Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 370 The Mother Tree is Really in Trouble
For the Mother Tree of Desire, this was just an ordinary day.

As usual, He perched on the crimson moon, vying for territory with a certain mother goddess, while observing the situation on Earth through the barrier. He paid particular attention to the situation of the bound god Thorzna, and also checked on his other believers. After confirming that nothing had happened, the mother tree breathed a sigh of relief, but then felt a deep sadness.

Once upon a time, as an outer god, why would He need to check the condition of His tentacles on Earth every day, fearing that He might wake up to find that all the wealth He had painstakingly accumulated was gone?

The Mother Tree, once a powerful being among the Outer Gods, was unable to descend to Earth in its true form due to the barrier. However, through gradual infiltration and the influence of the pathway itself, it managed to gain control over the Bound God Thorzna, even though it did not achieve the same level of influence as the Mother Goddess, including not only the blossoming of flowers, but also the influence of the Earth Mother Goddess, the capture of Roselle, and the control of Mr. Door.

The Mother Tree even dared to say that the Bound God Thorzna, whom He captured, was only an Angel King, but could play a greater role than the two Sequence 0s next door and the strongest Angel King. After all, one of the Sequence 0s was not completely conquered, and the other was conquered but became a useless piece by exploiting a bug. The strongest Angel King sealed himself away. How could they compare to an Angel King who was completely under His control but was still in a free state?

However, after the appearance of some unknown and particularly sinister entity, both the Mother Tree and the Mother Goddess began to pay the price for their past actions. The Mother Goddess, in particular, suffered terribly because she had corrupted many people. The Mother Tree could hear her high-pitched voice every few days, to the point that the Mother Tree wanted to relinquish the title of "Roarer" to her.

However, the Mother Tree itself was not much better off. Although it only had one bound god, Thorzna, who was the only one left in Rolin's possession, it still caused the Mother Tree a lot of trouble. And it was precisely because it was the only one left that the Mother Tree was even more anxious.

If one day the Bound God Thorzna were to break free of control like Mr. Door or Roselle next door, it would be an unbearable loss for the Mother Tree.

To put it bluntly, even if the Mother Goddess loses Roselle and Mr. Men, she still has Lilith to influence her. Moreover, due to the nature of the pathway, this influence is difficult to change. Furthermore, the Mother Goddess herself is powerful. Even if she loses these tentacles, when she fights Earth in the future, she will still be the unstoppable third pillar.

The Mother Tree is different. Once the Bound God Thorzna is gone, even if it has other backup plans on Earth, it won't be able to find a tool of equal strength. The Mother Tree is also not as powerful as the Mother Goddess. Once the Earth's barrier breaks and these tentacles are no longer in effect, it will be difficult for it to surpass the Mother Goddess and seize what it wants.

Although... thinking of some strange, unknown thing, the mother tree fell silent.

With such a sinister thing around, can the Outer Gods really gain the upper hand after the barrier breaks?

The mother tree was very suspicious.

He was originally full of confidence for the final battle. There are no ancient beings left on Earth now, and there are only a dozen years left until the final battle. Normally, it would be impossible to produce any decisive combat power at this critical juncture. It would be good enough if the Lord of Mysteries could be born.

Although the Lord of Mysteries is powerful, they are outnumbered and outmatched. No matter how strong the Lord of Mysteries is, he is no match for all the other beings of the same ancient level.

Therefore, the mother tree has always been very confident about invading Earth.

But now, the Mother Tree hesitated. She was really worried about how much that evil thing would recover after the Earth's barrier was broken in a dozen years. The Mother Tree was not stupid. After several encounters, she had basically determined that the other party's existence was inherently very high, but it should be in a weak state at present and could not exert much strength. Otherwise, with such an essence, the other party would not need to hide on Earth.

What the mother tree could not ignore was the significant change in the opponent's strength during their several encounters, which meant that the opponent was recovering rapidly.

So, what kind of state will the other party be in after more than ten years?

The Mother Tree didn't even dare to think about it, yet there was nothing it could do. If the opponent had reached outside the barrier at this stage, the Mother Tree might have been able to try to join forces with other outer gods to crush it, causing it to perish again before it could recover. But with that damned barrier in place, the Mother Tree couldn't do that, and the power it could penetrate through the barrier was clearly useless against that guy.

This made the mother tree feel somewhat powerless, a sense of despair as she watched her death progress bar advance, yet was powerless to stop it.

So why would such a being side with Earth? Logically, shouldn't it be on our side?
The mother tree pondered this quietly, and just then, it suddenly paused, its gaze turning back to Earth.

He could sense that in that extremely short time, all of His followers scattered around the world who were under His special attention were attacked at the same time, and the perpetrator seemed to be... Amon?
This made the mother tree's heart skip a beat. She had realized something and almost immediately gave the god Nie Si'a, who was still at the Rose School headquarters, an order to run away. She also gave him as much power as possible through the barrier.

The Mother Tree had realized that her worst fears might have come true: Rolin had indeed made a move against her, and it was clear that he wasn't just targeting the Bound God Thorzna, but also wanted to take over the Rose School in one fell swoop.

Based on the Mother Tree's understanding of this person, it was clear that since the other party had chosen to do this, they must have been confident. The fact that the Rose School members were dealt with by the other party in a very short time was obvious proof of this.

In this situation, even the Mother Tree could only try its best to preserve its life force. It could not hope to save the bound god Thorzna, but it still wanted to struggle against the god Nieshea.

It wasn't out of maternal love, but simply because without the god Nieceia, it would be very inconvenient for Him to do anything on Earth in the future.

While ordering the god Nieceea to flee, the Mother Tree did not forget the existence of the bound god Thorzna. Although she no longer expected to save him, she still had to make sure that this toy played its final role.

Therefore, the Mother Tree decisively took control of the bound god Thorzna and prepared to launch an attack on the surrounding human cities.

He knew very well that while he might not care about these ant-like beings, the saviors certainly would. So, by taking advantage of this, He could have the bound god Thorzna hold those beings back, thus creating an opportunity for the god Nieceia to escape.

However, the next second, the mother tree's expression turned very ugly.

……

"It was indeed necessary to guard against you resorting to desperate measures."

Looking at the bound god Thorzna, who was clearly being controlled by the Mother Tree, Rolin smiled and said something. Standing next to him were Bethel and the Sun God.

The space they are in now is not the headquarters of the Rose School. In fact, because they had anticipated the operation of the Mother Tree, before the Bound God Thorzna "went mad", Bethel used the power of space to transfer the Bound God Thorzna to Rolin's alternate dimension.

(End of this chapter)