Digging into the insides of the lizard, Blanco ate to his heart's content.

Phew!

Removing his mouth from the lizard corpse, he spat out a mixture of large red chunks of blood and saliva.

"Ugh, the most disgusting meat I've ever eaten," he muttered, reminiscing about the unpleasant taste of the lizard meat despite eating it.

With his stomach and heart filled, Blanco started his journey again with a feeling of comfort.

But before he left, he glanced at the lonly flower to see another yellow-colored butterfly hanging on it.

Jumping over the giant tree root along with the tiny water flow flowing beneath them, Blanco landed on the other side. With swift steps, he ran across the ground.

The way he ran wasn't exactly running; it was a mix between running and momentary long jumps between strides.

The path to the gigantic tree isn't clear. In fact, after he started his journey from the giant tree with water flowing nearby, he didn't see any area that had space for anything else to happen. The whole area is densely packed with numerous trees that even prevent sunlight from reaching below with their wide-spread branches and leaves.

Hmph!

Gaining momentum, Blanco jumped past a tree branch that jutted into his path like a barrier. After that, he leaped to another tree branch, running through it until he jumped to yet another.

Stopping there for a few minutes, he gazed at the path ahead that he needed to move forward on.

The dark atmosphere with large trees and their roots sticking out from the ground looked like horror creatures trying to crawl out from below. But in this eerie setting, there were fortunate rays of sunlight passing through the thick layer of leaves and branches above, landing below in the darkness.

Those rays of light appeared like miraculous things, illuminating the objects they touched in the darkness. They gave a heroic and divine feeling to anyone who saw them.

The vians of those large trees was like a collection of ancient warriors' attire, hanging down from the sides of the trunks. Some roots ran through the ground, completely engulfing the earth and leaving only veins on the surface. Some veins were interconnected with other trees, creating a network with thick veins joining each other, forming wide gaps between each tree. Sometimes, these tree veins acted as passages for creatures to move from one tree to another.

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And at that moment, looking at one of those joints that connect two trees, Blanco is thinking about jumping onto it to move to the other tree.

"It also looks like a bridge," thought him, feeling that the vines resembled something familiar from his human memory.

Right then, just when Blanco tried to jump onto the tree vines, he heard a loud sound from the upper layer of tree branches and leaves that spread through the sky like a clouds, blocking the sun rays to the below.

Blanco gazed toward the direction where the sound echoed from, and saw a flock of birds starting to fly into the sky from their resting place.

"It's just a flock of birds, why the hell does it sound like a tree fell?" After watching the birds fly away, Blanco jumped onto the tree vines and ran through them.

But as he was right in the middle of the vine, another sound similar to the previous one was heard. And then another, and another.

Throughout the entire forest, the only sounds Blanco heard were the birds flying away.

"For them to leave in a group like this, something must be happening up there," he thought to himself. Although he was eager to reach the giant tree as quickly as possible, curiosity got the best of Blanco.

He hurriedly ran to the other side of the vine where he jumped onto another tree. From there, he ran through it upwards until he passed through a layer of thick leaves that formed the upper canopy of the forest.

Maneuvering through the densely packed leaves, Blanco carefully climbed up a tree branch. It was an easy task at first; the thick tree branch had more than enough space for Blanco to step wherever he wanted, even if his vision was blocked by the leaves.

But problems arose later as Blanco advanced through the branch; it began to become thinner and thinner.

And at the end of it, it was like a tiny twig. Lifting his paw, Blanco slowly placed his foot upon it. Under some weight, the twig lowered a bit but showed no sign of breaking.

Phew!

With a sigh of relief, Blanco took another step forward and pushed his head through the leaves until it popped out on the other side, where the dense layer of tree branches and leaves ended. Right now, Blanco is standing at the highest point of the forest, his head slightly poking out enough to see the entire sky and the horizon.

When he looked at the sky, the first thing Blanco saw was a sky full of birds flying.

Some were enormous, maybe even ten or eleven times larger than Blanco himself, while others were tiny, almost half the size of Blanco.

They flew systematically, like arrows, but some flew individually, especially the larger ones. Blaco, who was momentarily mesmerized by this scene, noticed something extra special.

The feathers of those large birds are much wider, so when they flap their wings once, they flap them again after a long time. During this time, the tiny birds that are unable to fly for long distances and fast land on the stretched feathers of these giant birds. The giant birds showed no concern about them. Isn't that the best free transportation device?

"Would I be able to fit one of those feathers?" thought Blaco as he looked at them.

He can also see some shade of cretures through the clouds above, but there not very clear, butfrom the shade he could see he realised that whoever flying above the cloud is enormous to the point he can't measure it with his own body.

"But why are they flying away all of a sudden? It's okay if it's a few of them, but to fly all of them in all of a sudden..."

While thinking, Blanco glanced at the horizon.

The sun was slowly settling down in the west, and from the east, the moon was rising slowly.

The light is vanishing and the darkness is coming.