Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

Chapter 1277: Not So Defenseless

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The Demon King of Death laughed heartily as he managed to pierce through the spiritual tree, Yggdrasil, the "true body" of Planta thanks to the efforts of Fafnir, his loyal retainer.

"Haha…. HAHAHAHA! I DID IT… I DID IT!"

FLUOSH!

In the very moment he felt his sword body slicing through hard wood, he immediately began to infect the origin of this wood, the tree, with all the Nether he could afford, filling the tree’s essence of purity and spirit energies, and especially of life, with their total opposites.

Death, nether, phantasmal energies and even demonic energies filled the tree’s interior, rapidly infecting its wood and transforming it into something aberrant.

"You will become my new body, my new familiar, my new power! I shall name you Qliphoth, the Demonic Tree of Death!"

The Demon King of Death already had a plan to go with and he would see it being fulfilled to the very end.

His ambition led him here, and now he was going to happily claim this territory as his own.

Yggdrasil… lost!

Planta lost!

Everyone within her faction lost!

The Gods themselves lost!

"I win…! I’ve done it! Nobody will ever be able to stop me now! With the essence of Life and Death within me I will…!"

As the Demon King of Death laughed and talked about his delusions while Yggdrasil started turning pitch black and the forest was rapidly trembling, suddenly…

"As if!"

SLAAASH!

Suddenly, a huge blazing sword cut through the branch the sword had pierced, cutting its infection and stopping it altogether from spreading into the rest of the tree!

The Demon King of Death was left utterly flabbergasted!

"W-What?!"

His dreams out of nowhere, completely shattered. Frustration, hatred, and disbelief filled his phantasmal soul as the branch and the sword fell from the skies.

"T-This can’t…! Who…! WHO DARES?!"

The Demon King of Death saw a huge giant made of black metallic wood and flames rushing down, his countless eyes across his blade-like body widening due to the immense size and powerful aura it possessed.

"Burn to cinders, you bastard!"

As the giant roared, he spread out gigantic wings made of black metallic wood and flames, imbuing his entire sword with large quantities of spiritual flames.

And then, as if that wasn’t enough, infusing divine spirit energy through becoming the vessel of a Great Spirit!

"{Phoenix Descent}!"

With all its strength, swinging his massive blazing sword down, a gigantic phoenix made of flames manifested, engulfing the branch and the sword completely!

BOOOM!

"Uuuaaagggghhh!"

The Demon King of Death felt the pain despite being already dead, the purifying holy spiritual flames of a phoenix were one of the undead greatest weaknesses.

Maybe in his true form such damage wouldn’t really matter, but right now he was so small that he was rapidly burning to cinders.

"This can’t be happening! Dammit! It was a damn branch?! AAARRGHH!"

Above all else, the Demon King of Death felt utterly frustrated by the fact he had not sliced through the tree’s main body but a mere branch, making everything even harder and more difficult than it should had been.

"If I had pierced the tree it wouldn’t had been possible for them to slice it off so easily, fuck!"

As he fell and burned, he saw Fafnir quickly rushing towards him, half of his blade body was now reduced to ashes!

"Master!"

"Useless dragon, you aimed incorrectly!"

"I’m sorry! But there is something- Ah! He’s here already!"

"Who’s…?!"

The Demon King’s sword was grabbed by Fafnir’s secondary body a second before a massive miasmic hand materialized above them, attempting to grab the two of them forcefully.

"Erebus! Dammit!"

CRASH!

Both were embraced by the hand’s tenebrous fingers and then tightly gripped by it as it rushed into the skies at lightning speed.

"Fafnir! Stop being so useless!" Explore stories on empire

The Demon King of Death was blaming why everything went wrong to Fafnir.

"Master, I’m doing everything I can! I’m currently fighting Planta as well!"

"Tch, it seems that everything is always something I must do myself! That vessel, I’ll take it back!"

"Take it back- GUH?!"

Fafnir suddenly saw his secondary body being pierced in the chest by the sword, or what remained of it, filling him with nether and demonic flames, rapidly beginning to transform his body.

"Become the vessel of death, Fafnir!"

"Yes… your majesty!"

FLUOSH!

Although Fafnir had showed some surprise, he was not afraid, whatever his king desired, he would get it done. Despite despising everything, the only being he had any loyalty to was him!

BOOOM!

An explosion of impure and deadly energies erupted, destroying Erebus Miasmic Hand and then suddenly darkening the skies right next to Yggdrasil.

"What’s happening now?!"

Titania glanced from above the castle as she looked into the skies, while also using her magic to heal and protect her territory from hordes of Undead that were coming from the gates Fafnir opened once he fell into the forest.

"Just what… what is that?"

Titania gasped as she saw a massive monstrosity materialize, made of black and red wood, covered on countless poisonous mushrooms and withered plants, bones, rotten flesh, and phantasmal limbs.

With the head of a giant black skeleton and the rest of the body made of a corrupted type of spiritual and divine wood, the monstrosity that had almost the same size as Yggdrasil herself emerged.

"A giant?!"

Mark glanced from the skies as the massive entity emerged.

"But why is it made of wood?! Did that branch… it wasn’t burned completely?"

Mark realized that the Demon King of Death might have not taken over the tree, but that giant branch he managed to take with him was enough of a catalyzer to create a monstrosity with his powers and manifest it right in front of Yggdrasil herself!

"Hahaha… HAHAHAHAHA!"

The consciousness of the Demon King of Death surged through the titanic monstrosity as its massive arms made of countless wooden roots entangled against one another quickly prepared themselves to strike down Yggdrasil.

"If you won’t let me absorb you, then I’ll shatter you into pieces and crush you to smithereens, you useless, immobile tree! You will pay for everything you did to me! For what you did to my family! For what you did to my Kingdom! I SHALL HAVE MY REVENGEEEE, YGGDRASIL!"

"STOP!"

Mark rushed to stop him, but the distance was already too far! Not even Erebus could reach him.

BOOOM!

The Demon King’s vessel titanic claws reached Yggdrasil, attempting to tear through their bark and infect their wounds with nether and darkness.

Yet…

FLUOSH!

Suddenly, the massive tree had changed, becoming silver and gold in color.

"Huh?!"

No, to be more precise, it had gained silver and gold scales all over its entire body, branches and even roots.

Suddenly, the titanic tree started to move…

RUMBLE!

"Do you think I am just a defenseless tree, Demon King?!"

Yggdrasil’s entire body started to shapeshift, rapidly growing giant arms, wings made of wood and metal, legs and claws, and even a long tail, and three draconic heads with crystalline crowns above each one of them.

"T-That’s…! But you’re…! Impossible!"

An absolutely enormous Yggdragon emerged, facing the Demon King of Death head-on.

"Don’t you ever underestimate me… And don’t you ever look down on me!"

With the furious voice of Planta echoing from within, the dragon’s heads opened their jaws, firing three Rays of Destruction at once.

"Ungh?!"

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

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