Chapter 12 – Another Chance to Evolve

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Here I am back at the entrance to the next floor, it took me about two days to go around and explore the current floor, and I only gained 1 level. Well I didn’t kill that much monster this time, it seems that they’re afraid of me for some reason. *cause I’m strong ^^*

Through my exploration, I noticed that this floor was separated into different territories; the center was the swamps which were inhabited by the smelly demon frogs, giant insect dragonfly, and some giant newts. A little bit below the swamp was the pond which I came from, and it’s a place for weak monsters. Then further south will be the entrance to the lower floor, southwest are for the snakes and rats, the southeast is where the wolves and bear. For the northwest it is home for the dead woods, they are just walking dead trees. They sure are hostile but, when I cut down 20 of them, they all just keep a safe distance away from me.

The northeast was the best of all; it was inhabited by the tree turtles, they’re huge turtles that were basically a tree inside a rock shell. Their feet were made out of roots, different fruits grow from they’re shell, and they only attack if you are hostile to them, what they eat was only corpses of dead monsters; they use their root feet to suck nutrients and not their mouths. Mostly wolves attack them, but they are strong enough to defend themselves.

I also fined the door to the upper floor, but it was close, which means that, no one has ever been here before. *I wonder if the humans in this world were that weak, or this dungeon was never been discovered.*

I tried searching for the boss of this floor but I didn’t have the chance, but there’s a place I haven’t explored much. It was the middle of the swamp. All I did was to go around the swamp, and I’ve never been at the middle of it.

My armor was so thick and heavy, that’s because I always kept on adding weights to my armor whenever I got comfortable with it. Now I just looked like a walking turtle; I start to manipulate my armor and bring it back to its original form. This made me feel so light, because I miss the feeling of running; I rushed toward the swamp to hunt the boss monster.

Running was fun, but I almost got caught to my own trap. “Hahaha, that was a lot of fun, I even bulldozed some trees and monster along the way.”

Making my way near the swamp, I raised the ground to make a path towards the center of the swamp. The water was dark, and smells like rotting flesh. My [Threat Sentient] was not giving me any alarm, but I just want to make sure that I’m prepared for what’s to come.

Because of the characteristics of my new armor to repel liquid, I cannot coat it with any of my poison. But I got an idea, like a syringe I made the tip of my scales to be hollowed until it reaches my skin. Then I filled up the hollow part with poison from my skin.

The swamp looks normal to me; monsters were looking at me with little sign of fear. *I wonder if the boss will be here.* I continued to walk to the center or the swamp, but the fog was starting to thicken as I got nearer and nearer into the middle.

I cannot see anything, but I can hear a loud cracking noise, like branches of wood being split in half. I stop for a moment and observe the noises but it stopped as soon as I stopped moving.

For a second the surrounding was dead silent.

*CCCRRRRKKKKK* *OOOOUUUUUHHHHNNNNGGGAAAAAA*

A very loud noise of cry greeted me with a very strong gust of wind that cleared the thick fog. I closed my eyes because of the cloud of dust that was hitting my face, and some dirt even got into my eyes. *Fucking hell!! That loud scream almost makes my ear bleed.*

I got dizzy from the loud scream, and when I opened my eyes. A giant dead wood was looking down on me with glowing red eyes and a very large mouth. I don’t know why my threat sentient didn’t gave me any alarm, but I’m sure that I’m in deep trouble. A giant dead tree that looks like a thousand of years old, the tree was so thick I’m starting to have doubts if I can even cut it down.

I was about to run around it, but the giant dead wood screamed at me again that makes me dizzy and my movement dull. My mind was getting cloudy, and then my sight turned to black.

*boom*

Having a thought that I may have lost consciousness, but what happened was I got hit by one of its arms. I took 50 points of damage because of the weight but thanks to my armor, I wasn’t got crushed by it. I start to inject poison to its arm, and because the material was dead, the decomposition process was very fast.

With its arm gone, I got up and start to run. It was about to scream but I rapidly shoot, spikes from my tail which contains poison inside, mouthful of poison and rocks from the ground.

“Shut your fucking mouth!!”

