Translator: Larbre Studio
Editor: Larbre Studio
Those Mutated Trees would bring great fortune, and Chen Bing had hit the jackpot. After cutting down the first Mutated Tree, he immediately brought the two slimes to another tree.
Chen Bing purposely picked trees that maintained a distance from him, so that there would not be any problems.
In no time, the fifth Mutated Tree was chopped down by Chen Bing. Holy white light shone from his body as he leveled up to Level 8.
“So many experience points.”
Chen Bing was a little shocked. He did not expect to level up that quickly.
When he killed the Mutated Tree outside, he ensured that his Evolution Energy was at max so that he could level up after killing the Mutated Tree.
As a BOSS monster, the Mutated Tree gave a lot of experience. After getting to Level 7, every Mutated Tree could give Chen Bing 20 Evolution Energy when killed.
Players that were below Level 10 needed less Evolution Energy to level up. Even when leveling up from Level 7 to Level 8, it required only 90 Evolution Energy points.
“System: Devoured ‘Mutated Tree’ corpse!”
“System: You have reached Level 8!”
“System: You have received a temporary ability ‘Quick Regeneration’. Lasts for 5 minutes!”
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After leveling up to Level 8, Chen Bing devoured another Mutated Tree corpse.
“Stamina increased by 8 points, Strength increased by 4 points, Agility by 22 points, Intelligence by 2 points… 20 attribute points. 6 less than what the first Mutated Tree gave, but it’s still not bad.”
Chen Bing reconfirmed the attributes that were boosted. As a BOSS, it still gave a good amount of attribute points even though it was the second tree.
Leveling up from Level 8 to Level 9 required 110 Evolution Island points. There were about 20 Mutated Trees around the area. After a rough estimation, Chen Bing predicted that he could get to Level 9 here.
Mutated Tree gave him an ability called Quick Generation. Chen Bing walked towards the three Mutated Trees that were clumped together without any hesitation.
It would be tough to deal with them later if he did not do it now, even if his attributes were very strong.
Looking at Warrior Slime and Shadow of Slime’s attributes, they were quite close to his. However, if they got too close, they would be attacked by the three trees together and suffer a huge loss in health.
If Chen Bing fought alone, he needed 5 minutes for him to kill one Mutated Tree.
However, killing off one was enough. Now that one Mutated Tree gave him 10 Evolution Energy points, he needed to kill other Mutated Trees to be able to level up to Level 9. Then, he would come back here later to kill the two remaining trees.
In the quiet fruit forest, the Mutated Trees were killed one by one.
Chen Bing did not realize that when the Mutated Trees were killed, gray smoke would dissipate to the surroundings.
This gray smoke did not have any impact on Chen Bing and his slimes. However, deeper in the forest, there lay a few iron cages.
Inside the iron cages, there were a few corpses. The corpses were already dried out.
However, just as the grey smoke came to the cages, human corpses started to tremble.
Plip, plip, plip…
When the grey smoke passed by, the corpses started to change. Some parts of the dry bodies started to expand quickly and became deformed.
Snap!
A loud noise was heard as the rusty cage was split open by these mutated corpses.
Roar!
Attracted to the grey smoke, the mutated corpses got out of the iron cage. They turned around in sync and started to run towards the Mutated Trees.
“I can finally level up after killing this tree!”
At the Mutated Tree forest, Chen Bing had killed more than half of the mutated trees there. Only about seven to eight trees were left.
“I did it!”
As the light shone on Chen Bing’s body, he leveled up to Level 9.
The attributes he got this time decreased again. From Level 8 to Level 9, he only got 15 attribute points.
Leveling up from 9 to 10 was very important. It was pointless for Chen Bing to devour more Mutated Trees, as the remaining Mutated Trees did not give enough Evolution Energy points.
Roar!
Chen Bing wanted to kill off the remaining Mutated Trees and turn them into wood before leaving. However, Shadow of Slime suddenly turned around and shouted a roar of warning towards the deeper end of the forest.
Damn, what happened? Why did the Shadow of Slime react in such a way?
Chen Bing was shocked, and the Warrior Slime looked at it in confusion.
Suddenly, human figures moving at high speed appeared in front of them.
“What the f*ck! Zombies?”
As Chen Bing looked over in that direction and saw a few shadows of mutated corpses, he could not help but be shocked.
These few mutated corpses that looked like zombies were shockingly fast. They might be around Level 15 or higher, and their attributes would not be weak. If he was surrounded by a few of these, he could not guarantee that he would win.
Not wanting to be mobbed, Chen Bing quickly retreated. He then realized in shock that the target of the Mutated Corpses was not him Instead, they were targeting the Mutated Trees.
After running at full speed, the Mutated Corpses jumped towards the Mutated Tree.
The Mutated Tree retaliated in full force, but it still became food for the Mutated Corpses.
“These Mutated Trees are food for them? These people… judging from their shirts, were they villagers at one point?”
Chen Bing frowned. Things were not going the way he expected.
After devouring the Mutated Tree, the Mutated Corpses’ attributes became stronger. After all the trees were exterminated, he would become their target.
Chen Bing wanted to know what else was in the deeper end of the forest. However, going in there without any preparation would basically be suicide.
After some consideration, Chen Bing decided to go back to Old Bard’s place.
Old Bard had been in the orchard for some time, he would definitely have known a thing or two about it.
Old Bard might even give him a good mission or two. If he killed those Mutated Corpses without accepting a mission first, it would be a huge loss for him.
…
“You entered the poison fog?”
When Chen Bing went back to Old Bard’s place, Old Bard was coming out through his door. His eyes narrowed when he saw Chen Bing.
“Yes, I continued forward after killing the Mutated Tree and saw the poison fog. Luckily I have a way of overcoming the poison fog, and went in there.”
Chen Bing spoke honestly. Looked like Old Bard knew a lot, and he got to dig it all out!
“A bunch of Mutated Trees, and… a few Mutated Corpses. They were attacking and devouring the Mutated Trees. I looked at the Mutated Corpses’ shirts; they seem to have been villagers at one point?”
Chen Bing replied with a statement that was seventy percent truth and thirty percent lie.
As he came back, Chen Bing had thought about it and felt that those Mutated Corpses appeared because he was killing a lot of Mutated Trees.
However, being such a genuine person, he refused to take the blame for any of it.
Taking the blame was a small matter, but what mattered the most was the reward!
If Old Bard knew that he caused all of this, would he be so generous as to give him any more rewards?
He would be lucky not to receive any punishment!
“Those corpses mutated? And they even escaped? No way, weren’t they locked inside the iron cage?”
Old Bard’s expression darkened as he heard those words.