How big was this tree?
No one who saw it could describe its size.
They had never seen the whole tree.
All they saw was a small section of its trunk. The rest had already pierced the clouds, reaching heights beyond ordinary human sight.
Just as those with exceptional eyesight prepared to examine it more closely, the tree vanished.
Just as it had appeared without warning.
Its disappearance was equally sudden.
It took less than a second.
Yet everyone who witnessed it rushed toward the Aitland City Library as though they had gone mad.
Normally, the sight of such an enormous tree would have astonished these people, but it would never have driven them into a frenzy, especially those on the mystery side who had long been accustomed to extraordinary phenomena.
But now, those very people were the most frantic of all.
Why had they come here?
Wasn't it for those elusive objects of myth and legend?
Although most did not truly believe those things existed, everyone who had come to Aitland City harbored a faint hope.
When that faint hope collided with the phantom of the enormous tree...
Only one thought remained in everyone's mind: The World Tree!
That colossal tree was the legendary World Tree that supported the entire world!
Then why had a phantom of the World Tree appeared?
The World Tree's Fruit!
That was the only possibility!
There could be no other explanation!
Countless people from the mystery side swarmed toward the library.
Ignoring the Aitland City Library's closed doors, they broke straight in and began searching the entire building like a swarm of locusts.
Among them were more than a few people with special abilities.
They soon found the first basement level.
Then they discovered the secret passage filled with an exotic fragrance, along with