77 Plant Beasts & Emotions Let loose

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Name: Ent Puppet

Age: Adult (Doesn't Age)

Attribute: Wood

Level: 43

STR: 25(+232), AGI: 30(+214), VIT: 50(+260)

INT: 20(+186), PER: 25(+133), WIL: 0(+37)

Weakness: Fire, Destroying the Ent, Destroying their real bodies

Strengths: Always connected with the main body

Description: Created by an Ent it received 50% of the Ent's bonus stats. Its natural stats are the same for every puppet.

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Lachlan was shocked by the information, he scanned the rest of them and everything came out the same. Every single guard was a puppet.

It also made sense to how they were found out so fast. Turns out, the moment they landed they had already been spotted. "If only we could tame it," Lachlan thought. They could use Flynn but if something bad were to happen they would lose him.

'But wait a minute, how is the military connected to it?' Lachlan asked him.

He quickly came to the realisation that this meant the Ent had already infiltrated the military. Probably through the puppets, as they were always connected to it. If a high-ranking soldier were to have come here and been turned into a puppet, it would make perfect sense as to why the military continues to come here, transporting people.

'Wait just a second' Lachlan looked to his side towards the vines, since they were being surrounded by puppets, that could only mean they were too close to the main body for its comfort.

"Analyse"

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Name: Ent

Age: Elder

Attribute: Wood

Level: 53

STR: 50(+465), AGI: 0(+429), VIT: 500(+521)

INT: 67(+372), PER: 100(+267), WIL: 29(+74)

Weakness: Fire, Destroying the main bodies roots

Strengths: Creates Ent Puppets by consuming animals, can connect itself to all plant life surrounding

Description: The tree that lived long enough to obtain sentience, gaining wisdom similar to mankind. Through its abilities it causes fear through the forests, forcing animals to submit to it through its overwhelming power.

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Lachlan's theory was right, they were completely surrounded by it since the beginning.

He never thought that his first time coming across a plant beast it would be trying to kill him. He thought it would be gentler, maybe wise and old like those Ents in all the fantasy movies.

Seeing Lachlan stare at it the vines began to wiggle, their tips that were hanging from the ceiling moved and pointed towards the group.

They shot off towards them, fortunately, Lachlan had already discovered its ploy and was ready. He opened his mouth and exhaled, creating a massive fireball to shoot towards those vines, burning them to a crisp.

The still surviving burnt vines and leaves fell around them, the puppets seemed to have felt that pain. Which likely meant that they shared everything with the Ent, including all 5 senses.

Lachlan knew of something they could do to cause some more damage.

"Simon, make sure we don't get burnt!" Lachlan shouted out him before putting his hands together, smoke began to rise from them.

Simon immediately realised what Lachlan was about to do. He quickly created water and spread droplets around them, almost forming a complete barrier. He wanted to leave some space for Lachlan's attack.

Lachlan bent over and smacked his hands on the ground, a circle of fire burst from them spreading to the surroundings, Simon, Zhang, Joe, and Zoe all jumped at the same time, just missing the fire. The flames travelled across all surfaces due to how much plant life was here, and it wouldn't rest until it was all gone.

The puppets were hit and lit into a blazing fire, the wood used to craft them began to burn and began ash. Lachlan knew there was something else they could do but wasn't sure how well it would work, mainly because he learnt it in science before the evolution.

He kept his hands where they were and used his control of the wind to give his flames a gentle breeze. The gentle breeze caused the flames to intensify and spread faster, cleaning out their hall in seconds.

"We're about to leave, we found what we wanted and are going to go back to the base," Lachlan said to his mic, letting everyone hear them.

"Alright," They all said, as long as they got what they wanted then this operation could be counted as a success.

Lachlan and his group jumped out the hole they previously made and dashed off the roof. They sprinted through the forest, picking up Brianna, Georgia, and Phoebe along the way.

Chloe had already begun retreating when she noticed the military, her crocodiles quickly made there way back to her she unsummoned them.

Once they made it back to Flynn, Lachlan summoned Temp, quickly getting everyone one they shot off.

The moment they emerged from the shrubbery bullets flew past. Fortunately, the military was still far away so their accuracy was on point. But due to the sheer volume of bullets fired they were still hit a couple of times, but nowhere vital.

Lachlan decided he would tell everyone once they were home, well, that was what he was going to do. But along the way home, Flynn was complaining about how he couldn't get into its system, he couldn't even find its system.

"That's because it wasn't a lab," Lachlan's statement confused them.

"What do you mean?" Flynn asked he was extremely curious about this.

"That whole building and surrounding vegetation have been taken over by an Ent," Lachlan explained.

"You talking about one of those talking trees in Lord of the Rings?" Zhang asked, as Lord of the Rings was one of his favourite movies.

"Yeah, except this one is not kind, but rather violent, it's not an understatement to call it a tyrant," Lachlan said.

"So how is the military involved?" Chloe asked, she was the first to notice the military and it certainly wasn't a small size group.

"From what I know, the Ent has possibly taken control over one of the military's superiors. The Ent can create a puppet of any creature they eat, so should the superior get too close to the Ent's mouth, they would have been eaten," Lachlan explained.

"So the things being transported?" Simon asked with a grim expression, he could already piece together the clues but didn't want it to be true.

"Likely sacrifices, people that have probably tried creating riots, that way it makes sense for the military to take them away," Lachlan said.

Everyone understood the Ent's thinking, it made complete sense to take control of beasts and let them do their bidding than to do it itself. They all frowned at the thought though, while they didn't like the military they didn't want the Ent to take control of it.

That only created a worse situation for them, especially if its got puppets higher up in the military. Should it have that then it would mean the military is controlled by it, it'll have full control over Australia.

They certainly couldn't have that happen.

"What if I tame it?" Flynn asked abruptly. While everyone thought about it there was too much risk. Especially considering that Flynn himself was not stronger than it, meaning the Ent wouldn't recognise his strength.

"No, that's too risky," Chloe was the first to oppose his suggestion.

"But it's the first time I'll even have a chance to tame something," Flynn tried to argue back, but Chloe wouldn't have it.

"You don't need to tame anything, it's alright to be normal," Chloe said calmly.

"But it isn't!" Flynn shouted back at her.

"Huh," Chloe was shocked, it was the first time Flynn has acted like this.

"Do you think I like sending my only friends on missions where there's a chance they might not all come back. Do you think I want to be constantly protected, being the biggest burden in the group, all because I don't have a tamed beast? Do you know how pathetic I feel when I see you all takes hits that were directed at me, or when you have to carry me because I'm too slow, or when I don't even have a choice to join any missions because I'm too weak? Tell me, do you?" Flynn finally let his emotions loose, along with 6 months of his concerns and thoughts.

Everyone went quiet, no one knew that these were Flynn's real thoughts every time they did something for him. They thought they were being nice, but that kindness also made Flynn feel pathetic.

As for his final question, they didn't know. Most of them have always been strong, and when they weren't they at least had a tame. They've already forgotten what it's like to be a normal person.