Night fell over Firefly Garden.
A quiet stream of deep blue fluorescent light shimmered in the dark.
Qimeng patted Xiaomi’s soft head, trying to persuade the silly bee girl to go to sleep, but her attempt was met with a stubborn refusal.
“Master! Xiaomi already slept during the day! No matter what, I want to witness Shroomy’s transformation with my own eyes tonight!”
Qimeng could only sigh and yield. However, when she extended her mental perception deep into the evolutionary cocoon of light, a rare look of astonishment crossed her stunning face.
How interesting. This little guy was far crazier than she had anticipated.
Normally, a magical beast’s evolution was a gradual, step-by-step process. Yet, the mana torrent inside this mushroom—which she had initially thought to be honest and simple—was not following any conventional path. Instead, it had transformed into a ravenous beast, violently battering the barriers of a higher species rank.
This fellow was gambling against the underlying laws of this world.
If it won, it wouldn’t just become a common Intermediate Rank magical beast. It would leap over countless evolutionary stages in a single bound, ascending on the spot to become an unprecedented super magical beast!
“Heh, hehe... Hahaha!”
Qimeng let out a low chuckle, her eyes practically overflowing with gratification.
“Now that’s what I’m talking about! This is exactly the kind of ambition and rebellious streak my prospective vassal should have! If everyone were so meek and mild, how could I ever confidently dump my responsibilities on them and enjoy a leisurely life in the future?”
Since her subordinate possessed such world-upending ambition, Qimeng, as the boss, naturally couldn’t afford to be stingy.
With a slight focus of her mana, she generously squeezed out three drops of pure, milky-white sap from her fingertips and flicked them forward.
The precious drops of blood seamlessly merged into the trembling, massive cocoon.
And this was merely the beginning of the anomaly.
With a deafening boom, the once-gentle blue fluorescence instantly turned into an incredibly oppressive deep gold upon contact with the Demon Tree’s blood!
A mana storm erupted, and the resulting shockwaves tore violently through the air.
“Kyaaa!”
With a startled cry, the crouching Xiaomi was knocked clean off her feet by the sheer weight of the life pressure. If Qimeng hadn’t swiftly grabbed her by the back of her collar, the poor bee girl would have been blown away on the spot.
But Xiaomi didn’t even think to complain. She stared with wide, unblinking eyes, her mind completely shutting down.
In her limited understanding, her master was merely a powerful, high-ranking magical beast.
Yet now, her senses told her that the spore mana inside the cocoon of light was forcibly reorganizing itself at a speed that defied all logic.
The supposedly ironclad, irreversible laws of species evolution had been completely bypassed by those few drops of blood.
This was absolutely not something a normal magical beast could accomplish.
Flicking a few drops of blood could actually feed a low-tier mushroom until it broke the very shackles of evolution to become a colossal monster...
If she hadn’t witnessed it with her own eyes, she would have dismissed it as a blatant lie. Yet, this miracle was unfolding right in front of her.
Xiaomi looked at Qimeng, whose face practically screamed that everything was going exactly according to plan. Her worship transcended the limits of her species, bursting forth like a tidal wave.
“Whoa... Master is way beyond just 'amazing.' Following a master like this, won't I be able to walk tall and do whatever I want from now on?!”
Basking in Xiaomi’s increasingly burning gaze, Qimeng merely offered a satisfied smile.
Excellent. At this rate of catalysis, by the time she strolled back from the northern valley, this highly anticipated mushroom species should have broken through its barriers perfectly!
The next morning, news of the crisis in the northern valley swept through the Tree Court.
“R-Report, Lord Spirit Lord! It’s an absolute emergency!!”
A Wood Elf scout had rushed back with the latest intelligence.
The tribe of foul-smelling, green-skinned lizardmen had grown impatient. Their entire army’s marching speed was a full day ahead of schedule!
Their already tight preparation time had been compressed to the absolute limit.
However, faced with an unexpected development that would plunge any ordinary race into panic, Qimeng, seated upon her Earth Amber throne, merely took a calm sip of morning dew.
She casually set the empty cup back on the armrest, elegantly wiping away the trace of moisture from the corner of her lips.
“Since they’re in such a hurry to reincarnate, then we should get moving as well.”
Qimeng’s expression turned solemn as the pressure of a true ruler radiated outward.
At this moment, the Wood Elf clan transformed into a well-oiled war machine, officially swinging into high gear!
The events that followed completely defied the Wood Elves’ own understanding of warfare.
In less than a day, under Qimeng’s masterfully artistic coordination, the Wood Elves dispersed into small, independent units. Completely undetected, they evacuated the Tree Court and slipped into the northern valley, lying in wait at the perfect tactical positions Qimeng had pre-arranged.
Not only that, but just before the lizardmen’s vanguard crossed the death line into the valley, the main elite force of the Wood Elves—personally led by Yinzhi and other high-ranking officials—had silently completed a massive flanking maneuver.
From the outside, a grand net of encirclement was quietly closing in on the invaders.
Amidst their profound shock, the Wood Elves’ reverence for their supreme Mother Tree Spirit Lord soared to unprecedented heights!
“Can you hear my voice, everyone?”
Just as the battle was on the verge of erupting, Qimeng, before departing, activated the Wood Elves’ inherent secret technique, 【Wood Spirit Telepathy】.
Hum.
With a gentle ripple deep within their minds, over a hundred glowing green spirit marks lit up across Qimeng’s vast perception network.
Under Qimeng’s absurdly overpowered mana, a simple clan communication spell had been elevated to the highest specification—a level that only a Sacred Spirit possessing a nine-layer covenant had the right to establish.
Through this communication network, combined with her massive underground root system, even a falling leaf within a radius of several miles could not escape her grasp.
In other words, while this battle might look like a desperate fight against overwhelming odds to outsiders, in Qimeng’s eyes, it was nothing more than a game played with a full-map hack.
Absolute victory was already firmly within her grasp!
“However, keep this in mind: during the upcoming battle, no one is allowed to reveal my existence.”
To be safe, Qimeng issued a stern warning through the mental network.
After all, on the surface, Qimeng was still just a mediocre Intermediate Rank magical beast.
If she offended those green-skinned lizardmen and whatever high-ranking demon boss was backing them, and they retaliated by directly targeting her main body’s territory in a fit of rage, wouldn’t her highly anticipated leisurely life be completely ruined?
Prudence first! Safety above all!
To prevent any powerful individuals in the enemy camp from using scrying magic, Qimeng immediately distanced her consciousness from the Tree Court and concealed the mana fluctuations of her main body’s territory.
The defense of her home base was left entirely to the remaining Xiaomi and her two max-level automated tools, Dameng and Xiaomeng.
As for herself...
Hehehe, it’s not every day I get to see such a massive show. How could I not be there on the front lines to enjoy the spectacle?
Since she couldn’t reveal her true identity, she would simply create an alternate persona to wander around and personally supervise the battle in the valley!
A magic circle of pale green light expanded amidst the dense foliage.
This was Qimeng’s very first time using her 【Targeted Mimicry】 skill.
As the mana faded, the black-haired, green-eyed Demon Tree girl vanished. In her place stood a petite Wood Elf loli, barely a meter tall, looking just like an exquisitely crafted doll.
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