After obtaining the coordinates from the Black Clad Monster, Fang Zheng began further decryption work. It would take some time, but not too long. However, he also reminded everyone that the closer they got to the core of the Imaginary Tree, the fiercer the resistance they would encounter. Fang Zheng had experience with that.
It was like chaos corruption. The places that still remained barely retained some semblance of order, while the places that had not survived were a complete mess.
Of course, the Imaginary Tree was still better than chaos.
But Fang Zheng would not view the matter so simply.
As a Prophecy Mage, he had a profound understanding of fate. This time, being transported to the Honkai world appeared to be an accident on the surface, but Fang Zheng believed it might have been some sort of warning for him—just as there was the Imaginary Tree and the Honkai consciousness, perhaps the Order Clan was the same? Fang Zheng had previously heard that some members of the Order Clan might have been invaded by chaos. Could they have become beings similar to the Honkai consciousness, just as Akane Shinjo and the Black Clad Monster had been affected by the Imaginary Tree?
Then, was this journey through worlds some kind of beginner tutorial? Did that mean that once he returned, he would encounter similar problems?
But... could chaos and the Imaginary Tree really be the same?
That was hard to say. If chaos possessed self-awareness, did that mean it was alive? It was not impossible. After all, the Goddess of Order had indeed fused chaotic properties into life in the Star Wars World. To this day, no one knew what the center of a chaos tide outbreak looked like.
Like Chernobyl after a nuclear leak, no one knew whether