As the two were talking, several Rakshasa also relied on the fact that they had wings and directly flew past the first stage.
When that group of Rakshasa saw that Ethan, a human, and a treant had actually arrived before them, they were immediately somewhat surprised and said, "Lowly human, what despicable means did you use to be faster than us, the races favored by the heavens?"
"Lowly?", Ethan glanced at the so-called Rakshasa and said, "You think you're so damn great just because you grew a pair of wings? Aren't you still just a birdman!"
"You're courting death!"
The female Rakshasa shouted and flapped her wings, her claws reaching toward Ethan.
Ethan transformed his hand without hesitation into a huge net, a large net woven from scales, and cast it toward the female Rakshasa.
The female Rakshasa was greatly startled, but before she could react, Ethan had already covered her with the net.
"Ahhhhh!"
The female Rakshasa immediately let out a scream.
Because Ethan's net wasn't merely a net. It was a large net covered with barbs inside, the kind that could strip a layer of skin off someone the moment they were caught in it.
"Kid, how dare you!"
Seeing his woman caught in the net, the male Rakshasa immediately flew up as well. He grabbed the net formed from Ethan's Demonic Armor with his two huge claws and tried to pull it upward.
Unfortunately, what he hadn't expected was that Ethan's net had been transformed in the first place.
Now, whether it was a weapon or a large net.
To put it simply... It was a part of his body. He could transform it into whatever he wanted.
So in the next second, the net that the male Rakshasa had grabbed turned into vines covered in black scales, spreading up along the male Rakshasa's body and tightly wrapping around its wings.
"You're allowed to insult and curse me, but I'm not allowed to fight back?", Ethan sneered as he transformed the vines wrapped around the male Rakshasa into a huge hand and squeezed hard, "What kind of logic is that!"
Smack!
The male Rakshasa instantly became like a tomato bursting with juice.
It was directly crushed apart by Ethan.
At this moment, almost all of the Rakshasa were frightened by Ethan's brutality.
They didn't even have time to care that their companion had been killed. They hurriedly spread their wings and flew toward the second stage, the Demon Forest, while the female Rakshasa, after witnessing the male Rakshasa's violent death with her own eyes, had her eyes filled with hatred.
"How dare you kill him!"
"Ahhh! I will kill you!"
The female Rakshasa turned grief and anger into fearlessness. She even completely ignored the pain caused by the barbs piercing into her flesh and desperately charged toward Ethan, looking as though she intended to drag Ethan down with her.
But Ethan shook his head and said, "What is love in this world? It drives you to go die together!"
Smack!
After saying that, Ethan directly transformed the net into a huge hand and crushed the female Rakshasa with one squeeze.
He wasn't some great philanthropist. When he saw the female taking revenge for the male, he wasn't going to be moved and then let an enemy go, only to wait for it to launch a sneak attack on him again at some unknown time.
There was only one principle here.
That was... If you don't uproot the weeds, they will grow again when the spring wind blows.
Anyone who was an enemy had to die. Anyone who glared at him had to have their eyes dug out.
That was the correct attitude and way to deal with enemies.
Caw!
"Ah!"
"Help!"
However, the moment that group of birdmen from the Rakshasa race tried to fly over the Demon Forest, just as the treant had said, a huge flock of birds suddenly appeared above the Demon Forest. Those birds were all black, but they didn't look like crows. They looked more like shadows one after another.
Those shadow birds were like individual vengeful spirits, directly crashing into the Rakshasa.
Then the birdmen of the Rakshasa race began falling one after another from midair, as if they had been struck by something.
Even the last few Rakshasa birdmen, realizing that something was wrong, hurriedly turned around and flew toward the outside of the Demon Forest.
But it was already too late.
Countless shadow birds suddenly disappeared from where they were, and in the next second, they appeared behind the Rakshasa, directly covering their bodies. Then they wrapped them into round balls, letting them freely fall downward.
"Hehe, see that?", the treant said with a laugh, "The Demon Forest isn't as simple as you imagined. Trying to take a shortcut by using some trickery to get through it is absolutely impossible!"
"What are those birds?", Ethan asked, not understanding.
"Those are Shadow Birds. They are derivatives of the Demon Forest, or rather, they are guardians specially created by the God of the Forest for the Demon Forest to protect the forest." The treant said proudly, "They are the shadows of trees, the shadows of birds, the shadows of all things in the forest. When the Demon Forest encounters a threat, these shadows will transform into guardians and protect the forest from invasion."
"Then what about you? Will you be attacked?"
"How could that be!"
The treant immediately proudly straightened its tree-trunk-like chest again and said, "Treants are part of the forest. We are born from the forest and die for the forest! The forest is our home, and we are also a part of the forest!"
"As long as I want to, I can even stand at the edge of the forest's outskirts and have vines send me across this Demon Forest!"
"But you, if you want to pass through this Demon Forest, unless you die and become fertilizer for the Demon Forest!"
"Otherwise, don't even think about it for the rest of your life!"