An ethereal voice slowly drifted into their ears with a soft chuckle.
"Oh, not bad. You noticed something was wrong so quickly. You really do live up to being the child favored by Cyber. I'm growing more and more interested in you."
Her soft laughter was as refreshing as a gentle breeze.
Yet everyone's expressions changed drastically.
Lynn's heart sank as well. Standing back-to-back with Little Darling and Zuo Zuo, he narrowed his eyes, his gaze following the vines across the ground around them.
But then he smiled.
He adjusted the Monocle, stretched out a hand to shield Little Darling and Zuo Zuo behind him, and strode two steps forward. Holding his glasses, he said with a smile:
"Mother Tree of Desire, is that you?"
Jingle, jingle-
A crisp, hair-raising chime of brass bells rang out.
The blood mist before him churned and rolled to either side. A pale foot adorned with a bell stepped lightly out of the crimson fog, long branches and leaves trailing down from her head like hair, like the boughs of a weeping willow. Lynn saw the woman emerge from the blood mist before him, wearing an alluring smile.
She was indescribable. Compared with the terrifying giant tree she displayed in the outside world, covered in blood-filled tumors and twisted flesh, the woman before him looked more like a strange faerie born of nature.
A hint of teasing amusement lingered in her alluring expression. Her eyes flowed like water, paying no attention whatsoever to Zuo Zuo and Little Darling behind him. She had eyes only for Lynn.
"Haven't you already guessed?"
"Besides, this isn't our first meeting. Weren't we allies for a while when we were confronting the God of Ten Thousand Machines? Hmm?"
She was like a weightless ghost.
Floating in the breeze, she