Begone

He stood up, still rubbing his head with his left hand and carrying his kamas he picked up on his right hand.

He took a glance at the kamas he's holding on his right hand and thought, 'It went back to normal. Chief Brashford, this is awesome.'

The dried giant cursed tree in front of him captured his attention. He stepped forward and stuck his ear on the trunk's surface.

'I have learned a few skills and gained a rapid boost in stats from this tree. I'm sure I heard a woman's voice coming from here,' Liu Kai talked to himself, trying to focus if he can still hear anything from the tree.

He left the tree and took a few steps to the bugs' direction, moving his head side by side.

"What's this? I can detect the position of the giant bugs," asked Liu Kai, puzzled about the sensation he has right now.

"This is creeping me out. I'll better check what's going on than to stay here," he hopped to a tree branch to travel.

While he was jumping from tree branch to tree branch, he thought, 'Alter is so capable. Why didn't I think about that? If The Giant Cursed could manipulate other entities and tries to control me, Alter would reverse the effect.'

'Tsk! We could have avoided the death of those people if I realized this sooner.'

'There's a bug nearby. This sensation, it's different from when I perceive their presence. It's like they are giving me a direct signal,' He spoke to himself, moving towards the nearest bug he felt.

[Lifeless creatures are in the area of effect]

[Skill Treant will now be: Activated]

"Wait. What?" Liu Kai replied on the screen in front of him as soon as he landed in front of the giant bug.

The bug began to vomit a corpse from its mouth, revealing an unrecognizable body with no head and no right arm.

Several vines suddenly come out from the ground, forcing the body to stand up. Two of the vines went to a different place and came back with the severed head and arm, connecting it to the body.

Liu Kai widened his eyes, realizing whose dead body it was. "W-Wang... X-Xiu... Ying!?" murmured Liu Kai. He's shaken on the sight that had transpired in front of him. He didn't notice that Wang Xiu Ying died since it happened before King Lee and the others had arrived.

The vines from the ground started to wrap Wang Xiu Ying's dead body. His body steadily became larger, and his light skin's texture slowly turned brown and became like the texture of a trunk. Branches emerged from the head and leaves formed out of it.

"HEY STOP!!!" Liu Kai screamed and was about to walk closer to slash the vines, but the screen popped up in front of him, stopping him from his tracks.

[Invalid command]

Simultaneously, the message rang on his head.

"What!?"

He narrowed his eyes on the screen, puzzled about its notification.

'Oh yeah! I'm spacing out earlier, but I have seen some new skills,' he decided to review his skillset, especially the new skills added that he didn't give any attention to earlier.

"Treant! This is it! It's passive, so it activated on its own after finding lifeless creatures close to me,"

"I... can't deny that this is an unbelievable skill and has a lot of use. But... I can't use Wang Xiu Ying's body and the others. It's just straight-up disrespectful to the dead."

[Multiple lifeless creatures have successfully become your Treant]

The screen popped out again and captured his attention.

Liu Kai is confused about what the message is about this time, but he suddenly felt multiple new existences linked to him.

'No... this can't be,' Liu Kai thought to himself as he peered on his sides in awe at the connection he's experiencing, walking slowly, trying to locate the other treants.

"Hey, remove yourself from him!" Liu Kai tried if he could command the vines to cancel using those bodies.

The treant just looked at him with a confused look on its face.

"I ordered you to detach yourself from him!!!" yelled Liu Kai. The treant shrieked as it couldn't understand his command.

Liu Kai felt the confusion of the treant since it's somehow linked to him. The feeling is almost similar to what he's feeling to his pets before, but it's greater. The treant whimpered in front of him and began to weep.

"What!?"

Liu Kai has a soft spot for pets, and that's how he feels about the treant right now. But he decided not to touch it as it is not a pet but a dead human who's used by the vines to have a body.

For the time being, he overlooked it and sought to run.

'I'll just leave them here for now.' Liu Kai said to himself, but Wang Xiu Ying's treant and the giant bug that vomited its body followed him.

"Hey, don't follow me," Liu Kai extended his arm, stopping the treants from running with him. The treants were more confused now and didn't know what they should do.

Liu Kai doesn't want to be upset at it. However, he thinks that he needs to. He build-up his courage to speak to them angrily and shouted...

"BEGONE!!!"

Liu Kai shouted to the Treants following him. The Treant of Giant Bugs and Martial Artists stared at each other, not knowing what to do. Then, they turned into seeds on the ground and implanted themselves in it.

['Begone' has been successfully registered to withdraw your Treants]

Liu Kai was stunned for a moment before he continued to move.

'I can just summon them again, right?' Liu Kai thought to himself. He wanted to cancel using them forever, but it looked like it just unsummoned them.

He continued to move and yelled at all of the treants he had seen.

"Begone!"

"Begone!"

"Begone!"

They all transformed into seeds, planting themselves to the ground.