Chapter 303 – Dragon and Tree

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Yggdrasil’s magical power – The moment the warm light touched the white dragon’s armor.

The huge hatred and anger that dominated Amelia subsided little by little, and the white dragon’s curse that spread through her body her was slowly easing.

Of course, it could not be called perfect.

It was because Galatea, who would assist Cleon in controlling his magical power his, was not there, and the distance from Yggdrasil was considerable.

“The world tree… Magic…”

A white dragon’s voice flowed from Amelia’s mouth in her.

I don’t know what kind of expression the bottom of the blindfold is, but it seems to be a little more docile than before.

At the same time as the fact that her body was still intact, Freya, who passed by as if crossing Amelia’s hammer with Cleon on her back her.

Realizing that what Cleon had used was her mother’s magical power of her, she watched the result with her eyes wide open.

When Cleon was healed by Yggdrasil, her magical powers soothed her mind and rid her body of any remaining toxins.

Remembering that, Cleon borrowed Amelia’s magic power to remove the toxin called the white dragon from Amelia’s body to her.

Amelia- No, Yggdrasil’s treatment seemed to be more effective than expected for the white dragon.

In fact, it was so noticeable that the white scales that were visible on the exposed skin of her were slowly disappearing.

Regarding this, if there was a fact that Cleon did not understand.

Including the white dragon possessed by Amelia, the dragons and the World Tree were in fact in a mutually beneficial relationship.

The magic of the earth that Yggdrasil uses is the four natural elements separated from the pure magic of the stars-

Among the elements of wind, water, fire, and earth, it was a power close to the magic of the stars, which can be said to be the most original.

Of course, stars are planets. A planet is a huge land mass.

Basically, the magical power of the stars was not a power that humans and other living beings could handle at will, so it was only possible to use it after reducing its quality to the level of natural elemental magical power once refined from it.

However, there are beings who are exceptions to that rule.

They were dragons, beings created directly by the will of the stars.

From the moment dragons are born, they are born with the elements they control, but in addition to that, they are born with the power to use the magic of the stars in a limited way.

However, abuse of its power quickly depletes the life force of the star, so dragons who consider the star itself to be their mother were reluctant to use the magic of the star as much as possible.

When they use the magic of the stars, there are only three cases.

First, hatchlings who cannot break the hard shell with their own strength use the magic of the stars to wake up from the egg.

The second time is when you get a very big wound and have to recover it.

Standing on the border between life and death, the dragons were able to recover their bodies by using the magic of the stars, not by their own will, but by the system determined by the will of the stars.

However, in this case, there is a limitation that if the horn, the organ that controls magical power, is broken, the power cannot be used.

Finally, when the dragon reaches the end of its lifespan and dies.

Dragons, which can live an overwhelmingly longer time than humans, rarely die at the end of their lifespan.

However, the dragons who decided to leave this world on their own quickly returned their remaining magic power and vitality back to the spirit vein.

In the end, together with Aurora, she completely disappears from this world.

At this time, the magic accumulated in the heart of a long time was wrapped around the body of the dragon and turned into the magic of a star, extending the lifespan of the planet.

In other words, for dragons, the magic of the stars was both a cradle and a grave.

Mortals, including humans, have tried many ways to find a way for humans to use the planet’s magic after discovering this planet’s magic.

At that time, as if the law of causality interfered, accidents such as experiments failing or researchers dying or disappearing occurred, and the research was stopped every time.

If a human obtains the magic of this star, which can be said to be almost infinite along with the lifespan of a star, where will it be used?

Even if you don’t think long, human history has given you the answer.

This research was clearly progressing even at the end of the primeval world.

In the midst of the pollution of nature and endless wars.

In order to restore the power of the stars and to restore the environment in which humans can live freely, a central axis to control and manage them was needed.

Its entire body acts as a gigantic filter, infinitely absorbing mana in the air and returning it to the ground to recreate the surrounding environment.

According to a legend existing in the primordial world, its shape was designed as a giant tree.

Originally, the magical power they produced had to be the magical power of the stars, as the researchers wanted.

However, the researchers who did not understand the mechanism that produces the star’s magic, as a second best solution, created a seed of a giant tree that produces the magic of the earth, which has the property of regeneration closest to that of the stars.

A project to regenerate the planet by spreading this tree around the world when the current war goes into lull.

The World Tree was created that way.

However, the seeds of the World Tree spread not in the original world, but in the inherited world.

The reason, of course, is that the world was destroyed before the war in the original world was completely over.

A golden comet destroyed everything, and the planet went into reset.

