Reunion

Early morning.

After 7 days if intense training in the Ent sanctuary, the Unshakables woke up.

Veznir and the council members, as well as all Ents of tier 4 and higher (4 tier 5 Ents haven't been introduced yet) came to see their latest guests.

*Here, armors for all of you, to keep you safe. Here are 2 sabers for Zephyr and an axe for you, Ezyze.*

Alm of them receives their gifts, bowed in thanks and equipped them quickly.

Hardwood dark axe - rare

Attack power + 60

Agility + 10

Strenght +20

Armor breaker - ignores 5 percent of defenses.

*An axe made from the heart of magic dark weeping willows. It can slash through tough defense and never breaks. It's exquisite craft makes full use of the wood's strenght and magic metals, while strengthening the user.*

Hardwood dark saber - rare

Attack power + 55

Agility + 25

Strenght +10

Armor breaker - ignores 5 percent of defenses.

*A saber made from the heart of magic dark weeping willows. It can pierce through tough defense, slash flesh and metsl equally and never breaks. It's exquisite craft makes full use of the wood's and magic metal's strenght, while strengthening the user.*

Hardwood dark armor - rare

Defense +50

Endurance +50

Stamina +50

Agility + 20

Strenght +15

Magic armor - ignores 15 percent of magic damages

*An armor made from the heart of magic dark weeping willows. It protects the user and would break before allowing any harm. Light yet hard, it shows an excellent combination of mobility and defense. It's exquisite craft makes full use of the wood's strenght, while strengthening the user.*

Their full set on, they looked elegant. Their armors had delicate carvings and the helmet descended to cover upper part of the nose (or just above the nose, as the straight nose of the Ent goblins couldn't even be slightly covered) and rose in both side, making a crown-like shape. They looked like wooden statuses, carved warriors of wrath.

During this week, everyone improved. Th Unshakables were fighting more as a whole and not a mismatched group. Also, without even 50 members, their cohesion increased largely and they knew each others instinctively.

During this time, Eve managed to fuse wind and flame, wind and water, creating more potent magic.

Rea was acting like a masochist. She was broken and healed and broken and healed endlessly. Burnt, cursed and frozen. Those late afternoon were like hell. Still, she gained beginner Elemental resistance towards fire, dark and ice magic. Her very bones were now stronger. Far from diamonds, they were still way stronger than all of the goblins'. After breaking her hands and feet especially times and times again, she succeeded in sparring at blocking real sharp swords with her very hands. Her hands and feet becoming like blades, she practiced under Arthur Aries spearmanship.

All the others grew more powerful with their martial arts.

Zephyr could throw air blades with his weapons attacking from a distance. His wind armor could also be focused on some limbs only adding even more speed to them.

Without moving, Baal could cast up to 4 spears, and when fighting in close combat with his sword, while strengthening his sword with flames, he could cast 2 flame spears.

Ezyze emulated what him and finally managed to dual cast. He could use both gravity manipulation and death ray at the same time. He made enormous progress, reaching new height in axemanship and gravity manipulation. Also the harduous training made him gained +3 Strenght, +2 Agility, +2 endurance, +2 Stamina, +2 intelligence, +4 wisdom.

Three days prior, Cleopatra finally produced some honey. The size of a nugget, the honey was sparkling and golden. Ezyze ate it. The wondrous taste was something that he could never forget. It was like eating both spring and summer. It was like eating a rainbow or a Sunray. Something that shouldn't happen was made possible.

-Congratulations, you ate the first golden honey ever produced by the lost Queen of the forgotten Golden Bees. Your luck increases. This powerful energy optimizes your body and fills in what is lacking. +100 Widsom. The essence of the mermaid king is ignited. The essence of a mermaid king resonates with Heart of the herald of the barbaric savage troll.

The powers oppose one another. The barbaric and calm energy firefly fight in the user's body. The golden energy soothe them both. The powers harmonize with one another.

Ezyze was burning inside. His whole heart was on fire. His head was ringing.

