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The Crimson Thorn Tree is a demonized plant. It stands about 10 meters tall and has a wide trunk covered in sharp spikes dripping with toxic crimson fluid.
This tree has the sentience of a child and is a predator; it feeds on any living thing that comes near it, not even its fellow demons. It could control sharp vines that could easily penetrate Tier 8 metals, and its toxic excretion contains a strong paralytic enzyme and makes its targets contagious.
For this thing to be in the middle of a ruined base wasn't good news for the team, obviously.
And then there's the puppeteer...
It would be a mistake to underestimate this one. In Acala's Demon Database, it's officially called 'Mind Flaying Puppeteer'. By itself, it's weak. Those who are at the same strength level could easily kill the puppeteer once it's exposed. But that's only if they could expose its whereabouts.
