Blood Bait(2)

The battle with the treants ended soon after Richard’s powerhouses arrived. However, the battle had left a logging team of 200 men with less than 50 survivors. Richard himself only managed to make it to the location afterwards, unable to help but sigh at the aftermath.

Pamir was squatted beside the corpse of one of the treants, examining its rings. He stood up soon after Richard’s arrival, “All of them are level 14, elites even in Norland. If only they were two levels higher… Tch, they would have had hearts.” The grand mage had a look of pity on his face.

The saint Scherr kicked the corpse of one of the treants, “These things are valuable anyway.”

Treants were moving treasuries, their core wood one of the best choices when creating superior-grade longbows. At level 16 they developed hearts where their life essence coagulated; these hearts had a wide range of uses, making them more valuable than the rest of their bodies combined....