Ash ignored the voice.
But as he emerged out of the opening, another man stood there with a smirk on his face — and this time, Ash had no chance to run.
The ground cracked as the man punched it, several vines bursting upward like javelins.
Ash's instincts were dulled to a certain extent, and jumping that high with Jessie on his shoulder made the split-second decision impossible.
A vine pierced through his shin, blood erupting out and coating its tip.
Ash bit his tongue, controlling the urge to scream. He hadn't even gotten the chance to activate King's Domain.
If he had known a real B-rank puppet was waiting outside, he would have used King's Domain instantly.
He got one important piece of information from the entity's story — it wasn't entirely false. There were lies sandwiched between truths.
It had evolved the ability to create puppets to hunt for it, and all the humans here were merely its puppets — designed to hunt beasts around the desert so it could feed on them.
