Then I felt a new connection and wrenched my mind out of my Soul Space and into the real world. There was a single flower blooming on the Silverwood tree that loomed above me. I had left open a small channel of Mana flowing into its roots, and it had seemingly accepted the connection! A root started wiggling around and eventually started extending to me along the open-air path of Mana I had created. It touched the surface of my Core and passed through it! I followed the ethereal root as it wound down and into my soul, and I directed it to the seventh continent that I had sketched out. I had
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