Chapter 11: Similarities and Differences
With the unconscious body of the "Gray End", Rena and Anno returned to the border of the Gray Empire, the Elven Forest, and went straight to the ancient tree in the deepest part of the forest.
Regarding the World Tree, Liao Ji didn't know much about this "neutral building" in the game, and the main reason was that the original "World Tree" was far less conspicuous than it is now.
Liao Ji remembered the first time he was with the World Tree, the leaves of this tree were almost withered and yellow, it was difficult to see green, and the branches were bent and sunken like old men in the twilight.
Large and small, large and small polluted or corroded brown scales, covering a large area of bark, the whole ancient tree is crumbling, and the next gust of turbid wind may destroy the trunk that has been eaten away and hollowed out.
Later, after his own gray army expedition came here, united with the forest race, and together exterminated the "dragon"-level turbidity lord entrenched here, the pollution of the forest was alleviated.
After that, he came into contact with the most mysterious elf species, and after contracting Anno, the world tree was handed over to Anno to take care of, and in the middle Liao Ji remembered that he also went to sweep the world tree, but the panel introduction in the game was an ancient tree that stood from the beginning of the world, and in addition, Liao Ji had no other operation pages.
Later, I began to focus on the counterattack to the turbidity, and carried out the final chapter, leading to the decisive battle of the "ending" of the game, and left the world tree behind and forgot it in the corner.
Following the current succubus's diary perspective, Liao Ji saw Anno and Rena go directly to the underground of the World Tree, a space that Liao Ji in the game had never entered.
The underground of the World Tree seems to have the effect of warming the body and soul at the same time, and the rhizome of the ancient tree is manipulated by Anno to half-wrap the body of his unconscious game character.
Storing the "ashes" body is only one of them, and the main purpose of Anno bringing Rena here is to let Rena see other worlds through the World Tree, as she said.
"The World Tree... Other worlds? ”
"Yes, for a long time, we elves also believed that the World Tree belonged to our race, and its effect was to store our souls, but as I slowly cultivated it later, so that the World Tree continued to grow, I found that this ancient tree is far from being as simple as we imagined."
The World Tree can only be communicated by the elves, and Rena, as a succubus, cannot be contacted, but Anno has another way, only to see the elves put one hand on the trunk and the other hand to hold Rena.
Anno uses herself as a bridge, and the change of direction allows Rena to perceive the World Tree as well.
As the elves started to communicate, the underground world suddenly flashed with a crystal light, and every intricately coiled rhizome flickered, and Rena's vision also changed, and began to rise rapidly.
"This is..."
Now after communicating with the World Tree, Rena seems to be able to perceive the whole world, and she sees countless "deceased" souls floating in the direction of the World Tree, absorbed by the rhizomes of the World Tree, and then the World Tree will cleanse and purify these souls, and finally become new lives and re-descend into this world.
At the same time, she also saw that the leylines buried deep under the World Tree, these leylines had previously shrunk due to turbidity erosion, and now after they were restored, the leylines seemed to be the blood vessels of the world, and the power of the World Tree was dispersed to all parts of the world, giving birth to mountains and rivers and fields and waterfalls.
This is the first layer of the World Tree, sheltering this world, and the soul returns to her hometown, and as Rena's consciousness continues to dive, she comes to the second level of the World Tree that Anno sees.
And here, Rena's perspective continues to be raised, as if the whole person is in the vast starry sky.
The succubus saw an even larger ancient tree, like the prototype of the real "World Tree", and in this World Tree rooted in the galaxy, each leaf was no longer an elven soul, but a world.
The vast majority of the "leaves" have withered and decayed, and some of the "leaves" seem to be lingering, wilting downward, large areas of yellowing, and on the verge of dying.
Only a very small number of the "leaves" are healthy enough to see green, and among these "healthy" "leaves", Rena can see at a glance the leaves of the world that symbolize their side of the world.
Because only this "leaf" is the most verdant and upright, and it is very conspicuous when you look at the whole world tree.
With Anno's spiritual power, he can only perceive this, and he knows that there are many, many worlds similar to them.
But Rena is different.
As the pinnacle warlock of the ability system, Rena concentrated all her huge spiritual power, and plunged into these "leaves" in one go, and with the penetration of the soul, the succubus successfully entered the consciousness into another world, and could really see with her own eyes the true appearance of other worlds.
Blood-red sky.
Turbidity shrouded.
The scene of this world, Rena is no stranger, and it is almost exactly the same as theirs.
The only difference is...
Rena is here, she can't feel the breath of the living creatures, and the dead earth is full of huge bottomless cracks, and from the cracks, the breath of pollution and corrosion comes out frequently, and there is no end in sight, and dense turbid monsters are entrenched inside.
From the perspective of living beings, this world has been conquered by turbidity and completely fallen, and it is the real end times.
When Rena used the authority of the World Tree to look through the eyes of her soul, she could see that in this dead world, there were many floating undead with dull faces and dead eyes.
And when Rena looked at the back of the neck of these undead, who were powerful and strong, as the leader, the succubus's eyes suddenly shrank, because she saw the familiar figure.
Indenture.
There can be no mistake.
Rena will admit that she is wrong about everything, but this is the only one.
Although there is a slight difference between the figure and the gray adult, this source power is almost the same.
This made Rena stunned for a moment.
It was once supposed to be a contract that belonged exclusively to Lord Ash, but now it actually appeared on the spirits of these Doomers of other worlds, proving that they were also contractors of Lord Gray during their lifetimes?
Wrong.
There is no such thing as a gray adult in this world.
What they have contracted is...
Rena concentrated, and soon in the biting turbid cold wind, she whispered to these undead who were unwilling and died with great regret.
"Yes... I'm sorry for the "assassination" of my lord..."
"If only I could be stronger..."
"Failed... Did it fail in the end... Even the "Assassin" Adult..."
"Run! Run, "Assassination", my lord! As long as you're alive, we'll still have..."
"It's over, it's all over... Even the Lord of the "Assassination" gave up... Ha ha... Hahaha... Whining... Why... Why..."