"Run, now! If the Mother Tree of Desire invades this illusion, we're in deep trouble!"
Without the slightest hesitation.
Lynn landed precisely on the street outside with a perfect backflip, adjusted his Monocle, narrowed his eyes, and immediately sprinted away from the projection.
And this was exactly what he feared most.
Although he had tricked the Mother Tree of Desire into the projection, she had devoured a fragment of the Colossus Heart. The projection certainly wouldn't be able to affect or interfere with her completely.
And during all this time.
If she really intended to, she had probably already been searching for him inside this illusion.
He could only hope she wouldn't be so fast!
But just as that thought crossed his mind, he suddenly heard faint sounds from the far end of the dark street-something breaking through the ground and writhing its way out, again and again.
Lynn's heart jolted, and he immediately darted into an alley beside him.
Fuck!
Don't tell me she's already caught up?
He plucked out his eyeball and peered outside through a crack in the wall.
Rustle-
Through the thick black mist, he immediately saw blood-red vines twisting like enormous tentacles, writhing up from underground. They snaked through the surrounding houses and walls, piercing them as they spread across the entire neighborhood.
He abruptly pulled his eyeball back.
With his back pressed against the wall, he held his breath.
At that moment.
He really wanted to raise his left hand and give the left side of his own face one good, hard slap.
Does every fucking thing I think of have to come true?
Lynn firmly pressed down on the twitching corner of his eye, held his breath, focused, and quickly regained his composure.
Since the Mother Tree of Desire had already begun invading