Sunlight filtered through the lush forest canopy, leaving dappled shadows.
A gentle breeze stirred the branches and leaves between the towering trees standing side by side.
"Crack!"
A dry leaf snapped beneath someone's foot.
Sosuke's figure slowly appeared.
Before this, Sosuke had encountered many enormous beasts in the lush forest.
He had cut them all down!
His observations afterward only confirmed his suspicions: these beasts were trapped within the forest, yet had gained a mysterious power that made them enormous.
As he pressed on, the beasts grew larger and larger. Sosuke suspected that the source of their immense size lay somewhere ahead.
With a glimmer of interest in his eyes, Sosuke strolled calmly through the forest.
He continued onward for a while, and soon, just as he had expected,
a massive ancient ruin appeared before him.
The huge cave ruin looked as if it had been carved straight into the mountainside. A gleam flashed in Sosuke's eyes, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
"As I thought... this must be the place... the mystery hidden on Turtle Island..."
A massive, clearly man-made doorway stood at the cave entrance. Sosuke walked up to it and examined it carefully.
When he spotted a strange protruding sculpture outside the doorway, apparently marking the mechanism to open it, his brow furrowed slightly.
"Someone... has already beaten me here?"
"From the looks of it... they've been here for a while."
Sosuke murmured softly.
As he spoke, his gaze flicked to the strange protruding sculpture, then shifted to the enormous doorway.
"Hmm..."
Space rippled faintly, and his figure slowly vanished.
In a vast, pitch-black space, the darkness rippled, and Sosuke slowly emerged.
Though he stood in the vast darkness of the cave ruin,
Sosuke could sense what lay within... and even the strange energy that