Chapter 91 - Rapax vs Red Apostle

The gnarled, architectural nightmare where the upper reaches of the Hemoth Pines collided with the Bleed Bark canopy loomed like a jagged skeletal gateway through the eternal gloom. Rapax and Doctor pushed through the dense, choking undergrowth, their breath ragged but measured as they finally arrived at the exact location where Team Noctis had interacted with the hanging choir the previous evening. It was a place of deep, unnatural ambience—a surreal, tangled geometry born of two ancient tree species occupying the exact same vertical space across countless, bloody generations. Their branches did not merely touch; they wove together in a chaotic, strangling web of wood and bark, looking like a mass of petrified, black muscles frozen in a perpetual state of mutual suffocation.