“Yes, it’s the Wishing Candle.”

Right after answering, he bit down hard on his teeth with a helpless expression.

Then Shaya accelerated toward Bethstana.

Bethstana also released a large number of rootlets toward Shaya, suddenly no longer concerned about the tree seed in Shaya’s body, preparing to directly suppress Shaya with force.

“Since the Wishing Candle has appeared, I don’t need to care about the tree heart anymore!”

Bethstana suddenly stopped suppressing her emotions, and her remaining human features began twisting like a demon’s.

While approaching Bethstana, Shaya tried hard to dodge the rootlets attacking from front and back. When he really couldn’t avoid them, he activated the tree heart’s power to directly move away the rootlets that touched him.

Despite the tree heart’s assistance, Shaya still got several wounds on his body due to slow reactions.

The skin around the wounds became rough and brown, like tree bark.

But at this moment, Shaya had no time to treat the wounds and the pollution on them.

“Damn it, the Wishing Candle was originally meant to be used at this moment, but I had to use it on that big-bearded guy prematurely.”

Without his trump card, Shaya could only rely on willpower and keen observation to dodge the rootlets stabbing at him, struggling to get closer to Bethstana.

But just as Shaya was about to touch Bethstana, he was still pierced through the thigh and lower abdomen by two rootlets attacking from left and right, unable to advance further.

Shaya was helpless. He could already feel the rootlet that pierced his abdomen searching for the tree seed within his soul body. If it took the tree seed, he would no longer have any ability to resist.

And Bethstana’s recent appearance clearly showed she no longer cared much about the tree seed’s integrity.

She was willing to damage the tree seed to forcibly extract it, probably waiting for Shaya to lose the tree seed’s protection before seizing his Wishing Candle.

Without the tree seed’s protection, Shaya would have difficulty resisting her manipulation when Bethstana was on guard.

Once he became a puppet, he would uncontrollably hand over the Wishing Candle.

“Absolutely not!” Thinking of this, Shaya’s eyes were already bloodshot. “The Wishing Candle is my last hope! No one can take it away!”

Shaya took one last look at the amber tooth in his hand. “Still can’t reach her… but at this distance, it should still work. Whatever, if I don’t use it now, there won’t be another chance!”

Shaya crushed the gray substance wrapping the white tooth, as easily as peeling a peanut.

Before crushing the white fang’s outer shell, Shaya had no time to think about what weapon Saul had given him.

And after he crushed the white fang’s outer shell, he completely lost the ability to think.

So he also couldn’t see that the originally frenzied Bethstana, upon seeing the white fang and sensing its aura, suddenly became extremely terrified, even hysterical.

“Anchor, anchor point!!!!”

Bethstana suddenly retreated.

This was also the first time she had moved within the tree heart space.

Hundreds of rootlets connected to her body were torn apart during the movement.

The immense pain was as if someone had reached into her body and torn apart her tendons and bones.

But even enduring this terrible agony, Bethstana still didn’t stop retreating.

At this moment, she had forgotten about the Wishing Candle and only wanted to run.

It wasn’t until she retreated to the edge of the tree heart space that Bethstana had to stop.

But this pause also allowed her nearly chaotic consciousness to stabilize slightly.

Only then did she notice that the anchor point that had scared her to near cardiac arrest hadn’t actually erupted with terrible Black Tide pollution.

At least she hadn’t turned into a sculpture yet, nor had flowers grown from various orifices of her body.

“A sealed anchor point?”

Her voice still carried the weakness of someone who had survived a disaster.

The current Bethstana wasn’t truly third-rank after all, so her fear of Black Tide pollution was even greater than when she was alive.

However, because she hadn’t directly contacted that tooth, although she could feel the terrifying aura on it, she hadn’t lost her sanity like Shaya, who had direct contact with the anchor point.

“Damn it!” After extreme terror, Bethstana turned to extreme rage.

She suddenly swung her arm that had transformed into rootlets, stabbing several rootlets into Shaya’s body at once, almost turning him into a honeycomb.

