Chapter 278 – Invaders

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World tree.

Huge trees that existed in ancient times covered the ground and stretched their trunks to reach the sky.

They were also strongly connected to the energies of the earth, and because they possessed so much magical power, they had the property of dyeing the surroundings with their own laws, covering them up, and ruling them.

The natural world does not necessarily overlap with the human world.

When the realm of the World Trees, which erode and ruin man-made artifacts, overlapped with the living grounds of humans, humans began to oppose the World Tree, which had brought them the bounty of abundance.

That was what I had already been told when I fought the madman who was a regressor in Elessia.

The World Trees were banished from the world and flew to the other side of the dimension, and as a result of being contaminated by the magical power of the other dimension.

It has become a monster beast that destroys and erodes the world at random.

And, the regressor’s plan to summon one of them, ‘Shradsel’, to the living forest and bring it to the world, was halfway successful.

The unexpected awakening of Eustes as a hero.

And, as a result of Cleon defeating his master and cooperating with his friends, only half of the temple coefficient was summoned to the world and burned.

So many things had happened since then that it seemed like a year had passed, but only a few months had passed.

Cleon had no choice but to be wary of Yggdrasil, remembering the overwhelming power of the Beast.

“I heard that the World Trees were corrupted by the magical power of this place and went crazy.”

When Cleon said that, Yggdrasil nodded his head with a smile on his lips.

“A lot of time must have passed in your world, but you know something about us. I watched as many of my own people gave in to hatred and anger and turned into irrational monsters without maintaining their own selves. I was still a young tree, and before I learned hatred and anger, I learned sorrow and sympathy by looking at my fellow countrymen in pain.”

As Yggdrasil said and beckoned, the same group of lights that formed her body appeared in front of her.

The clusters of lights entangled, collided, and soon dispersed and repeated, creating an illusion in front of Cleon’s eyes in her.

Huge trees falling through the cracks of the widened dimension, and magic from the other dimension that soon begins to erode their bodies.

All of them were angry and expressed their hatred towards the humans who drove them out of their hometown.

In the meantime, only one relatively small tree between them was protecting their bodies with light.

It was the magic of the land that was pure and dense.

The magical energy of the resource element system was able to protect the young tree by repeatedly colliding with and disappearing with the polluted magical power of the gap in the second dimension.

“This is you. Yggdrasil.”

“That’s right. The other trees were in a hurry to expand their territory to the world, and repeatedly released the mana they absorbed from the ground to the surroundings. But I didn’t do that, so I still had a lot of mana inside me. Thanks to that, I I was able to protect myself.”

Once Yggdrasil waved her hand, the illusion reeled in time at great speed.

While the trees that fell through the gap twisted and turned into bizarre shapes, Yggdrasil avoided their eyes and fell into the deepest part of the dimensional gap.

In a place where nothing but emptiness seemed to exist, there was a huge land.

Yggdrasil immediately took root there, and developed its territory there.

With that, he opened a barrier to prevent the magic of another dimension from invading him, and created plants that imitated the creatures of his hometown in the expanded area.

They became volitional beings who could move on their own, worshiping Yggdrasil and cultivating the land.

As a result, Yggdrasil is a rift in another dimension. In a corner of the banishment area of ​​the season, he succeeded in creating a land where life could survive.

“You’re lucky. I don’t know if there was a connection or not, but you were able to come into my realm even through a rift in another dimension that has almost infinite space.”

When Yggdrasil said that and snapped his fingers, the illusion that had spread between them dissipated, and they were able to see each other again.

Cleon had a little idea of ​​what the ‘connection’ she was talking about was.

“To tell you the truth, I’ve met ‘The Beast Beast’. Someone tried to open a dimensional rift and bring in the Beast Beast.”

When Cleon said that, Yggdrasil covered her mouth as if a little surprised.

Along with that surprise, there was also the question of how humans could survive even after meeting the beast.

Reading it from her gaze and expression, Cleon replies.

