"Wow, it's beautiful."
After entering the cave, the light blue plant inside was completely frozen. The leaves were shaped like palm prints, and they seemed to be in a struggling state. The inside of the flower buds flickered with a pale yellow glow. Even in this frozen environment that Millie liked the most, they shone instinctively, as if to attract outsiders to explore the cave.
"Beauty is always hidden under danger. With my current elemental strength as a rank 3 Magus, this plant has not completely fallen into hibernation. It's a little strange."
As he spoke, Grimm extended his palm, and the tip of his index finger lightly touched the ice flower.
"Ding!" A crisp sound wave surged through the air, and the ice flower shattered into pieces. However, under Grimm's perfect control of elemental energy, he only managed to unseal the flower bud that was in contact with the tip of his index finger.
* Hiss! *
This beautiful flower bud that had been sealed in ice just a moment ago, upon being unsealed, its petals suddenly bloomed like a chrysanthemum. The inside of the pale red petals was bright red like flesh. Immediately after, a stinky sock was revealed at the center of the stamen, releasing a greyish stench.
Grimm's elemental energy barrier flashed, isolating this strange smell.
* Xiu, xiu, xiu, xiu, xiu … *
The black beetles with astonishing jumping power crashed into the energy barrier like bullets. These black beetles collided with the energy barrier, creating dents in the energy barrier. Their jumping power was very strong.
After these black beetles were blocked by the energy barrier, Grimm, who was inside the energy barrier, could clearly see the appearance of these beetles.
They seemed to be some kind of simple metal beetle that had been augmented with some mysterious power. Apart from a pair of huge blood-red jaws that kept opening and closing, it only had one eye. The eyeball inside was made up of tens of thousands of commas, like densely packed tadpoles swaying back and forth. It was very strange.
"Hmm …"
At this moment, Millie, who was not far away, groaned in pain. It turned out that the relatively weak Millie had been careless, and a black beetle had burrowed into her body and melted it. Immediately after, the skin of Millie's arm had formed a hemp rope pattern, as if some kind of garbage had been exchanged for Millie's flesh.
"Be careful!"
Grimm collected the black beetles from the elemental energy shield into a beaker. These black beetles seemed to only have an effect on energy bodies, and had no special ability on matter. Aside from the shocking power of the first strike, there was nothing special about them. He walked towards Millie and looked at the wound on her arm that had been replaced by the hemp rope.
It really was a piece of hemp rope, and very old.
"It's absorbing my flesh and blood!"
Other than the initial discomfort, Millie didn't feel anything else. She frowned and looked at the mysterious plant with a serious expression. The stinky sock at the stamen was still wriggling. She didn't know if it was going to spit out something scary.
However, both Grimm and Millie could clearly sense that the strange plants under the ice had awakened and were constantly trying to break free from Grimm's ice.
"Absorbing your flesh and blood is just a facade. It should be said that this mysterious Spectral World is instinctively assimilating us. At our current level of life, we're too weak. We can't attract the rejection of the laws of this illusory world, nor can we obstruct the operation of the laws of this world. It's using its unparalleled mass to assimilate us into its body. "
As if feeling that his explanation wasn't enough, Grimm continued, "Just like how you're constantly absorbing the thin elemental energy here to maintain your body's functions, these Spectral Worlds of all sizes are also constantly absorbing rule factors from the outside as a continuation of their survival. We, the outsiders, are these factors. In the process of its operation, it's gradually turning us into waste products, trash, and abandoned objects of the rules of this Spectral World. "
Hearing Grimm's explanation, Millie's eyes flashed.
"An element, a life, and a world."
After sighing, Millie had no choice but to spend more energy to restore her body and regenerate her flesh and blood.
After studying this plant cave full of blue vines and blooming flowers for a whole day, Grimm and Millie finally began to move forward.
Gradually, with a buzzing sound in front of him, hundreds and thousands of sunflower seed shells gathered together like headless flies and flew around randomly, making a lot of noises.
Grimm grabbed a melon seed shell with his empty hand.
At this moment, Grimm and Millie had been advancing along the cave. However, the width of the cave was obviously on the lower side, so Grimm and Millie could only bend their backs to move forward. The cave walls were supposed to be made of black stone, but here, it had turned into mud, emitting a foul stench. There were even plastic bottles and other trash in the mud.
