"Return my daughter, and I shall spare your life."
The Ant Goddess declared in a commanding tone that echoed ancientness, power, and authority.
"And what if I do not?"
Konrad asked with a smirk.
"Then, I can only snatch her back and harvest your lives along the way."
The Ant Goddess replied and stretched out her hands. Instantaneously, the chthonian energies lingering within the Blood Mountain Range's atmosphere, and those lilies Konrad had yet to harvest were suppressed as a field of boundless life essence draped the eighteen peaks.
Magnificent flowers bloomed across the mountain range, and hundreds of towering trees rippling with vast life essence rose from all sides. But as Life reached its apex, Konrad raised his right hand!