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by fnovelpiaEpisode 108 – The Giving Tree 23 –
Fortunately, the newly started country progressed well.
However, the guardian’s heart was not fully recovered.
A healthy country collapsed in an instant.
Because the fact that he rules both the Elven Empire and Abenheim remains unchanged.
The boy had to figure out what to do to protect Abenheim.
“Humans will not accept it. and… Everyone is equal… So that no rebellion occurs.”
[Just because we don’t accept humans doesn’t mean problems won’t arise.]
“I know. If I take it now, it will only have the opposite effect. Even if you receive a human. Let’s get it in the distant future. Because we have a lot of time anyway.”
The boy, who had been severely burned in his previous life, changed direction.
Decide to pursue survival, not profit.
Temporarily block the residence of other races whose classes can be separated.
Share the blessings with all elves so that there is no discrimination whatsoever.
Through various methods, such as using his skills to make the place overflowing with food.
He was able to go back to what he had pursued when the elves were still a tribe.
Perhaps if this had continued indefinitely, Abenheim would have become a much better place than it is now.
The reason he stopped humans was to prevent the infiltration of spies while the internal affairs were still unstable.
If that were the case, Abraxas wouldn’t have needed to come either.
However, contrary to the saying that life is human life, just as life does not happen according to human will.
His world also did not go as he intended.
“What on earth is that tree that makes him think so highly of it?”
“He lives longer than us… It is said that someone with great power relies on it… ? Isn’t it God?”
“You may have inherited the power to talk to plants from that tree!”
To the elves, the boy was close to a god.
Although their power was weak, they seemed close to omnipotence.
Food and welfare were like miracles from God.
Even for such a being to have lived from thousands of years until now without growing old at all.
Even if he is not a god, he may be worthy of worship.
Although they were of the same race, the boy looked nothing alike except for his appearance.
A tree that such a boy relies on very much.
To the elves, the tree appears to be something truly amazing.
It was a natural thing.
“Here… It’s a great substance.”
“I heard this fertilizer is so good for plants… ”
“If I give you this, in the end… ”
When the boy started calling the tree, in fact, a god, he was in denial at first.
However, as people began to offer more and more valuable items, the boy also closed his eyes to some extent for the sake of the tree.
He was the only one who could talk to the tree.
Because what the elf offered to the tree was only beneficial to the tree.
And various precious items offered by the elves.
The result of the merging of the elves’ beliefs.
That’s how the tree became a god.
And the World Tree, which became the god of the elves.
I could never touch the boy again.
God is God.
Because plants couldn’t become gods.
It was a result no one could have imagined.
[uh… why… ?]
The tree was embarrassed that it could no longer talk to the boy.
It wasn’t dead.
But I couldn’t talk to anyone.
The boy who was now called the guardian of the World Tree was equally embarrassed.
I tried to talk to the tree like always.
I couldn’t do that.
Because the tree could not respond to him.
“Why?? Why why don’t we talk anymore… ? What did I do wrong… ?”
The Guardian was greatly shocked when he could no longer communicate with the World Tree.
It was because he thought that the World Tree might have abandoned him.
There is no one who can tell you the answer.
Even if I found the answer, I wasn’t sure.
My anxiety grew.
“No… It’s definitely alive. however… This must be… It looks like he’s dead, right?”
If I had died, I would have been able to overcome it someday.
Living things tend to give up at some point when hope completely disappears.
He had a long life left to live, so it was definitely possible.
But the World Tree was alive.
This resulted in the guardian not being able to let go of hope.
Because I became a god, something went wrong.
I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even have a conversation.
[Are you okay?]
The only thing I could talk about was.
There is only a spirit king of similar rank to himself.
The tree that became a god thought.
I decided to tell the truth through the Spirit King.
It was meaningless.
Because the guardian did not believe it.
In some ways, you could live your whole life without being able to communicate.
I might not have been able to tolerate it.
The Guardian continued to search for a way.
A way to save the world tree by any means possible.
[So, great messenger of the Heavenly God. Could you please tell me when Abenheim was built?
Can you tell me about the sins of the time this land was founded, which I have completely forgotten and abandoned?]
So, when the saint came to visit, he asked.
To find out what went wrong.
To find out what made things so distorted.
It was no use.
Because I didn’t do anything wrong.
“I don’t know why you left… Or maybe it’s just a long sleep. I’ll wait. Someday when you wake up… I will show you the beautiful Abenheim somehow.”
The guardian promised.
We decided to maintain Abenheim for the sake of the World Tree that will awaken someday.
