The young man was ablaze with fire shooting three feet high, which in an instant extinguished the Witch Tribe's Sacred Object, yet left the young man completely unaffected.
The wizard, feeling astounded, suddenly noticed a restless agitation from the Mother Worm within him. He turned to look and realized, at some point, that the bound villagers were also having their Gu insects gradually cleared away.
Only then did he belatedly realize that the unexpectedly growing vines weren't just restraining the villagers.
Above these vines, there seemed to be some invisible mycelium that could invade the villagers' bodies and devour the insect eggs and Mother Worms inside them.
The small Gu insects he had painstakingly planted inside the villagers were being consumed bit by bit.
There was a bond between the Gu insects, and the Lifebound Gu inside him felt the Sacred Object disappearing, becoming extremely unsettled.
