Chapter 46: Remote Support and Rampage

At the edge of the Wind Wall Forest.

At the top of a tall Bai Yu tree, thick branches had been woven into a platform by magic.

Little Little Bangde stood atop it, holding the 【Scythe-Claw Shortbow】, hesitating to draw the string.

She said anxiously:

"Young Lady Kali, is it not time yet? Rod is getting beaten!"

"No, he can still handle it."

The elf stood beneath the tree.

Before her floated a magical image.

She did not possess the 【Eagle Eye】 that allowed Little Little Bangde to see from such a great distance, but she could share the vision of a hawk or falcon in the sky through magic.

In the image, that human's response was still adequate; clearly, it was not yet the most dangerous moment.

Not long after, she saw Rod consciously moving away, appearing to flee.

"This fellow is not one to run."

Lady Kali immediately concluded he had another countermeasure.

"Blow that orc away, Little Little Bangde."

In the next instant, the tree shadows swayed.

A spiritual gust of wind swept through the dense foliage.

A beam of blue spiritual light shot toward the distance.

A moment later.

In the magical image, the orc was blasted away.

"Well done."

Lady Kali praised.

Next, she guided Little Little Bangde to fire another arrow.

Unexpectedly, that arrow revealed Little Little Bangde's position.

"This An Ying Fa mage seems to have experience dealing with ranged shooters. Hmm... the concealment course for spiritual arrows must be put on the schedule."

"Young Lady Kali, something is coming."

"Ignore it, I will deal with it. Free fire from now on."

"Understood!"

Bang bang bang—

The words had barely left her mouth when Little Little Bangde immediately fired three arrows.

The trees shook violently.

At that moment, a spiritual cavity slowly opened in the trunk of a large tree to the side.

Vivian stepped out from within.

Seeing Little Little Bangde and Lady Kali, she paused slightly in surprise.

"The commotion. Let me see."

"Vivian, didn't that ranger tell you? Sorry, we are conducting practical combat training."

Lady Kali briefly explained the reason.

At the same time, she placed several layers of magical shields on Little Little Bangde and herself.

Vivian saw Rod running in the spell image.

She frowned, which was very rare.

"Rod, danger."

"No problem, he can handle it. I once saw him slay a seventh-rank demon in the Corrupted Caverns."

"Why not find Vivian!"

"... You know, humans are such an arrogant race."

Lady Kali sensed the tree spirit was angry.

What was going on?

No one had damaged the trees; why was she angry? Could it be she mistook that ranger for a tree?

There was no time for idle chat.

Those three Shadow Hounds galloped toward them from the distance.

Lady Kali raised both hands, and rippling magical light manifested on her palms.

Her eyes emitted a dazzling blue light.

In fact, nature-aligned elves did not mind using staves.

They tended toward rigorous training to reach the level of casting spells with bare hands; to achieve this, they had to train their hands very hard.

Therefore, the fingers of nature-aligned elves were quite agile.

Boom!!!

Nearly ten steel vines suddenly surged from the ground toward the sky!

They skewered the three Shadow Hounds like kebabs.

Lady Kali turned her head to look at Vivian.

At this moment, Vivian's short, slightly curly hair lifted gently, rising like flames of anger.

Although her expression remained emotionless, of course.

"Vivian?"

"Protect, Rod."

Having spoken, she used 【Tree Walker】 again, vanishing into the trees.

Leaving Lady Kali utterly bewildered.

"Young Lady Vivian is going to the battlefield to help Rod!" Little Little Bangde cheered.

"How do you know? How strange, a Tree Spirit would actually help humans."

"If you ask me, the claim that Tree Spirits have no emotions is a narrow view. Young Lady Kali, you don't know that almost every night Young Lady Vivian chats with us about Rod!"

"What is there to chat about? Pay attention, don't get distracted!"

The central battlefield.

After several rounds of remote support from Little Little Bangde.

Rod finally reached the bonus of the Giant Locust Tree.

【Tree Armor Technique (Enhanced): A special enhancement for individuals possessing 'Tree Blessing' when casting Tree Armor, corresponding to different abilities based on the type of trees in the forest they are in.

Current Tree: Giant Locust Tree

Enhanced Skill: Super Strength】

Power-filled spiritual energy flowed continuously into his limbs and bones.

His entire aura surged.

"Come!"

Shouting loudly, he turned and delivered a horizontal slash to the female orc, Amy.

Clang—

The crystal cleaver and the golden light longsword clashed together.

Amy's face filled with shock, she was swept flying away directly.

Unconvinced, she charged up fiercely to clash again.

Rod did not grant her wish; 【Repel Technique】 moved him from his original position, dodging the jumping slash, then spiritual light flashed on his sword.

【Aethelorn's Flash】. 【Five Flashes】!

The orc still blocked two of the strikes, but the three strikes that hit her body this time were not so simple.

Blood gushed out from her abdomen, left arm, and thigh; the deep sword wounds were more than twice as powerful as before.

Amy, incredulous, chose to retreat for the first time.

She retreated and landed.

She shouted fiercely, clamped her muscles tight, and stopped the bleeding.

Then she smiled at Rod.

"Amy will go all out."

The next moment.

She gathered spiritual power, and her entire body began to turn blood-red.

A frenzied aura shot up to the sky.

The orc's innate spiritual technique 【Frenzy】!

"Roar—"

Amy let out a battle roar to the sky, and a wave of air surged up.

Her eyes were already filled with red light; the little spiritual intelligence she had was completely cleared to zero.

An 【Explosive Arrow】 fell from the sky, landing on her head.

When the dust cleared, she remained unmoved.

"Defense has increased quite a bit..."

Just at that moment.

A point of newly generated 【Growth Spiritual Energy】 successfully accumulated.

【Remaining Growth Spiritual Energy: 3】

Rod did not hesitate, injecting it separately into 【Guardian Veil】 and 【Devoted Body Sword】.

The cloak gained a new effect: 【Dust-Cleansing Technique】.

The golden sword gained new effects: 【Memory Metal】, 【Master Recognition】.

All effects that were of little use in this battle.

Facing the orc's charge, Rod raised the 【Lightless Chang En Fa Yin】 and advanced to meet her.

In an instant.

Centered on the two of them, the sounds of weapons clashing and spiritual shields shattering came continuously.

The surging air wave completely obscured them; even 【Eagle Eye】 and 【Shared Vision】 from a distance could not observe.

The two providing support from afar judged very quickly.

They immediately turned toward the Shadow Mage's head.

By now the Great Ghoul had been dismantled; Pan Ni's mana was exhausted, able only to command the last ten or so ghoul minions to interfere. Tally had acquired several new wounds, and her aura was unstable. One had been injured before, the other had just ascended a rank; clearly, neither was a match for an experienced high-end sixth-rank opponent.

At this moment, arrows continuously provided remote support, successfully shattering his spell shield.

(End of Chapter)