As the captain of the Holy See Guard squad, Duolin is the only member of the team capable of long-range attacks, which is achieved by using the launcher that was previously Alienation in his left hand.
The other team members either needed to aim for a long time or were like they had muscular dystrophy and couldn't shoot far at all. The two teammates who were highly motivated but showed no signs of training also obviously lacked long-range skills. This led Duolin to take on the task of kiting the monsters with ranged attacks while taking over the command position of [ Howling Pothos ].
Meanwhile, the two people who were constantly looking for an opportunity to chop their sharp axe blades at the hind legs of the wooden house monster were still speaking in a language that he couldn't understand.
"I'd barely memorized the move list when I switched forms and was reborn!"
[ Zhongde ] swung his axe down, and a fist-sized piece of wood flew out. This was a tree-chopping method he learned from strongman competitions in the real world. Specifically, he didn't let the axe be completely perpendicular to the wood, but instead chopped it once on the top, bottom, left, and right sides, causing the area covered by the two chops to Shattered pieces. This effectively weakened the monster's self-healing effect after the axe was pulled out.
"Die!"
Just as [ Zhongde ] was about to launch his next attack, he suddenly encountered resistance on the axe he had raised, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not swing it down.
[ Zhongde ] raised his head in confusion and saw three vines extending out of the wooden house window, wrapping around the axe and continuing to extend downwards until they reached the handle.
A chill ran down his spine, and [ Zhongde ] hurriedly tried to throw his weapon, but it was too late.
His right hand successfully escaped the vines, but his left hand got entangled in them because it was positioned too high when he was holding them.
The vines seemed particularly interested in living things. The moment they touched his skin, they accelerated their growth and coiling. In just a second or two, they were already close to his elbow. At the same time, the powerful pull of the vines was trying to pull [ Zhongde ] off the ground, intending to stuff him directly into the thorny maw of the wooden house.
He only had time to grab the branch of a normal tree next to him with his right hand before he was pulled off the ground and spread out in the air like a tilted cross.
"Help me!"
In reality, as a college student with no combat experience, [ Zhongde ] felt no shame about calling for help, especially in a game. He had called for help countless times when playing with his friends before, so the moment he realized he couldn't solve the problem, he chose to shout loudly.
The piercing scream drew the brief attention of all life nearby, including the cabin, Duolin, who had just finished firing a shot, was quite surprised.
As a guard of the Tree Worship Church, he would rather die than so disgracefully ask his allies for help, and he had no idea how these people had passed their training.
But the next moment he felt a deep sense of recognition, because in the face of his companion's desperate plea for help, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] ran to the dangerous battlefield without any hesitation, and with just one axe, he cut the three vines, causing [ Zhongde ] to fall from mid-air.
"Keep going, this thing isn't dead yet!"
[ Zhongde ], who had initially felt as if he had been granted a pardon, showed a renewed expression of terror even before he landed on the ground.
[ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] immediately understood the other party's meaning after recalling some of the characteristics of the Deadwood Vine. Obviously, [ Zhongde ]'s 5 points of willpower were not enough to take these ownerless things for his own use.
Seeing the wriggling vines sucking blood and flesh, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] swung his axe backhand at [ Zhongde ]'s upper arm. However, due to his weak strength and the fact that he hadn't yet recovered from the aftershock of the previous strike, the sharp axe blade landed on Zhongde's left shoulder, severing his entire arm from his left shoulder to his armpit.
With a suppressed cry of pain, the arm fell to the ground, quickly becoming food for the three vines.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Duolin retracted his earlier assessment, saying that for a warrior who faced danger without hesitation, what did it matter if he shouted a little loudly?
This is a true warrior!
[ Zhongde ], who lost his left arm, did not immediately recover from his weakened state. Unlike traditional games where health is just a number, [ Zhongde ] immediately felt the emptiness of losing a limb after noticing that his health bar dropped a lot in an instant. He even felt the phantom limb pain that he had only heard of in legends.
Although he understood that the game system had greatly reduced the pain sensation in the game, this sudden change still made him break out in a cold sweat on his scalp and back.
He felt he needed at least ten seconds to readjust to his body.
But the monster wouldn't give him ten seconds. After spotting the wounded man, the wooden cabin monster nimbly turned and moved its massive jaws toward him.
Three of the sharpened wooden stakes were already poised to strike, waiting only for the body to fully twist so that at least one person could be pinned to the ground like the [ Howling Pothos ] had just done.
"Call out!"
The sound of the wooden stakes being launched and the sound of the wooden pillars shattering rang out simultaneously. At the last moment before launch, the three sharp wooden stakes turned at an angle to the upper left and flew in another direction.
The two looked behind the monster and saw that Duolin and another Tree Worship Church guard had finally severed one of the wooden house monster's hind legs just moments before, causing the attack, which should have hit its mark, to deflect unexpectedly.
The three sharp wooden stakes flew towards the Upperstream Village behind them while everyone was still in shock, directly destroying a villager's house closest to the battlefield.
"I just fixed my roof!"
[ Zhongde ] let out a wail and leaped up from the ground, grabbing an axe with his remaining right hand and chopping it down on the steps of the wooden house.
With only one arm left, he couldn't muster much muscle strength. Rather than chopping down the wooden pillars that were prone to jamming the axe blade, he might as well chop down the wooden steps and handrails.
Seeing that cutting off the leg was indeed effective, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] and the guards of the Tree Worship Church continued to join the battle, and soon cut off the other hind leg as well.
Only then did the rear half of the massive wooden house finally land on the ground, giving the warriors more positions to attack.
So several people jumped onto the small corridor surrounding the wooden house and began to frantically attack the wooden walls of the house with axes whose arms Alienation.
Although I don't know what drives this thing, as long as I chop it up completely like firewood, I can definitely defeat it!
With this in mind, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] also joined the ranks of those violently demolishing buildings.
With a single blow of the axe, a gap the size of a head was revealed in the side of the already somewhat decaying house.
Having learned from the experience of [ Do Some Farm Work ], even though the hole was twice the size of a head, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] had absolutely no intention of sticking his head in to take a look.
As the monster's body swayed, two glasswares fell out of the hole in front of [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ]. These beaker-like vessels rolled through the gap in the handrail at the edge of the corridor, hit a small stone on the ground, and instantly turned into a pile of glass shards.