Their leaves darkened into a sickly shade, and faint, vein-like patterns pulsed across their surfaces.
Meanwhile, the animals…
Creatures that were once harmless and small, ones that could be held in a single hand, had now become monstrous.
Their bodies expanded grotesquely, muscles bulging unnaturally, bones cracking and reshaping with disturbing sounds.
Within seconds, they towered nearly three times the height of a normal human.
Their eyes glowed faintly.
People stumbled backward, pressing themselves tightly against the walls as if trying to disappear into them.
Some covered their mouths to stop themselves from screaming.
Others simply trembled.
Moona's expression darkened, her jaw tightening as she watched the horrifying scene unfold.
'If those things had remained inside…' the thought lingered, unfinished, yet terrifying enough to make her chest tighten.
She did not even want to imagine what would have happened if the guardian system had not expelled them in time.
