Chapter 138: Ability points collected

Defense is often more strenuous than offense. Wayne maintained the shield, constantly resisting the Leshen's attacks, until Triss used her magic to rescue all five children tied under the totem. Only then did he feel relieved, feeling physically and mentally exhausted.

Fortunately, Triss was quite reliable. Before leaving, she didn't forget to cast a spell to completely ignite the huge totem.

Although the black magic was still continuing, Wayne could clearly feel that the influence he received was getting smaller and smaller. He believed that it wouldn't be long before he would completely get rid of the influence of this magic.

Such an action also made the Leshen completely fall into anger. The vines around it were like a storm, whipping around Wayne, which forced him to give up maintaining the Quen shield and use rapid rolling to dodge the whistling whips.

However, even so, his face and back were still whipped several times. Although there was no bleeding, it was still abnormally painful, which also caused Wayne's anger to start accumulating.

Soon, he also changed his strategy, using his extraordinary speed to run out of the Leshen's attack range, and began to use Honeycomb Bombs and Dragon's Dream, using fire attacks to attack the huge Leshen.

*Boom! * As an alchemy bomb, the Honeycomb Bomb had powerful destructive power. When it exploded on the Leshen, the impact it produced directly shocked the huge monster, forcing it to retreat several steps.

It made the Leshen unable to maintain the stability of its body at all. Not only was the bark skin on its body constantly cracking, but some small branches were directly blown off, causing constant trauma to its body.

And the flames formed by Dragon's Dream, because of the special fuel, were like maggots on the tarsus, sticking tightly to the Leshen's body. The blazing flames burned constantly, and the bark and resin on its body were the best accelerants, making it unable to get rid of the state of being burned by flames at all.

After noticing this, Wayne sneered in his heart. Reality is not a game, and there is no limit of three or four bombs. Master Wayne has nothing else, but alchemy bombs are really a lot.

Taking advantage of the Leshen's burning gap, he quickly took out the magic-patterned storage bag from his chest, took out more alchemy bombs from it, and like a barbecue party, began to throw bombs regardless of cost.

*Bang! Bang! Bang! * All things grow and restrain each other. Although the Leshen is proficient in various spells and its own body is also very powerful, under the constant burning of flames, its aura began to weaken at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this Leshen did not admit defeat. When it found that even if it rolled in the mud, it could not extinguish the flames of Dragon's Dream on its body.

It suddenly opened its mouth and let out a desolate roar. Accompanied by its swaying hands, the sky was soon covered with dark clouds, strong winds blew in the rocky area, and dull thunder sounds kept coming from the black clouds.

In less than five minutes, a torrential rain actually fell in the entire rocky area, and a large amount of rainwater poured down, and even the flames on the Leshen were extinguished a lot.

This situation even caught Wayne off guard. The records in the books did not say that the Leshen could change the weather and summon heavy rain.

After being shocked for a few seconds, Wayne immediately took action.

Since it happened, he could only try his best to remedy it. He dodged the Leshen's attack range and threw a few more Dragon's Dream bombs.

Fortunately, the flames of Dragon's Dream were not ordinary flames. Although the fire could not burn very vigorously due to the influence of heavy rain, the rainwater could not completely extinguish it. It was a pity that such flames could not burn the Leshen to death, and with the nourishment of rainwater, the Leshen, which had just been severely damaged, seemed to have signs of recovery. Its aura even had a trend of gradually strengthening, and it could even find time to use vines to start attacking again.

And just when Wayne felt a bit tricky, the badge on his chest suddenly had a reaction and began to tremble slightly.

My badge is trembling...

Wayne turned his head and saw that, unknowingly, he had approached the huge totem that had burned into charcoal again.

When he rescued those children, the badge on his chest also had a reaction. At that time, he thought it was the influence of black magic.

But now, the totem had been burned into charcoal, and the black magic on it had been lifted. Unexpectedly, the badge still had a reaction. It seems that there is something tricky inside this huge totem.

Thinking of this, Wayne immediately abandoned other perceptions, entered a short meditation state, and transferred all his spirit to the totem.

The sounds around him disappeared, and his perception of magic power was strengthened several times. Not only the flow of magic power in his body, but even the flow of magic power around him had a clear feeling.

