The forest had turned into a battlefield, and clusters of trees collapsed onto the ground, forming land between a large body of water. Moonlight shone on this surface and lit the surroundings. Soon, an intense red light that was stronger than the faint moonlight began to spread across the forest.

Crack! Crackle!

Large trees burned and let out sparks. Each tree was so big that even if two people stretched their arms wide open and tried to hug the tree, they would barely ‌cover the perimeter. Since such trees were burning up like wood in a fireplace, the path of fire became much more intense. This gigantic fiery body almost looked like a fire monster as it moved around this way and that according to the air flow. 

Whoosh! Something fell into the path of fire. It was a corpse.

Swish! Swish! Swish! More bodies were thrown in. These were corpses that belonged to the dead mercenaries and the robed figures, and the fiery sparks swallowed them greedily. Although there were quite a few of them, the fire was much bigger than them and had no trouble burning the corpses.

“Last one!” Zich threw the last corpse in his hands and wiped his hands clean. Now, all he needed to do was wait for the fire to turn the corpses into ashes. Zich turned his back from the fire...