"It was you who ruined my grand plan! If you'd just cooperated, I would have been the one to find the Colossus Heart by now!!"
The Mother Tree of Desire's eyes were bloodshot. She no longer cared even as the curse-weakening silver light crept over her entire body.
Because everything had already fallen apart!
Even at her peak, she could never have matched the God of Ten Thousand Machines, much less now!
Losing the initiative meant losing everything!
And it was all because of the human before her!
"Aah-!!"
A piercing, despairing howl rang out.
She violently thrust out her enormous roots and swallowed him into her vast trunk, frantically trying to crush and chew him to pieces, to vent all her hatred on him.
Within the bloody trunk, she once again took the form of that despairing girl. Layers upon layers of fleshy vines bound Lynn's enormous head. Despairing tears filled her bloodshot eyes as she savagely drove her arms, transformed into wooden spikes, into him again and again.
"I'll tear you into a thousand pieces!"
"I'll cut you to shreds!"
"I'll make sure you die without a grave!"
She attacked Lynn's head in a frenzy.
Amid the raging curses and madness, Lynn still maintained the power of his time-limited Curse Removal and said viciously:
"Placing your hopes-on someone else-was a foolish thing-to begin with!-You'll never escape-this Hell!-Even if you do-you'll be nothing but worthless-cannon fodder in the Upper Realm! All those subjects of yours-died because-of your stupidity!"
Crack-
Lynn's enormous head snapped the vines outright, their curses weakened until they had become ordinary plants.
His enormous head slammed into the girl. The tentacles spreading from beneath his neck writhed around her, binding her tight. Amid that utter madness, the silver light of the time-limited curse frantically spread over