He dashed forward towards the heart of the Serevian teau. His Seismic Mapping technique picked up unnaturally high and yet fluctuating seismic radiation iing from the very direction he was headed at the very moment. He shed his squire-level mind mask before adopting his stealth mind mask and activating the Shadow Step technique, bing incredibly stealthy and hard to register.
It took him some time but eventually, he reached the heart of the Serevian teau.
"What the..." Rui''s eyes widened as he beheld the strange sight in front of him. "What in the world is this?"
It was so bizarre he couldn''t even put it into words.
In front of him was an elevatedndmass. Thendmass extended beyond what the eye could see on both sides. It was as though a piece of the tectonic te had been elevated by dozens of meters, randomly. It was as though thendmass had been transported over and dropped onto the center of the Serevian teau.
"What the fuck is this?" He wondered aloud. "How can such a ridiculous elevation even ur naturally?"
He was no geologist, but he racked his brains, both of them, searching for an answer.
"Earthquake?" He quickly wondered.
Earthquakes were caused due to shifts of tectonic tes bordering each other. The shift led to the release of a massive wave of seismic radiation. On the surface, this seemed to be a logical exnation for why thend was elevated and what the cause for the seismic radiation he was sensing was.
"No, that makes no fucking sense." He shook his head.
The seismic radiation released by earthquakes was non-uniform and constant over long periods of time. They were destructive, but acute and didn''tst too long. They certainly didn''tst four days without ever once reducing in intensity.
"Furthermore, if it was an earthquake, I refuse to believe that the Ministry of Environment and Ecology is ipetent enough to not recognize an earthquake when they see it." He shook his head. "That''s not the only problem with that option either. This ce is too clean to be the epicenter of an Earthquake."
Earthquakes were destructive. It was absolutely impossible for the structures atop and around the epicenter to be intact. Yet the surroundings were remarkably unkempt. Although a few trees at the very edge had been uprooted due to the split, the surrounding trees were untouched. Even the nests of birds atop the trees had not fallen off.
"Then what else could it be?" Rui wondered as he turned back to face the elevatedndmass.
He began investigating it deeply with Seismic Mapping. The results were illuminating.
His eyes widened in shock as a realization hit him. "The roots... The roots of the trees atop that part of thend have grown so much that they have elevated thendmass above its normal level!"
He could clearly sense that the roots were enormously thick, thicker than those of the other trees around him, and had extended far deeper than even his Seismic Mapping could follow!
Because these roots took up so much space underground, thatndmass itself shifted up due to an increasingck of space!
"What the fuck kind of trees and roots are those?" He wondered as he used Seismic Mapping to investigate the structure of the elevatedndmass. Due to being disced in such a manner, a lot of cracks, breaks, and copses urred within its structure. This resulted in the creation of many natural caves throughout thendmass. These caves wound about the internal structure of the elevated section of thendmass, interconnecting with each other and the surface of thendmass as well, forming a vast underground cavework.
He also sensed a vast amount of fauna within.
"What''s the surface look like? What species are those trees?" He wondered curiously. He leaped,unching himself to an extremely high height with thebination of me Breathing, and Outer Convergence. He used Tempestuous Ripple to propel him forward by firing it backward.
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Hended on the surface of the elevatedndmass, and his eyes widened, startled, once more.
"What...?" He squinted, rubbing his eyes before looking back up.
He shook his head. "No no. This isn''t really possible..."<novelnext> </novelnext>
He took some more measures before he finally gave and epted his vision wasn''t faulty.
Before him, was a vast sea of trees.
Except they weren''t.
''They'' were a single tree!
All of the tree trunks rooted into the ground that looked like they were separate, were actually all part of the same tree! Their branches were all connected!
Rui gasped as he walked deeper and deeper. Every single ''tree'' was connected by a branch. The branches were covered in leaves. The sheer number of branches meant that the leaves covered the entirety of the elevatedndmass, forming some resembling a canopy.
Suddenly, Primordial Instinct sensed danger behind him.
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He somersaulted he evaded an attack.
(''A tree branch?'') His eyes widened as a terrifying thought entered his mind. (''Is this entire tree a carnivorous species?'')
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He evaded a few branch attacks as he moved forward. He nced around curiously as he stumbled across something quite interesting.
"Fruit?" He nced at the strange exotic glowing round objects hanging from branches.
They glowed and vibrated. Rui instinctively felt with Primordial Instinct that these were no ordinary fruits, they were extremely powerful and energetic.
He reached for one when he sensed something to his right. He turned,ing face to face with an Apprentice-level monkey-like creature hanging on the trees.
"AAahh!" The monkey chattered.
Yet, the meaning it wished to convey magically entered his mind.
[Don''t touch those. Those are mine.]
The Fauna Flow technique allowed him to understand the meaning the monkey was trying to convey to him.
Rui snorted. It was merely a high-grade monkey. Rui narrowed his eyes as he activated the Squire-level Mind Mask to scare the monkey off. Yet the very instant he did, he felt a terrifying fear himself through the Primordial instinct technique.
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Sharp pain spiked through his body.
"Huh?" Rui nced down, as his eyes widened.
A branch had attacked and impaled him from the back.
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