The six meter tall tree shrinked in size into half and became a 3 meter tree, its aura was continuously increasing as it digested Kence's energy. All of the tree's branches and roots retracted while on each of its side a block of trunk grew and the end of it split into five with pointy ends. They looked exactly like pointy hands or claws
The bottom half of the tree also split into two before five roots once again grew on each of the what looks like a pair of legs. The four was watching in amazement the amazing transformation of the tree but the next thing that happened petrify them
The top of the tree was slowly forming a youthful human like face. The first that formed was the eyes followed by cheeks and nose and then its mouth. Thin tree branches grew on the tree's 'head' before it was filled with leaves and it looked like the hair of the new creature. The tree has the appearance of a child, the opposite of what people think a treant's appearance will be
'A Treant' this was the thought on the four's head at seeing the newly transformed tree. After the tree became a treant Kence's face paled, whether it be his soul or body both of them were overcome with exhaustion and he stumbled
King immediately went to Kence's side to prevent him from falling on the ground. The treant's eyes flashed with a hint of awareness and kneeled on the ground in front of Kence
Seeing this, Kence was satisfied and for him the fatigue he has now was worth it. As Kence used a Knight Rank Energy Pearl as its core the treant's initial strength was also at the early stage of Knight Rank. The pearl can also be considered as its weakness, if someone destroyed it the treant will die immediately
He looked fondly at the treant as this was the first ever lifeform that he technically created. Flora was different as all he did was pour its seed with energy. This creature was made thanks to the combination of Energy Pearl, his energy, his blood, the tree itself and most importantly Kence's 'awareness'
It gained a bit of intelligence because Kence bestowed it with awareness that came from his soul. If if wasn't for his awareness this creature won't be born in this world. The blood on the other hand was there to make the treant loyal to him. The treant treated the owner of the blood that was used to create it as its master
This also created a sort of connection between the treant and Kence. He gave a mental command to the treant ordering it to cultivate. As it has some intelligence and was a complete lifeform, naturally it can cultivate just like humans and other mutated beings
Kence reabsorbed again his tree body and weakly went back to where it was normally positioned and placed it there. He sat on the ground and took one of the Green Crescent Grass and chewed on it. The grass' juice slightly alleviated his soul's fatigue
"Lord, are you okay?" Seeing Kence's weakened state King asked worriedly. "I'm fine, just a bit exhausted. I only need to rest for a while"
Making the treant really took a toll on his body, although it was just in the Knight Rank and he was in the Grand Knight Rank it required all of his strength. Whether it be soul power or energy all of it was drained. It will take a while before he can make another treant
The three on the other hand looked curiously at the creature that Kence made. They poked it all over its body but maybe because Kence ordered it to cultivate the treant didn't react and was just continuing to absorb the energy in the surrounding
Kence can't wait for the time when he finally has an army of treants. If that time comes he won't be afraid towards Harold's army. When he finally have sufficient strength he will make sure that all of his enemies die. First is that Emperor wanna be, followed by Sun and for the grand finale the God's Tech!
Thinking of this the demon's on his heart that calmed down for a long time was threatening to come out again. Kence supressed it and just focused on recuperating
He grab another Green Crescent Grass and chewed it, thankfully the Grass actually taste sweet and it was not disgusting to eat
"By the way, if you want you can go to the Angel's Shop for cultivation resources you can, but for Ivy and Calter please have someone accompany you"
King has powerful fighting skills while Cesar might not be as good as him but who knows how many runes he have? Ivy on the other hand was still a bit weak and the journey will be dangerous for her. As for Calter although he has powerful strength but he was still a child in their hearts
"Master, why can't I go on my own?" Calter asked and pouted. He wants to experience fighting on his own. For him that is a good way to have better fighting skills and become stronger. Although he wield a powerful power but what if he met someone who can wield stronger power than that? He was used to overwhelming his enemies with his power. He doesn't have much of an experience when he fought someone with equal strenght
"Don't be impatient, if you become ten year old I will allow you to go on your own" the kid was already nine years old, he only need another year
"Fine!"
"I will go out later to clean up the fallens outside and inside the forest. Their numbers rise dramatically this past months, I'll see if I can investigate and know the reason"
If the fallens' number continue to rise just where will humans live? If they seized all territories more humans will die. Kence naturally was not a Saint that wants for all the humans to survive and live. It's just that the lesser the human's number become there would be lesser people who will fight the fallens
It was impossible for Kence to kill all the fallens in the planet and if humans become extinct how can he survive?
