The World Tree stood silently before him.
It was beyond enormous.
No...
Enormous was far too small a word to describe what stood before his eyes.
Its ancient trunk stretched endlessly upward, disappearing into the darkness above as though it connected the heavens themselves. Countless roots spread across the earth like rivers, while branches wider than mountains vanished into the endless sky. Every leaf shimmered with a faint emerald glow, illuminating the surrounding world with a gentle radiance that felt neither magical nor ordinary.
It felt...
Alive.
Yuuta stood motionless, unable to tear his eyes away from it.
He had seen countless trees on Earth, from the parks near his apartment to the forests shown in documentaries, but none of them resembled this existence. This wasn't simply a tree.
It was something greater.
Something ancient.
Something sacred.
