Final Lord

Chapter 12 Hollow Tree

Looking at the mushroom stone beast in front of her, Wei Yi raised the long sword in her hand and said proudly to Wang Bufu, "This is an extraordinary sword mind, the prize I won for winning the martial arts competition. It can cut iron like mud and cut through hair instantly!
In addition to its extremely high attack power, my mind can also amplify my professional skills, which is extremely powerful. Even the mushroom stone beast's outrageous physical defense cannot stop my sword.

"Wow, this is an extraordinary treasure. It's so powerful." Wang Bufu clapped his hands expressionlessly.

Seeing Wang's disapproving indifference, Wei Yi glared at him angrily. "Hmph, a poor student like you, how could you possibly understand the preciousness of extraordinary treasures? If you put your mind to it at an auction, even epic masters would risk their entire fortunes to snatch it up. Behold the power of my divine sword!"

Weiyi swung her sword in the air, then stepped forward, entering the range of the mushroom-stone beast. The beast trembled, faintly showing signs of awakening. But its body hadn't even unfolded. Weiyi stepped on its torso, leaping three steps in a row, and slashed a flaming blade through the air.

The flames were scorching, and the body of the Fungus Stone Beast was visibly charred. Faint cracking sounds were heard one after another, and it seemed as if it was about to explode at any time.

Wei Yi leaped in the air and kicked the Fungus Stone Beast in the air!
boom!
The body of the Fungus Stone Beast shook violently, fell to the side, and shattered with a loud bang.

With one sword and one kick, he killed! Wei Yi landed gracefully and sheathed his sword. His movements were swift and his posture was very handsome.

However… Wang Bufu took one look and yelled, “African!” The action was cool, but it was useless. Not to mention the mother stone fungus, not even the stone mushrooms exploded.

"Why, why on earth?" Wei Yi angrily kicked the gravel. "When he hits you, you just ship out like crazy, but when I hit you, you get nothing. You don't give me face, right?"

"Alright. Alright." Wang Bufu smiled and shook his head: "I have to say something fair for the Fungus Stone Beast. Haven't you noticed that the things that the Fungus Stone Beast exploded were all condensed from the white mycelium produced after its death?

Your extraordinary fire blade can burn even the mycelium cleanly with one strike, so it can't even explode anything it wants to."

"Huh?" Wei Yi was suddenly surprised. "The monster's drop rate is related to the method used to kill it?"

"Of course it's okay. I was just kidding, but you actually believed it. Silly sister." Wang Bufei covered his mouth and tried to hold back his laughter.

"You! Damn it!" Wei Yi glared at Wang Bufu. "Then why can't I get anything?"

"How should I know? Maybe it's just a matter of luck?" Wang Bufu shrugged and said, "For you, the experience of these Fungus Stone Beasts is just like filling your teeth. Please be kind and don't grab the monsters. Let the Toxic Cave People do it."

Wei Yi still listened to the advice. She stopped harming the poor fungus beast and just kept muttering some incomprehensible words like shit luck and selling ditches to the God of Luck, which sounded a bit pitiful.

Wang Bufu continued to explore the Black Forest. When he approached a giant mushroom tree, Wei Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed him.

"and many more!"

"what happened?"

"Look up." Wei Yi said in a low voice.

Wang Bufu raised his head and looked towards the top of the mushroom tree. In an instant, dense red filled his eyes!
Spore flies

Rank: Ordinary 2st rank

Level: 3

Attributes:
Life: 18
Attack: 9
Defense: 3
Speed: 11
Special skill:

Spore Explosion: Explodes upon death, dealing 5 damage to units within a 5-meter radius.

Spore flies

Level 2, Stage 1

Spore flies

Level 2, Stage 5

……

Tsk. Wang Bufu was secretly shocked. This turned out to be the most troublesome social monster among all monsters!
He counted carefully; there were a full forty spore flies on the mushroom tree. If they all exploded, they would deal 200 points of damage, enough to kill him eight times over, leaving him with nothing but ashes. While the spore flies had low attack and defense, their special damage didn't benefit from defense reduction at all, which was quite unreasonable.

"Let's go quickly and get away from here." Wei Yi said as she pulled Wang Bufu away.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief after walking nearly three hundred meters.

She said to Wang Bufei: "Spore flies are the most troublesome monsters in the outer areas of the Black Forest. When you see spore flies on a mushroom tree, it means that all the giant mushrooms around it are infested with spore flies.

They move very fast, and their sharp beaks can easily pierce the armor of spearmen, and they will explode upon death.

If a spore fly explodes, all nearby spore flies will come out in droves to avenge it. The only way to escape the Black Forest before they do is to escape.

It's precisely because of these spore flies that the old man didn't dare lead his troops to recapture the Black Forest. Furthermore, these spore flies don't even give experience points after being killed, making them a thankless and disgusting task to deal with.

