Chapter 556 – Primordial Power (1)
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When we returned with the Cross of the Sun, Delphinia welcomed us with a flowery smile.
“Welcome, Sasin-nim! Have you finished investigating the forest?”
“Yes. However, even though experts were mobilized, it was not clear where to use this cross.”
I just said it honestly. It wasn’t some kind of pre-examination, it was because of my intuition that just because I had chosen the wrong option, I wouldn’t go back to doing nothing.
My irresponsible intuition was fortunately correct.
“Oh, did you? I know! Leave it to us!”
In common sense, after wandering around for a few days, I came back and said, ‘Mall? It’d be a bit annoying if she’d roar, but Delphinia puffed out her chest, showing off her pride.
《Alfheim’s magic is amazing! I’m not good at fighting, but I can still show you a lot of magic that the Shinigami will be amazed by! Please follow me!”
《Ah, I’m sorry.》
I can’t stand it because I’m doing that with Yerna’s pace. I put my thoughts aside and handed over the Cross of the Sun to Elizabeth. Please take good care of the royal people.
“Hey, may I ask what you plan to do?”
《By borrowing the power of the World Tree, we plan to spread the power of the sun god’s shrine.》
Delphinia responds to Elizabeth’s words. At the word world tree, Tirsi also blinked.
The Narmer language may be unfamiliar to her, but the pronunciation of ‘World Tree’ is ‘Yggdrasil’, which is the same as modern Romania. It was rare unless ancient and modern grammars were almost similar, such as Narmer.
No, since it is treated as a proper noun, is it natural that it will be maintained even after hundreds of years?
“… Nord, could that be the World Tree?”
Tirshi shook her head as she asked, pointing to a tall tree in the center of the city.
It’s certainly a fucking cool tree, but I didn’t think it would be a world tree. I was sure of it because I had seen the branches stretching high into the sky of Niflheim before entering the pyramid.
The elven knights, delphinia, and we stopped at a place looking up at the quasi-world tree.
“This is where I arrived before being taken to prison.”
Gildart said. So, is this where the door to the next floor is?
“Please take the elevator. Our knights will do the manipulation for you!”
─Rumble. I got on a strange magic item with a large wooden plate on the railing. I ride it casually, but if it’s an old thing like this, you can call it a relic.
When I hit the elevator, the saucer flew like a UFO and slid into the wide gap in the Pseudo-World Tree. Like a woodpecker, the inside of the tree was hollow, so the inside of the tree was quite large.
─Wheein.
The elf knight lowered the elevator, ignoring the party who were embarrassed by the flying spaghetti plate. Maybe you want to go downstairs.
Only me, Nefertiti, and Gildart looked down with grave expressions.
“Det?”
And I don’t know about the other 2 who kept their expressionless, but I was shocked by the fact that I even changed my complexion.
He saw something like a cone sticking out of the ground at the base of the round hollow tree.
The cone reflected magical light like crystal. The ring-like magic circle surrounding the cone itself rotated and poured mana into the Pseudo-World Tree.
《That’s the pride of Alfheim, a branch of the World Tree.》
Delphinia said as if boasting about the inside of the jewelry box.
《Do you know what the gods of Asgard called the human world in the past?》
《【Middle branch】. 【House of Humans】.
Elizabeth answered. This princess has more common sense than I thought.
As for the pronunciation, [Middle branch] Is ‘Midgard’, and [Human house] Is ‘Manaheim’. I’m annoying, so I call them all in another world, but the title itself seems to be like that.
At the words of the future princess, Delphinia nodded her head. Her innocent face seemed to twinkle as she made her way down the elevator through the densely lit trees.
“We elves call it [Middle branch]. And the name [Middle branch] Is because our land is the fruit that blooms in the middle of the World Tree.”
《… Fruit? It is buried in the ground.”
I inadvertently asked that question.
Until now, the reason I hadn’t asked Delphinia, “Do you have any plans for children?” Was because, after all, she was a creature created by Sehetefibra.
Unless you’re the real person, you’re doing QnA with an elf-shaped Simsim made by Sehetefibra. What does that mean? There was no way that Jammin and Pharaoh would know all the circumstances of Alfheim.
But damn, what kind of nonsense are you talking about that my second home, another world, is the fruit of the world tree?
Even if you take a hundred steps and understand that it is a figurative expression, then is the world tree a fucking deciduous crop that bears fruit under the ground? The National Sweet Potato Association is ruling the world from the shadows!
《Whoops. It is only a local point of view that the branch branch is visible under the ground. In fact, those branches are everywhere in [Middle branches].”
It was Delphinia’s answer. I roughly imagined the shape of the dragon god’s hand holding a yeouiju. She seems to be just about right.
Weing-.
– Chuck.
The elevator stopped.
The branch of the world tree that I saw up close was only the tip, but it grew very fast. To think that these thick things are stuck here and there in another world, isn’t this world actually shaped like the cover of a giant tentacle manga?
It reminded me of bullshit, but anyway, this inner space had a very thick flow of mana and felt magical. It also feels clean and innocent without being unpleasant or stuffy.
