NOVPUBI was in the exact spot where the flesh tree was, the landscape before it was covered in flesh and blood became pure destruction with rubble, ditches, and holes everywhere, a scene of pure devastation with the biggest ditches getting even bigger and deeper until they meet where I am now.
Looking from the bottom, it looks like a great cliff that will still draw blood, an abyss left by what destroyed this world, something that was part of me and in a way is still part of me.
"(My sisters said that the tree I turned into disappeared after obtaining the Essence, leaving only my body behind, but possibly merged with my body.)" (I)
"You know what to do?" (Elizabeth)
"No, but I don’t think it will be a problem, someone already took care of everything." (I)
"What are you..." (Elizabeth)
Before Elizabeth finishes speaking, her eyes widen in a way I’ve rarely seen, it seems I was right, the voice I heard before is still watching me.
"(A World Tree... isn’t it?)" (I)
I could feel since I entered this cliff, the energies here were not only mixing naturally with mine, but I could feel the raw energy flow passing through here, all of it was mixing with me, 3 different intentions acting together as if triangulating what I should do, already an obvious attempt to guide me.
"I know you’re here, reveal yourself." (I)
"I knew you would feel me..." (Freya)
"Freya!!" (I)
Without saying anything else, my wings opened and I kicked the ground hard at the same time as my wings gave a strong forward thrust, I was opening my arms wanting to take her in my arms when a silhouette began to appear.
"(No!!!)" (all Familiars)
It was at that moment that tentacles of blood and branches came out of my body, attaching themselves to the surroundings like rubble, floor, and walls.
That was just the beginning with a Dragon tail coming out of my shadow grabbing my waist, phantom arms also appeared around me holding my entire body while Demonic swords materialized in front of me clinging to block my path.
I was stopped less than 1 meter away from a forming energy silhouette, my eyes never left her as her pointed ears and long hair were starting to stand out, but that was all.
The silhouette didn’t continue taking shape, even the face was left empty, and only Freya’s voice and presence could be perceived, but still, I wanted to take her in my arms and even then my Familiars were stopping me in a way that never happened before, it took me a few seconds to realize this and I acted accordingly trying to calm myself down to try to understand the situation.
"You idiot, this is just a projection, it’s not really here, if you touch it it will break the connection." (Blood Sin)
"Let go of this idiot, he won’t move anymore." (Blood Sin)
Blood Sin appeared next to me, a tentacle of blood came out of her body and wrapped itself around my neck while my Familiars released everything that was holding me back, even though I couldn’t move away.
"Freya, say what you have to say and go, Zenos is clearly not in a good condition for this..." (Elizabeth)
"I... I’m fine, I was just surprised and acted on impulse, you can let me go, I won’t get any closer than that." (I)
With that said, the blood tentacle came loose from my neck and I held myself back from throwing myself at Freya now, being calmer it was easier to think rationally.
"Freya, how are you here? Why are you here? Are you okay? Shouldn’t you be trapped in your tree-turned-body?" (I)
"Shut up you idiot, none of that matters right now." (Blood Sin)
"Ignore his questions and say what you need, we’re not here to enjoy the view." (Blood Sin)
"She’s right, so please, Freya." (Elizabeth)
"I know time is short, so I’ll start by saying I’m fine and that’s all you need to know right now, sorry for my selfishness." (Freya)
"Freya, I... I always..." (I)
"We don’t have time, so I’ll be quick." (Freya)
"The trees of the world want to participate, I’m just a representative, that’s what they want." (Freya)
Some rays of energy came out of Freya’s luminous body and entered each person’s mind, as always it was a lot of compressed information.
In this case, it is about a sanctuary, it seems that the raw energy flow of the universe that interconnects all the worlds comes from the Divine trees, this flow arrives in the already dispersed universe flowing almost without control, changing and being controlled by others in different ways like what happened here.
To avoid this, the World Trees tried many things and in the end, they realized that they would need an opportunity, to build a focal point where energy could reach before spreading everywhere.
