Chapter 477: Time Of Judgment
Daniel felt unreal for a moment and even thought he had seen it wrong, how the hell could a rock f**king swallow a human?
He did not rush in recklessly and instead looked carefully at the rock, it kept shaking and did not have its original solid state at all.
"Is it... chewing him?" Daniel felt like his worldview had just expanded, but that was not the important matter right now.
The important matter was how to save William in this situation. Without hesitation or wasting time, he immediately summoned his sword.
However, before he could strike the rock, something suddenly shot out from the ground and grabbed his legs.
"Hah? Damn it what is this!" he growled and realized that a bunch of things that looked like tree roots had wrapped around his legs.
Without much thought he slashed them all apart and floated in the air, distancing himself from the ground.
But suddenly from beneath the trees huge roots emerged and attacked him, dozens and even hundreds of them charged at once trying to swallow him as well.
Daniel let out a cold growl and raised his sword, death energy poured out from his body and instantly engulfed all the roots.
The moment they touched his body they were destroyed and turned into ashes, nothing of them remained. Root after root lunged at him but each one met the same fate.
"If this is all you got then your fate is already decided" he said with a mocking tone, all the roots vanished within a single minute.
He did not even know who he was talking to but judging by the attacks there were clearly monsters here right?
And his guess was right, it seemed those monsters got angry after hearing his words, the ground suddenly began shaking like a terrifying earthquake.
It felt like the entire island was trembling.
Suddenly the branches of all the massive trees around Daniel began moving and shaped themselves into blades, each tree alone had hundreds of branches now aiming at him.
"Well this isn’t good" he gave a bitter smile and prepared to defend with his sword, slowly realizing that coming into this dungeon without his skills was a really stupid decision.
The branches rushed toward him, their power was abnormally high and it even seemed like they could cut the air itself.
But before they could touch him they collided with the blade of The Heavens Honor and were instantly cut down.
He unleashed hundreds of sword strikes within mere seconds, slicing all the branches of a tree apart. Each strike left behind a trace of destruction, countless branches filled the air.
He did not let the branches hit the ground, death energy burst from his body and every broken piece was reduced to ashes.
"Seems like there’s still more" seeing more trees targeting him he did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Without wasting time the branches of the trees swarmed at him again, and without a single mistake he struck thousands of flawless blows, shredding them into pieces.
The smell of death filled the entire area and now the giant trees had lost all their branches, though the attackers only seemed even more enraged.
The massive leaves that covered the skies above fell down all at once as if trying to swallow Daniel.
He directly infused death energy into his sword and in thousands of strikes shredded every falling leaf, reducing them to ashes.
For a few moments silence covered the area, as if nothing had ever happened, but it felt more like the calm before the storm.
His cold gaze landed on the giant trees, he had already realized that these trees themselves were the monsters.
He pointed his sword at them, ready to strike at any moment, the only issue was that he did not know how to kill or destroy them.
He had destroyed their roots, burned their branches to ash, even eliminated their leaves, yet they still did not die.
While lost in thought the ground started trembling again, and suddenly two enormous black eyes appeared on each tree staring straight at him.
Below those eyes an old wrinkled mouth formed.
"Filthy creature how dare you taint our home" it was unclear which one had spoken, but a sharp screeching voice echoed.
"I didn’t do anything, it was you bastards who attacked me first" Daniel flinched slightly, not expecting these monsters to actually talk.
"Ridiculous, you came first and now you must die" the same screeching voice resounded.
The giant trees suddenly pulled themselves out of the ground, their entire bodies slowly transforming. From long hundred meter tall trees they changed into titan-like beings resembling those stone titans.
But they were far more massive and appeared to be made of wood. In front of them Daniel looked smaller than an ant.
It was clear that each step they took could shake the entire island, they were so tall it seemed like they reached the sky and could grab it with their hands.
And even more terrifying was the number of them, there were hundreds surrounding Daniel from every side.
He gave a bitter smile and looked at the wooden giants with tired eyes... or maybe he should call them tree titans.
"Human, the punishment for trespassing into our home is death. And you even dared to defend yourself and resist the punishment" the sharp cold voice rang again.
The tree titan standing in front of Daniel raised its enormous hand, and as it rose the entire atmosphere seemed to quake.
"And now the time of judgment has come" and with those words the massive hand came crashing down.
A terrifying shockwave erupted, shaking the entire island, even the other inhabitants felt it.
The impact was so massive it created a violent storm, the whole sky trembled and on the ground a crater in the shape of a palm spread dozens of meters wide and several kilometers deep.
"And the judgment is complete."