The High Priest is crazy.

And she knows it.

Maybe it started a few decades ago.

Or hundreds of years ago, when she saw the gray-white figure for the first time, saw the colorful and magnificent colors, and realized that everything they lived in was false.

Or maybe a thousand years ago, when He came here.

At that time, the number of elves was far more than that, but almost all over the forest.

She doesn't remember how many reincarnations she's been through, just like she doesn't remember her name.

Just remember the title "High Priest".

and the price to be paid for bearing this title.

The High Priestess did not try, on the contrary, she made countless attempts, using all her wisdom and imagination, time and time again, to try to break this endless cycle or save the villagers who knew nothing.

But every ending, without exception, ended in failure.

The reason is simple and cruel.

How could she save a group of people who had long since died?

The high priest also told the villagers the truth more than once, but by the next day, they would forget everything.

And the high priest is the only one who bears this deep secret.

It's just because when he came, the mission left to her by the fairy royal family, and with the power of the bloodline, let her remember all this.

No one can understand her pain.

As she says, the more you know, it's never a lucky thing.

The high priest preferred himself to be like the villagers, who knew nothing and could immerse themselves in the illusion of good happiness.

And every time you don't have to watch the number of people in the village get smaller and smaller, you don't have to be seriously questioned, and you don't have to see them collapse again and again when they know the truth.

Once or twice, the high priest was able to endure it.

But the number of times she experienced it was forgotten by her.

Painful memories continue to precipitate and accumulate.

So, the high priest went mad.

Her soul seemed to be split into two parts.

Some of them stick to their mission to protect the peaceful and peaceful lives of the villagers.

The other part is a deep resentment and anger against this secret.

Why should she take on this painful mission?

Why is she the only one?

The color of the high priest's fur also reflected her heart to a certain extent, alternating black and white, falling into an endless struggle.

And in the end, the madness set her on a path of destruction.

High Priest, thrown into His arms.

- She would rather believe in an unspeakable existence than endure the pain of this samsara.

"Boom-"

The roar of the ground intensified.

Cobweb-like cracks began to appear on the land.

The violent tremor made many goblins who had not yet turned into gray shadows feel terrified in their hearts.

And the most confusing thing is what the high priest just said.

Every word is understood, but when they are connected, people can't believe it anyway.

Don't dare, don't want to, and don't want to.

can be seen in front of you.

Strange changes are still happening!

As the last ray of light dissipated on the horizon, the night-infested forest began to reveal its true appearance.

Sumptuous food and wine, gone.

Together with the houses of people not far away.

Lush trees, hideous and savage, purple-black bark withered, deformed branches growing.

The weeds and shrubs everywhere are even more irregular, twisting and stretching their bodies.

It's like a forest of horror from a fairy tale.

The breath of dead silence spreads.

The biggest change is the existence of this tree, which is regarded as the "mother goddess of the forest".

Looking up, all the leaves in the extremely tall canopy had disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.

There were only dense branches, glowing with gray death.

And weirdly entangled.

It's not like a twig, it's more like a mollusk's tentacles!

On the trunk of the tree, however, it has a colorful color.

Incomparably gorgeous, but also incomparably dangerous.

"It turns out that the truth is this."

Aono side.

Sheila lowered her head, and her lower body began to turn into gray scum.

She first glanced at her sister in the distance—Luna's eyes were blank, as if she remembered something, and she looked at her sister with tears on her face.

Sheila looked at the high priest in the tall tree again, guilt and sympathy in her eyes.

- I'm sorry that you've been left alone with these truths for so many years.

Then, the gray spread over her face.

Aono's gaze was firmly fixed on the trunks of the huge trees and the cracked ground.

Pure color, slowly leaking through the cracks.

It's like I've been sleeping here for a long time.

Aono didn't know what the fairy royal clan did thousands of years ago to keep their dead souls alive in this forest.

But now it seems that this is more like a means of countering the colors of the stars.

The blood that belonged to Rin Tamagawa undoubtedly destroyed some kind of balance in it.

Causes the Rainbow to no longer hide beneath the ground.

Flowing from cracks.

Rin Tamagawa and the others, who had not yet recovered from the shock of learning the truth, saw this kind of thing that they had seen last night.

Their faces were pale, and a wave of despair and helplessness rose in their hearts.

It's just because there are too many of them.

It is no longer just a small one, but shrouded in all around, like a colorful galaxy.

Magnificent, but chilling.

Tomie's reaction was quite ordinary, not scared or surprised.

In the colorful colors, there is greed.

Began to slowly wrap around the gray-white figures, trying to dye them the same color.

"They're preying."

Aono was sure of the situation in front of him, and was no longer just a bystander.

The black fog spread quietly around him.

As soon as he came into contact with them, Aono felt a strong burning sensation in the black mist—like a thick acid splashed directly on his skin, which was unbearable pain for ordinary people.

After reaching lv2, Black Mist not only obeys Aono's drive, but can also transmit perception to a certain extent.

"Nope! No—"

The high priest looked at the gray shadow stained with color, and covered his head with his paws in pain.