It wasn’t difficult to understand, but that wasn’t the worst part, the scale of what they wanted to do was the real problem as well as a solution.
"What do I gain by following this?" (I)
"Don’t try to negotiate, we both know this solves one of your problems, and before you ask, no." (Freya)
"Why not?" (I)
"I’m not ready to go back yet, just as you imagined, my Soul is separated from my body, but that was my decision." (Freya)
"..." (I)
"Priestess of Life, he will do his part, but his work will be more difficult." (Freya)
"I’m ready." (Yara)
"Wait for me... I’ll be back..." (Freya)
Freya’s luminous body disappeared leaving behind an empty World Tree seed without a Spirit inside and I know why.
The seed floated to me, fixing it on my hands, as soon as Freya was gone I stood there for a few seconds thinking about it before Elizabeth came to me.
"Did you know?" (I)
"Yes." (Elizabeth)
"Did anyone else know?" (I)
"Yes." (Elizabeth)
"Did she ask you not to tell me?" (I)
"Yes." (Elizabeth)
"..." (I)
Sigh
I take a deep breath and put aside thoughts about Freya, I try to focus on the information I received from her, it seems that the World Trees want to build something similar to the Fairy World and the Spirit World, but this time for the Sacred Beasts.
A Sacred Beast are monsters that are successors of countless previous generations and have awakened their consciousness by connecting to nature, they are creatures that purely use Ki to attack, possessing powerful bodies, unfortunately, they are few in numbers compared to Fairies or Spirits.
A problem that I never stopped to think about refers to the confusion of people treating Sacred Beasts as unique monsters because of their appearance.
So they want a safe place to stay, this entire Star System will be that place, a place where the Sacred Beasts can live and at the same time be the focal point from which the raw natural energy flow to the rest of the universe originates.
It seems like this wasn’t decided by the World Tree alone, I looked at Yara and my sister, there was no way they didn’t know about this.
"Why?" (I)
"This entire Star System is dead, the planets themselves are on the verge of death with this being the worst having only a few hours to live, the will of this world has almost completely dissipated." (Elizabeth)
"Ki has a strong connection with vitality, creating the Ki Source of your element here can save this planet, but the others will be destroyed, that’s when Yara’s idea came up, creating an area of pure Ki, a sanctuary for the Holy Beasts." (Elizabeth)
"It wasn’t my idea, it was an oracle from the Goddess of Life." (Yara)
"(I should have known she was planning something.)" (I)
I could feel the world already ready trying to pull my power out of me, the Seed of the World Tree was also acting differently, I feel it absorbing the threads of will that I didn’t even know were in my body, I soon realized that they are the wills of everyone devoured by Yntra and perhaps even the remains of her Soul, all went into the seed as my newest Essence flows together into the Seed creating a Star Fire within. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓾𝒷.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"(Merge these strands of will, but that won’t be enough.)" (I)
With that I pulled out the Phantom Orbs containing the Souls of everyone that Hela killed, I had some of them and threw them all into the seed that sucked everything in without showing any reaction.
"(What else is missing?)" (I)
I look at everyone moving away, they seem to know what I’m going to do or have been warned, someone must be watching without me noticing, it must be that World Tree or some God, maybe even all of the above.
"(A World Tree Spirit does not form because of Souls and wills, so what is its core of existence?)" (World Tree)
This time I heard your voice inside my head, but it made me think, I’m treating this soulless seed like what I did with Layla and others, I’m just throwing Souls and Wills in the hope of creating a spirit inside the seed, but nothing like that it happened.
"(Use this, master.)" (Sakura)
It took me a while to come to a conclusion and it was thanks to my new Essence, just like Sakura, I felt the Tree inside me just like before, a tree forged using stars with shells being crystallized stars, now a tree that expands in the void of space and now it was inside me, I could feel how far away from me.
"Let’s see what I can do with this." (I)
"Let’s start." (I)
