Chapter 869 – Wind of Change
When Seong-il turned his head, he could see a beautiful woman with impressive silver hair running towards him.
“Oh, how are you?”
“Of course!! I waited every day for my master to wake up, and finally!!”
“Hmm…? Let’s see what happens?”
It’s not common for Aru Lil to make such a fuss, so Seong-il asks her a question.
“Yes! The Goddess has been promoted from a minor deity to a medium deity. Now she has become the Earth Mother Goddess who protects humanity!!”
Arulil explains the transformation of her goddess to Seongil with an expression of emotion on her face. In addition, she explains to her Seong-il that With Grasil, who was still a young world tree, was reborn as a true world tree through this training.
“Ho… Really?”
“Yes! Master, you would have felt this tremendous change, right?”
“Hmm?”
Seong-il admits that he exudes strong vitality, but does not agree that a huge change has occurred. When he gives a puzzled look, Arulil, instead of explaining, grabs him by the hem of his clothes and takes him somewhere.
“… This?”
Seongil, who thought she was just walking in the garden of the goddess. However, he is shocked to realize that he was on top of a tree as huge as a mountain.
“With Grasil-nim has grown into a true world tree, and the Dimensional Temple has come to stand on the branches of Withgrasil-nim, which has grown rapidly!”
It’s a good thing to say. In fact, Withgrasil has grown rapidly to the level of Mount Everest. Aruil explains that as her world tree grows, she has only the dimensional temple dedicated to her goddess and her goddess’ lake on her own body.
“… Wait a minute. If it grew this rapidly, what about the cities around Withgrasil? They haven’t all been destroyed, right?”
This level of rapid growth is highly likely to have caused a huge disaster in the surrounding city, so Seong-il is worried about possible casualties.
“Not at all! Lord Withgrasil is a dimensional beast! He is a person with the power to control space… He ‘created’ the land needed for growth on his own.”
Withgrasil grew through forced expansion of space. It is said that thanks to her, the city that surrounded her was able to get away from With Grasil without any damage thanks to her increased space.
“Except for the distance between cities, we didn’t take any damage! This is all thanks to Withgrasil’s consideration.”
“Good!”
Seong-il listens to her satisfactory report and nods his head. Then, he had a question and asked Aruril one more question.
“Wait a minute… So the Dimensional Temple is isolated from the outside world? It seems like there are still follower houses around the Dimensional Temple… Doesn’t that make it difficult for the followers to move around Eden?”
After asking that question, Seong-il looks down from the top of the huge Withgrasil. Then, the cities of Eden appear like small dots in the distance.
“It’s okay! Withgrasil created a portal so that priests and followers can easily enter and exit the dimension temple! Once you pass through it, you can immediately go to the base of the tree!”
“Oh Hong…”
The power of Withgrasil is worthy of being called a divine tree that rules the dimension. Seongil walks on the branches of the beautiful World Tree and asks Arulil about the power of the goddess who became the Earth Mother.
“Now that he has ascended to the status of a true divine being, he has gained enormous power! Representative examples are the priests!”
Seong-il realizes that the priests of the Goddess Church, who were just priests and had very little power, are now able to show quite powerful miracles.
“It’s still difficult to resurrect the dead… But this time, the priests have gained the power to instantly restore a mortally wounded person!”
Of course, the power of the priests was not all-powerful as the number of times they could use miracles per day was limited. However, Aruril asserts that the priests will be of great help in the future war against aliens.
‘That’s right.’
Seong-il agrees with Aruril’s words because it was natural that if the priests’ miracles were added to the potions and nanomachines that are currently being mass-produced in Eden, the survivability and combat sustainment of the hunters would increase dramatically.
“And the Earth Mother blessed Eden faster, more powerfully, and with greater scope than before!”
The Earth Mother Goddess is said to be able to create a land full of vitality at an overwhelming level than before. Aruil even tells us that the Earth Mother is now creating the atmosphere, transforming the bleak sky of the Inner Plane into something beautiful.
