This Is Not a Game

rescue

Numerous trees emitting colorful lights like a Christmas tree.

The moment I inadvertently turned off the demonic eye of truth, darkness descended without a single light.

‘It was all energy?’

The sight unfolded through the demonic eyes of truth was dreamy enough to bewitch even a meteor with dry sensitivity.

However, once he got used to the light and was able to observe his surroundings closely, he realized that the place he was in was not so beautiful.

The passage through which the light flowed was grotesquely twisted stems, and the beautiful luminous body that glowed in five colors was a fruit with a ferocious appearance.

‘Since there’s no light coming in, it’s likely that it’s underground, or in the worst case, it’s inside a giant plant-type monster. Either way, we need to get out of this place as soon as possible.’

Anxiety that he might die in this place crept in, but instead of surrendering to the emotions of the moment, Yoosung looked around and was lost in thought.

‘It is impossible to move normally once.’

Previously, there were not many plants, so he somehow managed to survive, but now he is completely surrounded by plants.

Yuseong looked around and confirmed that no one was around, so he took out an energy bar he had put in his pocket and threw it away.

Kwajijik!

As soon as it fell to the floor, the stems surrounded the energy bar without any gap and exploded it.

As a result of several more tests after that, Meteor was able to get a sense of this space to some extent.

‘It reacts very sensitively to stimuli, but it is quite insensitive to sound. Seeing that they don’t attack me right now, it must be that they don’t have a sense of sight or only recognize when necessary. If you think about it, when I just came back from the quest, I stayed still and started reacting the moment I touched the stem while moving. The stems, leaves, and twigs I’m looking at now are all sensors.’

A hopeless situation where the entire space itself is plastered with bomb fuzes.

However, instead of giving up, Yooseong desperately rolled his head to find a way out.

“If these are sensors, why don’t they notice me?”

Objects react terribly to touch, not even paying attention to themselves.

The difference between things and myself, it was very simple.

“Whoa.”

Yoosung let out a long sigh and slowly stepped outside.

Took!

The meteor didn’t get hit even after stepping on the stem.

The secret was right in your feet.

It was because the vines he pulled out with the Thorn Vine skill wrapped around his feet and acted as shoes.

Seruk!

As if something was strange, the surrounding stems began to stretch upward like snakes on the vine’s shoes at a slow speed.

No matter how much time passed, the stems that had wrapped around the meteor in a shape reminiscent of a giant cocoon began to slowly return to their original positions.

“As expected.”

Yooseong, who walked around and touched fruits and leaves with thorns, was convinced that the camouflage clothes made of thorns worked well for plants.

In this state, the combat power is drastically reduced, but there was nothing to be sorry for, because if you fight anyway, you will be instantly killed.

‘Well then, I have to move now…’

Numerous holes drilled in all directions.

It was a hopeless situation that was no different from being thrown into the open sea without a map or compass, but fortunately, Yooseong had a skill to set the reference point.

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Just as blood flows through veins, huge energy flows along the stem at regular intervals, revealing through the Mystic Eye of Truth.

‘If this is underground, there is a possibility of going outside when going in the direction where the energy flows, but if it is inside a monster, you can endlessly wander inside the body.’

Yooseong, who was contemplating between the two options, decided that the place he was in now was more likely to be inside the monster than underground, and moved toward the source of energy.

The meteor moved silently, desperately enduring the bizarre scenery, such as vines that pulsated like blood vessels, tree branches that moved out of nowhere, and passages that were suddenly filled up or created.

Where there is a road, I walk, but if there is no road, I made a road with thorns and moved for a long time. Meteor heard a faint sound and stopped walking.

“… ugh.”

‘It’s human!’

It was an unmistakable human groan.

The meteor, which moved vigorously and finally reached the source of the sound, was frozen in an unimaginable sight.

Hundreds, maybe even thousands of cocoons were tightly attached to the floor, walls, and ceiling.

That was bizarre enough, but the real problem was the cocoon’s contents.

“Ugh.”

“Ah, ah ah…”

“Kek, Kek!.”

The contents inside the cocoon were none other than humans.

Some people were only pale in complexion, but most of them were so thin that it would not be strange to die soon, or so thin that they reminded one of a mummy.

The sight is unrealistic enough to make you wonder if you are watching a cheap B-level creature movie.

However, the numerous moans coming from all sides indicated that this was reality.

No matter how much it was, Yuseong was not indifferent to the extent that he could not think of anything even after seeing this scene with his own two eyes.

‘Calm down. calm down.’

Of course, I wasn’t a person who was sensitive enough to leave my body to my emotions.

“Are you draining energy from humans?”

Yuseong, who was activating the evil eye of truth, could see that energy flowed endlessly from the cocoons and that the energy extracted in this way gathered at a certain point.

Energy is gathered in a huge pillar in the center of the clearing, and the energy is sent in all directions, just like a heart pumps blood to the body.

