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Chapter 75 - The Last Stand For All

As the attacks continued, Jake watched in horror as his fellow troops got slaughtered in front of him. He saw J'zorkke the cook, getting his body ripped in half, his 20 arms flailing in fear as life drained out of him. He witnessed Emalin have her scalp ripped of from her skull, still shocked at the abrupt attack. He stood still in horror as the Treants piled bodies on top of each other, setting them ablaze, before dancing around their wretched bonfire, dancing to deities unknown. Jake felt alone, felt fear, felt loss, for they were his colleagues, his friends...

His brothers-in-arms.

Just as he stood frozen, Armandrill suddenly dashed from behind him, lugging a giant excavating laser. "Get... away... from... Armandrill's... FRIENDS!" Despite his limited vocabulary of the common humanoid lexicon, for the very first time, Jake heard clear words being spoken from Armandrill's mouth. He saw as Armandrill charged at the hopeless situation against a trio of Elder Treants, he saw how Armandrill shattered one into tiny pieces, and he saw how Armandrill still fought on despite bleeding from all orifices after the wart filled Leder blasted poisonous fumes into his face.

As Jake witnessed Armandrill's sacrifice, he finally noticed tne others, despite being outsized and outflanked, still persisted on their efforts to lead a valiant resistance. He saw one cyclops, despite having his right arm torn off from the shoulders, picked it back up and started using it as a appear, plunging it straight into tne arms of a spindly Elder Treant. He watched as the remnants of the Civil Corp picked up their hammers, charging right into the heart of the fray, with nothing but courage fueling their endeavour. He witnessed the sacrifices of the task force, who, despite the overwhelming forces against them, still bravely charged into the fight, knowing this might be the last fight of their lives.

Infects with their determination and bravery, Jake roared a harsh war cry, before charging ataright into the battle. Using Prathee Sanrak, he covered part of his arms in the earthen armour, and started punching the Elder Treant closest to him using the moves from Humanistical Codex, who coincidentally happened to be the Redwood, punching through its lower trunk, creating a large mark into it.

Roaring in pain, the Redwood Treant whipped it's arm, one of the largest branches on it, and swung at Jake. Flying up high into the air, pain assaulted Jakenfrom every directions, from the hit and the journey through the air. As he fell down flying, he instinctively drew upon the complete Prathee Sanrak, turning himself into a tiny boulder.

He was safe.

Meanwhile, as soon as the Redwood Leder Treant swung at him, he was immediately assaulted by a very wounded, yet still alive, Armandrill. While crying "You... kill... FRIEND!", he dealt devastating blow upon blow onto the Treant, and with unbelievable luck, shot a rocket powered punch through its trunk, destroying it's heart.

Crying a final death throe, it fell on top of a squad of smaller Elder Treants, trapping them underneath its dead carcass. Just as Jake felt that everything was nearly over, a sudden chill shot through his heart. From behind him, the forest parted ways, splitting into two.

Thump, thump, thump...

A small, very humanoid Treant is seen walking through. As every Elder Treant started noticing it, they all knelt down. Suddenly, every single Elder Treant lifted their heads, greeting:

""We greet the Supreme Eldar!""