Absolute Dweller

"Alright, I'll be there soon."

The place I was flying towards happened to be near my family home.

I ended the call and looked down at the ground.

Busan’s Seo-gu.

The landscape of Nam-bumin-dong, viewed from the sky, had changed a lot compared to a year ago.

The biggest difference was, of course, the existence of the World Tree.

The World Tree, which had been rooted and growing at our house, had now grown taller than the Lotte Tower in Jamsil.

Its thickness was so massive that, from the sky, no matter where you were in Busan, the World Tree was visible.

From the top of the World Tree, you could clearly see all of Seo-gu and Jung-gu, including Yeongdo, Nampo-dong, Bosu-dong, and Daesin-dong.

However, that view was very different from what it used to be.

The Jagalchi Market and freezing factories, located next to the Joint Fish Market.

Houses built tightly together halfway up the mountain.

The apartments in Daesin-dong and the many commercial buildings in Nampo-dong.

All the concrete buildings had disappeared, replaced by a forest.

It wasn’t as tall as the World Tree, but trees that had grown to several dozen meters in height filled the area densely, and the asphalt ground was covered with various grasses, while the concrete buildings were overtaken by moss and vines.

It was a scene that seemed impossible to have occurred in just one year.

‘This is also the influence of the World Tree.’

For plants to grow like this through normal processes, it would have taken at least several hundred years.

Every time the World Tree grew, the forest’s area expanded, and the gradually increasing area had now reached even Busan Station.

In effect, Seo-gu, Yeongdo-gu, and Saha-gu had become dense forests, not a city anymore.

The life force of the World Tree, which permeated throughout the forest, was the reason for this unimaginable result.

‘Now that I think about it…’

The life force of the World Tree.

It was also the power of divinity.

‘It must have naturally seeped in at some point.’

I could use the life force of the World Tree ever since my grandfather’s trust level reached 100.

At that time, I didn’t fully understand divinity, and I hadn’t absorbed any divine beings yet, so I didn’t pay attention to the existence of the World Tree.

But.

• Beep?

• Purr?

• Purr!