" [ Vine wall ] "

Activating Rosa's skill, thick stringy vines erupted from the ground and it weave an impenetrable wall between me and the [ Elder Treant ] The wall has a height around 6 feet, 10 feet wide and 2 feet thick. It immediately stopped the [ Elder Treant ] attack. Behind it I immediately activated another Rosa's skill called [ Bark Skin ] to increased my defenses. Finally to set up the stage I will play, I glanced towards Flora and said.

"Milady, for your safety please distanced yourself from us a little bit!"

Realizing that probably I'll do something outrageous, she nod and jump at the tree behind her. Closing my eyes, I chanted the spell words.

"O' undying flames that burns the sinner! Engulf this king's body and protect it from harm! Unleash your wrath upon those who were wicked! Whether man or God, turn them to ashes upon my will! And cover the ground with your raging flames! ............[ Scorched Hell ]"

After saying the spell words, I clenched my fist and thrust them in the ground. In an instant, the ground around me was completely covered with black flames.

"Screeeeeeeeechhhhh!"

The [ Elder Treant ] who was inside my magic spell range screech in agony. Its Hp bar was slowly decreasing in an alarming state.

Truly, flames are the complete nemesis of a plant type monster!

Unlike the monster in front of me, I was brimming with power.

Although right now, you can say that I'm a half-dryad because of the [ Spirit Merging ], but because I'm the one who casted this spell, I wasn't even burn a little bit. More like the flames were powering me up! As expected from a divine skill, such power and wickedness! Kuhahahahahaha this is amazing! Absolutely amazing!

The [ Elder Treant ] continued to screech in agony because of the flames and its branches were swinging around mindlessly as if it was trying to stop the fire but unfortunately as long as I have enough mana, This hell would never stop!

Nice chance!

With its attention diverted away from me, I sprung up into action.

Without saying anything, my shoes stepped against the grounds with the [ Magic Blade Sword ] in my right hand. I run towards the screeching monster while leaving a cloud of dust behind me. When I was approximately 4 meters away from it, I leapt up as I raised my sword and slashed against the [ Elder Treant ]

Bang!

Because it didn't notice my charge, I dealt a huge damage against it. It seemed the [ Elder Treant ] was now really angry as its roots and branches once again shot out in my direction. Just like before, I evaded it with ease but before I dodge I gave it some farewell present. I kicked it's body; although its body was very hard because it was originally a tree, but because of the effect of [ Bark skin ] my body right now was just the same.

"Gyaaaaah!"

Ho, it seems it liked my present as it shout in happiness!

Successfully evading its attacks, I activated [ Mana Channeling ] and move [ Mana ] to my sword making it like a glowing sword. With a surged of air from my feet, I sent another present consisting of a whole series of frenzied attacks. The [ Elder Treant ] couldn't retaliate maybe because of the flames still surging from the ground and can only accept my present whole heartedly while

shrieking in happiness!

"...."

As I continued my attack, my skill [ Menace ] kick in and I felt

danger in my position so I immediately used [ Teleport ] away from the [ Elder Treant ]. As expected, from my previous position,

countless wooden spikes rose up from the ground together with the barrage of shuriken-like leaves.

Seeing this, I can only clicked my tongue in displeasure while wiping my forehead that seemed like shedding cold sweat. 'I didn't know it can also do those kind of dangerous things! I nearly became a chunk of cheese because of those!'

Cursing in my mind, I prepared to charge again but something unexpected happened. A tentacle-like roots were locking my feet in the ground.

'Damn! I forgot that it can also do those tentacle play! I'm an idiot!'

Cutting the roots holding my feet, I once again felt that familiar sensation that made my back covered with cold sweat. [ Menace ] was once again activated and this time I felt that the ground I'm standing in is definitely a huge sh*t! My mind was filled with continuous ringing of alarm. 'What should I do!? I can't use [ teleport ] because of this freaking Tentacles!'

The alarm was now getting stronger and stronger, without a choice I put the hilt of the sword in my mouth while channeling mana in my fists. ' I just hope this will work!'

" [ Maken ]...Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhh!!!"

Activating my custom skill, I throw countless punch towards the ground. Showering it with my punch, the ground cracked and the roots was pulverized in countless pieces but it was still too late. Before I can fully leave the place, huge wooden spikes appeared from the ground stabbing in my left leg. But it wasn't the end, [ Menace ] once again sprung up. Raising my head I saw countless of shuriken-like leaves coming towards me.

