In the past, when the World Trees fought against each other, everyone only focused on how to seize the cores of other World Trees as a stepping stone for their own advancement. There were new trees, and of course, there were also trees that were burned to ashes. At that time, no one cared about how the entire maze world was.
Today, the war no longer existed. All the World Trees were struggling at death's door, guarding against the human countries who would cut down trees for various reasons to extract their essence. If someone of the same race found a way to advance, of course, it would attract the attention of the World Trees. However, it was just attention.
This was because Wadwo had revealed a message. Before using this method to advance, they had to accumulate enough strength to advance. In the past, seizing the cores of other World Trees was not only to obtain new road signs, but also to seize their accumulation to strengthen themselves, making it easier to advance.
The restrictions of the new method made the old trees, who already had a high starting point, seem uninterested. This was because the progress of each stage was almost all the accumulation of the past. The time they needed to accumulate enough strength to advance was far beyond what the new generation trees could imagine. Therefore, the World Trees of the old generation did not even bother to ask about it.
However, if one of the World Trees advanced without the sacrifice of other World Trees, it would cause the level of the entire maze to increase slightly. The direct impact on the other World Trees was that the original threshold seemed to have dropped a little, and the limits that restricted them seemed to have loosened. What did this mean? What kind of consequences would it bring?
In order to discuss this question, a certain person was invited to attend the meeting.
At this point, a certain someone felt like he was submitting a report. In order to make the report look better, and at the same time, to let him take the main credit, he called him over for a meeting. In the meeting, there were naturally all kinds of criticism and guidance, and then all the credit would be his.
However, this was the meeting of the Turtledove Alliance's high seats. Perhaps they were naturally at odds with the Elf Kingdom, but this did not stop the elves from knowing what was going on. This was a neutral consciousness space created by five Warlock Saints and eight Great Druids, and reinforced by nineteen high seats of the alliance. They had also imposed many rules to prevent this place from becoming a Divine Will battlefield.
They were so cautious because before the high seats of the Turtledove Alliance was established, all the World Trees did not trust each other as much as they did now. After all, they had been fighting to the death and plotting against each other with the goal of destroying each other. Many habits were not easy to change.
After everything was on track, the High Seat Conference was not only a space for the 19 World Trees to communicate with each other and hold talks, but it was also a place to meet some special people. These people had important information, made great contributions, or represented other countries that were important enough to negotiate with the high-level members of the turtledove alliance.
Therefore, although it was rare for ordinary people to attend high level meetings, it was not unheard of. This also indirectly proved that the knowledge someone possessed was very valuable to the World Trees. However, according to those who had participated in the High Seat Conference, it was just standing in a dark space and being interrogated by 19 existences sitting around him. Moreover, the chairs were usually not full.
What no one knew was that although a certain World Tree that was dissatisfied with a certain person did not stop the other high seats from inviting that person to attend, it deliberately wanted to make things difficult for that person. Even though he was only a strand of his consciousness in this neutral space, it wasn't something ordinary people could bear. Therefore, the moment before someone's consciousness was summoned to the high seat meeting, he exerted pressure.
Of course, all the members of the high seats noticed. However, most of them chose to watch from the sidelines. Those who wanted to stop it were too late. The moment a certain person's consciousness descended, the space of the high seat meeting welcomed an unprecedented shock. It was as if it wanted to tear apart the many consciousnesses that had already descended, and it was also as if it wanted to smash this supposedly unbreakable space into pieces.
In the end, the space of the high seat meeting stabilized, and the person who had been invited safely appeared … on the 20th seat.
Because it was a high seat meeting with the World Trees as members, and in order to adhere to the principle of neutrality, some of the rules of this space had been set a long time ago and would automatically detect and implement them. One of them was the principle of increasing the number of members.
This was not a God or an Abyss Lord that could have a seat in the high seat meeting. Instead, it had to meet one of the characteristics of the World Trees, which was to communicate with one or more worlds, or at least have the ability to do so. No God or Demon met the criteria for this characteristic, except for this race with the name 'World Tree'.
But now, there was a human who had a chair in this place. Most of the World Trees collapsed in disbelief; even Wadwo's reaction was not any better.
Only the Ancient, who rarely attended, but had lived for a long time and had seen all kinds of strange things that others could not imagine, could still maintain his usual calmness. He ignored the extra chair, even if it meant that someone had left a mark in this space. This Ancient said directly, "Since you're here, let's begin today's discussion."
