Crack!
The Formless Blade was razor-sharp, slicing through the black, fleshy roots with ease.
But no sap flowed from the severed roots. Instead, they turned into wisps of gray-green smoke and vanished.
The two freed children showed no sign of relief.
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Their bodies began to turn transparent, like unstable reflections in water. Their numb expressions twisted into eerie smiles.
"Got you..."
The boy's and girl's voices overlapped. They no longer sounded weak, but shrill and piercing.
Their bodies dissolved completely into smoke and merged with the rotting giant tree behind them.
It was a trap!
The thought flashed through Dawn's mind, but it was too late.
Rumble—
The entire ground shook violently.
The earth beneath his feet turned soft in an instant, becoming a churning black swamp.
Countless massive roots, a hundred times thicker than those before, shot up from the swamp. Covered in pustules and twisted human faces, they wove together at astonishing speed, forming a sealed cage that trapped Dawn inside.
Within the cage, the gray-green mist of Withering and pestilence surged in density until it was almost a viscous liquid.
Dawn felt as though he had been thrown into a vat of highly corrosive acid.
The moment his Divine Might shield touched the mist, it hissed and rapidly melted away.
Worse still, an irresistible force of decay struck directly at his Divine Soul, draining his life force at a terrifying rate.
"Damn it!"
Dawn growled and pushed the Flash Shadow law to its limit.
His figure became countless afterimages within the cramped cage as he searched for a gap to escape through.
But the roots kept writhing and growing, filling every opening the instant it appeared.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the forest, Mirror's face suddenly went pale.
Pfft!
The mirrored path she