Master Of None

Chapter 2348: 2348. Feeling The Nature

The oddity which were the smaller groups’ movements would have been mocked if they had been doing it on the training fields. However, right here and now, no one dared make a move that was normal. If they were to walk like normally and even so much as graze a tree root, then they would be fighting a myriad of vines and branches.

It was the roots beneath dried leaves that was the real danger. Walker was sharing directions since he and Alma could work together to share their sense of mana and her sense of plants. That allowed them to be able to feel the roots underneath the ground and even the leaves.

From time to time, Gil would launch an around from his bow in to a further section of the jungle. This would stop anything from sensing them when they made a bigger move. While it was just a slight distraction for the guardian vine and root, they were relying on every single card they had to get closer.

What was more surprising, was that as they moved, the vines were becoming even more developed. The trees that the vines hung off of clearly had been connected. Not just by the vines which snaked through their branches, but some of the branches themselves had become perfectly fused.

”It is changing this entire area of the jungle. And I can’t even sense the changes in mana moving through these trees. They would usually have different amounts of earth and water mana at the very least.” Allma knew that the different forms of mana within a plant was very important.

Since she always worked with plants and added her mana to grow them rapidly, Alma paid a lot of attention to the ways that mana flowed within a single plant through its entire growing process. Right now, she was feeling the exact same amount of earth, water, and light mana moving within the trees surrounding them.

This would be impossible within nature. Mostly because each part of the world was different. Nature was a balance but it was not an equilibrium. It was not so perfect that there was some strange mirror image in everything.

With this being the case, she was following the sense of these manas and realizing that she could not control anything here or even influence them because her maa was being measured against the mana of all these plants. The guardian vine and root plant was able to unite them and the manas that every single tree and plant possessed.

”I know that a forest can be called one plant. One single tree can be harmed and the trees nearby will send nutrients and mana through their roots to help. This is the same thing but much more extreme. It must take years... no, this plant is so developed that it can do this within a short time.” It looked to Walker that Alma was on to something. He remained silent while they maneuvered around a throng of hanging vines from the higher branches.

”This plant is not able to produce anything and basically acts like a parasite. It can make sure that every single tree and plant connected is able to survive so of course the trees and everything else agree with it. But once they are connected they have to stay the same. None of these trees can grow any more. Instead, the guardian vine and root is expanding using their extra nutrients.”

”I can’t control them or break free because I am fighting every single one of these trees at once and the guardian vine and root is forcing their mana to move in a certain way. It can even use that mana to help the roots and vines and branches, everything! To move. It makes them all feel afraid and react like this as if everything that touches them is a predator trying to kill them.”

”It isn’t a monster, but I promise you, with natural abilities like this, it has the chance to become one if it grows large enough.”

Nothing that Alma had said was wrong. Walker had managed to get the information he had from the all around appraisals of the trees affected by the guardian vine and root. He had yet to actually lay eyes on it and get an appraisal that showed them in depth information.

He did believe Alma. While they moved forward toward even more fused branches, he could tell this was similar to the meat eating plant monsters or even some that he had read about before. Those that developed in dangerous areas and gathered enough manas to be able to change their forms could become monsters. If this was the case, then those plants would cease to be plants and step in to a whole different world.

Right here, this guardian plant and vine definitely had the potential. Its natural characteristics made it more than likely to be taking this path already. It was defensive and aggressive. It was able to influence other plants easily with its natural characteristics. And even more so, it almost acted as if it had the same intelligence that a monster would have anyways.

Since Alma and Walker had the same thoughts while looking at the ways that the trees had fused together ahead. How the vines were mixing with one another and falling down where the gaps between the tree trucks were.

They both felt that it was a little too protective of the core where the guardian vine and root could be. A little too perfect to be a plant that would stay a plant.

”That’s where it is?” The calm words were directed at the roots entertained with one another. Making a root like defensive wall. Light could reach the area along with water, but it was clearly enough to stop monster moving toward the area.

”That’s it, and I think this small green vines around the top are the guardian vine and root.” Walker focused his eyesight more.

’Guardian vine and root mutating

This guardian vine and root is absorbing massive amounts of mana and nutrients. It is attempting to alter its own form instead of its naturally growing instincts to only influence plants around it. Due to this, it is more aggressive and has a higher chance to become a

monster.

If it continues this way, it would break the normal rules of the dungeon. It would develop its own poisons while aging some form of intelligence. Most likely becoming...’

Walker didn’t want to read a single bit more. Not that he had the chance. He had to start moving. A small breeze had moved through the jungle showing off the wooden thorns that were slowly growing out of the roots.

”It’s trying to change the form of the wood around it. It isn’t going to just control it. Those trees won’t even be trees any more. They will be part of it.” Alma felt it. The slow loss of life mana within the trees.

While she could not feel life mana in others or in the earth, Alma had a feeling for it in plants now. She had trained to feel it in the flow of nature. As such, she had realized she had always sensed it subconsciously within a plant. It was part of her natural skills and talents.

Now, she could tell that the captured trees nearby were being used as part of its body. Changed to become dependable parts of its body the same as the vines and root that the guardian vine and root already grew naturally.

”We are using fire this time. Alma, I know you have a dark affinity plant that can cause decay to other plants. You have the seeds but I know it is not one you wish to use since it makes an area very damaged. The dungeon can repair it. So don’t hold back. If this plant becomes a monster, it will be worse for us and the dungeon.”

There was no need for more logic, Walker was right and Gil even nodded his own support for this. It was the best way right now.

When the elven archers heard Walker, they switched to fire and wind arrows. They knew that breaking through the vine wall was the first major trial. Then, they would need to divide the attention of this soon to be monster.

A simple plan that would use all of their strength and effort. Not just because they were facing an intimidating being, but because they were pursuing a test of their overall strength. The guardian vine and root was powerful. There were many plants and trees connected to it. Not a single one would be left out of this battle for its life. Walker and Gil had brought fewer people for that reason. Without many people here, they could use their full strength.

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