Inside the melon seed shell was a white milk tooth, the only thing worth studying. This reminded Grimm of the Sorcerer World's Tooth Fairy's fairytale rules.
Millie approached and stuck her head out from behind Grimm, looking at the tooth that was extracted from the melon seed shell.
They had long gotten used to each other's breathing. Millie's full chest pressed against Grimm's shoulder, her warm breath brushing against Grimm's cheek. She looked at the tooth that Grimm had extracted from the melon seed shell, and said in a low voice, "Tooth decay?"
This tooth had obvious signs of being damaged.
"Yes."
Grimm nodded.
"Unlike the tooth of a child, which was blessed by the Tooth Fairy's fairytale rules, this is the tooth decay of an adult, discarded as useless trash. Since there are tooth decay from eating melon seeds, there should also be tooth decay from eating candy, right?"
After sufficient research, Grimm confirmed that these illusory creatures were harmless, so he led Millie from the narrow cave to the relatively spacious one.
Buzz!
Suddenly, the cave became strangely quiet.
The melon seed shells that had been running around in a frenzy seemed to have been frozen in ice. They floated quietly in the air. Although they had no eyes, they gave off the impression that they were watching Glenn and Millie as they floated motionlessly in the air.
"Grimm, are you sure it's not related?"
This scene caused Millie to hesitate for a moment before asking again.
"It's been confirmed that they don't have any Mysterious Power, they definitely won't …"
Before Grimm could finish his sentence, "Cha", "Cha", "Cha", "Cha", "Cha", "Cha", along with tens of thousands of melon seed shells, produced extremely strange screeches. Then, with astonishing speed, they rushed into any cave they could find, desperately escaping.
With the size of these melon seed shells, these caves of various sizes could naturally go anywhere. In just a breath's time, the originally aimless melon seed shells had completely disappeared without a trace.
"Huh?"
Grimm rubbed his eyebrows and said in annoyance, "These little things … Looks like we need to find another place to explore. I'm afraid that after these little things caused a ruckus, the monsters in this floating garbage mountain have completely awakened."
As Grimm spoke, rumbling sounds came from the cave behind them. From the direction, it wasn't difficult to determine that it was the trembling of the giant cigarette butt from before.
"What are you? Where did you come from? "
Suddenly, a shadow vulture in the shadow of the stone wall suddenly opened its eyes. They were actually two almonds?
The aura had never appeared suddenly, only for an instant.
It seemed that the other parts of this shadow vulture's body were in another world, only its eyes were in this world. Only when it opened its eyes could it be sensed by others, forming a connection with this world. When it closed its eyes, it would disappear.
Therefore, Grimm and Millie didn't notice it in the slightest.
"Huh!?"
Grimm couldn't help but exclaim. Millie, on the other hand, looked as if she was facing a great enemy. Grimm could clearly feel her body tense up, and the ice phoenix wings on her back fiercely protected her and Grimm at the same time.
"What are you? What a wonderful way of existing. Although your life level isn't high, it's very strange."
Grimm murmured, even a little tempted. He couldn't help but want to untie the restraints on himself and capture this strange biological specimen first. Millie clearly sensed Grimm's thoughts. She gently put an arm on Grimm's shoulder and slowly shook her head.
On the other side, the shadow vulture looked fearless. It walked out of the shadows step by step and looked at Grimm and Millie seriously.
"This is my favorite garbage world and also my hunting ground. There are many foreign creatures that fall into the garbage mountain and are digested or become part of the garbage mountain. This is my source of food. However, you guys are fundamentally different from other ingredients. I won't fall for your tricks, hehehehehe … "
After saying that, the shadow vulture closed its almond-shaped eyes again, and its aura disappeared again, as if it had never appeared.
Rumble, rumble, rumble …
The garbage mountain's caves were complicated, and trembling sounds came from all directions. Without a doubt, the target was where Grimm and Millie were!
"I'll lead the way."
Grimm temporarily suppressed the strange encounter of the shadow vulture. Just as he was saying this matter-of-factly, Millie said, "Wait a minute, we'd better use occult witchcraft to leave."
Occult witchcraft was a relatively weak area in Grimm's research on the truth. As Millie spoke, she began to silently recite a witchcraft incantation. At the same time, she took out some strange materials and drew on the cliff of the cave. It was very strange and mysterious.
However, with Millie's current ability, it was obviously very difficult to perform this witchcraft. The ice phoenix wings behind her had also shrunk a lot.
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