Age of Adepts

Chapter 363: Nightmare garden

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Two days later, the two finally arrived at the legendary 'witch's hut'.

This is a magical cottage hidden in the nightmare garden, and it is guarded by Sharon, a first-level witch from the death witch clan.

When Alice asked the approximate location of the mysterious area from the nearby villagers with her immature and lovely face, the two just found the entrance to the Nightmare Garden in a deserted area.

According to Alice, this place should also be a 'wild' mission point specially set up by the Witch Council. It is garrisoned by official witches who are responsible for assessing and reviewing apprentice witch trials in the surrounding area.

Since it is not open to the public, the witches stationed here purposely create a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere to scare away troubled villagers who are curious about witches. However, there are quite a few rare enchanted plants in the Garden of Nightmare, not to mention ordinary people, even apprentice witches with weaker strength may find it difficult to force their way in.

So when Greem and Alice came to the entrance of the Nightmare Garden, what they saw was a gloomy garden surrounded by crooked iron fences. Through the half-open door, tall trees and strange flowers and plants can be vaguely seen inside, while places a little further away are shrouded in faint mist.

On an old road sign erected on the right side of the garden gate, a line of bloody characters stood out.

Nightmare garden, trespassers die!

Looking around, most of the iron fences that can be seen in the line of sight have been corroded, barely standing upright, and wild dogs with large gaps in many places can get in.

But in such an area, ordinary wild dogs probably don't even have the courage to approach!

"Let's go, these are witches' little tricks to scare those bumpkins!" Alice shrugged, reached out and pushed open the rusty iron gate, and walked in amidst the creaking and hoarse sounds. .

Greem, who was following behind, could see clearly that Alice, who stepped into the gate, seemed to have suddenly merged into a layer of water film, and her short and thin figure suddenly became abnormally distorted.

"Chip, keep vigilant at all times, and remind me in time if there is any problem!" Greem secretly issued an order.

"Hey, the mission has been established... Special force field fluctuations have been found, and the alert level has not yet been reached..."

As long as there is no danger!

Only then did Greem strode into the garden with peace of mind.

This is indeed a nightmare garden!

After entering, Greem realized that what he saw was a botanical garden, a plantation with magical plants growing everywhere.

This is a magical plant resource point that is almost the same as a human noble garden.

The winding stone path under your feet is 5 meters wide, enough for two or three adults to walk side by side here. On both sides of the path are flower beds separated by 1-meter-high wooden fences, in which strange plants of various shapes are planted.

Although Greem was not a pharmacist, with the information in the chip database in his mind, he could recognize half of the plants in it at a glance.

The Nightmare Garden is indeed a Nightmare Garden, there are not many normal varieties of plants planted in it, most of them are vicious and evil bloodthirsty plants and mutant species. If they appear in human society, I am afraid that any of them will cause quite a disturbance.

Human face mushroom, blood-sucking vine, piranha, sunflower, konjac grass, snake head fungus, dryad, flower elf...

Most of these plants lived in groups, and Greem had dealt with them for a long time in the magic swamp.

Like the human face mushroom, it is a small red mushroom shape. There are a few slender dark spots on the umbrella surface. At a glance, it looks like a human smiling face sketched by children. Once they smell popularity, they will stretch out their delicate hands and feet as if activated, and gather together to make a sound like a child's cry, which looks quite cute.

But once someone is confused by them and walks into them, they will create a mysterious dream like illusion, making the other party intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.

In addition, despite their cute appearance, they are carnivorous!

There are also some plants here that are solitary, and there is only one solitary tree in the huge field. Like the dryad, it is such a terrible plant. They don't need partners for their survival. Wherever they parasitize, all other plants will be deprived of their vitality and eventually wither.

However, the dryads planted here are obviously still juveniles. Once they grow up, they will pull out their roots from the ground and transform into a humanoid intelligent creature. At that time, the tree demon was handsome and charming, and possessed natural charm spells. It was also an ideal contracted creature for witches.

As for the wild dryads, they usually hide in the depths of the jungle. They are a kind of forest goblins, and it is difficult to catch them easily. Even Greem didn't expect to see their larvae here.

In addition to these, there are also many mysterious plants that Greem has never seen before in the Nightmare Garden.

