Origin · Balance
Miss Annette and Miss Bayes each took a water bottle from Shade. The battle had consumed too much of his strength, and Shade, nearly exhausted, could not create much water this time. He could only let the three of them treat their potentially fatal injuries first.
After that, he looked at the tree.
"One last thing. Burn this tree."
The canopy rustled, but it did not dare attack the three beneath it. Shade's Divinity Overflow state still had two minutes left. The tree had made the right choice.
"What do we do now? I still don't understand. This is a Keeper of Secrets Level relic, after all. How are we supposed to destroy it?"
Iluna asked. Shade stood beneath the tree, with the two ladies behind him. The enormous tree glowing with faint blue light was indeed beautiful in the underground cavern, but it was still better to destroy it.
"Just set it on fire."
The woman's soul appeared before them again, and she still spoke only to Shade.
"My corpse has been absorbed by the tree and has almost fused with it completely. God-Favored One, set the fire from outside, and I will help from within. This will amount to the Keeper of Secrets Level relic, the Corpse Tree, destroying itself. That will eliminate it."
After saying that, she vanished again.
"Is it really that simple?"
Miss Bayes still did not understand, but Shade did. The other party had probably sensed the power on him that had originally belonged to an Old God.
"I'll start the fire. You two rest for a while."
As he spoke, Shade bent down, intending to drag the Silver-Eyed One's headless corpse aside so it would not be burned as well. But vines bound the corpse, refusing to let Shade pull