In the process, the underground laboratory where the seeds of the World Tree were kept was submerged in the stratum.

After a long time, one of the seeds of the World Tree succeeded in germination.

In the depths of the stratum, under the influence of the gradually recovered natural elements, the ego was awakened even in the state of a seed, and it entered the soil and began to grow.

Then, he carried the seeds of other World Trees, which could be said to be his own kin, through his veins and spread them all over the continent.

In order to recover the planet, which is their mission, they dyed the surrounding ecosystem with their magic power and expanded their territory.

If there was something they overlooked, it would be that the attitudes of the people of the original world and the successor worlds accepted them were different.

The story behind it is already known.

The World Tree fought with humans and was banished.

In a world full of endless despair, to the realm of banishment.

However, if there was something sad about the expulsion of the World Tree, it was a dragon after all.

It was because the world trees possessed the magic of the huge earth, and it was one of the few environments where they could feel the will of their mother, the stars.

So, even the dragons, which rarely appeared directly in front of humans until the world trees appeared, could be seen within the realm of the world trees.

Even though the world trees originated in the primordial world, there was no dragon that hated the world tree, which strengthened the power of nature.

But, as expected, humans and the World Tree had no choice but to confront each other.

The dragons could not take either side without intervening in the fight.

The mission of the dragons, dictated by the will of the stars, is to prevent humans from destroying their own world and from destroying the balance.

When the World Tree disappeared eventually, most dragons returned to their lairs and once again established a society cut off from humans.

It was also the reason why the white dragon, Asteropetes, reacted upon seeing Yggdrasil’s magical power his.

In addition to the healing power of the magic of the earth, he felt a longing for the past and a connection with the will of the mother star, which had been severed in this realm of exile.

“What have you done…?”

Edin noticed that Amelia stopped moving suddenly, and her eyes changed as if he sensed something was wrong with her.

“That light… That of that gigantic tree…?”

Edin didn’t know why Cleon could use that power.

Even Edin, unaware of the relationship between the dragon and the World Tree, could not overlook the strangeness of her condition.

“Aim for the magic swordsman first. You bastards.”

As Edin muttered and waved her hand her, the weapons that were attacking her party her stopped in the air.

She turned all her sword points and spear points at Cleon.

“Freya! Cleon!”

When Sif’s voice rang like a scream, Freya immediately moved her legs to her.

When Cleon and Amelia’s bodies fell apart, Amelia, who had grown distant from Cleon’s green light her, twisted her body again and let out her roar.

“Kuh… If only it was a little longer…!”

Freya nodded at Cleon’s voice her, but she needed to get away from the attacks around her first her.

After all, Yggdrasil alone couldn’t do it.

Thinking so, Cleon next drew Peruluca’s power through imprinting.

“Wow…!?”

Luca, Peru, suddenly saw the glow of her inscription her on her own neck her, and turned her gaze to Cleon.

Then, the next moment, a lump of black and sticky magic power-pure curses were seen pouring out of Cleon’s hand her.

Behind her, Amelia was chasing Freya with her hammer.

In a situation where swords and spears rushed from all directions and arrows flew.

Cleon unleashed Peruluca’s magic, ‘Curse of Sin’, and poured it out towards the surrounding weapons.

Although these were just simple propulsion machines, nothing would happen if there was no soul or something inside.

If all the weapons here are Einhejar in the form of weapons that move with the souls of the people in Edin’s furnace.

Peruluca’s magic will also work.

The form of Peruluca’s magic that came to Cleon’s mind was to deal with 7 types of curses.

Appetite, sloth, envy, lust, arrogance, overexertion, anger.

Peruluca had cast the curse of lust on herself.

Cleon scattered the curse of indolence toward the weapons, thinking that he could overcome the current situation from the quickly organized curse information.

Then, a muddy stream of black magic seeped into the surrounding weapons.

“Yes…?”

Edin saw the strange flow of curses and opened his eyes wide.

Soon, their weapons started to slow down instead of moving with the spirit.

Some of them could be seen falling to the ground with a clatter.

“What are you doing! You lazy bastards! Get up quickly and chase that magic swordsman!”

“That, that would probably be impossible…! The curse of indolence is the kind that can only be lifted by sleeping for at least 12 hours…!”

Peruluca answered Edin’s words.

“It’s an extremely annoying curse…!”

Sif heard the story and let out a voice in astonishment.

But thanks to that, the attacks of the weapons stopped, and Freya and Cleon were able to relax.

Every time Amelia’s hammer was swung, Freya had to make sure her own legs her were still intact.

