Chapter 320: Main Quest Rewards
“Buzz—”
As Jia Na was lamenting, her fingers moved slightly, and dozens of magic threads imbued with Purification power quickly flew out from the almost dead tree in front of her, then rapidly dissipated into the air.
“Finally… it’s going to end.”
Looking at the tree from which the dark sun contamination had been completely removed, Jia Na couldn't help but feel a little excited.
“Growth—”
Her slender, pale hand gently covered the surface of the tree trunk. As emerald green light continuously emerged from Jia Na’s palm, the previously sickly tree, which didn’t even have a single leaf, quickly sprouted buds and grew leaves.
In just an instant, the withered tree came back to Life, continuously growing lush green branches and leaves, and even its dull gray bark regained a new luster, brimming with vitality.
“Ding—”
As the emerald green light gradually dissipated, Jia Na, who had removed her hand from the tree trunk, heard the system prompt sound indicating the completion of the task, as expected.
【Main Quest: Save the Withering Life, Revive the Dying Trees in the Mist Forest (Completed);
Quest Rating: B-rank Quest Reward: 800 Talent Experience, 2500 Skill Experience, Spirit +0.9, Luck +0.1, Withering Law Comprehension Knowledge *1;】
“It really is 【Law Comprehension Knowledge】—”
Looking at the third reward description on the quest panel, Jia Na didn't feel much surprise.
However, when her gaze turned to the first two random rewards, Jia Na’s spirit couldn't help but be invigorated.
“System, open the character panel.”
The moment the character panel opened, besides her Wizard Level which had reached level 19, Jia Na’s gaze immediately went to the Spirit attribute under Character Attributes.
“It has already reached 【29.7】—”
She exhaled softly. After calming herself down, Jia Na closed the character panel. “At this rate, I’ll soon break through to Third-level Wizard Apprentice.”
Due to the generous rewards of the Main Quest, Jia Na’s progress, which was originally expected to break through by the end of the year, was directly accelerated by several months.
Although it was unexpected for Jia Na, it wasn't too far-fetched. However, looking at the newly appeared Quest Rating entry on the quest panel, Jia Na’s expression couldn’t help but be a little strange.
“Why is it B-rank?”
She remembered that the last time she completed the quest to 【Annihilate the Remnants of the Dark Sun Church】, the quest rating was A-rank. Why did it become B-rank this time?
Fortunately, the quest rating only affects Talent Experience and Skill Experience, and has little impact on random quest rewards.
Shaking her head, Jia Na, who still hadn't figured out what the so-called quest rating standard was, ultimately closed the quest panel.
“Could it be that the trees I revived actually have some flaws?”
Thinking of this, Jia Na’s gaze couldn't help but once again look at the tree she had just saved.
“Or is it because the time I took to complete the quest was too long—”
As Jia Na was constantly pondering the reasons, suddenly, a sense of crisis that made her hair stand on end instantly enveloped her heart.
“Buzz—”
Without any hesitation, accompanied by a flash of earthy yellow light, Jia Na immediately activated the Vortex Well, then transformed into a small emerald green snake and quickly fled.
“That feeling just now must have been an early warning from 【Danger Perception】.”
It wasn’t until the Vortex Well’s positioning was re-locked to the entrance of the vine tunnel that Jia Na, who had crawled out of the shield hole, dared to transform back into her human form.
However, that shuddering sensation still lingered in Jia Na’s heart, refusing to dissipate for a long time.
“Is it the Dark Sun Church? Or some powerful Shadow Creature?”
Jia Na, who was walking quickly along the vine tunnel into White Coral Academy, was still thinking about this matter.
However, there were too many possibilities. Unless Jia Na confirmed it with her own eyes, she would never be able to confirm whether that sense of danger just now was aimed at her personally—
“Or is it the Blood Clan?”
Thinking of this, Jia Na’s footsteps suddenly stopped, and her face became grim.
After all, up to this point, Jia Na truly only had one enemy: the deceased Vampire Baron Earle-Blood Red.
Not only that, but Anthony-Black Sparrow had also warned her not to easily step into the Shadow World when he learned that Jia Na had comprehended a Growth Law Fragment. The reason for this was that the previous owner of the Growth Law, Evefresia, was the mortal enemy of the Original Vampire, Blood Red Warlock—
“Hoo—” She took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. After quickly calming herself down, Jia Na did not immediately return to her dormitory. Instead, she directly changed direction and resolutely walked towards the Magic Tower.
Meanwhile, within the Mist Forest.
Not long after Jia Na left, a spatial rift as black as ink quickly tore open outside the Magic Tower Barrier.
Immediately after, blood qi permeated the air, and a silver-white bat with Blood Red eyes, only two palms in size, slowly flew out of the spatial rift and landed on the tree that Jia Na had just revived. A pink nose continuously sniffed the tree.
“What a nauseating smell—”
Upon smelling the lingering Life aura on the tree, the silver-white bat’s face showed an expression of extreme disgust. But soon, the silver-white bat’s wings flapped rapidly, and along the edge of the Magic Tower Barrier, it flew to a second tree with lush branches and leaves.
“It’s here too—though the smell is fainter.”
After successively flying to several trees and reaching the same conclusion, the silver-white bat carefully withdrew from the Magic Tower Barrier, then thoughtfully looked at the long string of “resurrected” trees in front of it.
“The power of the dark sun has indeed diminished—although the impact is not significant, it is a very bad omen.”
Thinking of this, the silver-white bat’s eyes couldn’t help but narrow slightly, and a hint of imperceptible playfulness flashed through its Blood Red pupils.
“Earle-Blood Red was killed—Life aura reappears, tsk tsk, perhaps this isn’t entirely a bad thing.”
Its wings flapped again. Having completed its reconnaissance, the silver-white bat did not linger, but instead blew a large puff of black mist towards the edge of the Magic Tower Barrier, then quickly disappeared into the spatial rift.
“Sizzle—”
Black mist permeated, and turbid qi arose.
Any trees that came into contact with the black mist instantly bred dense black borers. As the number of borers increased, the originally lush branches and leaves on the trees gradually withered.
Immediately after, the number of borers also rapidly increased with the loss of the trees' Life force. In a short while, the number of black aphids surged from a few hundred to over a thousand.
