"Wouldn't it be enough to make the Divine Sakura Tree's roots grow a little deeper? Besides, the Divine Sakura Tree and the World Tree seemed to have some connection... so linking them up was easy."
"...So you ate the World Tree's memories too?"
"No. I tried them, but they weren't tasty. They didn't have nearly enough kick compared to spicy strips! Still, the World Tree did have some good food. My bestie Greater Lord Rukkhadevata gave me dark chocolate every day! It was bitter, but dark chocolate in the memories tasted like this."
Little Senti had no idea why anyone liked eating something so bitter.
But hadn't Fu Hua's memory said so?
This was the sort of thing only social elites did!
And she was an elite! So she ate dark chocolate!
Ground-up dark chocolate mixed with the World Tree's pure memories became coffee!
Probably...
"???"
Bestie? Greater Lord Rukkhadevata? Dark chocolate?
Are you sure you weren't eating Forbidden Knowledge?
You, a Herrscher of Reason, had an absurdly broad diet, didn't you?
Why did you eat everything? You ate contaminated ley lines, you ate the World Tree, you even ate Forbidden Knowledge. Why didn't you just eat the Heavenly Principles too?!
After eating so much, it served you right that you couldn't even pick yourself off!
Chen Li began wondering whether the Herrscher of Reason had such a good appetite because, when he had crafted her gem, he had used Imaginary Value to make dozens of extra Herrscher of Reason cores and kneaded them all together.
Or perhaps he had added too much Path energy from the Path of Remembrance into the Wondrous Brush?
Or maybe it was because her red aspiration to eat properly before Chen Li came to pick her up had taken effect?
Chen Li had not