After discovering the pheromones in the air, Shinji floated up and looked down at the base of the Divine Tree.
"As I thought."
His pupils contracted slightly, and he let out a quiet sigh.
Just as he had guessed, the area around the base of the Divine Tree was already piled high with the remains of the Breeding Overlord's Flesh Puppets. Layer upon layer of them formed heaps like small mountains. At a glance, they looked like a ring of mountains surrounding the Divine Tree.
"That's unbelievable!"
Looking at the mountains of corpses, Shinji couldn't help but exclaim.
He also noticed what seemed to be a new type of Flesh Puppet among the remains—one that was larger and more terrifying than the previous models!
Fortunately, no matter how powerful these Flesh Puppets were, they were still made of flesh and blood. Shinji's Truth-Seeking Orb could still suppress them for now, keeping them from reaching and damaging the Divine Tree.
Soon, Shinji returned to the top of the Divine Tree and gently placed a hand on its trunk.
Through the Divine Tree's feedback, Shinji gained a more accurate and detailed picture of T33. After several weeks of attacks from both within and without, T33's spatial barrier was weakening faster than the models predicted by "Glory" Alice and "Greedy Wolf" Hengo.
T33 could no longer last a year or two. It couldn't even hold out for another six months.
In two or three months at most, cracks would appear in the spatial barrier. By then, the Breeding Overlord's power would invade directly, just as it had during the final days of the Demon Slayer World, when apocalyptic signs appeared in the sky and everything began to collapse and disintegrate!
Still, from Shinji's personal perspective, this might not be a bad thing.
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