Chapter 364 - : The Giant Golden Tree, and the Black Panther (1/2)
In a Different World with a Smartphone Chapter 364: The Giant Golden Tree, and the Black Panther
The Reverse World, Magicraft Kingdo, Gibra old man, who revived a final weapon of the ancient civilization, Hekatonkheire, and even tried to destroyed his own country; although, I defeated him in the end
I had no further interests towards Eisengard after that, and so, I had no idea what happened to that country after the Magicraft King had died
And right now, it seeard is on the brink of collapse What happened?
The first signs of the abnorolden snow began falling
The strange snow had stopped i sick suddenly appeared all over the country They suffered froh fever as well as internal pain, and within a short period, their bodies would wither, and they would die The populace was gripped with fear at the onset of thisin various towns and cities
And yet, the tragedy that would befall Eisengard had only just started
When people were trying to bury the ones who had died to this strange disease, it was said that golden flowers suddenly burst out of the corpse’s forehead and blooolden flowers atop their heads, rose up and attacked the people
The sa repeated itself in towns and cities alike Now, those zoolden flowers on their heads were apparently walking about openly in the streets
This incident did not spread across the entirety of Eisengard, but was ion
When I heard the name of the town—Zine—where these phenoed to reo, a group of variants had appeared near that town; and one of theround several tie behaviour be the cause for this incident?
Having thought that, I brought along the currently free members, Yumina, Sakura, as well as Suu, and used [Dimensional Transfer] to move to the place where that happened
“What the hell is this…!”
What appeared before us e finished the transfer was a giant golden tree
The tree, which definitely goes over 100 ht, has a distinct metallic shi+ne to it, and doesn’t look like a plant at all Even its leaves look like thin e While there were several trees back on Earth that had also broken 100like this
As it’s gold in color, light is reflecting off it in various angles, and it’s blinding to look at It’s not a simple tree; there are parts that resemble a cypress, parts that resemble a pine tree, and even parts that resemble a rose and parts that reseiant tree that was created from a mix between metallic parts which mimicked a variety of different plants
“Touya-san, this is…!”
“Aah, probably the sa as the variants”
As I answered Yumina, I was convinced; the ostrich-type variant last tiround back then
“So you mean that tree itself is a variant-no?”
Suu asked a question At least, I’ve never seen a plant-type Phrase before Variants are things born when Phrases are embued with the evil God’s element If there are plant-type Phrases out there, then it wouldn’t be weird for there to be a plant-type variant too
“The golden snow… That’s probably not snow, but spore-like things this tree released to spread throughout Eisengard”
“… Mushrooht, Sakura doesn’t likelike that, you know Like a certain plu like that And the people who came into contact with those variant spores were afflicted and becauess it’s close to say they’re beco variants Just like how the Phrase also turned into variants
“The variants are doing so’ The reason why not everyone was affected was probably because those ere had stronger negative emotions, and were thus more compatible with the variants”
I actually heard from Silhouette-san already; most of the people who became afflicted were adults As expected, older people tend to hold er or even hatred
However, it’s not like there are no affected children at all Child zoer cities This kind of thing differs according to the environment, after all
The town of Zine close by is in a state of total collapse: one-third of the population had been turned into zombies, one-third had been killed by them, and the last one-third had run away from the town
The people ere afflicted don’t have ole difficult However, if the difference in nue
The variant-afflicted people who destroyed the town of Zine had apparently moved to attack other towns It’s a scenario commonly seen in B-rate zo attacked, it’s nothing they can joke about
“There’s no e can leave soet rid of this stupid tree already!”
Just as Suu said, we need to get rid of this thing as soon as possible to prevent any further da, I have no idea where I should even begin to look for its core…
“In the worst case, itnear the top of the giant tree It’s hard to tell because of all the gold- colored leaves, but I’” up there for a second…
“[Long Sense]”
I extended ht it in my eyes Around 80 meters up the tree, within the tree trunk, there’s a red core surrounded by golden thorns
So this tree is a type of variant as well, huh
While I’m thankful for the fact that I can see its core unlike other variants, that core is stupidly large too The diaiant tree really is a variant, then it could be an advanced-class
Sakura and Suu seeh it is pretty hard to see, the color contrast is there so it’s not hard to confirm where it is at least
“Destroy that core?”
“It looks surprisingly si to Suu’s words, suddenly, nuround under our feet and assaulted us
The spiked thorns attacked from all directions hip-like irls and escaped with instant movement
Immediately, we iant golden tree
In the distance, froiant tree, we can see innu outwards That was dangerous
I did think that it should have so itself Still, I didn’t expect the along the lines of the leaves turning razor-sharp and falling down on us Or so like chestnut-like fruits with spikes all over the down
Still, that’s quite the thick wall… With that, even if we’re in Fraled in them if we approach If that’s the case…
“Yumina, can I leave this to you?”
“Yes, of course Thatfor me”
Yumina took out her smartphone, and pressed on a certain app on its hoests, it’s a function I enchanted onto the s stored within that “Storage” app
A silver Fra-range sniping- specialized Brunnhilde
Yu-range rifle that was equipped on her back; her aiiant tree variant in front of us
“One shot, one kill”
Brunnhilde’s finger pulled the trigger The crystal bullet loaded in the rifle flew out of the barrel, and headed towards the golden tree in a beautifully straight line
The silver meteor-like shot did not stray froiant golden tree As a bonus, the [Explosion] enchanted onto the bullet activated, and the core was blown to siant tree, with its core blown up, cru, and disappeared froe ae of the tree eventually started to release black smoke and dissolved into a sticky liquid-like state before disappearing No ht
“It’s safe with this?”
“For now, I guess”
I answered Sakura
With this, there shouldn’t be any up Now I just need to do soard…
When I searched using the map, as expected, the afflicted people have already spread out all over the place in the northern regions
How should I deal with this… The area is too big for ic; and in the first place, variants have the saular Phrases, so ic wouldn’t work
[Meteor Zapper] should work since it’s a physical attack, but that one is indiscriminate, so… If I bloay the entire town in the process, there’s no point
“Are?”
As I was pondering the proble variant-afflicted people suddenly began to disappear Ehhh?
The variant-afflicted people are disappearing?