Chapter 943

Chapter 937 Large-grain corn and large-spring corn

The Giant Grass Corn Nightmare gradually regenerated, its leaves piecing themselves back together, the corn kernels recovering one by one, and then a perfectly intact demonic plant appeared.

The Giant Grass Corn Nightmare panted.

“Fortunately, people these days always need some skills. That old bastard obviously didn’t expect me to have the ability to regenerate. Hahahaha! I’ll tear him to pieces! He even said he’d save me, purify me? What an overconfident fool…”

“Hmm? Where is that old bastard?”

The Giant Grass Corn Nightmare searched around, turning in confusion, but couldn’t find the human figure in this Emerald Dream.

The Giant Grass Corn Nightmare’s scarlet eyes immediately turned to the only person present—Locke Augustine.

Locke Augustine scrutinized the demonic plant from head to toe.

“I see. I originally thought that some crystallization experiments failed, leading to the mass death of magical plants. But now it seems that’s not the case. If even the Great Grass Corn, known for its rebirth, dies in such an experiment, then there’s only one possibility. The crystallization experiment itself is quite damaging to magical plants.” The Great Grass

Corn Nightmare asked, “Who are you?”

“Where’s that person from earlier?”

“Tell me the truth…”

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare stared wide-eyed in horror as the Sky-Piercing Jujube in Locke’s hand suddenly extended infinitely forward, towards him, piercing through its body.

“How is this possible?”

“This speed?”

“So fast!”

“A wizard!”

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare grinned maliciously.

“You want to purify me too? But aren’t you wizards the ones who have polluted the most plants? What do you have to say about your crimes? I will take revenge on all of you wizards! I will enter the wizarding world and wreak havoc! I…”

The corn leaves of the Great Budding Corn Nightmare transformed into countless corn leaf whips, lashing out at Locke. Countless corn leaf whips struck Locke’s body, only to be weakly deflected.

The Natural Cycle Force Field Shell was so powerful that it deflected all its attacks.

Even if the Star Ring Magic Plants were reincarnated as Nightmares, their power could not be unleashed on its own unless a wizard used them.

The Great Budding Corn Nightmare was incredulous.

“Just an ordinary second-ring wizard. How could this be…”

It immediately increased its attack speed, countless corn leaf whips lashing out at Locke, and corn silks attacking him like poisonous dragons.

‘Bang bang bang~’

Whether it was the corn leaves or the corn silks, they were all deflected by Locke’s Permanent Defense Force Field Shell.

Locke calmly walked towards it. “Great Grassy Corn Nightmare, I am enraged. You tried to kill him right in front of me, and you even insulted his body. I thought I would remain calm; I was merely an observer, but I am furious.”

A nascent star ring appeared beneath Locke’s feet.

This star ring was incomplete.

It was a warning from the endless void to ordinary beings, urging them to stay away from the place where the star ring appeared, away from those who, because of their overwhelming power, were a threat to the void simply by existing.

This star ring was also the symbol of this Star Ring Wizard.

The Great Grassy Corn Nightmare saw Locke’s star ring; it was so magnificent, the immense starlight seemingly reflected in fire. Two different flames were scorching this star ring, the civil and military flames intertwining, trying to completely refine Locke’s power into the star ring.

Locke was now infinitely close to becoming a Star Ring Wizard.

He was probably in the same state as the former Rose Witch, but at this moment, Locke felt no joy, only intense anger.

Fear finally appeared in the eyes of the Great Grassy Corn Nightmare.

That wasn’t a Star Ring he was born with.

It was a Star Ring acquired through the efforts of a being.

The lower a being’s starting point, the greater the threat they posed if they could obtain a Star Ring through their own efforts.

The Giant Jujube beneath the Giant Grass Corn Nightmare suddenly swelled. The Giant Jujube could change size and thickness at will; it had just suddenly lengthened, piercing through the Nightmare’s body, and now, this one had suddenly thickened, bursting its entire body apart.

The Giant Grass Corn Nightmare’s body shattered into fragments.

Locke waved his hand, using Accelerated Growth on it. In the blink of an eye, the corn silk fragments pieced together, and a complete Giant Grass Corn Nightmare appeared before Locke.

It roared at Locke,

“You also want to purify me? Wizard!”

Fear filled its eyes.

