Si Sheng got rid of his passerby halo.
They stood in front of the giant black tree. They were less than a meter away from it, but the screaming dryad didn’t react at all.
It looked like an ordinary tree. Apart from its scary appearance, Xu Sili couldn’t feel any danger from it.
“Ah Sheng, could this have something to do with the ruins you mentioned?” Xu Sili looked at the ugly-looking tree and couldn’t help reaching out his hand.
Si Sheng didn’t stop him.
He just nodded and hummed.
Xu Sili’s hand had already grabbed a black vine that was wrapped around the screaming tree monster.
The vines looked wet and soft, but they felt dry and rough. It was just like the bark of an ordinary tree.
Xu Sili raised an eyebrow. He grabbed the vine and pulled it out.
Snap.
The vine was actually torn off by him!
Xu Sili looked at the thing in his hand. The original black vine had lost its eerie and terrifying appearance after it separated from the tree trunk and turned into a light brown vine.
Sure enough, this giant tree was an ordinary tree in disguise!
Xu Sili looked up and cast Insight at the giant tree in front of him.
[Siasa Banyan Tree]
[Age: 123 years.
Species: Siasa Banyan Tree. Native to Siasa in the Roland Empire, also known as the tree of the inscription master.
Transcribed inscription: Camouflage (can be disguised as a specified object. Certain conditions must be met).
Inscription status: Enabled and operating normally.]
Xu Sili was stunned when he saw the information displayed by Insight.
Inscription master… inscription…
He opened the warehouse panel and looked at the description of the Shield of Siasa. Sure enough, he saw the words ‘Due to the special inscription, it has remained intact for hundreds of years.’
So this ruin…
Could it be the inheritance of the inscription master?
It was a new profession!
Xu Sili was extremely excited. He threw down the vine in his hand, opened the future forum and searched for relevant information about ‘inscription masters.’ Unfortunately, he didn’t get any clues.
In other words, like the card master, an inscription master was a profession that hadn’t been explored by future players.
Xu Sili thought about it for a moment and understood.
The Siasa Banyan Tree was only found in the dense Siasa Forest and was known as the inscription master’s tree. This meant it was most likely the birthplace of the inscription master.
However, future players once abandoned this place due to the screaming dryads.
Later, players with high-tech weapons and equipment adopted the method of direct bombing to kill monsters.
Even if there was an inheritance here, it would be destroyed directly under such violence, right? Maybe the sprites living here were also killed in the bombardment?
Xu Sili had no way of knowing.
He looked at the banyan tree in front of him, disguised as the screaming dryad, and suddenly thought of a question.
The screaming dryad should be a tree species that appeared after the natural disaster a hundred years ago. Who carved the inscription on the banyan tree? Who let it be disguised so it could survive?
This person must be an inscription master, so did he also survive? Like Elder Huo and Ms Aina, did he also survive from one hundred years ago to the present?
Xu Sili frowned before finally letting out a sigh.
It was hard to imagine that someone could survive in this place for a hundred years.
Xenos and Silin had lived in the wild for four years. Their mental states had become more or less problematic. If someone really had lived here for nearly a hundred years…
It felt like this person must’ve become perverted.
Xu Sili withdrew his gaze from the big banyan tree. He looked at Si Sheng and said, “Let’s go and take a look at the ruins.”
Si Sheng nodded and led him deeper into the dense forest.
The surrounding scenery was still so eerie, but Xu Sili kept using Insight. Then he found…
There were actually quite a few of them disguised as ordinary plants!
They all had the ‘camouflage’ inscriptions engraved on them. This camouflage protected them and kept them from being discovered by their natural enemies. Xu Sili had discovered that the camouflage played a role not only in vision, but also smell.
Basically, as long as they weren’t touched, it would be hard to tell the difference between them and mutated plants.
Such protection might be the reason why these common plants had survived.
The youngest one he saw was only five or six years old.
This meant that at least five or six years ago, someone had carved an inscription on it! That inscription master was really still alive in this world.
Xu Sili was a bit excited.
He now understood that outside of the lands that the Roland Empire had already recovered, there must be a lot of native life forms from Escher Star struggling to survive in the dangerous environment in the wild.
This was true of Xenos and SiIlin, as well as the sea elves.
Now there were the sprites and inscription masters.
Perhaps as Roland’s pace of outward expansion accelerated, more and more lives would be found by him before they completely disappeared!
Xu Sili couldn’t help feeling excited when he thought of this.
He still welcomed these native life forms of Escher Star. After struggling in difficult conditions for so long, he believed that they wouldn’t have too much hostility towards Roland, who extended a helping hand.
