"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

"…!"

power of the branches was high, and it surely would 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 flesh

leaped

had reacted because evasive maneuvering was the very 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 worked far more powerfully

further away 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 completely avoiding

two of them grimaced as they stepped

fuck?" Kane cursed as

his healing would heal them up soon enough. "The tree has a protective mechanism, apparently. It

above a certain degree. Even the Shionel Dungeon possessed such a trait. It was the whole reason

wasn't what shocked the

it detected us

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

way that that would disappear with the Void Step being effective. In fact, Rui had

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

don't get it," Kane grew a little flustered. "How on Earth can it

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 any awareness that

as he understood what happened. "So that means that it is super resistant

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