Chapter 334 Ceasefire (1/2)

Chapter 334 Ceasefire

"Master, prepare for battle!" Valera shouted, i stance in front of Aldrich The shi+eld she had dematerialized in her reversion bloodlust reappeared in her hand, and she stood with a wide, trained stance behind it, her prior aniain," said Mollusk "And there's like a hundred of them too"

"This time, I really do think we should just warp out, you know," said Refraction, golden sparks of energy fluttering at his treertips "You, uh, don't need a hundred of these things, right? Just one is good, yeah?"

Chiros awaited with calm, for he believed panic, especially for a soldier, was nothing short of inelegant His reverted crystalline forht with his blade poised in ready position by his side

"Wait," said Aldrich The earth started to ruiant trees and their upturning roots churned the ground

Around the trees, their roots broke up fros With a heave, the roots pushed their host trees aboveground with a deafening ru rock debris

Aldrich wanted to see if the entity would truly uphold its end of the ceasefire It said it would move back all Locuses and Geists If Arcadia was any indication, every single one of those trees was aa Geist, which meant that the entity was supposed to pull theht noould be a surefire way to break a ceasefire before it even really began He did not believe the entity would do that

So, he waited

Valera was the first to catch on Her [Danger Sense] skill was likely not triggering, unable to sense any hostile intent or bloodlust aan to lower her shi+eld

Chiros, seeing his co his blade

"Are we all just, uh surrendering here?" said Refraction "Turning into good old mulch for those nicely oversized trees?"

"Silent e," said Mollusk "But self-destructive tendencies definitely aren't So calulped and nodded

The entire forest began to s of roots, but not towards Aldrich As a whole, theywith each of their synchronized, colossal steps

The countless insect variants that nested atop their branches buzzed about in a panic, creating a cloud of bodies that could almost blot out the sun For a moment, Aldrich wondered if they, as natural variants, would attack as the entity had said it would respect the right of natural variants to hunt

But the insect variants si to leave their ho fruits and sap and wars

After a few minutes, when the forest ell and far into the distance, Aldrich nodded in confirmation The entity had stayed true to its words

The ceasefire was official

That was good news, but at the sa It was the start of a tilass that, if Aldrich did not have all of humanity under his would all end

At the sa about it more, Aldrich knew that there was likely some leeway here He could infer fro thee part of its life force