Compared to the enormous trees growing at breakneck speed and blotting out the sky, the tide of monsters that had been pouring endlessly out of the Monster Association now seemed so insignificant!
The monsters that had yet to jump down from the various passage openings saw the scene outside and, almost without hesitation, turned and scrambled back inside!
No amount of cursing or killing by the elite monsters leading them could stop the rout!
"Help! There are monsters out there!"
"Monsters? Aren't we monsters ourselves? What are you running for?"
"You call yourself a monster? Compared to that forest, you're nothing!!"
"Run! The forest is eating monsters!!"
"..."
Creatures like monsters had no sense of collective honor or discipline. Most had gathered here in such numbers because of the benefits their creator, Gyoro Gyoro, had promised them, while the rest were held in submission by the bloodline of the Monster King, Orochi!
In this regard, there was essentially no difference between the Tiger-level cannon fodder at the bottom and the Dragon-level executives at the top.
Amid the shoving and cursing, who knew how many monsters were trampled to death by their colleagues.
These creatures trampling one another was no trivial matter. One careless step from a hulking monster could crush a whole swath of them to death!
At the same time, the S-Class Heroes who had stormed into the Monster Association's base also noticed something amiss.
Through the JoJo Map's real-time monitoring, they noticed that the red dots behind them had suddenly multiplied severalfold, leaving them all bewildered.
I'm surrounded?
Do they think I'm an easy target?
Who the hell are they looking down on?!
In one of the passages.
"Master, please leave the monsters behind us to us!!"
Hearing the footsteps of a large number of monsters approaching