"That's huge!" Kane's eyes widened. "Are you serious?"

"Dead serious," Rui grinned. "Furthermore, there are no monsters. This is a gold mine it seems. Still, we should use Void Step regardless, I'd rather not go without it."

"Sure thing,"

Kane put his hand on Rui's shoulder as he activated Void Step and the two of the sky-walked down in the direction of the tree.

That was when it went wrong.

The branches of the giant tree lashed out toward the two of them at a shocking speed, rocking the very atmosphere of the floor as it shot toward them, reaching them in an instant.

WHOOSH

SPLAT

"…!"

have impaled them effortlessly had it actually hit them. Yet

immediately leaped back,

his specialty. His reflexes, agility, and speed greatly surpassed even Rui. He too had mastered Primordial Instinct a few years ago, and because of

because, unlike Kane, he saw it coming from much further away thanks to his Riemannian Echo. However, the Riemannian

them grimaced as

cursed as he covered

his healing would heal them up soon enough. "The tree has a protective mechanism, apparently. It does not allow people to get close

limited to threat levels above a certain degree. Even the Shionel Dungeon possessed such a trait. It was the whole reason that only Martial Squires were able to enter the Shionel Dungeon while Martial Seniors

shocked the

shocking is that it detected us

really bad news," Rui grimaced. "Our model of success relies on your Void

Rui's methods of fighting monsters in the Shionel Dungeon were very effective and there was no way that that would disappear with the Void Step being effective. In

instances where they would have to discard the technique. In those instances, the

a little flustered. "How on Earth can it possibly detect us through Void Step? Are its senses just that incredibly

probably doesn't even have consciousness. Its defensive mechanisms are purely reactionary. It is closer to a machine than a sentient being. The Void Step technique relies on misdirecting attention and focusing in the opposite direction of

what happened. "So that means that it is

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