Chapter 288 The Explorer and the Tree Demon

The sharp sword was unsheathed, blocking the vines that swept from behind and cutting them off.

The broken ends of the vines spilled a dark green sticky juice.

The dark green figures in the forest cast cold eyes on them, and the nearly five-meter-tall trees shook their bodies and revealed their shapes from the depths of the dense forest. The thick and ancient bark was covered with dark brown cracks, and a ray of light representing the flow of magical energy flashed from time to time in the cracks.

They moved slowly and silently in the forest with the help of the creeping roots under their bodies, and they could camouflage themselves very well after taking root.

The comer is not friendly.

Tree demons.

Compared with normal tree people, tree demons often rely more on spellcasting ability rather than physical brute force. They are born with stronger spellcasting ability than tree people, and can release low-level natural spells without any external assistance.

For example, activating a part of the body as a flexible and deadly weapon to attack the target.

The captain of the guard took a step back, swung his sword to cut off the dark green whip that swept over, and took a deep breath. Watching the tree demon gradually revealing its full form from the forest, the guards dispersed in a hunting formation.

Just now, their attention was focused on the gray soldiers, and they didn't notice that something else was touching them from behind.

"Remove the camouflage, disperse, hunting formation."

Tree demon... He might not be able to deal with those gray soldiers, but it was more than enough to deal with a tree demon.

The captain of the guard cursed in his heart, thinking that he was unlucky today.

There was an open space in front of them, and the tree demon was approaching behind them.

If they went forward, they would definitely be discovered by those soldiers. If they fled backward, the tree demon could use vines to block their space for dodging.

It was really troublesome.

There was no other way except to quickly resolve the battle.

The guards took off the green camouflage clothes that affected their movements, revealing some yellowed and damaged combat uniforms. They drew out their own melee weapons and held them in their hands. The rune swords reflected a faint luster in the dim woods.

Injecting energy, activating the runes to sharpen the sword, forming a faint light on the front. With the help of this layer of sharpened weapon brilliance, adventurers can easily cut through iron with the most common rune weapons, which is truly like cutting iron into mud.

Rune carving technology.

Greatly enhance the armor-piercing ability of weapons.

Every lord who chooses rune technology will try to drag the enemy into a close-range meat-grinding battle in the era of cold weapons, and then use more excellent melee weapons to gain an advantage.

The tree demon stopped, and the creeping roots changed direction and inserted into the ground.

Rooting.

With the tree demon as the center, the vines extending from its arms completely blocked the direction of the sub-human team's escape.

The captain of the guard began to have a headache looking at the extended vine net. If he saw such a tree demon blocking his way in other places, he would even be happy.

The tree demon and the corrupted wasp are two extremes, compared with the corrupted wasp that has basically no recycling value. Every part of the tree demons: tree cores, twigs, and the most important spell resonators and active tree cores... even their barks are materials that can be sold for a good price.

But tree demons have strong concealment capabilities and can control fairies to help them fight, so it is extremely difficult to catch one.

Like this five-meter-long tree demon, if they can be hunted intact, it can be equivalent to the annual salary of 20 people in the escort team.

There is also extra money to give each of them a year-end bonus.

But now they must leave as quickly as possible and must not entangle with this tree demon.

The captain of the guard subconsciously pressed on his waist, where there was the last weakened version of the fireball release scroll that could set this guy on fire.

Don't use fire unless it's absolutely necessary.

If you use fire, you will definitely be discovered by the gray-clothed soldiers not far away, and then they will really be unable to escape.

"You cover me, cut off its vines and consume its control."

The captain of the guard quickly constructed a plan to fight the tree demon in his mind. As long as it temporarily paralyzes its spellcasting and active organs, it will be enough for them to escape.

The spellcasters in the exploration team did not act with them, so they could only rely on their guard team equipped with rune weapons to solve the problem.

After receiving the captain's order, the guards who had formed a semi-arc siege formation strode forward, with swords in their hands like flowing light.

The tree demon stretched out its vines to intercept the attack launched against it. The interwoven new vine net blocked half of the guards, forcing them to cut off the planting net before they could move forward.

A guard member dodged the vine whip thorns swung by the tree demon and wanted to cut off a large number of blocking vines directly from the roots of the tree demon's blocking vines, but was blocked by the tree demon who reacted and stretched out his hand.

The sharp rune sword had already broken through the hard tree layer with one strike, but was blocked by the tree body containing sticky branches and leaves. The light and sharp sword seemed particularly powerless when it fell into the juice buffer layer.

This is not the blood of the tree people.

This is the buffer layer evolved by the tree people to resist weapons. These sticky juices flow under the hard bark. Once the epidermis is damaged, it will flow out to form a temporary glue layer to block cold weapons and remove all the force of the attack.

The captain of the guard looked at the thick bark and the tree demon's vague and sarcastic smile, and began to have a headache again.

He suddenly thought of the explosive packs used by the soldiers to destroy the beehive. It seems that the power to destroy biological structures is just as convenient and fast.

Bomb... That's right.

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The tree demon looked at the little things scurrying around in front of him, feeling a little annoyed.

These little things were too good at jumping and dodging, and his vines would be quickly cut off and cut once they approached them. Generating new vines was also a burden for the tree man... but it was enough to consume the physical strength of these little things in front of him.

It was not in a hurry, because the glowing sticks in the hands of these little things could not hurt it, nor could it make it feel pain.

He was ordered to capture these little things and interrogate them... Two armies belonging to different forces appeared on an empty island, which aroused considerable interest in the tree demons living nearby.

Do these little things think that they can run rampant in their forests by wearing a layer of green plant skin? This is the forest of the tree man, and the fairies hiding in the forest will tell them all the movements in the forest.

As for why they can distinguish the different forces of the guards and the gray-clothed soldiers.

One has ears on its head, and the other has no ears on its head. Even creatures as leisurely and slow as tree men can distinguish them.

The tree demons living on the other side of the sky island also reported that they saw a group of pointed ears a few months ago...

But the pointed ears here were just a flash in the pan and soon disappeared.

It raised its hands and looked at the guards who screamed under the sweep of the vines.

They were still attacking their own vines in vain. The generation speed was a bit slow, but it was enough to deal with these little things...

But it seemed that I just broke the limbs of a little thing... What a fragile life, a fragile body. It set its sights on these little things, waiting for them to use up the last bit of strength in their bodies.

How could the tree demon tribes on other islands be invaded by such weak life? It couldn't understand it at all. Even those gray little things, it didn't think they had any ability.

The tree demon put away all the vines and prepared to end the battle early and take these little things with ears back to the elders.

One, two, three...

Nineteen...?

Why is there one less? Did it run away?

Never mind, it's enough to go back...

A dark blue light flashed, and a deep scar visible to the naked eye appeared on the top of the tree demon's head, and then something was stuffed into its body.

This was the last scene it saw.

The captain of the guard breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the tree demon that was dying from the severe damage caused by the fireball scroll stuffed inside, and felt something touching his trouser legs.

He lowered his head.

He saw a big spider arching his feet.

Spider? Where did it come from...?

He turned around and saw a group of gray-clad soldiers holding up their spears and putting them in the crosshairs.

The captain of the guard smiled and threw the rune sword in his hand to the ground, raising his hand to indicate that he had disarmed.

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