novelraw Chapter 56 Zombies vs. Plants
Chapter 56 Zombies vs. Plants
In different rift environments, the manifestation of chaotic energy is also completely different.
The chaotic aura on the first layer resembled a dark purple mist, swirling between the demon wolf's claws and fangs, frenzied and extremely aggressive.
In this vast second-level sea of flowers, the viscous, chaotic energy transformed into the purest fertilizer, which was completely absorbed by the plant monsters rooted here.
It was during the demonic tide of the Rift Ruins, and with an excess of nutrients, enormous flowers of all colors bloomed more dazzlingly than ever before.
Amidst a sea of flowers, Luo Lan walked slowly, sword in hand.
"Analysis: Plant-type monsters have a longer growth cycle and a higher energy utilization rate. In areas with a higher concentration of chaotic energy, they can actually establish a more stable ecosystem."
The azure skeletal dog followed closely beside Luo Lan, its synthesized voice emanating from its bone cavity, revealing a rational analysis.
"clatter……"
The moment Luo Lan's heavy iron boots stepped onto the grass, before the soles even sank to the bottom, the entire sea of flowers seemed to awaken as one, and all of them stirred with excitement.
On the left, the large, crimson flower with transparent liquid accumulating at its stamen suddenly contracted, its petals curled outwards, and its stem bent toward Luo Lan, like a kettle being tilted. The liquid detached from the edge of the stamen and poured down in a parabolic arc.
Luo Lan nimbly dodged to the side, the liquid landing on the grass he had just stepped on, instantly corroding large patches of black smoke and creating holes in the soil.
On the right, a mutated flower pod, shaped like a giant Venus flytrap, opened its inner wall covered with barbs and lunged straight at Luo Lan's waist to bite down.
The skeleton dog cut in from the angle, its bone claws nailing to the base of the flower pod, tearing the entire pod off the stem. The bone claws slapped the grass, splashing a pool of yellowish-green slime that splattered from the broken end. After tearing the flower pod in half, the skeleton dog landed back beside Luo Lan.
Ahead, several slender, tall trumpet-shaped flower stems shed their flower crowns, revealing seven or eight thick, sucker-covered tendrils that wildly tore through the air and lashed out.
All of them were severed by Luo Lan's broadsword, which was wielded with a strong wind. A pungent green sap gushed from the cuts, and the trumpet-shaped corolla above the stem emitted a low hum. The remaining vine tentacles retracted and shrank into a ball.
Despite their overwhelming strength, Luo Lan and Victor managed to clear a space for the time being, but a continuous stream of strange plant and magical beasts continued to surge in from all directions, resembling a churning green ocean.
This can't go on.
Luo Lan swung his sword and cut off several more thick vines that had wrapped around him. He looked at the boundless green tide before him and then calculated the fragments of the demonic wolf that he had brought down from the first level of the Rift in his storage space.
[Perfect, let's test the power of the Bursting Magic Crystal.]
Luo Lan reached for the magical cross pendant on her chest with her back hand, and with a flick of her wrist, all the odds and ends that were already crammed into her storage space were dumped onto the ground like garbage.
The fragments of demonic wolf flesh and remains from the first level of the Rift Ruins, various monster "trash" picked up during the escape, plus extremely unstable exploding magic crystals... piled up to the height of a calf.
"Assembling corpses!"
With a low shout, pale holy light surged from Luo Lan's right palm, this time consuming even more energy than when he created Cerberus.
Simultaneously, the left-hand bone claw absorbed the chaotic energy in the air. Wisps of black mist seeped into the pile of materials, intertwining, splicing, and solidifying with the holy light on the surface of the bones and flesh.
The intense energy fluctuations dissipated, and five figures emitting blue flames rose from the pile of debris.
These creations were extremely crude. The main body of the torso was forcibly glued together by the spines of several demonic wolves side by side, and the limbs were either broken thigh bones or simply a lump of rotten flesh hardened by chaotic energy.
Its head is made entirely of dire wolf heads, glowing with eerie blue flames, and at first glance it looks somewhat like a low-budget version of a werewolf.
In the recessed chest cavity, near their hearts, Luo Lan had deliberately placed numerous yellow exploding magic crystals, which could explode at any moment, between their ribs.
"Zombies, advance!"
These five [Dead Corpse Assembled Lv.1] creations, which Luo Lan called "Zombies," are aptly named. Their weakness is that they move extremely stiffly, while their advantage is that they are unaware of pain or fatigue.
At Luo Lan's command, the five zombies simultaneously took stiff but not slow steps forward.
The undead zombies used the heads of demonic wolves with sharp teeth and fangs, and the broken limbs with ferocious wolf claws, to gnaw and tear at the various plant-like monsters that pounced from all directions without any skill.
In an instant, green plant remains and white zombie bone fragments flew everywhere. The seemingly clumsy zombies actually managed to carve out a path leading deeper into this raging green tide on the second level of the Rift Ruins.
In a short while, the undead zombies reached a position about ten meters in front of Luo Lan.
Luo Lan gripped her sword, cautiously following behind, her boots crunching over the plant debris and broken stems cleared by the zombies as she steadily advanced.
But the zombie hordes' brutal and reckless charge ultimately couldn't withstand the relentless onslaught of the plant-like monsters. Before long, the first casualty appeared on the outermost perimeter.
A zombie with a wolf skull on its head was tightly wrapped around the waist and abdomen by three thorny vines. The vines contracted and tightened rapidly, making a "crackling" sound as if they were about to tear the cobbled-together body to pieces.
Seeing this, Luo Lan murmured to himself:
"Detonate!"
Luo Lan manipulated the ghostly blue flame that was maintaining the stability of the zombie's body with his mind, decomposing it back into restless chaotic energy and pure holy light energy, and pouring all the remaining chaotic energy into the exploding magic crystal buried between the zombie's ribs.
"BOOM!!"
A deafening explosion overturned the plants surrounding the exploding zombie.
Driven by the powerful explosion of the exploding magic crystal, the shattered bone spikes, wrapped in the residual energy of pale holy light, flew in all directions, like a storm of holy light splashing in all directions.
Holy light is the nemesis of chaotic monsters. Centered on the explosion point, the surrounding ferocious plant monsters and entwined vines were all pierced by the scorching holy light bone spikes, leaving countless smoking holes. Large amounts of sap evaporated, instantly clearing a small, spacious, scorched clearing.
Because a zombie self-destructed, a corner of the advancing formation was missing, so Luo Lan tilted his head back and gulped down a whole bottle of energy potion.
The grass on the second level of the Rift was already littered with countless withered bones that had been drained dry by the plant-like magical beasts. Luo Lan simply used what was available:
"Again!"
Another round of [Dead Remains Assembly] was activated, and holy light and black mist intertwined again into ghostly blue flames. Dozens of unknown, thick white bones, mixed with the thick stems of plants that had been blown off earlier, rose from the ground.
The newly risen zombie was even stranger than the previous ones: its skeleton was made of white bones, but its limbs were wrapped in a layer of green plant fibers, and the joints were held together by the toughness of vines instead of holy light. Its right arm was simply a thick, thorny stem that forked into three vine tentacles at the end.
This new type of "plant zombie," a blend of pure white and dark green, staggered into the zombie queue, filled the gap, and continued to push forward.
Putting away the empty energy potion bottle, Luo Lan looked at the still surging green tide in front of him and the zombies he had created with his own hands, and couldn't help but chuckle:
"Wow, you can play Plants vs. Zombies here too!"
The azure skeleton dog advanced alongside the zombies, still having the energy to continue Luo Lan's conversation:
"Correction: Based on the balance of power, it should be a battle between zombies and plants."