It was the beginning of tragedy.
Of course, the World Tree was not asleep or angry.
The guardian could not be reached.
The Guardian did his best to maintain Abenheim, not develop it, in order to wait for the World Tree, which did not know when it would return.
People who didn’t receive it only when their inner strength was still weak.
I decided not to receive it at all.
If humans come back and what happened to the Elven Empire happens again.
Because when the World Tree awakens again, it may not have been in Abenheim.
So the elf was also prevented from going out.
The elf wants to go outside. Because this land was unsatisfactory.
It didn’t matter if the elves fell.
All I have to do is hold on until my friend wakes up.
“Must… Protect… ”
The guardian made a promise.
I promised again.
Although it’s no one’s fault.
The sins are piling up.
“Must… I’ll take it back. Back to the time I was with you… ”
But… The ironic thing is.
The whole world was watching such an abomination.
And the World Tree could not stand to see its close friend being ruined.
When we sent the Spirit King, he did not listen.
Other means were needed to get him to listen.
[The reason why the Spirit King can communicate with me is… Because it is a high-class spirit body and can imitate my special characteristics… then… If we apply this in reverse… ]
Unlike spirits, they have a body.
If only we could weaken the soul connection and apply it to others as well.
The world tree thought that we could have a conversation.
In this way, the World Tree created a technology.
The basis is spiritual communication.
A great technique for creating a character who can communicate with you like the Spirit King.
The world tree used the sword techniques it had seen and eventually created a single mind method.
He asked the Spirit King to pass on this skill.
This was the birth of ghost swordsmanship.
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When the whole story is over, the green glow that was sleeping inside my body comes out.
At the same time, the feeling of consciousness returning was mysterious and amazing.
All the truth has been realized.
I was able to understand why things like this had been happening.
“That was the reason for the birth of Ghost Swordsmanship. To create a being that can communicate with you.”
[It’s nothing special. Just like the child could communicate with plants. We just developed a technology that detects something in a completely different way.]
The basis is spirits.
But something other than a spirit.
Why did spirits continue to gather in this land?
That may be because that tree eventually became a spirit.
The basis of ghost swordsmanship is spirits.
And the basis of the sacred tree is just an ordinary tree.
Perhaps the reason why this approach should have been chosen is simple.
The World Tree has become a spiritual body, but the physical body is still alive, which is a contradictory state.
If there is only a spirit body, it is a spirit.
If you only have a body, you can become a living thing.
Because they were awkwardly caught between the two, communication was impossible unless it was the Spirit King.
So, communication was only possible through the ghost sword technique that deals with both body and soul.
[Tens of thousands of years. You’ll know that when elves are in emotional pain, they manage their mental strength by simply not thinking about it.
The child was mentally the same, but he couldn’t do it. Everything on this earth is made up of just one ideology: to save me and show that I was successful.]
“He lost everything he had built. In the end, I was about to give up on life, but if I survived thanks to you… In fact, it may have been as good as life.
He may have forgotten, but he was also betrayed by the elves. Just as the distant ancestors of the imperial nobles are elves.”
At this point, it’s practically like entrusting your life to someone else.
Our relationship was so close that if that guy died, I would die too.
How do you look at it… By creating a half-elf, he was also betrayed by the elves.
The only being that the Guardian, who was betrayed by humans, could trust… It may have been the only world tree.
A being more precious than your own life.
To give up on something like that when it hasn’t died yet… It may have been too much treatment.
[The crime that that child committed… Please forgive me… ]
“There is nothing to forgive. Because his actions are not objectively bad.”
The actions he did were tens of thousands of years ago.
If we applied the standards back then, we would be spitting while lying down.
Great Korean figures like King Sejong and Admiral Yi Sun-sin.
If we apply a modern perspective, there is no awareness of human rights. He defended the caste system. Because we can use the same miraculous logic.
There is little to criticize right now.
The problem didn’t arise now in the first place.
Ignoring problems that will arise in the future is ultimately just a prediction.
It’s not too late now.
Moreover, it looks like he realized the problem himself and made an effort to fix it.
Perhaps, if it had worked out well, things would have progressed on their own.
‘I finally understand the entire situation.’
Rather than moving forward from 0% to 5%.
It’s easier to move forward from 95% to 100%.
The story is like that too.
We know almost the entire battle situation now.
The questions that had not yet been resolved were also naturally resolved.
“Then… Did you also deliver the branch to the elf elder?”
[It was a good time. Because you have mastered the ghost sword technique perfectly. I just needed an excuse to bring in humans.]
