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"You've gotta be kidding me!", Saki mumbled while dozing off at the sight in front of her.

In her vision, there lay a colossal tree which seemed like a normal tree from afar. But visualizing it made her realize that the tree branches and their purple leaves were brushing off the surrounding clouds in the reddish sky. The bottom of it was filled with green mist.

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After walking for a few more minutes, she found herself standing at the end of the road, before the gigantic crater. The green mist of the crater seemed to be fixed parallel to the level of ground, neither coming upward nor going downward.

Saki saw the green aura string bending upwards. She raised her head, thereby looking at the colossal purple-leafed tree. The pinkish clouds covered most of its branches. The aura threaded into those engulfed tree branches. She scratched her head, "Ah, how do I go up? I can sense a titan lurking in this mist but master's aura is pointing towards the topmost branch of the tree!!"