I stare up at the large green glowing fruit for a few minutes in awe as vitality streams back into me. A large aura of vibrant green tendrils of divine energy flows off the fruit itself and begins seeping into the atmosphere. Only now can I visualize how much of that green aura I really absorbed while falling through the sky. I hear movement in the trees above as some of the yellow-cored lizards hiding high in the trees start to move downward toward my vicinity. At the same time, buzzing in the trees and nearby islands also signifies the fact that hundreds of insects are flying my way, attracted to this energy-rich divine fruit. While they all creep, jump, and fly through the trees toward me, I stand to my feet feeling both immensely sore head to toe, but also oddly rejuvenated and refreshed. Those few hours of sleep I had while falling were the first shuteye I've had in weeks. Even though I was battling for my life during that rest, it still invigorates me and makes me feel as though I'm even stronger than I was before challenging that serpent in the sky to notice me. I expand my perception as dozens of creatures close in, and pick up quite a few readings that are rather shocking to see. The first and most noticeable is the fact that high above the construct where the curious eyes of the overseer used to watch, there is now nothing but endless open sky. It feels extremely hot, and the pinpricks evolve into scorching pain just like before. This time however, I'm in control. Once it gets to be too much, I start my descent down, airstepping out of the denser portion of aura and back down toward the black tree. It isn't as slow as free falling, but it still takes quite a while to make my way back down to the tip of the tallest tree. I take a deep breath, then grab onto the highest branch, letting it absorb all of the extra accumulated green threads. Just like before, they're ripped from my body and I'm able to regenerate my flesh once again. The same wave of exhaustion yet rejuvenation hits me as I watch another massive green glowing fruit form from an extremely fast-growing black branch. It rockets upward over 20 meters higher into the air in less than a minute. I cut the fully formed fruit from its branch and let it fall into my inventory. As I fly back upward toward the cloud of divine energy again, its fluttering glossy leaves look like they're waving a thank you to me as they continue to grow. Over the next three days, I repeat this process over and over. I saturate my body with as many green threads as I possibly can before the pain becomes too unbearable and they don't get too critically close to my core, then airstep down to let the hungry tree take the energy out of my body with ease. It grows dozens of meters higher every time I come back, and in exchange, I receive another enormous energy-packed glowing fruit. I collect over 60 green fruits in total. Every time I go through the process of nearly turning into an energy form and having its threads torn out of me; it feels as if I'm doing billions of MP worth of mana control training. I'm covered with sweat once every process is done, and the fatigue that comes with it builds up more and more overtime. At the same time, my connection with divine energy gets greater and greater, making my efficiency at wielding the yellow energy intertwined with my skills grow significantly as well. I feel multiple times more efficient than I did when I first awakened my core. Possibly even at a magnitude of 10. With all this constant training, my body and mind does tire; but it's just another day of work for me. I only have a few days left in this construct, so every hour that I put in counts. I'll rest once I'm done farming at maximum efficiency. As my eyes threaten to close and all I want to do is lie down and sleep, this motto continues to repeat in my head while I let another green fruit fall into my item storage. Once I airstep upward to make my way toward the sky again, following the same routine, I feel a massive shift in the air pressure. It feels as if the temperature in the entire construct rises a few degrees. A long ringing sound begins to vibrate through the air, and from the outer reaches of my perception, I notice an impossibly fast orb of cyan-colored light rushing my way. I don't even get a full heartbeat to process everything, and try to move out of the way before the light blue flash of light grows larger and larger then is right in front of me. It's a massive orb of light blue energy, the exact same color as the cyan crystal that opened the rift into this construct. Before I can even blink, the orb splits in half, opening itself up and then closing again around me. The orb itself is maybe 30 meters in diameter, and its walls are no more than a meter thick. The moment it shuts around me, it stops moving entirely. Inside, the air feels exactly the same as it did moments ago outside, unaffected by the blue divine energy making contact with it other than some visual ripples in space. The light blue energy pulses once, then starts to float upward slowly. To my utter surprise, I move upward with it as well. I'm not airstepping to change my direction, and it doesn't even feel like I'm moving at all. To all my senses other than sight, it feels as if I'm stationary, just floating naturally in the sky. However, the island of black trees below me is getting further away, so I'm positive I'm moving... As my eyes dart around the orb and I activate my greater form to get even more enhanced perception buffs, I try to find a weakness to this contraption, or at the very least figure out what exactly is going on. Less than three seconds later, the eyes of the green serpent appear high above in the sky. It slithers downward, getting larger and larger every second that passes. On its back, there are two cyan-colored armored knights with long shields and spears. They're impossibly massive as well, dozens of kilometers tall, effortlessly riding the serpent downward, emotionlessly staring forward as they plummet toward me. I can visually see their light blue auras being condensed around their bodies, and the green serpent brings its own cloud of divine threads down with it too as it hisses loudly again, and it doesn't stop its descent toward me. Another few seconds pass, and I float upward high enough that it appears I'm going to be right above the serpent's flight path, but it looks like it doesn't have any plan to stop or change direction. The massive snake's head passes below me, less than 10 kilometers away, and a dense wave of its green divine threads fills the air. I'm too shocked at everything going on around me to even be scared of the pressure that I'd be under if I were to come in contact with these threads.