章 249: 249 - Raid

"The connection to the World Tree is intensifying, every day more portals will appear. At first, only from the second world, but you'll soon realize the pattern this is taking. The answer to the portal incident doesn't lie in the first world, my master, you need to keep evolving," said the bandaged man. His words made no sense to Ryan at the moment.

"World Tree?" he asked, he had no idea what that meant.

"Hah. How naïve of me," replied the man.

Snapping his fingers, the whole tavern disappeared. The two of them were now sitting on two wooden chairs in the middle of a cosmic expanse. Getting up, the masked man pointed to a gigantic glowing tree. 

"Each of the fruits of this tree is a world, there are currently nine worlds. The branches of the tree are being manipulated by agents from outside the system, those who pose as gods or guardians"