Chapter 436 – The Proper Use of Plant Magic (1)

“A C-class dungeon. The tomb of the old tree, area A.”

The dungeon of memories, which I hadn’t entered in a while, greeted me with a thick smell as soon as I entered.

There is something strange about this place that makes you feel strange whenever you come in.

Even when the seasons changed, the dampness and stickiness felt throughout the body was not a dungeon with a pleasant atmosphere.

Of course, it must have become an unpopular dungeon that hunters rarely visit.

‘Thanks to that, I had a lot of sex with Cha Yu-ri here.’

Recently, it was one of the spaces that were relatively less visited because there were more things to mix up in dungeons other than the tomb of the old tree.

It was the place where I first met Cha Yu-ri, the place where he and I had sex for the first time, and besides, it was a place filled with all sorts of memories in that it was a dungeon that I had consistently used with Cha Yu-ri until right before I moved to the company.

‘It wouldn’t be bad to go on a date with Cha Yu-ri again soon here after a long time.’

It might seem absurd to someone that two A-class hunters and B-class male hunters would use a C-class dungeon as a date, but since the activity itself in the dungeon was the main purpose in the first place, it was safe, so there was nothing wrong with it.

In addition, because it is an unpopular dungeon, there are few people passing through it, and thanks to so many visits, Cha Yu-ri and I have become accustomed to the complicated geography of the forest.

As I walked into the dungeon while thinking such trivial thoughts, a slightly open space inside the forest appeared before I knew it.

A bed of rocks covered with moss and several monsters came into the snow at the same time.

“For now, let’s roughly check the power.”

Even magic from the same circle had different powers depending on the attributes of the magic or the characteristics of the opponent’s monster.

First of all, I summoned the 1st circle plant magic, ‘Vegetable Branch’, towards ‘Tris’, a tree-shaped C-rank monster that was closest to me.

-Grasp!

‘Okay?’

A type of magic in which a thick tree branch rising from the ground flies to a C-class monster at once, and then attacks the monster’s body.

Like a C-class monster, the reaction speed wasn’t very good, so Tris had no choice but to allow a blow to my surprise attack.

The small tree-shaped monster flew through the air and fell backwards.

‘That, that extreme…’

Of course, of course, this monster cannot be defeated by a C-class monster with a single circle 1 plant magic.

It’s not a story limited to plant magic, and most magic doesn’t show its full power in the 1st circle.

To briefly explain the properties of plant magic, there was a clear difference from pure property magic such as fire or ice magic.

The biggest difference is that it exerts almost perfect power even against monsters of the same element.

It’s plant magic, but it’s actually magic that uses plants for most of its physical power.

In terms of the principle itself, the structure was quite similar to the earth magic that Do Ye-hee used.

Even so, the reason Triss didn’t fall was simply because the ‘vegetable eggplant’ itself was weak magic.

It’s a magic that’s not good enough to kill a D-rank monster with one shot, but there’s no way you can kill a C-rank monster with a single shot.

-Papak! Pak! Grasp!

‘That’s it… !’

The battle that started once had to be finished, so I summoned five or six more vegetable branches around him.

Trapped here and there by a branch rising from the ground, he collapsed and died.

“For now, is this one?”

It was a quest of relatively moderate difficulty, with ten Triss and one Woodrello as the material, so completing the conditions itself wasn’t too difficult.

So, rather than worrying about completing the quest itself, you should focus more on using plant magic properly.

『Plant Magic lv. 1 → lv. 2″

First of all, the 1st circle plant magic was not too efficient for practical use, so I invested points and made it up to level 2.

Yesterday, there were some points I got from hanging out with Eunyoung noona, and I didn’t think there would be any problem even if I used about 100 points right away.

‘Geez, extreme…’

‘Well…’

A group of Tris gathered around me, starting with one Tris dead.

This time, I immediately tested the practicality of using some of the 2nd circle plant magic.

‘Cactus Shot’, which summons a cactus from the ground and blows it at monsters.

‘Seed Explosion’, which summons a flower that produces explosive seeds among a group of monsters, and attacks with a small explosion.

And ‘Vine Binding’, which summons roots and vines from the ground to bind the limbs of monsters.

Since it was an attack using multiple magics at the same time, it dealt fairly effective damage against C-class monsters.

The Triss that rushed around me fell to the ground after a while.

‘That far, that…’

“Um…”

Well, of course he didn’t expect flashy and dramatic magic like the fire magic, ice magic, or Cha Yu-ri’s wind magic that he had used so far.

In the first place, it was only a 2nd circle magic, and if you are going to use this magic properly in battle in the future, you should make it up to 3rd or 4th circle.

However, I couldn’t help but feel that it was a bit unfortunate to use the points that I might have to invest elsewhere to raise the level of plant magic.

Most of the plant magic was physical attack rather than elemental attack, so to be honest, it wasn’t that much of a disappointment to me.

Aside from plant magic, I already had three physical means of attack.

Swordsmanship, spearmanship, and even shieldsmanship.

