7 Chapter 7. The tree monster

Gathered in the main tent, the three men, two of whom were experienced merchants, began a meeting with the head of the mercenaries who accompanied them.

— I think we need to go route B — open map, a man with a large scar on his unshaven face poked her with his finger.

— But then we will be two weeks late, this route is sixty miles longer, — said a plump merchant of fifty-five.

— Calm down my friend, before you are the greatest mercenary in the desert, he knows what he says, soothingly patting his colleague on the shoulder, said the second, more elderly merchant — Please tell us why the route of "B", we don't want to lose money and go the long way round.

— On the route "B", a lot of stone "Islands", near which there are almost no worms, which is why the chance of attack there is lower. You see, your caravan is too big, no matter how careful we go, we've taken the worms away from you ten times in the last month, and that's with all the precautions. We're attracting too much attention, and I have no idea how we're going to get through a high-risk area in the middle of route A with this crowd. So I recommend... No, I insist on route B.

Merchants wanted to add something, but seeing the serious face of a mercenary decided to just agree.

None of them ever found out that there was another person in the tent at that moment, carefully studying the map.

The shadow spirit, though it could easily read the mental impulses and knew what these people were talking about, was useless when it came to reading a language he did not know. He didn't understand any of the markings on the map, but he could remember everything he saw with perfect accuracy.

In fact, he was sure that if to combine all seen and heard them here, together with the fact that scout his brothers, it turns out it is an adequate map of the nearby area.

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One of the big pluses of the dark vessel, thanks to which were caused by the shadows, was that with his help can be was in any moment contact with any of them.

To do this, it was necessary: a) to Be a Summoner, and b) to Have the ability to mentally transfer the thought impulse.

And of course, Kaysar had both.

Standing near the vessel and concentrating on his light coming from the neck, he received a lot of useful information in detail memorizing everything, so as not to lose face in front of his great master.

Remembering all the necessary king of the fallen decided that it would be best to immediately report everything found, and not to waste time. This will not only avoid misunderstandings between him and the Lord, but also protect them from unnecessary mistakes.

Therefore, without wasting time, Kaisar went to the teleportation gate located on his level.

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Ocean of blood – so between the inhabitants of the Empire called the 76 level, where the throne room was located.

The fact is that this "floor" in the form of a cube narrowed to the bottom, was ¾ filled with the blood of a monster tree, whose real size was simply enormous.

The blood of the monster tree was very special and combines the seemingly incompatible properties of the plant juice and blood.

The composition of this liquid was completely subservient to the tree, which could by manipulating its composition to turn this liquid-blood, both in healing nectar and in the strongest poison.

The seventy-sixth floor was huge, but it was Merck before the size of the tree, which could fill it with its blood by three to fourths of the volume. What came simple truth, that the main body of the plant monster was outside the pyramid and is only partially enveloped seventy-sixth floor, which was literally included in the General circulation of the huge plants.

Blood from this level continuously circulated, coming in and out of the tree. It was possible to tell that this "floor" was a certain check point where constantly pumped out, and from where constantly pumped out hundreds tone of blood, thus regulating its structure.

As for the throne room, the "floor" on a huge platform, which was supported afloat the root of the tree was a hundred-meter white marble pyramid, to the entrance where there was a carpet emanating directly from the teleport gate, which requires the audience, the person could get on the floor.

Exceptions, koi could do without the spatial gate was only the beings that possessed higher forms of teleportation, through which they could circumvent the protective barrier located here.

In addition to floating in the ocean of blood platform in the centre which actually was only one building-the pyramid, on this floor there was something else, or rather someone…

In the depths of the bloody abyss lived the giants of the sea, brought by the Lord from all seven oceans of the world.

The Lord was very fond of the underwater inhabitants with whom he spent most of his life in the true body. And of course, he could not leave them to their fate in the boiling from the monstrous radiation of the oceans.

So he moved all his most expensive Pets here, ordered the monster tree to fill their blood this level and maintain here a special, necessary for the life of these lovely creatures, its composition.

In fact, for the largest living creature on the planet, which was this tree, the task was not difficult, from the Lord only needed to place an underground pyramid-the country near the base of the trunk of the plant, which naturally could not move.

Yes, this monstrously old tree has always been and always will be here, it was impossible to move it anywhere because of its exorbitant size.

To word say, this tree was the only entity all these two million years lived without any suspended animation or a protective barrier. Let its upper parts perish, its large internal infrastructure survived the radiation quite calmly, not to mention several million years, which for one of the oldest creatures of the planet were nothing.