"No experience points for killing them?" Wang Bufu frowned. "Then these spore flies are most likely summoned creatures. Killing summoned creatures is useless. You have to kill the summoner of the summoned creatures. Fortunately, summoned creatures usually disappear after a short time."

"Ah? Are they summoned creatures?" Wei Yi said, "No wonder they disappear while we're chasing them. Even though we can't deal with them, they usually don't attack recklessly. They just lie there quietly. Ignore them and just avoid them."

"It's not that simple," Wang Bufu said seriously. "Anyone who can summon ordinary 2nd-level monsters in bulk must be at least a Transcendent-level monster. According to what you said, there will also be spore flies on other giant mushroom trees nearby. If there are around spore flies on each tree, then the number of spore flies is too exaggerated.

There are two possibilities.

One possibility is that the summoner who summoned the spore flies is also a social monster, and together they summoned this huge army. Another possibility is that the summoner is a terrifying monster of the fifth level or above. A single monster is enough to form an army."

"One monster makes an army!" Wei Yi stuck out her tongue. "I hope not. Transcendent Level 5 is too exaggerated."

Wang Bufu shook his head. "We can't rely on any luck. But you're right about one thing. Don't alarm them. Many summoned beasts are the summoner's spies. Disturbing them will reveal our position. This route won't work. We can't pass through here. Let's try another route."

"Ok!"

Wang Bufu led his troops around for a distance and encountered a new monster.

This is a tumbleweed-like monster with no eyes or limbs, and it moves by rolling. Every time it moves, it stirs up slime from the ground. So from time to time, it returns to the mushroom tree and uses the mushroom tree's roots to rub off the slime.

【Strong Bag Monster

Rank: Ordinary 2st rank

Level: 4

Attributes:
Life: 50
Attack: 6
Defense: 6
Speed: 13
Special skill:

Rounded fur: immune to slashing and shooting.】

When Wang saw this monster, he laughed. The Straw Monster had low attack and defense, high health, fast speed, and the special ability of being immune to slashing and shooting. It was a nightmare for archers.

But it is perfectly restrained by the Toxic Caveman.

No tactics are needed, the poison caveman can just rush forward and fight head-on.

The straw monster's weak impact could not break the caveman's defense and could only cause some minor skin injuries. On the contrary, the poison caveman's spear made the caveman silent.

By the time the straw monsters, with their remaining health remaining, reacted and tried to escape, their speed had already been reduced to a pitiful level. They were paralyzed by the poison cavemen's two jabs, lying on the ground, waiting to die. They were simply experience babies.

What made Wang Bufu even more delighted was that the straw monsters were actually social monsters. After killing one experience-earning pet, another appeared. Blind Cat brandished his spear, stabbing each one as it came, bringing them down. The other cavemen, inspired by Blind Cat's bravery, rushed forward with their weapons drawn. The usually timid Toxic Cavemen unexpectedly showed a bravery against these straw monsters, their confidence surging. After defeating a group of thirty or so straw monsters, all the cavemen had gained nearly three levels, much to their delight.

[Sunflower Seeds], [Pumpkin Seeds], [Gold Coins*15], [Ore*3]...

Wang Bufu collected the items dropped by the straw monsters. Besides the common resources, there were also some miscellaneous plant seeds. Planting them in the territory would provide a source of food.

These common foods are not as good as stone mushrooms, but they are abundant, can fill the stomach, and are indispensable.

For Wang Bufu, such a shipment rate was commonplace, but it stunned Wei Yi.

She stared at Wang Bufu with a look of dissatisfaction, thinking that Wang Bufu must have some secret to increase the monster's explosion rate that he had not told her.

Huh, stingy!

Unfortunately, the straw monster was not that easy to find. Wang Bufu searched for a while and killed three more mushroom beasts, but he did not encounter the straw monster.

With a loud bang, the fourth fungus-stone beast fell to the ground and contributed a stone mushroom.

Just as Wang Bufu was about to continue searching for the next victim, the blind cat suddenly came over and said to Wang Bufu, "My Lord, I feel a tremor coming from the north. It seems that something heavy is approaching us."

"Hmm?" Wang Bufu heard this and immediately looked north. A row of tall mushroom trees blocked his view, preventing him from using his identification technique to find his target. Wang Bufu acted decisively, using perfect command to synchronize with the blind cat.

Blind Cat's unique caveman vision was completely dark, without any light. But in that pitch-black vision, he could clearly sense a huge ripple approaching them not far to the north.

A bright red name that Wang Bufu had never seen before was clearly visible above the ripples.

Hollow Tree

Compared to other monsters, this name is exceptionally large. This means that the opponent is a giant monster, far larger than a normal monster.

"Huh? What is this?" Wang Bufu was stunned for a moment. In his field of vision, he couldn't see the name of the hollow tree because of the mushroom tree blocking his view. But in the blind cat's field of vision, he could see it.

Is there any royal law for this?

"Retreat first." Seeing the hollow tree getting closer and closer, Wang Bufu gave up thinking for the time being and immediately ordered the army to retreat. He led everyone to hide in the mushroom forest and climbed to the top of a mushroom tree with a wide view to observe secretly.

