Venerable Joshua had been waiting for a rematch against the purple wooden chs.
The Emperor Tree had invested a lot of care and attention in the production of its elite constructs.
It was rather obvious now that Joshua observed them for a second ti. The Emperor Tree not only produced a lot of new purple chs, but also went back and upgraded the older ones sohow.
"The purple chs are no longer tethered to the main trunk. They have gained much more freedom of movent!"
The older purple wooden chs used to function as direct extensions of the Emperor Tree. The flexible branches attached to their backs constantly channeled a lot of tree sap and wood energy into the elite constructs.
The existence of the tethers used to serve as a major boost but also a strong constraint to the purple chs. Now that the powerful constructs gained the ability to move on an unrestricted basis, the three expert pilots wondered whether they still remained as strong as before.
"It's impossible for the purple wooden chs to remain as tough as before." Joshua claid. "They just can't. All of that power has to co from sowhere. I don't believe the Emperor Tree managed to develop a superpowerful organic power cell that can allow these wooden bastards to regenerate their entire bodies in an instant."
In order to put that to the test, the Everchanger raised his Vitalus rifle and fired a resonance-empowered fire beam at the leading purple wooden ch.
The wooden construct that should have suffered a nasty hit before catching fire actually managed to resist the attack!
"What?! That… that's an energy shield! It's an energy shield composed of wood energy!"
Joshua could feel the wood energy condensing into a strangely functional energy shield just before his expert ch opened fire.
Despite the obvious attribute relationship, the wood energy shield actually managed to do a good job at blocking the attack!
However, the wood energy shield subsequently winked out, indicating that its capacity was not a big deal.
The Everchanger fired another shot with his rifle. The subsequent fire beam finally burned a hole in the purple wooden ch.
The elite wooden construct quickly concentrated a lot of wood energy. The flas quickly died down while the wood already started to regenerate.
"It's regenerating faster than before." Venerable Joshua observed. "However, its energy reserves have dropped by a quarter. It won't be able to keep this up forever."
It would be much easier to take all of these powerful enemies down if that was the case!
The reason why Venerable Joshua and the Everchanger got stalled last ti was because the purple wooden chs regenerated far too quickly. It was impossible to accumulate damage back then as the direct tethers to the powerful Emperor Tree constantly fed them with sap and wood energy!
Now that those conditions did not exist anymore, Venerable Joshua grinned as he looked forward to taking revenge on these resilient but ultimately fallible wooden constructs.
"Let's kick their wooden butts!"
Venerable Joshua eagerly wanted to take revenge on these annoyingly resilient enemies. If they hadn't entangled his expert ch during the last fight, Taon or Lanie might not have been able to survive long enough to get exiled!
"You are the first of many!"
Yet before the Everchanger could finish off his first opponent, a surprising developnt occurred.
The Emperor Tree began to shine the sa bright light onto the purple wooden chs!
The expert pilots beca surprised when they saw that the damaged purple construct recovered at a much faster rate than before!
What was even more remarkable was that it expended way more wood energy than it held in reserve.
"Where is the purple bastard getting its energy from?!" Venerable Joshua demanded. "Wait, is it because of the light?!"
"I think you are correct, Joshua." Dise spoke with a serious expression on her face. "The Emperor Tree has unveiled another trick. I think I know why the purple wooden chs no longer carry tethers around their backs."
The Emperor Tree managed to climb up the tech tree and discovered a way to perform wireless energy transmissions!
Although the calamity plant's attempts to flood the purple wooden ch with more focused streams of wood energy was incredibly wasteful and inefficient, the Emperor Tree could easily afford the consumption!
As the Everchanger continued to launch fire beam after fire beam, the fire energy attached to the resonance-empowered laser beams only made limited progress in burning down the purple wooden ch.
The target was pretty resilient on its own, but now that it was bathed in the light of the Emperor Tree, its regeneration properties had skyrocketed!
The Everchanger's outdated high-end luminar crystal rifle did not have the power to inflict more damage than the purple wooden ch was able to regenerate.
In other words, attacking the purple wooden ch was like trying to attack the Emperor Tree directly. Any damage to the target instantly disappeared just seconds later!
"Isobel, help!"
"On it, Joshua."
The Prothea's Ignitron rifle was not that much newer than the Vitalus rifle, but the differences were still considerable.
The latter was smaller and more compact in order to make it easier to wield with a single arm. Its size limited its power. This was fairly common to the hero ch archetype.
The forr was the primary and pretty much the only armant of the Prothea, so it had to be strong enough to carry an entire battle if necessary. It was larger, more powerful and more feature-rich than ordinary energy rifles.
When utilized by an expert ch specialized for ranged combat, the Ignitron rifle was able to output a lot more firepower by herself.
However, what truly made the Ignitron shine was when it was used by its intended pilot!
As a high-tier expert pilot, Venerable Isobel was able to generate strong enough true resonance to massively empower the purple fire beams!
While the energy beams fired by the Everchanger resembled thick needles that were controlled and contained, the energy beams fired by the Prothea appeared like thick fiery purple glowing rods!
