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"What!?" Sylvester jumped to his feet. "That makes no sense. Soul Trees are solarium generators, and solarium is a natural deterrent to demonic energies. Do you have any proof or theory confirming that it's possessed?" 

The Saint Seer shook his head, but proposed a possibility. "Your Holiness, we all know the Central Continent's four kingdoms have always been at war. But, beyond that, I've found out that common crimes are also utterly regular there. There is so much deviancy that murder is a word mentioned by every single mouth, at least once every single day. Thievery, rapes, slavery, trafficking, and anything else that you can imagine is a way of life there." 

Silently, Sylvester rubbed his chin and remembered what he had found out in the Darkpit Sea. 'That portal in the sea corrupted the creatures, mutated them, and turned them into monstrosities. Could that also be a… portal?'