93 Ent Army

"Shuffle!... Shuffle!..." the trees with lush green leaves on them parted and out walked Rudra into the clearing. The scene in front of him revealed the former Giri Manor.

The journey here had not been easy for him as the more he moved closer inside the more he had to be on alert, sneaking his way into the forest hiding from the Demonic and Righteous faction who were clashing all over the forest.

"The Demonic Factions are still able to hold onto their defense the Lake is still safe."

Rudra mused at the tactic that both the factions were using, He could clearly see that even though the Righteous faction had destroyed several Demonic groups but the overall goal of the Demonic side was still secured.

"Even I have done more damage to the Demonic Side by absorbing the wood essence slowing down the process."

And now with the beasts into the mix, the situation was going to be way more chaotic.

Rudra moved his massive body almost a head taller than the whole Giri manor reaching the tallest trees in the area.

Rudra entered the backyard of the manor and sat cross-legged on the dirt as numerous roots drilled into the soil trying to reach the various trees into the area.

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The wind fluttered the green leaves that were present on his head, swaying them rhythmically like the tree branches. The wind around the area seemed quite different from the whole forest.

The whole of the Tranquil forest was filled with the constant flow of demonic wind that corrupted the normal Spiritual Energy damaging the life of all mortal beings including the trees in the forest.

But currently, the area surrounding the Giri Manor had a different trend to the other parts of the forest, a strong greenish hue mixed wind blew around the ground could be seen pulsing in green fluorescent lights, the streaks of green light were the roots coming from the legs of Rudra trying to channel the Wooden essence into the other trees in the Manor.

The fields in the manor had the same glow coursing through them as the Wood Energy flowed forming different apparitions on the trees that it coursed through.

"Rustle!..."

Loud cracking and rustling sounds could be heard all across, the trees and fields began to tremble.

Suddenly Rudra's eyes flashed open as he stared at the Ancient Oak Tree, crack open its barky layer and turn into an Ent. It was almost the same size as him despite being only an Ent and not an Elder Ent. It's barky features formed a face that belonged to an old man as the green leaves formed him a long beard and a head full of hair.

Rudra stared at him before he started the chants that he had remembered from the Sutra passing them onto the Oak Ent.

The Oak nodded his head before it too sat down cross-legged and started reciting the chants that had the purpose of refining his consciousness.

After awakening an Ent the job was not done after all the tree couldn't suddenly start to have a humanoid character, it must be built into them, these chants helped the Ent refine his consciousness becoming able to practice speech and have a general intelligence like that of a mortal human.

After the Ent it was the turn of the Illusive Willow tree, Rudra turned his attention towards it channeling the Wood energy while continuously chanting.

The Illusive Willow after a while had a similar transformation like the Ancient Oak Tree, but it had formed more feminine features and the air around it seemed to bend and the light seemed to flicker. It was almost half the size of Elder Ent Rudra and the Ancient Oak Ent.

"As I thought this one has an affinity for illusion, I will make it learn the Illusion type Arts from the Sutra," Rudra commented after he passed the same chants for consciousness to the Willow Ent.

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One by one the various trees in the manor turned to Ents, the Mango tree which was not yet fruiting turned to an Ent with features of a middle-aged man, turning into a Demonic Mango Ent.

Similarly, the twenty or so fruiting tree around the manor that included the Guava and Apple trees turned to their Demonic Ent forms.

Now only three trees remained the Dragon Blood Tree, the Banyan tree by the lake, and a single Banana tree.

Rudra decided to complete the fruit series by transforming the banana tree which unlike all the other trees till now was without bark and even after its transformation its body was fully green with a banana hanging on his back and chests he too sat down with all the other Ents chanting.

"Now the last two!"Rudra looked at the blood Dragon Tree and the Banyan tree both of these were closer to the artificial pond of the manor, Rudra once again channeled the Wood energy into his roots targeting the Blood Dragon Tree.

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Rudra stood up from his cross-legged position leaving the newly transformed Ents including both the new Blood Dragon Ent and Supreme Banyan Ent, the Alltrue Neem Ent, the Ancient Oak Ent, Illusive Willow Ent, and the 20 or so fruit type Ents that included Demonic variant Ents of Mago Guava Apple and more.

All of these Ents were mostly short in size than Ancient Oak, but the Supreme Banyan Ent was the fattest covering the most area while sitting down.

The shortest one was a Mushroom that Rudra had awakened by mistake, despite being short and different, almost the size of a rabbit, it too was accepted into the group of Ents as it chanted away int he unison fo the various Ents who were refining their minds.

"Should I awaken you too or would you like being here?" Rudra asked trying to communicate with the Wisteria tree in front of him, this was the last tree left in the area, all the else had been turned to an Ent.

"Hmm, I see" Rudra felt a strong feeling being emitted from the tree in front of him.

Rudra removed his palms from the bark of the tree as he once again did the steps awakening the Wisteria tree in front of him, it slowly turned into an Ent, its purple leaves formed a long hair, this Ent was the fourth one among the group that had features that looked feminine.

Rudra passed on the chants pointing her to join the other Ents.

"All the trees are now done, now this should be way easier to do!" Rudra laughed as he plonked his feet burying them into the ground, a wave spread into fields surrounding him as if a stone had been dropped into a calm pond.

Wherever the green wave passes a resonating light flashed as the potatoes and the corns planted in the fields started trembling in the resonance.

The corn plants with their thin stems uprooted themselves from the soil one by one as they formed a neat line before Rudra followed by the potatoes who dug themselves out, the green leafy plant could still be seen on their heads as if it was some kind of hat.

Rudra smiled contently after he had turned the last of the plants into Ent, passing the mind chant to it, he to sat down circulating the Wood energy into his body surrounded by his Ent minions who were in all shapes and sizes.

Rudra was delighted as he felt himself reach the 3rd stage of the Elder Ent body.

"More superior Ent's are needed to be awakened and I will become an Ancient Ent."

"As I raise more Ents and more of my subordinates advance to become Elder Ents."