The World Tree moved its branches and gave him a hallucination.
Perwell, the elf elder, followed his instructions and took the branch out.
Perhaps they were trying to create a variable because they were particularly special elves.
And that variable ultimately succeeded.
“But… If only I could move… Why didn’t you move?”
Another question arises here.
I can now understand why the Guardian was angry at the World Tree’s intervention at the end of the fight with the Guardian.
The World Tree’s response.
It must be because he wrote what he wanted so much to me and not to anyone else.
But I could move, so why wouldn’t I move?
I would have been able to convey my thoughts by writing letters.
[for now… Let me tell you, in the case of an elf blessed with plants, it was possible because mind control was my power base.
The plants also listened to me when I asked them to hide.]
Plants can communicate with their guardians.
Because of that friendliness, they often listen to what the guardian says.
However, this does not mean that the guardian can give orders to the plants.
So, when another being, the World Tree, asked him to conceal the fact, he hid the fact.
The situation came together so well that it was truly creepy.
[I wanted to actually become something outside of the plant… It became difficult to control my body. I’m not sure why.
My intervention with you at that time was limited. Maybe I’ll do the same thing next time… We will have to wait tens of thousands of years.]
“So you never came forward until the conflict was completely resolved?”
[Because in the end, we cannot have a conversation.]
The entire situation has been revealed.
Now what were the things on this earth?
And why did the Water Spirit King ask me to come to this land?
Who is the real culprit who took out the branches of the World Tree?
Why is the World Tree standing by?
Now all that’s left is.
The only guardian who wants to meet the World Tree even if it means leading the elves to their downfall.
The guardian of the World Tree thinks of his close friend who was ruined after a long time.
asked me to
[please… Please send that child away.]
“Why? Could it be possible to live in this land?”
[You may think this land is fertile, but… Tropical rainforests are not inherently fertile land.
[
The jungle is not originally a suitable place for humans to live.
As the saying goes, too much is too little.
Terrain such as deserts and polar regions are very bad for humans to live in, but even if there is a lot of living things like a jungle, it is difficult to live there.
All plants are poisonous.
This is because it is too strong to be eaten.
It is not for nothing that there are many slash-and-burn farmers in the jungle area.
This is because if you don’t burn them all, there will be a lot of plants left behind.
[Before that child, there was no value in acquiring land, so I just stood by.
Since that child was born, he was able to take care of plants, and that is why this land became so fertile… Originally, it was useless land.]
“It doesn’t matter now that it’s fertile, right?”
[In the end, it will end when the child dies. Abenheim will return to its original state.
So, the two of us planned to settle down in this land and move forward slowly. But I couldn’t do that.]
“War inevitably brings the risk of invasion.”
After all, the World Tree was considering what would happen after his death.
If he dies someday or fails. This is because the elves will eventually have to leave this land without a guardian.
[These are the child’s descendants. As much as I want the child to be happy, I also want the elf to be happy.
And for the child to be happy, for the elves to live after the child dies… We must leave this land.]
“Because there is no eternity.”
In the end, the World Tree was opened when its guardian was still alive.
It is to make you leave this land.
If it’s something you have to do someday.
At least it’s right to do it when you’re healthy.
“Then I might not be able to see the Guardian for a long time? If you leave without the elf fully settling down, you will be targeted.”
[It doesn’t matter. This has already happened countless times.]
The World Tree spoke fiercely.
I felt it in my heart.
It was definitely not an easy choice.
[I just want that child to be happy. I have stayed on this earth my whole life. Now is the time to experience a different world.]
“You may die without achieving it. Is it okay though?”
[All things have an end someday. That child would also have been sad for several years if I had died completely instead of being half-alive, but he would have accepted it after understanding that there was an end to this earth.
So please let that child get off this land. Humans today can tolerate elves.]
The World Tree asked me one last favor.
Keep the guardian of the World Tree away from the World Tree.
A contradictory statement.
Of course I was going to listen.
Just asking one thing.
“Of course. But I have one question to ask.”
[What is it?]
“It’s about elves and humans.”
There is something I have been thinking about for a long time.
Unlike what is implicitly permitted in creative works.
At this point, it has become a reality and it is something that must be overcome.
“Do elves and ■■ ■ ■■■?”
My words spread out of my mouth and Shinmok heard them.
And the being was surprised.
There was no facial expression, but it was clearly visible.
[That’s right.]
And only after hearing those words.
I could be sure.
Only then was I able to leave.
Guardian of the World Tree.
It was my turn to have a final discussion with him.
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