"Worry not, just the initial flare, it will stop soon," Rais blocked her from getting any closer since only he knew of the curses extreme potency.

Ludos glanced up and down to locate his wound, "Is it an old wound?" Discovering none, he inquired Rais while wondering what he meant by initial flare.

"I said not to worry, I always had it," feeling constrained, Rais's previous excitement departed.

Closing his eyes, he convinced himself to focus on the task at hand, through his thoughts still lingered.

According to what the world consciousness monster stated, he still had five months, but he wasn't sure. The last set of constraining runes had lasted for three, while the ones before lasted six, but now the current will not even last for this month.

Glancing to the side, Rais noticed, only Mursina stayed focused on the task. Holding the ceremonial stuff, she blocked the abysmal yin curtain from engulfing them.

"Rais, you don't seem fine, your body seems to be s.h.i.+vering?" From Mursinas warning, Rias realized this time somehow he felt shaken to the core.

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Behind north, standing at the edge of the ocean Anila collapsed to her knees, the curse she thought she had thoroughly suppressed flared up.

"Master, your nose," Sumaia became bewildered.

Moving her hands away from her nose, Anila watched the red wipe away with rain. Frozen, she stared down following the blood freeze away.

While south, at the edge of the inner forest, Mursina sang an ancient aria in a language unknown to Rais, Ludos and even Asnia. When she finished, a crack formed on the barrier resembling a sudden rift on a ma.s.sive ice sheet.

Ominous force gripped them down, while the cracking sound felt like their fleeting heart, shattering, akin to gla.s.s.

Staring through the crack, hearing steps, they discerned a creature approaching them. Continually flas.h.i.+ng, It branched horns reached into the clouds.

The horns became the center of the storm as the violent wind circulated, a deer-like creature moved closer to the barrier. The horns transformed into lightning horns feeding on to the Storm.

Murky yin energy circulated around the creature, akin to a floating s.h.i.+eld. Rais and Ludos swallowed their saliva, while all fierce beasts fled from the scene. They didn't expect any of this. The ancient trees moved away, creating a pathway for the deer. While a shadowy figure sat on it.

Behind him, a large cloak of acc.u.mulated yin faltered, blazed with green flames. While jumping down from the deer, the wind took the hood of their rider.

Unveiling a cracked skeleton burning with the green flame while the shattered pieces of bones were being held together by vines.

Fully tilting its head from right to left, It stared at the Rais's group while making strange trees cracking sound.

"An agent of the Forest G.o.d!" Asnia exclaimed.

"Rais, should we not be making a run for it?" Ludos asked, unwilling to step forward.

"Definitely no lack of sinister, to do such, but sister Mursina seems unfazed."

"No, we had seen it before, it's not harmful," Asnia a.s.sured them.

"Child of mortals, I welcome you to the Szronix Garden," a voice rang out in Rais's mind.

"Step inside the forest to receive the blessing of the Forest G.o.d."

Immediately after pa.s.sing the barrier, with a flash of light, the weathered skeleton arrived in front of Rais and Ludos. Their heart almost stopped. The tried to jump back out of the barrier array, but the skeleton's finger bone had already touched their forehead.

Unable to move, while their eyes met the skeletons, placing their mind into a blank state. They mind traveled through millions of roots and vines before joining thousands of people of all ages. No one saw one another face, only their outer silhouette.

None of them knew where they were, but they were frozen in crystallized mana sh.e.l.l staring into heaven.

While in front of them laid a gigantic tree's intricate root reaching above the clouds, encompa.s.sing a ma.s.sive area. While its trunk pierced through into the void with no visual branch of its leafy crown. From the darkness of the void, blood-red leaves rained down acc.u.mulating into a sea of burning leaves.

Trying to stare down, Rais heard a crack on his sh.e.l.l. Gazing into the base of the root, he noticed three basic wooden chairs lined up, without any detail to its craftsmans.h.i.+p. Though they were coated with crystallized mana, making them appear like thrones for an emperor.

Especially two of them on each of the outer edges. Despite this Rais, didn't glance at them more than once because he couldn't move his eyes from the one in the middle.

On the center throne sat a skeleton of a toddler while holding wood-carved toys. Frozen with mana, while an exalted aura escaped from it.