Chapter 87

With a burst of energy, I rolled to the right dodging the root that came towards me, and allowed it to hit a tree around 20 meters away from me. At the same time just like I had done before, I moved out of the way and watched the tree fall in the direction of the attacker.

I could see that it was going to dodge no matter how fast the tree fell, and so I needed to stop it...

I needed to put an end to this.

My body was bruised and battered probably beyond comprehension, while phantom pain shot through my every receptor as if my arm was still there, constantly being hit by some invisible force.

Honestly, the pain from my phantom arm was a lot more paralyzing than any of the pain I felt from having to deal with the attacks coming my way yet I still did not give up.

Gritting my teeth and pushing past the pain, I made a split-second decision of making sure that I would not allow the creature, which I could now see was something close to a tree-golem, would not escape the falling tree.

Of course, later on, I would learn that it was a newly-birthed treant, but the naive me still had a lot to learn.

I used every ounce of power I could muster, throwing my arm forward and flinging the ax towards the treant.

I didn't know how much power would be behind the throw, yet to my surprise, the throw did not go the way I had expected it to.

As if thousands of years of experience and knowledge flowed through me, I adjusted my body to become more efficient while executing the throw of a lifetime.

With one last push, the ax tore through the air and spun like a boomerang, now curving and-

*Sshhhhhhhhing*