V5.Chapter 69

The closer you get to the interior of the Jungle Gate, the more lush the surrounding trees grow. ⊙,

Even Sauron saw some oaks and maples with golden leaves. These ancient trees did not know how long ago they existed. Each of them was hundreds of meters high. The branches and leaves were quite lush and covered the sky. To judge, these ancient gods have a very strong aura of life. This means that they are all living treemen, and there are many ancient tree sages close to the legendary strength. They are the real guards inside the jungle gate. Even a team of legendary adventurers is unlikely to break through their defenses. Wire.

There is a special layer of vigilance here.

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for even Sauron to break through, but he had a piece of equipment on his body that was almost an artifact for rogues.

That's the anti-detection cloak!

There are defensive barriers arranged by the natural guardians here. Whether they are flying in the sky and running on the ground, or those who want to sneak close, they will all be discovered by them.

The biggest role of the anti-detection cloak is to avoid any spells that detect invisibility.

This is also the reason why Sauron dares to come here, otherwise even if he is a saint incarnated by a god, he is unlikely to escape safely under the siege of a large group of legendary treemen.

"Shadow Realm!"

"Shadow Jump!"

After getting closer to the warning circle of the ancient tree, Sauron chose the safest way to enter.

His figure escaped into the shadow plane in an instant, and then used the power of space to jump over the range of the spell warning, and directly appeared in the shadow of the rock more than 100 meters away.

Legendary rogues come and go without a trace thanks to this power!

The huge rhizome appeared in front of him, Soran stretched out his hand and pressed it, and he could feel the life essence that was slowly passing by. The speed of this flow was not very fast, but the life essence it possessed was too huge, even if it was several thousand. Years have passed, and the essence of life that has passed has not only nurtured the half-plane space of the Jungle Gate, but also continues to nurture the entire space.

It looks like the oldest Orbis demon corpse in the Abyss.

Some incomparably huge corpses still exist in some parts of the bottomless abyss, and the only part that is exposed is like a mountain. They are on the same level as the corpses of the huge ancient gods floating in the astral world.

A golden oak tree appeared in front of him.

Sauron felt that this was a powerful guardian of nature. He only had one or two seconds to steal the water of life. If it exceeded this time, the guardian of nature might block the space. At that time, even Sauron could not escape.

Get it and run.

And he couldn't go back along the original path. There was only one way for Sauron to leave this half-plane space unharmed, and that was to directly use the power of the 'shadow' domain to travel from here to the shadow plane, and then return from the shadow plane. to the Material Plane. In this way, even if the other party is the natural guardian of a high-level legend. Sauron was not afraid that the other party would find his tracks.

There is only one chance.

Sauron took a deep breath and locked his gaze in front of the roots of the ancient tree, where there was a special pool.

It's a bit like the reincarnation pool of Barto Hell, but it's full of purer positive energy.

"Shadow Jump!"

Sauron's figure rushed forward and crossed the space in an instant. He appeared beside the pool in an instant, and then took away a lot of the water of life in the blink of an eye, and the entire pool lost about a third at once.

"thief!"

An angry roar sounded!

The golden oak wise man woke up in an instant, its huge body stood up, accompanied by a powerful force raging, and the surrounding space suddenly showed signs of being blocked.

"Dimensional blockade!"

A near-legendary spell. Almost no casting action is required, and it is done directly for convenience.

But.

At this time, Sauron had already sensed something was wrong. He did not greedily take even a drop of the water of life, but activated the power of the shadow domain in an instant, and directly passed through the space barrier and entered the shadow plane.

moments before leaving.

He felt a lot of powerful auras erupting from all over the door of the jungle, and the trees stood up one after another, and at least a dozen legendary-level ancient tree guardians locked it here.

"Damn thief!"

An angry roar echoed in the sky above the jungle gate, but at this time there was no trace of Sauron.

He only showed up for less than a second from beginning to end, and even these mighty legendary ancient trees did not find any trace of him, not even his appearance.

Kill one person in ten steps. Do not stay for thousands of miles.

This was Sauron's favorite sentence back then, but if a wanderer wants to achieve this level, he must reach the legendary realm.

………………

Everything in front of him was grey.

Sauron's figure appeared somewhere in the Shadow Plane, and he wasn't very clear about where it was. Because the situation at the time was too critical, he was sent here completely at random.

But that's okay!

He can also return to the material plane through the shadow plane, and it will be easy to judge the direction at that time.

certainly.

It is not possible to directly return to the Material Plane, because the Shadow Plane is a plane connected to the Material Plane. If you return to the Material Plane from here, it is estimated that it will appear directly in the foggy forest.

He has now stolen the Water of Life from the Ancients. It must be bad to go back to the foggy forest!

Sauron is going to start from here, move forward for dozens or hundreds of kilometers in one direction, and then teleport back to the material plane. In this way, he basically leaves the range of the foggy forest.

As long as he wasn't in the foggy forest, those ancient trees couldn't do anything about him.

A cloud of mist surrounds.

The specific relationship between the Material Plane and the Shadow Plane cannot be determined, but what Sauron sees now is also a dense forest.

The trees growing in this forest are like reflections, they have twisted roots, not even a trace of green can be seen, only a gray tone can be seen.

Trees on the Shadow Plane are also gray.

There was a strange cry nearby. There were many creatures in the shadow plane that mortals didn't know about. Sauron saw a distorted shadow, and it quickly targeted Sauron.

"Arcane missiles!"

An arcane missile directly took away the distorted shadows in front of them. They were souls who were accidentally reincarnated on the plane of shadows, like the distorted petitioners of the bottomless abyss.

Twisted shadows began to retreat.

Sauron looked around for a while, and then moved quickly towards the south.

He had to leave this forest first. The material plane is as big as the shadow plane. Although it looks very desolate, there are still some creatures that can be seen.

Occasionally, there will be some huge broken walls in sight, which are things left over from ancient times.

Fallen gods, relics of arcane empires, wizards of the shadow plane.

There are many gods who have left temples in the shadow plane. This plane was also developed during the Arcane Empire, so many dilapidated buildings remain here.

This walk is hundreds of kilometers.

There are few towns on the Shadow Plane, the aborigines are too scattered, and the population of the entire Shadow Plane is less than one thousandth of the Material Plane.

This is the realm of the Lord of Shadows.

As a god of medium power, he has a relatively wide influence on the shadow plane, and his kingdom of God is also somewhere in the shadow plane.

It's a natural convenience.

Although he was also forced to leave his kingdom of God because of the catastrophe of the saints, he was also closer to his kingdom of God than other gods.

"Shadow Realm!"

With the distortion of space, Sauron returned to the material plane again.

There was still a vast virgin forest in front of him. He blessed a flying technique to observe the surroundings, and was surprised to find that he was actually very close to his destination.

This is the land of the elves.

That is, the vicinity where he was hunted by the God of Hunting Cultists, and there is a distance of hundreds of kilometers from here to Fallen Leaves City. A towering mountain blocked the route, making it difficult for orcs to get here. At the same time, it seemed like a natural barrier to separate the elves from more connections with other races. Historically, the only way to go to the elves country is to go through the forest on the other side. If you have to go hundreds of kilometers.

"It's safe!"

After confirming that there was no danger, Sauron took a short rest and began to examine the properties of the water of life.

………………(To be continued.)