Chapter 84: Increased Workload
With the core’s essence completely absorbed by the little potatoes, the so-called “Sacred Tree” was now nothing more than a husk. It had lost its former glory and stood withered and decayed.
According to Nox, if left alone, it wouldn’t be long before the tree fell down on its own.
However, those monsters in the swamp, originally mutations of the tree’s roots, were another matter.
These creatures no longer depended on the tree for life. Having adapted to survive independently, they now thrived in the fertile swamp, and it would take more than the tree’s demise to eliminate them.
Given the proximity to the desert, few would dare venture, so those swamp monsters wouldn’t be that much of a problem.
It wasn’t a matter for their group to solve, nor were they responsible for it.
On returning to the city, that scrawny young earthwalker departed first, determined to reveal the truth about the church to his people.
The city’s inhabitants needed to understand the truth and realize that no faith could support them forever. Their future now lay in their own hands, even if the population was largely comprised of the elderly and children.
The children would grow up and bear the responsibility of their race’s future, perhaps even leading their people away from this place.