A Dangerous Path (Part 2)
"It's the only reason they can have so easily gifted what they rarely gifted before."
Lith and the others knew enough about white cores to recognize the truth in M'Rael's words.
"Fine, I believe you." Lith took a deep breath and the Void slowly crawled back into the roiling black sea above his head. "Let me be clear, though. We came here in peace and yet you treated us poorly.
"I understand that now that we have to outbid the World Tree you think to be in a position of superiority, but you are dead wrong. What the Yggdrasil is offering you is just to replace your current prison with a more gilded one, but you would still be trapped.
"Trapped by duty, your new powers will be bound to a never-ending task that would force your people to spend their lives serving an absent master. What we've come to offer you, instead, is freedom.