Chapter 110. Ragnarök (9) The World of Heavenly Beauty

     Fortunately, the rewards of the survivors’ system were settled successfully soon. At least they would not starve to death in the space. They could only wait for the chief survivor who suddenly appeared to pass the level or fail to pass the level. He/she should not let them wait until they run out of ammunition and food, right?

     The situation in the copy was beyond Ye Mo’s expectations, but it could not be stopped.

     She took three deep breaths, and the cold air she inhaled made her brain function normally again. The worst case in the real world was that she would be found unconscious for several months or even a year, and her identity would be exposed. The main task in the game was the top priority, and the rest would be discussed after it was completed.

     Keep moving forward.

     As Ye Mo approached the elven realm, the wooden aura within the icy spirit energy became increasingly apparent. In the middle realm of the icy world, trees began to appear sporadically. Although these trees were still covered in silver frost, the air was noticeably filled with the scent of green leaves and grass.

     There were also obvious signs of the survival of the Midgard tribe in this area. Many bodies were buried in the snow. These bodies not only died from the trampling of mountain giants, but also from traces of frost and fire.

     This is exactly why the Midgard tribe did not dare to stay here for a long time. In the past three years, every time the God Realm fought with the more terrifying Frost Giants and Fire Giants, it would affect the Midgard, especially the border areas.

     The Midgard humans were like tiny ants in this battle. They had no strength to resist. It was almost equivalent to the extinction of the tribe. They had no time to escape. They could only wait for the brave warriors to die and go to the Hall of heroes to get the blessing of the main god Odin before they were eligible to participate.

     There were many Midgard people who held such ideas. They firmly believed that in that doomsday war, they contributed their last soul energy under the leadership of the gods to protect the Valhalla.

     Ye Mo found that there were the remains of the tribe on the old battlefield, but the weapons were picked up cleanly, whether it was the giant weapons or the Midgard people’s weapons.

     She stopped at a position not far from the edge of the boundary.

     While waiting in line for the elves to treat the Midgard Warrior, she took out the furnace protection array, fire starter, oven, prey, clean water, etc. from the storage ring. This was really her first meal in nearly twenty days.

     It was her third meal since entering the World Tree dungeon, including the treat from the Snow House Tribe, so she naturally wanted to eat something hot.

     The furnace protection array was simply carved from the natural boulders of this world, and with the addition of the petrification of the Rune spell, it was equivalent to the hardness of diamond. The array plate was square and could temporarily protect the fire in the array from being extinguished by ice, snow or strong winds. The array range was 10 square meters and it was a disposable consumable. 

     The oven was in the middle of the open space, with dried branches underneath and rows of iron railings on top.

     Several whole high-level magical beast sheep, rabbits, cows, and fish, were taken from a storage space piled high like a mountain. They had already been skinned and gutted, with their organs and offal discarded. Their fangs might have been made into weapons, leaving only pure meat.

     After a simple cleaning of the chest and abdominal cavities, several edible exotic plants were placed inside the chest cavity of a larger sheep. The animals were then hung upside down with their legs up and backs down, including the magical beast sheep, cows, rabbits, and fish. Finally, a fire was lit, and the roasting began.

     After a while, the first drop of hot oil fell into the furnace along with the monster meat, and the aroma of meat wafted out.

     While waiting for the meat to be roasted, Ye Mo’s last pack of Zhu Yu witch medicine was finally exhausted. Her stomach was rumbling with hunger. she took out the steel cup and drank water to moisten her throat. She looked at the grill and swallowed her saliva.

     The monster fish was roasted first, and she couldn’t wait to taste it. Most of the fishy smell was suppressed by the alien plants. The burnt yellow skin and tender meat inside each had a different taste. The conditions were still a little lacking.

     But when you are hungry, everything tastes delicious.

     Ye Mo finished eating the monster fish, took out a dagger and started cutting the meat of the monster rabbit, cattle and sheep. She ate very quickly. In the end, only the monster bones were left, and her stomach was only 80% full.

     At this time, the Midgard tribe had just traded some herbs with the elves and were heading back. As they saw Ye Mo walking alone, they couldn’t believe their eyes

     They had originally thought that the person they were salivating over, who was cooking meat so well, would be a whole tribe. But it turned out to be an underage girl? How could she survive alone in this dangerous, icy world? And she seemed to be living quite comfortably, which was almost unbelievable.

