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"Where is the World Tree of Padolon?"
"It rotted away."
"It rotted?"
Theresa rose to her feet, stretching languidly, her posture revealing the perfect form of a mature woman.
"After the wizards annihilated the Divine, the World Tree withered."
"Its root system completely decayed, which is why the resources of the Padolon Continent began to deplete. Those God-slaying wizards went to distant places to seek a future dawn for humanity."
"For tens of thousands of years, celestial conjunctions have been one of the methods to alleviate resource issues, reoccurring many times after the Twilight of the Gods."
"This is also why knowledge and resources are locked away - this world cannot sustain more wizards; the Mother World is heading toward extinction."
"Come to think of it, sometimes I truly envy you humans. Generation after generation, you strive and forge something from nothing, all in just tens of thousands of years.