“Wait… Can priests use supernatural powers?”
“Of course!”
Arulil explains that even if she becomes a priest, she will not lose her existing supernatural powers that she awakened. Some talented priests are said to be able to wield three or four powers, as they can even practice martial arts as well as telekinesis through nanomachine treatment.
‘Amazing?’
As it seems that the priests’ abilities are greater than expected, Seong-il thinks that he will now be able to beat the aliens faster and stronger.
“Ah! This is not the time! There are people desperately waiting for the master to wake up! Let’s go see them!”
“… What else is there?”
When Arulil hurriedly tried to take her somewhere, Seongil did not understand her intention and asked her back.
“You will know when you go! There are quite a lot of things that the owner will like!”
“Hmm…”
When she feels that Arulil does not tell her reasons, perhaps for the sake of deeper enjoyment, her Seongil begins to walk her path quietly, following her guidance.
‘This place…’
Numerous town portals are visible upon reaching the dimensional temple. It was now connecting various points of Eden, or another inner plane created from the separation of souls on holy days.
‘Now Withgrasil has really changed to live up to its nickname ‘Dimensional Beast’.’
Seong-il feels a sense of pride filling his heart as the tree, which was just a small, weak staff at first, receives his help and grows into a mighty divine tree.
“This is the place!”
“Over there…”
As Arulil takes him to the portal to the academy, Seong-il realizes that something positive has happened in her academy and takes her steps there.
“Oh! You finally woke up!”
Familiar figures you see as you enter the antique building located in the center of the academy. Deans Gerhard and Anila, who are now familiar to Seong-il, as well as six professors from the Athenaeum Order greet Seong-il warmly.
“Has the foreign media work been completed well?”
“It’s not that good!”
In response to Seong-il’s question, Dean Gerhardt explains that the world of Mythology is now completely safe from threats from foreign media.
“When the dimensional rift closed and the foreigners were driven out of our land, the World Tree, targeting the rift, succeeded in completely eliminating the dimensional instability. Our world is now safe unless a terrible event like the Ancient War occurs.”〈 Br〉
Dean Gerhardt assures that the world has become completely safe now that even cultists who serve foreign media have been subdued thanks to the holy day.
“In that sense, we are retired.”
“Yes? Retirement?”
No matter how much foreign media has disappeared from the world, there is still a lot that deans can do to sort out the chaotic world or reduce tensions between continents, but Seong-il is taken aback when they say that they have coolly retired.
“Haha! Although I retired, it doesn’t mean I’ve completely taken my hands off work. If something really serious happens, I’ll probably help out for a while to help resolve it.”
“Oh my…”
Unless it is a really serious problem, the two deans speak as if they have stepped down from the front lines because they can run to some extent without superhumans like the two deans.
“So, are you going to rest leisurely from now on?”
“What! From now on, I have to work until I die.”
“Huh? I heard you were retiring from the academy a little while ago…”
“Of course, the reason we retired is from the Academy’s work. Now we will do our best to train you and the ‘Hunters’ of your world!”
“!!!”
Surprisingly, Seong-il’s eyes widen when he hears Dean Gerhardt’s words that after resigning from Mythology Academy, he will do everything in his power to train younger students in the real world. As if his surprise was amusing, professors from the Athenaeum Order, including Professor Aaron, laughed out loud and continued talking.
“By the way, we also retired. The reason is… Right?”
Surprisingly, Seong-il feels his heart warm when not only the two co-deans, Gerhard and Anilla, but even the six professors from the Athenaeum Order say that they will devote themselves to nurturing Eden’s students.
“… Thank you.”
“What do you have to be thankful for? You revived the World Tree, closed the rift, and even battled the foreign powers and drove them out? Compared to what you have done for our world, our help is nothing more than a bloodshed. .”
“Haha…”
Strictly speaking, there were ‘three’ foreign journalists, but Seong-il did not necessarily bring up the story about Tala.