“There must have been several reasons, but first of all, the dimension door was closed while being summoned, so only half came through. And luckily, there was a colleague who knew how to use effective magic against the Beast.”

“That must have been…A real disaster. Hometown, is it alright? The summoned Beast Beast must have driven many into destruction and death.”

“It’s okay. I was able to take it down almost as soon as it was summoned.”

Yggdrasil let out a sigh and smiled as if she was lucky.

“To be with a colleague like that, you must be a very talented person. May I ask your name?”

“Cleon.”

“Mr. Cleon… I’m glad I met you. From now on, take care of yourself.”

When Yggdrasil says so, she holds out her hand her, and Cleon tries to grab it, but she pauses and questions her words her.

“…In the future?”

“Yes. There is a limit to human lifespan, but Cleon-san will have to stay here from now on. As for living in the rift of another dimension, I will help you become it. I will compensate you for the trouble my people. Have caused to you and your hometown. Please think.”

Saying that, Cleon shook his head as he looked at Yggdrasil, who put his hand on his chest her and showed a sense of responsibility.

“…I’m sorry. I have to go back to the original world – that’s why you and I are home.”

“It’s… Impossible. Very few beings can open a dimensional rift, and you don’t seem to have that power.”

When Yggdrasil spoke with regret, Cleon shut her mouth for a moment before she asked Yggdrasil.

“Among the beings under you, are there none? Something that can open a dimensional rift.”

Yggdrasil answered Cleon’s question with her wry smile.

“Yes. If I had that ability, I would have been targeted by ‘them’.”

“…Them?”

The moment after Cleon said that, she was suddenly thundered.

To say that it was a thunderclap resounding in the dry sky is what it means.

When Cleon and Yggdrasil’s bodies looked up at the sky at the same time, they saw a flying chariot there.

“…What is that?”

Two wingless goat-like were running through the air, creatures pulling a chariot.

Above it, something clad in armor was boarding.

In his hand, he holds a hammer-type weapon that seems to cause lightning and runs through the air at high speed.

And, the number seemed to be a decimal number.

Yggdrasil was watching them with quiet eyes as they were spinning around in the sky while letting out a grotesque scream.

“It just went well. I think it’s faster to show you ‘eyes’ about them than to explain them with ‘words’.”

“Is that the ‘them’ you were talking about?”

“Yes. They are invaders who invade my territory and try to plunder.”

When Yggdrasil spreads his arms with his eyes closed.

The branches of a huge tree that stretched towards the sky were wide and began to stretch far, covering the sky.

Covering the light pouring from above, the world became dark as if it was night.

And, immediately, numerous arrows were fired from the ground toward the sky, trying to knock down the flying tanks.

Cleon looked at the scene and asked Yggdrasil.

“What kind of beings are they?”

“Servant of Edin, Lord of Thunder.”

“…Edin?’

Cleon felt the name strangely familiar.

However, he soon remembered something he had heard from Layla before.

Thunder Lord Edin Thunderingbeard.

The ancient lord of the dwarves, he was a mythical figure with a legend of leading his soldiers to subjugate a dragon.

For the power source needed for the civilization built by the dwarves, he hunted a dragon with the power of electricity, but in the process he was cursed by the dragon and became unable to touch others, becoming a body that generates electricity from his body .

After that, in order to break the curse, he sent troops to various parts of the world to find a way to heal, and repeatedly invaded.

One day, he was said to have disappeared along with a huge thunderbolt that fell from the sky.

There is evidence that it existed, but did it really become a body that generates electricity? And Layla once said that there is still a lack of research on where they disappeared.

“Could it be that Edin was also banished and fell into the rift of this dimension?”

“We are not alone in this world. Just as I have spread my realm on this land, some powerful beings have created their own realm in the Exiled Realm.”

The next moment, a warrior serving Edin fell to the place where Cleon and Yggdrasil were, along with the goat that was hit by an arrow and stopped moving.

