Final Lord

Chapter 13 Howling Ring
"Weiyi, we're ready, let's get started."

Hearing Wang Bu's order, Wei Yi swung her sword into three silver flowers in the sunlight. The sapphire inlaid on the hilt glowed faintly, illuminating the fine beads of sweat on the tip of her nose.

The spore dust unique to the mushroom canopy drifted around her, coating her dark leather armor with a faint blue. Ten minutes later, Weiyi, who had been resting with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Her amber pupils reflected the giant black shadow wandering below—the hollow tree, using its root-like tentacles to stir up the humus on the ground and sniff around, searching for other life to devour.

Choking!

The sword's blade sliced ​​through the mushroom canopy, and Wei Yi swooped down like a night owl. As she landed, her knees slightly bent to absorb the impact. She casually picked up a rock, which traced a parabola through the air and landed precisely on the moss-covered trunk of the hollow tree.

"Big idiot, this way!"

The stone bounced off the bark covered with annual rings. The monster that was foraging suddenly trembled, its roots twisted wildly, and the crack in the center of the trunk suddenly opened, revealing a cavity covered with spiral spikes. Smelly mucus dripped along the edge of the crack, reflecting a strange purple light in the sunlight.

The small stone didn't do much damage, but it was extremely insulting, and the hollow tree got angry. It used its roots to grab a fallen mushroom tree, threw it at Weiyi, and then raised its legs to chase after her.

As Weiyi turned, her ponytail swung, its tips brushing against the trunks of the mushroom trees that suddenly lunged at her. Amid the roar of hollow trees shifting their roots in pursuit, the girl deftly weaved between the mushroom trees, slapping them with her sword whenever the sound of pursuit faded.

As the mushroom trees gradually thinned out, the sunlight suddenly grew brighter—and in their pursuit, they had reached the edge of the Black Forest. The hollow tree paused hesitantly at the junction of moonlight and shadow, its roots moving like tentacles, twitching restlessly at the air.

Snapped!
The monster's rotting tree core crackled. It cursed Wei Yi and slowly turned, preparing to return to the depths of the forest. At that moment, the long-awaited sword light burst through the air, tearing a half-meter-long gash in the tree trunk, and dark green sap spurted out.

“Ouch!”

The hollow tree's roar shook countless dead leaves from its grasp. It swung a giant palm, formed from twisted branches, and slapped down, stirring up the decaying leaves into a small tornado. The moment Wei Yi's sword swung horizontally to block, the blade collided with the wooden palm, sparks flying, and the sharp pain in her palm made her stumble back.

"Damn it!" The girl retreated, shaking her numb hands. The sapphire on the hilt of the sword flickered. "Kate, you better have a backup plan!"

As if in response to her call, a sudden rumble like muffled thunder echoed from the ground. The ground where the hollow tree stood instantly collapsed, and the sound of a heavy object falling echoed through the smoke and dust. When the dust settled, a deep pit ten meters in diameter was revealed, its walls covered with neat claw marks—clearly, this pit was not a natural one, but was dug by cavemen.

"Twenty-five square meters, eight meters deep..." Weiyi gasped as she lay on the edge of the pit, the fluorescent spores illuminating her shocked face. "This amount of work will require at least twenty strong men for three days!"

"And it only took us twelve minutes. The poison was just for fun; digging is the cavemen's real skill." A smiling male voice rang out from the mushroom forest. Wang Bufu peeled back the fluorescent moss used as camouflage and emerged, followed by a dozen mud-covered cavemen. These short, stocky creatures were using their massive four-toed claws to clean off the solidified dirt from each other, making a clicking sound like sharpening knives.

Wei Yi looked at the hollow tree that kept trying to leave the pit, gestured with her sword, and said to Wang Bufu, "If I stand at this distance, I can use my Red Flame Slash to grind it to death from a distance.

But that still doesn't solve the problem of the hollow tree roaring."

Wang Bufu smiled and shook his head.

"If I still need you to kill it with your sword, then all my traps would be in vain. Blind cat, do it!"

The king gave an order and the cavemen immediately began to fill the hole with soil.

"What are you doing?" Wei Yi was suddenly startled.

"Kill it!" Wang Bufu laughed. "The hollow tree can hold other creatures in its stomach, wrap them with sticky threads, and suffocate them to death. We will let it die of suffocation.

This is called giving someone a taste of their own medicine. The soil absorbs 80% of sound waves. Even if it roars, it won't travel far. That way, there's no need to worry about its dying cries attracting other monsters.

Wei Yi clapped her hands in approval, "Awesome! That's really despicable, Kate. Is this what Commander Academy usually teaches you? It seems everyone in your academy has evil hearts."

