The Red Crystal Kingdom
Against the Tree Man (1)

From a distance, Sara and Arika can see Uzan facing two opponents, Dubal facing two opponents, and Edgar also facing two opponents.

The three men broke away to divide the enemy's attention.

While fighting with his sword, Uzan also noticed the attack pattern of the Tree Man he was facing.

The creature's first pattern is to extend their root hand, then sweep it to the opponent. Second, they tried several times to grip their opponents with their roots. Third, they thicken the root hand, then launch it like a fist. They also tapered their heads several times and attacked opponents.

Uzan managed to cut off their root hand many – times with his sword, but the Tree Man's hand grew back.

While fighting, the slash of Dubal's axe hit the middle body of one Tree Man he was facing. The creature immediately split in two and did not rise again. “Enough easy,” he grinned while slashing his axe to another target.

“One fall, stay five,” murmur Uzan. After seeing his partner successfully take down one enemy, the prince became even more confident. His own sword slash was fended off by the Tree Man he was facing.

The prince jumped back, facing the two Tree Man. “Means its weakness is the main body part.”

One of the Tree Man in front of Uzan cursed, “Do not think that the lucky slash will repeat itself! You should know that we are immune to sharp weapons due to protection Sentafal.”

“Oh, yes?” uzan. “You should have said that before the fight! Once one is split, then we are sure that all of you will be uprooted.”

The two Tree Man in front of Uzan held hands. Quickly, their bodies merge into one.”

“Unliv, a single tree man cannot face you,” the combined tree man grows four hands and is twice as large. “Duliv is the answer.”

Duliv pointed his root hand towards Uzan. The roots spread quickly towards him, but Uzan managed to dodge by running zig – zag towards the creature. While jumping towards Duliv, the prince exclaimed, “Whatever your form, you will fall.”

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“I should have brought a sword,” said Edgar with a languid face. He had several times thrown spears at the two Unliv who faced him, but they could still move and had more energy. “My spearmanship has no effect on them.”

The warrior was successfully cornered by the Two Unliv in the direction where Sara and Arika stood, causing the cleric and the witch to be more vigilant.

“Why do they look more aggressive against Edgar than Dubal and Uzan?” Sarah asked Arika.

“Um..” Arika begins to notice the two Unlivs that Edgar is facing. “Perhaps because they already knew that Edgar's weapon and Trez's attack had not been so influential to them that it made them more confident to carry out more attacks.”

Arika pressed her wand towards the Unliv facing Edgar. A ball of greenish wind formed in front of him and immediately shot towards the tree man until he bounced and fell. He stood back up, extended his root hand, and swept it toward the witch.

Before Sara and Arika were hit, Edgar hit the treeman with his horse, causing his attack to miss. Edgar will make sure that the tree-man does not approach Sara and Arika with a physical attack.

Sara had already lit her palm since the beginning of the fight. While watching the fight, he focused his healing magic on his four friends. Although Dubal could have toppled one Unliv, but he still seemed difficult to fight another. But he was not worried about Dubal. The cleric focused his healing magic on Uzan, Arika, and Dubal.

After a long time of facing Edgar and feeling saturated, the two Unliv who faced Edgar merged into one to form Duliv. Edgar, Arika, and Sara noticed the creature.

“Moreoverall they both do?” edgar said while looking at Duliv who had a larger size and four-armed.

They both merged into Duliv, a combination of two tree men,” said Arika. “Two Unliv to Duliv.”

They just add size and have four hands, right?”

Arika shakes. “They also nullified the weakness of Unliv.”

Sara's forehead shriveling. “Does that mean their body parts can't be slashed?”

Arika nodded with worry. “Still can, but much more difficult.”

From your words before the fight against them, you assured us that this would be easy” Edgar said. “I'm starting to doubt you.”

Edgar, Arika, and Sara were stunned to see Duliv raising his four palms. Bronze light shimmered in his wood eyes. After that, a wooden ball appeared and floated – kites in front of the tree man. Quickly, the wooden ball shot and struck Edgar and Trez until the soldier bounced with his horse.

“Edgar!” exciting Arika. The witch returned to the – ball of wind with her magic wand. Duliv was pushed back several times. Arika emphasized her magic until the ball of wind she formed thickened. Then, he slid it towards Duliv until the creature bounced away. Duliv roared loudly. Then, he started walking quickly towards Sara and Arika.

After doing that magic, Arika started to fall.

“You're okay – what, Arika?” ask Sara.

“Not what –, Sara,” says Arika. He began to recover thanks to Sara's magic.

Unbeknownst to him, Edgar and Trez had already stood back beside Arika and Sara.

“Edgar,” says Arika. “You're okay – what?”

“Sara has healed me and Trez,” said Edgar. “Quiet only.”

Duliv was already approaching towards Arika and the others. The roar of – his roar is getting heard.

“You just made that big creature bounce off a long way, right?” said Edgar. “You can do it again, Arika.”

Arika frowned. “He did seem to bounce off, but actually the effect of my magic just now wasn't so great on him.”

Edgar was upset. “Means magical creatures will not be hurt by magic attacks, huh?”

“That's right,” says Arika.

“Then, how do we beat him?” ask Sara.

Sara's question went unanswered as Duliv extended his two right arms, sweeping them towards the cleric and his two companions.

Edgar, Arika, and Sara. bounced to the side. The light in Sara's palm dimmed. The three of them were difficult to stand because of the hard hit of the creature.

“Egh!” said Edgar. He saw Sara and Arika who were plunged not far from where she is today. Arika started crawling and took her magic wand back. Sara also slowly started to stand up.

Duliv laughed out loud – bahak while yanking – stomp his feet. “How will you fight against me if you talk so much?”

Edgar approached Sara and Arika. They both looked in pain. How not, the hardness of one hit Duliv was like being hit by a banyan tree. They are not fighting humans, but magical creatures. He also could not imagine how strong Sentafal he would face.

“You're okay – what?” Edgar asked Sara and Arika.

Sara nodded. “Luckily the Duliv we are facing is not attacking us blindly.”

The cleric girl looked at Dubal who was fighting against Unliv while turning his axe. The creature Dubal faced felt more agile. Uzan is also fighting against Duliv, the same creature he is facing with Edgar and Arika at the moment. The prince seemed to dodge more than attack the creature. Somehow he could deal with it if one strike could make him, Edgar, and Arika fall bouncing like this.

Edgar, Sara, and Arika stood close together. Duliv who was standing before them was still laughing out loud.

“I guess that he was very bragging and felt that he had a chance to beat us anytime,” Arika said.

Even Uzan and Dubal themselves seem to have trouble fighting magical creatures like this,” said Edgar. He clasped his spear. “Add again, this spear is also of no use.”

“I have one power that can help defeat this creature, Edgar,” said Arika. “It can be used to crush him in one attack.”

“What power is it?” ask Sara.

Arika swung her magic wand. “This power can only be used by combining the power of the three of us.”