Chapter 111: Targeting the Heart of Evil

The very next second, Leila's snow-white cheeks turned as red as a riped tomato, as all the magic power in her vigorous heart and a week-old energy channel channeled into her telekinesis supernatural cells, causing a lot of mental energy to burst forth from her slender hands.

"Go!"

Her snowy hair fluttered as mental energy crashed into the back of the Barrier of the Celestial, pushing it forward.

"I don't know what you're planning, humans. However, I won't let you succeed."

The Tree of Evil coarse voice sounded in their ears as it redirected all its leaves to crash on the golden barrier to stop it from moving ahead.

As soon as the boy wearing the eye patch saw that, he uttered the keyword to activate the second form of the ability he generated. 

"Expand!"

The Barrier of the Celestial suddenly began to grow in length and width without showing any signs of stopping as it pushed through the varieties of attacks thrown towards it.

It didn't stop growing until it became as large as a huge boulder!

"I do not believe that I cannot shatter it!" 

An instant after the Tree of Evil said those words, an enormous amount of vines burst forth from the floor, winding around one upon another, shaping into a green fist as large as a boulder.

BAM

The four teenagers watched with wide eyes and anxious expressions on their faces as the barrier and the fist clashed with each other, generating a bombing sound along with waves of winds and clouds of dust.

"Come to a halt!"

The tree of evil shrieked at the top of his voice as it used all of its strength to stop the Barrier of the Celestial from advancing.

"Carry us to victory!"

Peter and Leila exclaimed at the top of their lungs as they looked at the showdown between the two attacks with wide-open eyes glistening in traces of concern and a hopeful expression.

Bam!

In the split of a second, the Barrier of the Celestial thwarted the Punch of the Evil Demon and rushed forward at the top of its speed, smashing into the Tree of Evil in the time it takes to blink an eye.

The resulting impact caused the barrier to explode into several dozens of shards of golden radiance, bursting outward and impaling into the body of the demonic realm monster.

UGH!

The Tree of Evil shrieked as pain assaulted all of its senses, and blood poured out from everywhere it was wounded.

At the same time, Vincent turned to look at his side, only to see Varth looking at him with a calculative gaze; both looked away from each other with a sly smile on their face.

"This is the moment we have been waiting for," Varth said.

From the very start of this battle until now, everything they did was for the sake of crippling the Tree of Evil so much that it won't be able to defend the orb the size of the boulder on top of its body

After all, the only way to kill the Tree of Evil was to destroy its life orb, which is infamously known as the Crimson Heart of Evil!

As long as it remains intact, the tree of evil only needs a few minutes to heal back to its peak conditions.

"It's time to kill it."

The two rushed forward to deal the finishing blow to the severely injured Tree of Evil.

However, it wasn't willing to be butchered as a sitting duck

It didn't want to go down without giving it all in his fight. 

Its aggravated, coarse voice sounded in their ears.

"Ugh! You Damned Humans! Die For Me!"

Planks made out of wood burst forth from its body, stretching and twirling, condensing into the shape of a pillar the size of a boulder with its end shaped like several dozen spikes.

Vincent jumped high to the right side to evade the wooden pillar as it brushed past him, and at the same time, he manipulated his blood to create a small platform in the air the size of his foot.

The very next second, he stepped on it and leaped upward, landing on top of the wooden pillar.

He raised his head, looking at the heart of the nightmare with an intense gaze.

"This is it. Everything depends on whether I reach that point or not. Our win depends on this!" 

Vincent integrated a dozen units of battle energy in his legs simultaneously, and at the same time, he stomped his foot on the surface of the wooden pillar to rush forward towards the heart of the nightmare at full speed.

Whoosh

At the same time, dozens of vines with sharpened ends suddenly came out of the floor of the lair of evil, cutting through the air, raining down on Varth. 

The vines were about to mince him into a skewer, when in that instant, his figure suddenly blurred, disappearing into thin air.

The vines branched right through what seems to be an afterimage of his body, stabbing into the floor.

He had utilized flash step. It was an A-grade ability that allows one to move fast enough to leave behind an afterimage and cover a huge distance in a single second.

In the very next second, the usage of this ability allowed him to appear next to the defenseless heart of the Tree of Evil. 

Furthermore, at the same time, Vincent could be seen openly charging forward towards the crimson heart of evil with the concealed intent to shatter it into pieces.

"It's the end!"

The dagger held in Vincent's hands and the golden pole manifesting in the center of Varth's palm were threatening to destroy the heart of the Tree of Evil.

In that very moment, however, as if time has stilled, both he and Vincent suddenly came to a halt.

No matter what they did, they couldn't move their body.

"What the hell?" Vincent said, looking at the Tree of Evil with a baffled expression.

"Well, this was out of my expectation." Varth couldn't believe that the Tree of Evil was also able to use a technique similar to energy pressurizing.

Energy pressurization was a technique created by humans to immobilize others by using magic power or purified magic power.

The instructors had used this very technique to immobilize both him and Felix back in the entrance examination of the military academy.

How could have ever thought that the Tree of Evil was able to use this technique?

The Tree of Evil instantaneous decision to utilize a huge amount of negative energy to halt them in place was outside of their expectations. They'd assumed that they would be able to deal the finishing blow since it has utilized all of its offensive technique and didn't have any means left to defend itself. Yet, they now found themselves in a sticky situation.

"I have been holding back for this very moment," said the Tree of Evil with an evil grin on its hideous face as red and black winds converged next to the heart of evil.

Immediately after, the black and red winds condensed into a ball that burst outwards.

In the split of a second, a crimson shockwave crashed on their bodies, causing blood to spurt out of their mouths and knocking them away from the weakness of the Tree of Evil, sending them flying into the air.

A moment later, once Varth regained control of his body, he spun around in mid-air and grabbed Vincent's ankle, pushing him in front of himself, and he said, "Don't hesitate and use me as a platform!"

"Sorry in advance!" Vincent's voice reached his ear.

At the same time, his foot viciously stomped into his guts.

This single action changed the entire game!

The Tree of Evil eight pupils dilated in terror as Vincent shoots towards its heart of evil with incredible speed.

It tried to utilize its remaining branches to stop him from advancing further, but it was already too late.

Vincent has crashed on top of its heart of evil!

In the time it takes for an eye to blink, Vincent brandished the daggers in his hands a few times, creating intense striking sounds as they clashed and shattered the heart of evil in a mere second. 

Cold light reflected off the daggers as the heart of evil shattered, and at the same time, the branches approaching to immobilize him came to a halt.

The Tree of Evil itself came to a sudden halt as if it has died.

However, Vincent didn't receive any notification from his system.

That means that it was still very much alive.

Of course, Vincent didn't have the time to think about such things as he was perplexed by the scene in front of him.

In front of him, there was a sudden throne, on which a girl with fluffy pink hair reaching down to her waist was sitting. 

The Tree of Evil had linked the girl to itself by embedding several of its branches into the back of her body. 

The wooden branches gave off an oddly familiar vibe.

Vincent's eyes widened as he realized that the branches were brimming with the purest form of the essence of life.

Furthermore, the Tree of Life wasn't extracting the essence of life from her body. Instead of doing that, it was pouring it into her body.

"What is the meaning of this, Tree of Evil," Vincent said, unable to believe what he was seeing. 

The scene in front of his eye was utterly ridiculous! 

However, it was true nonetheless.