chapter 14
Chapter 14 – Another World (4)
Chapter 14 – Another World (4)
[Elf’s Prayer-Oath]
She and the young elves suppressed her excitement and joy, and for this moment, reverently and seriously, sat in front of the world tree and performed her ceremony.
A ritual using the dungeon core brought after completely conquering the dungeon. At this point, you can get an idea of what it’s trying to do, so it’s obvious that it’s trying to extract the energy that dwells within the core.
It seems that she already knows the method that we humans have been researching for over 10 years and managed to invent.
“—.”
Muttering quietly, she lifted her arrow into her hand. And right after that, she shot down the arrow of her compound bow, which seemed to be burning blue flames, directly into the dungeon core.
‘Strength…’
The core cracks open and emits strong energy inside. Those energies, which were just mirages without special processing techniques, began to be sucked into the World Tree naturally through the wind.
[Nameless World Tree lv 5]
The World Tree grew all at once. The leaves are greener, and the stems are darker. I felt an incomparable vitality from before, when I was just a withered bonsai.
[Increased dominance of the World Tree]
The aftermath has grown to the point where you can see it. As more vitality spreads through the flower pot, which had only been green around the World Tree until now, life began to grow in other areas that were just dark soil.
Of course, even a large apple tree is actually only half the size of a finger, so the world tree reaching 30cm in height was the most unique.
“…”
While the elves were delighted to see it, I retrieved the buzzing drone.
I don’t know what the alternative standard is, but after adjusting the magnification and putting it inside, the drone passes the border of the world inside the pot without resistance, and the size returns to its original size and settles in my hand.
She looked back at it, and she smiled and waved her hand at the drone. A beautiful smile full of goodwill to a comrade who fought together against a formidable enemy. A smile that I want to see again and again.
However, as I started to charge the drone, a corner of my heart felt stuffy somewhere even as I looked at the smile I wanted to protect.
[Biological exchange possible without demonization]
It is because of another power possessed by the world tree that grew after defeating the ant nest. It’s true that I had a strong desire to communicate with her by sending her things and sometimes meet her in person and talk to her.
But now, when I finally got that opportunity, conflicts and worries outweighed expectations and excitement.
‘Coward.’
I laughed and tore my hair out. If you stay still, nothing will break. It’s just that I’m greedy for wanting more and fall down. After all, I’m just scared.
I was afraid that the relationship with the residents in the pot, which is going well now, would be disturbed or ruined.
Now I don’t like running away or adapting again. I hope it doesn’t change like this. Because I think it’s precious, I can’t approach it.
“Seunghyun-ah, are you inside?”
Then someone knocked on our door.
If it’s not delivery or courier, there’s actually only one person who will knock on our door.
“Ugh, give me all these things.”
“I brought roughly one, but there are so many that I can’t help it.”
I managed my expression and opened the door with a smile, and in front of him stood the landlord holding something bari-bari.
“A little bit of kimchi. This.”
“Is it a flowerpot?”
“That’s good for beginners.”
A good man who likes to share something with the tenants when they are bored. It’s a side dish like kimchi that I often get, but today I had something different. It is a small flowerpot that is not very large.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been looking at fairly large pots with bonsais in them, so the size of the pots, about the size of my palm, is a bit awkward.
“It’s a good hobby. People who don’t understand won’t understand until the end, but it definitely has the effect of calming the mind. It will definitely help you when you are anxious and confused.”
And the words the uncle said while handing over the flowerpot were meaningful. There’s no way I’d know my heart and say something like that, but even if it was a coincidence, it was a word with bones in it.
“Help, definitely works.”
With a smile, I received the flowerpot in which the herbs were growing. How nervous and happy I have been over the past few days thanks to what has been happening in my flower pot. It was to the point where I didn’t notice the passage of time.
“When you grow up well and die, at times like this it’s a bit silly and absurd, but in the end, that’s fate. I don’t show off because I’m sick like an animal, so I just believe that I’m growing well and go. How can you live a life if you are shaken by growing a plant?”
Perhaps he was worried that I would give up my hobby, he preached his theories and the merits of flower pots with all his heart, like a deceased person who cares about and takes care of newbies.
Of course, my worries and fears stemming from experiences close to trauma won’t go away immediately, but in the end, if I can’t overcome them, I’ll just stand still.
