Lu Mian's escape had been inevitable.
Thousands of True Manor resurrectees had basically not participated in this battle. Moreover, Lu Mian and Luo Zhong had already set up illusions and a necromantic evil formation in the forest, allowing them to fully grasp the basic conditions of the Withered Wood Forest.
With Lu Mian's departure, all the illusions spread throughout the Withered Wood Forest were lifted.
But one abnormal factor still remained unresolved.
Lovecraft was trapped deep in a dream and empowered by the Book of the Dead, making it impossible for him to escape the dream. The human side of him had been completely lost. On top of that, most of his physical body had been destroyed by Lu Mian, fully exposing his "essence."
Roar!!
A hundred-meter-tall monster, piled together from countless lumps of rotten flesh and tentacles, was rampaging through the center of the Withered Wood Forest, destroying everything indiscriminately.
Two wings that could not support the weight of its body had grown from the monster's back. Countless holes covered its entire body, and tentacles occasionally grew from within it, lashing the surrounding forest.
Moreover, a layer of sea fog filled the area within a thousand meters of where Lovecraft moved. Anyone who stepped into that domain would be severely affected.
"Masked Dean, what's going on!?"
Standing at the end of a tree trunk, Kim Tae-hyun stared at the enormous foreign object in the distance, cold sweat covering his body.
"An otherworldly demon reincarnate... Lovecraft was never human to begin with. It seems the influence of the Book of the Dead drove him so deeply into the illusion that his true form manifested."
Actually, Lovecraft's current rampage was easy to resolve.
The Masked Dean only needed to cancel her master-servant contract with Lovecraft. Without a ticket, he would naturally