"For real? Releasing a whole pool of rotten blood into the soil under their castle? Left aside the issue of the seed, I can't imagine how bad the smell would be." said Ben, who is having problems accepting what Chris just told him.
"Well, if that founder could soak himself in that pool of rotten blood for thirty days, nothing is impossible. Anyway, due to the influence of the rotten blood, the core of the Tree of Life corrupted, leading to the blood-lusting property, and with the high intelligence level of the Tree of Life, it has evolved into the deadly forest that wiped and covered up this whole kingdom in just a day. Furthermore, even the unpolluted Tree of Life in The Kingdom needs to be nourished every fifty years, without the regular nourishment, it will require a huge amount of nutrients to survive, thus leading to the evolution of the root that generates the nutrient repellant into the soil around this forest and slowly spreading into the village." said Chris.
"What a sad yet absurd reason for such a tragedy. With this level of pollution, I don't think it would be an easy job to purify it back to normal, it would be easier to just destroy it." said Ben.
"Yeah, by right, that's the best option, but this time, I feel like I want to give it a try. After all, it's a Tree of Life that I once protected with the cost of my left arm." said Chris.
"That's a totally different case, the one in the Kingdom HQ had been nourished continuously with enormous amount of magic flows from different sources for more than five thousand years. And this is a young Tree of Life that got polluted before germination." said Ben, who totally disagree with Chris.
"I understand your concern. But Ben, I am doing it anyway. So, don't stop me." said Chris with a firm attitude.
Hearing that response from Chris, Ben sighed and took off his glasses.
"If you insist then... Hah... I guess I have no choice but to give you my full support." said Ben as he keeps his glasses in his pocket.
Then, Ben folds both of his hands together and closed his eyes, a white aura is released from his body and surrounded the whole area around them and the Tree of Life. With that support from Ben, Chris once again placed his hand on the corrupted core of the tree...
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Dreamland. Poker had brought Sky and the others to his personal safe point to have a good talk about how to reach the Afterworld through Dreamland.
"So, as what everyone knows, the structure and area in Dreamland will transform and shuffle every thirty seconds, in between each shuffling and transformation, there are chances that glitches might happen, and one of the glitches is the the opening of door to Afterworld for living souls who travelled to Dreamland by accident, thus causing the mysterious death in dream for many coreless life forms." said Poker.
"Glitches in between the shuffling? So it only appears randomly huh?" Sky asked, slightly thoughtful.
"By right, it should be that way. But since you can even make a cheat to enter Dreamland freely, there is a way to trigger that 'glitch' as well." said Poker.
"Please continue, I am intrigued to know." said Sky.
"Well, as you know, the concept of returning to a 'safe point' is through a glitch that is caused by a forcibly shuffling of the area and structure of Dreamland through a big movement such as jumping along with a concentrated mind power through closing eyes. So, theoretically, if you did that at the exact moment of the shuffling, the 'safe point glitch' will be able to trigger the 'shuffling glitch'. With the clashing between these two glitches, you will trigger every single variation of the 'shuffling glitch' including the door to the Afterworld." said Poker, stating out a slightly complicated and twisting theory regarding the 'glitches' in Dreamland.
"Or to make it shorter, we need to do the 'return to safe point move' during the exact moment of the shuffling." said Sky, summarising the whole thing for everyone, particularly Maria to understand better.
"Yes, that's right." said Poker.
"Hah~ Sounds like something worthy of trying, don't you think so? Darling?" said Maria who suddenly hugged Sky from the side.
"Mmm... But I wondered if there is any risk in doing so? After all, it's about the clashing of two major glitches, even playing computer games we all know that this situation might crash the whole system of the game." said Sky, rather cautious.
"Hahaha! You are as cautious as Master Chris don't you? I almost thought I could trick you when he is absent." said Poker.
"Ha-ha... It's not funny at all, Mr. Poker. Have we been too kind to you recently?" said Sky, in a stern tone as he added a 'Mr' in addressing Poker.
As Sky said that, Poker can feel an obvious change in a atmosphere.
"Ah! Pardon my imprudence. I was just joking, I haven't talked to real people for a long time. Anyway, about your concern. Yes, there is a risk, but nothing too bad." said Poker as he nervously apologize to Sky.
"Just tell me what is it, I don't have too much time to waste." said Sky, who suddenly sounds as mean as Chris.
"Alright alright... To be more accurate, it shouldn't be even considered as a risk, at most, it will be a lousy error where you will be forcibly kicked out from Dreamland if failed." said Poker.
"I see... Surprisingly normal." said Sky with a 'meh' look...
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**The Kingdom = A fearsome organisation that is led by a group of Immortals.
**kingdom = A country with kingship.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might cause the writer to stop writing."
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