There are far to many for me to go in there and wipe them all out with easy. After the rats noticed I had begun to move into the cave they held up behind there walls and began throwing small rocks. It didn't do any real damage but it was somewhat annoying... because there were so many rocks... I slowly began wrapping my roots around all the walls and ceiling on the cavern after closing off the entrance with my roots my main body still being drug back I'll need to prepare the cavern before it gets here or risk endangering my body. After completely surrounding the rats on all sides I began spreading roots into the massive rat city slowly but surely crushing and killing all the rats that were on look out or simply out alone but there were still far to many to kill them all. It would be easy to make it a war of attrition but in that case I might endanger my main body if that was destroyed by the king they may yet stand a chance of winning. I have no choice but to break into it and kill them all. As the battle continues to run on all the vegetation that wasn't me began to die because of the amount of nutrients I steal from the soil they are all starving. Sadly it'll take much long for the city to follow suit at this rate. While the outskirts of the city tend to be easy hunting grounds for me as I come closer to the city center my roots are always instantly attacked from all sides gnawing and biting none stop I have almost no time to fight before my roots have been eaten away.
With each passing day there numbers dwindle more and more and more of the smaller rats rush out of the city in search of food only to die crushed by me. It seems as if they have a hierarchy based around strength in there rationing system. The desperation and starvation of the weak makes me a little sad but there's not much I can do so I continue on. Within a week or two of this it seems as if the city is in chaos I can't quite tell very well but with the roots I've used to cover the ceiling and walls of the cavern I can get a pretty good overhead view of the inner city. They didn't exactly have buildings as much as individual burrows. At the center was a massive trash heap that seemed to be a burrow. I assume that's the burrow the king uses. Many rats are constantly running in and out of there. Before long as there numbers dwindled more and more rats seemed to make the trip to the kings burrow and gather outside blocked by the guard from entering. The rats that were coming and going stopped coming. Everyday more rats came to his burrow. Before long there were thousands of rats gathered all around the massive mound. The guards appeared to be scared... Or anxious... can't tell cause of the distance...
At the end of that day the rats that came didn't sit but marched towards the guards without stopping. What would they do? As I sat and watched it seemed as if the guards were fleeing. They might have been strong but they had been vastly outnumbered... They fled away from the mound of trash and the amassing rats seemed to entirely ignore them as they fled. One guard stood stiffly at the entrance to the mound. It seems that rat is quite determined to protect his king. It was by far the largest rat there was at least twice the size of one of the humans... It doesn't surprise me they didn't bring that guy along to attack me before he wouldn't even fit in the cave. As the masses met with the massive rat it seemed as if it roared and the sound of it filled the entire cavern with such sound it hurt my ears... The ones I don't have... Eh... No time to get caught up on the details... The massive rat quickly took out group after group of rat but with each group he managed to take out he seemed to get slower and get hit a little bit more by coming masses. It's strength was dwindling.
The massive rat struck down at least 200 more rats before it finally fell over. A group of rats immediately rushed in and began biting him relentlessly before he could regain his composure. I assumed that would be how it'd end but almost as soon as they had began biting him the entire mound of rats on top of the massive rat go up in flames. The massive rats body glowed slightly as it stood up once more it's wounds seeming to fade. The king and his wives had come out.
As soon as he had come into view the massive army of rats stopped and stared at there king. Before I knew it the king began tossing fireball after fireball into the crowd killing countless numbers of rats in moments. The massive army turned and fled but before they could flee out of reach the rat king jumped up onto his massive guard and jumped into the air flinging flame to all the exits blocking the escape paths. The army will be forced to stand up against him.
As that went on I moved my roots beneath the burrows and moving myself inside the kings burrow and slowly amassed a number of roots inside his burrow before stretching them out of the burrows entrance. Before they could spot me I had both the white rats and the giant rat entirely wrapped up in my roots and they were being crushed to death. The king to preoccupied with the revolution against him just kept throwing fireball after fireball at his own people killing countless numbers... After finishing off the guards I managed to snag the kings arms while he was distracted and I shattered every bone in them and trapped him while entangling his legs and left him like that alive. Then I watched as his people the ones he once ruled all rushed to end his life. I couldn't see a better end to someone who holds the title of king.
As I watched the rats shred there leader apart I heard a ringing. I looked to Alex who had a huge alert. I began to read turning my attention away from the war before me. *Skills [Sight] [Fruit Mimic] [Magical Regeneration] [Deeply Rooted] [Detect][Photosynthesis] [Poison Creation] and [Physique Strengthen]have reached cap skills [Evolve] and [Soul] upgrade all skills into the inherent skills [Vision][Magic Regen][Magic Water Growth][Fruit Maker][Independent Roots][Radar][Light Eater][Poison Maker][Strengthened] all at the base level.*
*"Guardian Tree"
Status: Purified, rapid growth, Half Uprooted, Somewhat Overwhelmed
Skills: [Level- 35/213][Evolve- 4][Vision- 1][Bright Light- 9][Radar- 1][Regeneration- 63]{Weakest 1/1} [Soul- 113] {evil} [Independent Roots- 1] [Poison Maker- 1] [Fruit Maker- 1] [Magic regen- 1][Magic Water Growth- 1] [Light Eater- 1][Strengthened- 1][Magical Waters- 5]{Magical Starvation Nullified}[Nutrients Sapper- 98][Magical Defense- 7][Disease Resistance- 8]{Limitless Magical Growth- 1/1}
Title: UI Companion - Murderer - Self Reliant - Protector Of Bandits - Selfless - Magical - Pest Exterminator - Revolutionary - Savior*
That's a lot of words... hard to pay much attention to them with the gore filled background.