Things started slowly, as I kept my eyes closed and gathered mana in my palm, using it to slowly interact with the Tree of Light.
Unlike the leaf, which got triggered in an instant, the Tree of Light wasn't bothered by my intrusion, letting my mana seep into it without much resistance.
The problem started when I made a grabbed a minuscule part of it with my mana and tried to draw it into myself.
It reacted instantly, pulling right back on its fragments so that I couldn't haul any of it.
But it didn't stop there, doing a Uno reverse on me, it grabbed my mana and yanked, pulling almost all my mana in one jerk.
Almost, because I had some certain black pikes attached to my soul who saved the last bit of my mana just before it was all sucked out.
In terms of numbers, only 58 mana of my 30,000 remained in my mana pool.
But something very special was happening with that 58 mana.