Sure enough, Wayne soon noticed that being able to summon heavy rain was not just the Leshen's own ability. This totem, which had been burned into charcoal, also seemed to be playing a huge role. To be precise, a certain unknown place inside the totem was playing a role.

Although his perception of magic power was not sharp, he could faintly perceive that inside the huge totem, there was a constant stream of Chaos Magic spreading outward, and then under the guidance of the Leshen, flying to the sky, flying to the clouds in the sky, affecting the reactions in those clouds.

Seeing this, Wayne had no time to hesitate. First, two Honeycomb Bombs were thrown at the bottom of the totem, and then his left hand accumulated an enhanced version of the Aard Sign. When the charcoal at the bottom of the totem was cracked by the Honeycomb Bombs, the Aard Sign in his hand had already hit the bottom of the totem hard.

*Crack! Crack! Crack! * Amidst the sound of wood cracking and wood chips flying, the totem with the tree as the main body was directly broken from the middle by the Aard Sign, collapsed backward, and revealed the things hidden in the bottom of the totem.

That was a highly condensed group of Chaos Magic, and it was also the driving energy of the large-scale black magic used by the Leshen before. It looked like a purple light ball emitting fluorescent light.

Before this, it was covered by various magic substances outside the totem. Even Triss, who was particularly sensitive to magic power, did not notice its existence. Otherwise, the first target of the two might have been chosen here.

And just when Wayne was considering what this was, a system prompt suddenly came to his mind.

*Ding! Magic node triggered, absorption can get three ability points. *

*Absorb? *

Wayne was stunned for a moment, and then felt happy in his heart. Unexpectedly, it was a magic node in front of him.

And this Leshen was really cunning. It used its totem technology to wrap this magic node inside its totem, not only hiding the magic node but also using it as the energy for black magic. No wonder it could control so many wild wolves and trolls.

If this Leshen were given more time, no one could say to what extent it would grow.

And now, it could actually use the magic power of this magic node to save its defeat.

After considering for a few seconds, Wayne did not hesitate and directly chose to absorb the magic node.

In an instant, an invisible force was emitted from his body, and the magic node not far from him seemed to be summoned by something. The highly condensed magic energy merged into his body at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.

However, this magic power did not act on his body, but under the action of that mysterious force, it merged into his soul at an extremely fast speed.

Not only that, when the highly condensed magic energy in front of him was absorbed, the subsequent magic energy he absorbed did not decrease, but more magic energy was extracted from that node.

After about dozens of seconds, when the entire magic node was completely drained by the mysterious ability in his body, a scene like a crack replaced the original magic light group and appeared at the position of the node.

*Ding! Energy absorption complete, current ability points: 10 points. *

Seeing the ten ability points displayed by the system, Wayne couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart. It had been more than two years, and he had been in this world for more than two years. He finally had enough ten ability points to unlock the ability of the Elder Blood.

Although this ability must be accompanied by various conspiracies and tricks, it was also a powerful force, a force that transcended mortals, allowing him to break through the limitations of witchers and become a more powerful powerhouse.

However, now was not the time to think about these problems. With the disappearance of the magic node, the dark clouds in the sky dissipated rapidly at a strange speed, and the torrential rain also disappeared.

And after noticing this change, the Leshen, which was slowly recovering, couldn't help but let out an angry roar, which was also a desperate roar.

Without the help of heavy rain, the flames that were still burning began to expand rapidly, re-enveloping the Leshen in flames.

Seeing this, Wayne had no mercy, but took out more Honeycomb Bombs and Dragon's Dream like adding insult to injury, and began a saturated bombardment of the Leshen.

The battle lasted for about ten minutes. Wayne kept throwing bombs from a distance, occasionally using the Igni Sign to increase the fire, and did not engage in close combat with this Leshen at all.

Finally, when the damage reached a certain critical point, the Leshen's dead-wood-like body could no longer withstand the damage of the flames and fell backward like a puppet that had lost its life.

And the flames on its body also began to burn more violently, as if they had lost some suppression.

But even so, Wayne was still quite cautious and did not choose to approach until, accompanied by the cracking sound of *crack, crack, crack*, the Leshen's limbs also broke into residual limbs under the burning of the flames.

Only then did he really confirm that this monster was dead.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 139 =====