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Chapter 986: The Overwhelming Presence Of A Divine Being
Chapter 986: The Overwhelming Presence Of A Divine Being
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The endless bright light, the colors, everything that I thought was a Divine Realm was actually, like, just Yggdrasil herself! I think we've entered her actual soul. And somehow her soul worked similarly to a Divine Realm?
Now that I think about it, if Yggdrasil came from Yggdragon, it makes sense she was so powerful. The original Yggdragon was what the Demon King should have been, a perfect creation, a perfect combination of all the Gods Divinities into one.
It made sense for her to be so powerful even as just what the Yggdragon became after "dying" or well, if we say it a bit fancier, what she became after the Yggdragon went into an never ending slumber.
All of this brilliance that almost consumed me entirely was just her own self, her own soul. If it wasn't for Titania, I might have died. And I don't know if only my game Avatar would have been affected.
This felt very much connected to my real, actual soul after all.
Yet here we are. Titania led me higher and higher, until we finally meet her, or perhaps the embodiment of what we thought she was.
It was just a tree again. An enormous tree made of rainbow light. After closer inspection, I noticed all the lights here came from her roots, spread everywhere.
There was no face, no eyes, no humanoid form, unlike Verdant.
"Mother…" Titania looked up, tears flowing from her eyes. "It is truly you, mother… I've missed you so much."
"Hahh… S-She's Yggdrasil?" I asked, gasping for air. Even though my soul didn't need to breathe, it felt like I was running out of air before Yggdrasil's presence.
"I am."
A voice reverberated through everything, my soul, our souls, the divine realm, the soul, the world, and even reality and everything I perceived, all my senses resonated as one when she spoke.
It felt like my head was spinning!
"My child, Titania? Is it you? You seem so big now. And you… You are the one that healed my roots? Strange. You feel similar to me, and to my predecessor." Yggdrasil spoke again.
Ugh! It hurts!
It hurts to even listen to her.
But I don't have any choice.
I need to sit down and just hear her speak.
I have to bear with this powerful pressure, with what she is.
"M-Mother… Yes, it is me." Titania nodded while crying.
"Yes… Hahh… We come from another place." I spoke. "We come from what you may think is the future. We accessed through this fragment of the past using a Divine Dungeon, we came to prevent a disaster, or perhaps… many!"
"The future…" Yggdrasil remained in silence for a bit. "You speak no lies. I have read your souls. Your honesty is the truth. Your words… You are being honest? How could this be…"
I never thought Yggdrasil would speak so many words, being so high and mighty, she really sounds like a clueless woman, kind of like me.
I guess we are similar in many things.
More than just race and magic.
"I-It's the truth, of great tree…" I tried to be respectful. "We want to stop the calamity from striking Cloudia, the Floating Continent. A calamity that would also later give birth to the third demon king, who would desire your end, and would achieve it, by deceiving and brainwashing your children, the divine beasts…! Ugh…"
"A third demon king…" Yggdrasil spoke. "Through my long life, I've had very few opportunities to speak. So forgive my manners, but I simply can't… I can't help you."
"Eh? But… why?!" I cried.
"My powers, despite how you may consider them, are not the strongest." She said. "My creation is… I am a husk, the husk of a former god, although it might seem I am powerful, I am stagnant. I only spread life, the Yggdragon's last wish was this. I can spread life everywhere. But I cannot help you defeat them, the Demon Kings. They are beyond my power."
"We don't need to defeat them…!" I groaned, trying to make myself clearer. "I just need some of your help. We need to stop a ritual from happening, that might summon something from hell! If we can stop that and then kill the cultist, maybe everything else can be stopped. You don't need to risk your life. We are not asking you to do that."
"…" She remained in silence. "But how are you going to do this?"
"I am going to expand my Domain and use all my insane Skills to do it." I told her. "I just need you to inject me with your essence and some of your divine soul powers… And… Hahh… A-And then I can expand my Domain until we can reach our destination."
"I have never considered doing such a thing. You can create Domains?" She asked. "That is not something that… Well, perhaps… but…"
Despite how praised and beloved she was, her true self was full of doubts. She sounded like a woman conflicted with her own emotions and her own role.
I guess I couldn't help but feel a bit of empathy with her, if not a lot.
"Here."
I gave her the accessory Mercedes gave to me, her powers making it float towards her tree-shaped astral form.
"This is… A relic made from the scales of my predecessor, from Yggdragon." She spoke. "It contains a faint amount of their powers, very faint. But it remains there…"
"It came from Mercedes, a woman that has gone through a lot, really, a lot…" I sighed. "She wants to save her home, and also stop those cultists from ruining everyone's lives. It happened already, and… We don't want to see it happen again… So please, give us a hand, please… help us!"
"Mother… Please help her. Planta is nothing but an excellent person. Someone that will protect the forest you left behind, someone that has protected and loved all of its inhabitants…" Titania cried. "And someone that even managed to become similar to you, she carries your legacy."
"…"
Yggdrasil remained in silence once more.
Until she finally spoke.
"Very well."
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