Atavistic Olivia remained motionless.
Her determination to die rather than surrender was self-evident!
Behind her, Angela and two apprentices were less calm.
"Senior Sister... I don't want to die..."
One of the apprentices cried.
Angela's face was pale, and her gaze toward Ethan betrayed a plea for mercy.
Just then, a howl echoed from the air.
Hysterical and terrifying!
Instantly, everyone's attention was drawn to it.
"Not enough... not enough..."
The howler was Hubert, besieged by the Four-Armed Gorilla and the Dark Golem.
On the gallows tree, a human face twisted.
He drooled and muttered to himself.
"Ancestral spirits... Ancestral spirits, behold!"
"My strength...is not strong enough..."
"I need...I need more flesh and blood..."
Hubert, reverting to his ancestral form, inexplicably gave up attacking the Four-Armed Gorilla and the Dark Golem.
He freed two vines, snatched up the bodies of the two fallen apprentices, stuffed them into the tree's maw, and chewed greedily.
"Flesh and blood...living flesh and blood...I want it..."
The more people he devoured, the more frantic Hubert's mind grew.
Lifeless corpses could no longer satisfy his appetite.
A vine swept across, entangling the remaining demon, forcibly dragging it along.
The bloated demon howled and struggled desperately.
Hubert opened his mouth to swallow it, but couldn't.
In anger, he extended his massive palm from the tree branch, grasped each demon's hind legs, and tore them apart!
Crack!
The demon, as fat as a brown bear, was torn in two by him!
His stomach was ripped open, intestines spilling out, blood gushing out!
In a flash, both pieces of his body were swallowed by the tree hole.
"Ugh!"
Hubert, who had reverted to his original form, burped loudly.
"Ohhh… the power… is surging!"
The bark all over his body crackled and exploded!
The already massive trunk of the tree grew ever larger!
As everyone watched in astonishment...
Hubert's form, the Hangman Tree, had tripled in height!
From its roots to its towering canopy, it was over 30 meters tall!
The trunk was so thick that even two people couldn't wrap their arms around it.
The four vines split into eight, tripling in length!
All these signs pointed to a terrifying conclusion!
Hubert, possessed! Mutated!
Reverting to his ancestral form, possessed by the devil, and then mutated...
Hubert, reverting to his ancestral form, evolved from a Hanged Tree into a Mutated Hanged Tree!
The immense driving force that accompanied his demonic possession broke through the shackles of his bloodline, allowing Hubert to break through the bottleneck and leap to the fourth level of cultivation!
"Hubert has lost his humanity and can never return to being human again!"
Sonia's voice trembled, and cold sweat seeped from her palms.
"Now he's no longer a warlock, but a fourth-level human demon!"
Alan nodded gently and took Sonia's cool, delicate hand.
"Don't be afraid. Let's see what happens next."
He spoke lightly, but inwardly, he was terrified! Ready to unleash his "Phantom Step" at any moment, he immediately snatched up Sonia and fled when he saw the situation was dire!
The strongman, chopping wood atop the gallows tree, finally realized something was amiss.
Four enchanted broadswords struck the tree, only to be deflected.
Leaving only a shallow scratch where the blades landed.
The mutated gallows tree's armor had been greatly enhanced, making it impossible to penetrate with a mere level 1 enchanted weapon!
A cold sweat broke out on the strongman's forehead. He hurriedly turned over and tried to jump from the tree.
Too late.
A massive hand, formed from countless twisted branches, loomed over him and grabbed him!
The possessed Hubert was vastly larger than the four-armed gorilla.
He plucked him from the treetops like a kitten and held him tightly in his palm.
Poof!
The four-armed gorilla gushed blood.
His bones crackled and shattered!
The Dark Golem, the puppeteer's form, hastily swung out a spiked chain, entangling the possessed Hubert's massive hand in an attempt to free his companion.
Overestimating his own abilities!
Hubert spun and swung out a vine, tangling it with the spiked chain.
The tree shuddered, and a terrifying force was transmitted through the vine.
As if shoved from behind, the puppeteer soared into the air, tumbling towards Hubert.
Swoosh!
A massive hand swept across the air.
The puppeteer, too, was firmly grasped by the possessed Hubert.
The possessed Hubert, grasping both the four-armed gorilla and the Dark Golem in his hands, suddenly collided!
BANG!
With a resounding bang, the four-armed gorilla and the dark golem collided fiercely!
The possessed Hubert spread his hands.
Two corpses tumbled down.
The strongman, his brain splattered, and the puppeteer, his armor shattered, were entangled by a vine before they even hit the ground. They were dragged into the tree's maw.
Crunch!
The possessed Hubert chewed greedily.
Pooh!
The tree's maw spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, mixed with unpalatable metal fragments.
Dense mycelium quietly floated over and entangled the possessed Hubert.
Ethan gritted his teeth and injected various toxins through the mycelium.
But it was all in vain.
The possessed Hubert had become a complete plant.
The constitution of plants is different from that of flesh and blood.
A poison strong enough to kill a hundred men, when applied to it, felt no pain.
Two giant palms, like dark clouds covering the sun, struck together across the sky!
With a thud, Ethan was slapped between his palms like a mosquito.
The possessed Hubert rubbed his palms together and then separated them.
A bloody figure fell to the ground.
The possessed Hubert slowly raised his massive tree root and stomped down hard on the spot where Ethan had fallen.
Bang!
The earth trembled, dust and sand flew up!
Under the tree man's feet, a deep mud pit sank.
The possessed Hubert slowly pulled out his foot, attempting to swallow the crushed corpse into the tree hole.
However…
In the vast mud pit, only a few traces of blood remained.
Ethan's figure vanished without a trace.
…
"Stop watching!"
Alan pushed the stunned Sonia.
"Follow me!"
He grabbed her hand and ran away.
Sonia was short and had short legs, so she stumbled under his pull.
Alan simply lifted her up, cradling her in one arm like a baby.
Sonia squirmed in his arms, adjusting to a more comfortable position, her arms wrapped around his neck.
"Brother Alan! Are you taking me to hunt down the captain?"
"Smart!"
"The captain has become invisible. He's transformed into a fungal form, and there's no trace of blood. How can you and I detect his invisibility?"
Alan didn't answer.
He simply raised his index finger, covering her lips.
"Shh..."
Sonia fell silent.
Alan ran half a mile in one breath, deep into the mushroom forest.
He suddenly stopped and held his breath.
Sonia, sensing the tense atmosphere, also held her breath, her eyes wide open, glancing around.
The dim forest was silent and empty, with no sign of anything unusual.
Alan raised his left hand, palm thrust forward.
Surging magic power gathered in his palm and compressed.
The moment it reached its peak compression, it suddenly erupted violently!
Shaping Thunderous Explosion Wave!
Boom!
A cone-shaped shock wave, accompanied by a terrifying sonic boom, rolled forward.
In an instant, within 20 meters in front of Allen, all the tall and short fungi and large rocks were flattened to the ground!
The flat ground looked as if it had been carefully plowed.
In the center of the flat ground, a blurry figure lay.