“Oh…”Yin Zhen narrowed his eyes as a figure slowly stepped out of the settling dust.“So this is her…”Meave, Risa, and Sasha arrived beside him, finally coming face to face with the Queen of the Abyssals.She looked no older than her early twenties.Long, silky black hair fell behind her back, framing a gentle, beautiful face that still retained traces of the woman she once was. It was easy to understand why Malen had loved her.But the warmth in that face was gone.Her empty eyes held no emotion, no recognition, only the cold emptiness left behind by the Abyssal that had taken over her body.A strange darkness suddenly spread across her right arm.It moved beneath her skin like a living creature before rapidly consuming the rest of her body.Meave frowned.“…This is…”The symbiote expanded through all four of her limbs.Moments later, both arms and both legs transformed into razor-sharp blades.“Watch out!” Yin Zhen shouted.The Queen vanished from where she stood.She appeared abo

The dust slowly settled across the cave, but none of them relaxed.Everyone remained on guard.After seeing how terrifying the Queen’s resilience was, nobody believed the battle would end so easily. They silently prepared themselves for another exchange.Just as they expected, a figure slowly stepped out of the smoke.The Queen was still alive.This time, however, she looked different.The blades that had covered all four of her limbs were gone. No, more accurately, only a single complete blade remained.Even more disturbing was what had happened to her head.The symbiote had begun spreading across the right side of her face, swallowing her skin in a layer of black flesh as she charged straight toward Meave.Risa immediately summoned another swarm of blood bats.The creatures surrounded the Queen from every direction.She didn’t even slow down.Tiny blade fragments suddenly burst from every part of her body.The blood bats were pierced one after another before they could even reach he

Outside, everything changed the instant the dryad stepped onto the island.She stood at the top of a towering tree and slowly lifted both hands toward the sky.The ground answered her call.Countless vines burst from the earth, spreading across the island like a living tide. They raced through the forests, crawled over rocks, and tore through the soil as they expanded in every direction.“Raaa!”“Ree?”The Abyssals cried out in confusion.Before they could react, the vines wrapped around their legs and dragged them to the ground. The moment one fell, even more vines erupted beneath it, coiling around its body until it was completely restrained.The dryad wasn’t just helping the students by stopping the Abyssals attacking them.Her main focus was the students who had already transformed into Abyssals.Four of them were captured within moments.Thick roots and heavy branches intertwined around their bodies, sealing each of them inside massive wooden spheres. They were completely isolate

Once the fighting finally came to an end, Carla was able to devote all of her attention to the barrier.She closed her eyes for several moments, carefully tracing every layer of Mana woven into the enormous dome. Piece by piece, the complicated structure became clearer until she finally opened her eyes again.“I’ve deciphered it,” she announced. “The barrier is supported by twelve cores. Those are its foundation. Destroy all twelve, and the barrier will lose both its Mana supply and the links holding it together.”The dryad immediately nodded.“Show me where they are.”Carla stepped forward and stretched both hands toward the barrier.“Ieles Ulura.”A magic circle bloomed in front of her palms.Brilliant white light poured from it before splitting into twelve separate beams. Each beam shot toward a different point above the dome before angling downward, marking the exact location of every hidden core.The dryad didn’t waste a second.She clapped her hands once.Vines burst from the gr

After everything had settled down, Rhys was summoned by Wyndia.He already knew why.The moment he arrived, the dryad spent nearly an hour lecturing him about the damage he had caused by setting half the island ablaze.It was exhausting, but Rhys could tell there was a difference in their attitude now.The lecture wasn’t simply punishment.It was also proof that they had finally acknowledged both his ability and his place as Wyndia’s disciple.In the end, Rhys agreed not to cause destruction on that scale again unless there was absolutely no other choice.In return, the dryad promised that she and the other familiars would support him as one of Wyndia’s own disciples.Naturally, Rhys also had to explain everything that had happened inside the cave.He described the laboratory, the experiments, the Abyssal Queen, and everything he had learned.To him, however, the Queen wasn’t the biggest concern.The real danger was the mutant.If that mysterious organization had found a reliable way