Chapter 237: Weekly Mission: Valley of Devouring Viridescent
Chapter 237: Weekly Mission: Valley of Devouring Viridescent
Aleron opened the chest, and it spewed out a single small glowing orb containing a strange painting inside.
He touched as the orb vanished, and the painting emerged, its size being a meter long and half a meter wide.
It was a painting of a big eye with a vertical pupil, extending tentacles from its sides. It looked lifelike as the eye blinked, pulsed with a red glow, and its tentacles also constantly wiggled.
[Painting of Soulen Crux]
-Type: Artifact.
-Grade: Unbound-rank
-Effect: Infuse chakra energy in the painting and face it against the target to curse their soul with [Rotten Apparition].
-> Rotten Apparition: the cursed target will see their loved ones and close people conjuring, attacking their soul and mind with negativity.
"This is not bad," Shelby raised her eyebrows. "Using it on a Paragon-rank will result in swift defeat, and it would greatly harm Unbound-rank ones as well if we use it during combat."
"Yeah, I guess it was worth it exploring this," Aleron smiled. "We got a ton of pure Soul essence, which will make everyone powerful, and this artifact."
...
Aleron, Luna, Kira, and Shelby once again rode on the Starforged Dreambloom Stag as they continued their journey and only stopped after they left the Malevolent Cloud Sea area.
Aleron contacted Midworld and talked with the girls as he asked them who was coming first before finding it was Mei.
He told her to arrive at his Hell and gave her the pure Soul essence refined from those two chaotic ghosts.
After she absorbed it, Mei entered through the portal and arrived on the Dreambloom Stage's back.
"Mei, absorb the soul essence and power up first," Aleron said with a smile as he created a proper and comfortable mattress for her to meditate on the back.
"Mhmm, thank you, Master," Mei said with a nod, her white cheeks bearing a shade of pink. She had removed her mask and was no longer wearing it these days.
"So she is one of your wives, eh?" Luna elbowed Aleron from the side as she looked at Mei while smiling. "She is a cutie."
"That she is, haha."
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The group continued moving towards their destination.
It took an hour for Mei to finish absorbing the pure soul essence and properly powering up, reaching 1000 foundational points in her Soul path, becoming the peak of Paragon-rank in at least her Soul Path.
They sped up a bit after that and finally arrived at a misty valley between two huge mountains after four hours of traveling.
During the travel, Aleron focused on carving a path in Body Path, figuring out how to evolve Bloodlines into Genome Trees.
He didn't completely figure it out, but he was making progress.
As they arrived at the site, Aleorn saw two people sitting on a cloud above the valley, playing some kind of board game akin to chess, but both sides had 100 pieces, and the board was big.
Powerhouses at this stage would find chess boring because, with their mental prowess, they could easily figure out all possibilities within seconds. As such, the board game being played here was way more complex, with more rules to make it tough and interesting.
Upon sensing the aura, the two Unbound-rank powerhouses stood up and looked at the incoming monster.
"Did he have an Unbound-rank chaotic beast mount?"
"Who knows? He just joined in the recent batch and killed the previous S-rank holder. According to the details we got, the other two Paragon-ranks with him are also members of Special Paragon Class but live with him."
"All of them are women except for him, heh. I guess we know what's his deal."
Aleron, Luna, and Kira flew toward them while Shelby and Mei stayed on the Dreambloom Stag.
"This task is only for you, so the other two can't enter," one of the men with a tiger head and body with black and yellow stripes said to Aleron as he crossed his arms.
The demonic man with blue horns beside him wryly smiled and quickly said, "That's wrong, Daji. I got notified that the other two of the Special Paragon Class can enter with him."
"The fuck? Say it earlier, Roke."
"I just got notified an hour ago, and our game was going intense, so it left my mind," Roke said before he glanced at the chaotic beast and then at the trio before him, "Alright, you can
go now."
The task was to explore this chaotic phenomenon with a chaos power of 9.8.
Aleron, Luna, and Kira entered through the mist and found themselves in a colorful world of nature and danger.
Just like when they entered that ghastly ship and got its name automatically from Chaosverse's intent, they also got this chaotic phenomenon's name.
Valley of Devouring Viridescent.
The Valley of Devouring Viridescent stretched out before Aleron, Luna, and Kira in a surreal, twisted landscape. A shimmering mist of green and gold hung heavy in the air, with enormous, jagged flora growing from every direction. Thick vines draped from towering trees, writhing like snakes, while vibrant, glowing spores floated gently, only to burst with toxic gas upon touch.
Immediately, their senses heightened. The air was thick with chaotic energy, making every step into the valley feel like wading through unseen forces.
Aleron's fingers twitched, ready to use his Mystic Skills and Magic Prints as required.
He had already cleared a stronger chaotic phenomenon, so this wouldn't be hard, but carelessness could
to
Just as they entered a bit deeper into the valley, Chaotic Plant-Based Monsters were quick to appear, rising from the ground like phantoms.