Still, she and the elves aren’t dumb like plants, so I wondered if I could overcome any problems I had with them if I did my best.
In the end, it’s up to me. Above all, my desire to meet them was so great that I suppressed the fear and worry that had been engraved in my body.
In a situation where only a small trigger was needed to reverse it, the uncle’s advice played the role, so I quickly calmed down my shaky and conflicted mind.
“Thank you. I will raise you well.”
I saw him off with a genuine smile, not a false mask. I was left alone at home again, but with a much lighter heart, I put the potted plant in my hand on the table in the living room.
[Available to connect to new regions]
“… Huh?”
But when I go to the veranda to prove my mind. A phrase that shook it came to mind.
“Why is this here?”
On top of this little potted plant that I just set down on the table.
[Nameless Herb Forest]
“…”
It was already late in the evening, and I couldn’t even sit down and seriously thought about it.
First of all, about what this means. All the information that came to mind was really just that one word. Since you mentioned that it is a new area, could it be that the pot with the World Tree and this herb pot…Are connected?
I hurriedly inspected the flowerpot. The young elves were already sleeping, and she was fiddling around making her own thing by lighting her bonfire.
‘No way that’s it.’
When I took her gaze from her, my eyes searched every nook and cranny of the potted plant. Then, what I saw was a faint light in the corner of the pot. It was so small that I would have missed it if I hadn’t looked carefully, and it was about her height.
As I adjusted the magnification, I sighed in a daze when I realized that it was a crack in a shimmering space. For some reason, I felt like I knew where I would end up if I crossed that rift.
‘What if it’s real?’
In order to turn my anxious thoughts into certainty, I restarted the drone after it had been charged. Without even telling her, I quietly let her fly across the sky and drove her drone through the rift in space.
And the moment you finally pass through that rift.
“No, this is crazy.”
I muttered that it was absurd. What I saw on the dim camera screen was bright light and a huge forest of green herbs.
The drone flew around the herb forest, which has a different appearance from the world tree, which is a bonsai, and inspected every corner of her. Maybe because the lights were on in the living room, it was as bright as daylight, unlike the world tree pot.
‘Tomorrow she will find this place.’
My head rolled pretty quickly as I retrieved the drone that flew in from the living room. It happened anyway, and it was out of my hands.
It is certain that she will find this place tomorrow when the sun rises and the light returns to the world in the pot.
How can we not take advantage of this fact? Maybe, I could use this to meet her a little more naturally? A thought flashed through her head.
***
“Are you feeling better?”
“Sure. I am fine now.”
“We have to go filming again today. Rather than being alone, Mr. Seunghyun, isn’t it better to do it after work?”
“I will.”
Monday, after three days of work. But this time too, I was able to get off work early and work from home.
Thanks to this, I can see the screen of my cell phone properly without being caught. What can be seen on the screen now is her face, looking somewhat serious.
Even though all the beast ants that are clearly a threat have been dealt with, why are they so hardened? I laughed bitterly, and I knew why.
‘It was a good plan.’
When I got home, I stood in front of the table in a hurry. Like the bonsai pot on the veranda, in this small pot that can no longer be touched, an object that was not there yesterday is placed at once.
A different kind of miniature house I bought when I put her in her house. It’s something I pre-installed last night.
Surely she found a crack this morning and came here to find this house empty. And he’s in trouble.
You must be surprised and amazed. Worried at the same time I don’t even know if the owner of this house is an enemy or not.
“Huh, good.”
I felt impatient for no reason, put down my luggage and took a deep breath to prepare. In fact, all of these plans were conjectures, so if you really want to succeed, you have to prove it with your own body.
[Biotransfer: Force Scaling]
For the first time, I applied this unknown power to my body.
The power that I used freely by putting things in until now slowly erodes my body.
“Ugh, ugh…”
Instantly, strong pressure began to press down on my entire body.
A strange and bizarre sensation that I feel for the first time in my life. The moment I thought that I had done something stupid without knowing what it was, or that I should have taken a pigeon or a stray cat and experimented with it.
“Ugh, ugh!”
My body became smaller in an instant. And the dirt floor in the herb pot became a huge flat ground and rushed toward my body.
No, the ground is not rushing. It was me falling