Matt's plan of standing back and whittling the tree away was quickly negated by the tree standing up. Its very roots broke the incredibly hard ground as the tree lumbered toward him.
Sending as much mana as his AI could handle, he demanded a combat prediction for this encounter. The threat of a moving tree was on a completely different scale than a stationary one.
The tree lashed out with a single branch, more of a whipping attack than the full-bodied slam it had tried earlier. Aster pelted it with shards of ice and waves of slowing cold, but it seemed to ignore her spells. Its void element’s resistance to magic was already showing its strengths.
Matt sliced through the appendage, and the tree bled purple sludge that ate at his armor.
That gave his AI confirmation it was a void affinit
