In front of a massive demon corpse, a group of goblins and Storm Fang clan members looked at Luminous who had become a small black dot in the sky, at a loss. Even if they wanted to call Luminous back now, she definitely wouldn't be able to hear them.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a black shadow appeared beside Gobuta. Souei, who had been secretly following not far away, helplessly looked at Luminous, who had already disappeared into the sky. Souei had noticed something was wrong the moment Luminous flew into the sky, but by the time he arrived, Luminous had already run far away.
"Souei, why are you here?"
At this moment, Gobuta also noticed Souei who had suddenly appeared beside him, turned his head, and asked with a simple and honest expression. Gobuta hadn't even considered the possibility that Souei had been secretly following him all along. After all, he had never received this kind of treatment when he came out to hunt before.
"Gobuta, take the prey back first, and tell Rimuru-sama about this. I'll go after Luminous first."
Souei didn't answer Gobuta's question. He just looked at him expressionlessly and said a few words. Then, his body shook slightly, and several clones appeared. After that, Souei disappeared from the spot with his clones, chasing after the direction Luminous had flown away in.
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On the other side, the earth was constantly shaking, and cracks were constantly appearing on the ground. Countless trees began to collapse. As seen from the sky, the ground of this forest was constantly bulging, as if some monster was struggling to break free from the ground below.
"What kind of existence is this monster?"
In mid-air, Treyni looked solemnly at the constantly collapsing ground below. Not long ago, after sending Gabiru away, Treyni directly summoned the high-ranking spirit, Wind Spirit, and used powerful magic to directly cut off and crush all the tentacle monsters that emerged from the ground.
But now, countless fist-sized pieces of flesh of ordinary people were constantly wriggling on the constantly collapsing ground, and even making sharp cries from time to time. Obviously, their bodies had been crushed, but there was no sign of death at all.
Even after cutting them into pieces, each fragment was like a complete individual. Treyni personally saw those irregular pieces of flesh wriggling and gathering together, forming a mass of indescribable flesh, covered with hideous tentacles and heads composed of different monsters.
Even appearances such as ten eyes and eight mouths were completely common on the heads of these monsters. There was even a face composed entirely of eyes, and the dense eyes looked incomparably terrifying and horrifying.
Rumble!
Suddenly, a piece of land with a diameter of nearly twenty kilometers began to break away from the ground. As the land continued to rise, the soil on it continued to fall, and an irregular circular giant ball of flesh composed entirely of monster heads appeared in mid-air. The edge of each monster head on the flesh ball had grown fleshy buds, which were connected to the monster heads on the side, and finally formed this indescribable monster with a diameter of twenty kilometers.
"Hiss hiss hiss!"
"Roar roar roar!"
"....."
Suddenly, the eyes of the monster or human heads on the huge flesh ball monster opened, making all kinds of inexplicable hissing and roaring sounds. The chaotic and disorderly sounds were constantly mixed together. Just the hissing and roaring sounds alone made people feel confused and nauseous from their bodies to their souls. If ordinary people were here at this time, just the hissing and roaring sounds alone would be enough to tear them apart and turn them into irregular pieces of flesh.
And in the roar of the huge flesh ball monster, the pieces of flesh that had been cut up by Treyni's magic before flew up and merged into the flesh ball. Then, in Treyni's solemn gaze, a large amount of wriggling flesh emerged on the flesh ball, and tentacles drilled out from it.
"What exactly are you? I am the manager of this forest. What exactly is your purpose?"
Looking at the sub-body that had completely recovered in just a few seconds, Treyni asked aloud. In her opinion, this monster with the strength of a high-ranking demon must have the same intelligence, which meant that she could understand the other party's purpose through her voice and let the existence behind it leave the Jura Forest.
This was also the reason why Treyni didn't choose to interrupt when the sub-body was recovering before. After all, even if the opposite sub-body had the strength of a high-ranking demon, it was still incomparably weak in the face of her, a demon lord.
"Roar!"
However, just as Treyni had just finished speaking, the center of the opposite huge sub-body suddenly cracked open, and the terrifying giant mouth let out a huge roar. The shock wave visible to the naked eye compressed the air into substance, and then countless tentacles on the sub-body directly launched an attack on Treyni.
"Is it not planning to negotiate, or does it not have any wisdom?"
Looking at the overwhelming tentacles, Treyni just stood calmly in mid-air looking at the opposite sub-body. From the performance just now, the other party should be an existence without any wisdom, but when could a demon without wisdom possess the strength of a high-ranking demon?
You must know that the only demon in this world without wisdom, the slime, is only the lowest-level demon. Except for a few unique individuals, the slime is completely the weakest demon.
"Spirit Summoning · Wind Maiden!"
In the next second, Treyni planned to take action herself to see if the opposite sub-body really had no wisdom or was not planning to negotiate. With the sound of chanting, a wind spirit with the appearance of a golden-haired mature woman was summoned.
