Chapter 699 - Evolution Of Life On Eden

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Ervas and Veronica explained to their friends and family what "The Fall" was all about as their resume of everything that had transpired until now continued steadily.

The Fall was the event of cataclysmic proportions where the massive moon sized Hivemind Unit sent to this planet for the assimilation of all biomasses fell over the planet! The entire thing was orchestrated by the angered and frustrated goddesses.

In their desperation, sorrow, and frustration, the twin goddess unleashed their power completely and using their combined power, souls, and bodies, they fused with the Yggdrasil Tree they had been growing from a mere branch inside Juliette's Divine Realm.

By fusing with it, they became a massive tree of gigantic proportions, and entangled the entire Hivemind with their body, growing around it, piercing its entire flesh with their roots, and absorbing their energy continuously! They knew they couldn't defeat it, but they knew they could at least make it weaker, over eons, it would ultimately grow weakened and might die out, dried like a raisin.

The twins merged together into this ultimate sacrifice to defend and protect their world, falling over the already ruined planet and leaving a massive crater, a hole where in its very depths, the Hivemind rested, being restrained by the massive tree of Yggdrasil, which continued to grow into the skies. The world at that time ended like a ruined deserted land, barely any animals and plants survived after that.

The entire wasteland of a planet still had a small atmosphere and the life on it was struggling, but doing their best to survive and do as they possibly could… The twins restrained the relentless Hivemind, seeping their roots into its entire body for thousands of years, covering it more and more in their roots, and absorbing the Hivemind Energy while repurposing it, sending it across the world and nourishing it with new life.

However, the Hivemind never gave up, it never stopped thinking nor wanting to defeat its enemy and accomplish its purpose, the monstrous entity continued to relentlessly fight against the Yggdrasil Tree, although this time in a fight that lasted eons in silence, absorbing the energy of the planet's core, while the tree absorbed the energy from the hivemind back into the planet, creating a complete circle, a stalemate. And because the Hivemind was imprisoned, it was incapable of fighting back completely, having to do this at the end as it was being completely consumed by the power of Yggdrasil.

However, these relentless aliens were still doing their job well, and slowly, they adapted and grew larger, like a tree themselves, their tentacles seep into the ground deep, absorbing energy and trying to take over the surface, while the Yggdrasil Tree fought against them, unleashing everything it could to stop the Hivemind from spreading its spawns into the world… for thousands of years, no, over a million years by now.

But half a million years ago, the Yggdrasil Tree gained a consciousness separate for the tired and exhausted wills of the goddesses, who went into an eternal slumber… in that time is when the third clone, the fusion between the two clones, the twins, was born, merely calling itself "Tree" this being began to do everything it could to help their mothers.

It observed the world while the two slept, seeing how the small animal species that ended surviving the cataclysm slowly adapted to the world and filled the niches of all the species that perished, a small, dwarf race of dolphin began to crawl into the shores of the world, and ended adapting continuously into all sorts of three-limbed beings, from ground crawlers, enormous hunters, beaked bird-like creatures, and more.

Snails grew as big as squids did, occupying all the empty niches in the oceans and ultimately doing the last jump into the surface of the world as well, forming internal skeletons, developing stronger jawed beaks, and even more abilities. They even adapted to gain hair, feathers, and more, and filled even more empty niches, filling the world with all sorts of varied forms, clades, and more, from the humble ocean snails they once were, into titans that crawled around the world, bigger than elephants themselves.

Mushrooms also went through an incredible evolution, became mobile, and even predatory in nature, gaining eyes and more, becoming their own interesting and unique clade of entities, filling even more niches across the planet.

There were many other species of small animals that evolved into all sorts of forms to fill the niches left behind by those that went extinct, growing big and strong in the process, and nourishing themselves with the abundant verdant life and nature that the Yggdrasil Tree was spreading across the planet, until the desertic wastelands left behind went back to their original green beauty…

While doing so, the tree had managed to rescue a small village of the very last Erveronians that had somehow survived all these years utilizing their unique abilities and magic, but at that time they were merely just 20 at most, the very last of their kin, which were dragged back into the divine realm of the tree, where they managed to multiply and prosper once more over the thousands of years.

Erveronians were not immortal, of course, having lifespans of around 200 to 300 years, they were a long-lived race, but ultimately perished, their souls would go back to the made-up circle of transmigration of the twin goddesses, which was taken over by the tree, and enhanced even more.

However, the tree wanted more, and it knew that the Hivemind wasn't resting, it was slowly moving, planning, and scheming it's come back…

The tree used its new powers to spread its seeds across the world, and formed several new and big Yggdrasil Trees, all of them connected to its same soul, they were the many bodies it had, which were all used to restrain the alien lifeform even more than before…

However, that alone wouldn't do, it had to do more, to plan more, and to also try to help its mothers, who were in a perpetual slumber…

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