After hearing that the Apocalypse progressed from Phase 1 to Phase 2 Kence was feeling a little nervous
He does not know what this Mother Fallen is but his gut feeling told him that this is something that will make this apocalypse worst than before
Kence used these 5 days to familiarize himself in using his clone and trying to figure out the things that he can do
In these few days he successfully learned something. The skill that they got from the Skill Ticket was just the most basic and the foundation on limitless things that they can do!
For example, Calter managed to fuse his [Photosynthesis] and [Magic Bullet] it's not really a fusion of skill but he managed to learn how to use [Photosynthesis] to absorb energy from the surrounding and sun even while fighting!
Calter now can almost be considered someone that almost has limitless energy, as long as the rate of consumption did not exceed the rate of absorption and his mind did not become exhausted he can use his skill indefinitely!
King on the other hand now have a good control on his [Absorb], before he can just shoot out his transformed arm to root in a straight line but now he can use his root to either attack or defend. In other words, he can now manipulate his root to whatever he wants to do
While for Cesar, he used his unused Skill Ticket and gained a new rune that he can use aside from the counter-trapping rune. He can now draw rune that will bind the enemy's body with vines if they step on it or if he managed to hit the enemy with the rune
Kence on the other hand has the greatest improvement. Thanks to him breaking through the mid-stage he gained a lot more energy. Now he can control a few tens of leaves to attack at the same time and its durability was the same as metal! It's like having tens of metals thrown on you. While he also mimicked Calter and King on the way they use their Innate Skills and since it came from him he had a better control on them than even the two!
Kence stopped his cultivation and looked at his three teammates "Let's go hunt some fallens"
Hunting fallens will polish their skills and make them used to killing and since all of them have the [Absorb] skill these fallens will become their nutrients
"Merge!" Kence said and a shocking thing happened, his original tree body tranformed into specks of light that was absorb by his clone
Inside of Kence's mind the figure of a tree can be seen, even when he was a tree without a clone he can already see the inside of his body and his clone has the same ability
Kence saw how the two souls merged and become one while in what he named 'sea of consciousness' below his glowing light green soul was his tree body
He felt much stronger than before as his two bodies merged and become one
The three although a bit shock did not mind what happened too much
Unlike normal humans who would do everything to get a way from a fallen, these group of 4 actually went to find fallens
And soon a group of 4 fallens were encountered by them. When these 4 fallen sense them the fallens immediately launch theirselves toward them. These actions of them was akin to suicide!
King was the first one to attack "[Innate Skill: Absorb!]" King's hand transformed into a root that strike towards the fallen's chest while the unlucky fallen withered and transformed into a pile of ash
"[Magic Skill: Magic Bullet!]" A bullet size light green light formed in the palm of Calter which he threw towards the other fallen. The bullet pierced through the fallen's head and it fell down on the ground
Cesar on the other hand bit his thumb and use the blood to draw a binding rune that successfully hit the fallen as it didn't even tried to dogde. Vines wrapped on the fallen's body, seizing this moment Cesar activated his [Innate Skill: Absorb] and his root arm struck the fallen causing it to wither too and become just a pile of ash
While in Kence's hand a leaf appeared that immediately glowed [Innate Skill: Leaf Strike] since he is a tree that has leaves, this Magic Leaf Manipulation Skill become one of his Innate Skills. The leaf flew towards the last fallen and as easy as knife cutting the butter it pierced into the fallen's head while he use his [Absorb] to absorb the fallen
Normal fallens were really not a much for their team and it at least gave them some confidence
They continued their hunt and their team slowly become more stronger
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The three meter fallen with a bulging stomach was now inside a cave, normal fallens were commanded by him to carry him to somewhere safe. This fallen's eyes actually has a tint of intelligence on it!
Soon, the fallen's body twitched in pain as an egg as big as a kid came out from its bulging stomach. After the egg came out, the fallen's stomach closed up while a normal fallen handed a human's head to it which it immediately eaten to regain energy
Another fallen get the egg and placed it besided the other eggs. If one look at the cave, they would be shock to see thousands of human size egg on it!
One of the eggs cracked as the creature inside it was trying its best to come out of the shell. From the egg emerge a fallen almost a meter in height, one adult fallen gave it a human's hand which it instantly took and ate. As if a magic, the almost a meter fallen's height immediately grown to be the same as the adult fallen. This fallen add up to the more than a thousand of adult fallens in the cave!
The three meter fallen was one of the Mother Fallens! The kind of fallen that whether it be goverment, self-proclaimed rulers and normal people will wish to die!
