Episode 30. Face to face with the World Tree (4)
“Hey, World Tree…… What is that—”
Perfect!
As Naiad overhears and interrupts our conversation, the World Tree snaps his fingers. Then the world loses its color and everyone stops. Except for me and the World Tree.
Has time stopped?
“A third party shouldn’t be involved in a story like this. Does Prause think so too?”
“…… There’s certainly nothing good about telling a story from another world in front of other people. But why am i moving? Was it only me who solved it partly?”
“No. That’s because Prause came from the outside world. You are one of the only two beings I can’t control. Because it is out of causality.”
“You are out of causality… …. I heard you talked to the Spirit King about players like that.”
“Please understand. Because you were a player, you had no choice but to bring it into this world and leave it alone. This world doesn’t want me to be your guide.”
Until now, I had seen the World Tree as the god who governed this world.
I thought I would have the omnipotence to do everything. But is the world tree just one of the characters in this world?
“Even though I manage cause and effect, I can’t do everything. If that was the case, I would have killed the demon king with my own hands.”
“…… It’s okay to leave it alone. That’s not what’s important.”
“You look cool.”
Because she talks in the image of Prause’s mother, it bothers me for nothing. I felt like I shouldn’t have said anything wrong.
“More than that, how did you make me possess a person in this world?”
At my question, she placed her hand on her chin and pondered for a while, then slowly raised her rhyme.
“…… Have you ever thought about that? The idea that the world Lee Hangyul lived in could actually be a game trick.”
“What?”
“Some people believe that the world is real, but for others, it could be a game. Like this world that Lee Hangyul feels right now.”
It was an idea that had never been done before.
My world could actually be a game world. Who would ever think like that in their lifetime?
“The reason why Lee Hangyul feels this world is alien is because he concludes that this world is simply a game world. If you had been born and raised in this world, would you have thought of this world as a game world?”
Before she could hear my answer, she shook her head.
“Not at all. I would have accepted this world as reality.”
I couldn’t deny it.
Though she thought that she had to see this world as a reality, the perception that it was a game world was embedded in a corner of her head.
Because I was aware of that fact, I acknowledged the words of the World Tree without realizing it.
“Then take me to this world…… No, how did you get Prause to possess it?”
“I used games as a medium to connect the world and dimension where Lee Hangyul lived. If you have a medium, you can give some degree of cause and effect. The structure of this world can be created by putting it into other people’s heads properly, right? They will also think it was a flash and work hard to make the game.”
“Is it possible to interfere with people from other dimensions?”
“I can do it. However, it is only a small part, and it consumes a lot of causality in the process, so it is not a good method.”
“So, are you saying that it was you who prompted me to make the game ‘The Three Warriors of Pretium’?”
“Right. However, it was only an inducement, and I could not guarantee that the game would be developed.”
It was a very unrealistic statement to believe right away.
It was an undeniable fact that the World Tree intervened at the time I was possessed by this world, but believing it was another matter.
“Then, isn’t it possible that the world view of the game and the structure of this world are different?”
Even if it’s a flash, it’s a human accident after all. Thoughts change all the time. Unless this was completely under her control, it was bound to change.
However, in the five years I have lived in this world, I have never been wrong in my knowledge of the game.
In other words, the worldview of the game ‘The Three Warriors of Pretium’ was not different from this world.
“Fortunately, it was mostly the same. The slightly different part is that I adjusted the cause and effect and matched the information that Mr. Lee Hangyul knew.”
Is that really possible? Even so…….
“Why did you go that far? I don’t know why we need to bring in a person from another dimension.”
“Sorry. I thought that this part needed a sufficient explanation in advance, but since you came over to this world, I have not been able to interfere.”
“There is no need for petty apologies. What’s the point of doing it now? Okay, tell me why.”
She looked me in the eye and said quietly.
“I…… I didn’t want this world to be destroyed. I returned this world many times and made heroes, but…… After the second demon king was born, I couldn’t kill him even once, and I couldn’t prevent the destruction of the Physis continent.”
Couldn’t prevent destruction? Wait a minute, this…….
“Wait. Doesn’t that mean that you can’t kill the demon king with only the hero?”
“…… I do not know.”
I don’t know.
Where are these irresponsible words?
“In the game, only the warriors were able to kill the demon king.”
“That…… It’s a future I haven’t seen. The demon king is much stronger than what was implemented in the game, and will be beyond imagination.”
In other words, unlike other demon subjugation, does this mean that the demon king subjugation was not made with the information given by the World Tree, but only with the imagination of the game developers?
Because game developers have to somehow make players wake up.
“Ha… ….”
How far is hard mode really going?
The final boss is the worst variable. It’s crazy, really.
…… No, is it real now?
“However, most of the skills the demon king uses will be as implemented in the game. These are things that the warriors have grown up and challenged over and over again.”
That was not comforting at all.