'Damn!'

Enduring the pain coming from my left leg, I took the sword from my mouth and frantically waved it in front of me, intercepting and slashing the shuriken-like leaves. Unfortunately, It wasn't a perfect defense because I was still hit a few times. With just those attacks, my body was covered with countless wounds.

Fortunately, because of my skill [ Scorched Hell ] my injuries was slowly being healed as my HP bar was slowly recovering. This skill is totally a cheat skill!

"[ Teleport ]........[ Blade Dance ]"

Teleporting behind the [ Elder Treant ] I activated my skill [ Blade Dance ]. Because this is the first time I used this skill, I still don't know what its effect but then suddenly information on how to swing the sword flashed across my mind. In the corner of my vision, a small version of myself suddenly appeared doing graceful movements while swinging a sword. Like those dancing based games back in earth where you need to follow the movements projected in the screen, the way to swing the sword according to the skill [ Blade Dance ] is being shown.

Without hesitation, I followed its movements. Relying on my almost supernatural reflexes as well as monstrous senses, I immediately grasped its movements; although not really perfect but it can be called acceptable!

Gracefully moving my wrist, the sword in my hand danced in the air. My waist moved beautifully as my body danced in the ground. A vast yet beautiful garden appeared around me as thousands of fresh beautiful flowers bloomed in my vision. I was drifting in the wind like a butterfly. It seems my movements was slow but when I regained my consciousness I found out that the [ Elder Treant ] was screeching in agony while numerous purple screen flooded in my vision, indicating that [ Fatal Strike ] has been dealt.

Trying to comprehend what just happened, I can only blink in amazement because the HP bar of the [ Elder Treant ] was now blinking in red.

' Holy Macaroni! What just happened?!'

Suddenly the skill [ Menace ] once again activated as it warned me about the incoming danger. Turning around, a branch was coming in a whip-like motion. In an instant, I moved my sword in front of me to block it, but I was still blast a few meters.

With its life on the tip of the needle, how could I give it time to recover? Using my left hand, my palm pushed off the ground as I was about to face pant and after doing a few agile somersaults in the air, I landed gracefully and peacefully. After a successful landing, a rush of air surged around my feet as I shot myself towards the [ Elder Treant ].

I immediately circulate the mana in my body while making an image of a tiger in my head. Holding the sword with both hands, I activated one of the sword style I learned from the old man.

"Way of the dragon God, Second form: Tiger clawing the heavens!!!"

Naturally, Dragon God Sword Style has four offensive form and four defensive form. This is the second offensive form of the Dragon God style that needs to use a two handed long sword but because I only have this sword which is a one handed long sword, its power diminished slightly but this is still alright.

I instantly landed another series of blows on the [ Elder Treant ]. Landing a ram attack in between, I dealt a [ stun ] status that gave me a 2 second free time. Although it's just merely 2 seconds, this is still a highly appreciated amount of time. Following the ram attack was a four strikes fatal blows. Noticing that its HP bar has now only a dot left, I focused my mana in my sword.

As the sword was filled with my mana, the [ Magic Blade Sword ] started to tremble.

Bang! With a sharp sound, the sword inflicted a massive wound as it struck in the chest part of the [ Elder Treant ] giving its one way ticket to ol' grim reaper my very precious friend.

The [ Elder Treant ] froze and with a 'Dang!' sound, fell in the ground!

"Huff, huff How do you like the full course I prepared? huff, huff quite delicious isn't it? I named it ' Strike helluva parade ala carte'! Enjoy it to hell, bastard!"

Seeing that the [ Elder Treant ] was finally defeated, I let out a deep breath as I quietly stood up while surveying my surrounding.

Truthfully enough, the skill [ Scorched Hell ] was still active.

If I didn't temporarily merge with Rosa, my Mana would never be enough to use this skill this long~

Silently deactivating the skill, The flames in the ground vanish leaving only the scorched and burned ground.

You have Leveled up!

You have Leveled up!

You have Leveled up!

Sweet! I have leveled up by three times! Kuhahahaha three times!

That's three times in one battle you know! kuhahahaha who wouldn't be happy!? Leveling in this game is like a walking turtle - no it might be that turtle is more faster than this? Just why the heck did the creator made the leveling speed so extremely slow?

Walking towards the fallen [ Elder Treant ] I saw something faintly glowing above its body. Although it's quite very dim and seemed unnoticeable, I can still see it. Is it maybe because of my

[ Divine Vision ]?

