Extraordinary in Reality Through Magic Games

”The Punishment of the Gods.”

Zhang Mu was quite concerned about the ”Punishment of the Gods” and was very interested in the detailed history, but unfortunately, there was no time to listen to stories now.

He continued to circle twice, then crouched down to rummage through the ground—to be more precise, he used his fingers to dig out a large clump of mud from the soil.

Gezhe looked at him in confusion. ”What are you doing digging up mud?”

”Hmm? I wanted to see if the soil that nourishes a magical ancient tree like the life tree also has anything special about it.”

”Is there?”

”No.”

As Zhang Mu spoke, he clenched his fist to squeeze the mud in his hand into a ball, tossed it up, caught it, and walked toward the distance. ”As long as you’re still here, it’s fine. I’ll go wander around some more.”

”Be careful.”

”Understood.”

Walking through the grassland and into the woods, Zhang Mu circulated his mana to wrap around the mud ball, sensing the elements contained within. He couldn’t do it as precisely as modern instruments, where the specific quantity of each element could be obtained; he could only detect all the types of elements within the mud ball.

It was enough.

After the sensing ended, Zhang Mu fell into thought.

If it really was as he suspected, the life tree... truly had no great mystery, and healing it wouldn’t be troublesome.

But this piece of mud alone wasn’t enough to prove it; he needed more evidence.

”I need to check elsewhere.”

Zhang Mu was about to leave when he heard messy footsteps and curses coming from ahead. He quickly ducked behind a tree to hide.

After a while, a large group of elves surged forward together. Walking at the very front was Frederica, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

The elves were shouting about sacrificing her.

The crowd passed by the tree and headed toward the life tree.

”The elves are going to sacrifice Frederica.”

The situation was urgent. Zhang Mu knew that if he wasted any more time, she would lose her life. He took one last look at the crowd and turned to rush toward the edge of the clan territory.

There lay the key to uncovering the secret of the withering.

”Hold on.” Zhang Mu gritted his teeth and pushed his mana to the limit to quicken his pace.