Ten seconds later, there was a loud "boom" and a whole row of mushroom trees fell down, revealing a monster that looked like a tree man!

The monster had a huge gap in the center of its body, filled with white sticky threads. As it advanced, it picked up fallen mushroom trees with its hands and stuffed them into its stomach. As soon as the mushroom trees were eaten by it, they corroded at an extremely fast speed, turning into black water and disappearing.

"It's a hollow tree. The hollow tree is an ordinary tier 3 monster, much stronger than the Fungus Stone Beast. It usually moves in the middle layer of the Black Forest and is rarely seen in the outer areas." Before Wang Bufu could speak, Wei Yi immediately said, "Its strongest attack method is to open its body to wrap the enemy inside, and then slowly use the sticky threads inside its body to block the gaps in the enemy's body, causing it to suffocate to death.

Besides that, its attack and defense should not be underestimated. Because of its huge size, many control skills have little effect on it.

The most troublesome thing is that when a hollow tree dies, it emits a loud screeching sound, attracting all the surrounding monsters. If there are spore flies nearby, it is even more dangerous, as spore flies will bring more flies. It is a narrow escape.

This guy can't be killed either, so I can only hide from him."

As Wei Yi was speaking, the hollow tree quickly walked over to the corpse of the fungus-stone beast, picked up the corpse, and stuffed it into its abdomen. Then, the hollow tree let out a satisfied sigh from its crack and sat down on the ground to rest.

Wang Bufu focused his attention on the hollow tree and soon saw the properties of the hollow tree.

Hollow Tree
Rank: Ordinary 3st rank

Level: 9

Attributes:
Life: 109
Attack: 15
Defense: 20
Speed: 6
Special skill:

Giant unit: huge in size, its attacks have a certain range effect, and the control effect it receives is reduced by 50%.

Heart Devour: Devour enemies with lower health than itself, causing them to suffocate. Suffocation: Unable to move, taking 20 damage per second.

If the Hollow Tree devours and kills an enemy, it will recover 30 HP. It can only devour one unit at a time.

Hollow Scream: Upon death, a loud scream is emitted, shocking units within a 10-meter range for 1 second and causing 20 damage.

Level 3, Level 9! Monsters are different from the intelligent creatures of the Godly World. They don't need any conditions to advance; as long as the level is met, they will advance immediately. The most effective way for monsters to level up is to kill.

Kill all the creatures in the world of God of Killing, or kill your companions!
Wang Bufu clenched his fist and said, "This is a monster that is about to advance. It is only a little bit away from advancing to an extraordinary monster."

"What?" Wei Yi was shocked: "How did you know that?"

"Observation," Wang Bufu explained casually. "Don't ask too much, just ask the library. My judgment won't be wrong, just trust me."

Weiyi glared at Wang Bufu, but she didn't get too angry. She said worriedly:
“No wonder the hollow tree came here. It must have come to the outer layer to devour weak monsters in order to advance. Once it completes its advancement, it will return to the middle layer.

Forget it, let's just run. We don't dare kill this thing before it's upgraded. Who knows what kind of monster it will become after it's upgraded. It will be troublesome if we can't deal with it. "

"Run?" Wang Bufu said excitedly, "The bigger the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish! Now that it's here, let's kill it!"

Wei Yi was a little angry: "Didn't you hear what I just said? If you kill the hollow tree, it will emit a loud screaming sound to attract monsters. Don't think you can evacuate before the monsters complete the encirclement.

The Black Forest is full of dangers and monsters. If a particularly fast monster gets entangled with us or attracts spore flies, we will be completely wiped out."

"I know. I have a plan." Wang Bufu said, "You saw it too. The hollow tree was attracted by the corpse of the Fungus Stone Beast. Just like we need to gain experience to level up, it also needs to devour things with high energy to advance.

Isn't it a coincidence that we just happen to have something with extremely high energy here? It definitely won't let it go."

"Something with extremely high energy? Where is it?"

Just observe left and right.

Wang looked at Wei Yi in disbelief.

Wei Yi was confused.

Wang looked at Wei Yi in disbelief.

Wei Yi seemed to understand but not quite.

Wang looked at Wei Yi in disbelief.

Weiyi was furious! She raised her fist in hatred and swung it at Katekong.

"Kate, you're talking about a high-energy item that's mine! You want me to be bait again? I'm still going to settle the score with you for asking me to lure out the Sandy Bandits!"

"Ah, those who are capable should do more work." Wang Bufu said with a smile: "With your strength and speed, how could you be caught up by this brainless hollow tree? Come on. Weiyi, I believe in you."

"What an unpleasant trust." Although Wei Yi cursed, her body was honest. She picked up the sword and was about to lure the monster.

"Hey, wait a minute. I only told you to go, not right now. Wait a moment, I need to make some preparations."

(End of this chapter)