390 The Power Of Yggdrasil
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The Yggdrasil Cannon was unleashed on its totality, as a beam of pure Holy Light and Life Element impacted the Chimeric Undead Hydra.
The Hydra’s various heads tried to shield the main body from the damage, quickly being turned into ashes in the process. Their groans of agony were completely overpowered by the enormous sound that the beam provoked. The Hydra’s entire body slowly began to fade away as well, the power of life coming from this attack completely negated the Undead’s very composition.
“GRYYSSHHAAAA…!”
The scream of the beast was ear wrenching, as it was completely incapable of retaliating back at all against this overwhelming life force.
BOOOOOOMMMM!!!
An enormous explosion filled everything with whiteness. With so much light, it was impossible to hide within the shadows, and we had to hide behind large boulders, barely resisting the enormous quantity of spiritual and magical power in the surroundings.
However, everything eventually came to an end, and what remained of it was merely just a pile of gray ashes and several spirit orbs spread around. This Undead was probably a built Undead, without a personal spirit orb, its interior was most likely just several other Undead’s spirit orbs, for the most part.
After such a purifying white light, I was incapable of seeing, everything seemed black to me. I had to quickly heal my eyes using some magic to regain my sight after a bit.
“Ahh… It is over?”
I heard the voice of Erika, as I quickly found her at my side, she was hugging my arms tightly. Eleanora was also at my other side doing the same, she was surprisingly scared.
“T-That was too much…”
Eleanora sighed, slowly opening her eyes and looking around.
“Yeah, it is over.” Chris muttered, I found him in the floor with Eric and Elizabeth.
Everyone seemed fine, I guess we managed to pull it out.
“Everyone’s okay? Can you see?” I asked them, some seemed to have temporarily lost sight, but Elizabeth’s healing magic took care of that.
At the end, we sat down over the floor. Everyone was exhausted too do anything else. I already confirmed the death of the Hydra, so I quickly decided to bring out Erdrich and feed him a Demon Potion, which quickly gave him enough demonic energy to heal his wounds naturally.
“Ah… Wha…?! Eh?”
Erdrich looked around astonished, he didn’t really knew what happened after he passed out.
We had to explain him things, but he quickly understood.
“So we won… amazing…”
Erdrich seemed to barely believe it. He had faint memories of having fought the Hydra, the titanic monster was not something we were properly prepared to defeat, it was barely a win if I would say so.
“I-I can’t believe we did it… Ah! My staff?!”
However, something happened with Eric’s staff, it had suddenly grown as big as a tree, and was latching into the ground without moving at all. No matter how much he tried to pull it out, the tree was stuck there.
“Oh, it turned into a tree?!” Asked Erika.
“Where did you even got this anyways?” Chris wondered.
“My uncle gifted it to me… He just said it was a family treasure, and that I had to take care of it… N-Now it turned into a tree?! This is ridiculous!” Eric said.
I slowly walked around the tree, inspecting it. The entire thing was alive. It seems his Staff truly became a small tree of roughly three meters of height. Nonetheless, it still can be pulled out and turned into a staff again, although there will be a lot of leftover wood.
No matter how strong the tree is, it won’t be able to live down here without any light, so it wouldn’t be unwise to pull it out and plant it back in the village. But truly, what is this thing?
I do remember that his ancestor saw the Yggdrasil Tree of this world back when we read that diary, but it didn’t said anything about bringing a branch with him. Maybe he really did and just didn’t added it to the diary?
If this is a family treasure then that’s very likely. However, why was it laying there until they gave it to Eric? He’s certainly talented… Maybe his Druid Talent resonates with this staff the best? Maybe… well, all my speculations are just maybes.
“Don’t worry, we can pull it out and bring it to the surface after we are done here.” I said to Eric. “We can make you a new staff from one of its branches, and we could even plant the tree in the village… Spiritual Trees are very special, it might be able to protect the Village with its blessings.”
“R-Really? Can it do that?” Asked Eric.
“Yeah, I believe it ended turning into a tree because it reacted to the magic and also to your Talent, Eric.” I said with a nod.
“My Talent?” he wondered with confusion clear on his eyes.
“Yeah, don’t you remember what we read back then?” I asked him. “Your ancestor visited the Yggdrasil Tree. This is a family treasure… but they never gave it to someone that came before you, right? It was always laying there in your house.”
“R-Right…” Eric seemed intrigued.
“It could be that your Talent is just more unique within your family than you thought. They had been waiting for someone with the [Druid] Talent and you showed up. Also your Spirit seems slightly suspicious to me, didn’t it just merge with your spell before? Maybe it might also have something to do with the Yggdrasil Tree for all we know.” I said with intrigue.
“T-That’s… a crazy theory.” Said Eric. “But we don’t really know if all that could even be true, my uncle and my aunt don’t want to tell me either, they’re saying it’s a secret they’ll tell me when I reach an older age for some reason…”
“Age?” I wondered. “Why would age matter in such a thing? Maybe they meant something else… Perhaps they want you to develop your powers further, or even… discover the truth yourself?”
“Eh?!”
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