There are lots of tree monsters, but Serena took care of all of them without issues. Just as Ethan pointed out, it was as if she was a machine as she cleared the way, one swing of her three swords at a time.
Eventually, the tree monsters stopped coming, either because they had learned or the bodies of the other monsters had piled too much around them.
The dark cloak did not have time to disturb them in the chaos that followed either, giving Julius the time he needed to sleep.
Severin also used the time to plan.
At the moment, there should not be any main event that should happen around him. The main character should basically get a break until his second year.
But one thing that had been stuck in Severin's mind started to surface.
Almost everything that happens to him should be affecting the main protagonist of the book, Lucas Dawn. He should have been the main target of the Scar, but now it was Severin.
How will the world react to that?
