The thick fog only grew thicker.
The corpses of the monsters I had just brought down seeped into the ground, merged with the black mud, and vanished without a trace.
Looking around, he spoke softly.
It's strange... No corpse remains."
Gais did not sheathe his sword.
"This forest is eating."
Moment.
Kugugugu—
The entire forest began to vibrate.
Between the cracked earth, black roots sprouted and sealed off all sides.
"Here it comes again!"
New monsters swarmed from all directions.
Giant monsters, carrying rotten wood on their backs, advanced, while tentacles sprouted beneath the mud.
In the air, monstrous birds scattered black spores as they took flight, while from the ground hundreds of filthy insects surged in like a wave.
Gais took a step forward.
"I’ll leave the back to you."
"Got it."
Blue lightning gathered over Gaisuga’s hand.
"Thunder brakes."
Kwaaang!!
Dozens of thick lightning strikes plunged down in succession, splitting the forest.
The electric shock traveled through the mud and electrified countless monsters all at once.
As the surviving monsters charged, he swung his hand widely.
Dozens of spinning blades spread out like a storm.
Smack!
The spinning blades cut off the limbs of the decaying monsters and cleared the way by slicing off the vines and tentacles as well.
In the meantime, he reached out his hand toward the empty air.
Hundreds of crystal fragments rose and then poured down like rain.
The crystal windows pierced through swarms of black bugs and exploded in succession.
However, the forest did not stop.
Gais nodded.
“It won’t end until the nukes are destroyed.”
He slammed his hand into the ground.
A black magic circle spread throughout the forest.
"Dark boomerang."
Dozens of black boomerangs scattered in all directions, slicing through the cores of magic that had been hiding behind trees and rocks one by one.
Thud!
Thud!
The cores that had been emitting red light began to shatter one by one.
At that moment.
The entire forest shook as if it were screaming.
Kugugugung!
A gigantic old tree split open, and from within it, a black heart revealed itself.
I shouted in surprise.
"That’s the center of this forest!"
Gais aimed the spear.
At the edge of the spear, the power of lightning and flame, darkness and crystal gathered all at once.
"Let’s finish it."
He threw the spear with all his might.
The spear pierced the black heart straight through.
In an instant, a massive explosion erupted, and a black mist surged into the sky, while the aura of decay that had engulfed the forest slowly began to dissipate.
A brief silence fell.
But far away, in the deepest part of the forest, an enormous resonance unlike anything before shook the earth once again.
Gais went, looking in that direction, and said quietly.