To live like this every day. I think I know why the elves in Alfheim didn’t ride the Dark Evolution Tech.
“Can you lend me the cross of the sun?”
Delphinia took her sun cross, launched it, and spread her hands as if in prayer. The elven knights also wrapped their roots round and round while doing gang-gangsullae. A runic spell was heard.
Woo woo woo… !
The branches of the World Tree began to tremble. The mana extracted from the cross of the sun was sucked into the branch while idling. Delphinia is a jerk! Moving loudly, she said.
“Come on up! You will see the results!”
She handed me the cross of the sun that had finished the ball, so I accepted it. As we climbed the elevator again, the vermilion mana came up along the veins of the pseudo-world tree as if chasing us.
─Puff!
Through the wind, the elevator continued to rise. We soared high above the foggy forest, swimming through the sky as if we had taken off in an elevator that was open in all directions.
The elevator stopped going up just as my five senses were bound by the space distortion.
Whoaaaaa.
Could the pseudo-world tree itself be a magic item? The mana that seems to have concentrated the sun’s rays spreads through the roots, stumps, and trunks to the leaves on the branches—
Faaaaa!!
The sun-like brilliance was scattered in circular ripples.
〈–Ah!〉
The exclamation someone burst out must have lingered in other people’s mouths as well.
The blue sky made round ripples like the passing of the dawn for a moment. The radiance of the sun dispelled the bewildering mist as it stretched through the forest.
The light brushed through the forest like a benevolent hand.
The spooky forest seemed to be overdrawn with the exact sights felt in the word ‘forest of elves’. The view from a height overlooking the entire forest was awe-inspiring.
If I had been a little more interested in natural scenery, I might have thought that this alone would have been worth the hard work.
“Look, Goddess! We did it!”
Delphinia burst into cheers. The elf knights who rode her lift were also putting their arms around her shoulder, as if relieved by the superb view that showed her as the dark clouds over her country were lifted.
Even to me, a patient with an allergy to elves, it was beautiful and bright.
Seeing a scene that would not have existed in the original history, I closed my eyes for a moment and let out a deep breath.
So that I can leave this time, which is only a fantasy and a dream, at least in my memory.
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We got on the lift after a while and came down.
『Thank you, Sehetefibra-sama’s messenger.』
Delphinia combed her hair and put it in her long ears and grinned.
“Please tell Sehetefibra what I have to say. And this is a simple sincerity from us to you.”
As soon as she finished greeting her by slightly lifting one side of her skirt, an emerald tombstone and a golden box appeared in front of me.
Horrrr—.
When the box was opened, the contents were leaves. It was the size of a person’s palm, but depending on your point of view, you could say it was big.
The only important thing was the size of the mana contained in the leaves rather than the physical size.
Opening my eyes, I read the description of the tombstone.
《◆ The order of the world tree.》
《Young leaves of the World Tree that sprout every 100 years.》
《A certain pharaoh received a present as a token of friendship from his one and only friend.》
Contrary to other rewards, it was a clear explanation.
If it was genuine, it would have been a long time since it fell from the branch, but it was vivid as if it had just been picked.
And I decided to be satisfied with the fact that the amount of mana contained in it was vastly greater than that of rare materials.
After closing the box, I showed it to the others.
“As discussed earlier, am I going to get the reward?”
“Do it.”
Gildart answered indifferently. Elizabeth is also looking at it as if it were natural. I don’t know if he’s sincere or he’s managing his expression like royalty, but it’s enough if he doesn’t gossip.
As I looked at Nefertiti next and tried to say something, she sensed my gaze and spoke.
“You take it.”
“I don’t care either.”
“Oh, thank you. After all, everyone has broad aspirations.”
To be honest, I don’t know how to write it.
Is it because it’s a very old pyramid? Master’s degree Master’s degree is pouring out only items that are difficult to appraise.
Delphinia laughed and roughly refused to talk about the festival or thanksgiving, and tossed the latter to Elisabeth. It was a situation where I couldn’t just play, so I left it to the pros.
“I know. Still, you can stay in Alfheim whenever you want, right?”
Like that, Delphinia left as if it was regretful.
‘… Are the rewards on the 7th floor an imitation of the Cross of the Sun and a new leaf from the World Tree?’
Oh, and there was also a new blood or something. I feel like a bit of an item thief since I take care of everything, but honestly, since I carried that much, it was okay to be shameless.
After roughly packing our things, we all looked at one place together.
A falcon sits on the weathervane of the elven building.
The hawk was looking at Alfheim and the elves in Alfheim, which were noticeably brighter. If left alone, it seemed like it would continue to do so forever.
But there were no animals in this world. Except for the moment when we first challenged the ordeal and when he explained the rules to us.
Kihehehehehehehehehehehehehehe!!
Just in case, it was the same. The hawks raised their magical cries and thrashed, split into 2 to 30 falcons, and merged again in the air. The volume inflated more than 20 times was combined into the figure of a girl with black feathers flying.
《──Pharaoh appears!》
Brown skin with black hair. Up to the blindfold.
It was the reappearance of Sehetefibra, a little pharaoh with the body of Jammin.
