Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～ - Chapter 473

473 – The Chronicle of Treant-san’s Struggle

I search for a troll mandragora, confirm that it’s not another greengreens, then approach with the treant by my side. I stop a short distance away and urge the treant on. After glancing at me, it resignedly walks forwards.

Still a short distance away, it creates a ball of earth with [Clay Sphere], when suddenly the troll mandragora emerges and lunges forward. I immediately activate [Gravity]. Black light enfulgs the surroundings, and the troll mandragora stops… Of course, treant-san also stops.

No, if anything, treant-san has it worse. The force of [Gravity] has pressed it against ground and twisted its trunk. The troll mandragora is forced to crawl, but looks like it’s just barely able to move. I only made it worse.

D-damn it. What can I do? Should I have approached from the opposite side so that only the troll mandragora would be in range?

No… I know what to do. I reach out with my tail to pick up the treant and place it on my head. A-alright, now we can dodge!

The troll mandragora edges closer. I dip my head down to dodge its huge mouth, taking treant-san with me. Great, this can work. It’s a bit cheap, but lets go with this strategy. Don’t fall off, treant!

With my head close to the ground, I continuously dodge the attacks of the troll mandragora. In the meantime, the treant uses [Clay Sphere] to shoot the troll mandragora with balls of earth. The gratifying sound of hard earth hitting wood rings out. Now if that did even a little damage, then…!

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Species: Troll Mandragora

Condition: Normal

Lv: 54/80

HP: 519/541

MP: 186/186

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I-it’s hardly any…! Also, isn’t the troll mandragora a recovery specialist? I-is this really going to be enough to chip away at it?

It’s not like treant-san’s level is going to rise on its own. The problem is treant-san’s fundamental lack of the speed, skills, or attack damage needed to fight in close quarters, and also that the damage from treant-san’s long range attacks is just too little.

I-if we can raise the level even a little, it should get easier. Either way, we have to get through this battle…! Do it, treant-san!

From then on I keep my neck in constant motion to dodge while treant-san single-mindedly shoots one [Clay Sphere] after the next. You’re doing good, treant-san! Try and hit the same spot multiple times! If you can shave away some of the bark, it should deal a little more damage!

After a while of continuing the back-and-forth dance of offence and defence, to my surprise, a second and then a third shot hit in the exact same spot. The first slightly dents the surface, then the second enlarges the dent and the third shaves away bark. Great job! Keep it up, treant-san!

『Master-dono… I might have used up all my mana.』

…W-we’re still on the first one though… Eh? For real?

I check the troll mandragora’s status.

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Species: Troll Mandragora

Condition: Normal

Lv: 54/80

HP: 455/541

MP: 143/186

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It’s still perfectly healthy! Even afterl all those [Clay Spheres]… This can’t be…

If I think about it, this thing’s stats make it a slightly softer version of the giant centipede. With that in mind, it might not be so surprising that even when attacking unilaterally, the damage treant-san was able to deal was so little.

We should have tried to find a weaker target. I’ve been trying to copy the model of how I raised Aro’s level to everyone else, even though Aro has a blessed stat distribution and skill composition while treant-san’s stats and skills are terrible enough for me to wonder if it’s cursed. The difference between their abilities is so vast that, in a fight between them, it would take ten copies of treant-san before Aro would have a chance of losing.

I close my eyes and swing my foreleg. My claw attack surpasses distance to tear through the troll mandragora. It flips up and stops moving.

【1053 experience points have been acquired.】

【Due to the title skill [Walking Egg: Lv -], an additional 1053 experience points have been acquired.】

【The level of [Oneiros] has risen from 61 to 63.】

…Part of it is because some of the experience went to treant-san, but my level really has gotten harder to raise. No, I suppose going up even a single level is still fast.

I see that treant-san’s level has risen from【Lv: 15/60】to【Lv: 20/60】. Ugeh… It’s not much… What’s worse is that treant-san is completely out of MP now. N-no, I suppose I should be glad the level has gone up at all… Umm… Treant, did you learn any new skills?

『…[Decoy] and [Statue].』

[Decoy] was a skill that Adofu had, but I don’t know [Statue]. I’ll take a look.

【Normal skill [Statue]】

【Turns the user to steel, sharply raising defence】

【However, movement is impossible while it is active.】

…This must be what the eating trolls had. I see now. It’s a combo of [Antipower] to lower their attack, [Decoy] to draw their attention, and [Statue] to raise defence. It sounds good, but please learn some more proactive skills! For that matter, why are you doing getting magic skills when you have so little MP?

『They’re not much use…』

『S-sorry, I didn’t mean to get upset at you, treant-san.』

This area might be a bit much for power levelling treant-san.

『By the way… Umm… I do have a means of rapidly recovering mana…』

『Y-you do?』

『If I spread my roots in fertile soil… I think my recovery should be a bit faster…』

…That reminds me, you did have that [Take Root] skill. So that’s what it does. 

『I apologise deeply for asking this, but… If I were to spread my roots around master-dono’s mana-rich body, my recovery might be rather quick…』

『…Oh?』

…For a while after that, I remain crouched down on the ground with the treant on my back, spreading its roots comfortably across my body… This won’t lead to my body getting hijacked, right?