Lords Survival: I Summoned A World Tree First But Why Is It Different! Chapter 3: Chapter 2: World Tree!?

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A blinding light erupted right in the center of the stone altar, shining so intensely that it seemed to DING!! Welcome player to Evergreen! You are one of billions of people who were transported to the world of Evergreen! You are now Human Lord # 135,671,995. You have acquired a 100 meter radius for your territory. You have acquired a City hall! You have acquired a Summoning hall! You have acquired a Hut! You have acquired a City Wall! Please survive and make your territory prosperous! Warning: You only have 10 days for your newbie shield to be deactivated! --- Luis gasped as his eyes snapped open. One second, he'd been walking home from another failed job interview,. He'd spent the whole day going from one office to another, submitting applications and answering questions that felt like they were meant to test his patience more than his skills. When he'd finally walked out of the last place, the sun was already setting, and he felt more tired and hopeless than ever before. All he'd wanted to do was get home, lie down on his old mattress, close his eyes, and forget for a little while that life had been so unfair to him lately. The next moment, everything had spun violently. His head felt like it was stuffed full of thick cotton, making it hard to think or breathe properly. His vision blurred, and the sounds of the busy street, the honking cars, and the chatter of people around him all faded away until they were nothing but distant whispers. When the dizziness finally began to clear and his sight stabilized, he found himself staring straight up at a sky so bright and vividly blue that it looked like something out of a painting he had never seen before. There were no clouds, no signs of pollution, and the light was so clear and pure that it almost hurt his eyes. "What the hell?" He scrambled backward quickly, his palms scraping against rough, dry earth until his back hit something solid and rough, like the trunk of a tree or a heavy stone wall. He pushed himself up, shaking his head hard, trying to make sense of what was happening. He looked around wildly, and his heart sank immediately. This was definitely not his tiny, cramped apartment room that he had called home for years. This was nowhere he recognized at all. He stood atop a low, gentle hill, and all around him stretched endless flat land, stretching as far as his eyes could see. The ground was barren and desolate, covered in cracked, dusty soil that looked as if it hadn't seen rain in decades. Not a single blade of grass, not a single green weed, not even a dead twig lay scattered across the dry earth. The air felt thin, warm, and carried a strange, heavy silence, like the entire world was holding its breath, waiting for something to happen. It was quiet, but not the comfortable kind of quiet. It was the kind of quiet that made you feel like you were completely alone, and that anything could be hiding just out of your sight. Then, the sound rang in his ears again, sharp and clear, cutting through the heavy silence like a bell. DING!! This time, a translucent blue screen materialized right before his eyes, glowing with a soft, steady light that made the text easy to read even under the harsh brightness of the sun. Words scrolled across it smoothly, burning themselves into his mind so that he could not look away or forget what he was reading. "Evergreen? Transported? Human Lord? One hundred thirty-five million?" Luis rubbed his eyes hard with the back of his hand, hoping that the strange image would vanish and he would wake up back in his own bed. When he opened them again, the panel remained exactly where it had been, clear and bright as ever. "This isn't possible. This has to be a nightmare. Or maybe I collapsed from hunger and exhaustion on the way home. Yeah, that's it. I'm just hallucinating from being tired and hungry. That must be it." He stood up shakily, trying to get his bearings and figure out where he was. Encircling the area he stood