When sand dust rises with a loud sound, Cleon immediately raises his arm to protect his eyes and examines them.

A normal human could not have fallen from that height and survived.

A warrior climbed up from the pit created by the fall with a rattling, clanking metallic sound.

Sparks were bouncing intermittently from his body, and Cleon narrowed his eyes at the warrior.

“I don’t think you’re human.”

“The inside is empty. Masses of pure lightning fill and move.”

As soon as the dust stopped, the warrior looked at Yggdrasil and grabbed the war hammer he was holding in his hand.

Cleon frowned and immediately moved to block the gap between Yggdrasil and the warrior.

“Are you helping me?”

“That’s because I still have a lot to hear from you.”

When Cleon answered that, Yggdrasil smiled and walked behind Cleon and placed his hand on the back of his neck.

Cleon was a bit taken aback by the sudden feeling, but soon he felt that the magic power of nature spread around Cleon’s body his, and his body movement her became lighter.

“This is all I can do right now.”

“…That’s enough.”

In the next moment, the bodies of the warrior and Cleon moved simultaneously.

The warrior wielded a war hammer roughly equal in size to his own height and wielded it at random.

Cleon dodges it with a nimble movement, and slams hard into the ground, thrusting his fist into the warrior’s belly.

Bang! Hearing a clatter, the warrior was shocked, but at the same time lightning burst and struck Cleon’s hand his.

“Kuh…”

“They immediately release lightning upon impact. Be careful.”

“I wish you would have told me a little sooner.”

Now that Cleon can’t use his magic his, he feels a bit dangerous that he has to use his own body his in a situation where close combat is forced.

Is there anything that can be used as a weapon?

When Cleon thought so and glanced around.

It sounded like something was banging in his ear.

The next moment, Edin’s warrior rushes towards Cleon, who showed a gap.

Cleon, standing still, was immediately hit by that hammer and flew backwards-

– Had nothing to do with it.

What Cleon was holding in his hand the next moment was a blue crystal sword.

Arondite borrowed from Aruru.

However, Arondite’s will was not felt in it, and only the ability to transform its form remained.

Even if it breaks in this state, reproduction and duplication will be impossible unless the original is by your side.

That’s why Cleon injects his own magic power into him, strengthening Arondite.

The blue crystal sword mixed with the black magic power and changed into a dark blue sword.

But at the same time, the blade of the sword sharpened as well, and Cleon quickly applied strength to his arm to deflect his weapon.

After cutting off her hilt her, he burrowed into his her arms her and stabbed the crystal sword at the part her where he had punched and dented her earlier.

His armor his, which seemed to be as strong as steel, was easily pierced by a crystal sword.

Through it, the lightning that made up the body escaped and exploded around.

The next moment, Cleon felt his body being pulled backwards by a strong force.

Soon, when the armor exploded with an explosion, not even ashes were left in its place.

“…That was dangerous.”

Looking at the stems of the plants tied to their limbs, Cleon spoke.

With Yggdrasil’s hand, he pulled Cleon out of the explosion range before the enemy’s armor exploded.

“Yggdrasil!”

Right after that, the half-human, half-horse female warrior who attacked Cleon earlier, ‘Praia’, appeared with a clattering sound.

She seemed to be chasing the enemy who had fallen towards Yggdrasil.

“Are you okay, Yggdrasil-nim! That explosion just…”

“I’m fine. Cleon protected me.”

As Yggdrasil smiled and reassured Freya, she let out a sigh of relief as she looked down at her seated Cleon.

To be precise, he was pulled behind her and hit her buttock her.

“…Cleon, by any chance, does this being refer to? Come to think of it, Yggdrasil-sama has the same skin color as him.”

“He is a being called ‘human’. In my hometown, they ruled the world. He is different from the beings of this world, so he only took this form to reassure me a little.”

After hearing Yggdrasil’s explanation, Freya approached Cleon, bent over her, and held out her hand.