Locke instantly appeared behind it.

The moment it turned around, a Giant Jujube, just like before, rapidly lengthened, piercing through its body like an arrow.

This was a second-circle spell model that Locke modified himself using the Ranger system: [Swift Arrow Jujube Thorn].

By developing the flexible and extensible abilities of the Sky-Piercing Jujube, and using a subspecies of the [Swift Arrow Jujube Thorn] spell model derived from the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow, he accelerated its expansion and contraction, making it fly out like a needle, piercing the enemy’s body and instantly thickening to completely destroy it.

Locke then used Accelerated Growth to restore its original form.

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare screamed, seemingly wanting to attack Locke, but the next moment, its entire body was pierced by Locke’s Sky-Piercing Jujube again.

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare returned to its original form for the third time. This time, it didn’t try to attack but turned and fled into the distance.

It ran very fast, but Locke appeared in front of it.

“Wait, stop… I suddenly feel goodness… You just wanted to purify me, wasn’t it for my own good…”

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare was terrified and feigned begging for mercy, but the next moment, its body was pierced by the jujube thorn.

Locke calmly said, “You’ve misunderstood something. I don’t want to purify you; I just want to kill you to vent my anger.”

“I kill you not for heaven, not for earth, not for nature, but simply to vent my own anger.”

The Great Grass and Corn Nightmare revived once more, its power diminishing with each revival.

Locke’s power at this moment was too close to that of a Star Ring Wizard, and his attacks were incredibly ruthless and vicious. So, the Great Grass and Corn Nightmare, barely revived, was pierced again by the rapidly elongating, rocket-like jujube.

The nightmare of the giant fodder corn: “Ah!”

Fear truly welled in the eyes of the Giant Grassy Corn Nightmare.

For the next fifty-one times, no matter how the Giant Grassy Corn Nightmare reverted to its original form—whether it attacked, fled, defended, or even begged for mercy—Lock simply raised his hand, and the matchstick-sized Giant Jujube in his palm would instantly fly out, piercing its body.

Locke’s power was almost that of a Star Ring Wizard, and he used a special method to manipulate Star Ring Magic Plants.

Furthermore, his second-circle spell model, [Swift Arrow Jujube Thrust], could unleash the Giant Jujube’s special power, leaving the Giant Grassy Corn Nightmare utterly powerless to resist.

Of course, this was also because Orion and the other Rangers had recorded the power of these Crystal Nightmares using the Path of Nemesis: Leaf of Power during their battles, making them vulnerable to Locke’s current power.

After all, the source of the Path of Nemesis: Leaf of Power’s power was the Beast Panel.

After fifty-one kills, the Great Grass Corn Nightmare seemed to have been killed too many times. “You…”

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare was completely terrified. It said in horror, “I don’t want revenge anymore.”

Because it had been killed more than fifty times by Locke, the heavy particle pollution of the Ring Element on the Great Grass Corn Nightmare had faded considerably. Its blue color was almost gone, and its entire body had almost turned into a normal Great Grass Corn Nightmare.

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare was dizzy at this moment.

“Wait, I won’t be a nightmare anymore. Wait… don’t kill me anymore.”

“I’m sorry…”

The next moment, Locke’s Sky-Piercing Jujube pierced through its body, tearing its entire body to shreds in an instant.

This time, this Great Grass Corn Nightmare did not revive.

Even the resurrection ability of the Great Grass Corn in reality has its limits. Obviously, Locke’s power had not truly reached the Star Ring level, and the condensation of his Great Magic was not enough, which resulted in the Great Grass Corn Nightmare reviving an unusually large number of times. Of course, this was not necessarily a good thing for the Great Grass Corn Nightmare.

Resurrection is usually a good thing, but if it only allows Locke to kill more to vent his anger, then it’s not a good thing.

At this moment, the resurrection ability of the Great Grass Corn Nightmare reached its limit, and the next moment, this nightmare was finally completely killed by Locke’s Beast Panel.

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare’s voice disappeared in mid-air.

“Wait… I might know you, you’re a beast… Ah, so you’re the Guardian of Nature. But next time, could you not kill so many of me… Actually, I could have gotten rid of this pollution after the thirty-first time. Never mind, there won’t be a next time. I never want to be a nightmare again in my next life.”