Of course, the last fight with Do Ye-hee was the only actual attack using the shield technique, but the fact that it was also used against a summoned beast created by an A+-rank hunter meant that it could be used in real combat.

It was difficult to feel the meaning of supplementing physical power through plant magic now.

For wizards who can only deal with the same type of magic, plant magic would be useful enough as an auxiliary tool, but at least that wasn’t the case for me.

“Still, let’s catch Woodrello with plant magic.”

Regardless of whether or not this magic was useful in actual combat, it was necessary to at least raise the proficiency of plant magic itself.

That way, when the time comes, there will be room to use it properly.

And above all, the physical power that can be used in a natural state of the two hands may be used in an unexpected way.

‘Goooooh…’

I heard that even a tiger will come when I say it.

As soon as I started talking about Woodrello, a huge tree monster came in front of me, shaking the ground.

The second match against Woodrello started without warning because the guy noticed my presence.

‘Goo oh oh… !’

The one who swung at me with a huge arm made of solid branches from the start.

Although the memories of the day she first met Seonji Cha-yuri came to mind, of course it was not a time to leisurely reminisce or reminisce.

She had to focus on hunting as much as possible as she decided to catch him using only plant magic.

I would use a spear or other magic if it was going to get really dangerous, but I wanted to deal with him with only plant magic for now.

First of all, I think it would be better to suppress that troublesome movement.

-Wheeik!

‘Goooh… !’

Woodrello with one arm tied to a vine that rose from the ground.

While he was embarrassed that his arms were suddenly tied, this time he also used the vine binding on his left forearm.

Then, his two legs are also blocked by my plant magic…

– Chow!

‘Goooooh… !’

… I tried to, but with a slight twist of my body, my vine restraints were broken too easily.

Well, usually it will be like this.

If Woodrello, a B-rank monster, is easily overpowered by 2-circle plant magic, why would he be treated as a B-rank monster in the first place?

The monsters that the vine bondage can work on are, at most, C-class monsters. Exceptions may exist, but it was good to know the approximate limits.

If it’s difficult to block movement with C-class magic, I’ll have to invest a little more points.

『Plant Magic lv. 2 → lv. 3』

I invested 200 more of my awakening points to raise the plant magic level to 3.

This time, instead of the 2nd circle magic, Binding the Vines, I cast the 3rd circle magic, ‘Tie Roots’, on the guy.

-Pazu means…

‘Well then… ?!’

Woodrello reacted a bit embarrassed by the tighter restraints.

Root Tie was a relatively slow attack compared to Vines Binding, but it was still fast enough to keep up with Woodrelo’s movements.

The stems, made of tissue much tougher than the vines, bound Woodrelo’s limbs together.

Of course, that was only a temporary blockade of movement, but not powerful enough to finish it off.

To kill Woodrello, I needed to blow his head off with another spell.

It would be infinitely simpler to use fire magic or ice magic, but I decided to defeat him today using only plant magic.

If possible, I wanted to properly use plant magic to defeat him until the end.

“If you do powerful 3rd circle plant magic… After all, there is nothing I have done.”

I brought my two hands to the ground, reminding myself of a magic that just happened to come to mind.

As it is, I memorized the 3rd circle plant magic, ‘Rapid Growth’, and aimed precisely at the guy’s head.

-Paaak!

As soon as my spell ended, a thick tree trunk rose from the ground.

A tree rose from the ground and reached Woodrello’s head with great speed.

I continued to blow magic into the ground so that this ‘rapid growth’ would not be interrupted in the middle.

The most basic concept of plant magic is ‘growth’.

The basic principle of plant magic was to use the ‘growth’ keyword to control the magic seeds of plants made with magic.

Like earth magic, since it is ground-based magic, space is limited, and in addition to that, there is another characteristic of plant magic.

It was that plant magic was cast while sucking the magic inside the ground, that is, ‘intellect’, not the magic in the air.

It was a useful attribute in an environment where there was little magic in the air, but on the contrary, it was a magic that was difficult to use in the desert where there was little to no intelligence.

The tomb of this old tree, which sucked most of the brain power of the dead trees, was also a rather difficult environment to expect maximum output.

That’s why I’m supplementing the intellect lacking in rapid growth by infusing mana into the ground.

-Pabaak!

‘Goooooh… !!’

A thick, mighty tree trunk rose from the ground and stretched out toward Woodrelo, growing in a slanting, diagonal direction.

Soon after, the tip of the trunk of the magically created tree pierced the guy’s head.

– Kwajijik!

‘… !’

Woodrello’s corpse collapses with its head flying with a sound like a dying horse.

Although he consumed 300 points in the process of raising his level of magic up to Circle 3, as a result, it was a good enough achievement to be able to catch B-class monsters.

“As long as it blocks movement, it can be used occasionally.”

I’m still not sure if I can use it in other ways.

After completing my own evaluation that it was a bit subtle to use as a main magic, I recovered the core and material of Woodrello that had fallen on the floor.

With this level of utilization ability, I still think that it is not completely out of whack.