God of Tricksters

“A Dragon?!” The soldiers on the ground were shocked because they were never aware of Theo’s ability in morphing to another creature.

“Does our commander possess the ability to change his shape?”

“I don’t know. There is no news about it.”

“Don’t tell me, he has been hiding this trump card this whole time?”

The soldiers were completely dumbfounded by what they found. At the same time, it also gave them some hope since Theo finally used his trump card to turn the situation around.

When he became a dragon, two roots came toward him. However, Theo knocked them down with a single punch. It felt like Theo didn’t use all his abilities either like last time.

Since Theo had become a dragon, he could use his weight and strength to handle the roots himself. That was why the soldiers cheered.

“GO! Commander!”

“Kill that tree!”

The soldiers cheered for Theo. At the same time, numerous soldiers from the reserve army had arrived, pushing back the monsters. These fresh troops were strong, so they instantly crushed the enemies and gave some breathing room to the other soldiers.

This chain of advantageous situations boosted the troops’ morale.

Theo had been waiting for this. Now that he had changed into a dragon, he gathered all the Magic Power in his throat before using his Mirage World to copy the lightning.

He used the clash between the Lightning Saint and the Frost Saint as the image of his copy. Back then, the Frost Saint threw his club while the Lightning Saint released his breath. Even with only a brief clash, the entire area was destroyed and the shock wave coming from them swept everything away.

This was the same. After imbuing the lightning element into his breath, Theo released it forth in the form of a laser.

Even the tree before him seemed to be startled by this strength as a series of wooden gates appeared between them, stopping the lightning beam.

The wooden gates appeared one by one in clockwise directions as if trying to lock the laser up. But because it was in the form of a laser, the wooden gates ended up splitting the laser into a few parts and gradually destroying it.

“…” Theo frowned, knowing this was the monster’s Wood Prison. ‘Since that’s the case…’

Theo changed his shape again from a dragon to a snake.

The tree hurriedly extended its roots, trying to impale him but to no avail. Theo had been using his Supernatural Snake Body to protect himself.

Although he was occupied with a lot of things, he never forgot to continue his practice of the Five Aspects.

He had mastered Awareness, Control, and Technique. So, there were only Breathing and Endurance left.

Luckily, his Endurance had improved so much due to the constant beating from his Telekinesis, allowing him to almost reach the last stage of Endurance.

It might be disappointing that Theo hadn’t completed his training on Endurance, but even without it, Theo’s skin was pretty hard, especially due to the Supernatural Snake Body, whose power was already close to what the Jormugand had in the past.

With this kind of skin, Theo moved forward as a snake, avoiding all the roots he could dodge while letting the others hit him. It hurt, but it still didn’t leave any scratches on his body.

Seeing Theo advancing without fear, the tree utilized another skill, the Branch Labyrinth. This time, the branches began to extend toward Theo as if it was trying to stab him to death.

However, the branches ended up getting shattered after contact and the others ultimately impaled the ground.

Theo noticed the sudden change.

“I see. This is the labyrinth, huh,” Theo muttered inwardly, noticing how dense the branches were. It seemed the enemy planned to confuse him for a while before taking him down.

Since that was the case, Theo stopped and raised his head, spitting out the poison that melted the branches.

To his surprise, the branches had resistance against poison. Even though it managed to corrode it, the branches were totally fine as if asking Theo to continue moving in his labyrinth.

Knowing it would just lead him to a trap, Theo changed his shape back to human. Since the branches were big, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to slip past the gap between them.

Theo took advantage of their difference in size to move forward, getting as close as possible. He thought the tree had an advantage in ranged battle, so he chose to change it to close combat.

The tree felt the change in Theo and hurriedly changed its approach. Many spikes began to appear on each branch and suddenly expanded.

“!!!” Theo widened his eyes and jumped to the side, barely avoiding the spikes. The entire labyrinth disappeared, leaving only some small gaps between the thorns.

‘Seriously? This tree is so dangerous.’ Theo frowned before flying to the top with his Telekinesis. He wanted to use his World Re-Creation to manipulate reality, but the tree was so big that it could simply cover the distance the expansion made just by moving. That was why he hated fighting against a big monster.

As soon as Theo reached the top, he used his Blink to appear on top of the Branch Labyrinth.

After that, he changed back into a dragon and released a roar.

𝒪𝐯𝗅xt.𝐜𝔬𝓶

This time, the roar was made of Fire Element. Due to their distance, the wood didn’t have enough time to extend its branches or roots to block it, so the fireball ended up hitting his trunk.

Unfortunately, the trunk was suddenly covered in gold, spreading the fire evenly on its surface. No matter how hard the fire tried to burn it, the trunk wouldn’t catch fire.

“Tsk. Even fire is useless…” Theo frowned and flew forward, trying to use his claw to scratch that golden trunk.

The tree also didn’t plan to hold back anymore. Suddenly, a tenth of the tree leaves turned gold and began to fall down.

When Theo saw the description of the tree leaves, he gasped, watching how thousands of tree leaves flew toward him.

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*Boom!*