Chapter 21 Battle Against Two Level 4 Undead Trees! [2]

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• {You have dealt +1.2 damage to your enemy!}
• {You have dealt +1.3 damage to your enemy!}
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• {Undead Tree!}
• Level: 4
• HP: 8.1/10.7
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• {Undead Tree!}
• Level: 3
• HP: 5.4/7.0
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• {Undead Tree…}
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• {Undead Tree…}
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• {Undead Tree…}
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• {Undead Tree!}
• Level: 4
• HP: 9.3/10.1
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• Clinton’s 2 daggers only affected one of the two level 4 Undead Trees, yet at this moment, all the Undead Trees’ HP was lower than their peak.
• This was because his plan was already in motion.
• The fire was already spreading its vengeful wrath.
• Immediately after throwing the wooden daggers, Clinton dug his hands into the ground and retrieved 2 sharp wooden spears from the soft soil.
• And then, he set his sight on the second level 4 Undead Tree that triggered the fire that was now burning.
• He grinned. “You first!”
• He pounced!
• His battle against a level 4 Green Goblin was in no way a work over. Taking the fight to an even stronger monster in the form of an Undead Tree was a bigger risk but Clinton had reasons for his confidence.
• He didn’t just trust his improved strength; he also trusted his new weapons.
• Of the 2 wooden spears that Clinton just dug out of the ground that he hid previously, one of them was the new wooden spear that he just crafted, his 3rd crafted mid-tier weapon.
• And it’s imbued active skill was one of his biggest confidence boosters.
• The fire raged.
• The Undead Trees panicked as they suffered in the fire.
• And amid the rapidly expanding range of the fire, only one of the monsters caught in its range at this moment did not have panic in his eyes.
• Unlike the panicking eyes of the Undead Trees, Clinton’s hollow eyes gleamed at this moment with the determination of a predator.
• At this point, the flames were yet to fully spread to his position, he still had the chance to escape its vicinity but Clinton did not take the option of escaping.
• Instead of escaping, he rather jumped into the flames.
• Wielding his wooden spears, Clinton charged into the flames and immediately, his miserable undead system lit up with notifications.
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• {You have been exposed to burning fire!}
• {Your body is weak against fire!}
• {You are suffering +0.3 damage every second!}
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• Staring at the system notifications, Clinton made calculations in his head.
• Theoretically, even after adding the factor of his HP recovery mechanism into the process, he only had less than 20 seconds to live.
• Clinton was not panicked by his calculations though.
• A thought reassured him. ‘If I, a skeleton suffers so much from being exposed to fire, definitely trees are suffering more’.
• With this thought reassuring him, he pounced recklessly at the level 4 Undead Tree which was his first target with his 2 wooden spears in hand.
• This Undead Tree was even bigger than the others, standing at almost 3 meters tall yet it was just that, a tree.
• The Undead Trees were literally just dead trees who somehow gained the ability to live as undead, turning their roots into tentacles with which they move.
• And due to staying in the wild for a while, Clinton had no problem climbing a tree as in a smooth jump and a few calculated steps, he managed to scale the first level 4 Undead Tree amid the raging fire.
• And once he got to the top of its branches, he wrapped his 2 legs around the top of the tree trunk and with his twin wooden spears on his bony hands, he went on a rampage.
• For a moment, Clinton’s eyes seemed to glow a blood-red, then…
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• {You have activated active skill: Spear Thrust!}
• {You have activated active skill: Vibration!}
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• BAM!
• The 2 wooden spears stabbed into the wooden face of the Undead Tree with force, the sound of collision reverberating in unison like it was from a single blow.
• Damage notifications filled Clinton’s vision and it only emboldened him further as with a wide grin on his face amid the raging fire, he stabbed repeatedly.
• BAM! BAM! BAM!
• BAM!
• BAM! BAM!
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• {You have dealt damage…}
• {You have dealt damage…}
• {Your enemy has been forced into the stun state!}
• {You have dealt damage…}
• {You have dealt damage…}
• {Your enemy has been forced into the stun state!
• {You have dealt damage…}
• {You have killed a level 4 Undead Tree!}
• {You have gained XP!}
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• The Undead Tree never had the chance to move its tree branches and counterattack once, its death was an injustice!
• A most unmonster-like way to die!
• The raging flames took more than half of the Undead Tree’s HP, and with the stun state triggered, it could not move, giving the predator which at this moment was the skeleton the leverage to absolutely obliterate it with his spears.
• ‘1 down, 1 more to go’.
• Still on top the Undead Tree, as the monster collapsed, already dead, Clinton turned his fiery eyes in the direction of the other level 4 Undead Tree at this moment as he somersaulted down.
• Rolling to curb the impact of his fall, Clinton sprang back to his feet before rushing in the direction of the second level 4 Undead Tree.
• The searing sensation of the burning fire disoriented this Undead Tree, preventing it from reacting in its peak state.
• Unchallenged, Clinton stabbed his 2 spears into this tree’s body.
• And then, abandoning the spears in its body, he rolled towards another mound of sand where he retrieved 2 new weapons, 2 wooden daggers that seemed sharper than the first 2 that he started this battle with.
• Unlike the first Undead Tree, this 2nd one already saw him fight, its guard would definitely be up and it would give its best to defend its life.
• This was why from the aggressive approach that he started this battle with, he improvised, opting for a pragmatic approach next.
• Cautiously, Clinton dove into battle and attacked with the wooden daggers.
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• {Viper Tooth has been triggered!}
• {You have inflicted your enemy with the low-tier poisoned status!}
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• With this draining even more of the Undead Tree’s HP, Clinton took his time, chipping away at its health points one step at a time but he didn’t take too long.
• 7 seconds later, when the fire already dealt more than enough damage not just to the Undead Tree but to him also, he finally decided to jump in.
• He went in with his current strongest move.
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• {You have activated active skill: Assassination Strike!}
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• BAM!
• This time, the wooden dagger struck with tyrannical might.
• The Undead Tree didn’t survive it after suffering so much damage, it finally collapsed on the ground, dead.
• The other Undead Trees also collapsed as they succumbed to the burning fire.
• This happened just in time for Clinton to escape out of the immediate vicinity of the burning fire.
• Once he escaped, the fire in his body started subsiding.
• He was no leaf nor was he a tree that would keep on burning fervently, he was a skeleton and last Clinton remembered, skeletons were not great conductors of fire like dry tree leaves and tree branches were.
• This was what gave him the confidence to pull off this crazy stunt.
• And somehow, it worked.
• He finally paid attention to the system notifications.
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• {You have killed a level 4 Undead Tree!}
• {You have gained XP!}
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• {You have killed a level 3 Undead Tree!}
• {You have gained XP!}
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• {You have killed…}
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• {You have killed…}
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• {You have gained a title: Hell Slayer!}
• {Effects:}
• >You have developed a slight resistance to fire
• >Fire damage to enemies created by you will cause increased damage
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• Clinton paid attention to his HP, he had less than 2 health points remaining.
• He grinned. “Whoops! What a hunt!”