"NNNOOOO!!!"
"HELPPPPP!!!"
"FAATTTHHERRR!!"
The survivors' screams continued echoing through the forest as their bodies vanished into the darkness between the trees as their body warped by those unknown things dragging them into the forest.
Young Aether's eyes narrowed slightly just as he was about to move when the tree branch beneath Aether exploded apart as a massive appendage burst upward from below.
Crack!
THURRRRRR!!!!
The attack arrived fast enough to kill an ordinary person instantly.
Aether calmly pushed off the branch.
His body moved through the air at the exact moment the appendage pierced through the position where he had been sitting. Splinters and fragments of bark scattered in every direction as the creature's attack tore through the tree trunk.
Before he could land, another appendage emerged from a neighbouring tree.
Thurr!
Then another.
Thurr!
Then another.
Within moments, dozens of them were converging upon his position from every direction.
