Chapter 288: It, the New God of Life_1

"It... really burns?" Mattis murmurred, in utter disbelief.

He'd calculated that elves could not possibly destroy a tree. But he hadn't anticipated the sudden arrival of an unknown entity, burning the very tree they had initially intended to chop down. The flurry of exploding fireballs had set the tree alight.

Could the Tree of Life burn that easily? If it were that simple, then over the course of ninety thousand years, it would have been burnt countless times.

But instead of stopping the fire, the Tree of Life seemed to accelerate it. The trunk, with a diameter of thousands of kilometers, was now ablaze. It would take at least a couple of weeks to reach the core of the tree.

But now, in less than half a day, the Tree of Life burnt like a massive fire torch.