The ground rumbled and writhed upward.
Along with the twisted, crisscrossing vines, the roots of that enormous Flesh Giant Tree spread across the entire expanse of land.
She remained unaffected. Clearly, the Flesh Dominator had deliberately excluded her.
Her gaze fixed on Lynn as he laughed hideously, then on the silver-haired girl chained to the ground and plunged into endless agony. Her enormous roots rustled as they writhed toward them.
Drawing closer, step by step.
Lynn struggled to resist the Clown Curse's assault on his will. His face hideously contorted, he gripped the wrist of the hand tearing at his own cheek and said:
"He's... using you!"
"Even if you... devour the Colossus Brain..."
"You still... won't escape this Hell... the Colossus has already... failed once... do you really want to..."
"Repeat that mistake...?"
He had exhausted every use of Curse Removal, and even if he had any left, they would have been practically useless in this situation.
The Mother Tree of Desire said nothing. Her gaze remained fixed on the silver-haired girl.
The surging vines drew closer still.
The Flesh Dominator rasped, "There's no need to think so much, Mother Tree. This is your moment to feast. I will still honor our pact. The Colossus Brain belongs to you, because you're the only one in this Hell capable of devouring other Origins, aren't you?"
"As for this noisy little nuisance..."
Bzz-
In an instant.
A blood-red tentacle shot toward Lynn, appearing before him almost in the blink of an eye.
Yet Lynn still gripped his wrist with a hideous expression, without retreating an inch.
A madness ready to face death burned in his eyes.
But just as the tentacle was about to pierce his skull, vines erupted from the ground, instantly severing the tentacle surging toward Lynn.
Bzz-
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