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120: Chapter 120 The Last HopeThe runaway problem of the World Tree had reached a critical point.

As soon as Fu Hao arrived at Loki’s laboratory, he and Yongyuan split up to find Loki.

The laboratory was extremely vast, and to find Loki and Leonhardt, one had to search everywhere in person.

This laboratory originally belonged to the nobles of the Rowen Kingdom’s Second Prince faction, but it wasn’t until the Endel Kingdom incorporated it as a directly governed territory that they selected one of the well-equipped castles within it to serve as a laboratory.

Because Loki used some Incomplete Mimics as test subjects, and most of the research involved top-secret information, there was no one else in the castle besides him and Leonhardt.

While searching for Loki in the castle, Fu Hao saw brooms and mops suspended everywhere as if they were fixed in place, and he thought: ”If this place were filled with broom artifacts like floating magic puppets, I would be able to find Loki immediately.”

However, the materials for making magic puppets were extremely rare. Even without considering the difficulty of processing the materials, the mere fact that the core materials came from the Demon World made mass production a luxury.

Even if Fu Hao could go to the Demon World to obtain materials, he still couldn’t mass-produce them, because even with the countless blood sacrifices of the Demon race during the Human-Demon War, they only produced enough materials to make seven or eight puppets.

Therefore, if one wanted to mass-produce magic puppets, one could only utilize the ”copy” characteristic of the Mimic to replicate materials or attributes.

It wasn’t just magic puppets; most of the artifacts Loki made for personal combat, rather than for daily life assistance, also required rare materials.

Only then did Fu Hao gradually understand why Loki was so obsessed with Mimics.

About five minutes after entering the laboratory, Fu Hao found Loki—it took longer than expected because Loki was not in the laboratory, but in his bedroom.

The NPCs in ”otherworld” were different from regular MMORPGs in that they truly slept—a point Fu Hao only realized after the audience reminded him.

Usually, he would discover details before the audience, but this time, because the World Tree problem occupied all his thoughts, he was slow to react.

”Mr. Loki, wake up! Something big has happened!” Fu Hao shook Loki.

Seeing the dark circles under his eyes, although he felt apologetic, the situation was urgent and could not wait for him to get enough sleep.

”...Fu Hao? Didn’t you go to the Elf Kingdom?”

”I went and came back.”

”That was fast. Did you find what you were looking for?”

”I found it... No, let’s not talk about that for now. Something big has happened! The World Tree is absorbing all vitality. If this continues, the Endel Kingdom and even the entire human realm could become a land of death!”

”World Tree? Land of death?”

”You don’t know?”

”Hmm... First time hearing of it.”

Looking at Loki’s blank expression, Fu Hao fell into despair.

[ ”Class” tipped 50 yuan. (It’s over now.) ]

[ ”Parachute” tipped 50 yuan. (The growth rate of players in the Rowen Kingdom has dropped by 90%.) ]

[ ”Jojo” tipped 50 yuan. (The Endel Kingdom territory has become Hell Mode.) ]

Despite feeling desperate because of Loki’s reaction, Fu Hao did not give up all hope.

He decided to take the newly awakened Loki and use a teleportation gem to go to where the World Tree was located—even if Loki didn’t understand the situation regarding the World Tree and the absorption of vitality, there might still be a solution. Perhaps seeing the land that had lost its vitality with his own eyes would help him think of a countermeasure.

[ There is an object at the designated location; unable to teleport. ]

[ There is an object at the designated location; unable to teleport. ]

[ There is an object at the designated location; unable to teleport. ]

...

”In such a short time...” In the short moment he was searching for Loki, the World Tree had expanded to occupy one-fifth of the Granary Zone.

Considering that the larger the World Tree, the faster the land losing its vitality expanded, it was likely that the entire Granary Zone had already fallen into a dead zone.

Fu Hao estimated the distance and, after several attempts, finally succeeded in using the teleportation gem.

[ Entering ”Land of Lost Vitality”. ]

[ On the ”Land of Lost Vitality”, all growth rates and development speeds are reduced by 90%. ]

[ On the ”Land of Lost Vitality”, magic efficiency is reduced by 90%. ]

The Land of Lost Vitality had exceeded the Granary Zone and spread to the center of the Lepis Territory.

