Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 923 Savage Growth
This dark green vine is called the entanglement vine and can be found everywhere in the Wood Elf Forest.

Its characteristic is that during the growth process, the vine will constantly entwine and attach itself to surrounding objects and even organisms.

However, under normal circumstances, their growth rate is not that exaggerated, so there is no situation where a creature is entangled by them and cannot break free. They are basically entangled on static objects such as big trees and stones.

However, under the catalysis of the mantra spell 'Wild Growth', the entwined vines, which grew at a crazy rate, had undoubtedly fully demonstrated their threat to living things at this moment!

It keeps tightening as it entangles the target, and the force generated during this process is even enough to strangle some fragile targets to death on the spot!

In the dark rat tide, the wildly spreading vines not only directly curbed the movements of the rat trolls, but also opened up a world in the rat tide.

However, compared with the exaggerated number of rats, it is still not enough.

The wood elf mages in the air can feel this most intuitively.

Seeing this scene, Locke frowned slightly and spoke quickly...

"John, all of you cast 'Energy Drain', and I'll take care of the rest!"

After saying that, Locke didn't care about anything else and just raised the staff in his hand and started chanting.

【Wild growth! 】

In an instant, powerful life energy surged continuously. The vine, which was originally just growing rapidly, seemed to have turned into a ferocious beast at this moment, and began to roll around wildly.

The thickest vine swelled to the thickness of an arm in a short period of time.

In just a few blinks of an eye, they had covered an area of ​​almost one kilometer in diameter! And they were still maintaining a certain speed, constantly expanding outwards, as if they wanted to turn this place directly into their home ground!
During this period, the characteristic of the entangled vines that likes to entangle and tighten their targets during the growth process was also fully demonstrated under the drive of Locke's "wild growth". A large number of rat slave soldiers and even regular rat army soldiers in the area were strangled!

Seeing this scene, the wood elf mages including John were all stunned.

The wood elves only knew roughly that their chief's magical skills seemed very powerful, but no one had ever truly seen it.

After all, there was no such opportunity before.

It was not until this moment that their eyes were completely opened.

"My goodness, is the clan leader so strong?!"

Locke, who was nearly exhausted after a full-strength attack, felt as if he had been injected with a shot of cardiotonic the moment he heard these words. He immediately became energized and even raised his chin a little.

[Are you kidding me? Do you know the value of a supernatural wizard?! ]

There is a world of difference in strength between an extraordinary wizard and an ordinary wizard.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if all twenty-nine wood elf wizards including John were tied together, they would not be a match for Locke, a super wizard.

"What are you all standing there for? Why don't you do something?!"

Hearing the patriarch's call, John did not doubt it and gave orders quickly.

"Cast 'Energy Drain'!"

Holding their staffs, the wood elf mages chanted quickly.

During this time, emerald green life energy emerged on the surface of the vines.

As the light shone, the rat troll that had been struggling desperately the moment before seemed to have its strength drained away by something, and began to become listless.

However, the winding vines wrapped around them did the opposite. By absorbing energy and obtaining nutrients, the winding vines began to grow faster and became thicker!
Locke's 'Wild Growth' had already used the winding vines to wipe out a large number of enemy forces in the area. Now combined with John and his team's 'Energy Absorption', the lethality is undoubtedly even stronger.

The rat trolls, who had relied on their strong physical fitness to fight against the vines, lost their ability to resist after their energy was absorbed. At the same time, on the wall of the South Fortress, not to mention Thoros, even Bai Tu, who brought them here, was stunned.

Bai Tu, who took on the task at that time, had confirmed the abilities of John and the others on the training ground.

Simply put, without considering the subsequent slow spread, and only considering the outbreak in a short period of time, John and his team worked together to cast a spell, allowing the vines to cover an area with a diameter of about four to five hundred meters at most.

However, Locke doubled the coverage area with just one move.

The madly growing vines kept grabbing the ratmen on the battlefield, and the moment they grabbed the target, John and his team's "energy absorption" would come into play, allowing the vines to directly absorb the target's energy and convert it into its own nutrients, thereby promoting further growth.

Theoretically, this combo can be repeated indefinitely.

But unfortunately, theory is just theory after all.

Apart from the particularly powerful rat trolls, the rat slave soldiers did not have much energy at all. The reason why the entangled vines could continue to expand was because they were powered by the power of the mantras of the wood elf mages.

However, the power of mantras in the wood elf wizards is limited.

Locke was unsure at the time and didn't know what he could do, so he just used all his strength right from the start.

There is no doubt about its effect, but on the other hand, once it is used, it will also make you exhausted.

Under this premise, John and his men have limited strength and naturally cannot hold out for long.

As soon as this stopped, the winding vines that were originally spreading on the battlefield instantly lost their growth power.

Once they have taken root on the battlefield, the twining vines will actually continue to grow naturally.

However, compared to the growth efficiency catalyzed by the mantra spell, its natural growth rate poses basically no threat to living biological units.

But even so, the value of the Wood Elf mages has been fully demonstrated.

The rat tide's attack was forcibly contained by them at this moment.

In fact, let alone the rat tide, the entire battlefield environment has changed at this moment.

The remaining rat slave soldiers now had a sea of ​​fire in front of them and countless vines behind them, and they could only survive by squeezing through the cracks.

At the same time, in the rear position of the ratmen, the ratman leader, who had confirmed the latest news, was furious.

Faced with this completely unexpected method, the rat leader's entire mentality exploded.

Including yesterday, in just less than two days, thanks to the Blood Explosion Technique, he had almost used up all the troops he had gathered for the past two months.

Although the ratmen had a large number of troops, they could not withstand such a fighting style. The bad situation made the ratman leader unable to control his desire to retreat.

However, as soon as this thought of retreating arose, it was suppressed by an inexplicable will.

At this moment, the leader of the ratmen only felt as if there was a voice echoing in his mind...

[Attack! Keep attacking! Kill all the lizardmen! ! I want to see a river of blood! ! ! ]

Invisibly, the eyes of the rat leader became increasingly scarlet, and his expression became hideous and distorted.

"Attack. Attack! Kill all the lizardmen!!!"

(End of this chapter)