Chapter 328: Seventy-Ninth Floor, Euross Forest (2)
[Spend time in Euros’s Forest. Time remaining: 47 hours 44 minutes.]
Only a brief time had passed for us, but decades had flowed by in the forest. With them, many changes had taken root.
It was no longer covered only by flowers, but by the World Tree’s domain itself. Calling it a flower forest would be a misnomer; calling it Euros’s Forest was truly appropriate.
I let my gaze sweep across the landscape. Memories of its former appearance overlapped with what I now saw. Back then, it had been saturated with pollen and spores. That was no longer the case.
It wasn’t that the flowers had vanished, as the luminous blossoms still remained, but they no longer released clouds of dust. The forest was now filled with more saplings than before.
The air was remarkably clear, and with every breath, it felt as if my lungs were being gently purified.
My former party members looked around, wide-eyed and clearly fascinated.
I turned my attention to the boy. “Aphershi, how long does it take to reach the village?”
“Roughly an hour.”
“That’s a bit of a walk, huh?”
“Yes. We moved closer to the World Tree after it was born about twenty years ago,” Aoshi’s son, Aphershi, replied with a warm smile.
That made sense. Their tribe had once protected the heart of the flower forest. Relocating closer to the World Tree wasn’t all that strange.