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Li Wei tossed the innocent people who had been caught up in the chaos into the Magic Cottage’s Magic Barrier.

He then took the man who was selling the Demon Seed Fruits to find the Tree of Demon Seeds.

The man led Li Wei and Monice to the side of an abandoned house.

"The tree was right here... Strange, why is it gone?"

"Sir, you have to believe me! I’m definitely not lying to you! If I’m lying, may I suffer a horrible death and be struck by lightning!"

Li Wei followed the man to the location of the Tree of Demon Seeds.

But the place was completely empty.

The man pointed at a hole in the ground where a tree had been and kept repeating, "The tree was right here before. How did it just disappear?"

Li Wei’s Spiritual Perception quickly swept over the surroundings, searching for the missing Tree of Demon Seeds.

Monice turned to her right and said, "It’s over there."

"I can sense a very faint trace of Demonization Power."

After speaking, Monice turned and walked in that direction.

Li Wei grabbed the man and followed Monice.

Soon, after rounding a wall, the two of them saw a small tree, a little over two meters tall.

Its trunk was black, and its leaves and branches were partly green and partly black.

A few Demon Seed Fruits of varying sizes grew on its branches, apparently not yet ripe.

According to the man, the Demon Seed Fruits would automatically fall off after ripening.

If one tried to pick them by force, they would be attacked by the tree.

When the man saw the Tree of Demon Seeds, he said happily, "This is it! This is it! See? I told you I wasn’t lying!"

After saying that, a look of confusion appeared on his face. "But... why did the tree move over here?"

Li Wei casually knocked the man unconscious and stuffed him into the Magic Cottage.

He looked at the Tree of Demon Seeds, his expression turning grave.

’This is the first time I’ve seen a demonized plant.’

Before this, Li Wei had never imagined that the purpose of a demonized plant would be to grow Demon Seeds.

’This is not good news.’

Li Wei suddenly felt a bit fortunate. It was a good thing the Demon Seeds had appeared in the Extreme North Icefield.

Plants were very rare in the Extreme North Icefield, so the number of demonized trees was also very small, preventing the Demon Seeds from spreading on a large scale.

If they had appeared in a place with dense vegetation, tens of thousands of Demon Seeds would likely have been produced in less than a day.

Monice watched the Tree of Demon Seeds for a moment, then turned to Li Wei and asked, "What now?"

Li Wei was also thinking. ’Should I destroy the Tree of Demon Seeds directly, or take it back for research?’

An idea struck him, and he asked, "Monice, you can’t sense the Tree of Demon Seeds?"

Monice said, "It’s probably because its form is different. I can sense it at close range, but not from too far away."

"Is that so? There might be more than one Tree of Demon Seeds in Fred City," Li Wei murmured.

Having said that, Li Wei had already made a decision.

The Arcane Magic Codex appeared in his hand.

The Tree of Demon Seeds also seemed to sense danger, and its branches began to shake.

Li Wei saw its roots pull out of the ground as if preparing to flee.

"Frozen Coffin!"

The Ice Element gathered, enveloping and encasing the Tree of Demon Seeds.

A moment later, the Tree of Demon Seeds was frozen into a huge block of ice.

The Frozen Coffin was like a massive piece of amber, encasing the entire tree within it.

The Tree of Demon Seeds was merely a tree that had undergone Demonization. Its own Power was not great, at best equivalent to that of a Tier Two Magical Beast.

It was extremely dangerous for ordinary people.

But for Li Wei, it was a minor problem.

A Tier Four Spell like Frozen Coffin could easily freeze it.

After confirming the frozen Tree of Demon Seeds was no longer a threat, Li Wei stored it in the Magic Cottage.

Seeing the Tree of Demon Seeds get tossed inside, Saint Xi complained, "Li Wei, can you stop throwing all this junk into our home?"

Li Wei: "..."

"Just put up with it for now. I don’t have anything else to store these things in."

After dealing with the Tree of Demon Seeds, Li Wei finally had a rough idea of why the number of Demon Seeds was increasing.

Next, Li Wei and Monice continued to capture the Demonized.

Soon, the two of them had rounded up all of the Demonized.

In the process, Li Wei and Monice also took the opportunity to investigate all of Fred City.

They did not find a second Tree of Demon Seeds.

Li Wei breathed a small sigh of relief at this.

’It seems the number of these trees is indeed small.’

Just as the two of them finished their capture mission,

a huge battle erupted at the city wall.

Fortunately, thanks to Monice’s advance warning, the defensive forces on the wall had been significantly strengthened.

For the time being, they were able to hold off the attack of the Demonized Creatures.

Hearing the sounds of battle, Li Wei and Monice hurried to the city wall.

Climbing onto the wall, Li Wei looked down.

He saw many humanoid Demonized mixed in among the Demonized Beasts.

The demonized humans and demonized Magic Beasts had already joined forces.

"Frozen Ice Seal!"

WHOOSH! SWOOSH! CRACKLE!

A frigid wind howled as an icy aura rolled down from the city wall, engulfing countless Demonized and Demonized Beasts below.

Before the Super Tier Spell, Frozen Ice Seal, all the Demonized and Demonized Beasts were frozen into ice sculptures.

Only a few Demonized Creatures managed to escape.

’As expected, when dealing with large numbers of enemies, large-scale magic is the most effective.’

If he weren’t so close to Fred City, it would have been even easier for Li Wei to use the Meteor Fireball Technique to deal with these Demonized Creatures.

