"Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence!"
Between his clasped hands.
Green chakra surged so violently it nearly boiled.
In an instant.
It flowed through the soles of Sen's feet.
And thundered into the passage's cold, hard stone floor like a flood bursting through a dam.
Crack! Crack, crack!
The teeth-grating sound of rock splitting.
Echoed through the narrow, claustrophobic underground passage.
Like ten thousand vengeful ghosts grinding their teeth at once.
The Root Suicide Corps blocking the way ahead.
Hadn't even had time to form hand seals.
Hadn't even managed to throw the poisoned kunai in their hands.
Before they discovered, to their horror.
That the stone slabs beneath their feet.
Had exploded!
Countless dark brown vines, each as thick as the trunk of a century-old tree.
Covered in barbs.
Rose from underground.
With savage force.
And burst through the earth!
The vines were like rampaging pythons with eyes.
They writhed through the passage, strangling, impaling, and spreading wildly.
The space was already cramped.
And now.
It was like trapping a pack of rats in an iron barrel, then tossing in a madly spinning meat grinder.
"Aaaah!"
"My leg! Help-"
The screams lasted only half a second.
Before they were completely drowned out by the wet squelches of vines crushing bones and piercing flesh.
Dozens of Root elites.
Faced with Sen's utterly brutal Wood Release.
Couldn't put up even the slightest resistance.
They were skewered like candied fruit.
And pinned fast.
To the passage's walls and ceiling.
Blood.
Trickled along the rough bark.
Drip.
Drip.
And pooled across the floor.
Turning the once-dry stone slabs into a pungent mire of red sludge.
"So weak."
Sen couldn't even be bothered to activate [Life Drain].
The experience from these small fry, for his Divine Tree Origin at its current Lv28.
Wasn't even enough