Apocalypse Gachapon

“Is this the root of the Life-Taking Carrot?”

Ye Zhongming looked at the end of the tunnel and asked calmly.

Yang Yixi and the treant nodded. The former smiled, “When I saw this situation, I was stunned. These aren’t roots; they are iron rods covered in spikes. This entire region is like an iron cage that traps the entire Linhai.”

Ye Zhongming had heard that digging his way out of the city was impossible. He roughly guessed why but only fully understood when he saw these roots.

“No one knows how deep these are. During the first few months, people tried to dig deeper and go around it, but they failed.”

Yang Yixi was probably one who had tried such a thing.

“I can sense that these Life-Taking Carrots know we are here, but as long as we don’t try to break free, they won’t care about us. But if we try to get out, they will fight back.”

The treant touched the damp walls; he half squinted his eyes and said.

The Feasting Day had started. The Death King Tree in the city center gave off an eye-catching light that could be seen from far away at night. The Life-Taking Carrot stretched its long leaves out of the surface and spun quickly to make sounds that could attract evolved lifeforms.

Surging Motion and the other factions were prepared to break free, but the time wasn’t up. When the Death King Tree and Life-Taking Carrot returned to normal, that would be the day that set off.

Ye Zhongming wanted to examine the roots trapping the entire city, but even after looking, he could not find a solution.

He tried, but these metallic roots were more dangerous than the leaves above.

Even Ye Zhongming had a headache when dealing with these mutated plants.

The three left the abandoned tunnel, which was back into darkness. Occasionally, a few flashes of black snake-like lifeforms would flash across the roots, but it wasn’t something that the three of them managed to see.

To the experienced Linhai survivors, two days after the Feasting Day would be when the Life-Taking Carrot went back underground. Normally speaking, that would be when they could break out.Tʜe sourcᴇ of thɪs content ɪs ɴovel(ꜰ)ɪre.nᴇt

But Ye Zhongming didn’t plan to leave then but a few days later. He used the time to collect more materials, even if the prices were much higher.

He stopped when the Gate of Sacrifice reached four bars.

Then… He activated the gold equipment.

The shocking golden light shot into the sky even though they were in the tunnel. The eye-catching light lit up the tunnel that Ye Zhongming was in.

The golden light lasted a long time, maybe because there was a lot of energy. Once everything calmed down, many people rushed over, but the twins blocked them outside.

When the golden light shot into the sky, the entire Ying City Alliance moved. The core members of Cloud Peak were energetic. They looked at the light and knew it was the boss’s signal.

The final battle was about to begin.

Ye Zhonmging looked at the box in his hands in the city and was excited.

“A Grade Sacrifice Box (Small).”

Ye Zhongming knew that the box was split into A, B, and C grades, so A should be the highest level. Although it was only small, it probably decided how many rewards there were inside.

He opened it and took it out.

Ye Zhongming was stunned.

“Nature Soul Essence?”

What was that?

The box gave him upgrade scrolls or skills in the past, but this…

He didn’t recognize it.

When he sent his mental energy into this thing, Ye Zhongming had a complicated feeling.

“Nature Soul Essence: When an evolved uses it, function 1, increase job ability, increase is based on current job level.”

“Function 2, increase mental energy.”

“Function 3, give the user a nature skill.”

“Function 4, obtain closeness to nature ability. Plant’s will to attack you will reduce, and damage taken will drop by 50%.”

“When the target is a plant, function 1, revive injured or dead plants.”

“Function 2, cause normal plants to mutate and mutated plants to evolve.”

“Function 3, give plants intelligence.”

The strength of an item depends on its function. Was it useless for Ye Zhongming?

Not much.

Ye Zhongming could be considered a natural job user. His Gardener was one, but it was just a support job. The upgrade scroll could upgrade the skills, so it was a waste for a Gate of Sacrifice Box to be used like this.

As for the increase in mental energy, that was a bigger waste. With the Soul Refining Technique, his mental energy had been increasing. Eating this would just add a little, and it wouldn’t be much.

Obtaining the nature ability was not too good either, as a similar scroll could have the same effect.

The fourth function was still decent, immune to 50% of plant damage. However, to Ye Zhongming, who could craft defensive equipment, it wasn’t as useful to him as it was to other people.

Moreover, the Nature Soul Essence depended on the person who was using it, so he would probably only get half of these abilities.

But if he didn’t use it? When he thought about his situation, he gave up on that thought.

He would just strengthen himself, even if it weren’t much.

Ye Zhongming still used it according to the instructions.

The green ball disappeared from his body, and he instantly felt warm. Comfortable energy spread throughout his body. Ye Zhongming was sensitive to mental energy and felt his overall mental energy greatly increase. When it started to disappear, Ye Zhongming’s mental energy had increased by 50%.

This wasn’t a small amount for Ye Zhongming, who had a huge amount of mental energy.

Next, he received a bunch of notifications. The first he got was the nature skill.

”Obtained Nature element ability-- Intelligence Mark: Use this ability on plants, and it will give them intermediate intelligence. Moreover, you can obtain control of the plant. The cooldown time is a thousand hours. This ability consumes a large amount of mental energy.