Problems

"That's huge!" Kane's eyes widened. "Are you serious?"

"Dead serious," Rui grinned. "Furthermore, there are no monsters. This is a gold mine it seems. Still, we should use Void Step regardless, I'd rather not go without it."

"Sure thing,"

Kane put his hand on Rui's shoulder as he activated Void Step and the two of the sky-walked down in the direction of the tree.

That was when it went wrong.

The branches of the giant tree lashed out toward the two of them at a shocking speed, rocking the very atmosphere of the floor as it shot toward them, reaching them in an instant.

WHOOSH

SPLAT

"…!"

The piercing power of the branches was high, and it surely would have impaled them effortlessly had it actually hit them. Yet it didn't the two barely managed to avoid lethal, incurring only a few light flesh wounds.

They immediately leaped back, shocked.