A twisted amalgamation of plant and monster, their bodies resembled gargantuan pitcher plants with razor-toothed maws, vine tendrils covered in sharp thorns, and pulsating bioluminescent orbs embedded within their bodies, which were the first ones to shoot out as they exploded, covering everything in a sparkling mist, blinding their visions.
One of the monstrous plants lunged at them, its massive maw snapping open to swallow Aleron whole. He acted swiftly, raising his hand to summon a barrier of compressed space, freezing the beast mid-motion. The maw was stuck, vibrating with strain.
Without hesitation, Kira leaped into action. Her Symbios Gear-Deadlock X-mark shifted into its second form, her sleek sniper rifle materializing in her arms. In a split second, she aimed at the bioluminescent orb on the plant's chest, the soft glow reflecting in her eyes.
*Bang!*
A single shot rang out, and the plant exploded in a cascade of green ooze, causing the creature to writhe in agony before crumbling to dust.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
Luna, not far behind, already had her sights on the next threat. Two more plant monsters surged toward her, but she remained calm. Her Symbios Gear-Blackfrost Luna glowed with
an ethereal, frosty light.
With a flash of movement, her gauntlet-clad fist crashed into the earth, summoning a wave of ice spikes that erupted from the ground, freezing the creatures in place.
"Now burn," Luna muttered, snapping her fingers.
The frozen plants were combusted, engulfed by brilliant blue flames that danced across their forms, reducing them to ash. Her mastery of flame and ice was precise and deadly, and the
enemies stood no chance.
"More incoming!" Kira yelled as more of the writhing plants emerged from the earth, moving faster and with more ferocity.
Aleron took charge again, channeling both time and space as he executed the Mystic Skill:
Dragon Vortex.
With a sweeping motion of his hand, the vortex formed in front of the oncoming plant monsters, freezing them in time for a brief moment before a spatial rift formed in the shape of a dragon, warping the creatures into the air and scattering them across the area.
In the next moment, draconic lightning arced from his fingertips, crackling through the air and electrocuting the suspended monsters in mid-air as rumbling crackles echoed. Luna and Kira moved with perfect synchronicity, using the chaos to their advantage. Kira's Symbios Gear shifted again to its blaster form, firing concentrated energy blasts at the more resilient enemies, while Luna charged ahead, her gauntlets slamming into any that got too close, using her star-infused punches to obliterate them.
This valley wasn't too big, and the monsters were unending as they kept coming every minute while they moved deeper into the valley towards its end.
"Recover your energies while I hold them off!" Aleron said after ten minutes of relentless
combat.
After half an hour, they arrived at the heart of the valley-an enormous tree-like monster, its twisted form towering above them. This was no ordinary plant-based monster. Its bark was made of swirling chaotic energy, and its canopy was filled with eyes-pulsing, red, vertical
pupils.
"This thing is the boss," Aleron said, narrowing his eyes. "Let's destroy it."
The final battle began.
The Tree of Devouring Viridescent let out a deafening roar, its vine-like branches shooting
toward them with explosive speed. Aleron moved quickly, warping space to redirect the incoming attacks while summoning elemental storms of fire and ice using Mystic Skills.
He had no limit on creating Mystic Skills and all the counters of powers as his mystic path described him aptly-The King of Over-Encompassing!
Kira darted around, using her sniper and blaster forms in rapid succession to target the
numerous eyes on the tree's canopy, each one exploding into showers of purple and crimson flame sparks when struck. But the tree retaliated viciously, summoning a storm of spores that filled the air with poisonous gas.
Luna, her Symbios Gear glowing, leaped into the fray, her gauntlets morphing to enhance her physical abilities. She shattered the incoming vines with powerful strikes before summoning
a barrage of ice shards and Starfire, striking the tree's vulnerable spots.
"We need to hit its core!" Aleron relayed as he dodged another attack. Luna nodded, gathering her energy as she charged forward. With a powerful leap, she punched directly into the tree's trunk, Starfire erupting from her fist as she made contact. The force sent shockwaves through the ground.
Meanwhile, Aleron summoned his most powerful Mystic Skill-Absolute Stasis, manipulating time and space itself around the tree and completely stopping it. Afterward, he raised his hand and executed another Mystic Skill: Chaotic Shower!
A massive meteor of condensed elemental power combining fire, lightning, and space energy formed before accelerating like a shooting star right on the monster!
"Luna, now!"
Luna jumped back just as Aleron's meteor crashed into the tree's core, detonating with a
brilliant explosion. The tree let out one final, anguished roar before collapsing, its chaotic
energy dispersing into the valley.
[Congratulations for successfully exploring and completing the Valley of Devouring Viridescent's challenge.]
"Good job, girls," Aleron grinned.
He didn't do all the work this time as he also wanted to see Luna and Kira's prowess,
especially with the additional arsenal power that he gave them-the Symbios Gears. Seeing the treasure chest manifesting, Aleron said, "Kira, you want to open it? "Yes!" Kira excitedly moved towards the treasure chest. It was her first time entering a chaotic phenomenon and clearing it, so she was excited.