The towering stone tower in the center of the Utopia seems to be the only building that has existed since its construction. It looks extremely grand from the outside, but there is not much decoration inside, making it look quite cold.
The overall tower was hollow with four floors, but there was a stone pillar rising in the middle that led straight to the top. Fisher didn't know what it was for. He just felt that the moment he entered, his whole body temperature dropped.
Some, it seems like some of the things around me have become more active.
Margaret walked in front with a smile. She and Uncle Chun walked up the spiral staircase surrounding the tower, and said in passing,
"Actually, I noticed you when you entered the Tree Continent and met Chun, but I didn't expose you rashly, because it might bring disaster to Chun. If Tao Gong hadn't wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have done it.
Forced to stall her time with the truth that looms in the way."
Fisher looked at her back and asked,
"That is to say, it is you who conceals your destiny."
"Well, although Tao Gong existed in the past, although he was powerful, he had a fatal flaw, because the gifted past was both a blessing and a constraint. This made Tao Gong blinded by a leaf and easily lost his way. As long as she didn't know how I stole it.
If I have to follow the loom of fate, she must not know how much control I have over the loom now, so she doesn't dare to act rashly."
Margaret and them soon arrived at the top of the tower, which was hollow-shaped and therefore ventilated on all sides. From here, one could clearly see the full view of the Utopia below and the rolling mountains outside.
It was here that the stone pillars in the center of the tower that went straight to the top ended. It turned out to be an extremely deep pool. Fisher looked into it, but he only saw pitch black, as if the pool was not deep.
The bottom is like an abyss.
The furnishings next to the pool are also extremely simple, with a large bed, a large table and several chairs made of Chinese oak. The number of chairs corresponds to the current number of people. It seems that Margaret has already known the number of visitors.
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There were several piles of extremely exquisite desserts and otherworldly tea made from some unknown leaves placed on the table, and she introduced them to Fisher and the others with a smile,
"These are macarons and chestnut cakes, the desserts from my hometown that I imitated based on local conditions. Please use them. We will chat while eating."
Fisher and others took their seats one after another. Asuka Karasawa originally wanted to sit in the seat closest to Fisher, but Heller had already taken that seat with a smile, and on the other side of Fisher
There is no room left, and the vacant seat next to Margaret is on the other side of the table.
She stood there and glanced at the position on the other side, but before she moved, Margaret on the other side had already smiled and waved to her and said,
"Asuka, if you don't mind, please sit next to me?"
"Why?"
Karasawa Asuka was slightly startled, and Margaret also looked at her, thinking that her title was wrong.
"Huh? I heard that Japanese people always have their surname at the front and their given name at the end. Is it wrong for me to call them like this?"
"Ah, no, no, no, no..."
Asuka Karasawa smiled and waved her hand, then glanced at Fisher, and then carefully sat down next to Margaret, so everyone sat in a circle around the table.
Margaret smiled and looked at Asuka Karasawa beside her, pulling up a stool and sitting down. Her eyes remained on her. Until Asuka Karasawa sat down with her legs together, she still glanced at him up and down.
"Ms. Margaret, is there something wrong with me?"
"No, how could it be..." Margaret was slightly startled when she heard this, then smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said, "I just think that you are young and no longer young, which is the most beautiful thing.
Time. I once had a daughter. If she were still alive now, she would be the same age as you. I don’t know if she is as tall as you..."
"This matter... I heard you talk about it in Tao Gong's barrier..."
"Haha, because I was the same me half a year ago. I am thinking about my children all the time, and now is no exception."
Margaret's eyes were blank for a moment, staring quietly at the rippleless pool in the distance. Asuka Karasawa also looked at her profile, until she looked away after a second or two, and then spoke,
"Okay, let's get back to business. I probably already know the purpose of your previous trip to the Tree Continent and your current visit to the Utopia. It's the Teardrop of the World Tree, right?"
Fisher nodded and said to Margaret,
"That's right, if you guessed it right, the teardrops of the World Tree are just a bonus of the Destiny Loom, so we took the liberty to come here. We have prepared a reward for it. If you need anything, you can ask it. We only need the world
The tears of the trees.”
The negotiation process went very quickly. At this time, Asuka Karasawa would carefully keep silent and listen carefully. After all, she had rarely experienced such things before, and she only started to come into contact with it after coming to another world.
