"Vali, I want you to cut down the trees that are around that tree over there, I want the trunks to be thrown away, but remember not to go near the tree I don't want it to find out that we are a threat to it."
Vali started cutting down the trees as I instructed and I stayed focused on the mana and elemental energy of the tree that I believe is the guardian of this location, this is the first time I have faced this type of enemy. I've read before that some plants can be deadly and dangerous, but plants that can behave like magical beasts or monsters are very rare and a big sign of trouble they are tricky to destroy and usually don't profit after destroying them because it stops killing this thing is necessary to damage the parts that are valuable.
I really have no idea how the examiners planted a tree I show like this one. And I don't even intend to try to profit from this tree, it's very dangerous to try to do that as it has the element of life inside its body, I wouldn't be surprised that to defeat the tree we would have to destroy every piece of the tree and its attacks can be dangerous because of the life element. Few living beings can use the element of life directly in an attack, if this tree can do that it is much more dangerous than the snake we faced before.
Vali has carefully removed several trees without alerting the monster tree, but this tree is smarter than I expected its mana and elemental energy is moving much more intensely than before. She is behaving like a predator; the moment Vali makes a move against her or approaches her the tree should attack him with all its strength.
"Amael, I want you to create a circle of lava around her, we are going to attack fire on her and Vali must use her wind magic to stop the flames that I and Amael are going to create. Don't let the flames spread throughout the forest."
While Amael created the lava circle I used my sword to cut the trees Vali had removed earlier into smaller pieces, I set them on fire and waited for the right moment to use them against the tree that is surrounded by lava. Sensing the threat that formed around her, several wooden tentacles came out of the tree and its trunk began to split, the roots of the tree began to come out of the ground, it seems that it will go on the offensive.
"Fire!"
With Vali's help we hurled a large amount of burning wood against the living tree that was rising from the ground, the lava began to devour the soil around the tree, Amael had already spent half his mana he created a very deep pool of lava.
When the tree finished entering combat mode it was almost five meters tall and six meters wide, this is a damn violent and dangerous tree. The more than two dozen wooden tentacles protruding from her body and her leaves appear to be blades, but unfortunately, she took a long time to lift herself off the ground.
The first layer of wood in your glass is almost completely on fire and its roots are sinking into the lava, a distorted roar comes out of the tree trunk, a wind barrier that started exactly in the linear of the lava lake blocked a shower of murderous leaves, the tree threw with its big spleens several waves of leaves that must be as sharp as my sword and that was draining Vali's mana, it won't heat much more waves of sharp leaves.
But all this movement of the tree ended up destroying the thin layer of ground he still had, now it's sinking into the lava lake that Amael created, it didn't take long for the roots of the tree legs to completely sink into lava. If it weren't for the life element trying to heal the tree's body it would have already turned into a lump of giant coal.
I released several aura blades with my elements, I switched between wind and fire. My blows accelerated the fire that covered the body of the maddened tree, the countless tentacles that would have been a nightmare to face had turned to ash from the fire and its leaves ended up for Vali's good, the last wave of burning leaves almost broke the wind dome he created to insulate the heat of the lava.
With one last thrust in the form of a wave of lava the charred tree dove completely into the lava, Amael started to stop using his mana and elemental energy because he thought the tree was dead but he was wrong with my eyes I can see it you still have a lot of life element energy to sustain your body,
"Don't stop! She's still alive!"
With my warning the lava that was starting to lose its temperature was reactivated and the temperature of the lava lake began to rise, inside it the carbonized tree still resisted its life element gave this tree an incredible regenerative capacity, its bark is dead, but inside her to a considerable amount of mana and food energy that shows she is very much alive.
I think I will have to make a direct attack because the lava was not managing to penetrate the charred body. I fired my aura blades at the trunk rupturing the dead tree and hurting the interior alive, I started to break it into smaller pieces that are burning, but I think I overestimated a little the tree it may be 'alive' but it is without power to attack us or to come back to life alone.
Giving Amael a signal, the lava lake turned into a handful of hot dark earth, I walked over to one of the pieces of wood that had just broken off the main body of the tree and it just went dormant, the elemental energy still very active arrow, but her mana has already started to disappear showing that the tree is dead and what was left was a precious ingredient or unique asset.
I didn't think we'd get even a valuable resource, but these pieces of wood charred with the element of life must be worth several points. I even had a stupid idea to try to plant one of them to see what would happen, will the element of life sprout a seed from a tree that can grow and develop its own consciousness? Or that piece of wood would just give birth to a simple weed or moss that would be using this burned wood as a food source.
We got several pieces of burnt wood that must weigh around eighty-five kilos, that's a lot of burnt wood and energy from the element of life. I thought it was a big nightmare to win something of that kind of enemy, but now I think I stumbled by luck on a good way to profit from that kind of enemy.
These pieces of wood are very useful to isolate the energy of the life element, I spent a lot of time looking at one of them to see if the elemental energy would decrease, but only at a leak it is tiny because I couldn't see it with my eyes.
After jamming the second magic tool into position and having Amael bury it in the black ground that spread out over several meters, that patch of forest turned into a huge black circle.
Anyone passing by can see that there is an intense battle here, so we decided to set up our camp right here. There's not even an animal or beast around here and I have to give the mages some time anyway to regain their mana and elemental energy.
After spending the night here, we head straight to camp to dispose of our loot before embarking on a full day trip to the third location on the map.
During the night I had plenty of time to get to know my teammates better, I already knew Amael well as we spent several days together during the last test, but Vali I only had a short time to get to know him.
While recovering our energies I cooked the flesh of a snake that had the attribute of life and in the flames, I attacked a small piece of wood that contained the element of life. I wanted to see how a fire with an injection of the life element would behave, the wood broken into pieces less released the life element in the flesh that already had the life element and nothing changed.
What a waste, but we still had a good meal that contains the element of life, the meat of this level two magic vera will only last a few days, but it's enough to help a little in strengthening our bodies, especially from Vali and Amael who it depends on external resources to strengthen your body, their mana is not useful to strengthen your body and physical exercises can only help to strengthen the body to a basic limit after it is just ingesting the life element regularly.
After facing two guardians I realized that neither one of them should be a level two being, but that's not the problem we were lucky that our abilities were precisely capable of attacking the weaknesses of the two guardians we killed but it could mean that we can be very unlucky against the other six guardians.