"I'll just take it as a compliment." Wang Bufu smiled and didn't take it seriously.

While the two were chatting and laughing, the caveman completed the burial work and the entire hollow tree was buried in the soil.

Wang frowned in dissatisfaction, his smile gradually fading. The expected experiential clues hadn't materialized. Through the caveman's special earth elemental sense, he "saw" the deeply buried hollow tree still slowly wriggling—this monster, like the caveman, didn't need to breathe!
"Oh, something went wrong. This hollow tree seems to be able to survive without air." Wang Bufu told Wei Yi about his discovery, and Wei Yi immediately laughed.

"Hey, you make mistakes sometimes. What are you going to do now? Give up?"

"Of course not." Wang Bufu shook his head and said, "If you can't even calculate three steps at a time, how can you be a commander? I'm sure there is a way."

He clapped his hands and asked Blind Cat and the others to dig up some of the buried soil, revealing only a small part of the hollow tree head.

"Okay, chop it, chop it right here."

"After all this trouble, you still have to chop it to death." Weiyi raised her nose: "Now it's exposed, what if it screams?"

Wang Bufu smiled and said, "It's okay. Only a little bit of the head is exposed; the body is still buried in the soil. I've observed that every time a hollow tree makes a sound, the hole in its body opens. That hole is its vocal organ. As long as the hole is buried in the soil, its sound won't be transmitted."

"Then I'll do it." Wei Yi gripped her sword, a little excited. She recalled her training in the Black Forest. She had to flee whenever she saw a hollow tree, not daring to fight. Once, she was unlucky enough to be surrounded by three hollow trees and was badly beaten. Now, she could finally get revenge!

Rejoice!

Sword flashes poured down like a torrential downpour, instantly covering the hollow tree's head with spiderweb-like cracks. As Wang Bufu had anticipated, the hollow tree's screams were completely absorbed by the earth, unable to travel far. As the final blow was about to fall, Wang Bufu suddenly pressed down on the hilt of his sword, "Let me deliver the final blow."

"what?"

"You're so unlucky that you can't even get anything even if you kill monsters. I'm a little luckier."

Wei Yi was angry: "Kate, what do you mean, you look down on me."

Wang Bufu chuckled, stretched out his hand, and said, "My attack is almost done, can you lend me your sword?"

"If you have bad luck, then you have bad luck. What does it have to do with your face? Why do you say my face is dark? I wash my face every day, so my face is not dark." Wei Yi kept yelling, but still lent the sword to Wang Bufu.

The sword that was so light in Wei Yi's hand fell suddenly into Wang Bufu's hand, almost dislocating Wang Bufu's shoulder.

"Ouch, it's so heavy."

Seeing that the king was unwilling to accept the defeat, Wei Yike became proud.

"Hmph, using the mind isn't so easy. Supernatural treasures are all spiritual and will recognize their masters. Only a fellow supernatural swordsman like me can gain its recognition. Oh, I forgot, you've never seen a supernatural treasure before. Now you've learned something new."

"It doesn't matter whether you recognize it or not. A forced melon is not sweet, but it can quench your thirst, so it's fine as long as it works." Wang Bufu held his thoughts in both hands, raised them up with force and dropped them hard!
Chi!

The sword light of his mind cut through the air and slashed fiercely into the stump of the hollow tree.

The hollow tree, buried in the soil, shook violently, its body emitting sharp explosions. But after its screams were muffled by the earth, they were not even as loud as Wang Bufu's shouts.

After a few tremors, the hollow tree quickly withered, transforming into a drooping, rotten log. [Battle Rewards: Experience +33, Commander Skill Proficiency +9]

Kill the Hollow Monster Tree and gain +98 bonus experience points based on your contribution.

"Wow, what a huge profit! I earned nearly a hundred combat experience points with just one cut. The total experience points from the hollow tree are probably over a thousand. Giant monsters really give you a lot of experience points." Wang Bufu whistled and said, "Start digging and search the corpses."

"Yes, my lord!" The blind cat was the most proactive and was the first to jump into the pit. After a while, the body of the hollow tree was dug out.

Wang Bufu squatted down, and just as his fingers touched the hollow tree, the trunk slowly opened. The strange sticky silk in its chest disappeared, replaced by a pile of neatly arranged wood and a beautiful ring.

"A treasure has been found!" Wei Yi's eyes lit up as she looked at the beautiful ring. "Kate, you said I was unlucky, but this must be because of all the sword strikes I made!"

Haha, whatever you say is what it is. If you are too stubborn to care about face, I will drag you to the crematorium and burn you, and your mouth will still be there.

Wang Bufu smiled and touched the pile of wood and the ring.