After thinking for a while, Yuseong slowly began to approach the pillar.

‘I don’t know if what’s inside is the heart, but I have to break it.’

It wasn’t because of a sense of justice.

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Just choosing the best way to survive.

It is disguised as a thorny vine right now, but since you don’t know how wide this inside is, if you try to go out with a light heart, you could really wander endlessly.

In that case, having come this far, it would have been a much better choice to just break my heart.

If you do well, you can kill this guy, but if you do poorly, you can inflict a fatal blow.

‘In the worst case, I’ll just run away with the quest.’

The energy is concentrated in the center of the pillar.

It was almost ten meters high, but the thorny vines under my feet continued to proliferate and slowly began to rise, and soon the meteor was able to reach the center of the pillar.

Paperweight!

The tangible purple plasma brightened up the dark vacant lot and showed off its presence.

As if noticing something strange, the surrounding stems began to shake, but the plasma ax was already cutting through the air.

Kwajik!

“Can you stand this?!”

Meteor muttered inadvertently at the absurd situation in which trees could at best withstand the plasma that would tear even steel like paper.

——!

A huge echo that I remember hearing.

Yoosung gritted his teeth and swung the ax at the instinctive fear that ran up his spine.

As I swung the plasma ax in a trance, a glowing green sphere appeared from within the pillar.

‘That’s it!’

Yuseong, who had driven his finger into the pillar with Amwol’s Type 16 rock piercing with 99 muscle strength, grabbed the green sphere with his right hand and put all his strength into it.

Kwajik!

As the greenish orb shattered, the column began to oscillate wildly and shoot stems in all directions.

However, the meteor was already inside a cocoon made of thorns.

—–!

* * *

The subjugation party trembled in fear.

Even before the operation started, I thought it would be easy to catch.

It hasn’t been long since we started fighting, but compared to the enemies we’ve faced so far, such as scary monsters that make you feel like you’re going to collapse just by looking at them, shapeless spiritual bodies, and monsters that can withstand the military bombardment head-on, this enemy is just a big and movable tree. I mean.

But he was an existence that lightly transcended their imagination.

“How is this a tree?!”

The tree, which had the height of an ordinary building, grew more and more as the battle continued, and now it grew to a size comparable to that of a skyscraper, and its endlessly extending roots completely dominated a building.

“Buy me some time!”

“Damn it! If you’re going to use a flame net or something, just don’t use it! It’s useless!”

“It’s useless! It’s sure to work, but what nonsense!”

“What do you do if you get eaten? You recover right away!”

What’s more, this tree regenerates at a visible rate as soon as it is damaged.

A cataclysmic monster that is slow but devastates the entire area it moves in and absorbs people.

‘Even if I want to ask for support, all the people who can deal with that guy are down in the provinces or are dealing with a more dangerous guy, should I withdraw?’

The worried woman immediately shook her head.

If left alone, he will grow bigger and Seoul will become even more dangerous.

If you can’t defeat him, you have to wait as long as possible.

“Everyone back off!”

“Are you retreating?”

“No, I’ll give you a shot!”

Hwareuk!

Sweat dripped down the woman’s forehead like a waterfall, and soon a window of flame the size of a building appeared on the palm of her hand.

Perhaps the heat that could be felt from a distance had sensed a crisis, and the trees began to grow numerous trunks, but a spear of flame flew in first.

“Haaa!”

A lethal blow in which most of his abilities were poured.

It may look glamorous, but he knew best that this did not work, not anyone else.

aaang!

“···uh?”

So, the moment the spear of flame she sent pierced the tree and caused a huge explosion, the woman couldn’t help but let out a dazed sound.

—–!

The tree, which had shown no reaction to any attack until now, was twisting its body around, screaming so desperately that it was suspected that its heart had been pulled out.

“What, what is it. You? If you had such a skill, you should have used it a long time ago! What is Himsunjin? Why did you pretend to be weak?!”

“Oh, no. That’s not it…”

“I lived because of you! Thank you, thank you.”

“Win! We won!”

‘What is it?’

After a moment of panic at the incomprehensible results, people let out a sigh of relief at the sight of the silent tree collapsing to the ground.

“…First, let’s start the search.”

According to information handed down from above, this tree has the characteristic of catching life and absorbing energy while growing.

There must have been people somewhere in the huge body, so while dismantling the tree for a long time, a commotion broke out somewhere.

“Here! Here are the people!”

“Ooh, ooh!”

“If you have time to vomit, save at least one more!”

Like prey caught by carnivorous plants, people who were caught in trees and robbed of their energy.

Most of them died or were in an emergency to the point of death, but everyone was busy using their hands to dismantle the cocoon to save even one more person, and thanks to that, they were able to save quite a few people.

“Are you okay?”

“Oh, yes. It’s fine.”

And the fact that among the victims rescued, there was a young man who seemed to be incomparably healthier than the others, did not draw attention to anyone.

this is not a game