The Great Grass Corn Nightmare shattered, and countless Great Grass Corn spirits circled around Locke once before heading into the depths of the Emerald Dream.

At this moment, after the Great Grass Corn spirits left, a seed fell.

Locke looked at the bright yellow corn kernel in his hand and knew that this was a fertile seed of the Great Grass Corn.

Locke frowned. He was quite exhausted at the moment, and he shouldn’t be so agitated, but seeing his student about to be killed by that damned nightmare, his emotions were naturally unsettled.

Locke said, “I’m not plant, of course I can’t be heartless.”

“But this seed…”

He had a portion of life essence he obtained from the Small Breath Cup, which could stimulate the seed to grow, but Locke thought carefully and wondered if he should do so.

Although the Great Grass Corn was a rare Star Ring Magic Plant, after his battle with it, he suddenly felt it was somewhat weak, and its fighting style was different from his own.

“No, I should still plant it.”

Locke realized. The Great Grass Corn would be very meaningful for his ancestral evolution.

Because he had read related articles before, the Great Grass Corn was a special magic plant; it had no evolutionary path.

Ordinary magic plants had intermediate states that evolved from one form to another.

But the Great Grass Corn had no intermediate state; it was completely separated from its ancestor, the [Great Spring Cannon Corn], as if it had suddenly evolved.

This remains a mystery to this day.

This is mainly because the wizards currently possess no seeds of the Giant Spring Cannon Corn.

It is said that only the Rose Council possesses the last specimen of the Giant Spring Cannon Corn in the world, a specimen prepared by a botanical wizard of the past.

That specimen has become a treasure of the Rose Council.

Therefore, all related research is conducted by the Rose Council. It is said that although both Giant Spring Cannon Corn and Giant Spring Cannon Corn are Star Ring Magical Plants, they are vastly different. This

is because Giant Spring Cannon Corn has much more difficult propagation conditions than Giant Spring Cannon Corn.

Locke looked at the Giant Spring Cannon Corn seed in his hand. Currently, Giant Spring Cannon Corn is only a rare magical plant, while the Giant Spring Cannon Corn, also a Star Ring Magical Plant, is an extinct ancient magical plant.

‘The Rose Council dares to use Giant Spring Cannon Corn for crystallization experiments. If I can cultivate it in this world and then use it for experiments on atavism enhanced by the Golden Spell, I might obtain a lot of useful data…’

‘Anyway, the Timeline Stone has already been used. I can use the remaining time to conduct this experiment.’ If I succeed, I can obtain the incomparably powerful Great Spring Cannon Corn, as described by the Star Ring Wizards and Moon Ring Wizards of the Rose Council.

Locke left the Emerald Dream.

He returned to the Three Holes World, where the various city-states were rapidly expanding. Some believed in forming kingdoms, while others advocated maintaining the status quo, leading to a heated debate that caused the Rangers who wanted to establish kingdoms to temporarily halt their efforts.

They maintained the status quo

, but entered a phase of rapid development again. Rangers were traveling to the mortal city-states, recruiting more people to become Rangers. The

Power Leaf system, which Orion had only partially pushed forward, continued to advance.

Locke, meanwhile, focused all his attention on his Great Spring Cannon Corn. He planted this fertile corn kernel next to the Golden Tree and extracted life essence from the Forest Sanctuary, watering the kernel with it.

A year later, the Great Spring Cannon Corn sprouted.

The Life Essence was originally intended for the Tree of Life, but now that the Tree of Life had constructed its own immense magic, it was no longer needed.

The Tree of Prosperity could grow on its own as it forged immense magic.

Therefore, Locke decisively changed course, directly using the Life Essence on the Great Grass Corn. Moreover, he felt a certain unease, as if he would regret it for the rest of his life if he didn’t conduct a regression experiment in this world.

Locke frowned, deep in thought. “Could something be wrong? What could be wrong? Aren’t I on the path to becoming a Star Ring Wizard? My power is increasing every moment, my magic is becoming more profound every moment.”

“There can’t be anything wrong…”

“I’m almost there, with few obstacles to becoming a Star Ring Wizard. I just need to spend a little more time.”

The magnificent nascent star ring behind him reappeared.

This was a warning sign bestowed upon him by the endless void.

(End of Chapter)