Strongest Tree

"This is too abnormal" Kence frowned, he don"t like the things happening now. It was better if some creatures will attack them on their way but this abnormal situation was tensing their nerves

Suddenly, Calter looked at a certain direction as he sense something. "Master, there is an abnormal level of energy on that direction" Calter pointed out on the direction where he sense it

Kence nodded "Let"s go and check it out. Don"t lower your guards!" The five cautiously went to the direction that Calter pointed

"Rooaarr!!" Multiple inhuman growls can be heard in the area. Kence and the others immediately check where the sound came from. What they saw made all of their eyes constrict

Now, it all made sense why they didn"t encounter any enemies on the way. Just looking at this area of the forest with a sea of a.s.sorted creatures on it encountering any mutant creatures or fallens outside this area was gonna be the abnormal one!

Sparks and energy attacks flew everywhere, growls from fallens and animals made a deafening and irritating sound. Blood splash everywhere creating a sea made from blood

All sorts of fallens, animals and even some plant type creatures were battling and slaughtering each other. It was like someone injected them with a substance that will make them go crazy and attack everything on their site

Even a lower levelled animal won"t hesitate to attack other creatures who was stronger than them. The whole area was very chaotic and filled with violence

Ivy took a step back from the site and covered her mouth to stop herself from vomiting. Although her hands were not clean and was also stained with blood but the sight in front of them was too horrifying

Internal organs were everywhere and no matter where you look at there are all sort of creatures attacking and killing each other except for the middle area where creatures didn"t dare step on

"W-what"s happening?" Even Kence was taken aback by the nauseous scene in front of them. "Master, I sense something on that area. I can"t tell what it was but it contained high amount of sinister energy!"

True, the middle part of the area was devoid of any creatures, the reason why these creatures were killing each other was most likely the thing on that area

Weng

A sound of wind blowing was created by a bird with a metallic color. The bird dive down towards Kence and the others, intending to take their lives. This bird was one of the strongest in the creatures present as its cultivation base reached the mid-stage of Knight Rank only below the few peak-stage ones

Kence coldly glance at it and transformed his arm into a root to meet the bird"s body. The root and metallic bird collided with each other and root debris flew everywhere. Although the root met a great resistance as the bird"s body was too tough it still managed to successfully pierce the bird"s body

If it was before, Kence would already be absorbing this bird to regain his used energy. He wants to always be on his peak condition in case a danger arrive but now he knew the consequences of it. He can"t let his energy be more impure that it already is

Kence flicked his root arm to remove the now dead bird. "Is there some sort of treasure there?" Kence asked

After all in the novels a precious treasure would be something that all sorts of creatures will fight for. When there is danger there is an opportunity right? If it was the case, Kence wants to take this treasure on his hands

"Whether there is a treasure there or none as long as we survived this it would be a great help to us!" King said while looking at the other fallens and mutated animals coming on their way

If they want to occupy this forest it should be a safe haven for them and they can"t let powerful creatures roam on their base. They naturally need to dispose of all fallens and mutant animals. For them it was not too bad because they don"t need to eat food like the others, they don"t need to hunt animals to make their own food

"Get ready!" Kence shouted and immediately activated his most powerful skill

"[Innate Skill: Nature"s Battle Armor!]" Kence"s hand and feet glowed with light before they were covered by armor made from wood

On each of Kence"s palm a sword emerge while leaves flew around it. If before, a block of wood would first emerge before taking the shape of a sword but now with his current energy control skill it instantly became a sword!

Even his armor has improved as it reached upto his elbows and and knees

Without delaying Kence took the initiative to attack first "[Innate Skill: Sword-Leaf Slash!]"

Two crescent shape made from multiples leaves was generated from Kence"s wooden sword. The sword slash cut the creatures coming to them in half and they fell down on the ground, devoid of any life

"Retreat for now I will cover you! We don"t need to fight them! let"s wait for the time when they already killed each other!"

Fighting with these many creatures were just asking for death and a suicide act. They don"t need to fight themselves and can wait for the time when the victor of this bloodbath emerge. At that time they can seize the chance and kill the victor, why bother risking their lives right?

"Lord, we can all retreat together!" King naturally don"t want for Kence to shoulder all the burden, although not as powerful as Kence but King himself was also powerful!

Kence shook his head "Don"t worry about me, there"s not much of flying animals here. I can just fly to escape. Go now! Your aura and numbers will attract more of them"

Kence made few thousands of leaves to mess up with the sight of the dozens of enemies coming to them

"Go now! That"s an order!" Kence bark seeing that they still didn"t retreat. Although there are a lot of enemies but his life was not actually in much danger. Those who has the ability to fly were few in number, if he flew high enough even if there are a lot of powerful enemies how can they attack him?

