Read Novel Full Chapter 667: The Forest Is on Her Side [1]
Chapter 667: The Forest Is on Her Side [1]
Edgar appeared behind him, moving beside the root platform that carried the immobilized Matthew.
Gabriel glanced across the altar, his eyes passing over the seven black-robed ritualists and the dark-red spikes surrounding them before finally settling on the silver-masked captain and the single operative who had managed to reach this place with him.
“Thirteen entered the forest. Only two of you reached the altar.”
The silver-masked man did not answer.
The dormant Godslayer Spark pulsed again within Gabriel. He still did not know whether the residue contained within those dark-red spikes was usable, but regardless of the answer, there was clearly something on this altar worth investigating, and as that thought crossed his mind, the corners of his mouth slowly rose.
The moment the silver-masked man saw that expression, he felt genuine foreboding for the first time, because Gabriel did not look like someone who had just stepped into an altar prepared in advance by his enemies.
He looked more like someone who had just discovered a reward.
Gabriel tightened his grip on Crimson Judgement. “Edgar.”
“Hmm?”
“Don’t let any of them escape.”
Edgar swept his gaze across the nine enemies surrounding the altar—the silver-masked captain, the sole operative who had reached it with him, and the seven black-robed ritualists—before glancing sideways at Matthew, who remained securely fastened to the moving root platform beside him.
He remained silent for a second before releasing a sigh. “I knew it.”
In the next instant, Gabriel stepped forward.
Boom!
Mana poured into Crimson Judgement, causing the weapon’s crimson engravings to blaze as the separate force behind its special true-damage explosion began gathering along the edge.
At the same time, less than two kilometers away, Sophie was speeding along the road opened by the sacred roots, with all six elves maintaining their protective formation around her, when she suddenly raised her head and saw the gray-black pillar of light reflected within her golden-green pupils.
The fear she had felt for the tortured root transformed into anger, and for the first time, the entire Sacred Forest answered that anger as though it were its own.
Rumble!
Hundreds of ancient trees shook simultaneously as, deep beneath the earth, countless dormant roots slowly awakened.
Boom!
When the first ancient tree tore its roots from the earth, everyone standing around the old altar assumed it was merely another tremor caused by the gray-black pillar of light.
But when the second tree, the third, and then dozens of ancient trees began tilting at the same time, their massive roots, buried dozens of meters underground, some even deeper, bursted through the soil like giant serpents awakening after countless years of slumber.
They slowly converged toward the altar, even the silver-masked captain, who had remained calm from beginning to end, finally realized that events had already deviated from their original plan.
“Stop the infusion!” he shouted.
The seven black-robed ritualists stopped simultaneously. But it was already too late.
The gray-black main root exposed at the center of the altar suddenly convulsed violently, and the black cracks embedded across its surface began spreading outward. Just as the nearest ritualist prepared to pull out the dark-red spike he had driven into its surface, a green root no thicker than an arm shot from beneath the stone.
It moved so quickly that he had no time to react.
The root wrapped around his wrist and violently dragged him aside.
“What—”
Bang!
His body slammed into a stone pillar.
The ritualist grunted and had barely begun struggling when more roots erupted from the fractured ground.
One wrapped around his ankle. Another locked around his waist. A third coiled around his neck and pinned him against the pillar.
“Something’s wrong!”
Another ritualist abruptly raised his head.
“These roots shouldn’t still be able to move!”
The silver-masked captain didn’t say anything because it was no longer just the roots.
The entire forest was beginning to change.
Vines covering the edges of the altar suddenly grew as though they had received some unseen command, gray-green leaves spreading across the broken stone walls within seconds. One silver flower after another, flowers that normally bloomed only during the day, emerged between the cracks in the soil.
But there was nothing gentle or beautiful about them.
Every petal was covered in an extremely faint golden-green glow, while the natural mana that had been thrown into complete disorder by the corruption began gathering once again at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.
Someone was influencing the forest.
And this was no ordinary nature magic.
“The target is approaching,” the silver-masked captain suddenly said.
The sole surviving operative who had entered the forest with him closed his eyes and pressed two fingers against a small detection crystal beneath his collar.
The next instant, his expression changed dramatically.
“Southwest! Less than a kilometer!”
“Are there guards with her?”
The operative concentrated for another moment before shaking his head.
“I can only detect her life fluctuation.”
The silver-masked captain visibly froze.
Alone?
What kind of joke was that?
The entire reason the Holy Church had launched tonight’s assault was to force the elves to transfer a large portion of their combat forces toward the outer regions, then use the corruption mediums hidden beneath the old altar to open the withered-root region and complete the necessary preparations before the World Tree truly awakened.
That girl had already become the most important person in the Sacred Forest.
How could the elves possibly allow her to approach this place without protection?
But one second later, he understood.
Rumble!
The forest southwest of the altar suddenly parted.
Dozens of enormous ancient trees that had grown there for countless years slowly shifted aside, their sprawling roots sinking back underground as a road that had never existed gradually formed before everyone’s eyes.
At the deepest end of that path, a slender figure was approaching.
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