The large amount of Spring of Life sprayed out by the tree spirits directly "sizzled" the fire arrow out.
Ethan watched with his eyes wide open as the fire arrow fell to the ground like that, and the red gem on the arrowhead also became dim and lost its shine.
Looks like it was scrapped.
And what Ethan had done had clearly angered this group of Old Demons. One by one they stopped hiding, directly waving countless vines and sweeping toward Ethan.
[Tree Vines: Limited activity range. With the tree spirit as the center, the furthest radius is 50 meters!]
"Fall back! Fall back!"
Ethan quickly led everyone to retreat out of the oasis.
This oasis was basically the activity range of these vines, and thankfully Ethan moved fast, and the subjects retreated very quickly.
In a moment, they all backed out beyond fifty meters.
And the subjects still wanted to run farther.
Seeing the distance was about right, Ethan finally stopped them and said, "That's enough! Outside the fifty-meter range, these vines can't reach us."
Whoosh!
But the next second.
Daji suddenly swung her cat claws and cut off a vine that had stretched past the oasis.
Ethan's face instantly fell.
'What kind of trash system hint is this?'
'Didn't it say the vines could only reach a maximum distance of 50 meters?'
'What is going on?'
[Divine Tree excluded: Divine Tree vines, with the Divine Tree as the center, have a maximum radius of 100 meters.]
凸(⊙▂⊙✖)
'Why didn't you say so earlier!'
Ethan looked at the vine still bouncing on the ground and noticed that the vine was actually shining with specks of golden light, and there was also a red exclamation mark.
[Enchanted Vine: A vine that fell from the Divine Tree. It can be used to make enchanted weapons. Extremely rare.]
"Collect!"
Ethan decisively collected the vine.
That kind of made up for the slap he just took to the face.
Everyone retreated straight out of the hundred-meter range of the tree spirits, and it was obvious that these tree spirits could not move freely, so even if they were very displeased with Ethan, there was nothing they could do to him and the others.
The tree spirits also seemed to realize Ethan was not easy to mess with, so they tried to communicate with him:
["Mortal, I just wanted to test your strength just now. Now you are qualified to have a proper talk with me!"]
"There's nothing to talk about," Ethan sneered, "You Old Demon, you don't respect martial ethics, randomly throwing out five consecutive whips, you think I'll still talk to you?"
["What do you want then?"]
The tree spirit's tone clearly carried some anger.
Ethan ignored it completely and just checked his backpack to see if there was anything he could use against the tree spirits.
It was clear that fire arrows were the natural counter to these tree spirits.
Otherwise, they would not have used such precious Spring of Life to put out the fire arrows.
So the fire arrows were definitely his trump card. The question was, how could he secretly deliver the fire arrows into the enemy's base?
Ethan's eyes suddenly lit up.
'Nightmare Rat King Blood.'
Last time, after he one-shot the Nightmare Rat King, he brought back 1 liter of Nightmare Rat King blood. Ethan had only used it once, which was when he used it to blast the red dragon.
The effect was amazing.
The function of Nightmare Rat King blood was that it could give arrows an automatic forgetting effect.
This stuff was absolutely the nightmare of this group of Old Demons.
Ethan quickly took out the remaining fire arrow and tempered it with Nightmare Rat King blood.
[Nightmare Rat King Blood -100 ml, Enchanted Fire Arrow -1]
[Nightmare Fire Arrow: Being hit by this arrow is absolutely a nightmare-like experience. Special effect: Instant cremation, automatic forgetting]
'Instant cremation?'
'This skill is sick, not bad, not bad!'
Ethan was very satisfied, casually raised his bow, and was just about to nock the arrow, when he suddenly noticed.
Those tree spirits all seemed to be paying attention to his movements.
Although the tree spirits had no eyes and Ethan could not see their eyes, that feeling of being watched still gave people a kind of discomfort like being secretly peeped on.
It was like,.when someone is staring at you from behind.
You can more or less sense the gaze from behind. That kind of thing is like a sixth sense.
The time when this feeling is strongest, is probably when you're in school and the homeroom teacher is standing by the window secretly watching to see whether you're studying properly.
Sensing these Old Demons spying on him, Ethan naturally would not be stupid enough to just start shooting directly, even if this arrow could turn invisible the moment it was fired.
With the tree spirits' intelligence, there was no way they would just ignore it.
They would very likely spray water again, or stretch out vines to block the invisible arrow.
Wouldn't that waste a Nightmare Fire Arrow for nothing?
'No way!'
Not to mention how expensive this arrow was to make, even the Nightmare Rat King blood was something that could only be found by chance.
He had to save whenever he could.
Ethan thought for a moment and could only grit his teeth and sacrifice an Enchanted Fire Arrow.
The moment he set the Nightmare Fire Arrow on the Dragon Bow, he quickly pulled a switcheroo, swapping the Nightmare Fire Arrow in his hand for an ordinary Enchanted Fire Arrow.
Once again, he shot it out at high speed.
Whoosh!
Sure enough.
The instant the Enchanted Fire Arrow flew out, those tree spirits thought Ethan was using the same trick again and once more sprayed out a huge amount of Spring of Life.
Countless Spring of Life poured across the green grass like it was free.
They even outlined a rainbow in midair.
Obviously there was no sun. That was so damn weird. Who knew where this rainbow even came from?
But just then, Ethan's lips curled up.
'Took the bait, didn't you?'
Whoosh!
Before the tree spirits could react, he directly shot the second arrow, the real Nightmare Fire Arrow.
And at this moment, the tree spirits, were still happily spraying water to put out the fire, completely unaware that another thing was flying toward them, because the Nightmare Fire Arrow had already awakened its attached ability.
[Automatic Forgetting!]
BOOM!
The Nightmare Fire Arrow hit the bullseye.
The tree spirit on the very edge of the oasis was cremated on the spot.
The flames quickly started burning from inside the trunk.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Although the tree spirit could not speak.
It shook like a sieve, all its leaves rubbing against each other and making a rustling sound.
Countless leaves began to fall from the tree spirit's head.
After a while… the tree spirit turned into a balding "Mediterranean".
After a bit more time, the tree spirit turned from a young energetic guy into a bald middle-aged uncle.
Right after, the fire burned stronger and stronger and directly swallowed the tree spirit.
Watching the change in the tree spirit, Ethan could not help but sigh about the importance of hair.
'The face clearly hasn't changed at all, it just lost some hair, so how does it suddenly look so much older?'
"So pitiful!"
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