This made it even more afraid to pause even for a moment. It had already paid the price of thousands and tens of thousands of Tree Demons for its main force to distance themselves from the humans. If it stopped now to engage in battle with the humans, it would be a sheer waste of the time that the Tree Demons had fought to gain for it!
It had to make an all-out dash for the forest while there was still some distance between it and the human pursuers. Only by entering the forest would its minions have a chance at survival, and only by bursting into the forest could it catch up to the human Knight Order ahead and block them at the forest's edge before they posed a threat to its Dragon's Nest. Under no circumstances could they be allowed to reach the core region.