Even though I tried all sorts of strategies with the best conditions and the best items in the game, I don’t know how many times I searched.
But when I said that it would be stronger than the game, I couldn’t help but lose my motivation. How powerful is that…….
“Isn’t this the world you created? Shouldn’t we be able to adjust that much?”
“…… I want to do that too, but the Demon King, like Lee Hangyul, is out of my hands. It wasn’t something I could control. After the second demon king was born, other demons also started to get out of my hands.”
The World Tree closed his eyes tightly and bit his lower lip.
“An existence that absorbs mana and turns it into demonic energy… …. If it had been possible to tune them, I wouldn’t have left them in this world.”
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Speaks as if appealing. He said he was irresistible.
I sighed. Saying that would only prove his own incompetence.
I wasn’t a kind enough person to sympathize with the girl who brought me to this world, saying, “It must have been difficult.”
“Yes… …. To sum up, the reason for making the game was to help players understand this world and to select the people they would bring to this world.”
“Right.”
“Why me? I didn’t have good control in the game, and I made countless warriors die.”
“Because it is.”
“What?”
“Because you went through trial and error more than anyone else, you have a better understanding of this world than anyone else, and I was able to see your spirit and determination. And most of all, it gave me a fresh shock that he has the ability to think of possibilities and cases.”
“Because I went through trial and error more than anyone else, I understand this world better than anyone else…… La.”
…… Are you going to turn it around?
“There is no point in bringing someone who doesn’t know anything about this world. As Lee Hangyul knows, the place where you meet the warriors for the first time is the place where everything ends before it even starts if you are a little late.”
Definitely.
I thought so too.
If I hadn’t visited the warriors, what would have happened by now?
Iris or Maria could have lived as slaves and suffered abuse, or Tina may have stopped begging and sold her body.
I don’t care because I’m a minor or an adult, but this world doesn’t seem to care about that.
This world lacked more morality than I thought.
In the end, if you fall into this world without any information, you won’t be able to do anything, let alone save the heroes and prevent destruction.
This world has an imbalance that can’t avoid destruction without a hero.
“In the game, it is assumed that the player controls the heroes, but in reality it is not.”
“I see.”
It’s still hard to believe how the World Tree brought me here, but I definitely understand why the World Tree brought me here.
Judged that the hero alone could not defeat the worst variable, the demon king, the country attached an unknown possibility. In order to somehow control the variable.
But…….
“Aren’t you too gambler? I am weak. When it comes to power, it’s all about using artifacts. I’m sure he would die just approaching the demon lord, far from winning. Do you think I will be of any help?”
“You are weak because you haven’t become a real Prause yet.”
“What?”
“I told you. That your causality is out of line. You are still weak because I cannot intervene.”
Is it weak because the World Tree can’t intervene?
So you mean I can be strong if I can only intervene?
“Originally, from the moment you came to this world, you already have power comparable to a hero… No, I should have had more than that. But I couldn’t do that because I was out of causality.”
My head can’t keep up with the words of the World Tree. As I put my soul on her and look at her, “Hmm.” And think about something briefly.
“I think you might not believe it. But it’s the truth. For example, consider your living skills. Others may have seen you tremble with terror and fear as you feel your great mana. Yes?”
The words of the World Tree reminded me of the many people who were stunned by my life-saving skills. I nodded slowly.
“That mana is real. I just haven’t been able to use it yet. Proof of that are the artifacts you’ve been using all along. The reason why I was able to use mana for the artifact was because I was able to accept the cause and effect, even though it was temporary. But even that is only a fraction of it.”
“Then I can’t feel the mana around me… ….”
“Right. It’s because I haven’t become a person in this world yet.”
This is an absurd story.
Originally, a person who should have become a strong person who surpasses a hero becomes possessed by an ordinary person.
“Then how can I use that power?”
To defeat the demon king, you have to grab at least a straw. If my strength was truly superior to the hero’s, it wasn’t completely impossible to kill the demon lord.
Ah, but then I have to fight the demon king, right? I hate that…….
At my words, the World Count spread four fingers.
“Four more. ‘Completely’ cancel the facial expression management skill.”
“Facial expression management skills…… ?”
“That skill was used to accept you into this world. It’s a kind of skill that resolves causality. If you can completely unlock that facial expression management skill, you will be able to use my full power.”
To be able to fully use the power of the World Tree…….
I was briefly taken aback by the amount of information that suddenly came in, but I immediately activated the accident circuit.
The mana that people around me admired and was surprised by was real, and the reason I was able to use the artifact was because I was using that mana.
In addition, the expression management skill is used to coordinate the cause and effect of the World Tree, and if you cancel it, you can fully use the power of the World Tree.
If the world capital obeyed the laws of this world, there was only one possibility that could be conceived.
“…… Could it be that you are my contractor?”
“That is correct. Mr. Lee Hangyul, no… Prause. You are me, the contractor of the World Tree, who coordinates this world.”