"It was truly beautiful."
Talu answered without hesitation.
"Mm."
The woman behind him seemed to speak through her nose.
Talu jolted. The haze in his previously entranced eyes dispersed, clarity returning as his body tensed like a spring pulled to its limit.
Talu twisted his waist in an extraordinary posture, looking much like a snake. His large hand swept across his waist, crushing a small bottle. From another angle, it looked as though he held gray-black mist in his hand, constantly leaking through his fingers.
Any elf who could appear behind him without a sound had to be far stronger than he was. As Talu turned, he saw the woman's breathtakingly beautiful face, but he did not hesitate. The gray-black mist in his palm rapidly scattered toward her face!
The entire process took less than a second. One of Talu's knees had already bent to its limit, and his calf muscles were taut to the extreme. With the slightest exertion, his body could launch itself from the area like a spring.
As long as he leaped into the cluster of giant trees, Talu believed he could evade her pursuit.
However, the scattered gray-black mist did not behave as Talu wished. It stopped before the woman, rigidly fixed in that area, while Talu's calves, stretched to their limit, could no longer exert any force.
There was no wind on the street, as the dense giant trees weakened the flow of air. The green light flickering from the Life Mother Tree's branches grew faster and faster, vaguely forming a meaningless giant face that seemed to mock Talu.
The sky remained so dark. Especially beneath the cover of the giant leaves, moonlight was nearly invisible. Only that eerie green glow made the atmosphere before him even stranger.
Only Talu's eyeballs could move. Sweat