Chapter 136

"Is that demonic energy? Wait, is the tree rotting?" Zion wondered, just as everyone else there did. 

But maybe it was because of their culture and history that they didn't want to believe such a thing could happen. After all, their tree was blessed by their goddess, so how could it fall to demonic energy? 

"Of course it's not rotting! It's...It's just..." An advisor tried to answer, but they couldn't. They didn't understand how or why this was happening, and they refused to believe that the world tree could be in such a state, yet what they were looking at was telling a completely different story. 

"I'll take a look," Nimreth said, walking up to the massive tree and putting her hand on its rotting bark, feeling its energy and life force. Upon contact, a sudden wave of darkness enveloped her senses, and her mind was summoned to a dark space.