Roland walked to the center of the garden and couldn't help but be stunned.
At the end of the passage, there was a small room made of plants. Tree trunks and improved crops made up the walls, and crisscrossed vines hung overhead, as if they had been carefully woven, and there were several hanging from the green leaves. Bunch of sparkling grapes. There was a bonfire burning in the middle of the room, and there were green furniture around it - if you look closely, they are all made of strange plants that protrude from the ground. For a moment, he thought he had come to the world of fairy tales. If it weren't for the fact that there were several familiar figures standing beside the bonfire, he would have doubted that this was a dream.
"How is this going?"
Tilly turned her head and showed a sighing expression, "The ability of the leaves has evolved, and she has turned into this garden."
"Where's her?" Roland asked in surprise.
"She has become one with the plant," Tilly looked around. "The scene you see in front of you is all part of the leaves."
Feeling that it was not an illusion that he was walking in the body of a giant creature before, but the "giant creature" was replaced by a leaf, and Roland's heart suddenly tightened, "She will not be unable to recover."
"As long as I remove my ability, I can return to my normal state," Ye Zi's voice suddenly sounded.
But if you listen carefully, it's not her own words, but a mixture of the rustling of the leaves and the rubbing of the branches.
The other party's answer reassured Roland a little, "Can you hear us?"
"Not only can I hear, but I can see, smell, and touch," the leaves looked delighted. "I can feel every change in the garden, including birds building their nests on the branches, bugs crawling on the tree trunks. … This feeling is hard to describe in words, Lord Tilly is right, I am the garden itself now, and I have noticed you from the moment you walked in here.”
As he said that, a huge rolled leaf hung down from the ceiling to Roland's hand, slowly blooming, and there was a cup filled with purple-red liquid inside. The cup is made of four overlapping olive leaves, and the petiole forms the cup ears, which looks small and exquisite. Roland took the glass to his mouth and took a sip, and found that it was actually a freshly brewed wine, slightly sour with a refreshing sweetness. It seems that both drinks and containers come from this garden.
Roland drank the other party's "toast", walked to the bonfire, and sat on a plant bench with great interest - its support was a thick leather branch, and the seat and back were covered with a layer of thick wheat leaves, sitting up like a sofa. Medium. There's a grill by the fire, and Andrea is baking apples and corn for everyone. No doubt these are also sourced locally from the garden.
"How did you do all this?" the prince asked, looking up.
"I don't know much about the process," the voice responded quickly. "I just took care of the newly planted crops and your flying couriers as usual, practicing my abilities by the way—then they answered my call. Maybe it was The way I've been looking for a fusion that brings the jungle and the life it nurtures into a true whole."
"What if you use your abilities in the Hidden Forest? Can you make it a part of you too?"
"I don't think... no," she hesitated for a moment, "even if it could, it would take a long time. It doesn't take much mana to maintain this state, and even the woods can replenish it for me, but each expansion The circle of control makes me feel sluggish.”
"Slow thinking?" Roland was stunned.
"I don't know how to describe this feeling," Ye Zi said, "If I slowly expand my control, after a few years, I should be able to become one with the Hidden Forest, but if I melt into it instantly, I'm afraid I will lose my mind. - When I first started to integrate the garden, I felt that my head was not enough, as if my mind suddenly became extremely empty, and it took a long time to get used to it before returning to normal." She paused and added, "But the plants that have been controlled, When you enter again, there will be no such strange feeling, as long as you change your mind, you can realize it.”
It's really incredible, Roland thought to himself, compared to Anna and Lily's evolution in the microscopic direction, Ye Zi's new ability is obviously a breakthrough in the macroscopic. If she can control the entire Hidden Forest one day, no doubt the movements of any enemy will not escape her eyes and ears.
"Congratulations," Wendy said with a smile, "now there is another evolution witch in the Witch League. According to Agatha, this is equivalent to half the size of the League."
"If she were here, she would definitely be sighing for a while," Roland smiled, then looked at the little girl who was curiously peeking at him, "Where's the blank paper?"
"About her abilities... I'm afraid further tests are needed," Wendy responded, "but I found a strange phenomenon."
After she finished speaking, she snapped her fingers, and two balls of wrapped snow fell on the roof quickly.
Wendy spread them out one by one, put one ball next to the bonfire, and one ball in the corner of the room, and then let the white paper cast power on it, "I'm teaching her how to use magic power evenly, so as to achieve stable power casting. The effect—as you taught me at first. She doesn't have precise control yet, but it's generally not much different."
Roland noticed that the snow near the bonfire quickly turned into a pool of ice water, while the one farther away only melted half.
Wendy picked up the melted water and walked to the wall, knocking on the wall, the tightly wrapped vines shrank to the sides, revealing a fist-sized hole, and the cold wind from the outside rushed in.
"Come on, use this ability again," she said to the white paper.
The little girl nodded and stretched out her hands. Roland was surprised to find that the snow water in the leaves formed a thin layer of ice crystals again.
"This is... speeding up time, making the result appear in advance?" He rejected his conjecture as soon as he said it. No, time is just a concept set by humans for their own convenience, and it does not exist in itself. How can something that doesn't exist affect it
"I thought so too at first, but Lord Tilly said it wasn't so." Wendy used a vine to lift a stone and shook it in front of the white paper. The latter used his ability again, but the speed of the pendulum did not change. It still swayed left and right at the same amplitude until it finally stopped. "If it is the acceleration time, it should swing faster, right?"
Indeed, Roland quickly realized the essence of the opponent's ability - she was not affecting time, but the movement of particles. Magic power changed the energy level of particles, making them lower or higher, and macroscopically manifested as freezing or melting. Of course, Bai Zhi may not be able to understand this at all. She only releases her ability according to her own feelings, so she comes to the conclusion that it has little effect on other objects: Oxidation is a relatively long process, and it takes longer to observe the results. .
If you guessed correctly, her ability is a natural catalyst.
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