After the imperial army disappeared.
The two of them went along the road again.
But what lay before me was no longer an ordinary forest.
The trees had turned black, and,
The ground was cracked.
The roots moved as if they were living creatures.
The forest...”
The dryer stopped.
"It changed."
A place once filled with life.
But now, due to the Erebus phenomenon, it was twisted ground.
At that moment.
Black droplets falling like rain.
And the shadows moving inside the forest.
“There’s one again.”
The magical apostle said.
Monsters swarmed at the boundary between the swamp and the forest.
The mud moved.
Mud predator.
The monster that had been hiding underground has revealed itself.
And a huge lump of mud rose.
Swamp mud monster.
It pushed forward, cutting off part of the body.
Behind it is rotten fog.
Corruption swamp ghost.
A black figure that drained life approached.
Dryard said quietly.
This time...”
"I’ll join the fight too."
She reached out her hand.
The forest’s magic gathered.
"Melody."
Lira’s voice rang out.
A gentle sound wave spread.
Woong—
The monsters’ movements slowed.
The root monsters and vines shook.
But the enemies did not stop.
A rotten-root monster.
The blackened roots broke through the ground and sprouted.
Swamp vine hunter.
Hidden vines stretched toward the two of them.
The magical apostle raised his hand.
"Rock."
Crunch!
The rocks rose up from the ground.
The approaching vine collided and was thrown off.
And then struck down with his hand.
"Sliding down the rock."
Thump!
A massive rock fell and stopped the mud monster’s movement.
But a new energy spread through the black mist.
Black moss monster.
And,
The poison mist spirit.
A poisonous mist enveloped the surroundings.
The magical apostle gathered darkness at his fingertips.
"Darkness Flame."
A black flame burst forth.
Unlike ordinary flames,
It was a flame that seemed to swallow light.
The black moss is burning,
The poison mist dispersed.
But the forest kept attacking.
The poison flower blooms,
The puffball mushroom shakes,
Thorns sprouted in all directions.
At that moment.
Dryard stepped forward.
"Stop."
A breeze gathered around her.
The curtain of the wind.
A wall of transparent wind spread out.
The flying thorns were deflected away.
Even the poison powder scattered.
And Lira’s melody sounded again.
The forest’s rampaging magic subsided for a moment.
The magical apostle looked.
“Is it the power to handle nature?”
Dryard said quietly.
"This forest wasn’t originally like this."
"Someone...”
"No."
She looked at the tree that had turned black.
"Something is ruining this place."
But not yet.
In the depths of the forest, a greater movement was felt.
Root.
Fog.
Darkness.
And the trace of Erebus.
They headed deeper