Chapter 292 – Growing Up Tree (4)
‘It’s been 3 years…’
Compared to the time that one was born and lived, a time that is infinitely close to a moment.
But in that fleeting time, the tree that she knew nothing more than to care for and love, and the spirit that only aided the tree’s will, went through a lot.
When he first arrived in this world, it was very confusing and full of evil.
Like…
Just like the flames of malice that were fired countless times to burn down the previous world, right before they burned everything.
It was a world where everyone hated and feared each other.
It was the same with the gaze that was only directed at him.
A huge tree appeared out of nowhere… People were seen observing it from a distance, surrounding it with iron, in fear of the world tree.
So, for now, I held back from showing myself.
Reference book.
As he spread out his roots and learned why this world was so full of evil, Ariad was worried.
‘I was worried about whether this might be a good thing…’
It was something that couldn’t be prevented even before.
Sky full.
He could not stop the fireworks that were shooting down from the tree, which was growing so high that it seemed to reach the heavens.
It was created with malicious intent.
A flame created solely to kill trees.
In order to do so, it was a fire fueled by hatred that did not matter if everything else burned down together.
Therefore, even if I had been with the tree for a long time… And had received faith as its agent, I could not stop it all.
Even though I saw it lighting up the sky and eventually burning everything, I couldn’t stop it.
So it burned.
Moreover, only a small part of it had been broken off and moved over here, and it was about to take root in the new land.
What you can do is…
There was nothing more to him than the days when he could only watch, even though he saw the world on fire, the tree on fire, and the future that was bound to happen.
That’s why I waited.
Far far away.
I spread out my roots, spread energy, and waited.
Using the remaining divinity…
If things continue like this, the ‘future’ that will come to this world. I showed it to those who can stop it.
Although he was not an omniscient being, as a being who had ‘seen’ all kinds of things while living with the trees that covered half the world, it was possible for him to show ‘foreknowledge’ to someone else about the future that was to come true, even if he did not know omniscience.
So, I did that.
Because there’s nothing else you can do.
It was around this time that I had been repeating sending out roots to beings with strong, pure souls and showing them the ‘future’.
And…
She came to visit.
-Is it you? They keep showing me that horrible thing. That’s why I’m having such a hard time sleeping these days. Why don’t you stop? Say. Are you going to stop, or should I just uproot you like this?
‘…You were more nervous back then than you are now, right?’
I glanced at my friend who was less nervous now.
My friend was hitting Hanzo hard with his tail when he asked me to stop my breasts from shrinking.
I understood.
At that time, she was also around the time when the curtain had passed into this world.
She, too, was probably in a state of confusion because she didn’t know if it was good for their species, so she couldn’t help it.
But…
Still, she felt lucky that it was she who had come looking for her at that time.
Strong, beautiful…
And her very kind ’empress’ granted her her own request.
-No, really. Why on earth am I like this? Why are you telling me what to do with all this?
Grumbling with a frown on her face, she did her own bidding.
‘I was lucky.’
Yeah, I was really lucky.
No matter how strong the ‘Empress’ was, these were things that could not be stopped by just one being.
Although she was an ’empress’ who possessed more power than herself in her prime, in the end, the empress was alone.
Stopping all of those things alone was impossible no matter how strong one was.
However, fortunately, the ‘Empress’ was not alone.
‘Cheonho’, who came later, said.
-Are those things, the things you have shown me so far, truly the future of this world? Speak, tree. Truly, are they the future that will come to this world?
Also, after that, she spoke of the ‘foal dragon’ who had come looking for her.
-I’ve just arrived, so if you mess up like this… I’ll help you. Could you please give me some eggplants instead? There is something I want to experiment with.
At first, it was just the energy I was shedding, and it was the same with ‘Cheonma’, which brought me strong energy…
-It’s a strange world after all. A talking tree… Are you strong?
As a result of what they did because that was all they could do, the ‘heroes’ who came together one by one had a common understanding, even if they came together for different reasons.
Anyway, we ended up living in the same world, but we couldn’t all fuck together, so we joined forces.
This world, somehow, almost burned down.
Once again, the ‘heroes’ prevented the ‘future’ from almost seeing everything burn and disappear.
To be exact, it was ‘futures’.
Not only a future where the world burns down, but also a future where countless lives are trampled by monsters, a future where all races continue an eternal war with guns pointed at each other, teeth and claws exposed, and a future where one race enslaves all others. The future that is being manipulated…
Because it was a place where a future filled with countless despair unfolded endlessly.
