The Genius Mage

Chapter 398: Old Tree Spirit

“Klein, Kate, wake up.” Morris patted their faces and shouted hurriedly. If they woke up, they would have the strength of four people.

If Audrey and he were to bring the unconscious Klein and Kate, the danger would be even greater.

After shouting for a while, there was still no reaction from Klein and Kate. Audrey frowned slightly and thought for a moment. Then, she took out two bottles of potion from her pocket and poured them down.

“What did you give them to drink?” Morris asked in confusion.

“Recovery potion. It can improve their essence, Qi, and spirit,” Audrey answered simply. For ordinary people, such an effect was already good enough for Klein and Kate to wake up.

Morris nodded and looked at Klein and Kate suspiciously. He did not know if the potion was useful for them.

After a moment, he tried to call out again. Klein and Kate moved their bodies and soon woke up. Looking at the strange environment around them, they could not help but be surprised.

“Where are we? Why did we suddenly come here?” Kate frowned and asked uneasily.

Klein was also puzzled. “Aren’t we resting?”

“We were resting, but the two of you suddenly sleepwalked and ended up here.” Morris heaved a sigh of relief and explained helplessly.

When they heard the word sleepwalking, Kate and Klein were surprised. They said in surprise, “How is that possible? I’ve never stopped sleepwalking.”

Hearing that, Audrey could not help but laugh. She sighed and said, “To be precise, it wasn’t you sleepwalking. It was something that affected you while you were sleeping, causing you to sleepwalk.”

“What substance? This is too terrifying,” Klein asked. When he thought about how he was controlled to do other things while he was sleeping, he felt a chill in his heart for no reason.

Audrey could not answer Klein’s question for the time being.

“Let’s not talk about this. Let’s see what’s going on here first.” Audrey changed the topic. Immediately, she condensed a fireball in her palm and lit up the surroundings.

The corpses on the ground were shocking to the eye, and they could be seen more clearly.

“What’s going on?” Kate kept stroking the hair on his body as he asked with a horrified expression. He could not help but feel lucky that Audrey and Morris had saved them in time. Otherwise, he and Klein would have ended up in the same situation.

Audrey’s eyes swept her surroundings calmly. She immediately squatted down and looked at the corpses up close. Then, she said coldly, “It’s probably because some species has eaten them up.”

“What kind of species wants to eat humans?” Klein was shocked. “Could it be some kind of beast?”

Audrey was also guessing in her heart. However, even if it was a beast, it probably did not have the ability to trick people into coming here in their sleep and becoming its food.

Most beasts would take the initiative to hunt instead of using this method.

Moreover, there did not seem to be any traces left behind by beasts in the vicinity.

“It shouldn’t be a wild beast. There aren’t any traces here.” Morris, who was at the side, also saw the clues. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the ground as he spoke thoughtfully.

If it was not a wild beast, then what else could it be?

Unknown things often made people even more afraid. At this moment, in the minds of the four people, it seemed that they were imagining different images of demons.

At this moment, there seemed to be a rustling sound not far away.

This immediately alerted Audrey. A sharp glint flashed across her eyes. She exchanged a glance with Morris and walked toward the source of the sound.

Klein and Kate also carefully followed behind the two of them.

After going around a few trees, they could vaguely see a strange-shaped figure not far away. However, they were a little far away. Audrey really could not see what it was. She could only hear the other party’s chewing sound.

“What is that?” Morris looked at it for a long time, but he still could not figure it out.

The few of them shook their heads and stared more seriously into the distance.

After a moment, the creature seemed to have finished something. It turned around and walked forward. Only then did the few of them see the true face of the creature. It was an old tree.

The tree was brown, as thick as two people hugging each other. At this moment, it looked like it had just eaten and drunk enough as it swaggered through the forest.

“What kind of monster is that?” Kate was shocked. It was the first time he had seen such a monster.

“It’s just an old tree that has turned into a spirit,” Morris answered with a slight frown.

However, this old tree was too much of a spirit. It had actually learned how to bewitch people in their dreams and then tricked them to come here to devour them. It was just an old tree, but it had actually caused such a great disaster.

“Old tree body?” For a moment, Klein could not understand what was going on in front of him.

Morris nodded and explained, “It’s a dead tree. For some reason, it became a spiritual being and became like this. The tree body is just its appearance. In fact, it’s not a tree anymore. It looks like it’s an old tree spirit that has been around for thousands of years.”

These words surprised Klein and Kate again. Both of them looked at the old tree spirit in surprise, not knowing what words to use to describe it.