The blaze that spread from the fissures underground to the entire giant tree in just a few breaths naturally drew everyone's attention. Aside from those still fighting at the island's edge, the Thirteenth Ring Warlocks who had become free all stopped what they were doing and looked up at the burning tree. For no reason they could explain, they all understood that everything that had happened tonight would end with the tree's burning.
And the burning blood-colored giant tree, together with the towering emerald-green tree that had newly grown behind it, seemed to symbolize something.
"What does it symbolize?"
Outside Green Lake Town, Old Higgins, the elderly curator of Apna Library, looked up at the scene with his aged face reddened by the firelight and asked the question. Beside him, Grandma Natalie of the Guiding Light Hermitage also looked toward Adelaide Lenormand, Mister Crystal, president of the Seer Association. The latter shook his head regretfully.
"What a pity. Even at the very end, I never got to meet Laplace Howard. The Association had many things it wanted to learn from him. I wonder how the God Summoner will deal with him."
The statue symbolizing the Space Old God and the Time Key symbolizing the Time Old God, their two powers intertwined. And the Mizzle's Kiss supported by them happened to have originated from the Old God Radiance Doorway, which likewise possessed the powers of time and space.
The Old God's believers had once assisted in sealing this place, while now, the Outlander who had inherited part of the Old God's power was carrying out a similar mission.
In the sea of fire beneath the Old Lighthouse, the exhausted Shade withdrew the Yggdrasil Staff. He looked at the blazing bonfire beneath the Old Gods Statue, which represented the Tree's Kiss seal,