A place where countless worlds are mixed together and filled with many hopeless futures.
A place where, at the moment of everyone’s misfortune, everyone could perish in harmony.
Therefore, I ‘saw’ them and told them to the heroes, and they destroyed them all.
The monsters called the Four Evils, who had the future of becoming stronger and more ferocious one day and destroying the world, were torn off by the ‘Empress’ and the ‘Heavenly Tiger’ themselves, and the weapons that were intended to shoot at the entire world and become immortal were transformed into the ‘Dragon of the Dead’. ‘All of this was dismantled and collected.
The heroes ripped out the spines of the vampires who tried to enslave all races, tore off their branches and reduced them to ashes, and buried the necromancers who wanted to fill the world with the dead in the ground filled with the dead they loved.
During the Gate incident, when the gap between dimensions was left open and could not be closed, the endless waves of monsters were crushed before the fist of the ‘Heavenly Demon.’
The ‘Empress’, ‘Heavenly Demon’, and ‘Heavenly Tiger’, as well as the ‘Black Yeon’ who solved the forces that were aggravating the chaos of the world from behind, solving things that could not be done with their own force alone, or the ‘Black Yeon’ who designed a system suitable for this world where all kinds of things are mixed together. There was also an ’emperor’.
Sometimes they destroy them, sometimes they unite them, sometimes they antagonize them, and sometimes they completely uproot them.
In just one year, the heroes solved and defeated countless futures heading toward destruction.
And finally, a strange and uneasy organization called the World Government was created in this world that was trying to make a world where everyone could live together.
A system conceived by the ‘Emperor’ and fleshed out by the ‘Lord’, that is not a nation, culture, or race, but rather a system that integrates all those living on one Earth.
A system was created that suppressed not only individual strength or weakness, but also the superiority of races, and raised the banner of equality for all.
A system that was created by weeding out all conflicting factors, including religion, and ironically achieved through overwhelming force that is not equal, even though everyone is said to be equal.
I didn’t mean to say anything about that.
Obviously, that was the best thing at the time.
As ‘Cheonho’ claimed that they were at odds because they could not communicate with each other, ‘Babylon’, which was the largest ever magic and sorcery performed by those who gathered in sympathy with the ‘Heroes’, made all languages that were not in common communicate with each other. Things that couldn’t be resolved with anything.
Most of the issues were resolved by the ‘Empress’ or the ‘Heavenly Demon’ directly pressing down with force, so no matter how much blood was shed as a result, there was nothing to be said about it.
Because of the blood that flowed like that, I was able to prevent the destruction of this world, which I could not have prevented before.
Because a lot of blood was shed.
Really, a lot of blood was flowing.
At a time when even the roots that spread far were soaked with that blood.
In the end, a system called the world government, under the banner of equality for all, came to unify everything in the world.
By the time the world government that unified the world was established, I had used up all of my remaining divinity and had really become just a rather strong spirit.
The tree that was called the World Tree, and all the roots that had stretched out so far have dried up and become just trees, so we can no longer see the ‘future’.
The heroes who defeated all the great dangers scattered again… Each went to raise disciples, watch the tricks of their descendants, or do their own thing.
Still, it was okay.
‘At that time, because I blocked you… I was able to meet Hanzo like this?’
“You pervert bastard! A real pervert! Damn pervert bastard! Do you have nice breasts like that? Huh? Do you like breasts? Ah? “You bastard!”
“Evil! Argh! Release! Wait for a sec! Evil!”
I looked at Hanzo, who was being beaten with his tail.
He was born as a spirit who loves all life, but among those lives, even among the children he has seen, there is a human who is even more lovely.
After being beaten by Lilith for a while, I looked at Hanzo, who ran away and was held in Hoaran’s arms.
Hoaran, who protects Hanzo from Lilith’s mistreatment with a bitter smile, and Justitia, who smiles and pretends to stop Lilith, who is still fuming, as if she is still angry.
I had no idea how I would end up sharing my love with three of the friends I made back then.
Anyway, I didn’t hate that this happened.
I hope to become closer to the new people I made through Hanzo in the future.
So let’s try.
‘My dear Hanzo, if this heart that I truly love shrinks… I will be very sad.’
That said, if we were to follow Hanzo’s words, the friends who had become inextricably close even though they had only been dating for a short time… No, the people with whom they had now developed a deeper relationship would also be disappointed.
To ensure that no one is disappointed.
The tree spread its roots far and wide.