     Watching Ye Mo’s back as she walked towards the elves, the tribesmen came back to their senses. Looking at the open space not far away that was not covered by snow, the leader swallowed his saliva and gave the order to grill meat.

     Eat first, then continue your journey.

     The main reason was that they found that this area could actually keep the wind and snow out. Although they didn’t know why, it might be related to the strange Midgard person just now.

     In the middle of the field, there were grills and bones she had eaten. It seemed that her appetite was greater than that of the warriors in their tribe. Perhaps this was a god who could grow or shrink?

…

     Like the people of the Midgard, the elves were also surprised to see Ye Mo alone. They had not seen solitary creatures for a long time, whether they were Midgard people, gods, or giants.

     Also, it was the first time they had seen a race with black hair and black eyes in their long lives.

     “Midgard people, what do you want to exchange?” asked a blonde, blue-eyed elf lady.

     Ye Mo replied: “Healing potions, mental recovery potions, detoxification potions, other harmless potions, and various news about the world tree Yggdrasil, especially the seeds of Yggdrasil.”

     “…”

     The whole audience was silent for three minutes.

     Finally, it was the blonde, blue-eyed elf lady who broke the silence and asked again: “Midgard, what do you want to exchange for these things?”

     Ye Mo took out a wind bow made of beast tendons and bones, a hide armor, an unknown seed, and a high-level beast core from the space. The weapons and armor were all of the size suitable for the elves’ height.

     She said bluntly, “Things like these weapons, armor, seeds, monster cores, and perhaps even the hope for the continuation of this world, are what you need?”

     It turned out to be a storage space!

     The storage space appeared on this Midgard man. How could the treacherous dwarf sell the storage space to the Midgard man?

     The elves looked at each other: “Where did you get the storage space?”

     Ye Mo’s answer really surprised them: “Asgard, Vigrid Wilderness.”

    “Asgard?!”

     This time, the silence lasted longer. The elves doubted their ears. Among the dozen elves, only two of them had the honor of being in Asgard.

     But the Midgard girl in front of them can speak Runes, a language built on the principle of truth. When conducting business in this language, there’s no need to fear deception.

     Every elf knows Rune, and they are auxiliary gods of the other two divine realms.

     Therefore, they believed it.

     The blue-haired and blue-eyed elf asked: “Midgard people, my name is Anna, may I know your name?”

     “Traveler.”

     “We are not prepared enough for the transactions you mentioned. Traveler, are you willing to visit Alfheim?” Anna and other elves discussed and extended an invitation.

     Ye Mo smiled: “It’s a great honor.”

…

     Ye Mo followed the elves and continued to walk forward for a while.

     On the outskirts, as the forest grew denser and denser, a scene unfolded at its heart where two worlds intersected. An enormous, towering, and incredibly lush ‘green tree’ appeared. Within the range of the green tree, blizzards could not penetrate.

     This was the junction between the Midgard realm and the Elf Realm.

     Ye Mo glanced at the green tree. It wasn’t a real ‘tree’, but rather a spatial array leaning towards a wooden aura. The tree shape was probably just for aesthetics, and it could be confirmed that it was not the legendary World Tree.

     The elves jumped onto the branches lightly one by one, and after green dots appeared on their bodies, they disappeared into the dense leaves.

     Ye Mo also jumped up. In an instant, she felt as if she was wrapped in a thick plant scent, but there was also a strange burning smell and a cold feeling she couldn’t escape.

     Then, what appeared in front of her was not the green sea forest she imagined, but the ruins after the war. There was too much grass and wood ash on the ground, and some frost. Only the black trunks of the ten thousand year old trees were left.

     Because this world is still dominated by wood spirit, some undead tree trunks are sprouting new buds, and occasionally some flowers that are in full bloom or budding can be seen, as well as newly planted seedlings.

     Seeing Ye Mo looking at a new small tree, Anna told her that under these newly planted seedlings, buried were the elves who died in the war.

     “Sorry.”

     “It’s okay.” Anna shook her head, not looking very happy, and replied lightly: “They are all returning to the embrace of nature.”

     Ye Mo was puzzled.

