Roar!!

The demonized Ancient Tree of Life bellowed and howled when it suddenly realized that the thing it treasured most was slowly making its way out of its body.

It was a large, broken shard of an entire world. After merging with the ancient tree, it’d given rise to an immense inner world inside the tree itself. This shard was the source of the tree’s strength and the fundamental reason why it’d achieved self-awareness. So now that the shard was pulling away, the tree’s mind was overwhelmed by boundless fear and dread.

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The fragment of hell broke free of the Ancient Tree of Life and slowly melded into the crystal garden. Yama Kings hovered in the ten directions in the sky above, and a vision of the Yama World materialized behind them. A colossal, majestic formation...