Chapter 255: Fear Factor

Elsewhere on the battlefield, a Veladrys was unlucky enough to have fallen after getting chased by bottom feeders. Swarmed by multitudes of the ravenous, slippery creatures, she was reduced to leaves and twigs amid her piercing screams.

It was an incredibly painful way to go.

Yet, the moment her physical body was devoured, her consciousness returned to a tree in the Nymph's forest, and this tree's vibrant leaves drooped closed to settle in a dormant state.

It would be another few weeks before she could materialise again, and the Queen Mother who saw a portion of her forest weaken had a dark look on her face. 

She had sensed the serpent arriving with those strange creatures a while ago. But when she did not return to the cave immediately, she decided to play along to see what the 'she' was planning.