Congratulations, contradictory powers are linked together. When the heart beat, the mind is alive. Base endurance divided by 2 is added to wisdom. -

At that moment, Ezyze felt unstoppable. The very center of his eyes gained a golden light. It is making a tenth of his Iris, but sparked with an intense vigor. The honey had effects only once, and if eaten again would be like regular honey - although tasting amazing. It is not a wonder why the Golden Bees were hunted to extinction.

Name : Ezyze Mostiko

Title: Aries

Level: 17

Trait:

Spacial affinity: S

Axemanship: A

Class:

Primary: spatial mage

Secondary:

Third:

Statistics:

Vitality: 2445

Mana: 4385

Stamina: 29(+2) + 50 = 79

Endurance: 36(+2)(x10)=360 + 50 = 410

Strength: 27(+3) + 35 = 62

Agility: 23 (+2) + 30 = 53

Intelligence: 545(+2)

Wisdom: 152(+104) [+360/2=180]= 332

Hidden stats: Mana regeneration: high, Luck : low

Skills:

Active skills: medium gravity mana manipulation lv 1 (+), blink lv 2, spatial rays lv 6

Passive skills: Hard headed, medium axemanship lv 3, beginner Aries axemanship lv 8, gravity gathering lv 3

Before the battle, he felt amazing. He felt like a magic turret, able to continuously cast magic without tiring. His medium gravity Mana manipulation now allowed him to modify his gravity to a greater extent. He could jump 10 meters high with decreased gravity, while creating a small crater when landing, with increased gravity. A small circle around him can now be under the influence of this skill. It has a radius of around 5 meters.

*The gorillas are waiting for you at the Eastern entrance. Go, my little friends. Triumph over these hateful monkeys and come back stronger, but more importantly alive. We will watch how this unfolds.*

Everyone was geared up, trained and rested. They were ready to face challenging enemies, ready to take revenge. They were focused, focused in cooperating together, killing their enemy. They were wary. They were not afraid, but they were wary of the tarasiers, their strenght and tricks. If anything, they were more ready than they ever were to face this challenge.

Let's go!

The Unshakable advanced.

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Crossing the Eastern gate, they followed Algen and rendezvous with the rest of the troops.

The tribe of Thunder gorillas is quite the peculiar one. They have Opal fur and enormous arms. Their opal furr glistened thousand colors, electric arcs crossing it from time to time. The majority of the tribe was seated atop trees. Two enormous gorillas were standing in the middle of Ents, reaching 5 meters. The other Ents were around 10 to 20 meters tall.

The faction felt like ants in front of giants.

One of the gorillas had an opal like fur, which motives' colors changes from time to time. It was light blue, yellow and white. His fangs looked to be charged and were emitting blue lightning.

Alpha Thunder Gorilla - rank 4

The other one was even bigger, his fur dark blue, black and dark gray, riddled with black lightning.

Protector Thunder Gorilla - rank 4

38 rank 3 Thunder Gorillas were perched atop trees, while 45 rank 2 Thunder Gorillas were perched atop trees similarly, albeit further. They were 85 in total.

The Ents were 76 rank 3 and 158 rank 2, bringing their forces to 234. They had all kind of shapes and leaves colors. Still, Algen radiates the strongest energy from the group.

22 hobgoblins, 21 Aries, a golden magical bee and a human formed the Unshakable, bringing their number to 45.

In total, the forces that were opposing the tarasiers were 264 in numbers.

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After what felt like hours listening to the slow speaking Ent, Gorillas' grunts and exchanging with them, they had the outline of a plan.

The tarasiers main camp is situated at the easternmost part of the forest, atop an enormous olive tree. They have several camps in the outer periphery of the forest. In their main camps and in those able to reach the main camp relatively quickly, they have 7 rank 4 tarasiers, more than 350 rank 3 and around 2300 rank 2, with an even greater number of rank 1.

