Soul of Negary

The will of the Moon Tree could be said to be strong, but it could also be said to be weak at the same time.

As the loser of the war, it had been suppressed, only while the seven Gods weren’t present would it be able to take advantage of certain loopholes to sneakily manipulate a few things.

In the outside world, when the will of the Moon Tree wanted to influence Farnate who carried the elven bloodline, it needed Negary to hypnotize him before it could perfectly control him.

In other words, the current will of the Moon Tree was actually a complete weakling, there were very crucial reasons why it managed to make such bold moves.

Firstly, it was due to Chromie’s Protagonist Aura, which allowed the will of the Moon Tree to easily influence him.

Secondly, Eternal Heat’s tacit agreement and even partial support.

Thirdly, thanks to the will of the Moon Tree’s control over the elves, it had a grasp of a few secret treasure troves left behind by the elves. At this point, each one it used would mean one fewer it had access to.

Fourthly, due to a small bit of authority that the will of the Moon Tree managed to retain, it could learn of events that happened in this world as well as matters related to the elves, allowing it to grasp quite a bit of information.

Outside of these four points, the will of the Moon Tree no longer had any abilities, after all, it was now essentially cattle in a barn, capable of mooing or oinking loudly, but couldn’t leave its containment.

It used its control over the underground ruins to arrange the current chess board, making its moves one by one. As long as its plan wasn’t derailed too greatly, the tool called Chromie would be able to obtain enough leverage to become a ‘Rook’ that could affect the victory and defeat of the entire game.

However, not everyone was under the will of the Moon Tree’s influence, and as long as they didn’t have elven blood flowing through their vein, their information would be inaccessible to the will of the Moon Tree.

For example, Noah, who had infiltrated the Soundless Cult. He systematically followed Negary’s orders, silently altering the summoning ritual, and with Negary’s current understanding of rituals, a product altered by his hands wasn’t something to be underestimated.

〖 There is a 23.42% probability that the Dim Silence Envoy will give up his authority to convert himself into a living state 〗 Negary took a sip of his tea. A probability that was slightly higher than 1/5th was already considerable enough to become the most probable outcome.

As for the other possibilities, for example, if the Dim Silence Envoy’s resolution was relatively weaker and didn’t try to escape Chromie’s body or to convert himself into a living state, Negary had other contingencies prepared.

This wasn’t because Negary had already become stronger than the Dim Silence Envoy, but rather because the Dim Silence Envoy was in a lying dead state; furthermore, a lying dead state where he was acting on instincts. In this situation, it was quite simple to construct a plan to deal with him specifically.

In fact, Negary had even prepared a contingency plan for the possibility where he decided to remain in the aspect of silence without showing himself, despite this possibility being relatively low.

Darr was another of Negary’s pawns. If the will of the Moon Tree claimed that it didn’t know about Darr who had awakened the elven bloodline through his unstable mutations, that would be a bald-faced lie, but it was exactly because it knew about him that the will of the Moon Tree made such a decision.

The will of the Moon Tree understood clearly that even if it had interfered with Darr through his elven bloodline, Negary had other means prepared to capture the Dim Silence Envoy. For example, the person hiding amongst the Soundless Cult, the one it never noticed up until now.

The best-case scenario results for interfering with Darr would be for him to lose his opportunity, then become broken and die. But if it didn’t interfere with Darr, despite that leading to Darr consuming the Dim Silence Envoy and for Chromie to obtain less than it originally planned, it would gain another pawn in the form of Darr who carried the elven bloodline. As long as there was room to act and if it used him well, he would also prove to be a good blade.

For the above reasons, Darr faced a lot fewer obstacles than expected on his way leading up to this moment. Originally, he was hiding underground, but couldn’t approach the Mother Tree due to the threat of the super plant; but then Pernod, the elven sinner burnt himself and his own elven bloodline, using his death to escape from the will of the Moon Tree’s control, thus spreading the fire to the underground super plant.

Although he didn’t manage to kill the super plant, his actions severely wounded it, which essentially cut off one of the will of the Moon Tree’s arms. This also gave Darr the opening to burrow his way below the Mother Tree, after which he used his corrosive blood to continuously burrow up the roots of the tree and leapt out at the most appropriate moment, consuming the fruit of victory.

Watching the continuously squirming grey worm, Negary extracted some information from the Dim Silence Envoy through the Gear of Impurity within Darr’s body.

Up to now, everything had happened exactly as Negary wanted it to, his voice slowly faded away, his body turned into countless beads as he slowly disappeared: 〖 Darr, I’ve given you the opportunity. Whether or not you’ll truly be able to grasp it is fully dependent on yourself 〗

Negary liked capable people, and to those willing to pledge their allegiance to him, he would stir and urge them as a father would to his children, saving only the best opportunities for them. Naturally, the prerequisite was that they were actually capable enough to grasp that opportunity.

If they weren’t capable enough, they would have no choice but to become the nutrients for other people’s growth. For example, right at this very moment, whether Darr would consume the Dim Silence Envoy, remedy his own shortcomings and obtain his promised great power; or whether the Dim Silence Envoy would take over Darr’s body in return, was all completely dependent on Darr’s abilities.

〖 A new world? 〗

The Dim Silence Envoy had certainly given Negary a pleasant surprise. During the elves’ era of conquest, the Dim Silence Envoy accidentally discovered traces of a previously unknown world, after which he silently investigated and made his preparations there. This was unknown even to the will of the Moon Tree, considered one of the Dim Silence Envoy’s trump cards.

After Darr devoured the Dim Silence Envoy, even if the Dim Silence Envoy was fully digested, such information shouldn’t be extracted so easily. What truly surprised Negary was that this information was actively handed over on the Dim Silence Envoy’s own accord after he discovered the existence of the Gear.

〖 So there’s another chance for his resurrection in that world, huh? 〗

Negary couldn’t help but praise the Dim Silence Envoy’s tenacity and wits, even after he had fallen to his current desperate situation, he had still managed to make the best possible decision.

〖 It’s like he was certain that I would be able to and would revive him when I arrive in that other world 〗Negary briefly checked the information of that world, as well as some of the Dim Silence Envoy’s preparations in it.

〖 And what an interesting world it is, it has quite the considerable value indeed 〗

Negary was making calculations in his mind. After this affair, he would certainly have a bit of time to spare, and this inter-world travel would serve as an excellent intermission. The follow-up events in the Moon Tree world weren’t quite as easy to deal with as he would like, with a high possibility of him being derailed with the slightest errors. After all, his opponents would be the seven Righteous Gods.

Eternal Heat alone could already apply a lot of pressure on Negary, although relatively speaking, Eternal Heat was also the strongest among the seven Gods.

〖 Then, guess I’ll be taking extra classes in that other world? 〗

According to the Dim Silence Envoy’s memories, that world had a relative time ratio to the Moon Tree world of 1:3, in other words, one day in the Moon Tree world equalled three days in that world.

Perhaps in that world, Negary would be able to improve himself even more than expected. After all, although that world’s total energy level was lower than that of the Moon Tree world, there were a lot more interesting artifacts there.

〖 Before that, there are still a few things I need to settle 〗 Negary’s body reformed itself within the great clock tower. His strength would increase to its appropriate level very soon, his waiting was just coming to an end.