The rods only existed for an instant, but as soon as they struck their targets, mayhem ensued!
The low-capacity but high-recovery wood energy shield collapsed in an instant.
No, collapse was not the right word to describe what had happened.
The energy shield actually burst into flas!
The wood energy that protected the target couldn't withstand the powerful heat and caught fire as if it was nothing but tinder!
Upon striking the exterior of the ch itself, the purple wooden ch demonstrated the resilience of its reinforced wooden fra by not instantly getting cored or vaporized.
However, the Prothea's single shot was so powerful that half of the torso was already destroyed!
This was not the extent of the Prothea's lethality. As every Larkinson knew, Venerable Isobel inflicted the most damage after she had fired her shot.
The flas transferred by the energy beam did not get doused by the abundance of wood energy that tried to stifle the danger.
Instead of making the situation better for the purple wooden ch, the huge infusion of wood energy instead made everything worse!
Under normal circumstances, it should have taken a bit more ti for the purple flas to take root and spread throughout the entire wooden construct.
Yet now that the Emperor Tree had been generous enough to donate a lot of intangible 'tinder'. The resonance-empowered flas eagerly devoured all of the extraordinary propellant and surrounded the purple wooden ch in a blazing bonfire!
The wooden construct released a strange noise that must have been its death cry before collapsing into ash.
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"..."
The entire demonstration of might rendered Venerable Dise and Venerable Joshua speechless.
Neither the First Sword nor the Everchanger could deal with these infinitely regenerating wooden constructs with the sa degree of ease.
Whereas either expert ch needed to launch repeated attacks in the hopes of reluctantly overcoming their target's insanely strong regeneration properties, the Prothea only needed to fire a single shot to produce the sa outco!
Life wasn't fair!
"This is fun…" Venerable Isobel gradually began to grin as she saw her opponents in a new light.
The descriptions she heard about the purple wooden chs had caused her to vastly overestimate the threat they posed against her expert ch.
Perhaps they were indeed difficult to deal with for other Larkinson chs, but it was different for the Prothea!
In Venerable Isobel's eyes, the purple wooden chs had turned from organic bulwarks into moving forms of tinder.
It only took a single spark to light them all ablaze!
The Prothea's resonance shield began to glow brighter as Isobel grew more and more excited.
She had co to the right place.
This mission was different from all of the other ones.
The Larkinsons no longer wanted her to hold back her destructive flas anymore.
Instead, they wanted her to go all-out and burn as much wood as possible.
If possible, the Larkinsons wanted her to set the entire Emperor Tree ablaze!
Though Venerable Isobel was not certain whether she possessed the raw power necessary to light up the entire calamity plant, she definitely possessed the firepower to deal with these smaller but still formidable purple wooden chs!
"Joshua."
"Yes, Isobel?"
"Don't bother with shooting. Let take care of that. If you want to help, then make sure that nothing gets close to my Prothea."
"Will do…"
With that out of the way, Venerable Isobel took a deep breath before she began to grin.
"Let's start a wildfire!"
The Prothea exploded into action!
It continued to fly away from the pursuing purple wooden chs while tilting its fra sideways so that it could point its Ignitron rifle at a backwards angle.
The weapon did not pause to take aim, but began to fire a barrage of dium-powered purple fire beams at half a dozen targets.
Every single purple fire beam struck a wooden construct each!
The elite purple wooden chs failed to withstand these single blows. The abundance of wood energy could not overco the attribute restraint and the empowernt of Venerable Isobel's true resonance.
As long as the disparity in power was not too lopsided in favor of the Emperor Tree, none of the purple wooden chs could resist the Prothea's firepower!
Just as Isobel expected, 6 purple wooden chs went down with ease. The flas proved too much for the Emperor Tree's creations!
Even the wood energy transmission from the calamity plant was unable to reverse this outco.
The purple wooden chs actually burned down faster due to the injection of flammable energy!
Venerable Joshua had read theories about how specific E energy attributes were able to restrain each other, but he had never witnessed such an exaggerated effect.
The power of the Emperor Tree was obvious to everyone!
It was only after confronting Venerable Isobel and the Prothea that the murderous tree finally t its match.
The Prothea did not pause for long. She charged her rifle before outputting a sustained staccato of purple fire beams that struck one elite wooden construct after another.
Venerable Isobel already determined that her Ignitron rifle expended too much power in the previous barrage of shots.
She consciously dialed down the power setting so that the primary armant of the Prothea was able to fire a continuous stream of low-powered energy beams.
Although the intensity of every single shot had dropped, the firepower was still enough to burn through the defenses of the target and leave purple flas behind.
This was enough!
As long as the Prothea was able to transfer a large and strong enough fla onto the wooden exterior of the enemy constructs, they would all get burned down after a short delay!
There were no exceptions!
Venerable Isobel's grin grew increasingly wider as she started to have fun on the battlefield!
"Yes! This is what I sought! Burn! Burn it all down!"
Only a single minute passed, but the Prothea already managed to turn a hundred purple wooden chs into short-lived torches!
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