Drip. Drip.

Blood was dripping.

Cale whose body was bound by the branches looked out through the gaps in the branches only to see red.

Drip, drip.

The middle-aged man wearing glasses was bleeding, while blood was flowing from Choi Han's cheek as well. Of course, it was not Choi Han’s blood.

Forget getting injured, Choi Han looked as clean as someone who had just washed their face a minute ago.

“Ugh. Ugh.”

The middle-aged man was shaking as if he was having trouble breathing.

Choi Han was still looking at Cale and smiling innocently.

“…Uhh…mm.”

‘…This vicious bastard, no, senior.’

Cale awkwardly asked while looking at Choi Han's happy face.

“What happened?”

What could have happened while he had been unconscious?

‘Why are the Dark Elves running around excitedly and Raon raising his voice while remaining invisible and destroying the maze walls? …And why the hell are you covered in blood?’

“I'm not sure.”

Cale's heart thumped at the very slow response. He was scared.

“…How long was I out for?”

‘Thirty minutes? No. It must have been at least an hour to cause this much chaos.’

He then waited for Choi Han to respond.

“Mm. I think it's been about ten minutes.”

“What? Ten minutes? You crazy bastards-!”

Cale could not speak anymore.

‘They caused this much chaos in ten minutes? No, that's fine, they did a good job, but…!’

Cale seemed to forget that he was the one who originally turned the maze into a mess as he started to frown.

“It was a very long time.”

“Ugh, ugh!”

Choi Han slowly responded as he lowered his hand.

Plop.

The fainted middle-aged shaman weakly fell to the ground.

‘…This scary…anyway, vicious punk.’

Cale's face turned pale.

However, Choi Han started to think about the things that happened while looking at the pale Cale.

The moment the strand of white light had struck down…

The Dark Elves, Elves, assassins, and even the enemies all stopped moving and looked toward the light.

“…Young master Cale-!”

Dark Elf Tasha subconsciously shouted.

She saw a thick and disgusting black branch that had lost a portion of its tip after being burnt.

A person's entire body except their head was bound by that branch.

The head of that person slowly lowered.

Plop.

Their head weakly lowered.

That person was Cale Henituse.

The person who was already pale from the start looked terrible standing there limp with his eyes closed.

“…Ah.”

Jopis who had been inside the wooden nest jumped up.

She could finally see that pale person properly.

She realized something at the same time.

The only reason that that pale and weak person did not seem weak this whole time was because of his gaze.

He had a reliable gaze that made his allies feel as if they had nothing to fear. It was because of that energetic and sparkling gaze.

It was also because of his brusque and blunt yet strong voice that calmed them down.

“…My goodness.”

Jopis suddenly felt her mind blanking out as she became anxious.

Cale Henituse was the Commander for all of their side.

He was the person guiding them from the center.

It was only natural for their side to turn chaotic if such a person fainted.

‘What do we do?’

As Jopis finally managed to have that thought after a few seconds…

“Why do you look so stunned?”

The sneering Elisneh swung her staff.

‘No.’

Jopis could see exactly what she was trying to do.

“No!”

Some things shot forward as she shouted.

“Grrrrrrr!”

Three puppies with Fluffy at the center quickly ran toward the black tree.

It could not be helped.

Screeeech-

The black branches quickly started to move.

They were extremely fast. They were moving so quickly that they managed to move before Choi Han who was the closest to Cale could get to him.

However, people could not just sit back and watch.

"We must save the Commander-nim!”

“Burn that tree down now!”

The Elves charged forward in shock. The fake World Tree was as evil as Elisneh to them; it was something that could destroy their home.

Their commander was captured by such an existence.

“Ah.”

Healer Elf Pendrick gasped.

He remained alone in the rear as he did not have any Elementals while the other Elves charged forward with their Elementals. That was why he could see things more clearly than they could.

was running in the front. He could also see a large mana hand that he

stealthily started to move after seeing the movements of those

Clang-!

urgently took out

“You're too late.”

did that. Choi Han could

that Choi Han would need to slash the tree to

Shhhh.

Choi Han planned to slash the tree. I

to grab the branch with his mana hands as

However…

“Don't move.”

as she

not sound urgent, in fact, it sounded as if

I will ignore her! I just

"Can’t you see it?”

Han lowered his

then slowly turned his

was gone as

“You finally saw it?”

her with a stoic expression. …She’s evil! Putting dead mana by the human! I

heard Raon’s

black liquid at the tip of a

would be able to tell that it was dead

black branch was stopped right by Cale's

swung his sword or Raon pulled the branches

that branch with dead mana stabbing

Plop. Plop.

Han turned his

serving as the stone imugi's scales and body

Boom. Boom.

spears fell to

an imugi,

Cale had long since

‘Cale-nim cannot protect himself.’

if that dead mana liquid pierced through Cale’s neck

be

He heard Elisneh’s voice.

you bastards move,

the puppies, and the rest of Cale’s allies all stopped running and stood in place in shock

Han lowered his sword and looked around at each of their

Mary. He then saw

to speak at that

you guys at any time as well. All of you can end up

expression looked full of

eyes sparkled at that

tree cage. I was looking at the branch pointed at the human's neck, but the branch is weird! It’s shaking and doing its best

pointed at Cale was trying

seemed to be rejecting the notion of harming Cale. It might be

carefully and stealthily put his

might be able

eyes that nobody could see at the

smile. Choi Han! The fake World Tree is asking you to get rid of the black

Raon continued to speak.

Han slightly started to

then quickly returned to normal

there was someone who had seen

was an expert who did

person Choi Han had looked at last.

without

‘Do as you wish.’

heard Elisneh’s voice at the

will see your greatest despair if you take a single step. I will gladly

could not finish

reached his hand

“You bastard!”

quickly twisted its body. That made Elisneh who was on top of it move

Shaaaaaaa-

off to the right side of

brush past where she had just

toward where the wind had brushed

saw a large stone spear cutting through

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang-!

stone spear crashed into broke down while

want to fall

toward

who threw the stone spear sighed

Cale. He

if he

‘He shouldn't do that!’

Elf tried to approach Choi Han who was

after feeling someone put their hands on her shoulder before she took

“Look behind you.”

had stealthily

finally felt the auras around

Elves and Mary… Even Ron's side had been quiet ever since earlier. They were

could tell that they were ready

gaze then moved from

The Elf realized something.

person they should follow after Commander Cale was

realized

of you wish

the approaching

Craaaackle-

tigers came out of a shaman’s

Han lowered his sword and raised his

speak while

looks like you've misunderstood

Elisneh started to frown.

Han did not stop and continued to

us is your

maze where she had cast her illusion… Choi Han looked toward

had called that place

said that

there was something she misunderstood,

“You're so stupid.”

“…What?”

you think you can live in the air

Smile.

started

Ooooooooooong-

ground started to

charging fire tigers

was the same for everyone else in

and Choi Han… In

appear one by one in

One, two…. Ten….

of spears was quickly increasing close to

realized the

‘It's the Dragon.’

shout out

Cale Henituse to

then instantly swung

“Ugh!”

She then became anxious.

hand. The staff definitely activated. However, a

“…Perhaps?”

toward the

got out of my

was

Shhh.

branch pointed at Cale’s neck slowly

released and looked more as

“How?”

Hehe. Choi Han! This is what the

said a part of the dead mana inside its body was purified when its branches burned up! That’s why it thinks

tree to bind the burning Cale. A

burned the black tree and purified a portion of

given the fake World Tree a little bit of freedom.

to shout with excitement. But Choi Han. You

That was the case.

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