This was a world where skeletons and Golems walked the earth and rats could speak. Therefore, Lee Shin-Woo wasn't surprised in the least that trees could use Acid Poison.

"Ugh. The energy coming from the forest is no joke..." Jin muttered.

"Hmm, guess not."

"What?"

But when they arrived at the forest that had killed half of Vitas’s troops, Lee Shin-Woo had to correct his assumption. The forest wasn't just filled to the brim with trees. There was something else there.

"Maybe Erian would've known..."

"Wait, why are you talking about the elf? Because it's a forest?"

"It just feels like an elf would be more accustomed to dealing with things like that."

Lee Shin-Woo looked at the vast forest before them and shrugged, observing the area secreting rotten and withered mana. Undead who weren't entirely sentient might have thought they were suddenly attacked by the trees, but Lee Shin-Woo saw differently.

"There are things on the trees. I think they’re spirits."

"Ah, now that you mention it, it definitely seems that way..."

The spirits were extremely pale and resembled old ladies with an impassive expression; the ones stuck...