Chapter 703: Yggdrasil's Thoughts
Chapter 703: Yggdrasil’s Thoughts
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The Yggdrasil Tree oversaw the entirety of the world of Eden while sighing. It had done so for eons now, and it will continue to do so as long as it possibly can.
Since her creation as the fusion between the twins that she had been working hard to oversee the world and maintain it. She remembers looking at it when it was all rubble, deserts, and wastelands after the fall.
Knowing that her birth was because the twins couldn’t defeat the hivemind made her responsible to heal everything. Although it technically wasn’t, she believed that most of this was her fault. She thought that it was all because of her doing.
Because of this, she felt responsible for this world, for the things that had provoked her birth… and for this being. This entity below her, that her roots were containing with all their strength until the entity couldn’t move an inch.
It was restrained, completely restrained. However, it was still alive, viciously trying to move her away and escape… this vicious being… the Hivemind.
“Not for a single second this being has slept. It seems to be incapable of sleeping to begin with. In all these thousands of years I’ve been analyzing its entire structure, its entire biology, all of it and more… Yet, it keeps changing, evolving, mutating… Every way I had made to kill it was made useless, every poison I tried to make made it stronger and immune to it… How can I even destroy this entity? The soul…?”
She had tried everything except crushing its soul, but this was without a justification, despite how strong it was, this entity didn’t had an outstanding, divine soul or something, its powers only expanded to the level of the physical flesh, therefore, it should be able to die if its soul is crushed. But… that’s where things got complicated.
It knew about such a weakness already, perhaps the entirety of the Hivemind knew about it and had somehow managed to reinforce their own flesh to the point that their very souls hid beneath their entire massive bodies, to pierce the soul she had to pierce somehow destroy the flesh and get through it, but even her strong roots and her draining power didn’t work, and death magic that could slowly weaken and destroy souls didn’t work either due to its incredible resistance to magic.
Although she was made up of their memories, the twins were still rather different, and were not able to completely comprehend the true Law of Death… even less, they lacked a true divinity of death as well, their expertise over this element wasn’t as advanced, even after eons of trying to comprehend it for her mothers… things were going slow.
“But… that woman… Veronica…”
The tree suddenly had a faint image of Veronica in her mind, the cheerful, childish, and carefree woman was an incredibly terrifying being that encompassed death to its purest form, and even more, chaos as well…
“Veronica… one of the creators of my mothers… I barely have faint memories from the ones she inherited to my mothers when they created her… But she apparently comes from another world and has her own share of tragedies… the same would be for the boy, Ervas… Nonetheless, their power is outstanding, more than me… despite having spent only a few years on their own, they grew so strong compared to me and my mothers… I suppose our growth cannot really compare to our original selves, or well, our creators at the end, even if our power levels had evened out, they’re still superior.” She sighed.
She began to think about the prospects of asking for their aid… Veronica’s power over death might be the key to finally be able to defeat the Hivemind, alongside Ervas too, whose power over Life was just as unique. While they specialized in such powers, they also had the mysterious power of Daos, which the twins nor the tree had investigated into, this was because they simply were oblivious and unaware of such power.
But now that she had investigated and seen through it, she could try to imitate it and make herself her own Daos… but would that truly work? Can she make her won Daos and grow stronger from using them? Can that truly work as intended? Can it really work?
These questions drowned her head as she began to ponder this question, she quickly started browsing across her divine realm for clues about how to make those Daos, but there was no clue she could get… she didn’t knew how to get them, and began to believe it might be a power only her creators had.
“If I could get my hands in such a power I could quite possibly wipe out the Hivemind for good now, but I lack such strength yet, I lack it very much… Due to that, I cannot really do as I please, and this grows increasingly more complex and annoying as I think more deeply about it… Maybe I should ask them?”
Within her mind she began to ponder if she should ask them directly this question, but her pride quickly got in the way.
“There’s no way I can ask for help to them, they’re irresponsible beings I cannot properly trust… It would only insult my mothers if I tried to act friendly with them after what just happened. There’s simply no way I can do that… I have to get my own information and learn by myself- Huh? What are they doing?!”
She suddenly realized they came back, but now as a larger group, and slowly walked into the largest city in front of them, which was populated by Erveronians.
“What business do they have in the Erveronian Capital of Magic?!” she wondered, feeling frustrated that she would have to deal with these annoying people getting in there and scaring her people… she thought that they might want to get there and do something atrocious to them as a vengeance for what she did to them when they got here! She had to quickly move and do something!
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