“…Thank you, human. No, Cleon. For protecting Yggdrasil.”

Cleon looked up at Freya for a bit, then grabbed her hand her and stood up from her seat her.

“… It was nothing.”

“Freya. How is the situation in the village?”

“The damage was light. Just a while ago, all of them were intercepted in the air and exploded, except for the one that fell towards Yggdrasil. Some of the debris fell to the ground and damaged some of the buildings.”

Hearing Freya’s report, Yggdrasil nodded as if she was fortunate, and ordered her to help all of her village her and sent her back.

Cleon looked for a moment towards the center of the explosion where Edin’s warrior exploded.

“Edin is a dwarf and has strong power. I don’t think he was strong enough to create a world like you.”

“Most of those who are thrown into the dimensional rift are corrupted by that magic power and become mutated. However, there are very few beings who adapt to that power. And you want to be a higher dimensional being.”

“…A being from a higher dimension?”

When Cleon asked such a question, Yggdrasil looked up at the sky and spoke.

There, she could see the night sky created by the spreading branches of her tree.

“Existences that freely open the passages connecting the dimensional rifts and the present world, and prey on the world beyond them… They are ‘predators’.”

Cleon’s words brought two beings to mind.

One, Jormungand. A man who had the power to imitate himself in the form of a gentleman and said he would no longer aim for his own world.

The other is the monster of time seen in El Cairo. Yogtos.

“Why are they targeting your world?”

“Because it takes many souls to ascend. My world is overflowing with the most lives and souls of all worlds created in this Exile Realm. I am under attack like this all the time.”

At Yggdrasil’s words, Cleon shut her mouth for a moment.

It was in a gap in a different dimension different from the real world, but even there, the war seemed to continue and the battles were repeated.

Cleon slowly walked towards the bomb wick, and she picked up some of the debris scattered on the ground.

It was no different from scrap metal, but it was metal made with sophisticated technology.

Then, by closing her eyes, she invokes the power of the imprint to feel Amelia’s presence in her once more.

Then, I could feel her presence, her shining in a place I still couldn’t fully reach.

“Then, at least let me find my companions. If your realm is safe, I’d like to bring my companions here.”

When Cleon said that, Yggdrasil looked at him and nodded lightly.

“If that’s the case, of course it is possible. Shortly after the rift in the other dimension opens, you and the other three beings can be felt all over the realm of this dimension. They are separated from each other, but they seem to be looking for each other as well, including you.”

“…Thank God. It looks like you’re still safe.”

When Cleon said that, Yggdrasil slowly walked over and took Cleon’s hand his.

“However, they are outside my realm. I need to be prepared to avoid being contaminated by the magic of another dimension.”

“…Ready?”

In the next instant, stems and vines rose from the ground, restraining Cleon’s arms and legs.

“Wait, this is not a very pleasant joke.”

When Cleon broke into a cold sweat at Yggdrasil’s sudden action, Yggdrasil smiled.

“Don’t worry. I’ll surround you with the power of nature to protect you from erosion.”

And in the next moment, the vines moved Cleon’s body his and carried him to the thick trunk of a huge tree-the main body of Yggdrasil.

The moment Cleon closed his eyes, thinking that they were going to collide because it was so fast.

Like a lie, Cleon’s body his penetrated and entered the stem as if it were seeing into it.

When Cleon carefully opened his eyes at the pain he couldn’t feel and looked around him, there was a vast space filled with warm feelings.

“…Here is…”

“It’s in me. Cleon.”

And, Yggdrasil appeared once again.

Her appearance was the same as before, but the only difference was that she was not wearing a thread.

“Wait, what…”

“I told you, preparation. For both humans and plants, connecting to the root is an important act.”

Saying that, Yggdrasil puts her hand on Cleon’s body.

The clothes on his body she moved in an instant and fell to the ground.

“…”

“You can leave everything to me, Cleon.”

And then, Yggdrasil brought her large and soft body onto Cleon.