     Anna thought of her identity as a Midgard person, and explained a few more sentences: “Everything in the world, every kind of creature that follows the rules of nature has biological energy, including all minerals, land, plants, animals, etc. in the world. When natural creatures become intelligent, soul energy is formed, such as magic beasts, mythical beasts, giants, elves, gods, etc.”

     “The true death of intelligent creatures is not the birth, aging, illness and death in the eyes of Midgard people, but the dissipation of soul energy, turning back into unconscious, memoryless and unintelligent biological energy. These biological energies will circulate freely into minerals, plants, animals, etc.”

     Ye Mo finally understood what she meant by returning to nature. In the eyes of the elves, the current death is returning to natural energy. Their existence is different from the immortality of other gods. Although they live long enough, an average of ten thousand years, they still have to return to the embrace of nature in the end.

     Anna told Ye Mo: “The most powerful spell in the world is often the spell that pays the principle of equivalent.”

     Odin’s rune spell is one, and he lost his right eye forever for the knowledge rule. The forest in the elf world is also such a forbidden spell, which has been passed down in the Alfheim world for hundreds of thousands of years.

     Before the elves took their last breath, they cast a spell at the cost of soul sacrifice, using wood seeds as a medium, and became the forest of the Alfheim world forever.

     Even if they have no wisdom and no thoughts, they also protect their homes in this way.

     And burying the bodies of other elves who died accidentally under these trees is to bless and hope that they can be reborn in the Alfheim world, or turn into trees, flowers and plants in the elf world.

     Those hateful giants destroyed not only trees, but also a lot of natural energy of their predecessors. They can never stand on the side of the giants.

     Anna sighed, “But if Yggdrasil collapses, this world will fall into desolation again. Not to mention life energy, minerals, plants, animals, ice, fire, etc. will disappear. It’s as if we didn’t come to this world at all.”

…

     Ye Mo followed Anna and continued to move forward in the elf world.

     On the way, she met scattered and busy elves. Some of them were planting trees with spiritual power. When they chanted spells, green light spots came out of their hands, some were cooking medicine in copper jars, adding something to the bottles and jars, and there was fire under the bottles and jars, some were coaxing little elves, and the cuteness of the little elves was a thousand times more critical.

     Whether it is Norse mythology or Western European mythology, whether it is male or female, elves have fair skin, perfect facial features, pointed ears, shiny long hair, light posture, special talents of wood or light, and each one is like a perfect product of appearance carefully carved by God from the tip of the hair to the heel.

     She really stepped into a world of fairy beauty, and everyone is the protagonist of a movie with a beautiful face.

     The elves were surprised to see the people of the Midgard world appearing in the Alfheim world, but Anna’s status in the Alfheim world should not be low, so they did not question it, although they had to communicate in Elvish.

     Ye Mo: …I don’t understand.

     Perhaps she understood why the system did not give her a language memory, because this copy is nine worlds, and each world may have more than one language. Which tribe’s language should be given to the Survivor?

     There are not many elves left in the Alfheim world, and they may not be as many as the ten tribes of the Midgard people combined. If the giants had not placed their main attack targets on Asgard and Vanaheim, they might have all returned to the embrace of the nature.

     Except Anna, other gods have gradually gone to help their fellow tribes.

    After walking for half a world, when passing by a tree that had not been destroyed, a male elf with purple hair and purple eyes came forward.

     He communicated with Anna in Elven language for a while, and then switched to Rune language to Ye Mo and said: “Hello, distinguished traveler, my name is Carl, and I am a wood elf.”

      Ye Mo: “Hello, Carl.”

     Carl and Anna seemed to be siblings, but Anna was a light and wood elf, and Carl was the most talented wood elf of the younger generation of Alfheim, and the quasi-heir of Alfheim.

     Although he could not see through thousands of miles like Hawkeye, in the Alfheim world full of trees, unless the seeds of the world tree could magically have the same hiding ability as Suihouzhu, he could tell Ye Mo that the seeds of the world tree were definitely not in the Elf World.

     Because three years before the start of the Doomsday War, he had been learning with the current Elf Queen to patrol the Alfheim world every quarter, and their patrols were to obtain information from plants.

    As for where the world tree seeds are, she must consult a divine being who is currently considered the world’s foremost expert on the World Tree.

    This was the second news Ye Mo had heard so far, except for Queen Frigga.

    “Thank you.”