Niedhog.

In the Nordic mythical world, it is an evil black dragon that plasters at the bottom of the world tree and constantly erodes its roots.

The dragon seemed to have never eaten in his life, and kept gnawing on the roots of the tree.

When the roots of the tree are eaten up and the world's tree decays, the world will be destroyed.

Fortunately, the wisdom of the gods is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Long before the arrival of Ragnarok, the gods predicted this crisis.

The moment before the World Tree was about to collapse and the old world was about to be destroyed.

They extracted all the remaining spiritual powers of the World Tree.

Then.

They used this spiritual power to create a whole new world.

——That is the new world.

In the end, the world tree with its spiritual power exhausted collapsed.

The old world was almost destroyed in Ragnarok's dusk, but the new world rose slowly in another time and space, like a new sun.

This is where humans rely on to survive today.

[But this new world is unstable.]

【It is not like the old world, with a divine object like the World Tree that can support the world.】

[The spiritual power shrouded in the new world is unstable and uneven.]

[Such unstable spiritual power system has led to the frequent breeding of demons and monsters in the new world.]

[And we hunters are the existence that comes into being in this new world.]

[Because of this world - someone needs to protect it.]

"What's wrong with this world now?" Lu Huaiqiu asked.

【In danger.】

[Our enemies hate this world very much.]

[They don't believe in beauty. They will be irritated when they hear children's laughter. They will be jealous when they see lovers hugging. They will be angry when they touch the quiet evening breeze.]

[They have never been moved. The only thing they want to do is to crush the world.]

“Hela?”

Lu Huaiqiu blurted out and made his debut.

【Yes.】

[It seems that you have fought with them.]

【This organization is far larger and terrifying than you think.】

[They spent their entire lives studying how to open the rainbow bridge and bring the monsters that still survived the old world to the new world.]

[Those monsters are like devils in the abyss. Once they come to the world, they will be accompanied by terrifying disasters.]

[This is why demons have always been called "disasters".]

"Then what should I do?" Lu Huaiqiu asked.

【Remember your life wheel?】

"Of course." Lu Huaiqiu nodded.

Uktrahil.

His life wheel - is the World Tree.

【Yes.】

[This is your destiny, Xiaoqiu.]

[In this world, there are no more than 10,000 people with the World Tree Life Wheel.]

[Only 1,000 of these 10,000 people can awaken their life wheel and become hunters.]

[Only 100 out of these 1,000 people can raise the world tree.]

[And among these 100 people, only 10 people can survive on the battlefield.]

[In the end, among the few 10 people left, there is only one person who has the courage to protect this world and become a savior.]

Lu Xingran's voice paused for a while.

【Although I don’t know what the future will be.】

【But, Xiaoqiu.】

[You can still become that person now.]

“…”

Lu Huaiqiu sighed softly.

So, is it really necessary to protect the world like this?

But according to my father, he is still in the stage of 1,000 people.

That's the case.

Apart from him, what are the remaining 999 people doing at this time?

Will he be like him, who is troubled by protecting the world?

Or in other words, they are already silently protecting the world, just waiting for Lu Huaiqiu to join.

He doesn't know the answer.

But he knows.

A new mission has fallen on him.

From his God's perspective, a small glass bottle slowly fell.

Lu Huaiqiu stretched out his hand and caught the glass bottle.

Obviously.

This is something my father left to him again.

Through the transparent bottle body, Lu Huaiqiu looked at the liquid inside it.

——A clear liquid like moonlight.

【Remember this thing.】

【——Holy Water.】

[A liquid that is only born in places with extremely high spiritual energy concentration.]

【This is an extremely rare substance, and it is the water of life in the World Tree.】

[Only after being watered by holy water, the world tree will bear fruit and produce seeds.]

【Then now, drink it.】

Lu Huaiqiu unscrewed the bottle cap, hesitated for a while, and then drank it all.

Um……

This thing called Holy Water tastes surprisingly pretty good.

There is even a faint feeling of a fat man happy water.

But the point is not that.

Lu Huaiqiu could feel that the holy water he drank was gradually transformed into some wonderful and magical power in his body.

Then along his meridians and bloodlines, it flowed into the depths of his spiritual consciousness.

——And it was absorbed greedily and frantically by the little tree.

Immediately afterwards, the tree seemed to have undergone some changes to the naked eye.

It stretched out like a cheerful child, shaking the dense canopy that had long been rid of the bald nightmare.

The next moment.

One small after another, with a bit like an apple fruit, grew out of its tiny branches.

One...

Two...

Three...

It’s dense, as numerous as stars!
To be continued...