Demon Garden

‘It was dangerous.’

Dryad.

The Elder Treant residing within that body continued to think with its high intelligence.

He remembered the Hero who had visited the Demon Beast Garden not long ago.

And he remembered that she was strong, and even if he revealed his true form, he expected at least considerable damage.

So he tried to avoid conflict as much as possible.

He intended to do so this time as well.

And he acted accordingly.

It was unexpected that his Clone was cut in half at the same time as he tried to stop her.

He was keeping a considerable distance, but suddenly a Slash flew in and bisected the Clone.

He forgot his thoughts in shock, but he couldn’t afford to be shocked.

He could easily deduce why the Hero was there.

‘She knew we were trading.’

Otherwise, there was no reason for her to wait there for so long.

The place where that Hero was.

It was the entrance to the Demon Beast Garden.

It was a place where the Barrier was relatively weak in order to create exchanges with the outside.

Today, humans called ‘Believers’ were supposed to come and receive ‘Fertilizer’ in exchange for the corpses of Demon beasts.

But the Hero was standing right in the entrance, blocking them.

The Elder Treant searched for the reason and found it. The Elder Treant had no way of knowing that it was a misunderstanding.

Rather, his suspicion only grew stronger as to how she had accurately found the entrance in the middle of a forest where there was nothing.

Jang Yu-ha’s ‘Premonition’ accurately hit the point that made the opponent think of a reason.

The Elder Treant thought.

‘I have to deceive her.’

I have to kill her.

The Elder Treant manipulated the Dryad to lead the Hero and her party into the Demon Beast Garden.

Avoid friction.

Pretend to ask for help.

Pretend to give a reward.

Just in time, that silver-haired human asked at a good time.

If he needed help.

So he eagerly took the bait.

He presented the problem lurking in the Demon Beast Garden to the Hero.

The Demon Beast King of the Demon Beast Garden.

The master who occupied each area of the garden.

And the subordinates who served them.

He deceived her by saying that they were disrupting the order of the Demon Beast Garden and threatening him.

In fact, the Elder Treant does not consider the Demon Beast King a problem. The forest is ultimately an environment and cannot dominate anything.

The forest’s owner, its king, highly praises the Elder Treant,

But the only ones who can truly pacify the forest are the animals living within it.

The Demon Beast King was like a business partner to the Elder Treant.

Of course, even if the Hero killed the Demon Beast King, a new Demon Beast King would be born. If the Hero caught the Demon Beast King and turned her attention away from him and the human Believers, that would be enough.

‘Besides, it’s better for me if this Demon Beast King dies.’

He was a peer raised by the Witch, and he could be an obstacle to his plans.

Moreover,

Fertilizer.

The corpses of strong Demon beasts are traded by the human Believers at a high price.

“How strong is the Demon Beast King? Stronger than you?”

“I am not good at fighting, so I cannot gauge strength. If we were to fight, I would be unilaterally defeated.”

“Well, I guess that’s obvious since you’re a tree.”

Hero.

Amel.

Amel is a strong Hero.

But the Elder Treant predicted that the Demon Beast King would win.

No matter how strong the Hero was, the Demon Beast King was a true king raised by the Witch herself to become the king of Demon beasts.

He possessed the power befitting the title of Demon Beast King.

A forest overgrown with plants.

He manipulated the forest.

He opened the path to make it easier to walk.

He kept their Vitality as intact as possible, as it would be troublesome for him if they died too easily to the Demon Beast King.

Walking,

Walking,

In the meantime.

A Demon beast appeared.

It was a Frog Demon Beast with excellent stealth that had escaped the Elder Treant’s detection.

It jumped and flew towards Amel, opening its large mouth.

“I have a question.”

“Yes?”

Amel asked.

The Frog Demon Beast was already dead.

It was lying on the floor, cut in half from side to side with a single Slash.

When did she Slash it?

“…Yes, what is your question?”

Hero Amel.

She’s stronger than expected.

“Where are the Demon beasts flowing in from? As far as I know, there aren’t many Demon beasts in this forest.”

“That’s because the entrance to the garden extends throughout the continent.”

The Demon Beast Garden is a place created by gathering parts of space collected from various places on the continent.

Because Demon beasts flow in from various places on the continent, they are constantly being introduced.

“If you leave holes open for Demon beasts to flow in from various places on the continent, one will enter every day.”

“Hee, but it seems difficult to manage if an individual like the Demon Beast King appears. Was it like that even when the Witch was alive?”

“The Witch was stronger than the Demon Beast King.”

“Is that so?”

A disappointed expression.

