"Answer 3 of my questions and I will join your Order without any questions asked."
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Nvida knew a lot less than I already knew. But she still had information that was crucial to me given in the current situation.
For example, one of the 2nd Order is around in the nearest Elven kingdom and can come in care of an emergency. Though Nvida does not know who she or he is. Just that there is a 2nd Order here to watch over things happening around these parts.
'I wonder if there is anything that I could do to know about that 2nd Order,' I thought as I looked at Nvida before she asked,
"So. Now that you got your answers, should I assume that you are one of us now?"
"Yeah, just wait a moment."
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And once again, I repeated the entire thing before reaching to the point where we all just sat on the table and I looked at Trisha.
"Since I was pretty curious about you, I would like to hear from you first. Will that be fine?" I asked Trisha with a curious mind.
Trisha was the only one among the people here, of whom I knew nothing about.
"I will tell you about it… but first," Trisha spoke as she looked at those around us. Closed her eyes for a few seconds… and then muttered in a low voice.
A vibrant energy flowed out of the ground and connected with Trisha. Then she opened her shining white eyes and looked at me before speaking,
"[WORLD MAGIC: ONLY YOU AND I!!!]"
And the terrain changed as everything began crumbling around us. The first to crumble was the people, including the dark mages and Nvida.
Then the ground crumbled, and everything turned to dust before disintegrating into nothingness. I stood there in the space, while looking at Trisha standing at her place where she was.
And finally, the sky was gone as well, leaving nothing but space where only Trisha and I existed.
It was similar to my personal space when I first visited it, but it was black instead of white.
"This is your world magic?" I was a bit curious as I observed the empty space.
"You will understand in a moment," she spoke with no change in her serious expression before something formed in the air between us.
At first, it seemed like a small white polycotyledonous seed that levitated in the air.
"Have you heard of the World Tree?" She asked as she looked at me.
"The World Tree that powers the entire flora and fauna of the world? Whose branches connect to the 7 realms of this world and are said to be branching in even 3 more hidden ones?" I recalled a few more things about it before turning to Trisha again.
"Nope. Never heard of it." I smiled with an innocent smile.
She narrowed her eyes at me for a few seconds before sighing and then continuing,
"It's something about a branch of the tree located on these parts of the continent."
The seed moved to the side as Trisha moved closer to me. We both saw the seed slowly growing a leaflet out of it.
The leaflet turned into a plant and then grew into a tree. I could faintly see the realms in front of me where the tree branches spread. The tree was growing and growing more and more until it became difficult to see the end.
"That one," Trisha pointed at one of the branches that was spreading and focused on it.
The branch crossed various barriers and then reached a certain land, where it nourished everything it crossed.
The trees grew, and the forest formed.
New species, new floras, new places formed out of the branches and joined the forest. The monsters that spread across the place began returning to their native harmless animal form.
While the branch continued growing, a small sub branch of the tree that reached Border Town was now what Trisha had focused on.
I looked at Trisha, who was still serious, before I concentrated on the sub branch.
While normal at first, later on a book formed around that branch. A giant book that consumed the apex of the branch, consuming the life energy of the tree slowly over time.
"The Book of Array, huh?" I mumbled as I finally saw what the book looked like.
Unlike normal books that could be flipped, it was like a stack of papers one over the other.
'No wonder, I only found two pages at max,' I thought as I looked at that book.
The book kept absorbing the sub branch, as it turned red first, and then soon the pages began turning yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
"VIBGYOR, huh?" I looked at the color pattern of the book, making Trisha curious a little,
"Vibgyor?" She asked, and I explained in brief,
"The color spectrum of the visible light. From a higher frequency to a lower. This book must be absorbing the life force of the plant more than the mana. But only the one that is gained from Solaris Gaiye on a daily basis."
Solaris Gaiye was the name of the Sun of this planet.
Trisha's eyes widened as she looked at me and spoke," are you really that knowledgeable? I guess I must be underestimating you quite a lot."
"I'll forgive you for a kiss," I spoke cheekily, making her smile a little as she lightened her mood.
While I am serious most of the time, this time it was really a joke as I wanted to remove this unnecessary tension between us.
"We can think about it later," she spoke as she kept smiling as she stared at the branch being absorbed by the book.
"..."
All right. I must confess that I was probably… probably… lying about joking.
"In general, there is no problem with the book absorbing the branch's power, but the reason why I am here is that of what's inside the book," Trisha spoke, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I looked at those stacks of pages that were slowly turning black now.
"Inside?" I asked as I focused on it.
"What do you think that book is?" She asked, as if trying to test my knowledge again.
"A prison holder of all the people who used that book," I answered honestly, making her widen her eyes for a brief moment before smiling lightly as she muttered,
"You really are knowledgeable."
She then increased the passage of time and eons passed as the book kept absorbing the branch's power.
It wasn't as if the border town existed for such long, but it meant that the book had been absorbing the power for that long of a period.
Honestly, that much power made me gulp a little as I kept watching the process.
"Whatever or whoever is inside that book is getting all this power for an unknown amount of time. He, she or whatever it is, we cannot let it out anymore. The generation of High Elves have sacrificed their life in watching over this branch for a long, long time."
Trisha seemed quite serious about it.
"And this event with the Dark Mages carries the possibility of opening the book, huh?" I mumbled, making her nod slightly.
'Well, they are indeed trying to open the book to bring Laplace back,' I thought as I recalled back the previous information before I turned to Trisha as she made a shocked expression.
'Don't tell me you can hear my thoughts?' I thought as I looked at her with an awkward smile, making her nod slightly.
I shook my head before not caring much about it. Instead, I focused on Trisha in front of me as I asked,
"Is there anything else you wanted to say? Or perhaps anything you wanted to know?"
She looked at me for a brief moment and spoke,
"I don't know how much you know, but other than Elves, Dark Mages and you… there is another active force who is going to cause trouble within the town in the same time frame."
And her words clicked a certain race that I was keeping at the back of my mind for a while now.
"Witches?" I was pretty sure about it.
"Witches," she answered as she looked at me.
"How much do you know about it?" I asked, and she made a small smile as she answered,
"Not much. Only that they will join the fray once everything is over. Until then they will lie low and keep an eye out on things."
'No wonder Zora is watching over me along with Freya,' I sighed, making Trisha way beyond shocked as she shouted,
"Goddess Freya????!!!!!!"
'Oops!!' I sighed on the inside as I opened the [System]
"Wait!" she shouted, but it was too late…
"How do you know Goddess Freya?!!!" was her last call.
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