"[ Divine Vision ]"

[ Elder Treant monster essence ]

My god! So this is what an essence looks like after the monster died! If I absorb this then I can enhanced my power once again! I will taste the hellish pain again. Sigh~ just why do I need to feel pain in order to gain additional strength? But then again,

'No pain, no gain' better to grit my teeth and became stronger than become a coward who is weak!

Walking beside the [ Elder Treant ] corpse, I silently sat down cross legged and concentrate.

Strangely enough, there is no pain nor discomfort when I was refining and absorbing the monster essence this time. Instead of pain, it feels like I was floating in the sky.

Ding!

As I was totally immersed in that unfamiliar feeling, a familiar sound resounded.

Congratulations! You have successfully refine and absorb the [ Elder Treant Essence ] +5 to all basic stats. Because the monster's original level is higher compared to your original level by 42 levels, Additional +16 basic stats and acquired a skill:

Skill acquired: [ Root Spikes ]

Description: You can summon wooden spikes from the ground dealing a lot of damage to your enemy. Mana Cost: 100

Do you want to include [ Elder Treant ] into your Spirit Slot?

Yes or No

Great! Another Sneak like attack get~ hehehehe but wait a moment.

I already have Rosa as a plant type spirit so I should choose another element type monster that has another incredible abilities besides plant type abilities. Well, seeing that I'm still here inside this dungeon, maybe I can still find another interesting one so [ No ]

"Hein! Are you alright? Any injury?"

After a while, Flora suddenly appeared out of nowhere wearing a concern look while patting various parts of my body. Seeing such a beautiful woman like her is very worried about someone like me, who wouldn't feel move~

"I'm fine, don't worry about it~"

"But isn't your left leg got stabbed by the [ Root Spikes ]a while ago? And you were also got hit by the [ Leaf Shot ], How is it fine?"

Ah! It seems she saw me being hit by those attacks and became worried, how nice~ her concerned look is really mesmerizing, especially because it was directed towards me. It seems I also need to thank you [ Elder Treant ] keep safe okay, have a nice trip towards heaven, hell or whatever~

"Although I can't really explain it, my body is somewhat special, so any wound inflicted on me will slowly heal as long as my health recover...so I'm really fine"

"I see, so you're a [ World Jumper ] ha. Oh well, as long as you're okay~"

"[ World Jumper ]?"

"Eh? You don't know? [ World Jumper ] are people that comes from different world. [ World Jumper ] have always had different body constitution same as yours~"

'I see, so they call players as [ World Jumpers ] huh~ Well, who cares' Things such as those really doesn't concern me, so I just nodded softly.

"Say~ you're unexpectedly strong. Although I know that you will win against the [ Elder Treant ] but it was because of you merging with Rosa, so your level should be higher compared to the [ Elder Treant ]. But still those skills you used that isn't her skills and abilities are definitely strong and powerful! Besides your amazing sword techniques, that sea of fire and those dance like movements at the second last part, what skill is that! It is very beautiful and amazing!"

Flora was really excited beyond belief as she shook my shoulders as hard as she could.

I see, excluding my Martial arts as well as sword skills, the Divine Skill [ Scorched Hell ] is really a cheat skill if you ask me! Not only it deals damage every second, it also practically heal me and enhanced my abilities. But what made me perplexed was my skill [ Blade Dance ] because I really can't remember it at all. Aside from the dream-like state I experienced I don't know how I dealt great damage to the [ Elder Treant ] so I asked Flora about what she saw.

Flora was like a cute obedient child as she nodded her head vigorously as she told me what she saw during my battle with the [ Elder Treant ] while showing an overly excited expression.

Like a student seriously listening to his teacher, I focused my ears towards her with a very serious face. It took me almost a minute to comprehend what she just told me. While listening to her, I realized that it seems like I lost my consciousness in the middle of using the skill. She told me how beautiful and magnificent that movements I just performed. As if I was the wargod dancing in a field, mowing his enemies. It was very fast yet my sword attacks was very precise hitting my enemy's vital points accurately.

That's really weird~, I was really moving at a very slow pace at that time! How can I move very fast in her eyes? Just what the heck is this 'Godly' skill I just got?

Without enough information, I had no choice but to ignored this skill for now. Maybe in the future, I can practice this skill to comprehend and understand it more. Maybe at that time, I can execute it with precise movements and it will definitely become one of the strongest sword technique in my arsenal~