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As I had deactivated the barrier once Root told me to not interfere, dozens more of Spear Fishes rushed forward right at the moment Root finished the five he had stuck over his body. However, as he fought them, he suddenly began crumbling apart!
"ROOT!"
"No need to help me, master! I want to… fight! I want to earn my weight! Gyugyuh!"
Crack… CRACK!
As his body started crumbling apart, Root ferociously battle the Spear Fishes. I wanted to help him but somehow I felt like I would be offending his battle spirit in this moment.
CRAASH! CRAASH! CRAASH!
He continued battling the Spear Fishes, several of them ended being impaled as Root grew sharp spear branches all across his body. However, many other Fishes managed to pierce through his body, his wooden body cracking more and more as he desperately absorbed their health and ate his own leaves.
"Gyugyuuuuuhh!"
SPLAAASH!
However, it was too late, a dozen more Spear Fishes surged from the water, and then pierced from below the Lily Pad that Root was standing on, piercing through all of his body.
"G-Gyuh…"
"Okay that's enough…!"
I was about to step in, but then I saw Root's branches absorbing the fish's life until they became dried fish, falling apart into pieces.
At the same time, his body reached its limit.
Crack… crack…!
Wait, is he actually going to die?!
Crack…!
But this feeling…
Crack… CRACK!
As Root's body crumbled apart completely, bright light surged from within his cracks!
FLAAASH!
His body began growing larger and larger, reaching over four meters of height. His wood suddenly became darker and more resilient, like stone. His legs became bigger and stronger, and now he had four of them. His branches grew upwards, now resembling a fully adult tree! And his dark blue leaves shone brightly, waving around.
His face remained the same, with a sharp and long branch nose and two empty holes for his eyes, alongside a crack-looking mouth with a silly-looking smile. However, above his forehead there was a small red jewel.
"Did he just evolved?!" Asked Partner.
"Woah, he did!" Emeraldine said. "Such a beautiful and lustrous tree body!"
"You're such reckless dummy!" I sighed, giving him a smack in the tree-like body.
SMACK!
CRACK!
"GYUH…! S-Sorry master! I just wanted to level up and evolve as quickly as possible!" Root cried, his cracks quickly regenerating as I healed them myself. I felt slightly sorry.
"Okay, fine… Sorry for hitting you." I sighed.
Ding!
[Root] defeated [Spear Fish (D Rank)] x37!]
[Root] earned 111000 EXP]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] has Leveled Up!]
[Root] Level has reached Level 30!]
[All of [Root] stats have increased]
[Root] Special Skill Effects have been activated, Skill Proficiency to all Skills upon Leveling Up has been distributed]
[Some of [Root] Skills have leveled up!]
[Root] has undergone Evolution!]
[Root] has evolved into a [Magic Treant (Special)]!]
Magic Treant? He must have learned magic now, wouldn't he? What's his elements anyways?
I quickly checked Root's status as I stopped the Spear Fishes from getting closer using Shadow Barriers.
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[Name]: [Root]
[Status]: [Cursed]
[Race]: [Magic Treant (Special)]
[Level]: [0/40]
[Rank]: [C+]
[HP]: [12825/12825]
[MP]: [16640/16640]
[Attack]: [6125]
[Defense]: [8630]
[Magic]: [8530]
[Agility]: [5715]
[Aether]: [40]
[Characteristic Skills]: [Dark Element: Lv--] [Nature Element: Lv--] [Seed of Calamity: Lv3] [Spirit Nest: Lv3] [Wood Shapeshifting: Lv3] [Life Drain: Lv2] [Powerful Endurance: Lv1]
[Resistance Skills]: [Physical Resistance: Lv4] [Magical Resistance: Lv4] [Status Effect Resistance: Lv4] [Poison Resistance: Lv3] [Water Resistance: Lv2]
[Physical Skills]: [Uproot: Lv4] [Rest: Lv4] [Wooden Needle: Lv4] [Draining Roots: Lv3] [Automatic Recovery: Lv3] [Piercing Spear Attack: Lv1] [Defensive Shield: Lv1]
[Magical Skills]: [Sharp Leaf Projectile: Lv4] [Relaxing Aroma: Lv4] [Wooden Spear: Lv3] [Wooden Shield: Lv1] [Plant Growth Enhancement: Lv1] [Shadow Bullet: Lv1]
[Support Skills]: [Healing Leaf: Lv5] [Magic Leaf: Lv3] [Healing Nature Light: Lv1]
[Title Skills]: [Servant of the Apostle of Death: Lv3] [Treant Progenitor: Lv3] [Forest Master: Lv3] [Nature's Guardian: Lv2] [Merciless Killer: Lv2] [Fish Slayer: Lv4] [Amphibian Slayer: Lv3]
[Divine Protections]: [Hel's Divine Protection]
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Would you look at him! He had really grown quite stronger now. Those stats were way higher than with the ones he started this morning. Leveling and Evolving is sure a broken mechanic… But I guess that without our assistance he would had never gone so far himself.
He gained several new Skills, one that enhanced his endurance, some resistance skill against water element, then two weapon techniques of Spear and Shields, most likely based over his own body which he uses as weapons.
Lastly, there's [Wooden Shield: Lv1] [Plant Growth Enhancement: Lv1] [Shadow Bullet: Lv1] and [Healing Nature Light: Lv1], all of them are self-explanatory skills. Plant Growth Enhancement might come in handy for us once we go back to the farms too…
But all of that is nothing much compared to the other revelation… Yes, the revelation that Root has a Divine Protection of nobody else than Hel! Yeah, she gave me one to me and my daughter and of course she aimed at Root as he's a growing calamity.
Kind of annoying, feels like she's planning something nasty somehow, somewhere… But I can't really complain, a Divine Protection boosts growth so its pretty good to be honest, even though it awakes my suspiciousness about the whole situation.
"Damn he has really grown bigger once more…" Lucifer said. "How much do you want him to grow?" Asked the dragon.
"Well as long as he can? We still need to wipe out the entire monster population here first." I said with a smile.
"Wait, what?!" Asked Helga. "You can't just do that…"
"Yeah, that's impossible…" Blackard sighed.
"No, if its Maria and her friends…"
"It is probably possible."
"Y-Yeah…"
The dwarves thought I was talking nonsense, however when I decide something, I do it!
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