Chapter 763 – Chapter 700 – The World Tree’s Second Task! (2)
“Huh. They said they would guide us to a place where we could rest, but they brought us to a place like this… Are you ignoring us?”
Around the time when the Demon King entered the World Tree.
The place where the negative beasts who moved along with Raella’s bodyguards arrived was a small building built near the World Tree.
A cramped place with only shabby chairs and desks as the only furnishings inside, seeming too inadequate to host VIPs.
Arriving at a place that felt like a prison, the negative numbers began to look around the place with a smile.
“…I don’t see anything that could be called a trap. Yohwa’s sister How about witchcraft?”
“Hmm. There doesn’t seem to be anything that can be called witchcraft. Why did you bring them to a place like this and didn’t even set up traps… What the hell are these guys thinking…”
As if it was a pity that there were no traps. The negative numbers looked around the room in a relaxed manner.
It’s a little bit to say that I was looking forward to it. Even though the negative beasts were guided to such a place, the reason they didn’t get angry was because they were interested in it.
What kind of rudeness will they commit to themselves? As if expecting some trick, the negative numbers entered the building deliberately being deceived.
However, when they realized that there were no traps in it, the negative numbers could only frown a little, feeling great disappointment.
“I’m dumbfounded… So you’re really telling me to rest? In a prison-like place like this?”
“I hope it won’t. Anyway, this building is so suspicious. It seems clear that there is an ulterior motive, but…”
“Hmm. What are you trying to do with us? If that’s the case, they’re really stupid.”
As if my body was itching. Genesia smiled and tapped the sword hanging from her waist.
Not only Genesia, but other negative numbers also laughed while checking their weapons.
“I find it absurd… If so, should they make sure they realize their subject?”
“Am I rather looking forward to it? To think that you can subdue us without traps. What kind of idiots are going to come?”
While each inferring the thoughts of the elves. Negatives who talk leisurely as if they are not nervous at all.
Then Clea, who suddenly felt something, approached the small window on the building as if it was a little strange.
“Why is that, Clea? Is there anything suspicious?”
“…Suddenly, the elves… No, that number…?”
Until recently, no one was there. Elves gathered in front of the World Tree as if they had come out of hiding.
On the backs of those elves. It was engraved with what looked like an adventurer’s pattern, used to indicate that negative numbers belonged to the same group.
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A voice I can’t quite tell where it’s coming from, as if it’s talking to me directly from my head.
Looking at the space full of light, I searched for the owner of the voice, but all I could see was strange lights of unknown color.
Indeed. This is the consciousness of the World Tree… Is this space itself the World Tree…
Oooh… I don’t know anything else, but it feels like I’m experiencing zero gravity, so I feel bad. Can’t you make a little floor? Besides, why is the brightness so bright?
Although it doesn’t hurt my eyes more than I thought for something bright. Still, since I’m only staring at the light I don’t know what color it is, I feel like I’m going to get some kind of psychosis, really.
…No, more than that now… This suffocating, concentration of Eser…
I’ve heard from Yew Wah and Baekseon… But if I hadn’t really trained my soul for this, I would have been purified as soon as I entered…
“…Whoa… Jeong Se-ma? I’m sorry, but that name is no longer associated with me. Are you now in a state where you can’t see your soul and body as a human?”
“Is that so. It seems meaningless, but then I’ll call it whatever you want. Asmo Mara Sema.”
Doesn’t it make any sense? How come you say this?
Changing my name was a kind of aspiration that I became the Demon King. Do you see that it doesn’t make any sense?
Does changing my name mean that my essence is human? Huh true. No matter how special Ji is, it feels bad that she seems to be ignoring something.
“Well, okay. The name isn’t important right now, so I’ll let it go… For now, I’d like you to explain why you used me first.”
It’s a dry voice that doesn’t contain any emotion at all. For some reason, the mechanical voice of the World Tree felt unsatisfying.
Feeling bad because of the too thick Esser, I quickly went to the main topic to get out of this place.
“In the first place, he was the one I thought I would catch someday… But to ask for subjugation in exchange for being under my control. Aren’t you being too cheeky?”
“Britra didn’t mean much to me. Hero Eaters can become a risk factor in the future, so I asked you to subjugate them to check your abilities.”
“Hmm. Is it a risk factor… Other than that, that bastard seems to know you?”
“It’s not like we know each other, but… That’s right. Let me explain that first.”
I’m sure Britt was the manager and all, clinging to it. As if it had nothing to do with Beritra, the voice of the world tree was unemotional.
As if explaining something that didn’t need to be explained, the world tree slowly began to explain the first task.
“About 50 years ago. Brittra came to me and asked for my cooperation. I put the request on hold at the time, and Britra has been visiting me from time to time asking me to cooperate.”
Ha. 50 years ago… That said, Raella’s words about being attacked a month ago are bullshit…
So, it would be a lie to say that someone died? I came to ask for your cooperation, but the World Tree wouldn’t have attacked the elves that were protecting it.
How can you lie so quickly? What the hell was Laella thinking? Did you think that telling the truth would bring relief?
I don’t know if you really intend to obey me. If I had bowed my head and said I would obey, I would have just listened to a reasonable request… But he did not hesitate to induce me with a lie…
I really don’t know what you’re thinking. Could it be that you didn’t even want me to bow your head, or something like that?
“Collaboration on the theme of Hero Eater… Hmm. What cooperation did you ask for?”
“That is the subject of the second assignment. What do you think about its content After confirming that, Raella and the elves will decide how to treat you.”
“Eh? Beritra’s request for cooperation is the subject of the second task? …Heh. I’m curious. Let’s talk.”
What is this. Beritra’s request for cooperation is the subject of the second task?
Even listen to my opinion on that and decide how Raella and the elves will treat me?
Huh. Is this unexpected again? I definitely thought that the second task would be a theme related to goddesses.
But that bastard Beritra… He came from the Earth like the divine beasts, but as a hero eater who entered the body of a monster, he came to the World Tree and asked for cooperation…
What kind of cooperation did you ask for… Mmm. I’m suddenly interested in this.
“First, about the existence of hero eaters… Sema. How far do you know?”
“Huh? Me? Let’s see… Souls who came from Earth like divine beasts… Tessentia. So, they came from another planet in this universe and inhabited the bodies of monsters? And what about those who were candidates for the Demon King?”
“Is that so. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it seems the goddess didn’t give you all the information.”
What? Talking about Hero Eater, suddenly a goddess appears?
Whoa. Could it be that there is also something related to the goddess? Great. Anyway, she was going to ask about the goddess too.
“The planet you called Tessentia. It is… Just like this Essentia, it is the only planet in this universe created by a goddess where life exists.”
“Hmmmm. Okay. I know that far.”
“And Hero Eaters… Those beings whose information the goddess has corrected are those who were Tessentia’s divine beasts.”
“…What? Are they the Divine Beast of Tessentia?”
What…? Are they, like Yew Wah or Ringworm?
Uh huh? These are the identities that I didn’t think of again… But they, the goddess, corrected the information?
“Tessentia. What kind of place was that place and what does it have to do with you… The second task depends on what you think after hearing all of it.”
The World Tree’s voice seemed to say that what he was saying was not just a story, but the test itself.
That’s how World Tree started talking about Tessentia and the Hero Eaters.
