First, Silence fell and snuffed words out of the ladies' throats. But even Silence failed to suppress Verena's rage outburst which erupted a second afterward.
"Lunatic! Crazed, demented, unredeemable lunatic!"
Verena snarled once the realization of Yvonne's fanatical move settled in, and on the scene, only Nessriane could understand the accuracy of those words. To dare conceive the thought of merging with the World Tree took her more than 120,000 years of cultivation, Life Wielding, True God level, and countless preparations.
But even then, it wasn't a surefire move. Perdition lied at every turn. If not from the failure and the subsequent Withering, it would be from losing herself in the Tree. Indeed, even in success, those that ventured into that territory incurred the risk of losing their persona and forever remain trapped within the tree as one existence!
