7,800 naturally grown wooden stairs coiled up the thick trunk of the World Tree—it was more like a mountain path than a ladder to the crown.
William had been here before.
Or rather, he had fought here.
Years ago, the impact of the Seven Calamities had made the World Shell protecting Currere fragile. The Moon Realm Void Sovereigns had torn through the veil and projected Their strength into Currere.
Most of the locations where the Moon Realm rifts were created had a mystical connection with the corresponding Void Sovereigns in the Moon Realm. And one of them, the Lady of Starvation, Camilla, had established a connection between the Lake of Entropy and Currere by corrupting Ravenwood Forest, the richest source of life force on the Vic Continent.