The main branch was green in colour, while the smaller branches were faint blue. As for the leaves, they were shining with brown light, easy to notice, not hard to guess its origin for William.
Yet the latter couldn't even believe himself when he spotted and recognised this leaf. "No way!" he turned around, moved his eyes all over the dust cloud that surrounded him, and couldn't help but place the entire ruined city and what he saw in his mind.
When William reached a conclusion about the origin of this leaf, he didn't stand in his place for another second. In fact, what he had in mind was something grand, something that he had to make sure of before jumping to any more conclusions.
So, he started to dash around, stacking attacks one on top of another. The previous idea of trying to make a run out of here as soon as he could vanished. And right now, all he wanted to do was to keep attacking, keep expanding this hole, until he'd reach the deep bottom.
He kept circling around the hole he created, going slowly upwards, before finally reaching the surface.
Once he arrived there, he stacked around thirty attacks on his sword. As he expected, tons of monsters were coming at him from all directions. But that didn't worry him. He didn't even place these monsters in his eyes anymore.
The next moment, he jumped high in the air, and let his body take a grand turn there, before landing fiercely and decisively back towards the deepest point in that crater.
He didn't aim towards the lots of monsters that got attracted to here, not even sparing them a single look. He simply targeted the deepest point in that hole, and then another deadly explosion occurred.
It was on a higher scale and fiercer might than the last one. And then that crater got deeper and got another one hundred metres of depth.
This time, the ground around William was filled with such weird leaves now. That wasn't all, William also spotted a thicker branch, something that looked like a trunk of a tree or something.
Only a small part of it appeared, taking an area of twenty metres and only showing a small circular surface of its contour. William didn't even care about the screaming monsters around, or the increasing number of monsters heading towards here thanks to all these noises.
He just walked closer to that thick branch, looking at it closer. "Black brown trunk, with deep blue veins. It got green scales, around twenty in the part that appeared here… If I really don't hit my head, then this is a Scaled World Tree! Damn! If a Scaled World Tree is here, then… Then…" William's heart thumped fiercely when his mind reached this far.
The Scaled World Tree wasn't the thing that made William feel like this. It was indeed a very rare and unique tree, but that wasn't all. What made him feel like that was the thing these trees used to grow around.
The Scaled World Tree could do lots of things that people would consider impossible. For example, if he used parts of its wood in forging a weapon, then this weapon would have one grade upgraded directly. Even if he made a dark gold grade weapon using its wood and crystal glue excretion in the process, its grade would rise up and reach the quasi-legendary grade!
Of course, trying to do this required sacrificing lots of these trees. Not to mention the process of using their wood and crystal glue in the forging was complicated and risky. On top of that, anyone harming these trees would suffer from a punishment, a curse as his master once told him.
But it was really tempting to use these trees to make scary weapons. The nine tailed fox used to have a body armour that was formed from ten thousand trees.
Finding such trees was indeed a hard process for any spirit master, but not for monsters or dark masters. In fact, monsters could easily get attracted to these trees thanks to their spatial powers.
William now realised why these scary monsters were here, living in such an environment without dying. The ground here was rich in energy. And for such earth-based monsters, this was like heaven!
Not to mention if these monsters ate the leaves and fruits from these trees, they'd keep living for thousands of years, even getting insanely strong fast.
This was all great, but to William it wasn't enough to make him lose his cool like this. To grow such trees, one needed a high source of spatial spirit power, one that wasn't enough to be found under normal circumstances.
The only thing that such trees could grow upon was one thing: a portal! William knew this wasn't a simple portal, not like the ones that Lara's grandfather found, not like the ones that any spirit master could make, not here in the tiny world, not out there in the vast world.
These portals were unique, the ones that everyone was searching for, the grand interworld portals, the ones that could connect any smaller worlds to the outer and vast one!
Interworld portals were just a marvellous creation of nature, found on its own, formed by no interference of anyone. No one knew why they got formed or how, but once one appeared, bloody wars followed.
It was the gates towards the outer world, the ones that would allow any monster, spirit master, or dark masters to pass through and reach the outer vast world.
Of course, one had to satisfy other conditions, at least reaching the legendary grade first. But now everything made sense to William.
The presence of such scary monsters, the treasures that kept flooding here from time to time through spatial cracks, the portal cores Lara's grandfather found… They were all connected to the presence of this interworld portal.
It seemed the previous inhabitants of the Lost City found this gate here and built a grand city on top of it.
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