“Judgment time! Confess your sins and pray! Atmospheric Compression Severance!”
Watching the countless tentacles already within reach, Torreyne clasped her hands together in front of her chest, the magic elements within her body began to flow rapidly, and invisible winds began to gather and compress, transforming into countless substantial wind blades. Countless wind blades transformed into a raging hurricane.
In an instant, countless tentacles were shredded under the hurricane, even turning into blood mist within the hurricane. The sub-body also began to disintegrate under countless wind blades, with countless wounds appearing on its massive body every second. No matter how the sub-body struggled, it was gradually turning into debris.
After the hurricane passed, Torreyne looked at the floating blood mist in front of her, but the expression on her face became even more solemn, because she discovered that even if she cut the monster's body into dust particles invisible to the naked eye, the monster still did not die.
The entire blood mist was constantly wriggling like a living thing, gradually converging towards the unknown center. In a few minutes, the massive, indescribable monster would reappear.
“This kind of body structure is definitely not something a normal monster can possess.”
Looking at the terrifying scene before her, Torreyne said slowly with a solemn expression. This kind of body structure was simply beyond common sense. Even the liquid body of a slime wasn't this outrageous, and it would be even more impossible for other monsters to do such a thing.
Even Demon Lords could only do such a thing by relying on unique skills or powerful recovery abilities. For example, the Blood Clan could transform themselves into blood mist, but the monster in front of her was clearly not a member of the Blood Clan.
“Big sister, what are you doing?”
Just as Torreyne was lost in thought because of the sub-body's completely illogical body structure, a childlike voice full of innocence and curiosity suddenly rang in her ears. When Torreyne turned her head, she discovered a little loli with long golden hair like a porcelain doll was floating beside her, a pair of ferocious and domineering blood-colored dragon wings constantly waving behind her.
“You are….”
Just as Torreyne was about to ask who Loryina was, Loryina, whose face was full of childlike smiles and looked harmless, suddenly launched an attack on Torreyne without warning. Her fair hands turned into sharp dragon claws, and dark lightning wrapped around them, directly hitting Torreyne's chest.
Boom!
Caught off guard, Torreyne was directly ambushed by Loryina, and her entire body turned into a stream of light, heavily slamming into the collapsing earth, her body deeply embedded in the ground.
“Cough cough! Who exactly are you?”
Torreyne, who was embedded in the ground, struggled to get up. A huge wound appeared on her chest, and black lightning was still wrapped around it. At this time, a green light lit up on the wound, and it was rapidly healing, as if Torreyne was not a tree spirit, and her only vital point was her core.
Plus, being deep in the forest, all the trees could provide her with magic essence and vitality. She had already been seriously injured by Loryina's sneak attack.
“Why should Loryina tell you who I am?”
In mid-air, Loryina looked at Torreyne with her hands on her hips, looking very angry. Her cute little face was puffed up. At first, Loryina only felt the commotion of the battle here, and out of curiosity, she wanted to run over and play.
However, as soon as Loryina arrived here, she saw that one of the first sub-bodies born from the Mother Nest of All Things was actually turned into blood mist by Torreyne. Instantly, Loryina became angry. These sub-bodies were all children born from the Mother Nest of All Things, and now the Mother Nest of All Things was one with Loryina's father.
Plus, Loryina was the true owner of the Mother Nest of All Things in the true sense. Rounding up, it was equivalent to Torreyne bullying her children, which made Loryina angry, and she directly launched a sneak attack on Torreyne.
“So it's Loryina. I remember you are a member under that slime named Rimuru. There is no conflict between us, why are you attacking me?”
When Torreyne heard Loryina reveal her name, she remembered the slime named Rimuru that she had been paying attention to before, the special slime that was born from the cave where the Storm Dragon Veldora was sealed. The entire Jura Forest didn't have many secrets for Torreyne, who was a tree spirit.
What's more, when Rimuru left the cave, it happened to be not long after the magic essence reaction of the Storm Dragon Veldora disappeared. Plus, Rimuru at that time didn't hide his magic essence aura. That powerful magic essence, coupled with the special time and place.
As soon as Rimuru walked out of the cave, Torreyne noticed Rimuru's existence. Otherwise, how could she, as the administrator of the Great Forest in the original story, suddenly go to find Rimuru, and let him solve the Orc Lord, and even personally push him to the position of leader of the Jura Forest Alliance and submit to Rimuru in the end.
As for Loryina, who joined Rimuru's command together with Benimaru and the others, and possessed the strength of a high-ranking monster when she joined, how could Torreyne not know? Just now, it was only because of Loryina's Demon Lord-level magic essence aura and the more refined appearance and the pair of dragon wings behind her after becoming a Demon Lord that she didn't react for a while.
“Huh? Why do you know Loryina's name? Loryina clearly didn't tell you?”