It does not have much of an attack power, actually because of its body size it cannot even stand on its own however the fallen's ability to control other fallens and birth one was a nightmare for humans!
This is the true face of the Phase 2 of apocalypse that no one has known yet
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Kence's party wiped out the surrounding Fallens and they also catched a mutated boar on the way to eat. Any one on their team does not actually need to eat, just like a tree they can use [Photosynthesis] to survive but since they were all former normals humans they miss the feeling of eating something
This mutated boar was one of the animals that survived the sudden influx of energy and did not become a fallen. It's strength was a few times stronger than a normal one. Even it's skin was hard to pierce using a common knife
However, thanks to Cesar binding it they managed to take down this boar without any injury
They roasted the boar without any condiments but with them not eating anything for quite some time a meat is meat! It taste better than anything they ate before
The atmosphere with them was so peaceful that it will make someone wonder if they are really in an apocalypse
After eating they decided to go to other areas and hunt down some 'experience'
Unfortunately for them, instead of encountering a normal fallen they actually found a swarm of fallen bees!
Normal fallen animals are not scary but swarm type one was a nightmare!
They tried to run to get away from these fallen animals but even with boosted physical strength the speed of the bee's flying was only a little bit slower than them
What's another fearful thing is that these bees are as large as a human head!
Just imagine a human head size bee swarm! Their stingers are large enough to poke a decent size hole in your body
"Fuck these bees! If they want to die then let them get what they want" Kence was angry at how these bees thinks that they are some small fry!
Although the bees numbered around a hundred but with him being able to control, a few tens of leaves at once they don't need to fear these bees much. These bees aside from their number does not have much of an attack power, they can only attack by using their stinger
It's just that doing so will consume a lot of energy and injuries are possible. What's more is that they worry that some unwanted variable will come that will endanger their lives
"[Innate Skill: Leaf Barrage!]" Around Kence emerge a few tens of glowing leaves "Die!!" With a shout the leaves strike towards the bees, those who were pierce immediately died while some managed to avoid it
As if provoked the bees flew to Kence who immediately cursed at how their focus turned to him. Without a choice he can only use his leaves again to defend and kill the bees swarming him
The others tried to lessen the pressure on Kence and use their skills to kill more bees
However, King can only absorb the bees that was pierced by the tip of his root, while the root's body did not do much damage
Calter on the other hand can only kill two bees at the same time using his [Magic Skill: Twin Bullet] and it take some time to control his energy to form bullets
While Cesar can only bind one bee at a time with his Rune Magic, the process of drawing Runes took even more time than how Calter can make Magic Bullets
Kence was in a dangerous position now, if the bees attack all of them at the same time he won't be in this situation sadly he was the first one who attacked and the bees seeing that the others can only kill a few at the same time decided to focus on him
If he can use Leaf Barrage simultaneously this would actually end quickly however even more time than drawing Runes was needed for him to do it as it's like using tens of skill at the same time!
A bee managed to get close to Kence and was about to use it stinger to poke hole on him, fortunately he managed to react on time and he used his arm to block the attack. He transformed his arm into a small tree trunk that the bee was able to pierce to and it broke in half!
Fortunately, the pierced trunk regenerated. If its his actual arm that was hit it was hard to say if he will have his arm intact!
"Fucking bee! That was close" another leaf appeared around him that quickly pierced through the hateful bee that almost turned him into a cripple
Due to their constant killing only half of the hundred bees remain but as if they do not care about theirselves these bees continued to throw away their lives
Everyone was feeling tired now as their energy was constantly being used up, even Calter's head was beginning to be a bit dizzy as he used his [Photosynthesis] skill to quickly absorb the surrounding energy but these spend a lot of mind power!
Although Kence still has a lot of energy on him but physical and mental tiredness was another thing!
All these bees only attacked him and he cannot make a mistake even once as it might possibly cost him his life
Without energy the three's kiling speed drastically decrease as they can only use their body to kill increasing the pressure on Kence
Suddenly, King thought of something
Although King's energy was being replenished when he absorbed the bees but the rate of exhaustion was higher than the rate of absorption this made his energy close to zero!
King closed his eyes and imagined that a few roots were growing on his root arms, he felt his remaining energy flowing to the sides of his root as new roots were formed. This filled him with ecstasy
Now, with the addition of more roots that can absorb more bees his rate of absorption was now a bit more than the rate of exhaustion
What King does not know is that his discovery of this skill will earned him the title "King of the Battlefield"