Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 414

Nidhogg was gliding, its wings spread wide, moving swiftly. It wasn’t true flight using its wings, but rather a glide powered by its massive body.

*Whoosh!*

A different wind than before struck their faces.

*Woong.*

Magic power emanated from Nidhogg, enveloping Lee Ro-woon and his group riding on its head.

-Hold on tight, Master.

With those words, Nidhogg sped up even more. The dark world regained its bright light, and what followed was an ashen world.

Finally, they reached the final destination they had aimed for.

“It’s Yggdrasil!” Ramang shouted, looking at the massive World Tree.

Yggdrasil, the World Tree that supported the world and was its core, had revealed itself, its protective barrier gone.

“Nidhogg.”

Nidhogg had already rested enough. There was no need to rush. The Dark Elves were either guarding the World Tree or…

-There aren’t as many attacks from the corrupted as I expected.

-Aren’t they just focusing on defense out of fear?

-No.

They were running away to survive, heading somewhere. And Lee Ro-woon knew well who was in that somewhere.

*Whoosh.*

Nidhogg changed the shape of its wings, stopping its rapid glide.

*Flap.*

A huge wind blew from its wings. Below, the massive World Tree was visible.

*Whoosh!*

Branches reached out, aiming for Nidhogg, but Nidhogg avoided Yggdrasil’s branches with quick movements that belied its size.

“……”

Ramang and Balak, the Elves, were surprised and shocked by the revealed appearance of Yggdrasil. Especially seeing the deep, dark power that the World Tree was emitting.

“The corruption… it’s progressed this far…!” Larak, the chief of the Elves, had warned about the corruption of Yggdrasil and the linked existence, Elk, but he hadn’t expected it to be this bad.

“This is…” Even Balak, who wasn’t linked to Yggdrasil, could tell.

“Isn’t it already corrupted?” Yggdrasil was turning black and rotting. It was impossible to expect anything from it. That’s why Larak had bet everything on Lee Ro-woon.

Also.

“That’s not just corrupted.” Lee Ro-woon moved Nidhogg, circling around Yggdrasil. The distance was so far that Ramang and the others couldn’t see it, but…

“That is…” Lee Ro-woon could see it clearly.

*Thwack.*

A sound of air being pierced echoed from somewhere. And.

*Whoooosh!*

A rain of black arrows began to fall.

“It’s the Dark Elves.” The corrupted, the Dark Elves, were densely packed around Yggdrasil. Some had gone to find a place to live or had fled to the volcano, but most of the Dark Elves remained here at Yggdrasil, preparing for defense.

“Oh m…” The rain of arrows fell.

*Thud thud thud!*

Seeing them fall after hitting the barrier created by Nidhogg.

“Oh my god.” Balak and Ramang cried out. The overwhelming difference in power. Those countless black shells that looked like the bark of the World Tree were all made up of the corrupted.

“It’s true that Yggdrasil and Elk protected you all,” Lee Ro-woon said, injecting magic power into Nidhogg to strengthen the barrier. “If that many corrupted had targeted you, you would have already gone extinct.”

They wouldn’t have appeared in a day or two. That huge tumor that was eating away at the world had already been living here for a long time. The reason why the corrupted didn’t attack the Elves often was one thing.

“Yggdrasil was blocking all those attacks.” Yggdrasil was acting as a breakwater, stopping the corrupted. And finally, Yggdrasil was on the verge of being captured.

-Yggdrasil.

Looking at it, Lee Ro-woon thought, ‘That’s the last bastion.’ The only chance for this world, which had been opened as a gate, to survive by becoming a dungeon instead of a gate. If even Yggdrasil were to be completely corrupted…

‘All the Elves, connected in small or large ways, will be corrupted.’ Monsterization. And the conclusion was that this world itself would become a gate full of enemies to be defeated.

“Please…” Ramang said with a tear-stained voice. “Please purify Yggdrasil!” Her cry, staking the fate of her race.

-Kuaaaaaa!

Nidhogg let out a huge roar and stopped momentarily.

“I was going to anyway…” *Whoosh!* Nidhogg’s body began to blaze. “That’s what I intend to do.”

*KWAH-BANG!*

The holy flame breath that was emitted directly hit Yggdrasil.

* * *

*KWAH-BANG!*

Nidhogg’s breath directly hit the massive Yggdrasil.

*Whoosh!*

Along with the outer surface that began to burn, the Dark Elves, who looked like black shells, began to fall down in droves. They had seen it several times, but Nidhogg’s breath had an absurd destructive power that defied common sense. The endless breath.

*Zzzzt!*

Moving in a line, it scraped across the surface of Yggdrasil horizontally.

*KWAH-KWAH-KWANG!*

Chain explosions followed, and it felt like the outer surface of Yggdrasil was burning.

“……!” Balak and Ramang widened their eyes.

“At this rate…!” The breath that had burned down the World Tree in one blow. Even the World Tree that had lasted a long time couldn’t withstand it more than five times. It was just the beginning, but with Nidhogg’s breath exhibiting this much destructive power, it seemed like it wouldn’t take long to purify Yggdrasil.

“Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”

“Count… what?” With Lee Ro-woon’s cynical voice, Nidhogg’s breath stopped. And then.

