Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 126. Unstoppable World Tree.

The several Level 10s to 19s in the surroundings got active as soon as Liu Shu's aura skyrocketed. While the <Mind Echo> sent their brains into a daze, they could recover fast enough to see their leader being smacked flying by an ethereal branch.

The shock was not over as Liu Shu's voice boomed out in the surroundings as she activated the <Living Wood City> skill.

Her buildings, which still had people inside because there were high levels, became alive and active.

A Level 12 grabbed her head, looked around, and asked. "Hurian! W-What happened? Who was the one who made such a powerful wide-area mental attack?" The woman was inside one of Liu Shu's houses when she asked her partner the question.

Looking back, her eyes widened when she saw her Level 8 partner flat on the floor, his eyes bleeding and his chest not moving. He was clearly dead. "HURIAN!"

She wanted to rush over when Liu Shu's declaration reached her. "The World Tree!?" Looking between the man and the door, the woman decided to go outside to check things out. However, it was too late.

She opened the door and walked out, seeing the complete chaos going on outside. But as soon as she did so, a vine shot out from inside the house, latching on around her waist. "Huh?"

Then, the vines pulled her body inside with terrifying strength. "Ahhh!"

While she was Level 12, higher than the house's Level 10, the house was very high-tier. After Liu Shu leveled up and completed her <Energy Cycle>, the structures evolved with her. Additionally, their wood had some of Liu Shu's bark properties, making their sturdiness incredible.

So, once the vine latched around the woman's waist, escaping was not possible. "W-Wait! HELP! GUH!?"

Several vines and roots coiled around her neck, squeezing and blocking her airway and blood circulation. The Level 12 struggled, but she was too immobilized to do anything. Her face became redder and swollen, her vision blurred, and her heart and mind were messy and full of fear.

Eventually, her body stopped struggling, and she fainted, being killed by the house shortly after.

Events similar to this one occurred all over the town as the entire city became a giant living organism following Liu Shu's orders to massacre everyone.

Liu Shu ignored all the system messages that popped into her vision as she carried on her own massacre with her skill. "DIE!"

<Weeping Willow's Aether Barrage> was unleashed, and Liu Shu summoned several phantasmal branches around her. Their range was 120 meters, more than enough to attack everything on the inner side of the town.

The group of Level 10+ people rushed forward en masse. There were around 110 Level 10+ people in the town, while a large part of the remaining 40 had returned to the Void Witherwood main settlement to take care of it.

Liu Shu's first <Mind Echo> attack had not managed to kill a single Level 10+. However, it left most of them disoriented. Only Level 15 and above could quickly snap out of their daze.

Therefore, of the 110, more than 25 of them who remained inside or near Liu Shu's houses were instantly killed as soon as the World Tree activated the <Living Wood City> skill.

Then, of the remaining 85, around 68 were close-ranged specialists, while 17 were long-ranged.

Aeliana, one of Malachai's closest aids, shouted. "Attack the World Tree! Be careful with those see-through branches. They were strong enough to send Leader flying, so don't greet them frontally!"