Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1771 - 1332: Grow Fast, Die Faster

Chapter 1771: Chapter 1332: Grow Fast, Die Faster

Yennefer and these Dragon-Men have not seen the Undead before, so they couldn’t tell the differences—they only instinctively felt they were eerie. However, Ange and the others came from the Undead Empire and immediately noticed the oddities.

These Tree People all lacked life—they were dead trees, yet they could still move, becoming the Undead among Tree People.

The disturbed Deceitful Tree Men started moving; they turned their bodies silently and rushed toward Ange and others with great strides, twisting their forms.

Luther immediately clasped his hands together, forming a Qi Sword, and pointed forward, his entire form becoming virtualized and pushed the Qi Sword shooting towards the foremost Deceitful Tree Man.

Luther’s martial technique improved daily. As he became more familiar with his form, he quickly devised a series of moves suitable for this form—truly, he was the former prodigy Sword Saint.

This Virtualized Charge move was clearly designed based on the characteristics of the Star God’s Body. The speed of physical objects has a limit; the faster the speed, the greater the force the body needs to withstand, consuming more energy while facing severe diminishing returns.

Charging five hundred meters in one second consumes several times more energy than charging four hundred meters in one second.

However, the Star God’s Body could be virtualized—after virtualizing, it becomes a state of energy. The Qi Sword also becomes an energy state. Even if it reaches the speed of light, the energy consumption will not increase significantly.

Though Luther didn’t understand these theories, he could keenly grasp these principles to create moves most suitable for his new form.

With one move of charging, Luther almost instantaneously appeared before the Deceitful Tree Man, and the Qi Sword stabbed into its body.

With a crisp sound, the Qi Sword couldn’t pierce into the opponent’s body but rather knocked the Deceitful Tree Man flying away.

"So hard?" Luther exclaimed in shock. He spun around; his left hand chopped first, followed by the right hand, splitting the Qi Sword into two, consecutively striking the same spot on another nearby Deceitful Tree Man.

Another move created based on the characteristics of the Star God’s Body—the Star God’s Body is not a physical entity. It’s condensed from an energy form. If you want to condense three hands, it’s possible, and four hands are okay too. Luther retained his human form purely out of habit, otherwise, he could entirely condense into a horse with ten hands.

As the Qi Sword swung out from his left and right hands simultaneously, two longer arms sprang out from Luther’s shoulder blades, brandishing Qi Sword ready at any moment.

For now, the extra arms were unnecessary as the first two Qi Swords had already broken through the Deceitful Tree Men’s defenses, a spray of green blood mist splattered out, with some splashing onto Luther.

Seeing this, Yennefer was stunned and muttered: "When fighting me, he wasn’t using his full strength?"

This was too demoralizing—being the top Dragon-Man fighter, it’s acceptable not to defeat a ’human’, but the opponent still retained strength?

Ange also froze momentarily, reached out, and directly plucked out Luther’s White Crystal from a distance.

Luther’s form instantly stiffened there, and in the next moment, the form was pierced with thousands of holes by roots growing from the green blood mist on the surface.

Just about to rush forward, Lightning retreated even faster, shouting loudly: "What are those things? What are those things?"

Anthony loudly cautioned: "Be careful of the green mist—it seems to grow roots. Don’t let it stick to you."

Ange shook his head: "Not grow—mark," while looking around.

"Mark? What does it mean?" Yennefer inquired.

Negris explained: "These roots are not from the Deceitful Tree Men but from another creature. This green blood mist merely marks locations for the creature’s roots to penetrate the enemy."

"Ah?" Yennefer and Baburu also retreated; they had just engaged with the Deceitful Tree Men but hadn’t yet managed to make them bleed.

After retreating, Baburu urged: "You guys go—you can virtualize, get splattered with blood mist and then just virtualize and retreat."

"Not yet. If virtualization helped, the Master wouldn’t have grabbed Luther’s White Crystal back," said Anthony.

"Pheromones." Ange continued looking for the true enemy, still speaking.

"Hiss—" Negris sucked in a breath: "Plant pheromones are rather peculiar—they can even mark energy, not something that virtualization can remove."

Even Ursman retreated at this moment, leaving everyone to look at each other, with only the Undead King and Gray Divine Star remaining in the front.

Tap tap tap! Tap tap tap! The King tapped his steps and began dancing—King’s Arrival.

The approaching Deceitful Tree Men also involuntarily started dancing.

The King spread his legs, stabilizing on the ground, then twisted his upper body to the left.

Those Deceitful Tree Men also twisted to the left.

The King continued twisting, and the Deceitful Tree Men continued twisting; after ten or so turns, the Deceitful Tree Men forcibly twisted their waists into breaking, with their upper bodies falling to the ground.

The King virtualized, and after ten or so twists, his waist returned to normal.

This comical scene made Negris furious: "Why can you use King’s Arrival? You’re now the Star God’s Body—why!?"

Anthony also commented: "Are they really corpses? Tree people’s corpses? King’s Arrival can directly control them—that’s truly fascinating. I feel we shouldn’t call them Deceitful Tree Men but Puppet Tree People. Seems like something is controlling them from behind—they don’t even have souls."

The half-cut Puppet Tree Men on the ground crawled towards the King in unison, with their empty eye sockets holding nothing inside—just blankness.

A whip made of Star Flame lashed fiercely on the Puppet Tree Men’s body, exploding it on the spot, then rising a blaze, wrapping its form and green juice together.

The Star Flame Whip retracted into Gray Divine Star’s hand and then swung down again.

Boom—another Puppet Tree Man was exploded; Star Flame seemed to be the best weapon against these Puppet Tree Men. It’s scorching, violent, ferocious—not only does it explode Puppet Tree Men but also burns them.

At the sight, the King immediately cooperated, making Puppet Tree Men pounce on the burning comrades. Each more Puppet Tree Man added to the burning, increasing the flames; with two more, the flames became even stronger, soon becoming a huge torch.

Sssss...The ferns on the ground rustle, seemingly unable to contain themselves.

These ferns are alive, not the lifeless dead creatures like Puppet Tree Men.

Little Sapling sat up, waving its True Leaf: longer—grow—stronger—grow—

The ferns on the ground frantically started growing.

"Little Sapling, what are you doing? You’re helping the wrong side!" Negris shouted in panic. In such a situation, letting the ferns grow fast would be helping the other side, wouldn’t it?

Right after speaking, the rapidly enlarging ferns quickly bore seeds—not waiting for the seeds to fall; they directly germinated and grew on the branches and leaves of the ferns. Their roots pierced into the mother plant’s body, naturally absorbing no nutrients, and after exhausting the nutrients in the seeds, they swiftly withered.

The mother plant that bore seeds similarly quickly exhausted its life force, swiftly withering, completing an entire life process in just a few seconds, exhausting all life force, rapidly dying away with just dead branches and leaves left.

Negris’s jaw almost dislocated—was Little Sapling so fierce? Growing faster meant also dying even faster?

"Found it." Ange moved. The other party was hidden very well, but now that the ferns all died, there’s nothing to block his perception, exposing the hidden enemy.

PS: Turns out it was a double monthly ticket event, no wonder there were so many tickets. Thanks.