Well, the only negotiation she had ever experienced was to exchange the answers to her math homework with her classmates for the ownership of the last chow mein bun in the store at noon.
Margaret was about to answer, but from the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of Karasawa Asuka looking nervous and sitting upright. She smiled slightly, placed the dessert that no one else had touched in front of Karasawa Asuka, and faced her.
whispered,
"Don't be nervous, we are not enemies... You will feel better after eating some sweets, and my preparations will not be in vain."
"Hey, thank you, Ms. Margaret."
Asuka Karasawa quickly stretched out her hand to take the macaron she handed over, and then slowly stuffed the macaron into her mouth. In an instant, a sweet berry taste burst from her mouth.
When it came, she couldn't help but narrow her eyes.
书いしい!(Yummy)
Margaret looked at Asuka Karasawa's bulging cheeks with a smile, then reached out and tapped her lips, indicating that there were still food residues on her lips.
After being reminded, Karasawa Asuka quickly blushed and immediately reached out to cover her mouth. Then she blinked again and quietly swallowed the food on her lips with her uvula under the cover of her hands.
"Teardrops about the World Tree..."
Margaret turned her head and was about to continue the negotiation, but she saw that next to the handsome gentleman who seemed to be the leader, the "man" with blond curly hair poked the gentleman's shoulder like a girl and said something to her.
She looked at him and whispered delicately,
"I want to eat that too..."
Margaret raised her eyebrows, as if she didn't expect such a thing, and couldn't help but tremble even when she was about to speak.
Fisher, who was urged by Heller, glanced at her speechlessly, then stretched out his hand helplessly, took out a macaron, and stuffed it into her mouth, while Heller also said with satisfaction.
Shaking her body, Margaret's brows couldn't help but jump again. It seemed that even though she was as romantic as the French, the version in front of her was still too advanced for her.
Next to them, Mikhail and Gelsemium were all suppressing laughter, as if they were thinking of happy things; while Nekolia was looking out the window, still in a daze.
"Ahem, Ms. Margaret, what did you just say?"
"Ah, it's about the teardrops of the World Tree..."
Margaret came back to her senses and clapped her hands gently, slapping off the remains of the macarons that Karasawa Asuka had just fed to her hands, and then she looked towards the direction of the pool behind Fisher.
"You should have learned about our current situation when we were in the sanctuary. I was forced to use the loom of fate to find the location of [Death]. As you can see, it is the sleeping place of the goddess of death, Crow.
It's deep underground where the pool behind you is connected."
Fisher heard this and turned to look at the pool located in the center of the tower. Under the dark water, which seemed to lead to the center of the earth, there was a faint golden light flickering at this moment.
"The loom has an extremely sensitive characteristic, which seems to have the same origin as the power of destiny possessed by the elves. The World Tree violated the instructions of the true god and secretly gave it a handle to escape death, so it sensed
The breath of death showed me the source of that power. I followed its guidance, traveled across mountains and rivers to come here, and used its power to carve out the road to death...
"But the threat is only effective against the elves. It does not pose any threat to their mother World Tree. And the reason why she has not taken action in the past six months is all because of the Elf King. Her power temporarily replaced the loom for him.
Keep that life like a candle in the wind. But since you killed the Elf King, her only worry has been eliminated. In half a month, the Elf King will begin the four-year reincarnation process with the help of the World Tree.
, after that, I had to face the furious World Tree and her descendants."
Margaret took a sip of tea and added more details about the matter.
Fisher probably understood why Margaret had been able to live freely outside for half a year as a human and Yggdrasil had not yet liquidated her. Logically speaking, with the power of Yggdrasil's 20th level, it was unlikely that she would be killed by her.
Such means were used to restrict her. But the real reason that restricted her was simpler than Fisher imagined, and that was the Elf King's Handle.
Fisher just doesn't understand. Since elves can be reincarnated and have never died in the true sense, why does Yggdrasil try so hard to prevent his death? It's clear that Peach Gong has already died.
And it has been reincarnated once, and I have never seen the World Tree behave like this before.
Just out of preference?
For some reason, Fisher suddenly thought of the words the Elf King said before he died.
He is not afraid that Mr. Momo will seize power, nor is he worried that the ritual he organized will fall into collapse. What he is really worried about is an upcoming chaos, and that chaos seems to be related to their youngest sister Tsuki, who has disappeared for a long time.
related.
