Volume 6 Chapter 159
by Golden DragonVolume 6 + Chapter 159: The Elf Who Would Destroy The World
The elven girl in the white dress sat upon a tree branch, the silver-white moonlight spilling over her, illuminating a face both delicate and endearing. Her ink-black hair cascaded behind her like a waterfall, its ends nearly brushing against her smooth bare feet.
She raised her hand, and the black bird flew before her, perching obediently upon her slender finger, then, as if returning to its original part of her body, the black bird dissolved into nothing.
“…Eve?”
Though the elf before her differed from the Elven Princess in Xia Yi’s memory, she still spoke that name.
The black-haired elf lowered her gaze at the silver dragon loli standing on the grass, her expression bright with delight.
“Xia Yi!”
Eve leaped down from the tree without the slightest hint of hesitation and immediately embraced Xia Yi, pressing the elf and the silver dragon together.
“Have you come to see me?”
“Yes…”
Xia Yi nodded, somewhat surprised in her heart.
At least from their first contact, she did not sense that Eve had become some irredeemable villain, she still seemed like a normal person.
Though compared to before, she appeared much more open and affectionate.
“Xia Yi crossed the barrier from the outside world and broke through the Envoys’ obstacles… all of this, just to see me,” Eve gazed at Xia Yi. “In this world, only Xia Yi would hold me in such high regard, wouldn’t you?”
“Eve, your hair…?”
Xia Yi raised her hand and touched Eve’s black tresses.
This was no disguise, it was her natural color.
Which meant Eve truly was a black-haired elf.
“My hair has always been this way. The grey hair before was a modification my mother placed on me to protect me.”
“Always?”
Xia Yi recalled that Eve had originally been kept under house arrest as a puppet queen, and it was only after Ella had unlocked something sealed in the depths of her consciousness that a change had occurred in Eve.
“Eve, I heard from Ella that she unlocked a seal in your consciousness. Are you being corrupted by something now?” Xia Yi asked earnestly. “If you’re facing such a difficulty, you can tell me, I’ve seen similar cases before.”
“No, Xia Yi. Thank you for your concern, but I am not being corrupted by anything. I’ve simply recovered a part of myself that was missing. I am still myself, do not worry.”
Eve stepped back, rose on her tiptoes, and spun around in place.
Beneath the moonlight, her movements were extraordinarily graceful, and that smile from the depths of her heart was one she would give only to Xia Yi, whom she valued most.
Xia Yi was stunned for a moment, she even had the illusion that she might be dreaming.
“But I heard from Ella that you intend to destroy the world, is that right?”
“Yes, and it has taken quite a bit of effort. Fortunately, everything is proceeding smoothly.”
Eve replied cheerfully.
Though her words were utterly outrageous, her tone was as if she were sharing something joyous with a friend.
“Xia Yi, would you like to know?”
“What are you planning to do?”
“Come, let me tell you. I haven’t planned to share this with anyone else, but if it’s you, I will explain everything clearly.”
Eve took Xia Yi’s hand and sat down together on the grass.
In an incredibly short time, beautiful flowers bloomed all around them on the grass, a sight that puzzled Xia Yi greatly.
This was certainly no natural phenomenon, plants did not grow that quickly.
Nor was it the elves’ unique nature magic.
It seemed that Eve had unconsciously released some special power, causing seeds buried in the soil to break through, grow, and blossom within mere seconds.
“Xia Yi, you encountered the Human Envoy in Molent City, didn’t you?” Eve began weaving a flower crown from the materials around her.
“Yes. In Molent City, I witnessed the history of the Mythological Era and even met the Human King of that age. It felt as though I had stepped into another world.”
“Exactly, that was all my doing, a miracle achieved through the World Tree.”
“So it truly is the World Tree?”
“The World Tree’s nature is to record historical information. I extracted the data from the Mythological Era and recreated it in this world. That’s why, in the aberrant Elven Kingdom, you see cities from the Mythological Era, Molent is one, and this Maginot Fortress is another.”
“Are those people all data recorded within the World Tree?”
“Yes. The information extracted from the World Tree is converted and projected into data entities, recreated here.”
“Then Qiu is merely… a data entity?”
Xia Yi had considered this possibility, but she still found it hard to accept.
She had genuinely felt that they were living, breathing dragons.
“Of course, among them are special data entities, those are the key subjects of the experiment,” Eve explained. “Some of the elves among them possess true souls. The entire data structure of Molent City revolves around these special data entities, simulating a real world for these souls to inhabit.”
“Elves?”
Xia Yi suddenly recalled.
Balan and Kennedy, two living souls whom she had also met before.
“Balan and Kennedy… do they have souls?”
“Yes. They have been transformed into soul-bearing data entities. And not just them, every single life in the entire Elven Kingdom has become a soul-data entity.”
“That… how is that possible?!” Xia Yi simply could not believe it.
“Xia Yi, the World Tree’s nature is to record information. What do you think would happen if the World Tree were reversed?”
Eve’s flower crown was nearly complete.
“The Anti-World Tree would be the opposite of the World Tree. Instead of merely recording, it would exercise, it could absorb all life within its range, cutting souls from reality and storing them within the World Tree as soul-information data.”
“…”
Xia Yi fell silent.
The “wind” Balan had spoken of must have been the call of the World Tree, calling all elves back to the Elven Kingdom to be excised.
In a sense, Eve had already destroyed the elven race.
Looking at Eve before her, Xia Yi felt she could no longer understand her.
“Finally finished~”
Eve placed the flower crown, woven from many blossoms, atop Xia Yi’s head, even as she narrated her own atrocities.
“Do you know, Xia Yi? Not long ago, I extended the World Tree’s roots to every corner of this land, just like the majestic tree of the Mythological Era. It can now influence the entire world.”
“The seeds of the World Tree took root in every nation and grew into trees overnight.”
“Once the World Tree has fully transformed into the Anti-World Tree, it will act like a central signal tower, turning all World Trees into Anti-World Trees and unleashing black mud to drown this world.”
Eve took Xia Yi’s hand, stood up, and admired the flower crown upon the little princess’s head with satisfaction.
A smile spread across the face of the elf who would destroy the world.
“At that time… all people, all life, will be excised into the Anti-World Tree, and the world will meet its end.”
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