Chapter 598 You Must Atone

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Not far ahead lay a sheer cliff, empty and exposed; the ground dropped away on all sides. Looking down, the steep mountainside was wrapped in thick clouds, and the orange glow of dusk spilled over the vast white mist, refracting into a kaleidoscope of brilliant light.

This mountain was incredibly high–Jean had never seen anything like it.

The peak beneath her feet seemed to pierce straight through the clouds, stretching into the depths of the sky.

From up here, she could see the dense, impenetrable layers of cloud pressing down in clusters, each one bringing with it a crushing sense of suffocation.

Then, all at once, the thick forest around her–trees layered so tightly they blocked out the sun, swept aside in a blink, like dark clouds parting to reveal the sun.

As the trees pulled back, a soft glow broke through the center.

The light grew stronger; brighter and brighter, until it was so–blinding Jean couldn’t keep her eyes open.

She had to shut them for a moment, overwhelmed by the intensity.

She didn’t know how much time had passed–but slowly, Jean opened her eyes again.

her stood

scattered, bell–shaped ones. But the tree stretched impossibly high, branches and leaves stacked in layers, climbing upward like a

bell–like leaves began to sway; and just like real

entire tree began to emit a soft, hazy

like sacred light steeped in mist, a radiance too holy to look at

“Jean”

ears like a bell tolling

her surroundings for several seconds before she finally realized, the voice calling her name had come

widened; her gaze darted around in disbelief, eventually landing at the

the trunk-

a short stone tablet, carved with a few

tree? Jean

anything like this could truly exist

predetermined protagonists, if it could even show her glimpses of the future. Could this divine tree be the one who wrote

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