88 Back to the Island * (1/2)
They flew for a while before finally making it to the island. The small shack they built brought back a wave of nostalgia, even though they only just left the island. They felt as though they belonged here, as though this island was one that's been created for the sole purpose of training the strong.
The island condition was unchanged, the large trees extending into the sky providing a large amount of shade. They could see the centre tree from the sea, Lachlan felt excited as they discovered a way to get there easily.
The kids and Flynn were in awe at the island. Flynn was the only one that knew a bit about the island since his wife told him everything before she left. They didn't mention anything about the large centre tree.
Lachlan brought out the high ranked gravity stone and activated its fullest abilities. They flew towards the centre, above the mountain which surrounds the centre they saw a multitude of caves.
”Do you think there will be other special beasts in those caves?” Chloe asked enthusiastically. Since Aaron came from the cave whose to say there won't be other unique beasts or at least strong beasts within those caves.
”I don't think so, it might be rather rare for there to be beasts in them,” Lachlan stated. He knew that the reason Aaron was in the cave was because of the water and berries, as for the others, seeing as how there wasn't a stream of water coming out there was a likely chance there wasn't any water in them, something essential for life.
As they descended from the sky Lachlan was happy to say that his theory was correct. The high ranked gravity stones gave them the ability to nullify the gravity at the centre of the island. Which if he wasn't wrong should be roughly 100 – 150 times Earth's gravity.
The centre tree even surprised Lachlan and Chloe. While although they knew it was large they didn't expect it to be so large. They only saw it from a distance which didn't help in determining the size of it. However, once they were up close they felt dizzy looking up.
The roots of the tree were reaching the height of a two-story building, they extended far and wide into the mountains. Meaning a majority of the ground was made of tree roots. Lachlan quickly remembered his eye's new ability and analysed the tree.
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Name: World Tree
Description: The Wold Tree is a tree that supports the life of everything around it. The life force emitting from it gives the surrounding area prosperity. Plants will grow many times bigger and stronger.
Location: There will only ever be a maximum of 7 world trees in the world at once, each one is located in the centre of the continent.
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Lachlan never thought he would discover another myth. He's heard about the world tree, granted there were many versions of it. Some say that it is at the centre of the universes and each leaf is a universe, while there were other versions which have the world tree at the centre of the universe or world.
He also realised how good of a choice their location was. Considering that everything grows better around it, should they go into the caves and grow things there, everything will grow amazingly.
'So that's why there are a bunch of plant stones' Lachlan suddenly realised why there were so many plant stones, each of varying rankings. If they search well enough they're bound to find some high ranked stones around the tree considering they absorb the life force directly from the world tree.
Once they reached the ground they all got off, but Lachlan and Chloe were still quite concerned, ”Remember, don't go too far otherwise you'll have to deal with the real gravity,” Chloe reminded them.
The kids didn't know too much about how it works, but they trusted what Lachlan said. All he said was that they'll have to deal with consequences they can't deal with right now. Flynn understood though, he knew the gravity around here would probably crush him into the ground.
Dylan, on the other hand, took that information and knew what he had to do. Although the children knew there would be consequences there are bound to be some that want to see if they can escape them. If they dragged Sarah into their scheme and they all died to the gravity, he knew Lachlan would blame himself.
”So what should we do now?” Chloe asked Lachlan. There wasn't much they could do here, they didn't even have any connection here due to the mountains and the tree. Which is why the military sent them, since they couldn't actually get into the island without their drones getting crushed due to the gravity or the connecting getting lost.
”Well I suppose we should make a quick shelter right now, just something that'll last us until tomorrow which is when we'll start building our real houses,” Lachlan explained as he looked towards the setting sun. It was just about to reach night time.
”We could just use our little shelter left on the beach for now, it'll last us the night easily and there's plenty of room,” Chloe suggested. Lachlan agreed with it, and although it was slightly dangerous since the military was after them. Since James said he won't get involved, Lachlan knew they should be safe from the sea for a while at least.
”Alright, we'll stay there the night and begin building,” Lachlan agreed with a nod. But before that Lachlan searched around the area for some stones. He found a few high ranked stones, enough for Chloe, Flynn, and Dylan.
”Take them and put a drop of blood on them, they're high ranked stones which give you the ability to nullify the gravity here. We'll go somewhere else and find some medium ranked gravity stones for the children later,” Lachlan didn't want the children to have too much power, but he also wanted them to be able to protect themselves and explore the island.
He was a child once and all he wanted to do was run around and have fun. Since he would give them medium ranked gravity stones, they'll last them until the mountains where they probably wouldn't be able to climb in normal gravity anyway.