Pov Silvia (True Dragon of Nature):
When my Father lost consciousness I didn't have time to tell him to be careful and his body was carried away by the hurricane of energy that formed around the World Tree, I tried to hold him, but I was weakened from having served as a means for the flow of energy that my current body was not able to handle.
Fortunately, there were others around who were able to help him, I saw when Lorraine's body seemed to blink as she reappeared with my Father in one hand, I went to her and took my Father in my arms.
"Thanks." (I)
"No, thank you, guys, for all this..." (Lorraine)
I say thank you as I take my Dad in my arms, then Lorraine points to the World Tree as she thanks for our help, but I would have helped anyway, even though I'm not a World Tree, I still wish my sisters the best.
I look at the column of multicolored energy surrounding the World Tree, soon this energy was emitting a very specific type of presence when a wave of energy spread out to the surroundings, and all the thousands of energy streams became visible.
These streams of energy became rings of energy flowing around the column of energy, these rings only increased in number and had various colors.
In the end, everyone had already moved away from the column of energy, including me.
The World Tree was going through a Spiritual Rebirth or at least something like that, I've felt that feeling before and so I'm confident in my thinking.
As I considered this I continued watching until a strong pulsation surged from within the column of energy causing fragments of the column to fly out with each pulsation, this continued until the column of energy disappeared leaving only a large tree with the white crystal bark, it was beautiful.
I looked in every corner of the Tree and confirmed that the hole in the middle was completely closed, no sign that a hole had once been there.
But what I was most happy about was realizing that the energy flow had returned to normal, the tree was performing its functions normally and that means that with enough time the environmental damage will be reverted to the original state of this forest.
"Ury, can you hear me?" (I)
"(I can, thanks for the help sister.)" (Ury)
"How are you?" (I)
"(My body and Soul are fine, but my power is weakened and must remain so as I use whatever energy I store to repair the damage around.)" (Ury)
"How long is this supposed to take?" (I)
"(A short time, a few months considering the help I'll get.)" (Ury)
"I won't bother you any longer, Lorraine must be communicating with you as we speak." (I)
"(Yes, I am also talking to the other sisters.)" (Ury)
I knew she wouldn't be able to manifest a spirit body until she finished taking care of the nature around her, that's something I would do as well as any of our sisters.
I say goodbye to her and go back to the ground, but still, along the way I see her magnificent outer appearance, it made me curious about her true body teeth of that shell.
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Pov Alan (Hero of Justice):
I was watching from afar as Zenos took care of the World Tree, my brother by my side, we stayed in silence too focused on what we were seeing until the moment when the column of energy completely disintegrated revealing what looked like a completely World Tree different.
"Why do you still keep your distance from him?" (Arthur)
"I still don't agree with the things he has done and will likely do again in the future, the value of people's lives is very light in his eyes." (I)
"That may be true, but it is still of little consequence as long as he holds to his ideals, the Holy Son does not kill people for foolish reasons." (Arthur)
"But he experiments on living people and allows torture even if not to get information, not to mention his blatant disrespect for any kind of government." (I)
"I thought he was a monster before, now I know it's just his way of seeing the world is distorted, but some things can't be left out." (I)
"Don't buy fights you can't win Alan, even though you're my brother I can't defend you from everything." (Arthur)
A paladin of the Blood, someone who chose to be a Vampire and follows the tenets of the Goddess Selene, even though he is my brother I know he would fight me to the death if I went against the Temple of Blood or against one of the Living Calamities that Zenos is now a part of.
"I may not like the way he does things, but I can't deny that he's still fair in his own way." (I)
I don't say this out of fear of going against Zenos or to please my brother, these are my honest thoughts after talking with Bianca at length and contemplating alone on various things.
"Where did you take the Flaming Mountain Cultists?" (I)
"Miss Elizabeth was gathering all the freeloaders in one place along with Mistress Caitlyn." (Arthur)
"Elizabeth walks is someone I can relate to, her interference in the world most if not all times is for good causes, there are many books about her in the town where I grew up, I was very surprised when I was told that she was a real person and not a fictional character." (I)
"But you mentioned the Nightmare Calamity, that worries me, of all the Calamities it is the one that acts most rarely, but its actions are always disproportionate." (I)
"I don't know what they do with the prisoners and it's not my place to know, each of them are dangerous beings who were here to take advantage of the situation for nefarious reasons, death is the least they deserve." (Arthur)
"..." (I)
I look at Arthur, his red skin was still riddled with wounds that take time to heal, his armor torn to shreds a long time ago just like mine, I was also mortally wounded when hit by the Demon Dragon's breath before, if not for one of the Living Calamities called Natasha, so I would be dead by now since it wasn't damage I could recover from.
"(Either way the prisoners would be killed, enemies of that level and with such identities cannot be imprisoned or enslaved.)" (I)
I look at my hands covered in blood and holding a sword in pieces, I knew I would have to go get new equipment, I lost all my weapons and armor today.
As I was thinking about that I noticed my brother looking in the other direction, he was looking at one of Zenos' daughters, she is one of the craziest ones, her name is Nicole.
I found her as soon as I entered the forest or should I say she found me, while I had my senses confused, my Aura was unimpeded, but her reach was very restricted.
It was under these conditions that she came to me directly and proposed an agreement where I would protect her while her part of it would help in my navigation through the forest.
That madwoman made me run around the forest as if she knew everything, she experimented with attacks, elements, and even combinations of spells, but she wasn't fighting seriously and so I was forced to fight much more than necessary.
When the senses were no longer blocked by anything, she started experimenting on the creatures and collecting materials, she complained a lot about not being able to analyze their Souls.
During the big battle against the gray creatures she didn't do anything, she hid inside an illusory barrier and I only saw her when the creatures fell to the ground with their souls being ripped out.
"What is this madwoman doing on the battlefield?" (I)
"She said something about studying different forms of physical structures of corrupted creatures and how to protect "something" from that corruption." (Arthur)
"Why didn't she fight?" (I)
"As far as I know all the sons and daughters of Zenos are strong in combat." (I)
"She did fight, look there, there and there." (Arthur)
Arthur pointed in some directions, I saw 5 metal spiders dragging and slashing some of the bodies on the ground, in the other direction I saw one of the bodies removing the skin and flesh from its body revealing a metallic skeleton underneath, the last direction was a area full of holes in the ground where the surrounding bodies were in pieces, from one of these holes a head similar to that of a Rabbit type monster entirely made of metal was standing, it seemed to be badly damaged.
"Her way of combat is not straightforward like hers, not because she is weak, but because she is an artisan, I can say that she is a very skilled magic engineer." (Arthur)
"(How have I not seen this before?)" (I)
None of these 3 types of metal creatures were very close, I know they were focused on fighting the enemies that were nearby, but I should pay more attention to the surroundings, too bad Bianca and Darcia weren't around, knowing both of them I can imagine that the blockage of the senses was the reason.
"I think we should go, now our help is not so important anymore and we still have a war to participate in." (I)
"I will not participate in anything, we have no place in this war anyway." (Arthur)
"(We all have a place in this war brother, one way or another...)" (I)
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