After casting the Super Tier Spell, Gu Sewei saw that all the enemies were frozen and let out a small sigh of relief.

She had been preparing this spell ever since she arrived on the wall.

Seeing the hundreds and thousands of enemies below turned into ice sculptures, the guards on the wall burst into deafening cheers.

"Long live the City Lord!"

"Long live the City Lord!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

...

The crowd loudly chanted Gu Sewei’s titles.

They saw her as the new Ice Queen.

It was what everyone had hoped for.

Gu Sewei had earned the recognition of all the Valkyries and the Ice and Snow Guardians.

Monice stood to the side, silent, watching Gu Sewei with a complex mix of emotions.

After the crowd’s cheers died down,

Gu Sewei finally gave her new orders.

She sent people to clear away the frozen Demonized Creatures outside and to encircle and hunt down the survivors.

Li Wei glanced at the scene below the wall and gave a faint smile.

’The Demonization disaster doesn’t seem that hard to handle after all.’

’If they’re all just these relatively weak Demonized Creatures, they can be easily dealt with using large-scale magic.’

Seeing Li Wei’s smile, Monice said coldly, "You’re celebrating too soon. These are just the weakest of the Demonized Creatures."

Hearing this, Li Wei’s smile gradually faded.

’She’s right. These are just the lowest-tier Magic Beasts and ordinary humans after Demonization.’

And it already took a Super Tier Spell to deal with them.

When they encounter truly powerful Demonized Creatures, how will they fight back?

’With a Forbidden Curse?’

Fred City was only able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Demonized Creatures because they had a powerful Mage like Gu Sewei.

If it had been a city on the same level as the old Maple City, it probably would have been breached during the very first attack.

After all, the strongest person in the original Maple City was only a Tier Four Professional.

If you didn’t count Torresta.

Under normal circumstances, a high-level Tier Four Professional would be considered top-tier strength in an ordinary human city.

The strongest person in an ordinary human Kingdom would be a Tier Six Professional at most.

After a Tier Five Magic Beast undergoes Demonization, it can easily surpass Tier Six.

Looking at it from a worldwide perspective, Demonization was an absolute super-disaster.

It was only because the Demonized Creatures were subject to various restrictions in the Extreme North Icefield that they didn’t seem particularly strong.

For the indigenous tribes of the Extreme North Icefield outside the Ice and Snow City, it was undoubtedly a super-disaster.

People had already begun clearing the frozen Demonized Creatures from outside the city wall.

Gu Sewei walked over and said, "I think we should recruit some Professionals to help with the city’s defense. Otherwise, the pressure of defending the city is too great for just the Valkyries and the Ice and Snow Guardians."

Li Wei nodded and said, "I agree. That’s a good idea."

He told Gu Sewei about the Tree of Demon Seeds.

Gu Sewei was greatly surprised to hear this, never expecting that Demon Seeds could grow from a tree in the form of fruit.

She worried, "If there are many Trees of Demon Seeds out there, doesn’t that mean there will be an endless supply of Demonized Creatures?"

Li Wei said, "It’s a good thing the Demonized Creatures appeared in the Extreme North Snowfield. If it had been anywhere else, the situation would have likely spun out of control long ago."

Gu Sewei also felt a bit of relief.

’Then again,’ she thought, ’this is also Fred City’s misfortune. If the Demonized Creatures had appeared elsewhere, our isolated city might have been spared this demonic plague.’

Li Wei knew what she was thinking. But when the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken. It wasn’t that he saw it as his personal duty to save the world; he simply understood that if the demonic plague spread on a large scale, the entire world would inevitably be plunged into crisis.

It was only a matter of time before Fred City had to face the demonic plague.

Facing it in the early stages, before it had fully erupted, was better.

If they had directly encountered the plague in its late stages, with millions upon millions of Demonized Creatures surging forward, they probably would have been overwhelmed without even a chance to fight back.

Li Wei released everyone held in the Magic Cottage and had the Valkyries take them all to the Ice Jade Palace to be locked up.

Seeing this, Gu Sewei said, "This can’t go on. The Ice Jade Palace can’t hold this many people."

Monice said, "We can set up a prison in the barracks to hold them."

Upon hearing this, Gu Sewei immediately had someone make the arrangements.

Located halfway up the mountain, between the city below and the Ice Jade Palace on the summit, the barracks was much larger than the Ice Jade Palace.

Setting aside a section to be converted into a prison was more than enough.

The bigger problem was how to deal with these people.

Gu Sewei noticed that there was even a Valkyrie among the Demon Seed carriers.

She proposed to Li Wei, "Could you split their souls, like you did for Monice, to prevent them from losing consciousness?"

Li Wei shook his head and said, "Not everyone can withstand the pain of having their soul split."

"Monice’s soul was resilient enough for her to endure it to the end."

"For an ordinary person, I’m afraid one cut and their soul would shatter and disperse."

This was not an unfounded concern.

Monice was a Tier Six Professional. Even without having specifically trained in the Power of the Soul, her soul was inherently hundreds of times more resilient than an ordinary person’s.

Even so, Monice had nearly broken down when undergoing the soul-splitting procedure.

Unless they possessed extremely strong willpower, the only outcome for an ordinary person undergoing the soul-splitting procedure was the complete annihilation of their soul.

Monice was a special case, one that would be difficult to replicate.

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