The gigantic wooden chamber remained silent for several moments after the survivors regained their senses.
Nobody moved immediately. Nobody spoke immediately. The transition had happened too suddenly. One moment they had been living their respective lives inside the Dream Realm, and the next they found themselves standing inside a place unlike anything they had ever seen before.
Endless walls of ancient wood stretched upward beyond sight. The more people observed their surroundings, the more they became convinced of a terrifying possibility. They were no longer standing inside a simple inheritance ground. They were standing inside the World Tree itself.
Tony Clark slowly surveyed the surroundings while countless participants did the same. The first thing he noticed wasn't the environment. It was the number of people. The survivors were far fewer than when they originally entered the World Tree Blessing.