It quickly took guard with one arm, while it cuts off the decaying arm away. I moved around it while continuing my attack, the dead wood was starting to decay all over its body. It made another loud cry which echoed inside the floor. It was starting to get weaker, I thought it was its dying cry but I was wrong.

An earthquake started to occur, and the ground was starting to rise up, I moved away as quickly as I can. And from the distance, small dead wood was running towards the giant dead wood, and what caused the earthquake were the giant roots coming out of the ground.

The giant dead wood starts to eat all the smaller dead wood, and with that it starts to regenerate its body. I was going to attack it while it was busy, but roots came out of the ground on where I was, I can easy cut all of them, but more are coming and there seems to have no end to it.

About five minutes passed by and the roots stopped their assault, I also regenerate some of my mana from the fight.

 When I look at the giant dead wood, its body was not like an old tree anymore, it’s more like a half human tree. The upper body was human male, the lower part was still a tree connected to the ground, and the arms were made from roots.

The giant human tree was looking at me with a grinning face. It was irritating actually; I’m starting to get pissed with that look.

It suddenly whips me with its arm that was made from root, I was thinking that it cannot reach me, but its arm extended far enough to reach me. I got hit by it because a bunch of roots came out of the ground and restricts my movement. Even if I broke free, another batch of roots will emerge.

*crash!!!*

*HAA HAAA HAAA HAAA. . .*

“This is so irritating” *the fucking tree starts to laugh at me*. . The damage got a little higher, it was now 74 points. It was not that life threatening, but if I got hit continuously I might die. My blood was starting to boil from the irritating laugh. I produced a lot of poison and inject it to the roots below and also into its arm. It quickly pulled away its arm and root.

“HAHAHAHA, you never learn.”

I quickly rushed towards the human tree as it starts to attack me with both arms. But I made the tip of my tail into a huge sword, and cut the incoming arms. I also made small holes at the blade that were connected to the tip of my tail to let my poison flow, the decapitated arms starts to decay, and the human tree screams in anger. *I wonder if it feels pain?*

It cut off the decaying arms, and regrew another pair. *this is tiresome*

Large roots are now starting to attack me, I manage to cut some but more are still coming. Because I was irritated by the number of roots that were still attacking me, I produced a lot of poison and spread it onto the ground. This caused my mana to be drained halfway, the roots was now starting to decay.

With its arms completely regenerated back to normal, it began to shoot sharp woods at me. I dodge it with ease and with my current speed; I finally got near it. I quickly jump and was about to slash its body with my tail, but a wall of roots came out of the ground.

I swing my tail with all of my strength.

*boom* *crrrssssshhhh*

With the sharp of the blade, I cut through the roots with ease and the human tree starts screaming. Because of my strength I manage to cut almost half of its body, its body was not hollow like a dead tree, in fact it was fresh like a young sapling. Without waiting any longer, I start to spit poisons into the cut.

It started screaming and was going through a rampage. The entire root’s come out of the ground and was destroying the place around us; it also started to attack me with a fist, but a jumped out of the way using my tail and clung onto its body.

Cloud of dirt rose from the ground as it continuous to punch the place where I was before. Using my claws I climb up to its back and onto the neck. It must be so mad, that it didn’t notice that something was climbing its back.

Using the sword from my tail, I stabbed its neck and start to inject a lot of poison. It was about to smack its neck so I moved to the front while slashing its neck. I covered its face with poison, then jump down and start to stab the chest and inject the poison. Because the blade was so sharp, it automatically cut through chest down to its body, and also with the help of my weight.

When I got to the ground, I quickly moved away to a safer distance.

The human tree didn’t have the chance to even resist it was already weakened when the poison got into its body, pieces of its body start to fall off and decay the same with all the roots.

I just noticed that a small portion of its body and roots were fresh/living. Maybe because of the polluted water that it started to die. Well it’s a dungeon and it’s not my problem.

*ding*

|85th floor Boss Wretched Dead Tree got defeated|

“Ho Ho!! Yes!! ^^”

*ding*

|Leveled up 8 times|

|Level cap reached, would you like to evolve?|

“Of course I will.”

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Thank you for reading. .