These Familiars Are Strange

After the branches were pulled off her tree familiar, the green light that had been around everyone no longer seemed as strong as before.

It was still there, but it was certainly weaker than before as they could feel the heat coming through now.

However, it wasn't as if anyone would actually dare complain about this since they were the ones benefiting from this.

At the same time, everyone was more focused on one thing now.

The Kijin was clearly not in good shape as it stood there with just a few flames left around it. The once powerful flame cloak that had been around the Kijin had turned into a few remnant flames that were barely able to cling onto the Kijin.

It really seemed like a single breeze would be enough to blow the Kijin over.

As such, there were many that wanted to seize this opportunity for themselves.

But the moment that they tried to make a move on the Kijin, that was the moment that they would be surrounded by the others. It wasn't as if anyone would allow them to take the Kijin for themselves.

That actually gave the Kijin some space to regather some of the flames that had been scattered around it.

It wasn't a perfect gathering of these flames, but it was at least able to form a weapon.

At the same time, the ogres on the side had also been able to move back to the Kijin's side. They gathered around the Kijin as if they were planning on protecting the Kijin.

These were the ogres that had been trapped by the bindings of the roots.

As for how they had escaped the bindings of the roots, it was that those roots suddenly loosened and allowed them to move. If one looked carefully, they would have seen that those roots had loosened on their own.

But no one really paid attention to the ogres since they were focused on the Kijin.

In the end, there was someone that couldn't take it anymore and charged forward.

It didn't seem like they were using their brains at all as they charged right at the Kijin.

The little sparrow on his shoulder became a whirlwind that soon surrounded him as he charged forward. It was a dive in the form of a tornado that was centered right at the Kijin.

But all that did was cause him to be surrounded in flames when the Kijin waved its sword of flames.

This wind just went to feed the flames of the Kijin.

The Kijin's flames were just too strong for this wind to resist, so it didn't take long before there was a whirlwind of flames that surrounded that person.

But the others took advantage of this by charging forward while there was this tornado of flames in the center of this place. The tornado of flames was actually intense enough that it pushed back the ogres, which caused them to scatter.

It was so intense that the Kijin didn't seem to have control of it.

The combination between the two had actually created a disaster for everyone.

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Though it was also a chance.

At this point, there was no need to care about one's image and they were all scrambling to be the one to take down the Kijin.

There were even people that started attacking each other in an attempt to get to the Kijin first to land the last blow.

It really seemed like a mad scramble for the final hit on the Kijin.

What no one noticed was that Leaf and the World Tree Team were watching all of this with smiles on their faces. It was as if they had already predicted all of this happening, but then again…it was also because of Leaf and the World Tree Team that this was happening.

They were the ones that had been manipulating things in the background to reach this conclusion.

After this commotion erupted, it didn't seem like anyone was going to back down as they all charged at the Kijin. At this point, it was make or break as they had to take down the Kijin before anyone else could.

The only one that was still calm was me.

I had noticed everything about the World Tree Team from the beginning, so I didn't fall for the cheap bait.

I knew that they had something else planned, so it was only a matter of time before they actually put their plan in action.

Once that happened, there was no doubt that the people rushing forward would regret this.

Only I couldn't figure out what they were planning to do or how they were planning to turn this situation around.

It seemed like it was too much of a mess for them to clean up, even if they were one of the top contenders.

But in the end, I was wrong about this.

With the flame tornado and the ogres fighting back, there were quite a few of these other humans that were injured while trying to take the Kijin for themselves. They had to put their lives on the line if they wanted to do something like steal the Elite Monster from one of the top contenders.

At the same time, they were also looking back at the World Tree Team from time to time to make sure that they weren't actually doing anything.

Eventually, there were some people that approached the Kijin.

It seemed that it was only a matter of time before they took them down.

But before they could actually hit the Kijin, there was something that happened to the Kijin's body.

There were these small movements that came from the Kijin's skin, almost as if there was something that was moving under its skin. These small things moved around a bit before they suddenly came out of the Kijin's body.

It was a bunch of sprouts that suddenly appeared from the Kijin's body.

After these sprouts appeared, they quickly blossomed all over the Kijin's body, but…

"Ah!"