Geomje reincarnated as a swordsmith (224)
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As soon as Yggdrasil ended its long life, the realm began to experience cataclysm.
As the World Tree, which spread poison as the agent of pollution, absorbed all the poison over a range that could be tens of kilometers or more, trees that had shown abnormal shapes and growth rates were returning to their original state.
Fresh leaves sprout from the tips of branches that had been distorted hideously due to malice and hostility, and fine roots that had dug deep into the groundwater and polluted the water veins turn into soft, fluffy fur.
That’s not all.
The flower buds, which could not bloom because they had no reproductive function, bloomed all at once, painting the entire area with gorgeous colors.
“It’s beautiful!”
“Well, it’s hard to believe it’s spriggan land.”
“Mana circulation has returned to normal, and the power to destroy the barrier has completely disappeared. “Is Yggdrasil dead?”
The knights who were guarding the area in the mobile fortress also noticed the situation without anyone knowing.
The influence that distorted life and death suddenly disappeared.
As the power consumed by the protective barrier stabilized, the expedition team, which was facing a situation that was close to counting down, finally relaxed. I never let go of the sword I was holding in my hand, but I could not do anything about the strength draining from my extremely exhausted mind and body.
“hey! “Just take a look over there.”
Despite their fatigue, someone watched the change in the area and discovered a twinkling light in the forest faster than anyone else.
He shouted to his colleagues in a voice that could not be heard.
“What are you looking at?”
“Has an enemy even appeared?”
The knights who were grumbling because they didn’t have the strength to turn their heads turned in that direction.
and.
“… … government ordinance?”
I could see the spirits returning in a non-spriggan form.
Although it was only low-level, neither high-level nor middle-level, the mana that made up its body was extremely pure.
Water spirits flowed down the leaves like dew, and wind spirits wandered through the gaps, playing notes that sounded like songs. There were quite a few spirits poking their heads out through the tree roots.
Excluding the fire spirits that can be found in volcanoes or deep underground, all the spirits of the four major elements have appeared.
“The area is normalizing? Even if Yggdrasil is dead, the cleanup work of the contaminated land will take a hundred years… ?”
“Didn’t the leaders accomplish something?”
“Maybe so. Whatever happened, we won! “That fact is clear without a doubt!”
Some people had doubts, some suggested possibilities, and others simply cheered and raised their weapons.
It wasn’t long before the inside of the fortress, which had been bubbling with despair and even more fighting spirit, was filled with an atmosphere of hope.
“??ah.”
It was around that time that Leonard, who had been pushed out of the heart of the World Tree, was able to look outside again. The ink sword that had pierced the wooden heart was already back at his waist.
Leonard, who unconsciously fumbled with the hilt of his sword, soon felt something strange.
It had to be that way.
‘[Pollux]’s power became a little faint, but as Yggdrasil’s power increased, its intensity increased.’
The ink sword, which decorated the end of an existence revered as a great minister in the old era and was blessed directly by the World Tree, was now at a level that could easily be called a divine device.
As he smiled with the inevitable satisfaction as a swordsman, the leaders came around him and spoke to him again.
“You’re back. Yggdrasil is… “There’s no need to ask more.”
As Wade said that, he looked at Yggdrasil.
“It seems like they are trying to absorb and destroy all of [Nidhogg’s] poison that was spread throughout the area.”
Grace, who is most sensitive to the flow of the natural world, accurately pinpointed the intention of that force.
Leonard nodded as if affirming what she said.
“It’s probably just as you guessed. “Yggdrasil came to his senses and admitted my mistake.”
“You regained your sanity?! ah! “The one you said you wrote to Cybele?”
“Yes, it’s because Yggdrasil hasn’t been completely swallowed up by madness yet. “If I had gone completely crazy, it wouldn’t have worked.”
Then Uruka, who was lying down with a waxy complexion, smiled and said.
“mistake? Ha, what a mistake. Did the World Tree himself say that?”
“yes.”
“Can you tell me everything? “Just hearing that, I don’t know whether to let go of the resentment or keep holding on to it.”
“All right.”
In addition to his sense of duty as the leader of the Green Dragon Knights, he was a man who burned his whole life with a personal grudge.
