Chapter 708 - Realm Fusion (8) (1/2)

Chapter 708: Realm Fusion (8)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

When Seve left, Link was still sitting on the stone bench.

He was not in a rush to inform Raymond Morgenstein of the Elder Council meeting back in the Morgenstern manor. After days of careful observation and reflection, he had finally figured out the secret behind the World Tree’s power.

The World Tree had Level-19 Pinnacle power, while Link was currently at the early stages of Level-19. In terms of power, Link was on equal footing with the World Tree. Also, the World Tree was just a really powerful magical construct. With the aid of the game system, Link could easily bring down the entire tree if he put his mind into it.

Otherwise, the Travel Magician would not have foreseen the Inferno Archmage uprooting the World Tree in his prophecy.

Link quietly sat there as concentrated Nature Power flowed from the leaves and branches of the World Tree. It then evaporated into a green mist in mid-air, before spreading out over the Isle of Dawn in all directions.

The World Tree’s Nature Power would linger for a while beneath its canopy before spreading out over the island. As a result, the concentration of Nature Power in the royal palace of Andwar was higher than the rest of the island by 50%, making it the High Elves’ sacred ground.

The question remained: Where did all this Nature Power come from?

After days of painstaking observation, he had finally come to a conclusion: the World Tree’s power came directly from the realm’s core.

More specifically, the World Tree was a power converter. It absorbed the realm’s Realm Essence power through its roots, before converting it into Nature Power. Whenever a High Elf died, their body’s essence would return to the earth and back into the realm’s core after going through a series of conversions.

This was an extremely elaborate cycle of life and death.

Throughout the cycle, the Realm Essence power would simply be converted into other forms of energy. Life in the Firuman realm was just a part of this process of energy conversion.

Link now had a deeper understanding of the World Tree. The realm itself is a living being that exists on a higher plane of existence!

Naturally, such a life form would partake in a constant exchange of energies with its natural habitat in order to sustain itself. In the case of Firuman, the realm itself was continuously being nourished by the Sea of Void.

However, this exchange of energies between the realm and the Sea of Void was extremely delicate. Introducing an immense power into a realm would wreak as much havoc to it as ingesting a nail would to a human body.

When the realization that the realm was a living being dawned on him, Link felt as if he had just understood some fundamental truth of the world. The light of enlightenment had cleared away the fog on his consciousness.

The realm was alive. Naturally, this meant that it had a will of its own. It even had a name: Freyar. Like all life forms living in it, the realm had a complex body.

However, a highly destructive power could easily disrupt its nigh irreproducible internal structure.

The realm would also need a constant input of Void power in order to grow. However, due to its destructive nature, Void Power would have to be processed beforehand before it could be safely consumed by the realm.

Like the realm one resided in, a mortal needed energy to live as well. Despite being rich in energy, substances like charcoal might not agree with them. They would have to obtain the nutrients necessary to their survival from edible substances such as rice, meat, and eggs.

So how would a realm go about converting highly destructive Void Power into consumable energy?

Link immediately arrived at an answer. The realm processes Void Power through all life living in it. All of us act as its Void Power converters! Intelligent life forms have the highest conversion rate, but they are also the riskiest.

Intelligent life in the Firuman realm possessed an infinite potential for growth. For instance, dragons who had reached Legendary would be able to absorb Void Energy directly and use it as they saw fit. Their high conversion rate of Void Energy had been a boon to the realm itself.

However, the existence of intelligent life in Firuman also came with a downside.

Throughout Firuman’s history, the mortals of the realm had been the reason behind numerous catastrophes that had nearly destroyed the realm. Intelligent life had existed as a double-edged sword in Firuman, ensuring the realm’s continued existence and growth on one hand, while threatening to lead it to ruin on the other.