"We can look for a bit more, however, I want to help that snake trapped inside the cage." Seeing Rais walking towards the crater, Dinna held his hand, "we need a plan first." He lifted up his bow in front of Dinna, "remember this, this is the plan, we just need to climb that tree for better visual."

After climbing a quarter way up the towering tree, immediately, both of them could observe the whole crater from the top. Kneeling downward, they witnessed the red resin originating of the strange tree successfully unlocked the cage, causing them both, including the young red jeweled serpent to grow terrified. "This thing... is intelligent."

"You think this is a safe distance to attack it," Rais asked his older sister for her opinion.

"If it comes this way, don't worry, I am confident I can run away, even if I am carrying two of you." Dinna looked back, "Master also prioritized my running skill."

Rais took out an arrow and directed it toward the center, where the curving of realistic-looking face occupied the tree. When it landed the middle, it destroyed most of the face curving, but it only slowed down the red resin.

Without delay, he drew out the next arrow, causing it landed on the middle section between the tree and the cage. The explosion turned the red resin into pieces, causing it to spread all over the crater.

Although slightly hurt from the explosion, the little snake left the cage in a rush and, then climbed up the tree. After climbing it, it stared at Dinna for a while, then turned to glance at Rais, before dropping down to leave.

Watching Rais stare at it, Dinna interrupted him, "do you want to keep it?"

Rais did want a pet, though if the snake wanted to leave, he had no desire to stop it, "No, it seemed to fancy you more."

"Why do you say that?"

"Dah! did it not stare at you for a while."

"No, it didn't stare at me, it was gawking at this," Dinna pointed at the artifact with her eyes.

"If a tiny snake, can determine the value of the artifact, is it not better if you conceal it."

"Little fellow just expressing its graduate, I doubt it had any wicked thought in its mind, just intrigued by the otherworldly presence."

"As for this artifact, I am figuring it out. There should be a way to make it invisible." She slowed down as she spoke.

"Aha! There! Now I have the full owners.h.i.+p over it."

Right away, the black wheel floated behind Dinna, expanding, as its outer rim vanished. It looked similar to the rays of a Sun, leaving behind only the core and its eighteen spokes. The wheel spun at a rapid pace, turning it translucent, eventually becoming crystal clear.

Rais' gaze met her eyes, just before she closed them, they were phenomenal, similar to cryptic portals, consuming everything before it, mercilessly.

Letting Dinna concentrate, Rais climbed to the canopy of the tree. After reaching the top, he became bewildered by what he witnessed, "What the f.u.c.k are they doing." An ominous fleeing clouded his heart.

Within a gigantic magical arcana, Rais looked at an unnaturally pale white, leafless tree, with one crystalline fruit at the canopy. Red vines like structure climbed around the tree, tightly binding to it, reaching every branch, similar to the blood veins of an animal. The tree surrounded by thousands of beast mindlessly kneeling around it, as nightmarish black roots bounded them to the ground, throbbing everything around it.

"Wors.h.i.+pers of the Divine Winged Serpent, The Winged Serpent Tribe" Rais learned of their untelling tales from his friends.

Totem curved at their back, the warriors looked beyond exhausted. Some missing their arm, and other their legs, yet still fighting, powerful beasts that resisted the submission of the fiend tree.

The ones that resisted already pushed into submission or eliminated by them. Except one, similar to a wolf, or a fox yet neither, still resisted, trying to protect something behind her.

A shadowy hand crept out a degraded casket, carved from a single piece of an ancient tree, reaching for the crystalline fruit. Four shamans standing on the energy nodes of the arcana chanted an ancient aria as the tree sucked the blood out of mindless beasts.

The blood slowly reached the crystalline fruit, turning it red, like a throbbing heart, as the shadowy hand created a hole in the fruit, while the blood fell into the casket.

A dried corpse, brutally pierced with large needles, gulped down the blood. White filament from the tree pulled the body into it, submerging it into its white tree trunk, only leaving a realistic-looking curving of a face.

Remembering the tree, he saw earlier Rais panicked as he swooped down the tree maniacally to where Dinna sat, aggressively tearing through numerous branches.

Reaching halfway down the tree, he saw no sign Dinna on the tree, his mind already imagined the worst, but he nevertheless sought for her, then to spot her running towards magical arcana. Just as he was about to yell, he heard a voice in his head, "Child of men, I beg you to take my son with you, I will defend you with the last of my ability."

Dinna seized the baby wolf-like creature as she ran back, she felt as if time had slowed, as her heart pounded. The mother beast howled with aggressiveness as it prevented the warriors from going after Dinna. Dinna looked back to see a warrior with a missing leg escape from the grasp of the beast.

"Keep running! don't look back!" Rais stood firm as he fired an arrow, "go!" cried Rais as he prepared to fire the next one. His hands shook in fear, but Rais kept looking forward as he knew Dinna was much faster than him. "The arrow will have little effect on a powerful opponent, but I have to slow down this half-dead warrior, even if it's a little."

When he saw the warrior grabbed on to his arrow, his hope heightened, as at the very next moment it exploded, making him fall to the ground. The next moment Dinna grabbed him while he warned her, "sister go around the crater."

The warrior once again chased after them with his two hands as he screamed at them, but once he arrived at the area of the crater, he heard a voice in his head telling him to stop.

"If you had gone any further you would no longer have your head," hearing this, he turned around to look at a shadowy silhouette of a woman forming from the water, a supreme pressure engulfed him, almost crus.h.i.+ng his soul to pieces just from mere presence. Then to vanish before smirking, turning into tiny droplets.

Within the house, Anila fastened her eyes. "Looks like they didn't require my help at the end, they should be safe now." She focused on her meditation once again.

"Thank you for saving me, your majesty."

"I didn't save you. The meal prepared for me has escaped, so I need another snack for myself to regain some of my power."

"Please spare me! Please spare me for being careless!" His yelling led him nowhere since a piece of resin attached itself to the wound in his leg. It penetrated his body to reach his brain. It controlled the body to collect itself, forming a pile of tiny resin. In the end, it entered the body through the mouth, making the body to swell up, then to explode into a b.l.o.o.d.y mess.

Near the tree, sensing the majestic presence, and her son escaping to safety, the beast stopped resisting as the black root torn her into pieces, within a heartbeat.

"We were too careless it's a good thing this woman remained uninterested, otherwise it would be a b.l.o.o.d.y mess," The red resin talked to the pale white tree.

"Seems this expert doesn't want problems otherwise she would have attacked at our weakest point. We should ignore this and move on."

"Alright, It's best if we don't make such a smart and powerful enemy," Red Resin expressed his agreement.

Rais freed himself from Dinnas grasp to drop down on the ground to pick up a herb while laughing, "mission complete." Dinna extremely exhausted to even smile, leaned against a tree as the little fellow called out to its mother, howelling at the direction of its mother. It withdrew its spiritual head into its body in grief.

Was this a spiritual beast or a fierce beast. Rais never heard of such a creature. It could not eat through its head, only observe qi and mana through it, but it could eat through its narrow tail to nourish its body.

If someone stated such creature existed before today, Rais wouldn't believe them. Dinna tapped on his head, "What do you want to call him?"

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"His fur is silver, and now it's covered with blood, so how about we call him Silver Blood."

"He is so cute, don't give him such violent name, how about just Silver or Silver Line from the bloodline."

"Line? How about descent? Does it not sounds better."

Dinna nodded her head in satisfaction.

"Silver Descent it is. Little guy, your name is Silver Descent, remember it well."