There were too many things that had accumulated for me to forgive them all by calling them ‘mistakes.’
So Leonard told him what Yggdrasil had said.
-sorry.
-I was arrogant.
-Goodbye then. Thank you so much for living well even in a world without us.
Far from being arrogant, Uruka’s ridicule subsided with each word that was unbecoming and condescending, and soon he lowered his eyelids with a serene expression on his face.
The hatred that had consumed his soul had greatly diminished.
“… “If you had made even one excuse, I would never have forgiven you.”
The determination and sincerity that Yggdrasil showed at the end made it impossible to doubt its sincerity. Uruka’s eyes, which had let go of all resentment toward the end of her life, looked more peaceful than ever.
It was then.
{Hello, humans.}
{It must be a bit awkward trying to greet each other after a vicious fight.}
Demigod-level beings who became spirit kings again from the spirit kings.
Cybele, the spirit king of the earth, and Boreas, the spirit king of the storm, appeared before the four. Unlike before, the knight commanders who were about to react unconsciously to the sight of transparent eyes without malice, wrapped in pure power, calmed their fighting spirit.
This was especially true because even if Uruka was dying, they could have won by an overwhelming margin of 3 to 2.
“What business are you here for?”
{We understand that it is difficult to be friendly to us.}
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Cybele, facing Wade’s sharp attitude, smiled bitterly.
{If you cannot tolerate us, both Boreas and I will follow our mother. Shall we do that?}
“Are you serious?”
{We are different from humans. I can’t lie or say empty words.}
Cybele, who appeared in female form, spoke while pouting. In many ways, it was rude to doubt the spirit’s sincerity, but since they had done it before, they could not protest.
Unlike her, Boreas, who appeared as a pleasant guy, agreed.
{I have no intention of forgetting my duty as a spirit and avoiding paying the price for the sin I committed. If you feel like collecting at any time, ask for it. It will disappear immediately.}
“Hmm.”
Wade couldn’t say anything more to that attitude, so he took a step back and observed the situation.
When Cardenas’ figures seemed ready to accept, the two Spirit Kings glanced at each other and Boreas stepped forward.
{It seems there are still descendants of Alf remaining in this world. If you bring them, it will be easy to utilize the revived spiritual veins and spiritual energy of this forest. We will also cooperate fully.}
“Alb?”
“I think you mean high elf? Wickline’s ancestor.”
“indeed.”
I was already planning to entrust the management of this forest to Wickline, but the words of the spirit kings added to that justification.
Boreas and the knight commanders exchanged practical talks about the area, and both spirit kings turned to Leonard as if they had come to a rough conclusion.
Then, he politely expressed his gratitude by bending his incarnation’s body to nearly 90 degrees.
{Thank you, human, for giving my mother rest.}
{This is something we couldn’t do. I am truly grateful for ending my fate of being blind and suffering forever.}
There was so much sincerity in that greeting that I couldn’t even remember the times when I faced them as the King of Light.
While Leonard was impressed by the original purity and goodness of the spirit, he was able to reflect once more on how severe the poison of [Nidhogg], who distorted it with malice, was.
After finally accepting the spirit kings’ gratitude, the four people set off on their way back to the mobile fortress.
“Ah, Yggdrasil… !”
The tree that was rising above the stratosphere is crumbling into pieces that look like cotton. The debris would be spread throughout the forest by the wind and become nutrients for new vegetation.
The poison that had contaminated the entire area could no longer be found.
This is probably because it completely disappeared from this world along with the wooden heart of Yggdrasil.
{Let’s meet next time with a smile on our faces! bye!}
{If you ever need our power, feel free to call on us.}
Leaving behind the greetings of Cybele and Boreas, the four powerful men of anti-reflection immediately returned to the mobile fortress.
The leaders who got down to the center of the place where the expedition members were gathered put down Uruka, who had been supporting them with their arms.
The atmosphere, which had been excited by the joy of victory, immediately calmed down.
“Why are they looking so mesmerized… ? “On a good day like this.”
Uruka started speaking playfully, but it had the opposite effect as her hoarse voice felt even more dangerous.