A certain transmigrator who had entered the high seat meeting for the first time naturally did not understand what a 'normal' situation here should be like. He took it for granted that it was very normal for those who were invited to have a chair. Therefore, he sat upright, cursing in his heart that this hardwood chair was a little bumpy.
Of course, he also did not understand how rare it was for everyone in this space to be present. He only looked at the other high seats with interest. Other than Walder who had used the image of a silver-haired, long-legged beauty that he had seen before, the other seats were just a cloud of fog. They were monochromatic and erratic. The only difference was that each of them had a different color and the … 'fruit' hanging on their bodies?
It was like a bubble, wrapped in an illusory silhouette of a world. And all the silhouettes of the worlds that could be seen had different characteristics. There were silhouettes of worlds full of magma and bubbling, as well as silhouettes of worlds like ice and snow. There were worlds full of water, and there were also worlds where only clouds could be seen and the rest was empty.
Are these the worlds that these high seats are connected to? A certain someone thought to himself. And it could be seen that the worlds that everyone was connected to were not the same. Most of the high seats were only connected to one, and the one who had spoken earlier and intended to go straight to the topic was the one who was connected to the most worlds among the people present. There were a total of eight such bubble silhouettes on his body.
However, a certain someone did not think too much about it. He just thought that everything in front of him was so normal. Instead, what surprised him was that he realized that the World Trees' personalities were rather swift and decisive. It was not a stereotype that took three days to greet and a week to introduce themselves, which came from a certain novel.
Since everyone did not want to waste time, Lin, who had been pulled into this special space of consciousness, was naturally happy to go straight to the topic. It was also in this discussion that he changed the meaning of the words' World Tree 'again. It was not just a space bridge that connected to different worlds like he originally thought.
First, he had to talk about the role that plants played in a world. Take Earth for example. The environment of the primitive Earth was full of carbon dioxide, so when organisms evolved from single-celled organisms to multicellular organisms, the first thing that was produced was plants that could photosynthesize. They kept absorbing carbon dioxide and then excreting oxygen, which gave the animals the foundation for survival.
In other words, on Earth, plants did not only grow and reproduce, but also shouldered the responsibility of ecological balance. Then, what about the World Trees in the Land of Mystery? Did they only need to think about their own ascension?
In this regard, he had been listening to the opinions of the high priests present. At the same time, he learned from Wadwo's method and brought up various data related to himself or data that they had observed in an attempt to explain a certain phenomenon. However, the other high priests brought up evidence to refute it. And a certain someone who spoke for the first time made a bold hypothesis. What if the current situation of the Land of Mystery was actually brought about by the World Tree?
The eight powers of the Land of Mystery, the gods and demons that were born on this basis, compared to ordinary beasts, the magical beasts and dragons that belonged to a higher level of life, and the elves, dwarves, and half-orcs that were not humans. These things that did not exist on Earth, but the Land of Mystery had them. Was it because of the 'World Tree' plants in the Land of Mystery?
Perhaps Earth was familiar to a certain transmigrator because during the 'Twilight of the Gods', the World Tree was bitten off by the poisonous dragon Nidhogg, and Earth ushered in the Age of Chaos. Although that was just a myth, when a certain someone witnessed something that only appeared in myths and fairy tales with his own eyes, how could he not think about the reason behind it?
The World Tree accumulated power by extending its branches into other dimensions, relying on the energy tides brought about by the difference between dimensions to constantly nourish itself. In other words, ordinary sacrifices of flesh and blood were meaningless to them. The common training methods of warriors and mages in the Land of Mystery were also useless to the World Tree.
Now that the source of their power was known, where would the leftovers that could not be used be discharged? Everything had an input and an output. When people ate, they would shit. However, these feces would become nutrients for other species, and this was the ecological cycle.
It was the same for animals and plants. Ordinary plants would absorb carbon dioxide, and after photosynthesis, they would expel oxygen. For them, carbon dioxide was the key to their survival, and oxygen was just a waste that was expelled. If ordinary plants were like this, then what about the World Tree? After they absorbed the energy tides brought about by the difference between dimensions, what would they expel?
If the World Tree was the most important part of this magical world in the Land of Mystery, then the overall improvement of the World Tree meant the improvement of the Land of Mystery. That was because the "waste" released by the World Tree had to be consumed by other species, perhaps by increasing the amount of consumption, or by increasing the type of consumption.
Once the consumption increased, the World Tree would have to absorb a large amount of energy tides and convert them to make up for the deficit.
In this way, an ecological balance and cycle was established. Then, a magical civilization was established.
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