Alex's eyes grew wide in a fit of panic.
Could it be possible? Had Shumi told them about the World Tree?
Shumi had explained just how much of a devotee the demons were to the Moon Goddess. At the same time, in the absence of the Moon Goddess, the thing they treated as their other true god was none other than the World Tree.
In the war, it was what had helped them gain more cultivators despite them certainly lacking compared to the humans in terms of resources. That was the reason alone why the demons could last as long as they did in the war.
The moment the World Tree had been destroyed, the demons had lost the war as well.
Considering the importance of the World Tree, Shumi had promised him that she would not tell her people about it or else it would start another war all on its own.
And yet, here was one of the demons, asking for their stuff back.
