Chapter 103: The Sprout of Ygdrassil

I opened my eyes and realized that I was in a place I was not familiar. A barren white place with a vast and endless horizon with nothing to see in the distance except for the white scenery. It was like I am in some sort of new dimension? But the last time I remembered is that I was on the Fake Agartha and was about to receive the seed of Yggdrassil from the boy but where is it now? Also, where the heck am I?

Exploring the place, I realized that it is not an endless horizon. It might look like endless but there was an invisible boundary that prevents me from going further. No matter how hard I try to push forward, it is a futile attempt. I gave up after a few tries seeing that my efforts are worthless.

I look around the place to see any kind of things that will make me able to know what is going on and where I currently am. There is nothing around me except a single sprout on the ground. Although there is no soil, the sprout is growing fine.

There is nothing else around here except the sprout. Seeing that there is nothing else around here, I decided to check and observe the sprout of what it was.

The sprout is just a bit weird. Instead of green leaves, it is light blue and red. They don't look like leaves either, they instead look like gems, ruby, and aquamarine. It only has two leaves so the color of the two is just contrast to each other. I tried touching the leaves to check if the texture is the same as the original leaf however when I touched the light blue leaf, a flash of knowledge appeared on my mind.

The knowledge that appeared is the information on what the Blue leaf is about to do. The blue leaf is one of the leaves that shows how big is my mana capacity. The more leaves it shows, the bigger the capacity is.

When I tried touching the red leaf, another flash of information appeared on my mind but this time, it tells me different info. The red leaf represents my magic power. The more leaves this sprout has, the stronger my magic power is.

Although this info makes the sprout useful to me, I start to wonder, is this the Ygdrassil seed that just sprouted? I never know what the seed is actually but if this was the one, then what is really helping me on raising my magic power and mana capacity?

As I stare on the sprout, another flash of information appeared on my consciousness but this time, it is the voice of the boy earlier who gave me the seed.

"You must be a bit confused now, right? Then be sure to listen since this is already a pre-recorded message which means it won't answer your questions if you ever have one. The sprout before you is the plant of Ygdrassil. It grows periodically and if you take care of it, the growth will also be enhanced.

The sprout also supplies mana to you automatically. However, to do an unlimited mana move, the tree has to grow bigger first. The sprout can only recover a limited amount of your mana only. So by taking care of the tree and practicing, it will increase your ability too.

Now, as to where you are right now, this is your mind space. You dwell in your consciousness to be exact. This was inaccessible before but due to the presence of the sprout, you can now enter the place without any trouble.

As for the other function of the sprout, you find it out yourself. If you want to get in and get out of this place, be sure to focus on getting inside your consciousness or getting out of it. You can figure it out yourself because you are already intelligent enough. This is where everything about the sprout ends. I hope it answered some of your questions."

After that, the surroundings once again turned quiet. The instructions are precise and I don't think I have a hard time following it. But who would have thought the Seed of Ygdrassil has this power? No wonder so many people sought for this thing. But there is nothing to do here. The spout is still young so I decided to just go back to the real world.

Although what the boy said about getting out being complicated, it didn't really make a bit of difficulty. As soon as I focused a bit and imagined that I escaped this place, I managed to awaken. Looking around, I realized my body felt lighter than what I expected and my whole body seems to have undertaken a huge change that I can't really explain. I stood up and realized that I was still on the Fake Agartha. The boy is currently sitting not too far from me and seems to be thinking about something.

"Did I just passed out?"

The boy noticed that I was now awake and stood up. "Looks like you managed to get out of your consciousness just fine. How is it?"

"It is a little bit weird but I can get used to it. Is this the power of the Ygdrassil seed?"

"You can say that. It is quite an effect no? But enough of that. You have to go now since the demons are now on the move. You don't want them to succeed right?"

"Yes. I have to. But before that, can you lift the heaviness that my companions felt earlier? They are stuck on the door."

"They already managed to get off the way. You don't have to worry about them. Since you are about to leave, I will give you this Magatama of Challenge as a parting gift," the boy pulls out a peculiar necklace that looked like a magatama but unlike the most common magatamas that I see which are in color green and black, this one is color blue.

"What is this for?"

"If you supply it with enough mana, you can rechallenge the Celestial Beast as well as challenge the remaining beasts you have yet to challenge. The two blessings will be enough for you right now but in the future, you need all of the blessings to survive. Now go, I won't hold you here any longer. I will teleport you back to the entrance."

After speaking, he snaps his fingers and when I blink, I was right in front of the entrance of the door that we unlocked. In the distance, I saw Maple and Anya leaning on the cavern's walls. I did not even get to ask some questions but eh, this is all good since I don't have to climb up once again to reach this place. But now is the time to stop the demons. I have to do this...

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