Mizuki, having dragged Madara Uchiha into Dreamplay, revealed the trump card he had kept hidden for the first time.
This small world, created according to his own will and modeled after the rules of the Shinobi World, was still far from complete, but it already possessed some of the characteristics an independent world ought to have.
Yet the final outcome might not turn out as Mizuki had imagined.
Although everything remained under Mizuki's control, the direction of its development gradually revealed abnormalities whose causes he could not fully identify.
Dreamplay was no longer as barren as before. After Mizuki had pried away quite a few resources from the Shinobi World, things had gradually begun to exist here as well.
The faint white mist drifting through the surroundings was energy that had yet to be fully digested.
After all, Dreamplay's vessel was merely a fragment of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path—the empty shell of the Ten-Tails whose vitality Mizuki had awakened. Though the sealing technique at its core was immensely powerful, it still needed time to gradually patch up every loophole in the rules.
At this point, even competing with the Ten-Tails for the Shinobi World's chakra would mean little to Mizuki. Because of the difference in scale, stealing too much would only leave him overstuffed and put him in an even worse position.
Madara Uchiha surveyed everything within Dreamplay with great interest. Amid the faint mist, the phantom of a towering tree reaching into the heavens was slowly becoming clearer. At the base of its trunk, enormous roots coiled into a massive sphere, like a floating island. Countless dangling rootlets swayed gently beneath it in the mist, absorbing stray energy and transforming it into nourishment for the giant tree.
"This is... the God Tree? Not quite..."
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