As the guard captain and the rest struggled, they noticed that the vines on the injured people are going after the wounds that were inflicted on them and trying to restrain them more and more.
At this moment, the illusion created by Sam in the surroundings disappeared. The black cloaked figure also disappeared without a trace as if it was never there.
Noah and Kumar can be seen on either side of the group. Both crouching down with their hands on the ground.
Sam stood on the third side with a staff in his hands and a leisurely smile on his face.
As they were revealed, so was the formation.
The trees in the surroundings rapidly extended their branches and became intervened and created a barrier of branches which were protected by the combined wood elemental energy of the forest.
Sam activated his energy vision to take a look at the energy flow and he can see all the wood elemental energy and vitality being sucked out from the rest of the forest surrounding and it was being transferred to the trees that are surrounding the group.
Noah willed and a lot of poison was being emitted by these trees into the circle of the group making them inhale it.
The guards became vigilant and held their breath as they tried to shield the injured parts of their body with their spiritual energy and attacked the vines around their legs.
The guard captain with his superior senses could feel it even if the rest of the guards who are in panic could not. The vines are sucking their vitality out of their bodies and it would only decrease their chance of their survival more and more.
Guard captain followed by some of the guards finally managed to get rid of the vines coiling the ground. They immediately made their move as they attacked different spots of the barriers.
But their attacks are being repelled. If that was the only problem they would have been a bit content, but out of nowhere, spears condensed by pure wood elemental energy are being condensed behind them and are being shot at them from the backs.
They hurriedly tried to block them, but even if that happened, the residual force is enough to make their wounds get worse.
Noah and Kumar are hurriedly using all their concentration and energy to make the formation work at full capacity.
Noah is making sure that they stayed there with the barrier and the branches and weakening them with the poison and occasional vines that are catching them by surprise. She is also responsible for channeling all the energy of the forest into the formation.
Kumar is in charge of the direct attacks and he is using the energy Noah dragged from the forest to make these spears with her cooperation.
Sam smiled at this.
"Like hell, you don't have anything going on. It seems like I need to prepare another wedding gift."
He muttered to himself as he slowly spun his staff and moved towards the barrier.
He just waited at the entrance patiently while playing with the staff.
Inside the chaos increased as various attacks landed and the barrier sucked up more energy from the forest making many trees wither and die rapidly.
After five more minutes of this, the guard captain had enough of it and got ready to use his trump card to break through this barrier and took out another dagger.
But as soon as he gathered energy, he noticed that he felt weaker than ever. He looked at his skin and saw a lot of green boils appearing out of nowhere.
Not just him, the rest of the group also noticed this green boils on themselves and the weaker they are, the higher their number is.
One of the injured guards hurriedly rubbed them which made them pop. Green pus came out of it and as it spread among the skin which is still clear, it became green, and boils started appearing.
He fell on the ground as his energy depleted and a spear lodged itself into his heart.
The vines coiled around him and soon a plant started sprouting from his body and rapidly grew into a small-sized tree and even bore fruits.
The fruits looked green and eerie.
The guard captain knew that the situation is only going to get worse and the inner disciple panicked as he took all kinds of medicines and antidotes to chug down his throat as he looked at the faint green boils on his right arm.
He is the one least affected because of the artifacts.
Everything went past in the blink of an eye.
The guard captain held two daggers in a backhanded position and leaned forward a bit.
The spiritual energy started gathering at the ends of the daggers as he gritted his teeth and focused all his concentration on one point he has been attacking for a while.
The dent he has placed is already being recovered, but he didn't care and lunged forward as he opened his arms causing two-blade rays to be shot at the point forming a cross.
He followed those rays and brought the daggers down at the same point.
The four attacks landed on the point consequently. The four rays forming two crosses sliced through the layers of the barriers.
Noah frowned at the sheer power coming at the barrier and she gritted her teeth as she sucked as much energy as possible to recover it faster.
Kumar is also attacking the guard captain with spears from the rear.
The captain finally lost it and didn't care about the attacks from the rear as he crazily attacked in the front. He is adding more and more sharp rays to the existing ones to increase the pressure.
Sam looked around and noticed the trees withering rapidly.
He frowned at the scene and felt like things wouldn't go well if they go on like this.
He activated energy vision and looked at the barrier to check its durability and the attacks that are happening at it.
He frowned and walked to the exact point where the attacks are happening.
Even though Noah is using the energy from the whole forest, most of it is going to waste as he is doing so forcefully and in a hurry. It wouldn't be enough to stop this attack.
He took a few steps backward and made his right side face the barrier as he held the staff in his hands with one end pointing that barrier.
He slowly activated partial spatial fusion as he took a deep breath and yelled.
"Kumar stop the attacks."
Kumar who is on the opposite end frowned for a moment, but still stopped the attacks.
"Noah, let the barrier loosen at that point."
Noah frowned and opened her eyes.
Sam looked at her and said.
"Trust me and loosen the barrier."
She hesitated a bit and did as she was told.
As soon as the barrier was loosened a bit, Sam tightened his grip on the staff and lunged forward before disappearing from the spot.
The barrier tore open and a gust of dagger rays came out destroying the surroundings and the guard captain also stumbled forward making him stop his hand movements awkwardly in the middle with the disappearance of the barrier and this also made him stumble more.
Within that fraction of a second, Sam bypassed all the dagger rays that just hit the spot he was standing before and appeared in front of the guard captain, in the same posture he was in before.
He stabbed the staff forward which landed straight in the guts of the captain which made him freeze on the spot.
He couldn't move for a moment and he could even feel his blood circulation stopping. His body is imbalanced as he fell forward, but Sam forcefully rose his staff upwards as it tore through the flesh and finally went through the throat and landed on the chin squarely.
*CRACK*
A cracking sound was heard as the staff completely lodged into the broken chin and Sam forcefully ripped it apart and pulled the staff back making the guard captain fall forward.
He then kicked him back into the barrier forcefully and Noah who caught a breather hurriedly swallowed the brown fruits similar to the ones she gave Sam earlier and recovered.
The guard captain felt the blood circulation release once again, but that only made the blood seep out of the long tear on his body.
Vines appeared from under him and covered him completely from all sides. A sprout appeared and then started growing rapidly turning into a small tree with a bunch of green fruits and these are bigger and brighter than the ones before.
The guard group who just felt relieved were swallowed by despair as they couldn't find in themselves to get out of the barrier.
And one of the weakest ones fell immediately only to be swallowed by the vines all over.
He was then followed by another one and another and another one.
