In the heart of the desert's stone tomb, Albert carefully carries leftover water from yesterday, walking gingerly into the distance.
Ange gave him a fist-sized Everlasting Spring Stone, which could condense quite a bit of water each night. Besides taking what he needed to drink, Albert saved the rest to water the tree.
He arrived at the place where Ange had originally placed the planting sphere. After the sphere was removed, there was a huge pit. Next to the pit stood a stunted, twisted tree, sticking out awkwardly.
If Ange came back here, he probably wouldn't recognize this wilted tree as the World Tree, would he?
When the World Tree was first planted, it grew for a while using the life force of the vegetables in the planting sphere. Once Ange removed the sphere, there was no life force in the desert, so the World Tree quickly withered.
