Once Lathander understood, he nodded seriously.
Though he did not know whether Hill had ever met the World Tree, Lathander knew very well that if the World Tree wanted to see Hill, there was no need to make things so troublesome by insisting that Hill go to that central point of the Multiverse.
Moreover, Lathander had always had a feeling... If Mount Celestia had a fixed region of existence and relied entirely on various Dimension Doors to connect the Multiverse, then the central region where the World Tree stood was instead the one that existed everywhere.
Otherwise, how could the World Tree's roots possibly be found in every universe?
Not to mention a newborn universe like Telashir... For the World Tree to turn that Earth Goddess directly into the first planet of that universe, it must have been there when the universe had just taken shape, when it was still nothing but egg white and no consciousness had yet appeared.
If the World Tree really existed only in the so-called "center of the Multiverse," as those Gods claimed, how could it have discovered it so promptly... Logically speaking, the moment a universe formed and Primordial Power condensed like water, the new world's primary consciousness should have been born!
There was indeed a tiny gap in between, but it was only one ten-thousandth of a second.
Thus, Lathander had never believed that one truly had to cross the Chaos Sea, pass the entrances to Hell and the Bottomless Abyss, then circle around the Elemental Realm and the source of the River Styx to see that World Tree.
But he also knew that an outsider like himself could only take this route if he wished to greet that being.
Just as Hill had said, it was a ritual.
Lathander's request was not