【Wood*5】

Wood (rarity F)

The basic resources of the God's World can be used for military advancement, territory construction, fire making, building war weapons, manufacturing equipment, etc., and have extremely wide applications.

Howling Ring (Rarity: B)

extraordinary
Defense +5
Special skill:

Howl: Emits a loud howl, shocking enemies within a 10-meter radius for 0.5 seconds and interrupting their actions. Cooldown: 20 seconds.

Looking at the ring on his hand, Wang Bufu smiled slightly. Extraordinary is extraordinary. He was wearing a full set of treasures left by Lord Gru, all of which were of ordinary quality. The twelve pieces combined only added 15 points of defense. And the Howling Ring alone added 5 points!
Not only does it have powerful attributes, the Howling Ring also has a powerful spell-like skill that can be used to catch the opponent off guard when approaching.

"Kate, why are you smiling at the ring? What good thing has happened? Let me see it." Wei Yi came close to Kate, her eyes full of curiosity.

"Here, it's for you." Wang Bufu handed the Howling Ring to Wei Yi calmly.

"Huh?" Weiyi didn't react at first, she just felt the ring on her hand was quite heavy. But when she felt it carefully, she was shocked and her eyes almost popped out.

“Super… Extraordinary!!!”

Wang Bufu covered his ears and slapped Weiyi on the forehead.

"Keep your voice down! It's just an extraordinary treasure. Why are you making such a fuss? Don't wait until the hollow tree doesn't attract the monsters, and you do."

"No. You... I... Ah! Ah! This is an extraordinary treasure! An extraordinary treasure like the mind! Kate, why are you so calm?"

Wang Bufu smiled slightly: "You like it? Then I'll give it to you."

"Give it to me?!" Wei Yi's eyes widened, and she quickly stuffed the ring back. "I can't have it. I saw a similar ring at an auction in the capital. Its attributes weren't even as good as the Howling Ring, and it only sold for 8000 gold coins!"

My annual living expenses are only 200 gold coins, so 8000 gold coins would be enough for me to live on for 40 years."

"Do I still need these few gold coins?"

"Oh, this isn't a matter of gold coins. Extraordinary treasures are priceless, and even money might not be enough to buy them.

In order to obtain the Mind, I fought for three whole days for the first place in the competition held by the academy. I was spitting blood while fighting in the ring, and I was half dead before I won the first place.

Although the Howling Ring was not as difficult to obtain as the Mind, it is also the first extraordinary treasure in your life, Brother Kate. How could you give it to me? "

Wang Bufu smiled and said, "No matter how good this ring is, it's only valuable if it's put to use. I'm the commander, and I usually stay at the back during battle. It would be a waste to give me this equipment."

You are different. You are the only extraordinary person in our team, and a close combat swordsman. It can only be brought to its greatest value when you lead it."

"But……"

"Don't worry, just wear it." Wang Bufu grabbed Weiyi's hand, put the ring on her ring finger, and scratched Weiyi's palm.

Wei Yi quickly retracted her hand and glared at Kate in embarrassment.

"What are you doing! Don't use your playboy ways on me. I'm not one of those wanton ladies in the capital. I'm not going to be coaxed into taking off my pants by a few words from you.

Tsk… muscle memory. Wang Bufu swore he hadn't meant to scratch. His hand had just moved on its own. Kate scratched it, so what does Wang Bufu have to do with it?

"I really can't have it. I'll give it back to you." Wei Yi said this, but she couldn't help but keep rubbing the Howling Ring in her hand. Round and round, she just couldn't bear to take it off her ring finger.

"How can I accept this? It's an extraordinary treasure, too valuable. Even the Earl's son didn't dare to use an extraordinary treasure as a betrothal gift when he got married..."

Seeing Wei Yi's hesitant look, Wang Bufu couldn't help it.

"Think it over carefully. I really don't have any use for this ring. If you don't want it, I'll just give it to a blind cat."

"That won't do." Wei Yi quickly shielded her hands and bit her lip. "This is your extraordinary treasure. A blind cat doesn't deserve it!"

Blind Cat: ...

No, what does it have to do with me? Are you two using me to entertain me?
After struggling for a while, Wei Yi finally made up her mind.

"This ring is considered as a loan from you. If you need it, tell me anytime and I will return it to you immediately."

"I'm your brother, and we're family. We can't talk about lending or not. If I give it to you, then I give it to you."

Wang Bufei laughed and said:
"Let's not talk about that for now. I've come up with a good idea. Let's go back to the camp and call the cavemen over."

Wei Yi looked at the sly smile on Wang Bufu's face suspiciously and asked doubtfully, "What do you want to do?"

"Do something big." Wang Bufu raised the corner of his mouth, with light in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)