Free Web NovelChapter 957: Chapter 469: Awakening and Vengeance
The wind between the trees suddenly stalled.
The uproar after the plants activated also vanished.
When the Thorn Tree Man’s mountain-sized body crashed forward, everything seemed to fall silent.
As if everyone was waiting for the sound of it hitting the ground.
And in this unbearable silence, Herbert, the culprit behind it all, watched that world-shaking scene of a golden mountain being toppled and jade pillars collapsing, and silently counted.
"Three, two... one."
When he finished counting, he smiled and said softly, "And down the mountain it goes~"
The next instant, that colossal form that had been swaying for so long finally made intimate contact with the Earth.
BOOM!!!
The Earth trembled.
Not just this little corner where the Beast Ear Clan lived— even the entire Forgotten Forest shuddered violently!
The forest was like it had been struck by a shell; a violent shockwave spread out from beneath the Tree Man’s body, blasting all the nearby activated plants away!
The nearest Beast Ear Clan bore the brunt of the impact. Their already flimsy houses collapsed with a thunderous crash under the quake-like shaking.
Fortunately, they were all standing in the center of the camp waiting to evacuate, so they escaped this calamity and weren’t buried under the falling houses.
Also fortunate that the Beastmen had already decided to leave, otherwise who knew how hopeless this scene would have made them feel.
Even so, as they watched the places that held bits and pieces of their memories being destroyed, they couldn’t hide the bitterness in their hearts.
"It’s all right."
In the face of disaster, Brook stepped forward and shouted, "Under His guidance, we will head to a new home!"
"Do not grieve! We’ll build the new home even better!"
Because the sound when the Tree Man fell had been far too loud, and because the Beastmen’s hearing was very keen, many of them had taken some damage to their hearing at this moment; their heads were buzzing, and they could only vaguely make out Brewer’s voice.
Their hearing was impaired, but their sight was fine. Seeing Brook’s firm expression, the unease in their hearts lessened somewhat.
They even felt themselves filling with hope now.
Yes, there was no need to grieve anymore, and no need to worry!
That lord really was incredibly powerful!
See?
Even that terrifying Tree Man wasn’t His match. With just a wave of His hand, the Tree Man was slammed hard into the ground!
This power was so great they simply couldn’t imagine it.
The poor imaginations in the Beastmen’s heads couldn’t comprehend what had actually happened; they could only interpret it as "the Divine’s mighty power."
The Divine!
A mighty Divine!
A Divine who can save us!
...
As the saying goes: laymen watch the spectacle, experts see the craft.
The Beastmen who couldn’t understand could only fill the gaps in their minds, then feel utterly stunned, practically wanting to cry "what a heaven-defying being."
But Fremay and the others were different. Their experience was enough to spot a few of the subtleties in all this.
And precisely because they could understand, they were even more shocked!
Those people were only guessing that Herbert had used "Divine power," but they could give a definite answer.
Yes, you really fucking guessed right!
He really did.
These three had never witnessed the grand scene of the Sun Goddess descending upon Herbert. Their impressions of him varied, but most were stuck in the past.
Eliza and Svanni were a bit better; they had witnessed Herbert slaying a Divine avatar back in the Dark Territory.
But Fremay was so stunned her eyes were about to pop out!
"Eh!!?"
Although she had more or less heard about what Herbert had gone through recently, in her mind Herbert still wore the image of that "little Hero" who hadn’t yet grown up.
And now... after witnessing this scene, those impressions had completely dissipated.
She hadn’t expected that Herbert had really, unknowingly, become such a powerful existence that even she felt surprised— and even faintly afraid.
The always laid-back Miss Mermaid was now so shocked she was stammering a bit, asking uncertainly, "Herbert, did he just... activate the entire forest?"
Is this something a Legendary Paladin is supposed to be able to do?
No, even an Epic Paladin couldn’t pull this off!
No, that’s not it either!
The profession was wrong from the start— this is clearly something a Druid should be doing!
No no no, still wrong!
Even an Epic Level Great Druid couldn’t manage this, right!
"Hiss..."
Svanni pondered for a moment, then shook her head, drawing a sharp breath, and for once exclaimed in genuine astonishment, "No, this power might be even more ridiculous than you think."
"This is far from simple activation. He directly seized everything about them, obtaining the highest authority over the forest."
Svanni was a master of manipulating flesh and blood, but she also had a certain understanding of plants now.
After learning that Herbert needed a Great Druid to improve Elda’s land, she had split her attention and quietly carried out some research on plants in secret.
She’d originally intended to offer Herbert a bit of minor help when needed, but unexpectedly, her plant research had proved analogous and significantly boosted her progress with flesh as well.
If you gave Svanni another fifty years, she figured she could moonlight as an excellent Legendary Great Druid.
Just now, Svanni had clearly caught the plants’ emotions; in an instant, all their feelings were stripped away and transformed into worship of Herbert.
A fanatical, boundless worship.
The plants were like they were facing the supreme being among their kind!
Ut!ter!loyal!ty!
With that power, the Fallen Tree Man that had required the three of them fighting together just to barely handle hadn’t even lasted a single round in his hands!