In the further nests, the rank 3 tarasiers are around 400 and rank 2 more than 3000. The idea of the attack is to cut the snake's head.

Because they have strong respect and obedience for the strongest, their whole lives revolve around 7 beings. Killing them would severely disturb the tarasiers, putting their whole race in disarray.

It is imperative to kill them before reinforcements arrive. The 2 rank 4 gorillas are among the strongest of the Emberwood forest. They are late rank 4 monsters, about to step in the 5th and legendary rank. The 2 of them can battle a fair battle against 3 rank 4 tarasiers and win against 2 rank 4. The idea is to manage to create a situation where the Gorillas will face 1 on 1 or 1 on 2 against the tarasiers.

Gorillas perched atop them, Ents will initiate the battle, hopefully Killing several tarasiers. When the bulk of their forces would confront the Ents, the Thunder Gorillas will fight with them. The Unshakables' role was to act as a buffer force, attracting the attention of tarasiers so that the gorillas cam execute the distracted ones.

The numbers were greatly in their defavor. 2 things had to be highlighted.

During their fight against tarasiers, the goblins were not able to kill those perched atop trees, throwing objects. Here, the gorillas will be able to nimbly attack them and divert their attention.

The second thing is that rank 1 goblins are literally the weakest creatures of the Southern continent. Slimes and Giant flies come close, but are still stronger. Now, the hoplites are proud rank 2 beings, and some of them can even handle their own against tier 3 monsters. Their unity multiplying their power, they can act as a decisive force in the fight.

Lastly, the impressive Ents cause huge blows in enemy morales due to.their size. One of their hit can kill several unsuspecting monkeys.

The odds are between 50/50 and 35/65 in favor of the Tarasiers. The Unshakables had to accept such odds if they want to make a place to live in Astros. The Blacksaber clan have several rank 5 beings, without even speaking about the Blacksaber kingdom as a whole. The Human Empire and other nations have several experts. They have no other choice than risking their lives and survive. To them, fighting safe fights while risking to be unable to protect their precious family members was not an option that they considered in the slightest.

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Early morning, the fog creates a fantastical atmospheres. Sleeping I'm branches, huddled together, tarasiers were sleeping soundly.

In the great olive tree, the hundreds of monkeys were resting. Here, they are kings. Here, they take what they want. Every other forest creature did not dare fighting one of them. They would risk facing the blunt of their warth otherwise. The Ents were a barely living proof of this example.

Snoring, an enormous mettalic tarasier was sleeping soundly in the arms of three likewise big female tarasiers. They were red in color and a small flame was lightning the end of their tails, keeping everyone warm.

Sharp metallic fur tarasier chief - rank 4

Crimson burning tarasier - rank 4

In another room, a light brown tarasier with an enormous tail was sleeping upside down. Below him, a golden female tarasier was twitching, having a bad dream.

Enormous tailed barbaric tarasier - rank 4

Golden lightning tarasier - rank 4

Atop the tree, a tarasier was sleeping in the lotus pose. A serene air surrounded him. He was smaller that the other head of the clan, had gray fur and black snake like marks on it.

Magic cross eyed tarasier - rank 4

In this serene atmosphere, Ents move slowly. They use their roots to slide towards tarasier lairs. Slowly creeping up, their tendrils make quick work of many unsuspecting monkeys. Just like that, they disposed of around 50 rank 3 and more than hundreds of the weaker ranks.

While the sun barely crossed the horizon and its ray of light made it even more impossible to see through the thick fog, Ents reached the main village from all sides.

The smaller villages are in the forest, surrounding by tress and sometimes connecting various of them.

Because the Olive tree was bigger than 100 meters, it's shade made it almost impossible for trees to see the sunlight. The surroundings of the main tarasier village is thus almost devoid of trees. Only dark trees and very few other tree species inhabited the vicinity. Huge clearings are all around the village.

The Ents kill most of the monkeys located in the sparce trees. Only the noise of their bark twitching could be heard. It isn't of any surprise I'm a forest.