Ch.37Full-Scale War (2)

-Ding!

-After grueling training, you have overcome the effect of the trait [Sloth]. The trait [Sloth] has been deleted and changed to the trait [Tenacity].

A murky silver sphere emerged from my body with a crackling sound, then began to crack.

Crash—

Golden light burst forth from the cracks, and as the murky silver sphere shattered, a golden sphere revealed its brilliant form.

The golden sphere scattered bright golden light as it circled around me, then entered my chest and disappeared.

Watching this filled me with emotion. My first battle with another participant, and the trait Sloth that I gained from that first confrontation.

When I first saw the trait name, I thought it was terrible, absolute garbage—and it truly was garbage.

When I first received Sloth, I would fall asleep whenever I tried to train, and even when I endured it, my training efficiency was terrible.

Honestly, I considered giving up training, but to survive in this hellish place, I needed to become stronger, so I gritted my teeth and continued training.

Then one day, when I checked my status window, I noticed the Sloth trait had weakened. Seeing that text, I trained even harder, and the results continued until now.

Finally, I had shed Sloth and gained a new trait called Tenacity.

『 Race: Minotauros

Status: Healthy

Abilities: Strength – S

Agility – A

Endurance – A

Intelligence – B

Wisdom – B

Unique Trait: Predator Ratel

Traits: Demonic Beast Senses

Elements[Thunder]

Monstrous Strength

Indomitable

Basic Elements Control

Magic Resistance (Small)

Rage (Sealed) ⇦ New!!

World Tree’s Blessing ⇦ New!!

Tenacity ⇦ New!!』

When I opened my status window after a long time, I found another trait I hadn’t seen before. The World Tree’s Blessing trait, Tenacity, and the sealed Rage.

The World Tree’s Blessing was probably caused by the green wave that emanated from the World Tree, which was also the cause of Mary’s growth. I tried to check this trait first…

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【World Tree’s Blessing】: The World Tree, which is both the Mother Tree and the god of elves that supports the world, can be considered a god that remains in the present world. When you are in the forest, your body becomes lighter, your natural healing ability increases, and you become familiar with the forces of nature.

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I was surprised by this simple yet incredibly powerful trait. Although it’s limited to forests, it makes my body lighter, increases healing power, and makes me familiar with natural forces.

With such a powerful trait in one package, I could understand why elves were so strong in the forest. Next, I checked Tenacity…

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【Tenacity】: You can accomplish anything to the end. You will not tire easily and will gain strong mental fortitude.

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A simple effect that enhances endurance and strengthens mental power. I finally obtained the ability I needed most, as I tend to lose my reason due to rage.

And then there was the sealed Rage. When I was training, Lady Lassis gave me a leaf from the World Tree, and the system window responded. It told me to select a trait to seal.

Thinking that even the World Tree, being a god, could interfere with the system, I chose to seal Rage.

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【Rage (Sealed)】: Currently sealed. Your body size can decrease and increase, but your strength remains the same.

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Rage, my secret weapon that had always turned the tide of battle, a skill I used by putting my life on the line. Seeing it sealed left me with mixed feelings, but thinking of it as an investment in the future, I departed with Mary to join the Elven Knights.

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“Hahaha! Didn’t someone tell me that you shouldn’t disturb elves when they’re praying to their god?! Seeing that you still haven’t subdued me after a whole month, I guess it doesn’t matter if I disturb you!”

A man wrapped in iron chains was cornering an elf with green hair.

After a month of fighting, the once beautiful face of the elf was covered in wounds, and many of the chains that had covered the battle maniac’s body were now gone.

“Ha! For someone saying that, you don’t have many chains left either. They’re missing in so many places. And the fact that you intruders invaded our forest and took the seal has already been reported to the Council of Elders.”

“That’s none of my business! Let’s fight more, pointy-ear!!”

As the elf gradually retreated while talking, the battle maniac abandoned his distance advantage and approached the elf.

How much time had he wasted because of this guy over the past month! Thinking that if he let him escape again, he wouldn’t be able to advance any further from here, he moved forward.

Even if he had to sacrifice part of his body, he was determined to bury this guy’s bones here.

“Endless Chain Rush!”

He sent all the chains he could use flying toward the green-haired elf.

Clank-clank-clank!!!

The chains, wrapped in black mana, each moved differently, like snakes.

Two moved in straight lines, while the remaining eight chains attacked from all directions to block the elf’s escape routes.

Although the elf had been calmly blocking the battle maniac’s attacks, there were too many this time.

Initially, he blocked them well, but gradually the chains targeted his blind spots, and the scratches on his body began to increase.

He managed to cut through a couple of chains wrapped in black mana, but there were still many left.

Under the continuous assault, he gradually began to falter, and eventually showed an opening where the chain pierced through his sword hand, inflicting a critical wound.

“Ugh—!!”

Starting with that, six of the seven remaining chains pierced through his hands, feet, and abdomen, lifting the elf into the air as if crucified.

“Hahaha! Well, you did pretty well against me. Yes! Of course, the primitive pointy-ear couldn’t overcome my skills and ultimately met his end.”

The last remaining chain was slowly, very slowly approaching the elf’s forehead, and as the battle maniac watched with amusement, the green-haired elf, Elkan, spoke.

“Cough, hack. Ha- stupid and dull human.”