The Green Dragon Knights slowly approached him, knelt down on one knee and lowered their heads.
“I guess… I feel like I should leave behind something plausible… It’s an atmosphere… “Isn’t it?”
“““… … .”””
Uruka spoke, smiling sincerely, despite the heavy atmosphere, and giggling without a trace.
The eyes, overflowing with a light that even death could not hide, were burning with the last of their vitality.
“I took up the sword not with honor or pride, but with revenge… I hoped it would fade away in the twilight of the day of victory… The life of an ordinary person turned out to be more realistic than I thought… . To the point of overflowing… It was a glorious life… .”
Committing myself to the Green Dragon Knights and turning my singularity into the ‘Sword of Destruction’ were all the result of persistence. The leader of the Green Dragon Knights of the squadron, a man who overcame the barrier of talent with the desire to take revenge on Spriggan and Yggdrasil who lost his parents, has come to the end.
There were still several fronts left for the Arcadian Empire and Cardenas to overcome, but unfortunately, it seemed like they would not be able to join together.
Uruka grinned as she took turns looking at the four anti-religious strongmen, including Audrey, who was inside the mobile fortress.
“first… Let’s go, everyone. After… If there was a world… There, Cardenas… The Empire’s victory news… I’ll wait… .”
“You are inconsiderate. “You leave before the old people.”
Contrary to her words, Audrey looked down with benevolent eyes.
“Amber would be proud of you too. So, go on your way with peace of mind. “We will follow suit someday.”
“… “Yes, Audrey.”
Perhaps relieved by the words of Audrey, who had a close relationship with Uruka’s mother, he shakes off all the remaining regrets.
Afterwards, he slowly looked around at the people gathered around him and then closed his eyelids, never to open them again.
The heartbeat stops, and the great thoughts of the half-nervous mind are dissipated.
It was the death of Uruka, the leader of the Green Dragon Knights.
“““Captain!”””
Only then did the Green Dragon Knights open their mouths and barely approach Uruka’s body, shedding tears and crying loudly or softly.
‘Are you an ordinary person who threw away his life, ignoring honor and pride, not out of a sense of duty but out of revenge?’
Leonard thought back on those words and couldn’t help but laugh.
‘… ‘I don’t think you’ve lived up to your own words.’
Human virtue is something that is revealed after death rather than during life.
If Jeong Seung’s family’s dog dies, there will be an outcry, but if Jeong Seung dies, not even a single dog will come looking for it.
Looking at the people weeping around Uruka’s body, that seemed like a completely wrong statement. Leonard couldn’t cry with those people because his relationship with them wasn’t that deep, but out of respect for the warrior who had completed his mission, he gave him a shot.
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[We are reporting the damage and results of the Yggdrasil attack operation.]
*Operation purpose: Yggdrasil (subjugation), Spriggan (annihilation), territory disintegration *Success: 1st and 2nd goals are successful, 3rd goal will be described additionally.
―With the sacrifice of Yggdrasil, the poison of [Nidhogg] that had spread throughout the forest was purified, and it was confirmed that the two spirit kings – Cybele and Boreas – and the spirits under them have returned. It was also suggested that the ‘descendants of Alb’, the Wickline family, were most suitable for administration.
*Participating troops: All troops stationed in the barrier train, all Blue Dragon Knights, all Green Dragon Knights, Black Dragon Knight Commander, Red Dragon Knight Commander, Leonard *Mobilized weapons: 1 barrier train, 36 airships, 1588 Titans *Damage details
―Green Dragon Knights: 132 dead, 151 seriously injured.
―Blue Dragon Knights: 127 dead, 188 seriously injured.
―Audrey, Commander of the Black Dragon Knights, amputation and loss of left arm
―The barrier train was determined to be unable to maneuver at its last active location―15 airships were severely damaged, 8 were severely damaged, and 13 were intact.
―1072 Titans damaged, 413 damaged, 103 intact.
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―Uruka, leader of the Green Dragon Knights, died.
―The purification of Yggdrasil and the area has been confirmed. We would like to inform you that as of this time, the Spriggan Front has been permanently shut down.
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