Chapter: 476
The guard intercepted the second seed before it even planted itself, ending it in one hit.
It seemed like he knew what to do as the guard made it to the mouth of the elemental furnace – the next seed was pierced and destroyed before it could even leave.
Next, he began to kill the stick-balls and nestlings before they could even dive into the chaotic swirling green energy inside.
Paul only nodded, continuing to hack, stab and slash at the outside.
Chunks of wood continued to rain off the creature, though they still healed right back.
The nest spore was dying though, as the energy inside it got less chaotic and less bright. The more Paul hacked at it, the smaller it got too.
Soon enough, its wooden body stopped healing. All four of its legs were hacked off and the light inside it dwindled.
With a few final slashes, parts of the furnace wall opened up, allowing some nestings to jump in.
Finally getting to consume more wood, the green light at the centre of the furnace grew brighter for a moment, but healed the walls of its body up.
Paul looked somewhat dissatisfied seeing this, realising he had to use more power.
He didn’t want to use an ability on such a weak creature, but it seemed he had no choice; It simply regenerated too fast.
***K, my holidays have just started. Let’s do a new challenge: 3k power stones = 5 bonus chapters. 1 Bonus chapter for every 100 golden tickets over 500.
Alternative smaller goals = 1 bonus chapter for reaching 750 golden tickets or 1 for reaching 2.7k power stones.***
Looking a little displeased, Paul was forced to use an ability on a nest spore.
The ability was far too powerful for such a low level creature, it felt even a little embarrassing to use it, it felt wrong. It would be like Jay using an unstable tooth spell against an ant.
Energy coursed through his hands and into his weapon.
His deep blue cloud spear began to radiate with energy, appearing like it was fuzzy for a moment – then suddenly four other copies of it appeared in the air, floating around it.
The spears all seemed to be possessed, having minds of their own as they all began to wreak havoc on the poor wooden furnace. Slashing and thrusting recklessly, each of them were chaotic, as chaotic as the green energy within the helpless elemental they were destroying.
For the nest spore, it was simply too much damage to cope with – and much too fast.
The logs which formed its body began to tremble and collapse as its light flickered for a moment. This continued until it just couldn’t take it anymore, and after holding on for so long, it suddenly imploded with a final flash.
Life left the wood creature, never to return again.
“Nice work mate.” Paul nodded to the other guard as they began to walk back behind Jay’s V-formation. It was a casual thing for them..
This whole time, the adventurers were simply standing around watching – the swarm of elementals had all crowded around the nest spore so they had no enemies to fight. Temporarily anyway.
Some of them were even surprised at how casual the whole thing had been. The veteran guards made it look entirely too simple.
Some were even sad at how pathetic the nest spore looked under their sheer power; they expected some kind of valiant life and death battle – but no, it was simply over with a flash.