God of Time System: Harem in the Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 236 Impure Dark Branch Of Yggdrasil

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"GEORGE!!" The shout came from the balcony as both the kids got worried sick, while I ran before any of them could react. Amara, who was still processing the existence of Adam and Blake, grew even more confused as she heard the shout.

Not giving a damn about the others, I ran towards the balcony. The door was obviously opened, as I got out, only to see Walter looking on the other balcony where George was barely hanging on the edge. 

Looking at how he is on his last arms and Walter almost trying to jump for him, I reached Walter as I pushed him behind before moving to the offside of the balcony, and immediately jumping towards George, while one of my hands grabbed Balcony and the other grabbed George.

"Man! You are heavy," I spoke as I took a deep breath before increasing my grip strength.

"AAA!!!" George was being hurt as I gripped his wrist harder and harder. 

'Spear Art: Idominatable throw!' I muttered under my breath as I positioned myself mid-air while grabbing the railing with one hand and then… throwing George in the air towards Walter. It wasn't easy by any means as I could feel my arm being torn apart from the body however…

[Time Rejection!]

I can't let that happen, can I? 

George was thrown onto the balcony as he cried while gripping his wrist, which was now bleeding a little. A small price to pay… which was going to heal soon anyway.

Amara and the other two, who were already out, saw everything with their own two eyes. And how wide their eyes were. I chuckled a little as I got myself up on the balcony before getting on the balcony where George was hanging from.

"What were you kid trying to do?" I asked as I wiped my hands while looking at the side. Walter was the most shocked among us as he looked at me with a Question filled face.

I took a few steps behind and while focusing on my explosive power… I ran on the railing, then on the wall a little, before reaching our balcony. "Let's talk inside," I said as I smiled at them before looking at George's wrist, where the bleeding had stopped. 

"Come inside. I will give you some first aid," I spoke and even though he was in pain, he nodded as he slowly stood with the help of Adam and Blake. 

"Thank… you…"he spoke with a broken voice as he fought his pain before all of us moved inside. Then reaching the sofa, I sat on the side opposite to Kitchen. I asked Amara to sit beside me, while George sat in front of me with Walter beside him. While Blake and Adam decided to keep standing beside George and Walter. 

"So. What are you doing in my apartment?" I initiated the question first. Regression or not, you cannot just enter someone's house for any reason. It is illegal in many ways and you could be heavily fined for it too.

"I needed help from you… and then I felt an energy from inside an ominous one…" Walter was the one who spoke first as he looked at me. His eyes were really concentrated on me before I sighed as I spoke out,

"All right. That makes sense." 'That does?' Was the question on everyone's face as they looked at me and Walter. Because of what I did, it wasn't that hard to say that I still have my powers and memories from the past. Though he is still naive to think that there couldn't be any powers before the Apocalypse…

'Not that, I wouldn't have made the same mistake… It would be pretty unorthodox to think that way.'

I am kind of sad that George isn't a regressor. But still, I am glad that it is Walter, and he still is loyal to me. As for Adam and Blake, never considered them as one to regress…

"So. Where is that energy coming from?" I asked as I looked at him and he nodded before turning on the balcony.

"There is a plant on your balcony, one of its roots is corrupted with dark energy."

I nodded as I stood up before speaking,"Show me."

He nodded at me before standing up and moving in front back to the Balcony. The others, including injured George, stood up as they began walking behind us as we reached back to the Balcony where that plant was.

Walter then pointed at one of the money plants which was placed on our balcony. The money plant had a branch that ran across the wall and reached the other balcony where George was previously hanging.

"It's that branch,"Walter spoke with all seriousness as all of us began looking at it.

[Inspect!]

[Impure Dark Branch of Yggdrasil!]

[After treading a path to the world's most dangerous areas, the branch has lost a couple of its pure strands and gained the dark strands from the corrupted universe. The World Order has treaded its path to Michael Aroa, who posses the power to revert it back to its original form]

[Emergency Quest Initiated!]

[Description: The World Order has found the existence of Michael Aroa and has declared him as one of the stray Wanderers with SS-Level Importance. After looking at his achievements, they have finalized to give this particular task to him.

Requirements: Permission from the World Order

Task:

-Purify the Branch of Yggdrasil

-Find a way to send it back to the World Order

Time Limit: Until the Branch is completely corrupted or made pure

Current Corruption: 76%

Failing Penalty:

-The world where the User Lives will be consumed by the Dark Branch

Rewards: 

-A Random Unique Blessing of the World

-Skill: World Connect

-A Leaf of the Dark Branch of Yggdrasil

-???]

'...' For a second, I just observed the entire message once… twice… many times. And even in the end… I was shocked. I couldn't believe my eyes.

'I am being watched? Monitored? What is the World Order? What the heck is going on?' A lot many questions filled my mind as I observed the entire thing with my eyes turning shocked at once and serious on the other hand.

"What did you find?" Walter asked as he looked at me with a lot of curiosity and, turning at him, I asked,

"Hey. By any chance, do you have a way of purifying this thing?" 

"Ah! I am not that capable right now,"he spoke in an awkward tone while I sighed. I knew it wouldn't have been that easy.

"What if you were in your prime?" I asked again, and he pondered a little before speaking,"no. I don't think even then I could have done anything to it." 

I nodded at him before turning at the others, who were beyond confused at what was going on here. Well, I wasn't going to tell them everything, but at the very least, I can do a couple of things to bring them on my side. 

"Let's go in. You guys seem to have a lot of questions. I still have a few minutes left, so I can entertain you, I guess," I spoke as we went back to the Sofa for the second time.

"From the beginning, how did you do that?" Amara was the first one to ask. She looked at me and continued,"I mean the way you threw this red-haired kid up and the way you jumped from that balcony to this, I don't think that it is humanly possible to do that."

"Well. You are correct. It is not possible humanly… but honestly, that's not true. Or more like, it is incomplete,"I began speaking as I looked at Walter,"show them a little trick."

Walter spoke as he took out a paper from his pocket and a lighter from another. He placed the paper in his left hand and the lighter in his right hand. After that, he began chanting,

"Albis tre fiera: Encompasses eclipse de mora(Oh! The God of Fire: Let the candle light Travel to burn the path of evil.)"

-Booom!

With a sudden bang, the paper started burning in Walter's hands as he grabbed it without any problem. As for Amara and the others, nope, they weren't convinced. Perhaps they were thinking that it was a trick? Hmmm… 

'They do say that paper isn't completely dead… just that we are beyond capable of reviving it. If the conditions were beyond perfect, we might be able to grow trees from dead paper itself,' I thought as I tried a little.

[Time Rejection!]

And yup… I saw all the fire energy being absorbed by the burning paper as a leaf grew out of it… sadly, it died and withered before it could even sprout properly. Good thing was that it was enough for them to see the miracle happen.

They observed it carefully with their eyes trembling a little. Amara even moved forward and grabbed the leaf, as she could feel the burnt crisp of it. Her eyes widened as she looked at it over and over before I spoke,

"Rather than us showing something that might be considered as a trick, I believe it would be better if you ask us to do anything viable for now. Will save both of us some time."

"No… we believe you… I felt myself as paper when you grabbed me and threw me up… nothing is more believable for me than that,"George spoke as he looked at me with dead serious eyes and I nodded a little before speaking,

"All right then… any other questions?"