Chapter 371 The End Of The Malevolent Tree
"Since when did i get this strong?" Elina thought to herself as she looked down at her wand and then at her two hands. Her eyes contained a hint of confusion, a testament of the inexplainable situation that had just occurred.
After all, for someone like her, killing an entity that far surpassed her level was already an unthinkable feat, not to mention the current situation in which not only did she killed that man but was also able to do so using only a few attacks.
The battle didnt contain any sort of grandeur nor did it show any hardships that many combatants usually faced during their battles against such entities. It was a simple battle in which Elina attacked, the man dodged and then being hit by her curses, he completely vanished.
"Could it be-" she thought and then looked around cautiously, "What if he vanished on his own accord and is currently hiding in ambush," as she thought of that, she found it to be true and raised her guard but the next moment, the devil residing within her spoke,
"Calm down kid. The spirit consciousness of the tree is gone for good,"
"But how? I know that thing is too strong for even Ray and his mother to handle, then how did it die following my attacks?" She asked in confusion.
"Silly child!" The devil spoke, "It was on the verge of death and had come here for a last chance at its life but you happened to be here at the opportunate moment moment and killed it for good,"
"Ohkay," Elina murmured and then turned around and saw Aella standing in front of her, an embarrassed expression on her face as she used both her hands to cover certain parts of her body.
"Oh yeah," Elina looked at her and then her embarrassed expression as her face also flushed red. Reaching into her dimensional storage, she took out a pair of clothes and handed it Aella, "hurry up, the tree is going to meet its end soon. We don't have much time, we need to get out before the final attack falls,"
"Okay," Aella nodded and turned around and hurriedly changed her clothes.
Soon after, Aella was done changing and both the girls nodded at one another and rushed out of the tree, as they were walking along the path outside, they felt the tree shake.
Following this, tremors spread through the tree as Elina's expression turned sour, "Run for you life!" She shouted and picked up her pace, using all her abilities to move faster and faster. Following her, Aella did the same, utilizing the last bit of her magic to call upon elemental wind and used it augment both herself and Elina, which caused their speed to increased by a good margin.
Soon enough, the opening came in their sights but just as their expressions relaxed, they felt faint fluctuations of mana in the whole place. Their expression once again turned off the worst and they kept on running, their fate uncertain, they didn't hold any other thought in their mind and extorted the maximum strength they could and just ran.
They could feel the tree losing its strength by the moment as some sort of divine power fell upon it. Not wanting to be subjected to such a terrible fate, Elina used all of her powers and brought out her wands. Aiming at the path in front of her, she shot out a few of the augmenting curses she had.
After all, Elina's curses weren't just oriented towards harming the enemy but also had the effect of helping her and her teammates and right now, she was using those certain curses to help her in this situation. Though, even she was uncertain if that would work because she knew how strong those curses were and in the current situation, the curses weren't up to the mark to help them.
As the curses were shot, the rocky and rugged path in front of them changed as it turned into a stoned straight path that made it easier for both of them run forward and reach the opening.
Not just that, but another curse also took effect as it was aimed at both their feet, making their feet feel as light as air. This made it so that they wont get fatigued for the time being and would be able to exert themselves to the maximum.
The curses weren't too much of a help but every bit of help counted and soon enough, they had reached the opening, "Jumpp!!!" Elina shouted as she exerted all her strength at once and jumped at once while Aella did the same.
Right as they both jumped, the whole tree shook uncontrollably as an authoritative voice descended voice descended, "Whoever called me here, I will look into that later but to see such an abomination here is a shame for me and as the greatest authority over the nine realms, I shall eradicate this completely,"
As the voice declared that, a huge tree manifested itself in the void. The tree reached up to unimaginable heights and gave off such a power that it even made Ray's mother tremble in her place.
"The Yagdrassil," she faintly muttered and continued to watch everything.
The very next moment, a light erupted from the Yagdrassil and fell upon the malevolent tree. Following the fall of the light, malevolent tree shuddered as its branches that were flaying around came to a halt and were affixed to their places.
Following that, a few spikes came out from the Yagdrassil. The spikes were as such considering the huge size and form of the Yagdrassil but if taken from the perspective of a normal human, they were huge spears that gleamed such a dangerous light that it made one's hair stand on their ends.
"Such power," everyone muttered as they looked at the scene and saw the spears move forward at the speed of light, only seeing strange blurs and the very next moment, a scream had erupted from the malevolent tree, after which a strange sensation spread through the forest.
"Is it?" Sirius muttered as he looked down at his body.
"Yes, its life force energy. The forest's life force that this thing had sucked all this time," Ray's mother affirmed as even she could feel it. Not only the forest but even they were gaining a bit of life force, causing their wounds to slowly heal up but it wasn't a huge amount and could only be considered a drop of water falling into an ocean.
As they looked up once again, they saw the tree's leaves and branches start withering very fast and soon the withering reached the trunk and as it did, everything turned to dust at once.
The phenomenon was strange and unexplainable. After all, how could they understand such things, being mortals themselves while the attacker was an existence that had lived for uncountable eons.
"Such power, after all there is much to this universe than our meager selves and only by exploring the universe shall one see the vastness of life," Ray's mother muttered, her spirit suddenly peaking as she seemed to have gained some sort of enlightenment.
Following the end of malevolent tree's end, a reddish crystal was formed as it silently floated in the air, "I will not repeat my mistake. I shall take this spirit crystal and keep it with myself to not let any world face such corruption ever again," Declared the Yagdrassil in a loud booming voice that spread far and wide.
Right after that, the Yagdrassil's presence then focused on the staff that was hovering next to it and following that, the presence fell upon the unconscious figure of Ray. It seemed to be linger on Ray's figure for some time before it spoke, "Pitiable child, to be the holder of such a fate. Here you go, I shall help you to some extent. I will wait for you in the far future, may we meet again and remember, the Yagdrassil doesn't let any favors unturned. Hence, I shall grant you my blessing," Saying so, the unimaginable presence fell upon Ray and his wounds started to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Along with that, another message was sent to Ray's sea of consciousness which was stored by Aurora for Ray to hear later on. Along with that, a few changes occurred to his broken and cracked mana core as the slowly leaking mana from it was stopped.
After that, the illusory figure and the Yagdrassil's presence vanished and the place returned to silence.
"Phewwww," Ray's mother exhaled as she fell to her hips and sighed in relief. The mission was done and everything had finally ended and they had finally managed to remain alive and well.
By now, the others also came out of their shock and smiled wryly. They had won but it felt strange for once, they were without injuries but looking at Ray, he was greatly injured and was currently out cold.
"Sighh, we won but at what cost," they all thought. The battle was truly too much for them and far above their caliber.
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