Before Matthew stood a giant tree built from rectangular stone pillars with black bases and dark red patterns, stacked one atop another.
From a distance, it even resembled a pile of building blocks, reminding Matthew of the LEGO toys he had played with in his previous life.
The trunk of the stone tree was covered in countless holes. Unlike the Birdsong Pine, whose holes were used to prey on insects, the holes in the stone tree had become nests for swarms of Unicorn Stone Insects.
At that moment, dense swarms of stone insects flew out from the holes in the stone tree.
The dark mass of stone insects surged toward Matthew.
Matthew used the same trick again. He took out a solid iron ball and transformed it into a massive iron rod, then used an Invisible Hand to sweep the rod at the Unicorn Stone Insects.
The Unicorn Stone Insects were utterly fragile. Those struck by the iron rod shattered into chunks of stone and fell from the air.
For a moment, it was as if black gravel were raining from the sky.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last. There were simply too many Unicorn Stone Insects in this swarm. Even though Matthew repeatedly controlled the Invisible Hand to swing the iron rod, the insects rushing forward in droves still closed in on him.
As soon as the Unicorn Stone Insects approached the Invisible Hand, the long horns atop their heads, black-based and patterned in dark red, instantly pierced through it.
The Invisible Hand dispersed in midair. The uncontrolled iron rod fell, dropping through the gaps between the stone pillar platforms into the endless Gray Fog-like void below.
Seeing this, Matthew immediately urged the Invisible Hand beneath him to retreat.
Like the batch he had encountered before, these stone