She hadn’t caught up yet.

“Cleon, are you going to do the same thing again?”

“Yes, because I knew Yggdrasil’s magic her could stop her movement her-“

Freya nodded her head and tried to approach Amelia once again.

But then-

Quarreung! With the sound of thunder, something flew and struck Freya in the body of Cleon’s horse.

“Heuk…!”

If she had been a human, not a plant, it would have just ruptured her intestines.

Freya rolled on the ground with a great shock, and of course, Cleon fell off the horse while riding on Freya’s back her.

Looking at what happened, Edin rose from her throne, holding her Mjolnir in her hand as it returned to her.

“I can’t go along with your pranks anymore…”

Seeing Edin talking with an angry expression, Cleon staggered to his feet her.

The next moment she hadn’t rolled her body back because of Amelia’s hammer aiming at her, she would have exploded her head on the spot.

Sif, Peruluca, and the golem quickly came to Cleon’s side and wrapped around Freyja, who was feeling a lot of pain.

“Freya…!”

“It’s okay… I won’t die at this level…”

Sif, too, at the sight of Freyja, who was quite precarious, prepared to throw Gungnir while clenching his fists.

Of course, the target was Edin.

“Now, wait! There is an invisible magic wall on the throne… I don’t think it will be released unless Edin throws Mjolnir…”

“You’re going to harass us in a safe place… You’re still a warrior?”

At Sif’s words her, Edin snorts at her.

“Angels are not a tribe that builds a wall with reason and rushes ignorantly and smashes the opponent’s head. A warrior’s job is to wage a ‘war’ and win.”

Sif, hearing Edin’s words, aims the point of his spear at him.

“The warrior I knew was one who always fought his enemies with pride and won victories. If it took his life his to win, he would give it up without hesitation.”

“That kind of thing is the end of the day. Commanders like me appearing on the frontlines are proof that the war has already begun to lose.”

The next moment, as Edin swung his hand holding the Mjolnir-

Even if Mjolnir didn’t move directly, lightning fell from the ceiling and hit the entire party.

“Keuuugh…!”

Cleon and everyone’s silence echoed.

Of course, even Amelia in the armor of blue scales didn’t care.

Amelia also dropped to one knee with her screams.

“Mjolnir was made using the heart and horn of a dragon. Even the white dragon, which did everything in its power his, could n’t defeat me and my army. How can you defeat me? Foolish fools.”

Edin said that in a voice filled with anger, and he swung his hammer once more to summon lightning.

But this time, Sif was spinning Gungnir, trying to somehow protect the party from lightning.

“Aww…!”

Watching the lightning’s momentum not diminish, Sif began to lose strength in her arms of her, but Peru Luca held her arms together and supported them.

The next moment, once more, Edin throws Mjolnir at her party her.

This time, it was towards Sif’s annoying head her.

[Huh!]

The next moment, the golem became Sif’s shield and received Mjolnir.

Of course, the place where it was hit was shattered to such an extent that the metal was reduced to powder.

The bounced Mjolnir did not go back to Edin, but he returned to the middle like a pinball before aiming for Sif again.

Then the golem moves her body once more to block it.

If she repeated her defenses like that, the golem’s body would gradually continue to be destroyed.

“That, beyond that…!”

[Know. But if you don’t do this, everyone is at risk.]

While the damage Cleon and Freya received were still remaining.

A scene where the remaining people struggle to protect everyone.

When Cleon tries to approach Amelia, thinking that he has to do something.

This time, Mjolnir bounced off and aimed at Cleon.

“No, Cleon!”

“Ugh…!”

The next moment she thought it would be difficult to block her attack on Cleon, as the golem’s body her was also at its limit.

The laser that crossed her eyes was reflected off the walls in all directions.

Edin’s weapons, which were scattered on the ground, moved on their own, but joined together to form a thick wall-

I succeeded in blocking Mjolnir.

“—Edin’s weapons—”

“Ugh… My body aches…”

A voice came from Gray’s body.

[Seized control of all weapons.]

And the voice of Hermes too.

The one before was the laser Hermes used to open the barrier downstairs.

“You guys… You manipulating my slaves again!”

Edin came down from the throne grabbing Mjolnir as if he was angry to the point of his head.

“I won’t leave a single one alive! Reduce to ashes before the Thunder Lord!”

Edin is about to start a battle while saying that.

But for Cleon, in that situation- now, with Gray protecting him, seemed like the perfect timing.

She reached out and touched Amelia’s armor her.

On his hand her was a dragon ring.