The World Tree had also become even larger; even standing on higher ground, one could clearly see its branches in the distance.

Loki sensed the atmosphere of the land and, looking at the dead ground, fell into silence.

”Hmm... This situation is very serious.”

”The key is that it is still absorbing vitality at an extremely fast rate. If the World Tree continues to grow, humanity is finished.”

Since the game launched, no matter what happened, the official developers had never intervened.

A year ago, a certain newly established kingdom was destroyed by a curse, causing massive losses to many novice players and stationed players, yet the officials did not step in to protect them.

Even if the Human-Demon War were to repeat or a meteorite were to strike the game planet, it was highly likely the officials would not intervene.

Although adhering to this principle in a project of tens of billions in scale was suspicious, at the very least, all human territory becoming a land of death would likely not break the official non-interference principle.

”Is there no solution? Even if we can’t restore the areas that have become lands of death, it doesn’t matter. I only ask that we can suppress the growth of the World Tree.”

Even if Fu Hao did not earnestly plead, Loki would not sit idly by while humanity perished, but restoring the lost vitality, even using his peak magic abilities and all his artifacts, was impossible.

”I don’t think I can solve it, at least not right now.”

Viewing Loki as his last hope and coming up empty-handed, Fu Hao was on the verge of a breakdown—perhaps this was the backlash from everything having gone too smoothly before; the accumulated frustrations were erupting all at once.

But he could not give up just like that; after all, besides Loki, he had other straws to grasp at.

Fu Hao visited the other seven legends one by one, asking for help.

Except for Helm and Calus, who were already fighting alongside him, the other seven legends, perhaps due to the human crisis, all immediately responded to his request.

However, even gathering the power of the seven legends could not stop the World Tree from growing or restore the land of death.

If the World Tree were still in its early growth stage, there might still be a chance, but now it was so vast that it could easily cover mountain ranges. The seven legends’ full-force attacks could only leave insignificant wounds on it, and these wounds healed rapidly as the World Tree absorbed vitality—let alone seven legends, even one hundred legends would find it difficult to stop the World Tree with force at this moment.

- ”Countdown to human extinction~”

- ”How much time is left for ’otherworld’ to perish?”

- ”I feel like Fu Hao is going to be more famous than Leonhardt as the ’player who destroyed the otherworld’, hahaha.”

Even after mobilizing the seven legends and experts from various fields, they still couldn’t stop the World Tree from absorbing vitality, and the originally optimistic audience gradually realized the seriousness of the situation.

Now, the only solution seemed to be to pray that the World Tree would stop growing on its own, but it showed no signs of stopping.

”Is this how it ends?” As a streamer, Fu Hao had already earned a lifetime’s income for an average office worker; even if he couldn’t continue streaming now, he had no regrets financially.

But the fact that the game he had poured his heart and soul into was being destroyed because of his own actions made him feel deep despair.

A sudden wave of dizziness hit him, and he hurriedly ended the stream and the game.

”Let’s end the stream here for today, thank you everyone!”

Exiting ”otherworld” and returning to reality, the dizziness did not subside—his mind was filled with discussions from guild members and community players about the World Tree, the land of death, and himself.

Just as he was lying on the virtual reality device with his head in his hands, the expected phone rang.

Without looking at the screen, he guessed it was Chaos.

Every time he ended a broadcast early due to being troubled, Chaos would always call to check on him.

But he was in no mood for comfort right now; sometimes being alone was more important than comfort.

”However... I should still answer it, right?” Although he knew Chaos’s comfort might not be useful, thinking of his intention in calling, he couldn’t ignore it.

Fu Hao sighed and answered the phone—it was indeed Chaos, but the purpose of the call was not to comfort him.

”Hello? Why did you call?”

”Now is not the time for idle chatter; every second counts, what are you doing?”

”You’re talking about the World Tree, right? Everything that could be done has been done. Even if I log on, I can’t think of a solution...”

”No, there is still a way.”

”What other way could there be?”

”Ella, your ’wife’ left in the Grand Library of the Kalis Empire.”

”Huh?!”