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{Outside The Projection}
The screen stayed black.
Just those two titles. Two lines.
{Volume 8: Where All Paths Lead}
{Volume 9: Beneath The Olive Tree}
A few white letters and a black screen.
And yet... that was enough to set the entire hall on fire once more.
Of course, not literally, but emotionally and mentally?
Oh yeah. Absolutely scorched earth.
This was the first time two volumes were announced at the beginning.
Did that mean that they, again, weren't going to be given a moment to react?
Was this the Ten Commandment's way of preparing them?
Perhaps.
Currently, the hall didn't see or hear Malik's thinking.
But... 'Where All Paths Lead?' 'Beneath the Olive Tree?'
That alone gave them all the information they needed.
No longer was it an 'if' or 'either,' they knew the answer.
An olive tree, something known by all to be the Tree of Life.
Now, Malik didn't care for that tree; no, he cared for the Tree of Death.
The Zaquum.