Then she pulled, directly tearing a large hole in Shaya’s stomach.

A brown seed was carefully brought out from Shaya’s stomach, wrapped in rootlets.

Bethstana carefully avoided the tooth in Shaya’s hand, preparing to retrieve the tree seed first.

Only by retrieving the tree seed would she have enough power to move both Shaya and that damned anchor point out of the tree heart space together.

Only then could she breathe a sigh of relief and slowly deal with Shaya.

But just as Bethstana was about to reabsorb the tree seed into her body, another change occurred!

A silver shadow suddenly rushed at extreme speed like lightning to the tree seed’s side and grabbed the seed wrapped by two rootlets.

Bethstana hadn’t expected that at this moment, there would still be a spirit body reckless enough to steal from her.

Instantly, more rootlets surged toward that silver figure, determined to turn that thief into pulp!

Although the silver figure was fast, to steal the tree seed, it had to stay in place.

Just as numerous rootlets were about to destroy this silver shadow, an even smaller silver shadow emerged from within the silver figure.

What appeared this time was actually a silver, metal-like butterfly.

The butterfly flapped its wings. Though it seemed slow, it entered Bethstana’s forehead in an instant.

And the already exhausted Bethstana immediately closed her eyes and hung her head as if falling asleep.

All the rootlets that were about to pierce the silver shadow also stopped motionless.

[Quick!]

Penny’s voice rang in Herman’s mind.

[Got it!]

The silver-clad Herman quickly took advantage of the opportunity to retrieve the tree seed from among the motionless rootlets.

The second he got the tree seed, the surrounding rootlets suddenly moved again.

Bethstana had actually awakened within a single breath.

At the same time, the silver Nightmare Butterfly was directly shaken out of her body.

Seeing this, Herman said nothing and directly merged with the tree heart.

“I will… kill you all!!!”

Bethstana felt she had been toyed with, and all her previous emotions turned into boundless rage.

With her roar, densely packed rootlets like a rainstorm stabbed simultaneously toward Herman and Penny.

But Herman, having obtained the tree heart, now had the same ability to move within the tree heart space as Shaya had before.

His figure instantly disappeared, then like Shaya, immediately hid.

Penny, however, didn’t have the ability to teleport away.

But she wasn’t afraid at all, even mocking Bethstana.

“Hmph, master tried to make a good deal with you, but you wanted to kill master. You deserve to be left here alone to become a pile of mush!”

Sharp rootlets stabbed toward the butterfly in ranks, but after the whistling sound of the rootlets passed, the Nightmare Butterfly that had been hovering in the air had vanished without a trace.

As if it had also obtained the tree seed and gained the ability to teleport within the tree heart space.

But there was only one tree seed—how exactly had it left?

Bethstana showed a confused to shocked expression for the first time. Had the Inverted Tree already been taken over by someone else?

Otherwise, how could so many incomprehensible things happen in just a few seconds?

The bewildered and panicked Bethstana immediately turned to look for Shaya, who had lost consciousness from anchor point pollution.

However!

She despairingly discovered that Shaya was no longer there either!

In the pitch-black space, only a white tooth remained, quietly floating.

“No!!!!!!”

Bethstana almost went mad.

Although the anchor point was in a sealed state, the pollution it slowly emitted could still, with time’s assistance, turn the weakened Bethstana into… a pile of mush!

“…sacrifice…” The desperate Bethstana could only think of this one solution.

She would sacrifice the souls of everyone in Caugust’s inner and outer cities, surrounding towns—all people who set foot on this land—to nourish herself!

“Ah!!!”

A sharp shriek.

Invisible waves transmitted through the earth.

Brown tree branches like century-old trees drilled out from underground, then instantly exploded, scattering large amounts of black smoke and dust mixed with the fragrance of green grass, from the inner city to the outer city, finally not even sparing the surrounding towns.

Massive and continuous explosive sounds immediately resounded through heaven and earth!

(End of Chapter)

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