Chapter 10: Ent

Just as I expected this mana katana is awesome. It cut through the deer's hide like cutting through a paper. I was kind of a shame to kill those magnificent creatures. Still, it was me or them.

After killing them there was actually nothing else until I reached the cliff. And right now, I'm standing in front of the cliff. And I guess I need to climb it. I tried to fly up there with my mana bird. But something shot it down.

And my mana bird can't maneuver fast enough to dodge whatever shot it down. So, climbing is my only choice. I activate my gauntlets, greaves and start climbing. Now that I thought about it, I'm sure whatever shot my bird down will fire at me, so I guess I better equip my armor too.

I just punch into the cliff face and climb up.

...…

I took me ten hours to climb up this fucking cliff. Climbing itself wasn't much of a challenge but keeping an eye out for whatever shot my bird down was. But in the end son of a bitch didn't do anything.

So, I guess I needed to climb this cliff by myself. Now I'm exactly where I was when I gained my consciousness after ascending to this floor. To the south is still more forest.

And right now, I'm standing in front of an Ent. Real live Ent. Almost six meters tall. And frankly when I thought about Ent, Ents from Lord of the Rings came to my mind.

But this Ent is, well frankly just overgrown tree man. Body proportion is just like man's. And its face is irritatingly handsome. I loathe to admit it, but I think this fucking tooth pick is more handsome than me. And that fact is starting to piss me off.

So, I won't fell anything when I hack it into thousand pieces. Even though I have been standing in just a twenty meters distance from it, it still hasn't noticed me.

So, I start walking toward it. It finally notices me after when I come about ten meters before it. It looks down on me.

"TSK. You think you are better than me? HUH?"

"Heh."

What the? It just smirked at me. I'm sure. Ooh, this firewood is really starting to piss me off. I think it can understand me. I'm so gonna enjoy burning this wood to ashes.

"Well, I definitely look better than you."

What the? As soon as the Ent says that something snaps inside me, and I spew my black flame on it. While I was expecting it to turn into cinders, I see its hand piercing through my flame and grab me.

Shit, I didn't notice is reaching toward me because of my anger. I need to calm down first. After grabbing me it just hurls me away like a dust cloth. While flying away, I start to expel my greaves' charged energy to make micro explosions in the air in a vector against my direction.

As I do that push from the explosions cancel out the inertia from the throw, thus slowing me down and making it possible for me to land safely. I look toward the tree as soon as I land and see it almost at me. It moves unexpectedly fast for its size.

Just as I was waiting for it to enter my range with my katana it hand, it reaches out with its hand toward me and its hand suddenly grows toward me. I barely manage to dodge to my left and cut it down with my katana.

Another hand reaches toward me again, I cut down right in the middle. And it keeps extending its hands toward me and I keep cutting it down. While I was concentrating on Ent's hands, I feel something on my legs.

As I look down, I see the wood I was cutting down growing around my legs and entangling my legs in place. And while I was looking down, it hits me right in the face. And I couldn't make some distance between us when it hit me because of the roots entangling my legs.

And it keeps hitting me like a sandbag.

"Fenrir."

And like always I turn to Fenrir when I get cornered. And just like always my little cub jumps out of my shadow and spits something dark at the Ent. I though it was his fireball, but it turned out his Creeping Darkness.

Fenrir's Creeping Darkness is a trait that lets him manipulate his darkness mana and create a patch of darkness that can cover others and rob them of their senses as long as his target stays inside his darkness.

And as soon as the Ent gets swallowed by his darkness it fails to hit me and starts swinging around like a blind person. I use that window to get rid of the roots entangling me and lunges at the Ent.

I expected to go blind as soon as I enter Fenrir's darkness, but I didn't get blind. I can see in there. So, I run up the Ent and cut its feet. And it falls like a tree.

"TIMBER!"

Haha. That was funny. And as soon as it falls, I run up to its head and cut through its neck. But even after I cut its neck, it still moves. I think it has something else for a brain. So, I start to cut it down piece by piece from neck down.

And as I near its stomach area I hear something.

"STOP!"

"What the? Who said that."

"I did you barbarian. You shouldn't try to burn someone just because that someone is more handsome than you!"

This voice is coming out of the Ent's stomach. I slice its stomach narrowly and open it up to see another tree person inside it. Looks just like the Ent, albeit much smaller.

"The hell are you supposed to be?"

"I'm the mighty Ent of this forest."

"So, you are the main body and this giant husk is a shell?"

"Both of us are us."

"So, I just kill you and it will be done?"

"Jealousy on man is disgraceful."

"Who the hell is jealous. I was just pissed. Me killing you has nothing to do with jealousy."

"Haha. Denial is the clincher, you barbarian."

"Ahh, just shut up already."

I cut its head off with my mana katana. And feel its life force entering my body. I will be a big man and admit that I killed it because of my jealousy.