Zectas Volume I: Enigmatic Village of Nanahuatl by John Nest

practically at the same time there was no chance for the injured orchid mantis to react. It would fall dead to the ground after the 8th arrow hits it's body.
     
     
At first the orchid mantises continued to stand their ground away from Smoke trying to hide within the flowers. Despite that the dead bodies of the orchid mantises started to stack up around them.
     
     
As they saw that they were dying one by one at an alarming rate, their movements changed. The orchid mantises were enraged. The stealth that they were so proud of was no longer working for them.
     
     
Instead of dancing back and forth waiting for a chance to attack. The orchid mantises rushed towards Smoke they came at him eight at a time. Just the right number for Smoke's attack speed.
     
     
The orchid mantises were running towards a rain of arrows, falling to the ground at around 5 meters away from Smoke. From all the scattered dead bodies of the orchid mantises, it looked like there was an invisible force field that stopped them at that distance.
     
     
After almost 4 hours of non stop fire arrows the orchid mantises near the area were no more. He had gained a total of 3 levels and added them all to his Dexterity. Smoke quickly picked up as much fire arrows as he could, as he only had less than 6 hours left of fire empowerment.
     
     
All he could gather was 400 pieces of fire arrows, the rest of the arrows were buried under the pile of orchid mantis carcasses.
     
     
Smoke finally reached the center of Mandragora Forest. It was a clear field somewhat similar to the Maneator's Forest but instead of a cave there was a sole rickety tree at it's center. It was a huge rickety tree.
     
     
However the things that Smoke focused on were the root crops that were scattered all around the tree. He quickly took out his sacks and started collecting all of the root crops that the quest had required.
     
     
As he was about to complete the needed number of sacks for the potatoes. He felt a root grab him. It took hold of his feet rendering him immobile, unable to move the spot.
     
     
The next thing that Smoke saw was a huge wooden hand swatting him like a fly. He was thrown against a big tree still within the boundaries of the 3rd layer of the forest.
     
     
- Attacked by Tree Ent: ReenTe. You've taken damage. Health -3000
     
     
The rickety tree was a colossal Tree Ent it was the boss of this forest. It had used its root to grab hold of Smoke stopping his movements. The Tree Ent was very very very slow. He needed an immobile target in order to successfully hit it. He does however have a high attack power.
     
     
Smoke only had 693 HP left. In his excitement to finish the quest quickly he forgot to make the medicinal rabbit stew. He thought about eating something to regain some of his health but decided not to. Even at full health it would only take 2 hits for the Tree Ent to kill him.
     
     
The magic number being TWO. Smoke wasn't going to give him another shot. He was going to wipe the floor with this boss. Luckily the Tree Ent stayed at the center of his forest and continued to use it's roots into trying to capture Smoke.
     
     
Smoke felt the  roots coming at him from all directions but he could easily sense them with 'Cunning of the Dire Fox' and dodge them within a hair's breadth.
     
     
While dodging he was also hitting the Tree Ent with his fire arrows.
     
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1493.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1511.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1499.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1523.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1511.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1502.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1499.
     
+ Attack hit Tree Ent: ReenTe. +FIRE DMG. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 1493.
     
     
The Tree