Due to the influence of the World Tree over the world energy, mana organs could only process it with extreme difficulty. It even resisted the pull from the mana cores when Awakened used their breathing technique and the attempts to mix world energy with pure mana to conjure any form of magic.
Only Spirit Magic was immune to such effects but it was mana expensive and recovering with Invigoration took longer than usual.
Those near Nandi and Lith didn't suffer from the Yggdrasill's influence, the world energy surrounding them was purified respectively by the bio-crystals and the Apprentice Hands, but they numbered too few to matter.
The arrival of more greeds of fresh Wyrms just prolonged the time the World Tree would need to get rid of the pests swarming their dominion.
Yet that only applied as long as the world energy was under the Yggdrasill's control.
With each Dragon that flew through the Chaos Dimension unimpeded, Mogar felt the tipping of the scales of the battle. The World Tree didn't suffer from pain and hunger anymore and their troops coordinated to cast dozens of anti-Guardians spells at the same time flawlessly. freeweɓnøvel.com
Yet on the other side, there were enough Divine Beasts to counter each Annihilation with a Bastion, providing cover for the seven-beast units behind them to launch a counter-offensive.
The number of spells employed by both sides increased by the second and the power unleashed inched closer to that of two Guardians with each Dragon joining the fray. The cracks in the sky widened, spreading further and further as if the heavens were just a reflection on a huge mirror and someone was throwing stones at it.
'Don't falter!' The World Tree constantly rearranged their troops to contain the tide of enemies breaking against lines of Golems and possessed elves. 'Fight like there's no tomorrow because if we lose, there won't be one!'
Arrays, Tower Tier spells, Wood Golems, and deep violet-cored elves worked like clockwork under the Yggdrasill's guidance. Their goal was to kill the Divine Beasts before the strength of the two sides matched and the Fringe crumbled.
Were they to succeed, victory would belong to the World Tree.
When the last group of Wyrms entered and the Fringe held, the Yggdrasill felt confident.
Then, the latecomers from Verendi arrived, quickly followed by the Dragons from Jiera.
The Fringe shattered and was instantly replaced by a bigger one. It sealed the World Tree and their enemies inside, leaving them no way out but also freeing Tezka from the need of keeping Chaos Dimension fixed in the same place.
New world energy flooded the newly formed Fringe, filling the invaders with its pure, untainted power and diluting the Yggdrasill's influence to irrelevance.
"Finally!" Baba Yaga drew upon the power of Mogar with avid gulps, her whole body and tower starving for world energy after being denied by World Tree.
The Red Mother's body split into three separate beings: the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.
"What's the point?" Aylen asked while waiting for her body to regenerate after one lucky Tower Tier spell had pulverized her. "You only have one tower."
"Because I only need one, you runt!" The three women were all Baba Yaga and they spoke as one.
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