“……! The flames!” The holy flames that had been on the surface of Yggdrasil died down.

“Tch.” Lee Ro-woon clicked his tongue briefly. “Is it not completely corrupted yet?” The other World Trees they had purified so far were already corrupted beyond repair, stained with demonic energy. From the inside to the outside, everything was rotten, making it suitable for everything to burn at once with a holy flame. But now, the greatest World Tree, Yggdrasil, in front of them was different.

-Holy Flame.

The flames of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art [a powerful martial art] that purified evil and burned the impure. It was a flame that had the power to burn not only those with such properties but also those who became enemies of the owner of the holy flame.

“It has two properties.” Yggdrasil had two properties, not one, and was resisting the holy flame. The sacredness that was the center of the world and the already corrupted demonic energy were mixed, preventing the power of the holy flame from properly penetrating. However.

*Thud!*

The physical force of the breath had not disappeared.

*Whoosh.*

Nidhogg glided and regained its posture.

*KWAH-BANG!*

Its breath struck Yggdrasil once again.

*KWAH-BANG!*

Once again.

*KWAH-BANG!*

Once again. Even though Lee Ro-woon didn’t command it, Nidhogg was repeatedly firing its breath at Yggdrasil as if its pride had been hurt. The black outer surface of Yggdrasil fell off, and it began to take on a dark gray color. It was only a little, but there were even large wounds on Yggdrasil, so it definitely seemed to have an impact.

“……” However, the reaction of Lee Ro-woon and the others was not as intense as before.

“The ashes of the World Tree…” The ashen color created by the other World Trees that had already been burned. Lee Ro-woon had absorbed a large portion of it through greed and stored it in his body, but most of it was sucked back into its original owner, Yggdrasil, and filled its surface. The hardened ashes of magic power became a shield for Yggdrasil.

*KWAH-BANG!*

It was resisting even the physical force of Nidhogg’s breath. Moreover.

*Whoosh!*

The resistance of the Dark Elves was also intensifying. At first, their arrows couldn’t even penetrate Nidhogg’s barrier, but.

*Crack!*

Some of them succeeded in penetrating the barrier and embedding themselves in Nidhogg’s bones.

-It hurts!

Nidhogg let out a rough scream.

“Don’t whine.” At Lee Ro-woon’s voice, Nidhogg barely regained its posture. It was a Bone Dragon, a life that had already died, but that was why. “This much won’t even scratch you properly.” Rather, its regeneration was better than the living. The cracked bones spat out the arrows and recovered through magic. It could take thousands or tens of thousands of these arrows, but the problem was that the barrier had been breached.

*Woong!*

Rather, the magic power that Nidhogg was pouring into the barrier was more than before, but the fact that the barrier was being breached was important.

‘Yggdrasil.’ It seemed to be the power of the World Tree. If it was that level of transcendent being.

“It’s analyzing and decomposing the magic structure and properties of Nidhogg’s breath.” It would be easy to analyze the magic power and basic properties of an existence and create weaknesses.

*Woong.*

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes began to glow gold.

-M, Master?

Nidhogg said, seemingly flustered by the sudden surge of energy into its body.

“Accept it. I’m temporarily changing your magic structure.”

“I, is that even possible?” Ramang shouted, knowing how absurd it was to change the magic structure. Changing the magic structure was like temporarily changing the basic structure of a human, DNA. Even if it were possible, it wasn’t something that could be done so quickly and instantly.

‘Transcendent.’ Yggdrasil was a transcendent being, so it was analyzing and decomposing the opponent’s DNA. If so.

“What’s impossible?” Also, what couldn’t he do, who was a transcendent being, or rather, had achieved greater feats?

*Thud!*

The Dark Elves’ arrows began to be blocked by the barrier again.

“I, it’s working!” -It doesn’t hurt! Master!

The Elves and Nidhogg were delighted. However.

“I told you, it’s only temporary.” It was always like that. ‘Attack is more advantageous than defense.’ After being hit, would it be easier to figure out what the opponent used to hit you and prepare countermeasures? Or would it be easier to attack the opponent by using a different method that they hadn’t anticipated? It would vary depending on the level, but in most cases, it was the latter.

“The barrier will be breached anyway.” *KWAH-BANG!* The breath was emitted again. But the wounds on Yggdrasil seemed even smaller. “Our attacks won’t be very effective.” Yggdrasil was already defending itself by analyzing the magic structure. The same type of breath would only be resisted continuously. There was a way.

-Should we do that?

Nidhogg suggested something. However.

“That also has clear limitations.” Lee Ro-woon refused.

-Then?

Under Lee Ro-woon’s control, Nidhogg began to pour its breath at one point.

*KWAH-BANG! KWAH-BANG! KWAH-BANG-!*

Nidhogg’s breath, which had completely burned down a World Tree, collided at one point, creating a series of explosions. No matter how much it was protected by the ashes, no matter how much it was resisting Nidhogg’s magic power, any wound would be inflicted by the destruction poured at one point. And in the scar that was created.

“Nidhogg.”

-Tell me! Master!

“Go and crash into it.” It was time to drive in a large stake.