It was a densely packed light yellow flower, the pink and tender petals were slightly closed, swaying slowly in the breeze, and there was nothing special about it from the outside. However, when Greem leaned down slightly to take a closer look, he was horrified to find that there was a human face with similar eyebrows inside each closed petal.

The old, the young, the male, the female, the beautiful, the ugly... all faces are clearly visible, and their appearances are different, but the only thing in common is that they all have their eyes closed.

Seeing this, Greem couldn't help but use "they" in his heart to describe these...

Because the sleeping faces inside these petals were so realistic, it actually gave Greem the illusion that they were transformed from real human beings.

Greem looked up in amazement, and saw a large area of lush flowers, but somehow gave him a cold and strange feeling. As the breeze blew, there were waves of whispering noises, and these people seemed to be talking secretly about something.

"Hey, an unknown force field fluctuation has been detected, and it is preliminarily determined to be in the illusion field... It is recommended that the subject stay away immediately!"

Perhaps this is not an illusion!

Greem quickly took two steps and left the creepy flower garden. He had a feeling that once those people opened their eyes, something terrible would happen.

"Don't worry, this is one of the many resource points of the Witch Council. All the enchanted plants are under strict management. As long as you don't step out of this stone path, they will not dare to attack you. But once you are lured by them into the flower garden, then..." Alice didn't continue, but Greem fully understood what she meant.

The situation here is similar to the magic swamp where Greem once stayed. There are too many dangerous demonized plants planted and bred in the resource point. They are the most terrifying monsters in the world to ordinary people. Even those apprentice witches with weaker strength rush in rashly, and I am afraid they will eat them too. No small pain.

This... Maybe that's the main reason why the Witch Council has set this place as one of the review sites for the apprentice witch trial tasks!

And such a place, of course, is also managed by someone!

Just as Alice was leading Greem to wander around in the Nightmare Garden, a strange morning glory beside them suddenly grew a little louder, and a hoarse and gloomy old woman's voice came from inside.

"Today is not the day of the Nightmare Garden! No matter where you are from, it is a huge offense to dare to break into my territory, Sharon! I give you 3 minutes to exit here, otherwise..."

"Graceful Grandma Sharon, it's the lovely Alice who came to see you! Have you forgotten me?" Alice screamed excitedly instead of the slightest fear.

She actually knew the witch here

Greem suddenly realized, no wonder she was the first to choose this place out of so many places!

"Alice...which Alice..."

As the old witch muttered to herself, a palm-sized flower elf with red alder fruit all over her body suddenly appeared on the huge morning glory, and she looked like a miniature version of a human girl. Transparent wings as thin as onion wings.

To be honest, although the flower elves and the green elves that Greem had seen before were similar in appearance, they belonged to different forest elves.

A kind of witchcraft who is good at auxiliary plants, with a gentle and peaceful temperament, and is usually captured by wizards to manage their residences and laboratories for themselves. A kind of highly poisonous witchcraft that is good at plants. It is ferocious in nature and has a fast flying speed. It is often used as a combat magic pet.

After the flower elf flew out of the trumpet flower, she waved a small magic wand in her hand, flapped her transparent wings and circled around Alice several times quickly, leaving a faint green light that slowly dissipated in the air. point…

"Alice! It really is you, Alice... Alice of the Moya family... Your name has been widely circulated in the circle of witches recently. I thought it was another guy with the same name as you, but I didn't expect it was really you Now that you're here, come in... But the fellow with you, you'd better stay outside, he's a big problem now!" It seemed that the old witch in the hut in the distance also saw Alice through the eyes of the flower elves. , Her voice continued to be heard in the morning glory.

"Grandma Sharon, Greem is Alice's current partner, don't you have the heart to let Alice's partner stay outside alone with these magical plants?" For some reason, Alice is now more and more able to use her 'Girl' status is gone.

There was a sigh from the morning glory.

"You're already a mature woman in your mid-twenties, and you're still playing this game in front of me... Well, well, let that wizard come in with you!"

Hearing the old witch's order, the flower elf smiled sweetly at the two of them, turned around and took them to the distant witch's hut.

With the flower elf leading the way, the small wooden house that could not be approached even after wandering around before, came to it in just two or three minutes this time.