NOVEL NEXT Chapter 379 - 177: The Cave, Fire Attack_2
Chapter 379: Chapter 177: The Cave, Fire Attack_2
Wang Tao could now confirm that it was not his throwing knives that were dealing low damage, but rather the tree roots had too high defense!
It was completely different from the flesh inside the Night Demon’s Nest; although that flesh also had a hundred thousand HP, its defense was very low, and Wang Tao could eliminate it in just a few strikes.
But the defense of this tree root was too high; his most powerful attacks could only deal a dozen or so damage. This means that even if the root didn’t fight back, it would take him hours to destroy it…
Wang Tao shot another arrow with his recurve bow, which also resulted in mere tens of points of damage.
After enduring various attacks from Wang Tao, the tree root showed no response, as if it were ignoring him.
Then Wang Tao shifted his target and fired his arrows at the zombies that were bound by the tree roots.
Whoosh—
[-4000]
[0/4000]
The HP bar of the Level 1 Zombie dropped to zero; its head lolled to one side, it ceased struggling, and a milky white liquid flowed out from its mouth.
Swoosh—
The root that was thrust into its mouth immediately withdrew, covered in the white liquid.
This time, without needing Jiang Shixue to tell him, Wang Tao also smelled a faint fragrance.
The source of the fragrance was the white liquid on the tree root!
The tree root swung through the air as if in anger and dissatisfaction. Then the roots that bound the zombies gradually loosened, releasing them.
Thud—
The zombie corpse hit the ground.
The root oozing white liquid retracted into the midst of the countless tree roots.
“This is interesting… These roots should be part of a plant, so why would they enhance the zombies’ strength?”
Wang Tao couldn’t figure it out, but since the roots didn’t seem to have much of a reaction, he felt relieved.
Wang Tao once again drew his recurve bow and began shooting at the zombies.
Shortly after, he effortlessly disposed of the dozen or so zombies. They were all bound to death by the roots, unable to move and were mere sitting ducks.
Wang Tao also gained 1300 HP, bringing his maximum HP up to 26,150!
After all those zombies had perished, the tree roots seemed to become frenzied, whipping wildly in the air before calming down after a while
“It seems angry…”
Jiang Shixue suddenly whispered.
Wang Tao nodded and then said with a headache,
“It seems that the final boss is this tree root, but its defense is too strong… We can’t make a dent in it. And till now, I still don’t know exactly what this thing is…”
If these roots couldn’t attack, Wang Tao could just wear them down, but it was clear they were capable of attacking, so slowly whittling them down was no longer viable…
“Let’s try again!”
Wang Tao stealthily approached the roots and struck them several times. They lost a few drops of HP but had no reaction.
Wang Tao intensified his attack, causing the root to lose a dozen drops of HP. At this point, the tree roots finally moved!
Several roots whipped around in the air, engaging in indiscriminate attacks.
Wang Tao wanted to gauge the damage of the roots, so after dodging a few, he deliberately took a hit from the last one.
Boom—
[-372]
[25778/26150]
Wang Tao was sent flying instantly!
Swoosh—
Jiang Shixue quickly ran over to catch Wang Tao, preventing him from crashing into the wall.
“Damn! Such high damage!”
Even with his Barrier activated, Wang Tao still lost nearly four hundred HP!
Although this amount of HP might not seem like much for his twenty-odd thousand HP, it was damage inflicted by just one root. If hundreds or thousands of roots attacked together, they could probably mash Wang Tao into a pulp instantly…
But there was also good news.
From Wang Tao’s test, it appeared the roots might not be very intelligent and possibly lacked senses, unable to perceive their surroundings, even if Wang Tao was moving right in front of them, they wouldn’t detect him. Only if Wang Tao actively attacked them would they respond, but that was a reactive attack, not because they saw where Wang Tao was…
If these roots were blind, then perhaps he really could grind them down!
Just as Wang Tao was considering whether to call Xu Xiaojun down to help wear down the roots, Jiang Shixue suddenly said,
“Brother, why don’t we just burn it with fire?”
“…”
Wang Tao was stunned for a moment before slapping his forehead.
“Little Xue is right! I almost forgot about the Fire Attack!”
Logically speaking, plants should be more vulnerable to fire, so a Fire Attack was definitely not a problem.
Moreover, the cave had a unique layout with only one entry and exit path; if it really caught fire, even if the roots had legs, they wouldn’t be able to run.
Of course, there was another crucial point, that was, these roots weren’t at full HP; they now only had a little over seventy thousand HP. Where had that twenty thousand HP gone? If all went as expected, it might have been burned off by the fire outside!
So, a Fire Attack was definitely feasible!
“Let’s go. Upstairs!”
Wang Tao quickly took Jiang Shixue’s hand and ran out.
“Brother Wang, are you guys alright?”
Xu Xiaojun, seeing Wang Tao and her come out, hurried over.
“Nothing’s wrong, there’s a bunch of attacking tree roots below; they have too high defense, we can’t do anything to them, so I’m planning to burn them!”
Wang Tao briefly explained.
They still had some gasoline left from before, but Wang Tao was worried it wouldn’t be enough, so he siphoned off some more oil from the car.
After preparing a full canister of gasoline, Wang Tao re-entered the cave.
“Although we don’t seem to have any grudges, who made you a red HP bar…”
Wang Tao muttered to himself, then poured all the gasoline over the tree roots.