My Cell Prison

Chapter 574: Chapter 574 Apple Tree Path
 

“Hey… that’s too much!”

Han Dong really wanted to end the match right then and there.

However…

Due to the battle with Guli (predicting the route and setting traps), plus the subsequent injury and his recovery with the fairy, a lot of time had been consumed.

During this time, Abe had met the demands of some fairy and reached the depths of the garden.

Due to Abe’s keen senses combined with the gift from the fairy, he quickly located Han Dong who wasn’t too far away and rushed over to help.

“This level of intensity!?”

Abe was top-tier, he’d defeated a knight in the semi-finals, and in the first round of the final, had eliminated a top-ten student from The Crusaders.

However, the decapitated fairy that Abe had tackled was not dying.

“Super Fast Regeneration”

“Partial Crystallization”

“No Weakness”

No matter how Abe severed the fairy’s limbs, they would quickly grow back into a new arm covered in crystal.

Ignoring skeletal restrictions, it could twist and attack in multiple ways.

The fairy’s fingers became like wasps—swollen in the middle, the sharp nails like a sting, a solid fifteen centimeters long… leaving a deep scratch on Abe’s dragon scale skin.

Just at that moment.

A dozen strands of centipede-like black sand crawled into the fairy’s body from the hole in its neck.

The sense of death began to spread within it.

Similarly… the speed of its death and withering was slow, the fairy was still using its Super Fast Regeneration to resist death.

It took a whole half hour to finally kill it off completely.

Abe was also sweaty… This level of intensity did indeed belong to the realm of elite knights.

Imagine, there were still hundreds, if not thousands of fairies like this deep in the garden.

“Nicholas… how did you get injured so severely?”

Abe completely ignored the rule of the contest that forbade cooperation, immediately jumped to Han Dong’s side, sniffed the strange smell exuding from Han Dong’s body to gauge the severity.

“That Guli is really hard to deal with, we almost both got eliminated.

Speaking of which, cooperation is strictly prohibited in the finals, Abe, you should go first.”

Han Dong just wanted to get Abe out of the way so he could figure out a way to exit the contest himself.

Just then.

The voice of referee Al0nso echoed in their ears.

“The limited conditions in the depths of the garden have been relaxed, and cooperation between two people for the operation of [Picking the Golden Apple] is allowed, but the evaluation obtained will be less than that of a single person.

Also, during cooperation, it is forbidden to attack other individual contestants.”

In an instant, Han Dong’s attitude became problematic.

Why did everything go smoothly in the early plan, but when he wanted to withdraw, continuous problems arose?

Coincidence?

A flash of insight.

“It’s not a coincidence, but a deliberate targeting of me?

The help from the fairy.

When Abe stepped into the depths of the garden, he happened to be closer to me… This is more than just a simple coincidence.

Since the ‘trial’ is created by the council, these councilors should have special controlling methods.

I thought too simplistically, if these councilors really set up a ‘measure’ specifically against me, there’s basically no possibility of withdrawing.

After all, those guys stand at the pinnacle of the Holy City.

Even if I purposely lose against Guli, they might charge Guli with intentional harm, forcing me to continue the match.”

Thinking this, Han Dong slowly regains his cool… indeed, if it were that easy, the “Yellow mark” wouldn’t have been activated.

“Abe, can you give me half an hour to rest?”

Han Dong had discarded the idea of finding an opportunity to lose, and his attitude returned to normal.

Since the councilors were targeting him, Han Dong could only face them head on.

“Okay…”

Abe guarded them in the form of the Owl.

It was just ordinary recuperation, which didn’t affect their conversation.

“Nicholas, the ultimate goal of the trial is to compete with the ‘fairy creatures’ for the mature Golden Apples that fall from the tree, isn’t it?”

“It’s a possibility… but not a certainty.”

“What do you mean?”

“Perhaps the real ‘Golden Apple’ is something else… Abe, what token did you get from the fairy creatures on the outskirts?”

“This.”

A complete ‘Ear’ with no gaps was held in Abe’s hand.

“No wonder…it’s part of the face structure.”

Han Dong took out the ‘Eye’ and explained:

“Guli obtained teeth from the fairy creatures, which is equivalent to a ‘mouth’… if I am not mistaken, Dumps and the Hell boy should have received tokens like a nose, tongue or hair.”

Since these tokens are allowed to be carried with us at all times, their function is not simply to assist in road finding.

The real Golden Apple must have something to do with these tokens.”

“Indeed.”

“Abe, promise me one thing…if there is only one real Golden Apple that we find, you pick it up.

You are recognized as the top student of the Knight Academy, with talents surpassing Captain Kaimon, in complete possession of the chivalrous spirit extolled by Holy City. Also, you’re a perfect human being with no flaw. ”

You winning the first place is better than any of us.”

“Okay…”

Once Han Dong absorbed the remaining medication in his body, bringing his physical condition back to eighty percent, he continued to set off.

“Can I use the Ear for a moment?”

Han Dong, having connected the Eye to the back of his right hand through a Modified G-Virus, now also connected the Ear.

Buzz…

For a moment, there was a magical feeling of stepping into a new world.

The vision provided by the Eye could vaguely perceive a hidden current flowing between different apple trees, drifting deep into the bizarre dark garden.

The hearing had also risen to a new level.

Beyond the static noises of the fairy creatures biting their nails, grinding their teeth, and patting their bellies, I could also hear strange sounds from the depths of the garden, like the ‘interwoven sounds’ of fleshly growth and plant growth.”

Both hearing and vision pointed to the deep end, which meant the real Golden Apple must be in there.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The problem now was…

The only road leading to the deep end was the ‘Apple Tree Path’.

A winding road made up of apple trees as obstacles…each tree had about ten fairy creatures under them.

Even with perfect concealment, discovery was still a possibility.

Once exposed, the result would be hundreds of fairy creatures attracted, spelling the end of the final competition.

Abe stared at this dense swarm of strange fairy creatures, his white hair standing on end, his sweat continually pouring out… He wasn’t hugely confident in his own stealth abilities.

Beast knights were known for their wild nature and during his daily training, Abe preferred the ‘Cheetah Training’ of stealth and sneak attacks as a secondary focus.

Just then…

Thwack…

Han Dong grabbed Abe’s hand and whispered:

“Abe…I will lead you through the ‘Apple Tree Path’. Afterward, I will be weakened and you will have to decide and obtain the real Golden Apple.”

With that said…

Han Dong took a step forward.

This step brought him into the Death World.

Everything in the surrounding environment turned into greyscale symbols of death. The apple trees were completely withered and rotten, and the fairy creatures were nowhere to be seen… When moving in the field of death, Han Dong would also be under immense pressure.

Every second, his skin was flaking and falling off in pieces.