin and soft, but they are actually very tough and cannot be cut by ordinary weapons.

When he saw that Ann's scorpion tail had no effect on the roots, his brows furrowed even more.

That root is not afraid of being contaminated by evil spirits.

Most importantly... those are just roots. What exactly are connected to the roots?

Is it the big tree that Kismet wanted to "give" to him?

After rushing back to his temporary lodgings, Agu hurriedly came to greet him, "Master, why did you suddenly come back?"

Saul told Agu about what had happened in the woods that day.

At this point, An also recovered.

"Ann, why did you suddenly lose control just now?" Thor asked her.

An's diary still shows a hint of dazedness.

I'm not entirely sure, I just felt a sudden surge of thoughts within my consciousness... There seemed to be something disgusting in those tree roots.

"Tree roots, are you sure it's tree roots?"

[Yes, when I was not fully conscious, I could vaguely sense that the plant connected to the roots was a large tree.]

"Can you pinpoint exactly where that tree is?"

No, that tree was far away from me, and I wasn't fully conscious at the time.

Herman, who was watching from the sidelines, said with some lingering fear.

[If these roots are already this powerful, wouldn't the entire tree reach second-tier strength if it were to appear?]

Sitting beside Thor, Agu shook his head. "Master encountered a root monster in the city, and another in the suburbs. If that monster can move, that's fine, but if it can't..."

Morton added to Agu's unfinished words in his diary.

If that large tree cannot be moved, the area its roots can reach would be far too vast.

Thor understood what the others meant. Based on the strength of the roots and the extent of their reach, that large tree was probably comparable to the fighting power of an entire city.

If a city could be wiped out in one fell swoop, wouldn't that mean that the tree already possesses the strength of the third tier?

Thinking about this, Thor immediately felt an urge to leave.

But after thinking about it, he didn't actually run away.

Archaeologists have been in the city for more than a year or two, and there are no rumors of any wizards getting into trouble because of tree-like monsters.

Besides, it's quite normal for monsters to appear in the wizarding world. Do you think he would specifically choose a safe place to stay? Such a place simply doesn't have enough wizarding materials for Thor to study.

Thor took a deep breath. "We don't know why the tree monster attacked Ann yet. Ann shouldn't go out unnecessarily during this time, and neither should you, Agu. I'll go to Baidong Academy to inquire about the situation."

Without hesitation, Thor went straight to find Char.

People like Char, who always feel that others will harm them, generally don't like to go out. Thor went directly to their door to find them.

Char was indeed home, but this time he didn't let Thor in.

"...Tree roots?" Xia paused for a moment before hesitatingly saying, "I heard there used to be a big tree in Archista, but it was burned down many years ago."

"Burned?" Thor was somewhat skeptical; the large tree probably hadn't been burned. "Haven't there been any incidents of plant roots attacking people before?"

Char spread his hands. "In archaeology, anything can attack people—plants, animals, monsters... Even if there have been instances of root systems attacking people in the past, we can't be sure if they are the root systems of the same plant."

Thor thought for a moment, then asked, "Why are there so many evil spirits appearing in Archaeologists? Isn't there any other way to prevent them besides capturing them?"

When asked this question, Xia's expression changed slightly. He licked his lips and lowered his voice, saying, "If you really want to know, go ask Dean Pound. Archaeologists' current prosperity is entirely due to Dean Pound's active efforts."

He stood in the shadows under the eaves, his expression inscrutable. "There's always a price to pay for what you gain, isn't there?"

Char probably knows some of the truth, but he is clearly unwilling to tell Thor.

After Thor left, he actually followed Char's advice and went to see Dean Pound.

But he did not inquire about the cause of the strangeness in Archaeologist City, and even if he had, Dean Pound would not have told him.

Thor used the incident of being attacked in the suburbs as an excuse to ask the dean if there had been any new progress in the research on the root monsters.

He noticed that Dean Pound looked momentarily panicked when he heard that the root monster had appeared in the suburbs.

However, the other party quickly masked their panic with surprise and expressed doubt that the monster that appeared in the sewers last time had left the city.

He told Saul he could tell Kent what had happened. Kent was in charge of dealing with evil spirits that the Cleaners couldn't handle; he would gather people, share information, and organize a concentrated effort to defeat a small number of evil spirits that even wizards couldn't withstand.

Upon learning this, Saul casually asked, "Has Kent always been in charge of the evil spirit incidents?"

The headmaster told Thor that there used to be another wizard, but after that wizard died unexpectedly in a battle with an evil spirit, Kent took over.

After Kent took over, very few wizards died in battles against evil spirits.

Dean Pound told Saul that if he discovered any threats, he could tell Kent, who was still very helpful.

A wizard? A helpful one?

Thor thanked the dean on the surface, but left Bydon Academy with a lot of complicated thoughts in his mind.

He was now almost certain that the Dean knew about the root monster. In fact, Dean Pound might very well be the one who cultivated the root monster!

The last time he specifically summoned Thor to the clock tower and showed him the root stem trapped in the test tube, he was probably testing how much Thor knew about root monsters.

To test whether he had obtained any part of the root system.

The witch Beth, who appeared in the clock tower at that time, was probably also related to this hidden monster.

There are many wizards in Archista, and Thor is not the only outsider. Their wariness of Thor is likely due to their concern about Gorsa behind Thor.

This also indirectly shows that the troubles hidden in Bydon Academy are not something that a formal wizard can solve.

After this incident, Thor did not behave abnormally. In fact, he participated in the Cleaners' missions even more frequently in order to collect new evil spirits.

Although the scorpion stinger was unexpectedly used up before it could achieve its intended purpose, it proved that Thor's idea of ​​soul armor was correct.

He wanted to take advantage of his time in Archista to collect as many fragments of evil spirits as possible, and ideally arm all four consciousnesses!

During this period, perhaps because his several "complaints" alerted those in the shadows, he never encountered the root monster again.

Meanwhile, after several operations, Thor also discovered that a newly born evil spirit can be subdued in the easiest way.

Since Archistia always gives birth to new evil spirits, Thor could simply leave the Guard and find new evil spirits on his own.

So Thor sent Penny the Nightmare Butterfly out every night to search for the strange spirits that roamed in the dark corners.

But to Thor's surprise, the first person to bring him news of the newborn evil spirits was not Penny, but Little Algae!

Chapter Two was also at night; going out to play was really tiring.

(End of this chapter)