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Chapter 991: Plant Control
chapter 991: plant control
arad looked back at the paper before him, "magic is far more complex than anything i had ever expected. what can you four do?"
arad knew that mary was good with holy magic and that curses were echidna's specialty. he had also heard that plum could use some powerful plant magic, but besides basic information, he knew nothing about what they could achieve. especially since they are in this strange world that relies on magic.
"i'm a spell sword..." mesharra slowly turned to look at him, "but i can use weather magic, the ability to summon rain, storms, or fog. but i do have some basic illusion magic as well, like the light clones you saw before."
"she's powerful." mary looked at mesharra, "arthur's lightning in kids' play compared to what she can pull off. in the war of noman's valley five years ago she summoned a massive lightning storm that wiped out a whole army."
echidna looked a bit sore as she turned toward arad, "she flooded the whole swamp where my hut was, wrecked everything. and you know what hurts more? she dried the swam right after so her knights can rush in."
"floods and droughts are both exhausting to pull off but not as much as a full thunderstorm." mesharra giggled, "most of her hut's defenses relied on the swamp so that crippled everything she had built."
"and you?" arad asked echidna who was slowly getting more irritated by mesharra's smug smile. capturing her was a great achievement and mesharra made it clear to echidna that she was happy about her victory.
"i can use many curses, but the one i use most is the death thorn." she waved her fingers. the shackles flickered with light and no curse came out. "i can't show since this one here insists on keeping me shackled like a slave. can you believe that?" she glared at meshara.
"because you are a slave. the only reason your head isn't rotting beneath the ground is because he needs you." mesharra pointed at the shackles, "they stay on until i determine you not to be a threat."
"how am i supposed to show him my curses with them on? take them off." as echidna and mesharra kept arguing plum approached arad, "leave those tall giants alone, listen to me. i've got some nifty magic here for you to see."
she landed on the wooden desk and looked at it for a few seconds, tapping it with her foot. "knocking on wood, calling on life, my magic controls plants."
branches and leaves started sprouting from the desk as its legs grew longer and wider like tree stumps. arad could sense plum's magic pulsing, and it felt strangely weird. "wait, your output is flickering. how much are you holding back?"
plum nodded, "close, i'm not sharing, i always sense them." the image started flowing backward, showing what had happened half an hour ago. a thief runs across the plaza after stealing an old man's purse.
"as long as there are wood or plants around, i can sense everything for almost three kilometers around me and even retrieve the memories stored in that wood." a hand grew from the wood behind the guards in the post and slapped one of them in the back of his head. the guard looked back surprised but there was no hand, it had already disappeared.
echidna giggled, "are you saying that everyone in a three-kilometer radius is already a hostage to your magic? you can see and hear everything they say and can even attack if you want?"
just like mesharra's weather control, plum had a massive radius and was far more discreet. what was horrifying about her magic wasn't just the destructive power, but how she could collect information and spy on everyone undetected.
"it's a scary magic, isn't it?" she looked at arad and expected him to be a bit startled about it. most people either get angry or fearful when learning of her power, but she had a feeling that arad might be different. especially after that strange magic, she sensed at echidna's
execution.
"so it's like a low-power and always active elemental expansion that uses plants?" arad nodded, "it'll be useful."
"you aren't scared?" plum gasped and mesharra cried, "do you know how far that power of her would reach? it's not like my weather magic that clearly shows when it's being used. she is having it active inside the city without being noticed."
"she is holding everyone under the knife while fooling around." echidna looked at plum with a smug face, "and you count me as dangerous? she could've killed everyone if she wanted at
any time."
"i'm certain plum won't use that magic for evil." mary looked at arad and her eyes quickly shifted toward plum. "you won't, right?"
arad giggled, "what are you scared of? in my world, it's common among powerful people to have such powerful magic." he lifted his hands and put them together. everyone froze in their places, sending a sharp pain spreading across their chests and even plum felt her plant mage growing weaker and weaker. "i'm limited now, but asserting control over an area isn't that hard once you manage to get it right once. we call those elemental expansions."
"i bet plum's magic would grow weaker if it clashed with your weather magic or her curses." he leaned back, "one of my wives can summon a hundred-meter-wide purple sun that roars with plasma and divine magic with her expansion. my expansion reaches forty kilometers in every direction and has enough power to more than burn a few cities down in the blink of an eye." he patted plum's head, "my world has size, your world has precision. that seems to be the reason i was sent here without my power."