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Chapter 1142 Disgusting Green.

The giants of order are in their normal size so all of them are around 100 meters tall. Even then, the trees around them are still taller than them and create shade to cover them. The sight of the trees made Tanya angry. It made her more angry than the fact that she was being thrown to the wolves. She thought to herself. "There didn't use to be trees. All these parts were covered by fine grainy brown desert sand. Winds blew across it to create enchanting dust storms. All of that beauty has been overshadowed by trees now. They are like vermin. They cover everything."

Her favorite color is brown. She hates the sight of green. But now the green covers everything. Trees were things that were rarely seen before. Now they have disfigured the entire plane. They grow to titanic size and cover everything including the giants under their shade. It is a travesty that she cannot forgive. She promised herself, "When I become god-king, I will remove every tree. The storms will be able to ride free then. The glory and beauty of the plane will return." 

That is for the future and she has to succeed in this infiltration mission first so she bid farewell. She said to the rebels, "For freedom." All of them raised their fist wordlessly as a show of support. Then they watched as she disappeared behind the barrier. Unease began to rise among them as they waited. The barrier is translucent so they can see the landscape vaguely through it. But oddly enough, they can't see any living things behind the barrier so they can't see Tanya at all. The barrier makes it so that the kingdom of life seems far away in another world despite being close to them. It is an illusion of course. There could be an army waiting for them on the other side and they wouldn't know right now. It will be too late when they go over the barrier and find out. Fortunately, Tanya didn't meet an army on the other side. She didn't meet anyone or anything. All she saw was the same sickening green that she left behind. Just the memory of the time she tried to see if they were edible is causing her non-existent stomach to riot. She decided to focus on her mission to avoid thinking about bitter green leaves and disgusting tree bark. She examined her environment thoroughly to determine her position and ensure that she was safe. The barrier runs through a forest. So she is in another part of the same forest that she was in earlier. She knows which direction to go to reach the center of the kingdom since the barrier is behind her. She chose that direction and started walking towards it. It took some time to leave the forest and reach civilization. It is mainly because the forest she is in is very large and the kingdom of life is much larger. The kingdom covers a third of the plane after all. It is the largest kingdom in the history of the plane as far as she knows. She could expand into her full Colossal form to walk faster but that will announce her presence. She didn't do that despite her frustration because the trees weren't large enough to obscure her Colossal form. So she will be discovered easily. That's not her mission. She is to move around silently and test the efficacy of the artifact. That means she is not supposed to make it easy to be spotted. It didn't take long to spot the god-king. His form stood like a tower that reached the sky. "He must be at least 50 kilometers tall." She estimated fearfully. "Maybe more. How did a tree get this big?"

She can see the tallest tree through the break in the tree cover. It reaches the limit of the plane after all. The width of the tree must be hundreds of meters too. It is probably wider than she is tall in her colossal form. That is a tree that can surely hide her Collosal form but she didn't not marvel at the sight. Instead, she felt disgusted and abhorrence for it. That disgust mixed in with her fear which made her decide then and they that she wouldn't get close to it no matter what. "He wasn't this large before. I guess the god-king grew stronger." Then she shook her head in disgust. "He may be strong but he is ugly. That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen."

She said that to alleviate her fears but her disgust does very little to mask her fear. It could be seen in her eyes and in the way she stepped forward in hesitation. She has suddenly become reluctant to move closer to the tree. Trees are normally unnatural. But that is her opinion based on her limited experience and knowledge. Trees might be a normal sight in other planes. She is willing to concede that. But she doesn't think that something that big can be natural in any plane. That is the root of her fear. The power of the god-king is evident in its size. No one can gaze upon his form and doubt his might. Not even she can do so. Not with her knowledge of how the god-king became the only god in the plane and how there can be only one god now. Others will look at this form and be filled with awe. But she feels fear and she would like to turn back now. Unfortunately, she can't. She has to move forward knowing that each step she takes forward makes it difficult for her to escape if things go wrong.

"If all these work out then all of this power will be mine." She said to encourage herself.

She is scared and it is not because of an irrational fear of the god-king. Many have attempted what she is trying to do and failed. No one has ever managed to infiltrate the kingdom of life.