“But still, is there a need to gather Demon beasts?”

“The Witch selected and raised Demon beasts. The Demon beasts raised in that way were sent out like the Wasp that the Hero accompanied last time. I don’t know why, but there must have been a purpose.”

“….”

Amel closed her mouth.

She seemed lost in thought.

Win was talking about the Magic Beast Witch in her own way in Amel’s mind, which the Elder Treant couldn’t hear.

Win asserted that the selected Demon beasts were test subjects of the Demon beast witch.

“….”

Amel didn’t bother to say that out loud.

And the Elder Treant sent the Dryad to guide Amel.

The air became humid.

The floor was also damp.

A swamp appeared.

A murky swamp with leaves covering the surface.

The Dryad pointed to the other side of the swamp, which was obscured by submerged trees.

A large silhouette could be seen in that shady place.

The silhouette was enjoying a nap on the damp ground in the middle of the swamp, as if a rope was coiled and placed on the floor.

[Demon Beast Garden’s King Basilisk]

Black letters.

Minimum level 59.

Amel discerned the identity of the silhouette and showed the color of the letters in the information window.

“That is the Demon Beast King Basilisk. He was raised by the Witch, so his size is different from that of a normal Basilisk.”

It was twice as large compared to the [Basilisk] she had faced before.

The Dryad hid behind a tree and whispered.

“He’s taking a nap. If he wakes up, he can hide in the swamp. He’s sensitive to the smell of iron, so leave anything that might get you caught to me and assassinate him while he’s asleep, how about it?”

“….”

It doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Amel took out a sword from her Inventory.

Win used Magic,

And stepped on the surface of the water.

Her feet stood on the surface of the water without sinking below the surface.

‘(How is it?)’

‘Fun.’

“What are you trying to do…”

———She Leaped.

[Basilisk] noticed the approach and raised its huge head.

It unwound its coiled body with its head raised.

Unwinding,

It flew.

The tail.

[Basilisk]’s tail flew towards her, and she jumped to dodge.

She turned around again and went to the other side as if to fly again, but

Before it could return, she first [Leaped] and approached [Basilisk]’s neck.

Holding the sword with both hands like a baseball bat,

[Slash]

She swung.

And it broke.

She jumped, using its neck as a stepping stone.

She kicked the branches that covered the sky like the ceiling of the swamp and hung upside down.

“It’s hard.”

The sword broke.

Even though she properly imbued it with [Enhancement] and [Sword Aura], its scales were hard.

[Basilisk] took an attack stance, but it was attack and defense. [Basilisk] was simply a strong Monster.

She didn’t know what it had learned from the Witch, but

She threw away the sword, leaving only the handle,

And landed on the surface of the water.

A sword…

‘…I don’t have one.’

She ran out of iron swords.

She forgot to replenish them.

She took out another sword.

[Mithril Sword].

It was one of the swords used by [Zeus Great General Wasp], and it was less regrettable than the other swords.

She took out the [Mithril Sword] and infused it with Mana. Mana was injected into it much more smoothly than the iron sword, and more pure Strength was formed in the [Mithril Sword].

[Execution Sword]

The Giant Magic Sword fell like a guillotine Blade.

Jang Yu-ha watched the scene from afar.

Even if she watched, it was instantaneous what she did.

What she understood was as follows.

Amel ran to [Basilisk],

Dodged the tail and brushed past its neck.

The tail created a splash of water,

And a Blue Trajectory passed through [Basilisk]’s neck as if it had pierced it.

[Basilisk]’s neck is separated from its body and falls.

Thud.

The impact of the head falling was so heavy that it was transmitted all the way here.

[Basilisk], which is not as large as the Giant Tentacle of [Dream], but has a head the size of a small house and a body comparable to it.

[Basilisk], which is likened to a living tank, resisted death by writhing as ordinary snakes do, even though its neck was severed.

But its fate was sealed. No, its fate was already sealed from the moment it fell into Amel’s hands.

She looked back at the [Dryad] next to her.

The [Dryad] bit her lip tightly and stared at [Basilisk] with a mixture of shock.

“Hey.”

“….”

[Dryad]’s eyes turned to her.

The shock must have been great.

She was cautious, saying it was the Demon Beast King, but she cut it down with a single Slash, so it was no wonder she was surprised.

“Do you need more help? Tell me. Days like this don’t come often? If there’s anything else you want to ask for, ask for it.”

“….”

“You have to do it when Amel is here. There’s more, right?”

[Premonition] said.

That there would be more.

The [Dryad] still bit her lip and nodded with wide eyes, pretending to be calm.