The scene shifts back to Strange Tree Island.
After safely storing away the Dark Old Tree's root containing pure shadow and decay essence, Lynch wasted no time and immediately set off for his next target—the search for the Monster Tree Heart.
However, unlike his previously composed state, Lynch now carried an unshakeable weight of gravity between his brows, and his speed through the air noticeably quickened, tinged with rare urgency.
The surrounding environment, with its sporadic and chaotic elemental storms, and the ever-present elemental disturbances, felt like tightening ropes around his heart, pressing it heavily.
This kind of method, directly disrupting and altering the underlying structure of element formations, was unheard of in his long wizarding career. It went beyond the scope of an ordinary disaster or experimental accident, resembling more a barbaric alteration of the world's foundational workings.
