Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Chapter 1. Eternal Vows in the Twilight of Reality.

"Why are you doing this?"

A woman was screaming at a tree, her form flickering with infinite colors.

"This doesn't make any sense!"

Her anguished tone and gestures echoed in the fabric of the Universe as just a wave of her hand created ripples through reality.

"Why must you be so ruthless and forget our promise!?"

This person was talking to a tree so big that the planets didn't compare.

"The only outcome of this is pure chaos! Nothing is for sure. IT'S A HAREBRAINED GAMBLE!"

She was talking to a tree so huge that the stars didn't compare.

"If you follow through, the heavenly layers will be destroyed!"

A tree with galaxies interlocking around its roots and with the universe resting below its gargantuan canopy.

"Galaxies will die out, killing life throughout the Universe!"

A tree that the speaker could "see" only because of her power was so vast that few could even fathom challenging them.

"The fabric of reality will collapse! And your strength will disappear!"

However, even with the clearly desperate pleas and anxious voice, the tree that expanded throughout the Universe continued to crack, its iridescent sap flowing through the bark and creating stars just with the leaking energy.

Even its "blood" broke the laws of physics as if said laws were not something natural but something it controlled.

Something it was made out of.

Something stronger than a World tree.

The one and only Universal Tree.

The woman speaking cried in the last moments of their time, desperately asking in incomprehension and confusion, surrounded by agony and despair.

"WHY ARE YOU KILLING YOURSELF!? YOUR FALL WILL ONLY LEAD TO THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE COSMOS!"

Knowing that her screams didn't appear to reach it, her voice lowered, becoming heartbreaking and low, sounding like an anguished but muffled plea of a person losing all that mattered to them.

"If you kill yourself, I won't be able to continue living with you for eternity..."

However, there was no answer. The only "sound" that reached them was the sound of the dying Tree.

The eerie sound of a collapsing Universe.

Distraught, the powerful woman cried.

"Why won't you speak to me..."

The fabric of reality cracked, creating voids that swallowed galaxies and every kind of celestial object.

The anguish of the female reached a heartbreaking point, making her sight blur with the tears that accumulated on her eyelids.

And when her heart was about to break and collapse like fragile glass. When she thought she couldn't bear the sadness accumulating in her heart, a palm-sized leaf fell onto her hand.

The humanoid woman looked at the ethereally beautiful golden leaf surrounded by an iridescent glow, and the water that accumulated in her eyes flowed, spilling her tears down her cheeks and making them fall onto it.

She brought the leaf close to her chest with utmost care, hugging it tenderly. 'I see...'

If anybody from the collapsing Universe saw the current state of the previously thought absolute being, it would've made them incredulous of their reality.