So the question is back to the starting point, what is Tsuki’s purpose and what role does he play in this matter?
"The situation is roughly like this, but I believe you have already prepared the reward for exchanging the tears of the World Tree before coming here. Can I hear the reward you provide?"
Margaret's words stopped abruptly, and then she changed her subject and asked about another matter.
Fisher was just about to speak, but Asuka Karasawa spoke excitedly first. She said to Margaret,
"Ms. Margaret, this is the way to go home. The Pandora angel in the sanctuary can take us back to our original world. She only wants the teardrops of the World Tree."
Hearing this, Uncle Chun, who had been listening quietly next to him, suddenly looked at her, and then the pressure of the mythical rank spread little by little, causing Asuka Karasawa to shiver all over and couldn't help but look at the other person.
Of course, everyone around her knew why, but Asuka Karasawa was too young and her way of thinking was monotonous, so she was prone to making mistakes.
The problem is that Margaret can accept the reward and leave this world, but what about Chun?
He was originally from this world, and he helped Margaret steal the loom of fate for her or other reasons. If Margaret left, all the pressure on the elves and World Tree would fall.
His head was gone, and from his expression it seemed that he could not operate the loom as well as Margaret.
"Ah, thank you for your kindness, Asuka. But I have no desire to leave here at the moment. I have no worries about my hometown, and there are still people who need me here. If I leave, Chun and the people he brought here will
, all other creatures from Dragon Continent who come to join the Utopia will suffer disaster, and I cannot do this."
Asuka Karasawa seemed to realize something immediately. She turned to look at Fisher, thinking that she might have gotten into trouble again, but Fisher did not blame her silently, because he had just wanted to say what Asuka Karasawa said.
of.
It wasn't that he couldn't read the atmosphere, but that he had probably had a premonition since arriving in the Utopia.
Since Margaret can accurately predict their arrival, there is a high probability that she knows the reward proposed to them. But in this case, she still let Chun listen on the sidelines, which shows that she is not prepared to accept their reward at all.
On the other hand, in this case, she is still willing to see them, not to mention that she just revealed the current situation first, which also shows that Margaret wants other rewards, and they are what they can provide.
, so it’s not a big deal to raise the issue first.
Therefore, although Asuka Karasawa is still on the first level, her approach is actually the same as that on the fifth level, which is a mistake.
"Then, Ms. Margaret, besides this reward, what else do you want? We will try our best to satisfy you, and we will only exchange for the tears of the World Tree."
Margaret first glanced at Asuka, who was cowering next to her, and said to her as if to comfort her,
"Don't be nervous. In fact, as you said before, the teardrop of the World Tree is just a gift to me. It doesn't matter even if it is given to you. But because I have not fully mastered the loom, it is now being used
I am trapped by my interference with the rules of death, and I cannot move it even an inch. Of course, I cannot remove the teardrop of the World Tree that is linked to it...
"Actually, not everyone can use the true god's items. Even Chun, the descendant of the World Tree, cannot control it. And the reason why I can use it is because I am a transferred person who carries a strong aura of chaos, so I
It will be imprisoned and used to collect blood. But I cannot completely control it with my own strength, so the reward I really want is Asuka..."
Hearing her name, Asuka Karasawa suddenly raised her head and met Margaret's gentle gaze. Then she pointed at herself in disbelief and asked,
"Hey, hey, me?"
"That's right, but don't be so nervous. I just want you to control the loom with me during this period. With your help, I am sure that I will completely gain control of the destiny loom within half a month. This way
Come, even if the World Tree and the elves want to liquidate me, I can rely on death and the loom, and I am not without resistance. At the same time, when it is completed, you can take the World Tree teardrops and leave here. Our next
The direction has nothing to do with you anymore, what do you think?"
Everyone around them looked over, and Fisher didn't respond, handing over the decision-making power to her, but this made her particularly uncomfortable.
She swallowed and waited for a long time before whispering,
"Sure... if I can help you, of course, but I have absolutely no idea how to do that."
"It's okay, Asuka, I will teach you."
Margaret handed her another macaron and said softly to her.
Asuka Karasawa pursed her lips, looked at Margaret beside her, nodded vigorously, and reached out to take the macarons she handed out.
She didn't eat the macaron, she just kept holding it, but even so, the sweet taste seemed to have taken root and sprouted in her hand, spreading all the way down.