Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3208

Chapter 3208 Desperate Struggle (Part 1)

'Never get close to the Master's mines.' The World Tree said via the mind link. 'Never approach any location where the Eldritch hybrids might spot you. Just follow the Bringer of Unity and report his movements to me.

'Any change in his patrol path or frequency must be immediately reported.'

'Yes, My Liege.' Ra'ntar replied, waiting for the Yggdrasill to be the one to break the telepathic connection.

Only then did he allow himself to ponder the situation at hand.

'Kidnapping Elphyn Menadion in an unprecedented at of interference.' The Chronicler thought. 'The World Tree is supposed to observe and record Mogar's history, not influence it for their purposes.

'Getting themselves a tower in order to abandon the Fringe and attain Guardianhood is something no Tree has ever even considered before. My Liege claims they are doing it to better protect the balance, but that's not how I see it.

'If that's not the biggest threat to the balance of the last one hundred thousand years, I don't know what it is. I can only pray that the Yggdrasill's actions are justified and their madness is actually a stroke of genius driven by the vision of a bigger picture that my limited mind can see.

'If I'm wrong, however, this might be the beginning of a planet-wide cataclysm. The previous World Tree was tethering on the brink of madness before the Awakened Council killed them. What if they had already taken the final, damning step? _{freeweɓnovēl.coɱ}

'What if my old master was already insane beyond saving and chose their successor not according to merit but to pursue whatever insane agenda they had concocted in their final years of delirium?'

Ra'ntar sighed, hoping his worries to be groundless and that he wouldn't need to report to the Yggdrasill again before at least one full day. No Chronicler could hide his thoughts from the World Tree.

The Yggdrasill's fragment fused with his body maintained a constant mind link with the Chronicler's staff that recorded the elf's every thought, action, and perception. The World Tree would access that data during every mind link and add it to their archives.

Ra'ntar knew that his master wouldn't appreciate a Chronicler questioning their sanity but, luckily, the Yggdrasill was slow to anger and wouldn't mind even the most rebellious thought as long as it wasn't put into practice.

Especially if enough time had passed since the rebellious thoughts to prove that the Chronicler knew his place and kept such ideas for himself.

The elf looked at his Yggdrasill staff, wondering for the umpteenth time if Mogar had outgrown its need for a World Tree.

'I really hope I'm wrong.' He thought. 'I hope that the Tree can see farther than I do and a Fae Guardian is actually necessary, not the bitter fruit bloomed from eons of resentment that each Tree has passed upon their successor.'

The First World Tree had not only been the First Awakened on Mogar, back when dinosaurs still roamed the land but they also predated the Guardians by far. Ever since Tyris' ascension to Guardianhood, the Yggdrasill lineage had been envious of her power.

The only consolation of the successors of the First Awakened was that Tyris was but a child with no desire to fill the chasm of her blissful ignorance. With the appearance of the First Guardian, the accumulated knowledge wasn't enough to make the current World Tree the most powerful creature on Mogar, but they were still the wisest.

Then, Leegaain had ascended to Guardianhood too.

His accumulated knowledge and treasures were nothing compared to the Yggdrasill's bloodline legacy but as years turned into centuries and then millennia, the Father of All Dragons bridged the gap with the World Tree's library at an astounding rate.