“Achoo!”
At the same time, Bai Yue Ling suddenly sneezed, rubbing her nose and saying, “Why do I always feel like someone’s thinking about me?”
The Shi Qianla beside her chuckled lightly. “Little White is so cute; it’s normal for random big sisters to think about you, right?”
Bai Yue Ling’s delicate body trembled as she sternly warned, “Don’t say that randomly! Being thought about by a big sister is a matter of life and death!”
“Alright~ Alright~” Shi Qianla nodded with a smile.
“By the way, didn’t you say you could sense that little divine official’s location?”
“I can, but it’s just a vague general direction; I can’t even confirm if she’s northwest or southwest.”
The two were now hurrying through the Forest of Nature, following the faint Dark Fall aura to find Trineph’s position.
As they got farther from the Royal Capital, the surrounding trees quietly changed; the leaves gradually took on a demonic crimson hue, as if seeping blood, making the whole forest look filled with eerie and sinister vibes, chilling to the bone.
“Is this the effect of the pollution?” Bai Yue Ling furrowed her delicate brows. “It’s not demonic aura, nor devilish; undead, werewolves, vampires… None match. What on earth is the pollution source?”
Even with her rich experience from ten loops, Bai Yue Ling still couldn’t guess the pollution source—perhaps that was why Sistana was so troubled.
After a long trek, Bai Yue Ling gradually felt exhausted and said helplessly, “Shi Qianla, aren’t you a Druid? You must have learned ‘Animal Transformation,’ right? Can you turn into a horse for me to ride?”
In the past, she was always the one being ridden; now she wanted to taste riding a big sister.
“Who told you Druids can transform into any animal?” Shi Qianla shook her head. “I’m good with small flying types, like crows, bats, eagles… Your pair of big meaty legs—I couldn’t carry them.”
“Weak big sister, as if your legs are slender.” Bai Yue Ling was just about to mock when her eyes lit up, standing on tiptoes to gaze into the distance. “I sense it—right ahead!”
“What right ahead?”
“Trineph, of course!”
The two hurried forward, leaving tree after tree behind, arriving at a swampy area full of puddles and meadows.
Shi Qianla stepped on the muddy, soft ground ahead and frowned. “Strange… Yesterday this was clearly a grassy field; how did it turn into a swamp today?”
Normally, swamps didn’t form in forests, but at this moment, a swampy expanse lay before them.
Bai Yue Ling pointed to a certain spot in the swamp. “I can feel it—Trineph is right there.”
Shi Qianla looked over and saw a strange object resembling a rotten log undulating in the meadow.
Seeming to detect their presence, that log actually drifted toward the shore.
Shi Qianla frowned. “That thing… Could it be the little divine official we’re looking for?”
Bai Yue Ling also sensed something off but hesitated and nodded. “Probably, because only she would have the Dark Fall aura.”
Trineph had Dark Fall-ed 20% on her first time for power, and it was that dense Dark Fall aura that drew her here.
As the log drew nearer, Bai Yue Ling furrowed her brows tightly.
Because that piece of log seemed a bit too big.
Out of caution, Bai Yue Ling cast an “Appraisal”—
[Name: Polluted Giant Crocodile]
[Race: Croc]
[Level: 30]
[Description: A crocodile polluted by an unknown force, not only grown enormously in size but also more ferocious in temperament, using its bloodied maw to tear apart every living thing in sight.]
[Remarks: “This is wood.”…”No, this is a crocodile.”…”Bullshit.”..”Don’t believe me? Watch, I’ll poke it…” “Fine, it is a crocodile—it swallowed you in one bite.”…”This is wood.”…]
“Why is it an enemy!”
Bai Yue Ling reflexively pulled out the Charm Wound Staff, hurling three Holy Light Orbs at the giant crocodile.
With a fierce explosion, three bloody craters instantly blasted open on the giant crocodile’s body.
With a splash of water, it suddenly reared up its two-story-high massive frame, emitting a deafening roar of fury, its six large eyes locking onto Bai Yue Ling as one, opening its fang-filled bloodied maw and charging toward the shore.
Bai Yue Ling was just about to continue bombarding when Shi Qianla shouted, “Let me!”
Suddenly, thick vines burst from the soil, wrapping tightly around the giant crocodile’s four stubby legs, rendering it immobile.
Shi Qianla drew a pair of daggers from her pant leg, leaping into the air and stabbing them deep into the giant crocodile’s skull.
With a flash of emerald light, vines crawled out from the wounds at the dagger tips, in the blink of an eye entwining over half the giant crocodile’s body.
The giant crocodile roared in fury again, its massive frame twisting violently, unleashing the crocodile’s signature ultimate—Death Roll!
Thick vines snapped one after another, Shi Qianla clicked her tongue, leaping back into midair, a glint of darkness flashing in her eyes. “Since you’re so disobedient, let me try the ability Little White gave me…”
The emerald vines suddenly turned deep green, wrapping around the giant crocodile’s body once more, contracting and wriggling nonstop, rapidly draining its life force.
As the life force drained away swiftly, the giant crocodile’s rolling gradually stopped, its originally massive frame slowly shriveling, as if all the blood inside had been squeezed dry.
Shi Qianla walked up to the giant crocodile and finished it off with one slash.
“Little White’s ‘Dark Fall’ is truly quite useful.” Shi Qianla nodded in satisfaction, turning to ask, “Little White, didn’t you say the little divine official was here?”
Bai Yue Ling thought for a moment, her little face paling. “Trineph… She wouldn’t have been eaten by it, right?”
Shi Qianla’s expression darkened as she immediately sliced open the giant crocodile’s belly with her daggers.
With a wave of nauseating stench spreading, she covered her nose, controlling vines to rummage nonstop inside the giant crocodile’s abdomen.
But inside were only beast carcasses, not a single human shadow.
“Nothing.” Shi Qianla puzzled. “Didn’t you say before you could sense her general state?”
“Yeah, her state now is still very healthy—alive and well.”
“Then why did you say this crocodile had Dark Fall aura…”
Suddenly, the two froze in unison, a terrifying conjecture surfacing in their minds.
The inexplicable pollution affecting the entire forest, sparing neither trees nor beasts…
“So the Dark Fall aura just now was on this giant crocodile.” Bai Yue Ling’s little face paled. “It wasn’t that Trineph’s aura was too faint—the whole forest… is full of Dark Fall aura everywhere!”
Only Fallen Angels could wield the power of Dark Fall.
Could it be that besides me… There’s another Fallen Angel?