“Says the amazing elf who was defeated by this stupid and dull human. What, do you want to leave some last words? I’m in a good mood, so go ahead and speak.”

Cough— Cough—

Although Elkan was in bad shape with his body pierced all over, he endured the pain and managed to convey his message.

“Lady Lassis is enraged. All of you will bury your bones here today. Don’t think about escaping the forest.”

“Ha-! Is Lassis the name of your leader? Don’t worry. I’ll send him to join you too.”

With those words, as if to end it, the battle maniac was about to drive the last remaining chain into the elf’s forehead when.

BOOM—!! CRACK—! RUMBLE—!! BOOOM—!!!

Something, the sound of something huge running through the forest, could be heard.

Whatever massive entity was running toward where the battle maniac and Elkan were fighting, the sound grew increasingly louder.

Hearing this, the battle maniac hurriedly pierced Elkan’s head and threw the corpse to the ground. He tried to find his target and return before the next opponent arrived, but…

The entity was already near the battle maniac, as even clearer sounds of destruction began to be heard.

BOOM—!!! BOOM—!!! BOOM—!!!

Footsteps of unknown origin at regular intervals.

Judging that retrieving the target would be difficult, the battle maniac began to wrap his chains with mana again in preparation for the coming battle.

He held two of the chains wrapped in swirling black mana in his hands, and wrapped the remaining six chains around his body to strengthen his defense, completing his preparations to face whatever was coming.

But… the footsteps that had been heard just moments ago seemed to have been an auditory hallucination, as no more sounds could be heard.

It had clearly been the footsteps of something huge running toward him, yet how could they disappear so suddenly? As he was thinking this,

A shadow began to grow where the battle maniac was standing. The shadow gradually increased in size, and he hurriedly threw his chains.

By wrapping his chains around a tree and launching himself, he was barely able to preserve his life.

BOOOOOM——!!!!!

Could an 8th circle earth magic, Earthquake, be like this?

The massive entity that fell from the sky overturned the ground, and the earth, unable to withstand the impact, cracked open as rocks jutted out.

Even trees far away shook violently from the powerful impact that overturned the earth, and he had no choice but to move like Tarzan, climbing from tree to tree to survive this hell.

Eventually, the impact that had overturned the earth subsided, and the revealed scene was devastating.

Simply from something falling from the sky, the surrounding giant trees had been uprooted.

Even trees that were far from the epicenter were damaged, with some exposing their roots, and the ground where these trees had been planted was cracked all over.

To identify the entity that had created this scene, he enhanced his eyesight by wrapping mana around his eyes, and what came into view was.

A dark red-furred Minotauros.

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As I rushed toward the place where the battle continued, I could see in the distance the sight of chains and a sword clashing.

But the one holding the sword had been defeated, with chains piercing his entire body… the moment I confirmed it was an elf, I increased my speed and moved to the battle site.

Although the elf was a stranger to me, many elves had shown me kindness during the month I had spent here, so I wanted to repay their goodwill by trying to save him.

“Moo, mmmoooo (Mary, I’m going to jump, so wait here.)”

“Okay! Tell me if you get hurt! I can heal you from a distance now!”

Nodding at her words, I put strength into my legs and leaped into the sky.

BOOM——!!!! CRACK———!!

The ground cracked, unable to withstand my leg strength, and with tremendous power, I was able to reach the very top of a giant tree.

The scene I witnessed from there was that the elf had been pierced by chains and met his death.

Enraged by this, I applied force once more to the tree that was screaming under my weight.

The top part of the tree broke with a cracking sound, and I was able to move to where I wanted to go.

Upon reaching the ground, I used lightning like a whip to lift the corpse onto my hand, then landed on the ground.

BOOM———!!!!

As a result, the ground was completely shattered due to my speed and weight.

The earth was cracked all over as if an earthquake had occurred, and the surrounding trees had been uprooted and fallen.

Thinking that the one who killed the elf in my hand might also be dead from this impact, I looked around.

Clank-clank-clank——!!

With the sound of chains clashing, something flew toward my face. I grabbed the chain and yanked it hard.

“Ugh…!”

I could see a man wrapped in chains being dragged from far away.

He seemed to be resisting my strength, but the difference in power was overwhelming, so even though he planted his legs into the ground, he was just being dragged along.

Eventually, he let go of the chain and tried to escape.

RUMBLE—!

Seeing this, I wrapped lightning around my legs and approached him.

With a sound like thunder rumbling, I instantly moved above his head and swung my lightning-wrapped fist.

BOOM——!!!

The already damaged ground was disturbed once more, and the lightning wrapped around my arm flowed through the ground.

But the chain man had already left the spot where I had swung my fist, as there was no red trace on the ground where my fist had landed.

As I was sniffing around to track his scent, I sensed a smell from behind me, turned around, and swept my arm toward the ground…

“Urrrgh——!!!”

The chain man was there. He tried to block my fist by taking out all the chains wrapped around his body, but… my fist ignored his minor resistance and sent him flying.

CRASH——!!!

“Aaaaargh——!!!!”

The chain man was slammed into a tree without being able to put up a proper fight.

I wasn’t even using one arm as it was holding the corpse, yet I easily defeated a human, which showed that Lassis was the unusual one.

Feeling good about this, I approached the chain man to finish him off.

Whoooosh——, BANG——!!!!

Somehow he had regained his senses and fired something from a red cylinder that exploded in the sky.