"Lord, do you want me to go with you?" King asked, it was already some time when he had a good fight but Kence shook his head
"No, I want you to guard my tree body. I will leave it here to cultivate" For them time is gold. They need to seize every moment to become as strong as they can. It was better for the tree body to be in the forest and cultivate as there are more nature type energy in the forest
The four decided to stay in the central part of the forest and ignored for now the corpse in the surrounding. Since Kence will be gone they all want to protect his body. This was the least they can do to repay him. If not for him all of them might already be dead by now
King and Calter will die in the hands of the thug. Cesar might also be killed by the thugs when they got sick on bullying him because he helped King and the Calter before. Ivy on the other hand might die from the hands of the men who wanted to rape her. If she didn't die from their hands she might forgot what her brother wants and kill herself to escape that living hell
All of their lives were directly connected to Kence, their Lord, their Savior.
It was already pass noon when Kence was finally in the condition to fight. Energy exhaustion was easy to treat, he only need to eat his blue fruits. However, Soul fatigue on the other hand was harder to cure. The Green Crescent Grass only provided a small relief and even now his soul was still exhausted but he planned on not going too far from the forest
It was better to work in a small area first before expanding. Kence also stuff his backpack with almost all of the remaining fruits his tree body has. As he gave a lot of it to Cesar yesterday his reserves were still quite low and he need to leave some for his team in case of emergency
Kence roamed around the forest first and 'cleaned' the fallens that entered. As they just finished killing a few hundreds of the fallens yesterday their numbers were still a bit low in the forest
Kence suddenly thought of something. "System do you know why the fallens' number continue to rise?" He asked the Voice of the World as it seems like it was 'all knowing'
*Beep. Checking Host's Cultivation Base and Knowledge
*Beep. Checking done. Criteria not met. Unable to provide information to the Host
The system's mechanical voice echoed on his mind, it was a bit of a surprise that it can tell him the information he wants to know. But it was a disappointment that it his level was not enough to know the truth
Since the system can't spill the tea to him he can only do this the hard way. The hard way was putting himself in danger and investigate it himself
Kence exited the forest, as they didn't kill the fallens outside the forest it was naturally littered with all sorts of fallens. There are the normal, the Nightmare, the tank, the flying, the long range attackers and the beast type fallens
All sorts of fallens pounced on him but he was not afraid in the slightest. "[Innate Skill: Buddha's Palm!]"
Kence's arm immediately turned into multiple wooden palms numbering around ten each. The palms slapped all the fallens on their head, cracking sounds echoed inside the fallens's head as their skull was shattered from the impact
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Anna and Annie was currently strolling around the God's Tech City's farm. As the plants and crops either mutated to have an attack power or mutated to have shorter germination time if a city put a little bit of man power to farming it was easy to feed an entire city's worth of people
With the energy the crops now only required a few days to reach maturity and become ready to harvest. However, this was just normal crops that the only use was to fill one's stomach. Plants that will benefit a Supernatural might even take more time than normal plants before the apocalypse to grow. It all depends on the plant's environment
They have been in the city for two weeks already and they have an easy and princess like life there. As the God's Tech was the leader of the city in the surface but Satan's Hand wielded even more power than God's Tech. They were after all the underground organization and all assassins, fighters and people who researched forbidden things were all under their jurisdiction
With Derry being the head researcher and Sun's guardian plus the fact that he was the top fighter one can imagine just how high Sun's position is. It was easy to pull some strings so that Anna and Annie will have the best treatment
Annie love her life as she doesn't need to always endanger her life now but Anna was different. She was uncomfortable at how good the people in the city treated them. All she wants to do now was join Kence's team. There she was sure that she won't be treated like a princess
In this apocalypse it was better to have a strength of your own, you can't just rely on other people. She saw that on Kence's team everyone contributed, even the kids has powerful cultivation base. She saw that although they gave preferential treatment to the kids but they still let them grow on their own
That was what she wanted, to carve her own place in this apocalypse. If not for the fact that Sun can help them investigate if their parents were able to flee in other cities, she would already convinced Annie to go back to Kence
"Sister why do you have that kind of expression? Are you feeling sick?" Anni asked while plucking one of the fruits in the farm. She ate it and the sweet taste of the unknown fruit assualted her taste bads
"Nothing" looking at Annie who was clearly enjoying herself, Anna doesn't know what to do now