Xu Sili thought about it. He couldn’t help calling up the mission panel and issuing a long-term mission—
Save the lost ancient races.
At present, there were actually fewer players participating in the land monster clearing operations because there were many fun things to distract players. Clearing monsters might still be the best way to gain experience, but other ways of playing were too attractive.
Once the level couldn’t be improved, players would naturally not focus on leveling up.
If he was to develop steadily, he should stop at this time and focus on infrastructure. The problem was….
Let the two million elementalists do nothing all day? Let them do nothing but make trouble?
Xu Sili felt this wouldn’t work.
He should guide players to fight interstellar beasts in the wild more often, instead of wasting time at home all day. Occasionally, they might even destroy public property when they got too excited.
If they wanted to fight, wait until he built a few more arenas. The current arenas in Mercenary Town were far from enough.
Xu Sili released a mission. As for whether it could attract players? He wasn’t too worried about that.
What did it mean to find an ancient race?
It meant it was possible to develop into a rare race! Just like the forest elves and sea elves.
This was definitely an attraction beyond imagination for players. Apart from anything else, becoming the savior of a certain race was enough to satisfy many chuuni players.
At this time, Si Sheng finally stopped.
Xu Sili put away his other thoughts and looked at where Si Sheng was looking.
Unlike the Asmo trial, the ruins of the inscription master didn’t have automatic teleportation. Perhaps it was because there was still an inscription master alive.
In front of them was a screaming dryad, which looked ferocious and terrifying. However, Xu Sili already knew that it was just a disguise.
“Is there anything special here?” Xu Sili asked.
A golden light flashed in Si Sheng’s gray-blue eyes. Then he said, “This is the entrance.”
Xu Sili blinked. “Are you sure?”
He looked at the disguised screaming dryad again and reached out to touch it. This time, Si Sheng grabbed him.
“Ah Li, don’t move.”
He held Xu Sili’s hand tightly. Then he stretched out his other hand toward the screaming dryad. As a result, his hand actually went straight through it.
Xu Sili was slightly stunned. Then Si Sheng put an arm around his waist before the two of them crashed into the ‘tree’ together.
He subconsciously closed his eyes.
However, there was no pain. Instead, there was a dizzying feeling of imbalance like his body moving up and down. The alternation of weightlessness and being weighed down was extremely uncomfortable.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, their feet landed on the ground.
Xu Sili opened his eyes in a dazed manner.
He looked up and saw that this seemed to be the inside of a giant tree. It was a very huge tree. He was like a stone at the foot of the giant tree. He was shocked as he looked up.
“Where did such a big tree come from?” Xu Sili murmured.
Then he used Insight on the tree.
[Siasa Banyan Tree]
[Age: 156 years.
Species: Siasa Banyan Tree. Native to Siasa in the Roland Empire, also known as the tree of the inscription master.
Transcribed inscription: Camouflage (can be disguised as a specified object. Certain conditions must be met), Sprite Barrier (when entering it, the body will shrink to the size of a sprite).
Inscription status: Enabled and operating normally.]
Xu Sili blinked.
Oh my god!
“It isn’t that the tree is big, but… we have become smaller?” He couldn’t help saying.
Was this also an inscription effect?
Xu Sili looked at his body. He carefully felt the power in his body. Then he looked at his personal panel and found…
All his attributes had been weakened!
After becoming smaller, his strength directly returned to one star. This was being weakened by around a hundred times.
This feeling was a bit uncomfortable.
However, Xu Sili wasn’t very afraid. After all, Si Sheng was by his side.
In addition, Si Sheng was very calm from beginning to end.
Si Sheng looked up and scanned the surroundings, whispering, “It is a very interesting barrier spell.”
But that didn’t bother him.
The man raised his hand and threw a light shield to Xu Sili. Then he closed his eyes slightly.
No one knew how he did it, but his body started to gradually grow bigger, or rather, he gradually returned to his original size.
Xu Sili immediately raised his head but couldn’t see Si Sheng’s full face.
Under the protection of the light shield, he automatically flew up and avoided any danger when Si Sheng’s body touched him during the process of growing bigger.
Finally, Si Sheng returned to his original appearance and opened his eyes again.
He reached out and caught the silver-haired young man floating in the air. Si Sheng was slightly stunned when he saw the mini version of Xu Sili.
So cute…
He stared intently. Finally, he couldn’t help stretching out his finger to touch. However, the young man hugged it with both hands.
“What do you want to do?” Xu Sili held his finger and asked a bit angrily.
Si Sheng stared at him and said inexplicably, “I want to see you turn into a sea elf.”
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