CHAPTER 47: TAKEOVER (4)

Every time he felt their hands were about to move, Viney tightened his grip.

Which was more than enough to deter them from doing anything lest they didn’t value their necks.

The original three thugs, except for the mage, also managed to run away soon enough by cutting the vines.

Now, only the two of them, the boss, and two more underlings who had some type of physical enhancement type ability were able to roam free.

"You didn’t say he was a mid tier 2 awakened with a summoning type ability! It was a whole different story!" The boss shouted at the knife guy.

His eyes stared so sharply that they almost cut the knife guy’s neck.

Both the knife guy and the telekinesis guy stood petrified.

Not even the gang boss’s shout could wake them up as their whole body froze in place.

Their eyes stared wide at the nonchalant Ash, who started growing vines out of his body to inject the incapacitated members with more high dosage of verdant wolf venom.

A smack on the back of the head from the boss finally woke the knife guy from his stupor.

"Answer me, you dimwit! Why didn’t you tell me the guy was a summoner!?"

The knife guy’s whole body started shaking.

From the tip of his toe to the top of his head, they all jittered so hard that even the wooden floorboard started making creaking noises.

"S...Si...Sir... He wasn’t a sum...Summoner... We were sure he was a physical type... Our knives couldn’t even put a scratch on his body..."

When the knife guy stopped speaking, the gang boss finally realized what made his two underlings’ heads stop working.

"No... No way... He was a double awakened...?"

Now, even the boss’s hands started trembling.

But he somehow managed to keep them still.

He didn’t reach his current position by being a coward. If he needed to do an extreme measure, then he would do it.

"Attack! Surround him now while his summons are occupied!"

The realization of fighting someone with two types of abilities froze the remaining gang members.

But the boss’s shout woke them up.

Between a chance of being beaten by someone with a double ability and a certain death if they defied the boss’s order, the members moved.

From all directions of his front, 4 people surrounded Ash.

The knife guy and one other guy brandished their weapons. Mana filled their bodies as their physical strength increased.

The telekinesis guy cast his ability from behind once more. Sending the familiar two knives back at Ash again.

The last underling roared and transformed his hands.

Claws and fur grew from his hands. Changing his arm to look similar to a tiger’s claws.

All these attacks swarmed Ash at the same time.

It would be annoying to deal with the attacks one by one.

And while he had already had his vines out, Ash didn’t need to hold back as much.

With a thought, titanroots shot forward from his body.

His braided vine armor he used for his disguise unfurled, and each of them went and met each of the attacks one by one.

The knife guy, the other physical enhancement guy, and even the one with the partial transformation ability were now hung above the floor.

Their shoulders pierced by the titanroot, and all thoughts of fighting back ceased.

The two knives were easily slapped by the titanroot as it made its way to the owner of the knives.

He tried running away again, but with Ash controlling the titanroot himself, there was no way for him to make it out this time.

Ash just rolled the guy into the embrace of the titanroot, covering his whole body and trapping him in a cage of titanroot.

A cage strong enough to even hold the Verdant Stag down.

But Ash knew. The attack wasn’t over.

Thanks to the lovely echolocation, he knew that a certain someone had circled around the room while the 4 underlings moved, appearing on his back.

With a head working well enough not to shout when doing a sneak attack, the gang boss charged forward.

Aiming straight to none other than the back of Ash’s head.

’I got him!’ A blissful thought bloomed in his mind.

But it withered faster than it bloomed.

"Oh? Interesting!"

A new titanroot armor took the place of the previous one as it covered Ash’s forearm.

Just in case, Ash even took his time and used the tier 2 buff ability, doubling his strength on top of the berserker thorn.

As a result, the punch from the Strong Arm Gang boss was stopped in his tracks.

A large boom traveled from the room to even pass Woody’s titanroot cage and the soundproof room.

But nothing else happened.

Ash’s forearm stayed intact.

The gang boss’s wrist stayed unbroken. But the same thing couldn’t be said for his ego, though.

The titanroot finally got a little scratch on its surface.

It was minuscule. But it was a visible scratch nonetheless.

Ash was amazed by the feat. Even he couldn’t do something like that without the acid and the slug’s enzyme.

But what did the boss know?

He only knew that his strongest attack only left a scratch that was barely visible to the naked eye, even from up close and personal.

Even without poison or follow up attacks, the boss stayed in place.

It looked like every spirit in his body was lost, broken.

"You’re no tier two awakened..."

He muttered, his voice barely loud enough for the remaining gang members who weren’t convulsing on the floor to hear.

"You’re a tier 3 physical type double awakened... With a summoning ability nonetheles..."

Upon hearing the boss’s voice, even the other underlings who hadn’t been injected by the verdant wolf’s venom stopped resisting.

They just ceased their fight.

There’s no more will for them to try and do anything anymore.

Even with a single tier 3 awakened, the strongest tier there was on Earth, they were already powerless.

But with a tier 3 double awakened, then what else could matter?

As for Ash, the boss’s words didn’t mean anything.

He was a null after all.

"Um... Thanks for making this quick...?"