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.

could also see a large

to move after seeing the movements of those in the

Clang-!

Han urgently took out his

“You're too late.”

Han could see Cale who was imprisoned inside this black

Han would need to slash the tree

Shhhh.

to slash the

with his mana hands as well. He was

However…

“Don't move.”

as

sound urgent, in fact, it sounded as

ignore her! I just need to destroy

"Can’t you see it?”

Han lowered his

then slowly

hand was gone

“You finally saw it?”

Choi Han looked toward her with a stoic expression.

Raon’s

the wooden cage… There was a black liquid at the tip of a

able to tell that it was

sharp black branch was stopped right by

Choi Han swung his sword

with dead mana stabbing Cale’s neck

Plop. Plop.

Han turned his

stone spears that were serving as the stone imugi's scales and body start

Boom. Boom.

spears fell to the

remained in the shape of an imugi, but it

fire surrounding Cale had long since disappeared as

‘Cale-nim cannot protect himself.’

dead mana liquid pierced through Cale’s neck

be

He heard Elisneh’s voice.

move, your leader will

stopped running and stood in place in shock without

looked around at each

Mary. He then saw Beacrox

continued to speak

fall on you guys at any time as well. All of you

smiling expression looked full

sparkled at that

I was looking at the branch pointed at the human's neck, but the branch is weird! It’s shaking and doing its best to move away from

Cale was trying to

harming Cale. It might be possible to chat with this tree

and stealthily put his front paw on

be able to

eyes that nobody could see at

fake World Tree is asking you to get rid of the black staff

Raon continued to speak.

started

then quickly returned to normal as if

there was someone who had

an expert who did not miss that short

was the person Choi Han had looked at last.

mouthed without making a

‘Do as you wish.’

voice at the

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

could not finish

reached

“You bastard!”

wind horse quickly twisted its body. That made Elisneh

Shaaaaaaa-

off to the right

a strong gust of wind brush past where she had

her gaze toward where the

stone spear

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang-!

wall that the stone spear crashed into broke down while making

Do you want to fall into an illusion

to frown and she looked toward the person

stone spear sighed and slowly started

walked away from Cale. He

he does

‘He shouldn't do that!’

to approach Choi Han who was

she stopped moving after feeling someone put their hands on her shoulder before

“Look behind you.”

warrior Jeet had stealthily whispered in her

the auras

and Mary… Even Ron's side had been quiet ever since earlier. They were silent and did not make any

that they were ready to attack at

from

The Elf realized something.

after Commander Cale was

realized that as

you

the approaching Choi Han

Craaaackle-

a shaman’s hand and charged

his sword and

speak while looking at

like you've misunderstood

Elisneh started to frown.

Choi Han did not stop and continued to

us is your

the maze where she had cast her illusion… Choi Han

had called that place

said that they

she misunderstood, something

“You're so stupid.”

“…What?”

you think you can live

Smile.

Han started to

Ooooooooooong-

ground started

fire tigers

for everyone else in the

Tree and Choi Han… In the empty area

spears started to appear one by

One, two…. Ten….

of spears was

realized the source

‘It's the Dragon.’

started to shout out

Cale Henituse

instantly swung

“Ugh!”

She then became anxious.

down at her hand. The staff definitely

“…Perhaps?”

toward

out

was

Shhh.

neck slowly moved away even as it

and looked more

“How?”

to shake… Hehe. Choi Han! This

was speaking to Choi Han with excitement. It said a part of the dead mana inside its body was purified when its branches burned up! That’s why it thinks it can move according to its

Cale. A

black tree and purified a portion of it in

fake World Tree a little bit of freedom. But

But

That was the case.

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