Chapter 347

Chapter 347: Arrow Poison Trees and Arrow Poison Frogs

For Lolan Hill, defeating Osuna was difficult but not impossible; however, it did not solve the problem.

If she could not dispel the students who had been ensnared by this strange power, the chaos in the school would continue. As long as the school remained in turmoil, when the time came, the other wise ones outside would slowly return, and this peculiar phenomenon would eventually be exposed. At that time, under the strike of many powerful forces, the enemies in the darkness would no longer be able to hide and cause chaos.

Therefore, Lolan Hill shifted her focus to another direction. She also faintly sensed that there was a significant connection between the chaotic phantom, her own origins, and the system. The system clearly stated that she was from ancient times.

If this guess was correct, then her current body was very likely a ‘person from ancient times’ during the Twilight Era. How did they disappear? Why had she come to this world? What exactly was the system? These truths were like the origin of the world and the meaning of life, attracting her and urging her to explore them.

A person spends their entire life seeking answers to three questions: Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going?

When these three questions receive satisfactory and peaceful answers, one can live without great regrets. Even Lolan Hill, who had few desires, now faced urgent matters she wanted to know about: what was the beginning of everything, and what mission was she truly shouldering?

First, resolve the current anomaly in the school, then quickly advance to Angel Sequence 5 to obtain the answers.

Come on, Lolan Hill.

The young lady silently repeated this to herself, her figure swiftly weaving through the forest in the school. This was the easternmost part of the fortress, primitive and savage, rarely visited by teachers and students. It was said that there was a forbidden forest here, where the sages of a thousand years ago had planted red-branch arrow poison trees. She came here to find such a poisonous tree.

[Red-Branch Arrow Poison Tree] (Evaluation: Gold Rank): The trunk is reddish-brown, the new branches are bright red, and its sap has a strange and deadly poison, capable of sealing a wound instantly, even eroding magic.

Arrow poison trees themselves are already highly toxic. This variety was specially improved by the sages back then, reportedly to combat those infected and corrupted by the chaotic phantom during the calamity. Because the infected enemies generally lost their minds, unable to avoid or detoxify, the effect was excellent.

Lolan Hill did not come here to use it directly for poison; using her blood would be better. Instead, she wanted to utilize its unique properties to create a potion that could suppress and dissolve the chaotic seeds, allowing the students infected by Osuna to recover.

The system referred to this method of using this power as “Ejika’s Transcendental Path.” Normally, this method required a lot of time to teach or guidance from high-ranking individuals, but Osuna was special because she had a natural talent for plagues, turning this method into viral seeds that could spread easily.

This triggered a qualitative change. What originally required time and effort to promote became effortless after such improvement. The power of witches was indeed convenient. Although Osuna was not entirely like other witches after becoming a half-witch, she had some transformative capabilities, which was enough.

But as the saying goes, “To defeat magic with magic.”

Since you can use your innate powers to create viral forms of power seeds, couldn’t I incorporate my purification powers into a potion to make a specialized antidote? This was Lolan Hill’s line of thought.

Thus, she tried making several potions in her laboratory. Although they had purifying effects, unfortunately, her power was too gentle, lacking strong offensive capabilities, and took too long to take effect. Now, she wanted to find a targeted poison to counteract poison with poison, first shattering the strange power seeds, then using her own power characteristics to dissolve and purify them.

She crossed mountains and ridges, passing through the misty mountain passes and the quiet layers of forest, stepping over piles of decaying leaves, leaping over puddles like mirrors. The young lady stepped on the branches of trees, her white dress swaying slightly with the branches, then leaped again, her silver hair dancing in the emerald shade of the forest as she searched for the hidden jungle.

Arrow poison trees were highly toxic, so the sages had set up special concealment rune arrays around them. It was estimated that witches were involved at the time. Even Lolan Hill could not directly perceive them with her ability to listen to nature and needed to personally go to various places to search one by one.

Although she could not perceive them from afar, relying on her innate power, when the actual object appeared before her eyes, the concealed array would make her notice something unusual.

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From morning until afternoon, as the sun slowly slid to the other side of the sky, after walking dozens of miles, Lolan Hill finally discovered a peculiar spot.

In a corner of this forest, a few brightly colored ‘frogs’ caught her attention. She turned her figure back, looking down at the three differently colored ‘frogs’ in the water pool below. Recalling past knowledge, she slowly recalled this species.

Arrow poison frogs have smooth skin and extremely vivid colors, and they also possess unbelievable toxicity. Although their names contain ‘arrow poison,’ the toxins of arrow poison frogs come from their diet and have nothing to do with arrow poison trees.

However, in the extraordinary world, many things are unpredictable. Following the principle of attraction between similar characteristics, there might be arrow poison trees nearby.

The young lady stepped on the soft ground, hearing the subtle sound of crushed dead leaves under her feet. Slowly approaching the water pool, these arrow poison frogs also turned their bodies toward her. One was cobalt blue, one was red and black striped, and one was black with purple circular patterns, beautiful yet dangerous.

Although they were only palm-sized, these arrow poison frogs were all Demon Sequence 4 · Colorful Arrow Poison Frogs (Evaluation: Rare Silver Rank). They called out to Lolan Hill, seemingly a bit nervous about this stranger.

The young lady thought for a moment, switching her current Natural Sequence to the Demon Sequence, causing her pupils to turn a serene crimson. The pure and powerful aura of the Demon Sequence made these arrow poison frogs feel more at ease, and their calls became softer.

“Do you know where there are any strange and poisonous trees nearby?” The young lady squatted down, looking at the three arrow poison frogs ahead, trying to communicate. Although success was uncertain, she still wanted to try.

These arrow poison frogs looked at the young lady, chirping happily a few times, whether they understood or not, then turned and jumped into the forest on the other side. Lolan Hill didn’t quite understand, but she followed slowly, heading deeper into the mist-shrouded forest.

(End of Chapter)