CHAPTER 36: [36]EVOLUTION; SUPER-SOLDIER 7

The moment Levi stepped outside, he was instantly assaulted from all sides.

"Boom!"

The spiky vines lashed at him from all sides!

The branches of the massive trees bent and twisted, powerful whips that slammed down at him from above.

Even the glowing fungi on the trees spat out clouds of poisonous spores that erupted from every corner!

However, Levi didn’t just wait to die.

His blade was like a rotor as he slashed with incredible speed, forming some sort of blade barrier around him. Anywhere he passed was sliced through by his blade, severing plants like a blender slicing fruits to make beverages!

Sometimes he had no choice but to use his lightning speed techniques to dodge the worst of the attacks, his cleaver a silver barrier blur as he cut down everything that got in his way.

After a while he noticed inferno slash wa Steve bear ar clearing path die ti its internal properties. And he started to use his `Inferno Slash` to burn paths through the thickest parts of the grass, and he used his raw, physical strength to shatter the attacking tree branches.

He was still surprised as to why the forest suddenly come alive and turned against him?

Then, a memory from a book he had read in the academy’s library surfaced in his mind. It was a book about the strange and dangerous phenomena of dimensional zones.

The book spoke of a rare event called a Blood Moon Frenzy, a time when the world itself would try to kill any invader and his face changed slightly. He was actually in the middle of a Blood Moon Frenzy!

He instantly figured out that if he remained here any longer, he wouldn’t be able to win and after a while he would get exhausted and then overwhelmed by the monsters. There were thousands, maybe millions of plants within this place!

He couldn’t kill them all. He just needed to escape.

Levi fought his way forward, pushing deeper the forest, hoping to find a clearing or a rocky area.

But the forest seemed endless. And the attacks were getting stronger but it was better than been trapped at the cave. Otherwise he would have been overwhelmed without knowing what had happened.

The vines he was facing at this omelet were getting stronger and some were as tough as steel cables, and the tree branches forces hit with the force of a battering ram.

He was no longer just fighting Rank 2 plants. He was now facing enemies with the strength of Rank 3 and Rank 4 strength with the fire power of rank 5 at the minimum.

He was so busy fighting that he didn’t see the true danger until it was too late.

Levi had just slashed through a web of rank 5 branches and had landed in a clearing when the entire ground in front of him erupted.

"BOOM!"

A massive tree, far larger than any of the others, rose from the earth. Its trunk was a monstrous with twisted body, and its highest branches formed a monstrous, roaring face.

It was a Treant, and its aura it exuded was massive that Levi’s face changed and he knew it was one of a powerful Rank 8 dimensional beast!

Levi didn’t have time to react.

A dozen of the Treant’s branches, each one as thick as a man’s body as as strong as a rank6 branch attack slammed down on him.

"Divine Tiger Thunder Might!"

Levi roared.

Instantly, his eyes crackled with lightning as crimson streaks of thunder filled his body as intense power exploded from him, and instantly, hi ls entire body swoll up.

In that instant, his canines expanded past his lips and his face elongated to form a snort of a tiger and he basically transformed into a being mixed between a tiger and a human being.

Thunder crackled all over him like a thunder storm as he transformed and his claws enchanted and his body instantly a three meters long humanoid tiger body.

"BOOM!!!"

The ground cracked under the force of the impact, and the shockwaves destroyed all the surrounding grasses nearby, shattering them to pieces.

The force blasted Levi several steps backwards as his arms trembled violently.

His face changed drastically. "Too strong."

He immediately knew fighting here was useless.

"Tiger Thunder Step!"

"Boom!"

The air exploded as Levi transformed into a streak of red lightning, dodging the Treant’s attacks. He ised the least bit of attack to try to fight back.

He ran, weaving through the forest in a blur.

The Treant roared in fury, but its massive size made it slow. After a tense and destructive chase, Levi finally managed to break free from its attack range.

He didn’t stop running as he attacked with his strength, his body covered in small cuts and scrapes. He finally understood the true terror of the Blood Moon.

Levi knew it was almost impossible to kill the beast and ran all the way back to the only place he knew was safe: the grotto behind the waterfall. The plants there had already been cleared by his earlier fight with the Stone Titan.

And in that moment he crashed through the curtain of water and collapsed inside.

He was truly tired and exhausted!

Levi slumped to the cold floor of the grotto, his chest rising up and down as he breath heavily with pounding heart.

The Rank 8 Treant was incredibly powerful, coupled with the fact that it possess more then triple its strength, it was even more terrifying! Even a peak level 9 Super-soldier would undoubtedly die in its hands.

The only reason he was able to escape was its limited agility.

The Blood Moon had turned this entire dimension into a living hell, where even the plants and trees wants to feed in human blood.

He looked over at his shoulder, where the little mole-like thief was still sleeping peacefully. Its small body was surrounded by a faint golden light making Levi sigh in relief.

At least it hadn’t gotten the natural berserk ability in his head.

Clearing his head, he knew he couldn’t just sit here and wait for the Blood Moon to end. He was trapped, and the world outside was filled with berserk monsters. If he wanted to live, he needed to get stronger.

Levi sighed and then pushed himself into a sitting position, and cleared his mind.

He had just escaped a fight with a Rank 8 monster. He might meet an even worse creature therefore he needed to grow stronger.

Levi brought out a bottle and sipped a few drops of the geo milk and instantly, energy flowed into his muscles and his arching body started to be refreshed.

He placed the bottle back into his ring and then closed his eyes and began to circulate his meditation technique.

Instantly, the energy within the air began to surge as they penetrated through the vortex of his pores, pulling the rich void energy of the grotto into his body.

Hewas close to the next rank, and now was the perfect time to make that final push.

He focused all of his will, all of his determination, into this one task. He activated his system, hoping for a bit of luck.

[Ding! Random multiplier activated: 2,500x!]

It wasn’t as high as his last one, but it was more than enough.

A powerful wave of pure energy surged through him.

He gritted his teeth, as he felt his meridians expand as energy surged through his body, saturating his muscles bones and his very cells.

After a few moments of intense, agonizing pressure, he felt a barrier inside him shatter. A new, deeper well of power opened up within him.