As soon as Liora stepped into the Ancient Beast Wilderness, she came to understand that its external ghostly appearance was not misleading at all.
If anything, it was exactly the opposite.
The forest seemed terrifying from the outside, yet its interior was even more horrifying.
"Although this place is filled with vitality, this vitality is accompanied by the feeling of dread and gloom...", Liora murmured as she calmly scanned her surroundings.
Trees with black, squirming trunks, bushes whose leaves seemed more like tentacles than actual plant parts, and a dense, dark mist that covered the entirety of the forest...
As these sights fell into Liora's eyes, a vague feeling of disharmony arose within her body.
Though the change was imperceptible, she keenly sensed that her control over her own Life Force had declined, as if an invisible force was suppressing her.
