Chapter 182

Chapter 182

A thick cloud of dust bloomed from the huge explosion. The explosion was so violent that even the ground crumbled from the impact, creating somewhat of an earthquake. It was a very powerful blow that no one could even endure and fight against.

However, Davey withdrew without any hesitation after he felt a subtle feeling on the tips of his fingertips.

Davey was using a basic mana manipulation method, which would force the opponent to tremble from their insides before disrupting the mana flow in their body. It was a very unstable skill that could easily be dispelled by someone with a strong resistance. However, for someone who had given up on resisting, like the panicked woman in front of Davey, the skill could easily kill her. It was also a skill that allowed Davey to kill anyone without damaging the physical body.

Despite the attack already brewing in his hands, Davey stopped himself from touching the woman.

The elven woman remained safe while the ground right next to her was overturned and damaged. In fact, the ground looked like it had been scratched and torn apart by a vicious and ferocious animal.

“

Hiccup!

” The woman hiccuped loudly. Her face collapsed even further from the fear and terror of the attack.

“...”

—

Davey?

Perserque called out to Davey, wondering why he suddenly stopped his attack.

—

Why did you suddenly stop your attack...?

‘Use your authority,’

Davey answered Perserque calmly as he looked at Yggdrasil, who was frowning from the onslaught of Gnoass’ power.

The World Tree was not an idiot. Despite knowing that they would be annihilated upon invading this place and having an armed conflict against Davey and Heins Territory, they still came. They even threw a suggestion that Davey would never accept. Did the World Tree do something like this without pondering over the matter? Really? Did she really bring a pregnant mother here without pondering over this matter?

“What a f*cking bastard,” Davey said. He frowned from the World Tree’s actions as a crazy bastard.

—

My goodness...

Perserque turned pale after using her Abyss’ Authority, upon Davey’s suggestion, on the collapsed elven woman in front of her.

Even if Davey wanted to beat them to death countless times over, he would never resort to killing a pregnant woman. That was something that he would never, ever do. He had a conscience, unlike the World Tree, who just did something completely wrong and unforgivable.

“World Tree.”

[As expected, you have a keen eye on things.]

“You’re going back just like that?”

Baaaaaang!!!

Once Davey was done talking, Yggdrasil’s incarnation and the surrounding area was crushed by Gnoass’ power. A huge explosion took place. Of course, it was not an attack that could harm the World Tree’s body, someone that exceeded the general population’s strength and prowess.

Davey frowned, jumping without hesitation and grabbing the World Tree by its head. The World Tree’s short body eventually appeared and was firmly in his grip.

[Ugh...]

Davey wiped the expression off of his face as he listened to Yggdrasil’s painful groans. It was quite ridiculous how one could become more cold and detached the more angry they became, just like Davey right now.

Davey truly had no reason to be infuriated at how the elven mother was treated. However, he was furious by the fact that he almost made a pregnant woman explode from the inside. It put him in a very f*cked up situation.

“All under-aged elves should be completely protected. For the World Tree, all elves are her children,” Davey said calmly as he made eye contact with Yggdrasil.

The situation here was clearly much more problematic than before. However, Yggdrasil just looked at Davey nonchalantly as if it did not matter to her at all.

[This is my final warning. Return Yuria to me.]

“From the first bastard that comes...” Davey looked at the slowly collapsing Yggdrasil and issued a dangerous warning, “...I will smash them all to pieces!”

Smash!!!

Davey smashed Yggdrasil’s head. This was his declaration of war against an entire race, and it was much cleaner and far more horrifying than what he had thought.

***

“Ugh... Ughhh.” With a grown, a brown-skinned elven woman slowly got up from the ground. Her groan echoed in the otherwise silent field.

The woman pressed on her chest as she slowly got up, as if still hurting even after having been healed by Davey’s magic. She looked around in confusion and mumbled, “What happened... I definitely died back then...”

The woman’s eyes widened when she saw Davey standing not far from her.

“Long time no see, Jack.”

It was true that they hadn’t seen each other for quite a while. The woman’s eyes widened even further after hearing Davey’s greeting. Then, as if remembering something, she patted her chest in a panic and stuttered, “My, my necklace...!”

“Skip the disguise. I knew who you were from the very beginning, Aina Helishana.”

Aina looked at Davey silently. Her wary expression was clear as day. She asked, “How do you know my name...?”

“Ask about trivial matters later. I’m not in the mood to answer your questions at all,” Davey muttered nonchalantly as he carried Aina. He commented, “Your condition is quite stable at the moment. I barely pulled you out of death’s door, so you better stay silent and obediently stay on my back. I don’t want blood spilling on me.”

Despite her confusion, Aina remained silent.

***

A bright light flashed among the leaves of a gigantic tree, which shook violently. Then, the body of a woman slowly took shape from one of the tree’s roots on the ground. She was none other than World Tree Yggdrasil, the gigantic tree and the incarnation’s main body.

[Ugh...]

Yggdrasil gasped, moaning in pain. The pain coursing through her veins was extremely terrible. Although the incarnation was not the main body, it was still part of the Divine Tree and it had been completely destroyed by a mere human. And since that incarnation carried quite a lot of power, the rebound on the main body was not that light.

[

Cough

.]

Yggdrasil coughed, undressing herself and descending from the otherwise empty and quiet altar. She immediately immersed herself inside a clear and transparent lake that was located on one side of her roots. To everyone here, this was the most sacred and divine lake.

Yggdrasil trembled as she scrubbed fiercely and cleaned herself, like a mysophobic patient who had been thrown into a nest of bugs. Her hands were balled into fists so tight that her nails could break.

[How dare he put a curse on the body of the Divine Tree? He is quite gutsy. If only the origin’s restriction upon us was not in place... I would have already erased all of the beings in that territory.]

Yggdrasil mumbled as she sank deeper into the lake. She had achieved her primary objective and she did expect to fail to bring Yuria back. Thanks to that expedition, the divided political views and factions in the Divine Tree were now going to come together.

‘What’s that popular phrase? The enemy of an enemy is an ally?’

From this point on, the radicals and the conservatives who clashed with one another were going to unite and vent their anger toward that young man named Davey O’Rowane and his territory.

Although the human had cursed her before her incarnation’s death, Yggdrasil thought nothing of the curses. She believed that she could easily remove them. After all, the lake where she was bathing in could cleanse anything filthy and leave behind a spotless canvas. She firmly believed that the curses placed upon her body would soon be washed away.

[Hmm?]

However, Yggdrasil’s eyes could not help but widen after seeing the long hair hanging on her fingertips. She was clasping a lot of hair in her hands.

“We... We are in trouble! The leaves of Mother Divine Tree’s branches are falling!!!”

“Something happened to our mother! Quick! Bring the priests to the altar to see mother! The rest of you, summon your water spirits and chant the spell healing!”

Hurried cries rang in Yggdrasil’s ears as she thought,

‘My children are coming here in this situation?’

[...]

Her silence remained longer than necessary.

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