Chapter 256 I feel like I'm turning into a monster?
"You really dare to think and act," Ethan said, scratching his head in front of the screen.
Beneath the ancient Blood Tree, Amelia was leaning against the trunk, discarding one recipe after another, muttering, "Useless, useless. There are hardly any seventh-grade recipes, let alone sixth-grade ones. These recipes won\'t improve my potion-making skills at all."
Then she sorted through various special ability potions.
"Ninth-grade, eighth-grade, all useless. Hmph, even with centuries of savings, at most, I can only make a dozen seventh-grade potions, and there are only two plants for sixth-grade special ability potions."
Seeing Amelia\'s disdainful expression, Ethan was speechless.
In the past, these items would have overwhelmed Blackwood, but now things were different.
Blackwood was filled with many experts who needed seventh and sixth-grade special ability potions. But seventh-grade was already hard to find, often requiring centuries-old ingredients, and as for sixth-grade? Those needed millennium-old growth under harsh conditions!
Because these materials were so hard to find, the Competent Force found it very difficult to speed up their psychic power cultivation. They often had to rely on formations to absorb more natural energy and understand some rules to enhance their strength.
Thus, in Cloudview County, many elders of the Competent Force were only at the early stages, and it was rare for anyone under a thousand years old to reach the middle stages. Any peak Competent Force psychic was considered exceptionally talented.
These ingredients taking a thousand years to grow? Psychics were already fighting over century-old materials.
Meanwhile, the children were not idle.
[Your descendants George, William, and Justin, after years of adventures with the Druids, have made quite a name for themselves by digging up ancestral graves, stealing from treasuries, and mocking and insulting during sacred rituals.]
[Because they always wore masks of jesters and robes embroidered with the mark of The Oracle Chamber, often seen in public acting as fortune-tellers, each carrying tools like a tortoise shell, an abacus, and an energy locator, and using some techniques learned from Kenneth of The Oracle Chamber, they were mistakenly believed to be members of The Oracle Chamber and earned the infamous nickname \'The Magical Three Villains\'.]
"Cough, cough."
Ethan coughed, noticing the three young thieves squatting outside a Druids\' tribe.
It seemed that due to their frequent antics, the tribe was very cautious, even guarding the ancestral graves and scattering various mythical beasts around.
"It looks like they were prepared; our previous plan won\'t work. You\'re forcing me to use my last resort."
"I get it, big brother. You rush in, William steals, and I\'ll take your place digging the graves!"
"Get lost, my last resort is to find a less cautious tribe. We\'ll do this job in a couple of months; I don\'t believe they can stay alert for two months, and if not, we\'ll come back in two years. Competing with us, Blackwood, these little Druids are still too green."
"Brilliant, big brother!"
This was a lack of virtue indeed.
Seeing the three children quickly flee the scene, Ethan couldn\'t help but laugh. He wondered how The Oracle Chamber would feel about suddenly becoming infamous for no reason.
But, truth be told, these three lads had quite the haul!
[Your descendants have obtained a large amount of spoils of war, seventh-grade special ability potions... Druids totems... Druids bloodline infant bones...]
[After two years of searching, with the help of his two brothers, George finally found the fleeing spirit of a Druids Competent Force. Since the spirit was not well-received by the predecessors inside his body, he generously offered it to his great-grandfather Nathan, who used the \'Catastrophe Soul Hooking Formation\' to control the Competent Force spirit in battle.]
[Druids bloodline infant bones, which can enhance physical strength and grant some Druids bloodline traits, are not for Pinnacle Apprentices of the Druids to use, as they are likely to explode and die. When used by humans, they instantly explode and die. ]
[George, to test whether the infant bones could be used by humans, offered them to his father Thomas. Thomas integrated the infant bones and exploded hundreds of times, but his body gradually began to accept the infant bones.]
Ethan glanced at Thomas again. The third generation of the Blackwoods was now under house arrest, and Thomas, the young man, was particularly conspicuous... as if he had mutated.
After accepting the infant bones, his psychic powers and physical strength surged to the peak of Developing Skill, and a pair of flesh buds sprouted on his back, resembling the wings of a chick...
He ran in panic to see Nathan and Luna, pointing at his back.
"Grandpa, Grandma, can you help me see, am I a demon or a witch now? I feel like I\'m turning into a monster?"
Nathan, Luna, and Ethan, watching from the screen: ...
He was already foolish enough, and now he had transformed into this.
George, the old man, really ruined him.
Thinking this, Nathan and his wife suddenly heard a noise and looked outside, their faces darkening.
Ethan felt the same way.
In the sky, a line of psychics flew on their swords, about fifty people, arranged in a crooked family emblem.
"We psychics, with justice in our hearts, brothers and sisters, join me, and let\'s show the might of the Blackwoods!"
"Invincible Blackwoods!"
As the shouts rose, Ethan and Nathan\'s family felt an uncontrollable sense of... embarrassment.
These were all descendants of the fifth generation... from Jeffrey\'s line!
Each of them grew up hearing stories of family elders, each hoping to become a great hero or a heroic woman, and then... they spent their days at home practicing formations and shouting slogans. They had decent talents, but their maturity...
Let\'s not talk about it.
Heroes can\'t just decide to become one, and none of their elders wanted to be heroes anymore, perhaps they once did, but not now.
...
Ethan switched the view to the border area.
Now, the psychics of Cloudview County were mainly focusing on the border, Ethan got some news from Jessica.
The old ancestors of Cloudview County\'s Competent Force even made a \'thousand-year plan\', preparing for a millennium-long war, allowing the psychics of Cloudview County to train at the border, also to reduce the resource pressure within Cloudview County, so that the psychics wouldn\'t have to fight over a single psychic-enhancing herb.
Moreover, the Endless Forest was rich in resources, offering great opportunities.
The border had already established a fortress, surrounded by ability vessels. During war times, psychics could pick up tasks and join the battlefield, obtaining resources like Energy Stones, psychic-enhancing herbs, and elixirs.
Although there were resources, the major powers would certainly not lose out; if they won the war, they had ways to profit. If they lost... then they wouldn\'t need to give out resources.
At this moment, in the Border town, Blackwood people were on the fifth floor of a tower, with many psychics trading on the three floors below.
This was the Blackwood industry—Heavenly Justice Hall.
In just two years, Donna hadn\'t changed, still petite and delicate, but ever since Nicholas died, she rarely cursed or mocked others, mostly remaining expressionless.
Edward\'s face had more stubble, perhaps from the hardships of the battlefield, with his sister Betty pouring tea for them. Betty, as the little princess of the Martin family, had good talents and resources from both families, and had already advanced beyond Developing Skill.
Now Marcus was sitting in the main seat.
His face was full of smiles; he enjoyed it. For two years, his younger relatives called him \'grandpa\' every day. After many years of cultivating psychic powers at Sky Sect, he could finally experience the joy of being an elder.
No one knew how delighted he was to see the respectful attitude of the children, making him wish he could dismantle a part of the Sky Palace to give to these younger ones.
Just as he was observing these kids cultivating their psychic powers.
When Ethan clicked on Jessica\'s profile, he was stunned.
There, Jessica was tied up and brought to a valley, standing in front of her was a man in a mask, dressed in white, with a scale weight on his chest...
"Blackwood Jessica, the notorious Serpent enchantress of Border town, have you heard of me, The Oracle Chamber, from Blackwood?"