Chapter 83: Ogre Flower
“If conditions permit, both of these magical creatures can actually be simulated.”
The Ogre Flower has an extremely fast attack speed. While swallowing the enemy, its pistil secretes a large amount of neuro-paralyzing toxins, directly causing the prey to go into shock, and then completes digestion through corrosive acid.
However, the Ogre Flower's defense is very low. Its poor Flame resistance and fragile plant body mean it can only fight quickly when facing enemies, otherwise there's a high probability of failure. The Grimace Treant has a huge body, possessing strength comparable to giants and terrifying defense and self-healing abilities that inspire awe. Its defense is so high that it can even show good resistance to Flame Witchcraft to a certain extent.
However, the disadvantages are equally obvious. The Grimace Treant's large self-weight severely restricts its speed. When facing enemies, it is mostly in a state of being passively beaten without even being able to fight back.
Therefore, the Grimace Treant's strategy against enemies is mostly a war of attrition. Then, while the opponent is exhausted, it smashes the opponent into a pulp with an iron fist—
“Thump—”
To speed up the exploration efficiency, Jia Na directly transformed into a butterfly-winged form, flew above the thorny dense forest, and used the Eagle Eye Technique to search for targets.
“Found it!”
In the ten o'clock direction, an Ogre Flower about three meters high with petals the color of scorching red like flames appeared before Jia Na.
“It’s a bit far, I still need to get closer.”
To complete the Beginner Transformation simulation, Jia Na must thoroughly understand the physical structure of the simulation object in advance. Therefore, probing with mental power is undoubtedly the most efficient method.
“If Luo were here at this time, relying on his illusion, I could completely hide beside the Ogre Flower without anyone noticing and start observing the simulation———”
Although the magical creatures in the cultivation area cannot actively harm the White Coral Academy apprentices due to the restrictions of the Curse Witchcraft 【Hostility Reversal】.
However, their instinctive territorial awareness will still cause them to make those who approach fall flat on their face under "unintentional" circumstances. Or, they might "playfully" hang the apprentices on trees using Vine Entanglement.
Examples like this have been countless since White Coral Academy was founded.
Therefore, in order to complete this exploration with dignity, Jia Na did not intend to provoke the magical creatures here.
“Perhaps I can try to hypnotize it with Siren's Chant? This shouldn't violate the academy regulations, right?
Just as magical creatures cannot attack apprentices, likewise, White Coral Academy apprentices cannot actively harm the magical creatures in the cultivation area. Otherwise, once verified, White Coral Academy will definitely pursue it to the end.
“Forget it, I won't try to exploit loopholes. If I run into trouble with the academy, I won't be able to explain myself.”
Putting aside the idea of using Siren's Chant to hypnotize the Ogre Flower, Jia Na continued to flap her wings, carefully approaching the Ogre Flower's location.
“Huh? It seems a little different from what I imagined.”
When Jia Na flew to a position about ten meters away from the Ogre Flower, the Ogre Flower, which is extremely sensitive to scent,
quickly discovered Jia Na under the light green protective shield.
However, unlike the intense stress reaction Jia Na imagined, after the Ogre Flower discovered Jia Na, its attitude seemed... quite friendly?
“This situation is very similar to when I contracted the Thorn Flower Fairy. Perhaps it's because of the 'tree seed' inside my body?”
Thump—her wings flapped at a high frequency. As Jia Na got closer to the Ogre Flower, she found that the other party did not show any hostility towards her approach, but instead actively sent out a signal of closeness.
“Then this will be easy.”
Retracting the butterfly wings that continuously consumed magic power, Jia Na had just landed when the nearly three-meter-high Ogre Flower in front of her, in order to accommodate Jia Na's height, bent its body, closed its petals, and actively extended its flower bud to Jia Na's side.
“Do you want me to touch you?”
Since the intelligence of low-level elemental creatures is not high, the Ogre Flower did not react much to Jia Na's question,
it just kept pushing its flower bud towards Jia Na, making anxious gurgling sounds.
“You don't want me to contract you, do you?”
This time, whether the Ogre Flower understood or not, after Jia Na put her hand on the flower bud, Jia Na could clearly feel the Ogre Flower's excitement.
“This is probably not possible. I am only a first-level apprentice and cannot contract a third summoned creature yet———”
Regardless of whether the Ogre Flower understood her meaning or not, Jia Na, who came with the purpose of simulating Deformation Art, saw that the timing was just right. Two beams of probing light emanating from her mental power dyed Jia Na's pupils silver-white.
“So the pistil is the toxin secretion opening—and the whisker-like tentacles on the petals are the mouthparts that wrap the prey and produce corrosive acid for digestion—hmm? So the pollen on the pistil also has a paralyzing effect—”
As her mental power continuously spread out, in just a few minutes, with the cooperation of the Ogre Flower, Jia Na quickly completed this structural observation.
“Change—manifold!”
The details of Elementary Transformation quickly flashed through Jia Na's mind. Combining the summary of this observation, Jia Na quickly chanted the spell while making the casting gesture.
In an instant, her body twisted, accompanied by the violent consumption of magic power within her body, a "mini" Ogre Flower only about two meters high suddenly appeared next to the real Ogre Flower.
“Hiss—”
Like the Thorn Flower Fairy, the Ogre Flower's oral structure can only make a hissing sound like an insect.
“It feels pretty good, just a little unaccustomed——”
After successfully completing the transformation, Jia Na returned to her human form. However, feeling the nearly depleted magic power in her magic circuit, Jia Na chanted the spell again and transformed into her current most proficient tree form.
“Character panel.”
While recovering her magic power, Jia Na summoned the character panel. Looking at the Wizard skill bar, where she had added points to Elementary Transformation to its current level cap last night, Jia Na was quite satisfied with this transformation.
“After recovering my magic power, I will go find the Grimace Treant next.”
As a Wizard Apprentice who has become increasingly proficient in using Elementary Transformation, Jia Na will not make any trade-offs between the two plant-based magic creatures.
After all, whether it is the Ogre Flower or the Grimace Treant, their advantages and disadvantages are extremely obvious. If she can properly utilize their abilities, Jia Na believes that the next time she enters an Different Dimensional Space like the Mirror Layer Domain and faces magical beasts like the Howling Moon Demon Wolf, she will not be unable to even fight back.
“It's just a pity that for me currently, Elementary Transformation can only be used once during a battle—if one attack fails, the consequences are unimaginable——””