King sighed at this. Although their master trained them and they can kill without holding back much whether the opponent is a human, fallen, or mutant animal but when they met with a great danger if there was a chance for them to retreat, Kence would always order them to retreat.

However, he can"t do much about that. Him being seriously injured by the Supernatural who pursue Kence just made Kence become even more protective of them in some situation.

"Let"s go" King said while they all threw complicated look towards Kence. Even if they know that Kence can just fly to escape but him risking his life made them a bit guilty

Calter looked at the battlefield and thought "If only I trained more maybe I would have enough strength in this situation!"

If others heard what he thought they might look at Calter as if he was crazy, out of all of them Calter was the most diligent in training. Aside from when they plan things, eat or bond with each other the kid just always cultivate his strenght on his free time

The four run away with a heavy feeling which made Kence sigh in relief. He looked at the creatures coming to him and smirk

"Time to let loose my frustrations!"

Frustrations from still not getting any clues from the organization who killed his parents and made his life a h.e.l.l

Frustration from his inability to kill Harold and protect his family from him

Frustration that he can"t accompany the woman who he was slowly having feelings with

The demon inside his heart finally has the chance to vent its anger. With a loud shout Kence charged towards a mutated tiger and swung his sword towards it. As the tiger was only in the peak of Warrior Rank his sword did not met any resistance and the tiger was easily beheaded

However, a grey colored fallen snake took this chance and nimbly shot its body towards Kence. This fallen snake was even more powerful than the mutated tiger as it was in the early stage of Knight Rank

Kence turned the part of his body into wood where the snake intended to bit him. The wood was destroyed because of the snake"s bite but Kence took this chance and pierce the snake"s head using his sword

Grey blood splashed on his body but he ignored and and swung his sword to another light green colored bird with a fast speed that dove down to kill him

Kence thrust his sword upwards and the wooden sword impaled the bird"s belly causing blood to rain down on Kence"s body. Instead of being gross out by the blood Kence smiled and there is an insanity on his face

An early stage Knight Rank Nightmare Fallen spew out a grey colored fog towards Kence. He slashed his sword towards the fog and the sword slash made from leaves were instantly generated that destroyed the fog. However, the sword slash didn"t stop there and continue flying towards the Nightmare Fallen

The remaining energy of the sword slash was just enough and cut the unfortunate fallen in half. An image of his mother entered his mind and his imagination run wild, just how did that organization killed his mother?

Kence was consumed by even more insanity and brutally slashed his sword to all creatures around him. A mutant deer using its antlers shot a beam of energy towards Kence. As the latter was consumed by insanity he didn"t notice it and was. .h.i.t by the energy beam

His own blood mix with the blood of the creatures he killed. Kence"s bloodshot eyes looked at the deer, this time the image of his father entered his mind and scenes of the possible death his father experienced flashed on his mind

With a roar akin to those of a beast, Kence ignored the other enemies around him and charged straight towards that dear. He leap into the air and used his foot to smash down the Warrior Rank mutant deer"s head. Destroying its beautiful antlers and reducing its brain into meat pulp

The scene on his mind change into one of Harold slowly killing his new family in front of him, as if he was savoring Kence"s despair. Kence"s vision turned red and he madly attacked a mutant bear with his sword. Even when he already killed the bear he still continued destroying its body using his swords

If an intelligent creature saw this they would gulp at how savage Kence is but all these fallens and mutant animals still doesn"t have an intellect akin to humans. They continued killing each other as if nothing happened

The scene once again changed, this time Kence saw Anna and Annie being encircled by a group of fallen with nowhere to run to. Coincidentally, a two meter human fallen with bulging muscles bigger than a man"s thigh swung its fist towards him

"AAAHHH!!!" Kence roared and let go of the sword on his hand. His berserk energy revolved around his arm and he met the fallen"s fist with his own

Cracking sounds were heard as the fallen"s punch destroyed Kence"s arm armor and he took a few steps back because of the impact. Thankfully, an armor covered his hand if not it might destroy all the bones on his arm. His body strength was after all not his forte, he was not a cultivator who has the best bodies among Supernaturals

Kence fighting instinct made him generate another armor from his hand and made a sword again

This time he finally has the chance to vent out all of his feeling through a fight. In front of King and the other he always display himself as powerful and reliable. He always has that strong image around him but he was after all just a human

The intense torture and apocalypse took a toll on his mind, the seed of darkness on his heart were slowly being nourished by the things heppening to him and only now did he had the chance to vent it all