"Aaaarrrggghhh!"
The witch laid on the ground and clutched the stump of her broken arm, while Ery stood with the tip of his bloodied sword aid at her.
"Aaarrrggghhhh! My arm! My armmm! How dare you! Aaaaarrggghhhh!"
The witch scread in pain, while Ery approached her as she tried to crawl and search for her missing arm.
"My arm… My arm…"
Ery stopped right in between her and the bleeding hand and stepped on the bloody edge for good asure.
"You have lost, Maeve!"
Maeve raised her head towards Ery with an expression full of agony. "Yes… You win, you win… Please, please.. just give my arm back."
The wicked witch, who laughed at his suffering and killed villages in the guise of plague has now turned into a different person in the face of death.
Ery glanced at the severed hand beneath his feet. For a second, he did consider grabbing the arm, but he suddenly realized it couldn't be that easy. He quickly alard, turned around right as three shadow blades ford on top of the witch and flew towards him.
Ery instantly cast [Blink] and reappeared a few ters away from her.
"Hahahaha! You are still that na?ve boy, after all! You should have landed your finishing blow right after that… Such strength, yet without the brain to match!"
Ery glared at the woman in annoyance, but indeed, the witch was really cunning. Her pained expression was quite the top-class act. If only he knew, he would have asked that woman to teach him her acting skills instead of alchemy.
Maeve stood up, grabbed her severed arm and reattached it by converting the stump into roots before letting the root absorb the arm before disappearing. The arm was now in place and she gave it a few experintal moves.
It seed the spell she used to reattach the arm was similar to the spell the Lady of The Lake used to form Ery's arm.
"Damn, she really is hard to deal with…"
"Aaarrrggghhh! That cost a lot of energy. You! Take so responsibility and give yours! Your wonderful, powerful energy… I have been dreaming about it for months! What was it, Ery? Tell your secret, now!"
"If you die, maybe you'll dream of that." Ery gripped his sword tight and took his stance,
Maeve slowly knelt on the ground and used both of her hands to touch the ground.
"Look, look at this, Ery! The result of the power I took from you… It was exquisite!"
A torrent of roots erged from the ground and spread slowly towards a nearby tree. Right as the roots touched it, the tree started to crack, wither and raised itself from the ground, changing into so kind of life-form. The roots of the tree started to bind together, forming an appendage similar to legs.
It is a [Tree Golem] spell, but it looked a bit different. The bark's color started brown, before it faded as it stepped out of the ground, red veins started to form on its surface, while the bark darkened into a deep, rich black brimming with power.
"This is… Could this be… A combined spell!" Ery thought and his suspicion was instantly proven right when the roots of the tree attacked him, almost catching him off-guard.
Clank!
"Dammit, if only I stopped her sooner!"
Ery placed his dagger into his spatial space and used his free hand to cast [Shadow Roots]
The tree golem stopped moving instantly, bound with the void-colored roots from Ery's spell.
"Amazing! Your [Entangled] spell looks very special. Let see the extent of your power!"
Once more, Maeve touched the ground and let the dark roots spread, creating half a dozen more identical tree golems.
This ti, when the trees transford, Ery could feel the distinct jolts of spirit energy in the air, along with the small tremors and loud cracking sounds filling the air as the plants started to erge from the ground.
This was such a display of strong spirit force. Ery couldn't help but worry if their power difference was too far apart
[Shadow Root]
Ery concentrated on his power and tried to pull out the maximum power allowed by the restriction spell. Six giant, dark-colored roots erged from the ground and all strangled the wood golems. Now, they struggled, trying to break the root binding their neck with branches that seem to function similarly to arms.
At first, their attempts were t with failure, but in only less than a minute, the golems were able to overpower the roots, causing them all to crack and split apart into dust.
Clank!
Ery used his sword to parry the multiple incoming attacks coming from the wood golems. This further convinced him that Maeve really was one level higher than him when it ca to spells.
He had to admit, it was impossible to defeat the witch in a battle of spells. Not right now, while his spirit power was restricted.
The six wood golems started to surround Ery and he quickly cast [Shadow Mist] before casting [Blink] to hide in the shadows of the forest. The witch's expression turned wary and she looked left and right searching for him.
"You can't hide from !" She shouted.
As if to prove herself, she quickly detected the real Ery from amongst the shadow clones and she started to gather shadows in her hand, forming a blade before flicking it in his direction.
In response, Ery quickly used [Blink] and reappeared near her.
But this ti she was ready. She touched one of the tree golems nearest to her, and all of a sudden, she reappeared on top of the largest wood golem.
Although she was smiling all the while, Ery still could sense her montary worry through his spirit reading. The witch looked down, perched atop the highest branches of the golem and shouted at him.
"You are dangerous, indeed!"
Maeve gripped the wooden golem tight, creating black roots all around her as a shield to stop Ery's sudden attack.
"Try to co near now, if you dare!' The woman taunted.
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