As they returned to their guild's base, the fossilized tree was easily visible from a distance.
Even though it wasn't one of the largest trees in the forest, considering that some of those trees were thousands of years old and reached hundreds of meters in height, their guild's tree was still massive, standing nearly 50 meters tall, even though its hollow interior was only 15 meters wide.
What made that tree stand out the most was that, unlike all the living, lush trees in the forest, theirs was a less colorful tree, lacking any vitality, with dry, parched, and hard bark, but with bright golden amber filling the gaps and cracks in the trunk, which transformed its appearance from that of a mere dead and dull tree into a very beautiful sight.
The problem was that when they got closer, they saw that some large earthworms, 10 to 20 centimeters thick, were rolling into the tree as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
