Rustle!
The enormous vines coiled like pythons, brutally constricting inward.
The bronze-masked Spellcaster only managed a brief cry of alarm before he was wrapped in an enormous green cocoon. A faint glow shimmered over the vines as they kept contracting, crushing inward.
Amid scalp-prickling cracks of shattering bone, a sharp squelch rang out, like a tomato being crushed. Great patches of blood spread across the vines.
The other two bronze-masked men paused, exchanged a glance, and lunged at Hong Yuan together.
One condensed a scorching fireball in his palm, while razor-sharp wind blades swirled around the other.
Only then did Hong Yuan slowly rise. Without turning around, he lightly stamped his foot. Several thick wooden spikes shot from the shattered table fragments, flying through the air at an unbelievable speed.
Shhk!
Before the fireball caster could release his spell, three thick wooden spikes pierced his chest, throat, and face. Their tremendous force sent him flying dozens of meters backward into the woods beside the tracks.
An explosion followed, and flames surged up from the forest.
Whoosh!
As those wooden spikes shot out, a vine beneath Hong Yuan's feet also whipped through the air, lashing viciously at the last bronze-masked man in the other direction.
The mask concealed the expression of this Advanced Awakened from the True God Church, but shock already filled his exposed eyes.
Clearly, the deaths of his two companions in the blink of an eye had shaken him deeply. A whirlwind rose around him, and as he hastily retreated, the wind blades surrounding him formed an impenetrable net that churned outward.
The incoming vine whip was instantly shredded. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, however, the ground suddenly gave way beneath his feet.
At some point, a crack had opened in the earth. Several thick