"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 it didn't the two barely managed to avoid lethal, incurring only a few light

leaped

core of his specialty. His reflexes, agility, and speed greatly surpassed even Rui. He too had mastered Primordial Instinct a few years ago, and because of extreme compatibility and synergy as well as Kane's own inherently swift reflexes, the technique

thanks to his Riemannian Echo. However, the Riemannian Echo was a reading technique rather than a sense, thus it was slower, which prevented Rui from

two of them grimaced as

Kane cursed

up soon enough. "The tree has a protective mechanism, apparently. It does not allow

it was 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

wasn't what shocked the two of them,

is shocking is that it detected us while we were using Void

really bad news," Rui grimaced. "Our model of success relies on your Void Step quite heavily. Frankly, without it,

very effective and there was no way that that would disappear with the Void Step being effective. In fact, Rui had developed those means of fighting the monsters in the Shionel Dungeon because of scenarios like this where they

they would have to discard the technique. In those instances, the two of them needed to be able to

can it possibly detect us through

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 the direction the user is moving in. However, that won't work against something that does not have

Kane cursed as he understood what happened. "So that

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