Ye Chen and the others continued forward. Suddenly, a large tree beside the road snapped its eyes open. As if it had come alive, it even showed a human smile.
The tree swayed, then toppled straight toward Nami. She screamed in terror, tears spilling from her eyes.
Ye Chen spun and leaped toward her like a rocket, slamming his palm into the trunk.
"Ah... That hurts! That hurts!"
The tree spoke. Sensing trouble, it turned and ran. It was hard to imagine a tree sprinting across the ground.
Ye Chen, however, was not surprised. He gave a cold smile and said confidently, "If I'm right, that's a Tree Demon!"
Although they were called Demons, they were fundamentally different from the monsters of Earth. Scythe Demon Jeka had already said that every Demon and Ghost Monster on this island had been created through an ability.
In the end, they only looked like the Demons and monsters of myth.
It was like Big Mom's island, where the flowers and trees of the Seducing Woods could sing and dance because Big Mom had given them human souls.
The Tree Demon before Ye Chen, on the other hand, was a person transformed into the shape of a Tree Demon through an ability.
Klyde's and Diana's abilities were practically the opposite of Big Mom's.
Big Mom gave objects human souls, but at their core, they were still objects!
The monsters on Horror Island were people transformed into monsters. At their core, they were still human.
The Tree Demon ran at full speed, with Ye Chen and the others close behind. Before long, they reached a dense forest. The Tree Demon stopped, turned back, and made a smug face at them. "You're surrounded!"
"Surrounded!"
"Surrounded!"
The surrounding trees all laughed smugly. One after another, they closed