"What did I do!?"

But soon, she smiled maniacally again.

"Hehehe, isn't that great? It was their privilege to be one with the great Him! ”

"Then everything will be over!"

"Wait, this black fog"

The high priest's coat changed back to black, and his expression was confused.

In her original opinion, He should have been invincible, but now the black fog that suddenly appeared, what was it?

It is eroding each other with the amorphous colors, and it is on par.

Why, it seems to be the same level, or a higher level of existence!

"Bang!"

Before she could comprehend the picture, a sudden feeling of weightlessness came from her body, and an unstoppable force came from the back of her neck.

It was actually carried in Qingye's hand.

He didn't know when he jumped up the tree.

"Eyesores humans!"

The black fox said angrily.

"I just want to end this endless"

"Stop! Stop me! ”

There was a brief hint of struggle and pleading in her eyes.

The two emotions alternated on her face.

Aono is no stranger to this, and in Aoyama Hospital, there are patients with similar symptoms to her.

He has always been very experienced with such patients.

"Their lair, in this giant tree?"

"Yes."

The high priest squeezed a word out of his teeth.

Now, she needs to spend all her energy just fighting with herself.

"That's going to work."

Aono jumped down and stood in front of the giant tree, throwing the fox to the ground.

Rarely, with both hands, lifted the heavy unknown skeleton.

The blood is surging, and there seems to be a great river flowing in the chest.

The surface of the skin began to glow with blood, and even a faint steam evaporated.

All the senses that the ears hear, and the eyes see, disappear for a moment.

All that remains is the stick in hand.

Charge

Sell!

The operation of most of the muscles in the body and the transmission of power are superimposed after continuous accumulation, accompanied by the twisting of the body and the wave of the arms, forming a perfect moment.

"Bang !!"

A dull thump seemed to resound throughout the forest.

The gray stick, like a blade that couldn't be faster, slashed through the lower end of the huge tree.

You know, it's a huge tree that requires more than a dozen people to hug it.

I don't know how long it has been in this forest, maybe thousands of years.

"Click-la-"

Then came a series of cracking sounds, Aono's footprints, leaving a deep mark on the ground - it was the backlash of the start.

In an instant, Qingye appeared more than ten meters away.

The gray stick, stuck at the very end of the trunk.

Rin Tamagawa witnessed this scene in amazement.

What kind of power can do this?

Tomie is eating and laughing, I really want to taste you now.

A slow roar came as if it had slowed down.

This tree, which was dozens of meters high, slowly fell in the direction facing Aono.

"Slowness" is just a façade.

It's like a building being blown up, a volcanic eruption, and from a distance, it's sluggish and slow.

But when you really come to them, you face the insignificance of human beings.

will only understand the shock of the sky falling apart.

"Bang! Bang bang! ”

As it falls, it keeps colliding with the surrounding trees, making noises that are noisy and unpleasant.

But due to its mass and accelerating sideways speed, nothing can stop it.

The other trees that collided were all overwhelmed by it, setting off a chain reaction.

A large area of forest, thus turned flat.

If someone could stand above the forest, I am afraid that they would be shocked and speechless by this image.

"Boom-"

Until finally, it hit the ground with a heavy blow.

The ground shook heavily.

Shaking again still awakens people's hearts.

Is this something that humans can do?

Taiichi Kaneshiro just looked at the figure standing next to the tree, and the awe in his heart could not be contained.

Meantime.

The black mist is still blending with the color of the stars, both trying to infect each other.

Originally, their prey, the gray-white shadow, was able to roam freely.

Aono's face, so there is a slight shimmer.

The feeling of chaos and ambiguity came again.

Consciously, the color returned, and it was far stronger than the last time.

He is no longer just one, but many.

The Black Mist, which has been upgraded to Lv2, is far more powerful than before.

But now, they are only in a state of barely being evenly matched with them.

Aono ignored the panel's warning and looked inside the trunk he had broken.

It is clearly split with a stick, but the cross-section of the trunk is unusually flat.

It's as if you have cut it with a knife edge.

That's the effect of a certain amount of power and speed.

It's like that classic line - "Who said you can't stab someone without a gun?" ”

This giant tree is not hollow.

Otherwise, the heavy part of the upper end of it will not be able to bear it, and it will fall on its own.

The inner trunk of the tree is actually colorful and colorful.

Glowing like fireflies.

Faint and conspicuous.

It's just that this color can't bring beauty to people.

The ever-changing, ever-flowing colors that fall into the eye can only bring vertigo and nausea.

They were piled up in the trunk of the tree, occupying the rings of the giant tree, like wriggling parasites, sucking the life force of the tree and the forest.

"You, you!"

The high priest struggled to come back to his senses, and finally saw such a picture in front of him, and his eyes were in disbelief.

Aono didn't consider the High Priest's feelings, and lifted it up and walked towards the center of the trunk.

"What else is down here?"

Stepping on the trunk of the tree, Aono's skin was stained with a sticky feeling, as if he had touched a harmful steam.

"Oh, I've seen it."

He lowered his head, his gaze as calm as water.