Chapter 504: An Interesting Thing to Test
Tala felt her own breath catch, and Rane’s immediate tension showed a similarly disbelieving, yet hopeful response within him.
“What?” Her voice was almost too quiet for a mundane to have heard as she tried to clarify, “Are you saying that we can somehow use endingtrees to fix the world?”
Anatalis shook his head. “You? I have no idea. The story goes that the human making the request of the god-tree first asked for the world to be fixed, which was beyond the god-tree to grant. Hopefully that was already evident. If a Sovereign could fix Zeme, it would have been done by this point.” He seemed to hesitate. “I will say that it is theoretically possible that a Sovereign could fix Zeme, if their authority was properly oriented.”
“Or if they sunk all their power into the task? Such as you and Great Vidarra consuming the world to repair it?”
Anatalis huffed. “First, that would be two Sovereign level beings repairing Zeme at our own expense, and to our own detriment, but, yes. If it was possible, it would likely tie up the being's power for a long time to come. We are… the two of us are specifically oriented toward that type of work, and it would still take both of us giving more than was wise to give. Even then, it would likely not be a sure thing. There are others who might be better suited, but similar limitations would afflict them. Some who are powerful enough would be opposed by others, due to the changes that they’d have to make to enact a fix.” His predatory grin returned. “Such as my need to slay all of gated-humanity and other mobile sources of magic before undertaking an attempt.”
She grimaced. That had momentarily slipped her mind. “Right.”
“But we are following rabbit trails as vigorously as a pup. The god-tree could not repair the world on its own, so that boon could not be granted. The human then asked for the means to do it. Specifically, ‘we’ is usually assumed to mean humanity as a whole.”
“So, humanity is to be the savior of the world?”
The wolf chuffed. “You and your kind seemingly have the potential to be, but few beings truly live up to their potential.”