Silent, they realized the thumping just stopped, a minute of quiet passed. The ground suddenly rumbling slightly like a minor earthquake, and creaking sounds can be heard. The tremors and the creaking sounds cease after a few minutes, silence one again reign the air. Crown Prince Lam still wondering what just happened, then "BANG!!!" a loud noise come from above their head, a giant tree root just smacked through the common house's roof causing dust to filled the air. Next, another bigger root emerged from the base of the wall, destroyed it and quickly reaching into the common house, knocked over every column it touches, roof tiles and wooden beams crashing down on those who holding up inside the common house.
Some minutes late, Crown Prince Lam regain his consciousness amid a desperate scream of a man, after few seconds he realized a mesh of small roots are tying him to their giant main root, next to the Crown Prince is his father Emperor Tu, he is completed unconscious, with a badly bleeding wound on his head. Looking around, Crown Prince Lam find other survived Brocade Cloak Guards amid the rubble of the common house, also tied into the same giant root like him and his father. The scream he heard earlier is from a Brocade Cloak Guard tied into the far end of the gian root, surrounding that poor man are Prince Toa, the villagers and some of the convoy members, the guard body is violently convulsing, eyes rolled up into his skull, mouth moaning "make it stop". Couple minutes late, he died, seeing he is dead the crowd turn to the guard tied next to that ill fate man. They forced his mouth open and pouring some of that grey liquid into his mouth, ignoring his plead for mercy. The guard anxious, breathing heavily, bracing for the awful fate about to befell him, sweat pouring down into small stream swept away the thick dust on his face, and turned it into some odd impressionist painting. Not long after, the guard starting to convulsing, screaming nonstop "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP." His eyes rolling up, face up to the sky and turned all pale, he creaking his teeth and wimpling for a moment then turn silence. The Brocade Cloak Guard sitting still like a statue, his face turned dull-witted and no long respond to anything. Knowing another ill fate soul had join their rank, the crazy crowd grin freakishly.
And so they turn to their next victim, soon Crown Prince Lam and his father will suffer the same fate. But tightly bound to the root Crown Prince Lam cannot do anything, thus the crown prince had to resort to the power of the dragon blood he inherits from his mother. Close his eyes to concentrate and invoke his dragon blood's power in his veins, seconds late his eyes turned milky white and his body starting to morphing. His clothes are all ripped along with the roots mesh as his body turn giant and elongating. Just in a few minutes, from a young man Crown Prince Lam now turned into a majestic marine dragon, nearly one hundred lias in length, with a magnificent black mane and antlers, and beautiful glossy sapphire blue scales, hard as stone covered the body. His dragon-form's roar, deafening like thunder, echoing the sky, a normal person will turn tail and run for his life, if hearing that roar, but those crazy peoples just standing there looking at the crown prince with their soulless eyes. With his giant razor sharp claws, Crown Prince Lam snapped the section of root which his father and all the survivors are tied to it. With a front leg firmly holding the root, lowered his head to the crazy crowd Crown Prince Lam breath down on them, gust of wind from his nose is like typhoon blowing those crazy people and that malevolent grey liquid away. When Crown Prince Lam lower his body ready to take off the ground, another big root suddenly emerged from the ground snatched on of his rear leg trying to stop him from escape. But right now, Crown Prince Lam is in his dragon from, a mere root is nothing too difficult to deal with. With his other rear leg, he quickly snapped that root off, then turn his swanlike neck toward the giant cerpidar tree, and breath fire on it. Quickly the evil tree entirely engulfed in fire like an enormous touch, lighten up a wide region. The heat emitting from the fire felt like it can melt anything, embers fly everywhere in the air, like the fireflies of doom, they land on the nearby houses, made them caught fire and quickly turn the entire village drowning in the searing flame. Done deed, Crown Prince Lam swiftly take off to the sky above, with the root that hold the survivors, tightly held in his claws, left behind him that sea of fire and the crazy people trying to stop the inferno.